... a serial killer. Bobby Joe Long claimed that a motorcycle accident made him hypersexual and eventually a serial killer. John Wayne Gacy however, blamed his victims and said that they all deserved to die. Most serial killers get a sexual thrill from killing. It arouses them in a way that nothing or no one else can. Others may do it out of anger. They may have ... they can watch the lives of the victims slowly leave their bodies. Another weapon of choice is a knife. They will stab their victims repeatedly. Sometimes they stab them until they die, or until the point where they are barely a...

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... an "old maid" who "never had a lover". When her finances become dependent on actual labor, she felt that she had "brought an irretrievable disgrace" for having to work. Her selfish desire to remain in the past, in the time when she would not have to soil her hands with the disgrace of actual labor, is something to which she clings desperately ... theme involving the family's incest revolves around the theory of evolution. This theme is basically the idea that unless "hidden streams" run through the Pyncheon bloodline, the family will eventually die out. Hawthorne spent a great deal of t...

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... on destroying the eye even though he likes the man. "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye" This shows that he is obsessed with the eye and that he is mad. "Why will you say that I am mad?" This shows that he ... "Vendetta" the planned murder is revenge on Nicolas Ravolati because he killed Antoine Saverini and Widow Saverini planned to get Frisky to tear out his throat and leave him to die and in "Tell Tale Heart" the mad man plans to go to the old man's room every night to see if his eye is open...

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