【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 had a boyfriend who took her for a drive. His coarse friend acpanied them. They tried to get her drunk in order to take advantage of her. She resisted, and they resorted to violence. When her father went to the hospital she had two black eyes. Her nose was broken, and her jaw shattered. This crime introduces the reader to a felony, which was mitted by civilians. The primary motivation of the offenders, to take sexual advantage of a girl, was to satisfy their base motives. Therefore the motivation for the crime is rather primitive. The massive violence was mitted, because their attempt failed. This savage reaction of the offenders is rather archaic. As if aggression would be a drive that resulted directly from the frustration about unsatisfied It is due to all these parameters that the crime seems to be primitive, barbaric and gruesome. 2. The Criminality Committed by the Mafia Towards Civilians The second category of criminality is directly mitted by the Mafia, the anized criminality. In the following examines, whether the Mafia criminality in The Godfather fits into the acknowledged definition of anized crime: Organized crime or criminal anizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity… An anized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a The Godfather, Don Corleone, also runs a criminal enterprise. In this enterprise he, with the support of his lawyer Tom Hagen, meets all important decision. He is the central intelligence, the brain, of his enterprise. Thus his 6 enterprise is centralized. The enterprise has his roots and still some connections to Sicily in Italy, therefore the enterprise can be deemed transnational. The key activities of the enterprise are gambling and alcohol smuggling. So the purpose of the enterprise is obviously to engage in criminal actions. As we can see the Mafia enterprise of The Godfather fits into the definition above. Nevertheless there are some outstanding aspects of his Mafia business, which shall be highlighted. The first substantial characteristic is that Don Corleonethe leader of the Mafia groupuses the concept of friendship as a constitutive element. He does people amost likely illegalfavor and they may be asked to return the favor later on. This kind of friendship he is not only keeping with the upper class. Everyone can turn to him as long as they show their respect, honesty, and loyalty. This method can be condensed in an old Chinese wisdom: ―whom beloved and supported by the people heartily, who will win the world.‖11 In this way, Don Corleone makes people part of his Mafia empire to expand it, and use people‘s individual talents. Puzo explains this whole concept on the example of Amerigo Bonasera. He is also an Italian American but unlike Don Corleone he had the intention to live a life as an honorable American who clings to the values of his country. He gave up this moral code after his daughter was brutally mistreated. The Godfather helped him to get revenge by maltreating the offenders of his daughter: The two big men were beating Moonan to jelly. They did so with frightening deliberation, as if they had all the time in the world. They did not throw punches in flurries… One of them held Wagner up by using his two hands around Wagner39。s head like a vise. The other man smashed his huge fist into the fixed This criminal deed was mitted by the Mafia towards civilians. There a several points which are worth noticing. Firstly the first crime that was 7 mitted by the offenders was the direct cause for the second crime. With this Puzo wanted to show his readers that violence leads to counter violence, called spiral of The second interesting point is that the motive for the crime. The vengeance for Bonaserra180。s daughter seems to be a more sophisticated reason than the primitive motive of her offenders. Even though this is true, the selfadministrated justice of Don Corleone, who acts as a judge, has the same massive degree of violence. With this Puzo wanted to show his readers that even if the motives for both crimes are different. Yet they are mitted in a similarly brutal and savage way. 3. Crimes Committed by the Mafioso Towards Mafioso For the crimes that are mitted by mafioso towards Mafioso the never uses the theme of violence and counter violence again. However unlike the Civilians the Mafiosi almost always act with the intention to kill: The first bullet caught Don Corleone in the back. He felt the hammer shock of its impact but made his body move toward the car. The next two bullets hit him in the buttocks and sent him sprawling in the middle of the street. Meanwhile the two gunmen, careful not to slip the rolling fruit, started to follow in order to finish him off…The gunmen fired two more hasty shots at the Don lying in the gutter. One hit him in the fleshy part of his arm and the second hit him in the calf of his right leg. Though these wounds were the least serious the bled profusely, forming small pools of blood beside his body. But by this time Don Corleone had lost Don Corleone, his criminal activities focus on gambling and alcohol smuggling business, while he refused to take part in the drug, or the prostitution ―business‖, due to his own sense of morality. His disagreement with 8 drug dealings leaded to the assault on his life. He was an obstacle in the business of all rivalling clans and therefore they intended to eliminate him. In the Mafia environment killing is the same as operating against a business petitor. In opposition to the crimes between civilians, the Mafia established a crime culture. Crime is not the exception but the rule and a regular business strategy