Being Alone In Dostoyevsky Crime And Punishment

Without feeling: What’s the impact on others? Being alone can be relaxing, but when alone for an extended period of time, the mind begins to fade. Being alone for an extended period of time is called isolation and this can be very extreme. Isolation is having no contact with any outside places or any outside people, this can begin to have serious effects on you that you will never recover from. In Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment the main character Raskolnikov puts himself into isolation when he can’t recall what it was like to love or have serious emotions towards another Human so he loses the capability to have these feelings. Without these feelings for anyone he can start to do things to people he never even thought of doing before. When Raskolnikov begins to interact with people after having avoided them for so long he doesn't know how to properly interact with them. Not only does he not know how to interact with them he doesn't understand what they’re feeling and has no sympathy for anyone so he can do extremely cruel things and feel nothing. When Raskolnikov kills the old pawnbroker he does not do it sensibly nor think …show more content…
He is murdering an old woman and not only should he feel remote remorse for killing her he thinks nothing of hitting her with the blunt side, not the sharp side. If he would have used the sharp side he could have struck her once and she would have died almost instantly and it would have been a relatively painless death. But he had no sympathy, and no remorse so he kills her with two blows to the head with the blunt side of the axe. It also says “Scarcely conscious of himself, and almost without effort”(77). Raskolnikov was completely calm on the inside and has no second thoughts, he was in peace so that he scarcely thought about it. He did it with almost no effort, Dostoyevsky purposely said this to exaggerate his point of Raskolnikov losing feeling and the affect of