C & P

In crime and punishment it is hard to find examples of what we consider here in America today to be "conventional love." Although there are many examples of love between characters none of them have the familiar images of love. There are no weddings, only funerals. There are no common romance stories where Romeo risks his life for his Juliet. In my opinion, the image of love in today's American society is horribly skewed and it takes works like Crime and Punishment to remind us of the true images of love. Not the fact that a wedding cost thousands of dollars but the fact that there was a wedding and that it was held for the right reasons.