Crime and Punishment: Crime without Compunction Raskolnikov has committed the crime of premeditated murder. Only one of his two murders was actually premeditated, the one committed against Alyona Ivanova. Lizaveta, her tortured sister is an inadvertent death--he is forced to kill her when he fails to shut the door and she is able to come in. The crime of the rapscallion Raskolnikov also reverberates on a much deeper, moral level inside his own head. He ignores the ultimate rule of good and evil, the principles of justice, and feels that if he wantonly kills this person no one will be injured because Alyona is a waist to society. Raskolnikov coolly and easily contemplates his future deeds, conducting "experiments", and feeling that there is no way he'll be able to make a mistake in carrying out the crime. He feels that because of the fact that what he is doing "really isn't a crime", then he won't forget details and that he will be able to carry it out with making any errors that will allow him to be eventually caught. We eventually see that Raskolnikov grossly overestimates his abilities to maintain himself and all the details of the murder. We see that he leaves a preponderance of details up in the air, leaving way too much in his plan to chance--from the very first act of acquiring an ax. Raskolnikov is a smart man who overestimates his abilities in carrying out a murder; Dostoevsky is presenting to us a picture of a man who in now way can carry out his crime without compunction and error.
In 1997 a movie called Amistad depicted the true story of a group of Africans that were taken from their families and forced into slavery. Although the movie was heavily criticized for it's inaccurate tale of the terrible ordeal, it gave the story world-renowned attention. The real story had more drama and tearjerker parts then the movie did. If the movie ever gets remade, hopefully this time it follows the facts exactly.
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There are too many strands in the film which lead to no-where. At one point Cinque makes an interesting point of international law that might help the case. While the legal minds are inspired by his insight and initiative, the idea is quickly dismissed as unworkable and he plays almost no role in designing the case which might lead to his freedom. The events on the slave ship are even more scattered. Cinque is involved in a brief eye-contact relationship with a young woman but there is no development to give it emotional power. The women's ensuing death is as shocking as it is unexpected and while it works as a good visual, her undeveloped role as a real person results in the loss of any deeper meaning. Furthermore, the Amistad case is portrayed as a spark that helped ignite the Civil War, but the movie does not go into greater detail. It simply flashes ahead and shows that the Civil War had begun.
His decisions would depend on whether he sees himself as an ‘extraordinary’ man or an ‘ordinary’ man. By the conversation between Raskolnikov, Razumihim, and Porfiry we can see that Raskolnikov does not “consider [himself] a Mahomet or a Napoleon, nor any personage of that kind” he continues to say that since he is not one of the ‘extraordinary’ people he could not tell them how he was supposed to act. Since he states clearly that he does not consider himself as such he has no right to act as the theory states ‘extraordinary’ people act. So he, therefore, has no right to commit the crime that he does. It is strange that even though he doesn’t believe himself to be morally superior, that he still goes through with murdering Alyona and Lizaveta Ivanovna. He recalls a conversation when students were talking about murdering Alyona and the students thought they could take her money if they used it to do good things. By remembering these conversations, he slowly convinced himself that this murder was not a bad thing. Even if he has convinced himself that this is the correct thing to do this is not morally correct or just in any way. Albeit she is crotchety and not a very nice old woman, that does not justify murder. This decision and the way he has brainwashed himself obstructs his view of justice and what is
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In “Volar” the narrator is an older version of the character. She is an older woman, but her age is unknown; we do know the narrator is most likely out of adolescence because
Conflict, by definition, is a back and forth struggle between two opposing forces. In the literary work, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, it is clear, the protagonist, George Milton, undergoes many conflicts that lead to the novel’s overall purpose. Steinbeck weaves together George’s conflicts with others, himself, and with society to illustrate what the true meaning of friendship is.
The effects of the dream on Raskolnikov are so great, Dostoyevsky even comments before the nightmare how “dreams such as these…invariably remain in the memory long afterwards, and have a powerful effect on the individual’s deranged and already stimulated organism” (Dostoyevsky 67). Even before the murder, Raskolnikov’s mental health was in a fragile state. His mind was in constant turmoil over whether or not to commit the crime; part of Raskolnikov wanted to prove his superiority above others while another part of him was horrified at the idea of actually murdering another
Perhaps the biggest failure in the reservation system affecting current times is in the status of laws and jurisdiction. Communal land ownership and federal trust restrictions on land ownership and use inhibit economic development and many land allotments are owned collectively by groups of individuals. Multiple ownership makes it difficult to manage the lands and it reduces benefits to individuals. It is also nearly impossible to use the land as collateral for obtaining loans because of federal protection from encumbrances on trust
After the botched crime Raskolnikov is plagued his failures. "He was conscious at the time that he had forgotten something that he ought not forget, and he tortured himself." (107) After he carelessly kills both women, and allows for the evidence to be found, Raskolnikov realizes he did not commit the perfect crime. This devastates his ego, so he tries to cling to his previous self perception. He is also plagued with feelings of guilt. His guilt, combined with the mistakes he made during the crime, shatter his self perception of perfection.
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The beauty of Crime and Punishment is that there are no absolutes. It is a 19th century murder mystery, with the identity of the murderer clear, but the murderer's reasons far from being so. Although each chapter was replete with uncertainty, no other facet of the novel caused greater vexation both during the reading and even after its conclusion than what drove Raskol'nikov to commit the murder. That is not to say that he committed murder without purpose or reason, that he was just a cookie cutter villain with no purpose; instead, he is a multi-faceted character that is both likable and a scoundrel at once. The protagonist himself is unsure why he plans and carries out what he does. As he went to bury what he had stolen, he asked himself: "If it all has really been done deliberately and not idiotically, if I really had a certain and definite object, how is it I did not even glance into the purse and don't know what I had there, for what I have undergone these agonies and have deliberately undertaken this base, filthy, degrading business?" (Part II, Ch. 2, pgs. 92-93). The reader is not left completely in the dark, however, as motives were established. The caveat being that motive is plural, and motive is usually a mutually exclusive term. The first motive to be presented, and the strongest in the novel during Raskol'nikov's planning stages, was the issue of poverty. He was destitute, living in squalor, and in need of money to crawl out of his grave-like flat. After the murder was committed and Raskol'nikov came under suspicion, he came face to face with the inspector general, Porfiry Petrovich. Their discussion made the cut-and-dried appearance of the motive tu...