Is Fear Stronger Than Love in Rappaccini's Daughter? At the end of Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter, Beatrice says that she would rather have been...

I would
suggest that leaders have been debating this question since the beginning of time, but most seem
to have determined that fear is a better motivator than love.  In everyday life, fear and love
are intricately linked.  When we love someone, we are afraid to lose them.