Crime and Punishment

There are no universal truths in Crime and Punishment. While there it seems that Raskolnikov’s story in Crime and Punishment focuses on the idea of atonement, Dostoevsky counters that understanding with Svidrigailov’s final hours in Part VI, chapter vi. Svidrigailov acts as a foil to Raskolnikov throughout the entirety of the novel, and their two understandings of redemption is no exception. In analyzing Svidrigailov’s final night, we see that while he believes that the past can influence the…

imprisonment and later removal to Siberia. It is evident that throughout his life, Dostoevsky remained a differing life than those of his counterparts. The theme of alienation is not only obvious within the life of Dostoevsky, but in his novel Crime and Punishment as well. Alienation is seen within the novel in the life…

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is the story of Rodion Raskolnikov and his suffering. The book starts off in Petersburg, Russia. Raskolnikov is a college dropout, who is obsessed by his Great Man Theory. In this theory, great men rule the world. They are able to go around the laws, for the bettering of humanity. Raskolnikov wants to fit into his own theory. He wants desperately to be a great man. To test his theory, he kills a cheating pawnbroker. The realization of what he…

The novel crime and punishment is written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental pain and moral dilemmas that Rodion Raskolnikov faces, an impoverished ex-student in St Petersburg who creates and execute a plan to kill an unethical pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to repent for the crime, while simultaneously getting rid of a worthless vermin. He…

society's political changes and the move to the modern world in Russia and Great Britain from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. In Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky used his main character in the novel Crime and Punishment (1866) to explore the psychology of the tsar Nicholas I. The novel Crime and Punishment reflects Dostoyevsky's life experiences of the events happening in Russia. The main character in the book, Raskolnikov, experiences psychological guilt, due to his identity as a murderer, in…

The protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment is a young ex-student living penniless in St.Petersburg. He lives in a tiny rented room, but is indebted to his landlord due to his low financial status. From the start of the book Dostoevsky paints a clear image of Raskolnikov. For example, on page eight it says “he even knew how many paces he had to take in order to reach the front entrance of his tenement; seven hundred and thirty paces exactly” (8)…

In this excerpt from Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky expresses different emotions and conflicts of his main character, Raskolnikov, as he questions and condemns the wicked ways of man. Dostoevsky describes the inner turmoil of Raskolnikov, who wishes to help those in need, but his experiences with mankind’s corruption has strayed him to his current belief: no amount of sacrifice can lessen impoverishment, suffering, nor vice. This passage reveals Raskolnikov’s utter disgust with not only…

Crime and Punishment, a novel depicting murder, love, social status, and capital judgement, is embodied by the location, and time period in which it was set. The mid 1860s were a time of heavy segregation based on money and occupation. The higher order of society is obtained less through strength of character, but the acquisition of considerable funds. As a learned and intelligent man, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is able to see through the social order and judge men by their sacrifices and…

He wakes up shaken, soaked with sweat, and gasping for breath. Raskolnikov recalls the dreadful way the mare was murdered and he says aloud to himself that of course his plan was just a fantastical one and he reassures himself that “yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it” (62). He exclaims, “...I couldn't do it!”, but his belief in his inability to complete the plan wavers when he then says in the same breath, “there is no flaw in all that reasoning…” (62). The flip…

In a passage excerpted from the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov fixes his attention on a girl who is staggeringly drunk. While Raskolnikov is watching her, he notices a large man, who is also paying special attention to the drunk girl; however, the stranger is clearly intent on taking advantage of the girl. Raskolnikov notifies a police officer of the circumstance in order to protect the girl, and in an instant, he decides that he does not care about what happens to…