Crime And Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky and The Stranger by Albert Camus are novels from different time periods with asimilar context and influence but the authors are contemplating as almost all literature does the same unanswerable questions both presented by and a result of the human condition Death and its relevance to life are important themes in these two indispensable works of literature Significant characters in both works are affected by the death of those around them The use of guns
Crime and Punishment Close Reading He was not completely conscious however all the time he was ill he was in a feverish state sometimes delirious sometimes half conscious pg 141 This is the first sentence of the third chapter of part two in the novel It describes Raskolnikov after he has committed the murders and he is back in his own apartment He has been sleeping for a while now and the novel shows evidence that he is slowly becoming less and less stable The reason I chose this sentence is be
Svidrigalov vs Raskolnikov Throughout most of the novel Crime and Punishment the characters Svidrigalov and Raskolnikov show a constant parallelism in their actions but show diverseness between their physiological minds Before diving into the inner unconscious of these two characters minds lets analyze their common actions The biggest commonness in their actions is that they both commit murder Svidrigalov kills his wealthy wife while Raskolnikov kills the pawnbroker and her sister Alyona and Li
Crime and Punishment When you think of the word superman what comes to mind Is it a hero with a cape and superpowers Well according to Raskolnikov his idea of a superman does not include a cape and is not very heroic Raskolnikov came up with a theory that there are ordinary people and there are extraordinary people In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Raskolnikov believes that he is not an ordinary person but a superman Throughout Crime and Punishment this theory of a superior
John Steinbeck and The Dust Bowl John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath is a novel that deals with a broad spectrum of issues and human conditions Steinbeck deals with topics such as intolerance labor relations greed isolation poverty and the human spirit Even though the original book was published in 1939 the novel is still widely read and in many schools is required reading for English classes Steinbeck opened the eyes of America with his portrait of human suffering and the working conditions in
In the first excerpt Wayne Booth discusses the dramatic technique Shakespeare used to portray Macbeth as a sympathetic tragic hero In the second excerpt Mary McCarthy provides a detailed analysis of Macbeths character asserting that he is an average man with common thoughts and little imagination who is manipulated into performing evil deeds by both the witches and his wife Wayne C Booth Put even in its simplest terms the problem Shakespeare gave himself in Macbeth was a tremendous one Take a g
Macbeth and Macduff contrasting warriors Macbeth is a drama of crime and punishment of temptation guilt remorse and retribution The protagonist Macbeth is in turn a hero traitor and tyrant His story is a journey through loyalty ambition treachery and eventual disillusionment Although Macbeth and his companion Macduff are similar at the beginning they differ by the end in that Macbeth becomes disloyal selfish and cold blooded while Macduff remains loyal selfless and compassionate First there are
How does Dickens create characters that are both memorable and striking Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens It was first published in episodes in the publication All Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 It has been shown on stage over 250 times this shows that it is a popular novel 150 years on the characters are still been talked about this shows that the characters are memorable Dickens set his novel in the Victorian times Our main character Pip is an innocent child his
Chapter one is set in a church graveyard where Pip is looking at his mother and fathers tombstones trying to imagine what they looked like as he never saw his mother nor father The weather in this scene has been made to work with the environment as in the film the trees are moving with the wind to create an eerie feeling although in the book there is no mentioning of this This makes us feel anxious for Pip as he is in this eerie environment with an escaped convict being told to do things for th