Salvador Dali: The Consequences Of Drug Addictions

Salvador Dali is credited with having said, “I don 't do drugs. I am drugs.” Dali was not only a world famous artist known for painting, sculpting, and photography, for he was also a drug addict. Dali has bluntly described how he and other addicts feel while they are in the clutches of their addiction. They feel as if their drug of choice has dominated their lives, and they have lost their identity, and free will to it. Occasionally, however, the drug addict does not consider that losing themselves is a terrible outcome. They perceive it as them being in a better world mentally than where they are physically in this world. Consequently they do not fight the identity loss, they embrace it, for that is the reason why they do the drugs, to escape. …show more content…
Nightclubs are well-known for being enjoyable and entertaining, that is what draws people to them, yet here it appears as though no one is excited to be there. In this nightclub, the patrons are just standing around in a bleak room, waiting to draw the attention of a digitalizer. They are eager to be discovered by Bobby, or possibly those in charge of the digitizing who pass out the business cards, in hopes of obtaining one. Pretty Boy does not describe it as music, he says it is noise, noise you cannot get away from. Why would someone feel the need to avoid the music at a nightclub? The people are not there to dance to music, they are there for the chance to do the digital dance. The doors there are guarded by fierce guards, who are in charge of not only keeping the wrong people out, but they are also tasked with detaining the right people inside. Why would they want to stop anyone from leaving? People can stay forever once digitalized, they do not have to worry about eating, sleeping, or fatigue. They can continue partying all day, every day when they are on ecstasy – whoops, I meant when they are …show more content…
Pretty Boy has to work his way through the thug guarding the entrance to the drug house, he then has to wade through the drug addicts, and finally he has to face the final bosses; the drug dealers. Pretty boy is able to reach Bobby, but after all the trouble he goes through to reach his best friend Bobby, he ends up choosing to not be digitized and live in Bobby’s world. He is choosing to not use drugs with Bobby, and to leave with his sobriety and free will intact. On the topic of choice, Harry Potter author J.K Rowling points out “Its our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” It is the difficult choices that we choose, that in turn make us who we are. In her books, Harry Potter has to face numerous dreadful choices, and those choices earn him the respect of every good witch and wizard in the wizarding world. Harry is famous for his bravery, unwavering loyalty to his friends, and for doing what has to be done. He is a role model to the young, and the old in the wizarding world, he is showing them that he is not afraid, he will face his enemies, and he will prevail. I believe that is the message that Cadigan was