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…) and alcohol can be as addicting as heroin or cocaine, but these drugs are legal, so why not marijuana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse showed that tobacco kills 400,000 Americans ever year, more people than any other drug. However, tobacco is completely…

…many characteristics of humans but very horrible looks. People very disrespectfully treat him; in fact many try to kill him. His looks always stand in the way of his happiness. Due to all this, the monster gets very depressed in the story, he tries…

…their first confrontation with a pig. Jack is unable to plunge his knife into living flesh and bear the sight of flowing blood because of the "taboo of the old life". He is ashamed and vows next time he will kill it as he drives his knife into a tree trunk…

…has no choice in how to live his life, his fate decided at birth with an oracle that destined him to kill his father and marry his mother. Although he did not discover this fortune until much later in his life, when he did learn of the oracle, he…

…Plot: The Courageous good hearted Macbeth takes advice from 3 witches, and from then on Macbeth turns evil killing his closest friend and king. With the help from his evil paranoid wife Lady Macbeth they both go insane. Characters: Macbeth: Starts…

…of a woman that has suffered an oppressive life. However, along her lustful path of revenge, the one person she is hurting most is but herself. <Tab/>Along her quest towards the reclamation of vengeance of a broken heart, she not only kills her…

…the mariners neck, we expect his sins to have been absolves. But the ancient mariners experience does not end there. Further expiation is necessary. If the first aspect to be expiated is the mariner's crime against nature, against innocence (killing of the albatross…

…throughout their stories. For example, upon hearing of a vicious beast named Grendel killing the people of Herot, Beowulf travels there to kill it. "I can show the wise Hrothgar a way to defeat his enemy... I can calm the turmoil and terror in his mind," (Lines…

…of a struggle with "killing the angel in the house" as Woolf describes in paragraph three of her essay as being the voice telling women they must be sympathetic, tender, flattering, not to let anyone guess they have a mind of their own, and above all be pure…

…that Jack and his group has descended into a group of savages. The pig is another symbol in the novel which is used to mark the changes in the characters. When the boys kill their first pig, it marks the loss of their innocence. The characters themselves are also…