Part one of term paper
In every society, it is important for individuals to adhere to a set of principles in order to maintain order. In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Camus' The Outsider , however, both protagonists ignored the values of their society. Raskolnikov and Meursault felt their own beliefs were significant, and through their actions they were a ...

Part two of term paper
... own ideologies. Raskolnikov, for instance, believed that “we have to correct and direct nature. But for that, there would never had been a single great man”1. In fact, he had written an article titled “The psychology of a criminal before and after the crime”. It stated that ‘ordinary' men live according to the law and exist only to reproduce the human race, yet ‘extraordinary' men may break laws “if in his own conscience it is necessary to do so in order to better mankind”2. Raskol ...