Analysis of the context of "crime and punishment" and "a happy world"
The social environment as a determining factor in the thought and attitudes of the leading characters of "crime and punishment" by Fiódor Dostoyevski and "a happy world" by Aldous Huxley
Introduction
Society throughout the history of the human being has served as a milestone throughout it to reference a set of human beings living in a community in order to live together and be part of this, in these two works you can appreciateexplicitly the existence of a society and as the characters are influenced by it in different ways depending on the situation in which they are and the facts that happen. The authors of these works manage to capture a well -defined and structured society;On the one hand, in the work "Crime and punishment" written by Fiódor Dostoevski who manages to illustrate a society, with enough similarity to which we live, in which the human being is born and according to the social class to which his family belongs to thisminors likely to prosper as a successful person because this is conditioned mostly for the money he possesses, so, if he does not have money he cannot pay studies which will not allow him to achieve a good job with a good salary, and in the casethat it is born in a wealthy family if you can afford these expenses and therefore ensure a good position in the future. Rodion Románovich Main character of "crime and punishment" was strongly affected by the society in which he lived since he prevented him from continuing with his promising studies and this was to commit a crime to continue studying.
In the work "A happy world" written by Aldous Huxley, the author reflects an advanced society in which human beings were created based on cloning, but these came with a clear objective to the world, the social classes did not matter, in theSociety created by Huxley The caste system was noted, in the work it is possible to notice as the community that surrounds the individual can influence his actions and emotions, this work manages to capture a futuristic and fantastic environment something that was very unusual that was very unusualAnd seen in the 1930. In both literary works one or more characters are influenced either to a lesser or greater extent by the society in which they live being an important factor that determines both actions and the way of thinking, on the one hand, turning a normal individual into aKiller for despair and another forcing him to commit suicide for remorse and pressure.
Developing
Chapter I: A happy world
Happiness in exchange for individuality
The work basically deals with a futuristic society in which everyone lives happy and without worries, the author illustrates what a perfect society would be like without any evil, in which all are created with a goal, society was divided into castes: alfas, betas, betas, Gammas, deltas and epsilons. The human being was created in mass as if it were a mere object, according to the caste to which the human being belonged had different qualities, so the alfas were the most handsome, intelligent and high while the epsilon, in a vulgar way, the ugliest, dumb and low. Ninety -six humans came from an ovule (Huxley, a happy world, 2019), everyone knew what came to the world because from a very early age they were conditioned with hypnopedia, which consisted of repeating an ideological phrase many times as they sleptIn this case, phrases about what they had to do, what did not have to do and in addition to worshiping the world in which they are without revealing. The work shows a perfect caste society in which everyone was satisfied, but nevertheless people who are not fully at ease with society arise, a clear example would be the character, Bernard Marx, an alpha -plus psychologist who does notIt possessed the characteristic that all the alfas possessed, being tall, perhaps a factor that influenced its disagreement with society, Sim however there were more dissatisfied characters such as Helmholtz Watson, as well as Marx an alpha -plus that disliked controlled life. The consumerist society of this work encouraged everyone to buy and maintain society, from an early age all were forcefully conditioned and therefore they already came with a goal to life, society mostly influenced to forge human beings, because in "a happy world" society prevailed about the individual. "-Yes, each one belongs to others …" (Huxley, a happy world, 2019)
The process of being indoctrinated for the created humans to have a closed mentality and condition according to the norms placed by the superiors, the world controllers mentioned in the work being Mustafá Mond a member, it implies that from an early age the company already condition theIndividual to your liking and benefit, hypnopedia is a method to achieve this purpose, it consists of repeating a phrase with a specific idea "alfas children go gray. They work much more than us because they are prodigiously intelligent. The truth is that I am very satisfied to be a beta… ”(Huxley, a happy world, 2019), this among other methods such as the electrocution of the kids by perceiving certain stimuli so that they were afraid of what is not allowedAccording to his caste, this has a certain resemblance to the experiment in which a small download is given to a hamster so that he learned that he should not do, and seeing he can have a resemblance to the Mischel Behavioral Evaluation Experiment (Mischel, 2015)
Chapter II: Crime and punishment
Forced changes in society
The work makes known the situation that the young Russian student Románovich Raskólnikov is going through, also called in the work Rodia, who studied right and due to the economic situation he was going through, he is forced to leave his unfinished studies , Rodia came from a poor family, she was abandoned by her father and mother Pulqueria Raskólnikova and her sister Dunia worked hard to get ahead, she lived in a small room where she barely eaten except for the times when the maid of the house He brought him food, to be able to pay the huge debt with his patron that led him to commit the murder, these problems fostered the theory that Románovich himself had developed about the "superhombres" (Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment, 2013) to which the created It would belong, his theory was that there were two types of people in the world: those normal without any power and that are conditioned by the laws, and the superhombres that had allowed to break any law because everything they did is for everyone’s benefit They are very special, for example, Napoleon Bonaparte who took lives justifying them that they were in order to improve society, but the real problem was not the same theory of Rodia, it was the society that surrounded him and the injustice to which he He suffered and watched daily as was the case of Marmeladof a drunk who had a family with a situation similar to Rodia’s family, his wife was very disappointed and his daughter Sonia was forced to exercise prostitution.
Rodion Románovich Raskólnikov had a great desire to study, but this desire was frustrated by a wide variety of facts such as being born in a family of low economic resources, the usurer who became more and more outHis theory about superhombres who could afford to commit any act, all those and more are factors of the society in which he lived full of injustices and regrets but the one that causes him to commit such acts is nothing more than the simple fact ofthat he could not endure more iniquity until finally broke out and committed little moral acts “… the young man wielded the ax and raised it above the head of the usurer, letting it fall with force.”(Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment, 2013), this is a clear model of how society can change to a dedicated university student to a murderer with an unwillful mentality. It should be noted that he was later persecuted for his position of conscience had not only killed a usurer who was dedicated to ruining the life of people also kill his sister who was "innocent", but, he was necessary so that he would not witness, he witnessed,In the end, the commissioner applies the technique of interrogating him and that repeats the events that occurred until the nerves would give him away and thus confess his crime “- What happens to you? Does my dear Romanovich feel bad?”(Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment, 2013), it was only a matter of time for itwho are unfairly punished for the "coup of bad luck" with which they found themselves.
Chapter III: Relationship between the two works
"The subject does not exist but there is a society and there is no society but there are subjects …" (Flores, 2020). In both works, both the main character and secondary characters are strongly influenced by the environment in which they live, both are governed by their laws and norms imposed by the same medium indirectly, unintentionally they are in castes and social classes that do not They are written anywhere to be followed as a normal law, they are the typical "unwritten rules" to which without noticing we are governed "all activity has unwritten rules, that is, ways of doing things and things that should not be done That everyone hopes and that, if they do not follow, it can result in suffering rejection and difficulties ”(Moro, 2020), we are all accustomed to following these norms and in a happy world and crime and punishment, while in a happy world All people were conditioned since childhood to be part of their surroundings and get used to their lifestyle, usually consumerist and monotonous, there were people like Bernard Marx or Helmholtz Watson, although they were governed by the rules that L They were taxes they did it with disgust and disagreement despite their conditioning imposed from an early age, Bernard, however, although it was dissatisfied with his way of reality, what bothered him was that he was physically differently to the other members of his caste, but later in the work when Bernard won fame thanks to the fact that he brought John the wild of Malpaís for a social experiment, however described in the work as he enjoyed attention and fame.
It should be noted that in "a happy world" on the date of original publication in 1932, the ideology of the people of the time was very different from the current one, both in morality and in doctrines, it was a very abrupt environment change because the genreTo which the work belongs, a futuristic science fiction novel with utopian and moderate features, baffles all the readers of said work since technically a society is described in which things are implemented that would improve the state of humanity but at the cost of eliminatingother very important and unique from the roots of the human being, things like family, art, religion, love, things that were the result of thousands of years of cultural evolution of the human being just disappeared.
On the other hand, in "crime and punishment" a society is described more similar to the current one, the human being is born and decides what he will do in life, however, which characterizes the society of "crime and punishment" and theModern society is that this greatly influences all aspects, depending on the place, certain factors such as politicians, religious and moral change, also intervening the economic factor because in the first -world countries there is more likely to succeed in the same society andbe someone influential and useful while in Third World countries the probabilities are increasingly and more. The protagonist Rodia develops throughout the work and this evolves negatively from a student with dreams and aspirations to a repentant murderer and with a little moral mentality, in a way it is very disconcerting to know that we are shaped by societyAccording to its laws and guidelines, there is nothing that can sometimes be done until the most achieved effort can be overshadowed by luck.
Conclusions
The stereotypes that society dictates are social norms that govern and divide this and those that all belong, although in both works a notorious use of the capacity to change the protagonists is made and how they determine their actions according to how they have been influenced byThe environment that surrounded and affected them, in effect there is a big difference between the works one of them is that in "a happy world" people had no choice to be different either physically or mentally, these when created artificially are exactly the same, while in "crime and punishment" the protagonist Rodia has more liberting and individuality as well as individuality, but all these energies are on a bad way and is forced to have to commit an immoral act and frowned upon by society, it isIronic how the society sorrows the offenses against it but it is she who leads to change the attitudes and actions of individuals. And although the works distinguish both their literary genre and their historical context, both have demonstrated the importance of not following the steps of others and not being influenced by negative advice and manipulators of others, at the same time conserveWhat makes us unique, so I think that both "a happy world" and "crime and punishment" are novels that deserve to be read not only because they are great representations of the situation in which society could be found and asThe authors manage to interpret both real and imaginary situations with great capacity. And as consequently, these two works are worthy representations, you could say artistic and realistic about a society in a before and then framing representative moments and that can serve as a model for the construction of a decent society in which each individual has the same opportunitiesAnd this is not discriminated against by its economic or social situation.
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