Essay Galaxy - Crime and Punishment and Othello: Comparison and Contrast Essay
Crime and Punishment and Othello: Comparison and Contrast Essay
In both Crime and Punishment and Othello there is a theme of necessary
balance. Crime and Punishment's theme that man must be balanced in order to
function properly is very similar to Othello's theme that, tragically, jealousy
is destructive, even to the one that holds it.
In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov's extreme intellectualism caused
him to stop functioning as a complete and balanced individual which ultimately
cost him his freedom. For Othello, it was his extreme jealousy that caused him
to become emotionally unbalanced, which cost him both Desdemona and his own life.
In both cases the extremes create unbalance which ends up costing a lot. There
is a difference, however, and that too lies in the extremes; while Raskolnikov
is too intellect....
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