Category: Crime and Punishment

Essay on Crime and Punishment: Book Versus Movie Fyodor Dostoevsky once stated, ‘Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.’ Thus, being nothing or accomplishing nothing in life insinuates that failure is inevitable. A particular example of this is in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and…

Human Psychology in Crime and Punishment: Critical Analysis Thats the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri once famously said. The booksno matter what time and what yearhave always something to tell, something to give and the texts are always ready to hold our hand and take us to…

The Blood of Emmett till by Timothy B. Tyson: Representation of One of The Most Notorious Hate Crimes in American History One of the most notorious hate crimes in American history titles the prominent lynching of a young 14 year old boy in the Mississippi Delta of 1955. Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white…

The Idea Of Superman In The Novel Crime And Punishment In Fyodor Dostoevskys psychological drama, Crime and Punishment, protagonist Rodion Raskolnikovs theorizes that there are certain extraordinary individuals in society to whom mundane laws do not apply as they are supermen whose primary objective is the betterment of society through any means necessary. The influences…

Crime and Punishment’ Literary Criticism Essay Since antiquity, we have challenged ourselves to the best of our limits, from what we can understand about the world, to the human condition. But as we gain more understanding of ourselves and the universe at large, the bolder we became and have left our traditional values. Will there…

Utilitarianism in ‘Crime and Punishment’ Essay In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalize the consumption of all drugs. The result was a decline in the proportion of drug-related offenders in the Portuguese prison population (Murkin, 2014). This led many to question if drug laws  and not the drugs themselves  cause the…