Comparing Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Many different forms of art were used to reflect both society's political changes and the move to the modern world in Russia and Great Britain from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. In Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky used his main character in the novel Crime and Punishment (1866) to explore the psychology of the tsar Nicholas I. The novel Crime and Punishment reflects Dostoyevsky's life experiences of the events happening in Russia. The main character in the book, Raskolnikov, experiences psychological guilt, due to his identity as a murderer, in the way that I think Dostoyevsky imagines Nicholas I did. It think it refers to when Nicholas I abolished the study of philosophy, arrested members of a discussion group, including Dostoyevsky, and …show more content…
Mill wrote the essay with the help of his wife, and it pointed out the sexism that was taking place at the time and centuries beforehand. Feminism is still progressing today and has been since the time of this essay, and even before in small ways. Mill used his essay(s) to help the country realize the way they were treating women and that it was immoral. He believed that they should “achieve the greatest good for the greatest number” and that was a theory that could be seen in the social and political movements during this …show more content…
Unlike the other buildings, it utilized glass to allow better lighting of exhibits and aisles, which solved a major problem because they didn't have electricity so it was a breakthrough in the world of architecture in a way. The design in Britain was basically like a giant greenhouse; it used all factory-made materials to show the country that industrialization was the next big thing and that it was capable of changing the way they designed buildings. The success of the exhibition containing the Palace implies that it made an impact on the architectural world. There were people who weren't satisfied with the building, but as we can see today, that didn't stand in the way of the movement of architecture into industrialized construction and

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