ESSAY ON FAIRNESS OF TRAIL1
The three chosen literary texts that contain the similar themes of trail and exposition
and address the question of fairness of the trail – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
Dostoevsky, Lord Jim by Joesph Conrad, and Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare.
Crime and Punishment
“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his
punishment.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
One of the greatest and most important question that torments the protagonist and the
readers while reading Crime and Punishment is whether the trail and punishment that
Raskolnikov was put through was fair and just. What Dostoevsky makes his readers
understand is the two nature of punishment and the effectiveness of it. When Raskolnikov
was put in prison after his confession at the police station, many would believe that his
murder of the pawnbroker truly received the justice that it deserved. On the other hand, the
readers also see the immediate decline of his health after the murder, visibly marking the
beginning of his suffering. The constant conflict between the two personalities also reflects
the helpless nature of the protagonist. This particular aspect of his personality is also
reflected when he says- “The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest
power of reflection were failing him began to be an insufferable torture” (Dostoevsky).
Dostoevsky uses this theme of suffering as an inevitable part of human life.
Lord Jim
“I had jumped—hadn't I? ... That's what I had to live down. The story didn't matter.” –
Joseph Conrad.
The above lines sum up the entire novel of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad where the
protagonist Jim, while explaining to Marlow, the fate of his actions as it was true- only the
fact that he had jumped out of the sinking ship being the captain would always be

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