Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Forming emotional connections is mandatory for a healthy human life. They are irreplaceable components of the human soul. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment demonstrates the emotional suffering Russian Rodin Raskolnikov undergoes when he is exiled from these mandatory emotional connections internally and externally. Throughout the novel his mental health decreases has he is filled with extreme sorrow and anxiety. While Rodin's internal and external punishment of exile was one…

1) The Underground Man shows himself to be very contradictory. For instance, he says that while he worked in the Russian civil service he was a "nasty official," and soon mentions that he was "lying [about being] a nasty official" (91). Then he divulges he "lied out of spite"(91). He also says that he "has great respect for medicine and doctors (90)," yet he refuses to visit one. The Underground Man shows himself to truly be a mean, spiteful man with an extremely pessimistic outlook on life.…

Crime and Punishment Psychological profile Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment is known to be Russian literature. He published this novel in 1866 while he was in Europe in 1865. Perhaps his finest novel, Crime and Punishment originated as a lengthy short story that dealt with, as Dostoyevsky himself stated, “The psychological account of a crime.”(Dostoyevsky,ix) He wrote Crime and Punishment in his time of crisis of epilepsy and debt. In…

Crime and Punishment is a book set in Russia, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and focuses on a theme of alienation. The book starts when the main character- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov- goes to a pawnbroker,Alyona Ivanovna. While there Raskolnikov trades his watch for the money he needs to pay his rent and to plan out how he could rob Alyona. This entire sequence of events makes up the exposition of Crime and Punishment and introduces alienation as the theme. From there the rising action…

his wife Anna to move temporarily to Europe. Being in Europe and experiencing the constant lack of means, Dostoyevsky continuously maintained correspondence with his brother Mikhail, his close friend Maikov and his niece Sonia to whom he often confessed about his futile attempts to write a great novel and about the disappointing mediocrity he was receiving instead (Frank 245). In fact, Dostoyevsky dedicated The Idiot to Sonia, whom he supported and pursued to live independently from the social…

I am going to be discussing the claims made by Ivan Karamazov in the book, The Brothers Karamazov. I will also be discussing what these claims mean and how they contribute to the discussion of the morality, religion, and their relation to each other. He first claims that “If there is no God, everything is permitted.” He later claims that “There is no virtue if there is no immortality.” These are interesting claims, as they both have to do with the idea of religion and aspects of Christianity…

Upon the release of the serfs, many flooded into cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg for a new start. Due to the influx of unpredicted people, the cities were ill adjusted. It was a horrific environment that created many problems. Similarly, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov wanders around the toxic St. Petersburg taking in all of the awful things the city has to offer him. He is isolated and upset with the lack of morals in the city. He decides to take justice into his…

Freudian Analysis of Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment displays characters in a setting of poverty, many of which forfeit different aspects of their personality in order to survive. One of the characters featured within the book, Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov, or Sonia, is a young girl who lives separately from her family for social reasons. She takes up financial responsibility for the survival of her younger siblings, her ill mother, and her alcoholic…

Development of Guilt in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Ideally, when committing a felony, the criminals main concern is not getting caught. In Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, the poverty-stricken, ill man Raskolnikov proves otherwise; it is not the punishment that provokes fear, it is the guilt and psychological instability that will drive the convict to insanity. Set in the late eighteenth century in St. Petersburg, Russia, Raskolnikov is faced with the dilemma of whether or not…

In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, the protagonist, is an outstanding example of a morally ambiguous character. In order for a character to be considered purely evil, the character must be acting out of complete aggression and anger; on the contrary, in order for a character to be considered purely moral, the character must constantly perform actions that not only aid him/her self, but also aid his/her external surroundings. Hence, it would be just to state that…