Something Wicked This Way Comes Fear Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

What was there about the boys that made him believe the simplest word they whispered up through the grille? Fear itself was proof here, and he had seen enough fear in his life to know it, like the smell from a butcher's shop in summer twilight. (37.19)

Again, look at the way Bradbury uses very physical words to describe the sensation of fear. Fear has a smell; it hits the physical senses rather than just the mental ones.

Quote #8

Two lines of Shakespeare said it. He should write them in the middle of the clock of books, to fix the heart of his apprehension:

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes. (37.27-37.28)

Notice that Charles is the one to make the connection between the carnival and Macbeth; in his age and wisdom, he understands things about fear and wickedness that the boys do not.

Quote #9

Secretly, Dark gathered a pinch of flesh on his wrist, the illustration of a black-nun blind woman, which he bit with his fingernails. (46.37)

How does Bradbury use language to induce fear in the reader?