Essays On Crime And Punishment

Just like how my name has evolved to become an extension of my identity, names in literature serve as a tool to showcase a character’s personality and hint at their future actions. In both Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the technique of using names […]

In just one word ( Crime and Punishment), the stranger’s direct label is a stabbing remark in opposition of Raskolnikov’s assumed identity. It is the debasement of a man-god, to be more apt a superman, who is ever so close to falling off the perch and into the abyss. “It was impossible to be sure, […]

Any account of the development of criminology should begin by looking back to Europe in the late 18th century. This was a time of great social upheaval and change. Science was beginning to be a new force and, for the first time, it began to challenge the doctrines of established religion in seeking to explain […]

The notion of dissatisfaction is echoed in the lives of Raskolnikov and Siddhartha, the protagonists of ‘Crime and Punishment’ and ‘Siddhartha’. An impoverished student, Raskolnikov thought he was part of some elite Superman echelon. He thought he could revolutionize society but poverty constrained his goals. This led to discontent. Ultimately, he vented his frustrations by […]

Dostoyevsky is justifiably famous for his studies of the human mind. His powerful analytical style forms the backbone of his novels and his characters are undoubtedly deep individuals with a real scope for psychological exploration. In Crime and Punishment our central character, Raskolnikov, is given this treatment around the context of a murder. We comprehend […]

Although the Bohr model of the H atom is a simplistic approach to quantum mechanics, it still serves as an introduction for students. This basic approximation was derived from the more precise quantum mechanics theory that was not yet available during its inception. The period between Planck’s discovery of the quantum and mature quantum mechanics […]

In the Elizabethan era, doing a crime was the worst mistake of all, depending on how big your crime was, people had to know that their lives were at risk. Every crime was big before, even “crimes of treason and offenses against the state were treated with that murder and rape today. ”(Elizabethan Crime and […]

The philosophy of nihilism argues that life is without purpose or intrinsic value. Nihilists are often extreme pessimists and cynics, and believe that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky expresses his rejection and disapproval of nihilism, demonstrated by proponents of the philosophy, specifically Raskolnikov, who is indifferent to the conventional […]

Capital punishment is that practice which entails in putting a person in a state in which he /she has committed a capital crime and this issue might cause to its abolishment due to the act that one has committed in relation to the abolishment. This abolishment entails mostly on the issues of capital offence but […]

Death penalty is a punishment where by criminals are executed by the state for a variety of crimes. In some countries it could be because of cases like rape, terror or murder. There are reasons as to why death penalty should be allowed and also why it should be abolished. According to me death penalty […]

About 25 years ago, in Furman versus Georgia, the United States Supreme Court considered if the death penalty violated the 8th Amendment on prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. According to the court, lack of uniformity in the standards of application of the death penalty led to arbitrary and discriminatory sentencing, and through this the […]