Death Note

Crime and Punishment Essay Imagine coming home one winter day barefoot and barely clothed and hearing your siblings crying of hunger and coldness because there wasn’t enough food and blankets. More than 1.3 billion people live in poverty today, and 1 billion of those individuals are innocent children (Unknown). Knowing the struggle of poverty, these children obtain enough motivation to strive for success or in times of desperation commit crimes such as stealing: food, clothes, or anything…

In Fyoder Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, many characters deal with internal conflict causing them to commit large and small crimes. Dostoevsky introduces a variety of characters, each of which has their own value that they contribute to the book’s theme. Each character has his or her own opinion which crimes are necessary and what deeds are evil. Some characters need to commit crimes just so they can survive in this harsh world, while others commit crimes because they think it will…

Throughout Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work, Notes from Underground, the protagonist, the underground man, portrays himself as a spiteful, self-contradictory, and overly conscious melancholy man. He continuously over analyzes and questions everything, and this prevents him from taking any real action. The underground man is lonely and constantly vacillates between wanting society’s acknowledgment or to be socially desired and wanting to be completely isolated from society. He gives off the impression…

exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks” (Camus 18). Perez struggled very much during the procession due to his health; he fainted, he cried and continuously got left behind and had to catch up to the group. Perez exhibits such emotion toward Mamans death that we don’t see at all within Meursault, who is shown drinking coffee and smoking. “The woman kept on crying. It surprised me, because I didn’t know who she was. I wished I didn’t have to listen to her anymore” (Camus 10). Meursault seems…

In the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from the underground” and LU XUN’S “Diary of a madman,” the idea of an unreliable narrator is deeply imbedded to make the reader deliberate twice of the situation at hand. In both writings, there are characters whose credibility has been seriously compromised. However, the characters in both writing differ in their levels of credibility and verge of insanity. Furthermore, both authors allude to the many social problems relevant in their society and…

the final acts of the play, Lady Macbeth kills herself with her own hands, not being able to withstand the guilt. In the Lion King after Simba is saved from the stampede, he finds his dad’s body. Simba can’t believe he’s the cause of his father's death, but Scar tells him he is. With the unbearable thought of having to tell his pride of the deed, he runs away along with Scar’s urgings. Not returning until news of his family arrived in the form of a…

attempts at murder and his incapability of being the “superman” above the law he so desperately desires to be, or at least become. Her haunting laughter stays with him even after he wakes up, reminding him he is not only insufficient in life, but even in death as…

Russian Recluse Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Notes From Underground, takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1860s. He portrays his nameless main character, the Underground Man, as a recluse who dislikes people and avoids human society. The novel is written as a memoir from notes that the man writes, recounting his life, as he isolates himself off from society. His misery and inability to interact with others only pushes him further away from society into a world of self-loathing and…

Notes from Underground Notes from Underground is a novel of notes that the Underground Man writes which expresses his alienation. There are two sections of Notes from Underground, with “Underground” being a shorter version. In the first version, the Underground Man gives an introduction to his position in society. In “Apropos of the Wet Snow,” Underground Man gives events in his life during the 1840’s through the 1860’s. The Underground Man is alienated from all of the people who inhabit this…

Introduction Death investigation require strict adherence to guidelines. Investigations must search for clues to determine a death as natural, suicide, or homicide. The investigator is the eyes and ears of the forensic pathologist at the scene. The investigator must do their best to find answers for families who have lost loved ones. (A Guide to Death Scene Investigation. (n.d.) The Types of Murder When determining how the death occurred there are four modes- accidental, natural, suicide, and…