The Portrayal Of Women s Crime And Punishment And The...

The Portrayal of Women in Crime and Punishment and the Communist Manifesto Women are discussed and or portrayed in both â€Å"Crime and Punishment† by Fyodor Dostoevsky and â€Å"The Communist Manifesto† by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In â€Å"Crime and Punishment† there are several female characters, many of which play large roles in the main characters’ story. However, women are only mentioned a few times in â€Å"The Communist Manifesto†, but it is essential to the point the authors are trying to convey. Each of these literatures see women and different ways, some more positive, negative, and or diverse. Nonetheless, I believe both pieces of literature see women as vital or essential aspects of society. The Communist Manifesto tries to explain the goals of communism as well as the theory behind it. It focuses on how class struggles and the oppression of one class by another are a problem. Women are not mentioned throughout the book except for when the bourgeois are discussed. Marx and Engels state,† The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex† (pg. 73). The communist are worried that as modern industry grows the work required could be done by women andShow MoreRelatedReligion Is Poison8248 Words   |  33 Pagesset of beliefs or teachings about the deepest and most elusive of life’s mysteries. So, from this point of view, I will leav e my paper to research those that have a belief in a ‘theistic god’ rather than the all-inclusive. Deprived of this belief, it s really not a viable theistic religion. George H. Smith in his book, â€Å"Atheism: The Case Against God,†1974, commented, â€Å"†¦the belief in god is irrational to the point of absurdity; and that this irrationality, when manifested in specific religions suchRead MoreLgbt19540 Words   |  79 Pagesexplained in more detail here. Lesbian A lesbian woman is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to women. Many lesbians prefer to be called lesbian rather than gay. Gay A gay man is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to men. The word gay can be used to refer generally to lesbian, gay and bisexual people but many women prefer to be called lesbian. Most gay people dont like to be referred to as homosexual because of the negative historical associations