Clown Phobia Essay

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In today society coulrophobia is very common in kids, teens and even adults. Coulrophobia is an abnormal fear of clowns. Better know as “clown phobia”. I have interviwed four canidates on the image of clowns as a hole an I ask for there opinions about them. so after I got my data I split it into two groups those who are 40 and older and those who are 39 and younger. The 40 and older candidates stated that clowns aren’t really funny and that they are more discusting than anything. They all seem to agree that the media is what really turned clowns from being happy, joyful, and funny people with paint on there face into days horrible, and terrifying creatures. One thing I realized is that movies and Halloween really seem to make clowns even more terrifying and scary. In July 2006, the Bestival, a three-day music festival held in England, had to withdraw a request to festival goers to come dressed as clowns due to the unexpectedly high prevalence of claimed coulrophobia among the potential audience.[9] Coulrophobia can be a plot device used to show how the protagonist must overcome his fears in order to vanquish the enemy. Examples include the 2009 film Zombieland, in which a character must overcome his fear in order to kill a zombie clown.[10] Coulrophobia can also be used for humour, such as in an episode of Frasier, in which Frasier has a client who is afraid of clowns. One Halloween, Frasier dresses up as a clown to scare his father, Martin. Martin has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. Frasier follows, dressed in his clown costume.[11] In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word", Homer tries to build a bed for Bart after he outgrows his crib, and fashions the headboard into a clown. However, instead of being the "fun friend" Homer intends it to be, it triggers insomnia in Bart, who keeps repeating "can't sleep, clown will eat me."[8][12] The
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