Crime and Punishment are considered by many to be the first of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s great books. Crime and Punishment is a psychological account of a crime. The crime is double murder. A book about such a broad subject can be made powerful and appealing to our intellectual interests if there is a link between the…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, “ If someone succeeded in proving to me that Christ was outside the truth, and if, indeed, the truth was outside Christ, then I would sooner remain with Christ than with the truth” (Frank 68). It was by no means easy for Dostoyevsky to reach this conclusion. In Dostoyevsky’s life, one sees…
Beccaria’s Biography born in 1738, in Milan, Italy part of an Aristocratic family friends with Pietro and Alessandro Verri, and they together formed a society called the “academy of fists” Beccaria had spoken to his friend, Pietro, about the legal system, gaining knowledge that he used to write his famous essay, “On Crimes and Punishment”,…