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Is it incorrect to begin a sentence with an emotion?
For example:
"Afraid and alone, he no longer wished to continue on."
I'm translating some work from a foreign language into English, but I would like to keep the original sentence structure if possible. Starting the sentence with "being" or "as he was", just doesn't seem to give the same feel.
Sentences don't begin with emotions, they begin with words, in this case, the adjectives afraid and alone modifying he. They are perfectly acceptable as written, and that they reflect emotions is completely irrelevant to their grammaticality.
Furious and humiliated, he no longer wished to continue on.
Footsore and soaked, he no longer wished to continue on.
Having already won $10,000, he no longer wished to continue on.
It is correct to start off a sentence with emotions till you are using the right set of punctuation.
You can consider emotions to be kind of interjections (http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/interjections/what-is-an-interjection.html)
Take another example of starting a sentence with the (http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/starting-a-sentence-with-however-right-or-wrong)
Another way to look at it is that since the emotion comes earlier, it prepares the reader with the right set of emotions to read ahead.
On a lighter note: It reminds me of Star Wars or should I say, "Star wars, it does remind me of".
