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    With each kill, signs of the real Norman lessen until there is nothing left of him. The ultimate moment of this is when Norman’s ID cannot kill the people in its way. When his mother senses threats to the fantasy, she gets rid of them to protect it. To kill, the superego and ID have to fully inhabit Norman. As Lila finds the dead body of Norman’s mother, Norman as his mother comes down to kill her but he cannot because Sam stops him. When he cannot kill Sam and Lila, the mother stays…

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    Theme Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies

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    hallucination caused by his epilepsy, and introduces itself as the "Beastie" (Elliott, Joyce, Shorvon, “Delusions”). This is ironic as the Lord of the Flies is composed of a truly innocent creature- the murdered sow. That the boys are determined to kill it suggests that they are intent on destroying innocence as opposed to evil, which is what they believe they are hunting. Simon still retains his innocence due to his isolated behavior and epilepsy. His distinct behavior does not go unnoticed by…

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    snowy night. Pancake used the hogs and their slop to allow the readers to compare the narrator to something that is familiar. The unnamed narrator’s past in Vietnam 's’ war makes him have no sympathy toward people. This is because he was forced to kill so many people that it numbed his feelings and emotions. Pancake makes the narrator seem as if the he is a fallen angel who is full of sin. The murderous…

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    While that on its own could be excused as a coincidence, the longer they spend on the island, the more instances like that develop, such as how the children quite literally have to kill to survive—sacrificing lives to keep their own—and sustain themselves, as the fruits and plants on the island had a tendency to make them ill, forcing them to resort to eating animals... and it 's this that leads to the children 's moral descent, elaborate…

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    Characteristics Of Creon

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    Lead me away, I have been rash and foolish, I killed my son and my wife, I look for comfort, my comfort lies here dead whatever my hands touch has come to nothing (pg.789). Creon is a Tragic Hero for many reasons and you will soon figure them out. Creon made many different mistakes during Antigone and there are 3 different characteristics that Creon had done during Antigone. Creon was born into nobility, he was responsible for his own fate, then he realize that he made an irreversible mistake. I…

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    elephant that had escaped into a town killing a man. His thoughts were not set on killing the wild animal but under circumstances, Orwell felt as though he would be seen as a fool to the natives if he did not live up to the expectation of the natives to kill the elephant. Once Orwell shot the elephant he had to watch as it lay slowly dying, seemingly not wanting to die the elephant remained to hold on to the life he had left. Orwell ends up killing the elephant once and for all after many brutal…

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    In the Bible, Romans 7:19-21 says, “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.” William Golding makes this apparent in the story he created, where a group of boys becomes stranded on an island, and attempt to make an orderly society, which gradually gives way to their evil desires…

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    becomes increasingly violent and the correlations between how he treats love and war begin to resemble on another strongly. In the selected passage, in act 3 scene 3, it is a turning point for which he decides the only way to resolve this situation is to kill both Desdemona and Cassio. His tendency to treat love and war equally in the passage is demonstrated by the word choice, the…

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    Food In Lord Of The Flies

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    In the novel, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, who as a child witnessed WWI, which was known as the war to end all wars. Golding uses what he learns from how people act when life is in danger and uses it in his novel. In life, food is a major part of survival. One of the first things that the boys decide on what they need, is for them not to go hungry. Exploring the island one day, Ralph and Jack come upon a pig. Jack immediately pulls out a knife, but instead of stabbing the pig, his…

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    So after they kill their first pig under his command in an extremely gruesome fashion, he orders that the head should be left on a stick as a sacrifice to the beast. Jack has gone from a boy who couldn’t push himself to killing a piglet trapped in the creepers of the forest, to enjoying the kill with all the gory details. His second major act as chief of his new tribe, is to steal fire from Ralph, Piggy…

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