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Metamorphosis The Crime and Punishment La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

“The Crime and Punishment”, “La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes” is

deals with the superman theory. similar to the superman theory in

This is basically, that some people “The Crime and Punishment”. The

are higher than others and people higher up in the social

deserve the right to kill who ever status are able to use the lower

they want. class, as their servant.

Gregor Samsa, the main character, Raskolnikov is the main character Lazarillo is the character that the

is very poor and has to constantly and is so poor that he is able to novella is about and is very poor.

work to as a travelling salesman, contain his studying and afford He is so poor, that he has to work

supports his family. He is the only better clothes. And also a place to as a servant for a number masters

one working in the family and live. throughout the novella. He begs

providing for them. for food that some of his masters

won’t give him and learns ways of

fooling them to get food.

Gregor Samsa is isolating himself Raskolnikov divides himself from

from others outside his room. He others in the beginning, because

believes that he is a burden to his he does not want to be

family and avoids as much contact approached by others or have any

with others, as he possible can. un- wanted attention.

Gregor Samsa is suffering Raskolnikov is showing signs of Lazarillo is very poor, weak and

throughout Metamorphosis, due suffering because he has hungry. His first two monsters, do

to the fact that before, he was committed a crime that he can’t you spare him much to eat to
working constantly with little rest come to handle mentally and survive. So he has to beg, steal and

and after the transformation, he is drives himself crazy. The fact that trick his way to food. So that he

injured and no one cares for him he has killed the pawnbroker, he can survive.

to feed him or anything anymore. tells himself that he has done a

good thing. But inside, his

conscious knows that he was

wrong.
Gregor Samsa turns into a bug Raskolnikov doesn’t believe that Lazarillo may be a human that is

during the night. This shows that he is the same as the others, but a just a servant, but he is treated in

he is no longer human and higher being that is no longer the novella as an animal.

different. human but basically as incredible

as superman.