Matthew Mattocks Mr. Hays Period 7 Brit. Lit., West Civ II. Why People Should Care Society is strongest when people care about others. People should cultivate sincere concern for others and always try not to affect other people in a negative way. Doing so enables people to be happy and grow to their fullest potential. Morals are what keep the society from chaos. Without morals many crimes are made. Morals can be developed from childhood. If you don’t care for your neighbor then why should they care for you. If people have morals then their morals let them care about other people. If people care about others, they develop morals. Caring about a person is much more than wanting something from them; it’s also about being nice to them, …show more content…
When caring about someone’s well being, you help them. People should do their part. Caring makes the world a safer place and that gives thoughts of security to the citizens. “And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind” (sect. 7 Locke). If people are not invading each other’s rights, this ties into not taking away their security and their happiness. Building a mutual support system can give you the ability to help others. Doing this, people can learn and grow from relationships. It allows you to learn about yourself. This also allows said person to learn about others. This can increase the person’s chances of being more successful in life. When getting a job, a friendship or starting a business. When you apply for a job you will want to care very much what people think. This mindset of caring and getting happiness from caring, in the end will make you …show more content…
This shows he needed another human to help him come back to his consciousness. Raskolnikov concedes that he is a “Napoleon” because he evaded the consequences of his actions. Raskolnikov pushes away Sonya, Dunya, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, Razumikhin and Porfiry Petrovich he then suffers his own isolation, this is unbearable, because he is not a Napoleon like he thought. He can’t dodge the emotions of humanity. In the Epilogue he realizes that he loves Sonya this is the time when he finally understands his pride and self-centeredness that he had, separating him from
When one thinks about morals, he or she often find himself in difficulty. It is a fact that morals are mostly passed from one generation to another. However, we all face challenges when trying to understand whether they are all accurate or not. To start with, Morals are those values that normally protect life and always respectful of the dual life value of individual and others. Therefore, Morals are those rules that normally govern actions that re wrong or right. We know that morals may be for all people in the society or individual beliefs in the society. Some of the great morals include freedom, charity, truth, honesty and patience and all of them have a common goal. It is a fact that when they function well in the society, they end up protecting and enhancing life. These morals need to be examined always to make sure that they are performing their mission of protecting life. As a matter of fact, morals are derived from the government and society, self and religion. When morals are derived from the government and society, they tend to change as the morals and laws of the society changes. An example of the changes is seen in the cases of marriage versus individuals living together. It is true that in the past generation, it was quite rare to see any couple living together without having any legal matrimonial ceremony. However, this
As the story unfolds, Dostoevsky introduces the reader to Raskolnikov, a troubled young man who is extremely isolated from those who surround him. He lives in a small, dingy, dusty, and dirty room in a small unattractive house. He lives in an abstract world neglecting the real. He is quite separate from all the people with whom he has contact. In the opening chapter, Raskolnikov is said to be, "so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but any one at all" (1). People come physically close to him, but everyone is forced to remain distant mentally. He walks through the crowded, noisy, dirty streets of St. Petersburg physically but somehow he never does so mentally, moving through the streets like a zombie, not a man. He is not aware of his location and often jostles bewildered pedestrians. Therefore, at the outset of the novel Dostoevsky illustrates the apparent schism between the mind and body of Raskolnikov.
However, it soon emerges that he, despite the physical nature of his situation, has a very active mind. To reveal whether he is of a special "breed" of humans, he finds it necessary to kill, and the unfortunate subjects of his experiment are an old pawnbroker and her sister. After the murders, Raskolnikov is subject to a series of mental and emotional changes, eventually leading to his confession and, later, his arrest, trial and eight-year prison sentence.
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.
Raskolnikov is obsessed with his “superman theory”. He is constantly trying to prove that he is part of the 10% of extraordinary people in the world. He wants to become an eminent figure such as Napoleon. At first he believed that the murders he committed would make him part of this elite class. Once he realized that he had made mistakes during the crime he began to question his theory. After much frustration he decided to go to the scene of the crime. This gave him a rush that made him feel invincible. He believed that this would prove if, or if not he was “super”. Once he realized that he wasn’t part of this class, he suffered a mental breakdown. This pushed him to confess his crime to Sonya. She helped him rationalize his crime and admit his guilt. The outcome of this conversation was that it helped him admit his fate.
Raskolnikov, in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, is a complex character difficult to understand. He believes himself superior to the rest of humanity, and therefore he believes he has the right to commit murder. After he kills Alena Ivanovna, an old pawnbroker, Raskolnikov discovers his supposed superiority has cut him off from other people. He exists in a self-created alienation from the world around him. Raskolnikov mearly drifts through life, unable to participate in it anymore. It is only through Sonya that Raskolnikov is able to gradually regain his connection to humanity; she helps him to understand that, although he cannot be superior to others, she loves him regardless. Although he finds it difficult to reject his theory that certain individuals may commit acts not permitted ordinary people, Raskolnikov does accept that he is not such an individual, that he is ordinary. Through this realization and Sonya's love for him he finds the strength to confess to his crime and accept responsibility for it; this allows him to slowly began to rejoin the world around him.
He behaves as though he is two separate people in one. When he speaks, he contradicts himself, when he does something, he immediately regrets it. For example, while on a walk, Raskolnikov notices a young girl who has caught the attention of an older man and steps in to intervene. “I hindered him, and now he’s waiting until I go away...” Then, a moment later, after paying
His poor physical health makes sense when considering the emotionally charged nightmare and the power struggle between his subconscious and conscious mind. Raskolnikov’s constant mental stress and subconscious fear plague him in his dreams. Despite his poor state of physical health, Raskolnikov feels a sense of mental peace and even prays to the Lord to “show me my path and I will renounce this accursed…dream of mine” (Dostoyevsky 74). This sense of peace is only an allusion, however, and Raskolnikov ends up making a “fatal renunciation of the child of the beaten-horse dream” (Mortimer 111). Raskolnikov ends up not renouncing his dream of murder as he prayed for but rather the dream of the child within him who still felt pity and compassion for
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."(Anais Nin). This means that every person one comes in contact with has an influence on his life. One should never forget the people who go out of their way to be nice to them.
It is important to understand Raskolnikov’s character before the crime takes place. Although the reader might be tempted to give importance to the aftermath of the crime and observe the effects committing the crime had on Raskolnikov’s physic and psyche, it is necessary to know what kind of person Raskolnikov was and what circumstances led to his being that way before he decided to commit the crime. What preceded the crime is more crucial to unraveling and comprehending Raskolnikov’s motivations. Just as we do not learn Raskolnikov’s name until another character utters it in dialogue to him, likewise the reader comes to build a character profile of Raskolnikov through the observations others offer regarding Raskolnikov. His friend Razumikhin.provides a candid description s...
One of the most profound and obvious changes in Raskolnikov’s character can be seen in the newfound appreciation for other people and human relationships he discovers at the end of the novel. When the reader is first introduced to Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky quickly makes it apparent that he has little to no regard for others, writing on the very first page that Raskolnikov was “so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all” (1). Indeed, in Raskolnikov’s mind, “to be forced to listen to [the landlady’s] trivial, irrelevant gossip […] and to rack his brains for excuses, to prevaricate, to lie” is the most loathsome thing imaginable (1). His disdain toward other people is so great that the mere thought of interacting with anyone for any length of time repulses him. On some occasions...
She highly urges Raskolnikov to remove his guilt by confessing his crimes which in turn makes Raskolnikov realize his position in life. He no longer views himself as the Napoleonic figure but as just another member of
Now, I personally believe that people absolutely should be moral for several reasons. The main one being. I believe that it 's natural for people to want to do the right thing and that deep down they want to do the right thing, but through circumstances, the understanding of
Morality can be based on consciousness and various perspectives but morals, regardless of distinct cultures, have a core fundamental of comprehending what is right and wrong. By this, we are held to an obligation to assist those in need. This means that we should feel obligated to do whatever it is within our might to aid situations that need assistance.
...be true that human societies have moral systems that they pass down through the generations.