Crime and Punishment Essay Imagine coming home one winter day barefoot and barely clothed and hearing your siblings crying of hunger and coldness because there wasn’t enough food and blankets. More than 1.3 billion people live in poverty today, and 1 billion of those individuals are innocent children (Unknown). Knowing the struggle of poverty, these children obtain enough motivation to strive for success or in times of desperation commit crimes such as stealing: food, clothes, or anything they need. In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, a young man, murders two women and is tormented by keeping it a secret. He as well as his family struggle to get out of poverty as well as his soul mate, Sonya Semyonovn. Sonya had to sacrifice her innocence to help her family financially because her father Marmeladov, an alcoholic, would spend all his money on alchohol. Poverty affects almost all the characters in the novel by limiting resources and opportunities. In the end, almost all the characters survive from poverty and Raskolnikov ends up confessing his crime. In Crime and Punishment many of the characters live in poverty and struggle to get out of it;
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Poverty gave Raskolnikov a fear of talking to people. The author states,” [Raskolnikov] was so immersed in himself and had isolated himself so much from everyone that he was afraid not only of meeting his landlady but of meeting anyone at all. He was crushed by poverty,” (Dostoevsky 1). He isolates himself from everyone especially his landlady because he hadn’t paid rent in months and he knew he had to somehow avoid speaking to her and everyone around him. Poverty led him to carry shame around his shoulders; he obtained a low self-esteem that prevented him from socializing and drove him to isolation. Also, in Raskolnikov’s mind his condition couldn’t be fixed because when you crush something it can’t ever be fully
Poverty gave Raskolnikov a fear of talking to people. The author states,” [Raskolnikov] was so immersed in himself and had isolated himself so much from everyone that he was afraid not only of meeting his landlady but of meeting anyone at all. He was crushed by poverty,” (Dostoevsky 1). He isolates himself from everyone especially his landlady because he hadn’t paid rent in months and he knew he had to somehow avoid speaking to her and everyone around him. Poverty led him to carry shame around his shoulders; he obtained a low self-esteem that prevented him from socializing and drove him to isolation. Also, in Raskolnikov’s mind his condition couldn’t be fixed because when you crush something it can’t ever be fully