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Humans and animals share many characteristics, but are still categorized differently. Animals are looked more of being vicious, barbaric, uncivilized, and cruel. Animals do not have a higher conscience; they will do anything to survive in their habitat. Humans are looked at on a different level than animals, they are put on a higher level because humans have evolved to become civilized and have the ability to reason. Animals run on instinct and don’t have the ability to reason like humans, but when human’s minds get corrupted, they start to reason less so they switch over and start inhabiting more animalistic traits. In the novel La Bête Humaine, by Emile Zola, not only is the main character, Jacques Lantier, displayed as a ‘human beast’ but every character is deep down a human beast as well. The characters selfishly resort to killing other people, thinking that it will benefit them, but in the long run it did nothing. Every human being has an inner beast within, but......

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