The Use Of Crime As A Device In Crime And Punishment And A Doll’S House
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House have one main thing in common: crime. In A Doll’s House Ibsen highlights the injustice of the law, and the restrictions it puts upon individuals in society, while Dostoevsky uses it to show freedom through law and the need for individuals to abide by it.
Both the novel and the play introduce crime to the plot at the very beginning of the work. In A Doll’s House Mrs. Linde enters and Nora tells her about “it” but immediately says that “Torvald mustn’t hear” (Perrine 876). Ibsen uses this early introduction of crime to immediately develop a secret between Nora and her husband that will ultimately lead to their separation. Dostoevsky has his main character referring to the crime as “that” as Rodya questions his intentions. “Is that something serious?” (Dostoevsky 4). Dostoevsky uses the crime to introduce the moral struggle within Rodya’s consciousness. The immediate use of crime in both works......
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