Essays on Dostoevsky

International Human Rights Law and Prisons in Africa

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The International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, in its report suggested that over 10 million individuals are formally incarcerated in prison and correctional facilities around the world. According to the same Brief, even more are held in either military facilities where they are detained or in security or police facilities without any specific legal process underway. There are three categories that the United States’ (U.S). Government has for humanitarian and human rights concerns as they relate to these individuals who are housed in a detention facility that is; 1. unsafe in terms of ...

Dreams are a profound mystery that largely went unexplained throughout the majority of human history until Sigmund Freud tried tangling with them. One of his assertions was that if a person feels guilt for any reason but then represses that guilt so that he no longer senses it on a conscious level, it will emerge on an unconscious level, such as through insanity or nightmares. It is possible to repress guilt, of course, so that it no longer has much to do with us on a day-to-day level, but it does not leave. It simply lurks in a different ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” presents the consequences of crime the ways in which persons accept the punishment for their crimes. The author explores the psychology of the criminal and presents the excerpt in a pensive tone. The narrator reveals that Raskolnikov accepts his punishment and reflects on the events of the last year and a half. Raskolnikov is forced to deal with the guilt that torments him as he sits in his jail. He has been honest and admits to his crime. The selection is important as it marks reveals the foundations of the novel and gives ...

Notes from Underground is a highly acclaimed novel written by one of the greatest novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky is distinguished for weaving philosophical and theological threads in his brilliant narratives and the same is reflected in his novel notes from underground which was written in the year, 1864. Notes from underground is regarded as first existentialist novel. The author portrays a dreadful individual who deceive himself knowingly or un knowingly. The novel is divided in two parts; first part of the novel is told as monologue and is in the form of a diary which belongs to an underground man. This paper ...