Cloudy Daze
My ideas are the clouds, soaring in the sky. I watch helplessly as they dance across my view. I search for a ladder, but there is no ladder sufficient enough to climb the skies. When I have reached the desired intellectual altitude the cloud has passed leaving nothing but blue sky in it place. Hold fast! There is another creeping the horizon, I shall stay a bit longer and pray that today it will not rain.Archive for November, 2008
What does it mean?
Crime and Punishment, one’s first impredession of the title is one of justice, and a plot that succumbs to the “what goes around comes around” philosophy. However, as far as I have read one would be wrong, or would they? Raskolnikov may not have received any sort of incarceration or act of punishment from any third party for the haneous murders of the pawn broker and her sister which he committed, but he has undergone a subconcious type of self-inflicted torture. It is this self-destructive penance that has kept his heart racing with anxiety, and brought some sort of mysterious, physically handicapping illness. Is this enough? Does this suffering of the conscience constitute a just recompence for murder? Should the degree of punishment be based on the value of the victim? These are all questions that one must ask themself, and I hope that soon the text will provide me with a subsequent amount of insight that will allow me to draw an informed conclusion as to the true meaning of crime vs. punishment.
