A Murderers Journey Through The Works Of Dostoyevsky And Poe :: essays research papers fc

A Murderers Journey Through The Works of Dostoyevsky and Poe      several(prenominal) people believe that most murderers have a mental distemper whichcauses them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly disagreed with bythe authors Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, TheTell-Tale Heart, The blue hurl,and The Cask of Amontillado are very similarin this contradiction. apiece murderer takes a specific journey that has beenillustrated in each case. The psychological make-up of each murderer shows thathe is a normal soul up to the forecast at which something compels him to committhis horrible crime, and after that his sense of right and wrong usually leads to his owndownfall.     Before the murder has been committed the character is a regular humanbeing. In most cases the characters that end up carrying through and through with thiscrime are above average people. Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment is ". .. kinda an extraordinarily handsome young man..." (Crime and Punishment, pg.21)Raskolnikov is a very gifted university student, with a very good talent forfiguring people out. Raskolinikov takes great felicitate and care for his family. Onreceiving a letter from his mother     ...he quickly raised(a) the letter to his lips and kissed it then he spenta long clock time poring over the handwriting on the envelope, over the small,slanting handwriting, so acquainted(predicate) and dear to him, of his mother who had oncetaught him to read and write. (Crime and Punishment, pg.47)Raskolnikovs mother, who taught him how to read and write did this work instead anwell. This resulted in a very gifted and brilliant university student. Thispoint is illustrated throughout the novel from the planning and carrying out ofthe murder, to interactions with the police.      The narrator from the short narrative "The Black Cat" describes his&quo ttenderness of heart was even so palpable as to make me the jest of hiscompanions." ("The Black Cat", pg.390) He is quite a regular human being who is"...especially fond of animals..." ("The Black Cat", pg.390) The narrator alsohas a great wife whom he describes as being quite similar to himself, whichshows that he must be quite normal if a good woman chooses to marry him. Much kindred is the narrator from the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". Again thischaracter is unspoilt of love. The victim of his crime had done no wrong and forthat the narrator "...loved the experient man." ("The Tell-Tale Heart", pg.384) Thenarrator shows the same brilliance in planning the crime that Raskolnikovexhibits. People with great intelligence, great lives, possessions and friendsmust be normal people.