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…Essay - Did the Clutters have to die? Truman Capote's book "In Cold Blood" is based on solving a crime of a first-degree murder. The victims of the massacre have been a family of four, killed by complete strangers. Was this brutality really…

…or her fate. Some characters have a minor flaw which shouldn't lead to their death, but other's have a major flaw, which eventually leads them to their death anyway. The first character, the Thane of Cawdor, is killed by MacBeth for trying to lead…

…Why Murder? In the short story “A Rose For Emily” and the short story “Killings” people have been murdered and the motivations for the killings are understandable but never the less still murders. The reason for murder in “A Rose For Emily…

…, Fortinbras, the prince of Norway, and Laertes, the son of the Danish king’s advisor, all are examples of the typical sons of this period in time. It was legal to kill the person who murdered your father and thus, these three men were justified in their plight…

…. The scene of when they first meet, the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio, and the final death scene all reveal why the two of them cannot be together in the end. Romeo and Juliet are ultimately killed because of their decisions and fate. The effects of Romeo…

…family of Thebes as the King’s son. The God had told Oedipus’s mother that she had to get rid of him because he would kill his father and marries his mother. Therefore, Oedipus’s mother ended up giving Oedipus to a stranger and asked him to kill Oedipus…

…of the prison, because many of the guards looked up to Socrates and didn’t wish to see him killed. Socrates made the point that if he were to leave jail, he would be breaking the law. Even though he had been wrongly accused and sentenced to death for no reason, he…

…fate though. Some characters have a minor flaw, which shouldn't lead to their death. But other's have a major flaw, which is would eventually lead them to their death anyway. The first Thane of Cawdor, is killed by MacBeth for trying…

…of an epic hero. In the poem of Beowulf, Beowulf shows courage and skill by slaying Grendel without the use of a shield or sword. The reason why Beowulf decides to kill Grendel with out the use of any armor is because Beowulf feels that he should have…

…Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, is a play about how Oedipus lives up his fate that he will kill his father and marry his mother, both of which are extremely bad in the Greek society, even though he thinks he is getting away from it. Despite the Greek…