Submerged in crimes

Abstract

Both murder and suicide have shattered from ground up the human society for thousands of years. Most real life murders have a motivation which is closely connected to money, passions or revenge.

In literature, murders or suicide have the role to generate a powerful emotion to the reader by creating, at the same time, the illusion of life.

A great part of the murders from real life remain unpunished. In most cases of murder in literature, the wrong-doers remain, as well, not discovered out of recklessness or ignorance, with the exception of the murderers from the novel „Baltagul”.