A Murderer's Journey Through The Works of Dostoyevsky and Poe
Some people believe that most murderers have a mental illness which
causes them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly disagreed with by
the authors Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, "The
Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat",and "The Cask of Amontillado" are very similar
in this contradiction. Each murderer takes a specific journey that has been
illustrated in each case. The psychological make-up of each murderer shows that
he is a normal person up to the point at which something compels him to commit
this horrible crime, and after that his conscience usually leads to his own
downfall.
Before the murder has been committed the character is a regular human
being. In most cases the characters that end up carrying through with this
crime are above average people. Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment is "...
quite an extraordinarily handsome young man..." (Crime and Punishment,......
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