Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime And Punishment

Crime and Self Punishment?

Everyone knows the feeling you get in your stomach when you know you have done something wrong and no matter how hard you try you can never take it back. The kind of feeling that feels so deep that it almost hurts. That feeling is guilt. Guilt goes with you everywhere, never leaving your side, it hides itself in the deepest darkest part of your subconscious, driving you insane with its mere presence. It is inescapable, and the worst kind of punishment.

The novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a story from start to finish, plotting to punishment about a man who commits a murder and the effect it has on him afterward. Dostoevsky's uses the novel to allow the audience an inside look on the psyche of a criminal, and arguably one of the most horrific criminals, a murderer. Crime and Punishment is a novel that many would assume is a story about a man who commits a crime and what his punishment is as a result, however, …show more content…
What that truth is, is arguable, however, one of the primary themes weaved into this novel by Dostoevsky is the idea that self punishment is unavoidable and even worse than the actual incarceration. Raskolnikov endures many forms of guilt, anxiety, and paranoia throughout the novel all written with a purpose, to provide an inside look on the psyche of a criminal, and more importantly what one must endure after committing such an unspeakable act. Raskolnikov's confession was not out of remorse for his actions, but an attempt to rid his conscience and mind of the effects of this murder. So, yes, every crime has its punishment, and in this case, as well as in many others the unavoidable punishment is imprisonment, however, the imprisonment is not in jail, but rather in your own mind, guilt, anxiety, paranoia, delusions, and