Crime And Punishment And Othello: Comparison And Contrast Essay
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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 Punishmen ....
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.... Raskolnikov says, "If they
question me, perhaps I will simply tell. Fall to my knees and tell." This
foreshadows Raskolnikov's confession to the police and his subsequent sentencing
to Siberia. Raskolnikov is obviously unbalanced if he can detachedly
hypothesize about his confession. Similarly, Desdemona's willow song
foreshadows her own death. In this way we realize Othello must be extremely
unbalanced if his wife can foresee her own death when they are still newly wed.
Both foreshadowed ....
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