Inner Conflict and Murder
A wish for murder comes from extraneous variables that lead to an internal conflict, which develops a person’s individual psychology. Internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character’s mind. People have different reasons to kill, soldiers have to go to war, some people have to murder in the name of self defense, and finally, there are mentally unhealthy individuals who have to murder due to the lack of emotions. Emotions play a big role in the whole process of murder. Through Crime and Punishment, how murderers react during the murder, and how they cope with it after the murder, it can be understood how inner conflict is overcome through resolutions; also how emotions play a big role in the whole process.
In the book Crime and Punishment which is written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a very proud individual, has been contemplating whether to commit an awful crime or not, however the type of crime is not clear. One day Raskolnikov goes to an old pawnbroker to get money for a watch but in his own mind Raskolnikov thinks that this pawnbroker isn’t worthy of living. Eventually he learns that the pawnbroker is going …show more content…
These people lack emotion; they often have an Antisocial Personality Disorder. So in order for them to feel, they usually commit murder to get the thrill. Some people enjoy the feeling and end up being serial killers; others realize what they have done and fall into the whole of self-hate and grow serious mental disorders like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event triggers PTSD, this leads to having flashbacks, nightmares and have almost no control over the thoughts about the event. To cope up with this, the serial killers kill more since they have no regard of guilt anymore, and the ones who realize what they have done have an unresolved internal
A wish for murder comes from extraneous variables that lead to an internal conflict, which develops a person’s individual psychology. Internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character’s mind. People have different reasons to kill, soldiers have to go to war, some people have to murder in the name of self defense, and finally, there are mentally unhealthy individuals who have to murder due to the lack of emotions. Emotions play a big role in the whole process of murder. Through Crime and Punishment, how murderers react during the murder, and how they cope with it after the murder, it can be understood how inner conflict is overcome through resolutions; also how emotions play a big role in the whole process.
In the book Crime and Punishment which is written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a very proud individual, has been contemplating whether to commit an awful crime or not, however the type of crime is not clear. One day Raskolnikov goes to an old pawnbroker to get money for a watch but in his own mind Raskolnikov thinks that this pawnbroker isn’t worthy of living. Eventually he learns that the pawnbroker is going …show more content…
These people lack emotion; they often have an Antisocial Personality Disorder. So in order for them to feel, they usually commit murder to get the thrill. Some people enjoy the feeling and end up being serial killers; others realize what they have done and fall into the whole of self-hate and grow serious mental disorders like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event triggers PTSD, this leads to having flashbacks, nightmares and have almost no control over the thoughts about the event. To cope up with this, the serial killers kill more since they have no regard of guilt anymore, and the ones who realize what they have done have an unresolved internal