Comparing Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment

Between all the other characters in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov are the most similar in that Svidrigailov is depicted as Raskolnikov’s baser self and a depraved character. While Raskolnikov is seen to be a more repentant character who is afflicted with guilt after murdering the pawnbroker for his own selfish desires despite telling himself it is for the greater good, Svidrigailov is rumored to have committed several murders and feels nothing for his victims, one of them being his own wife. Throughout the story, Rask is shown as wanting to be like Svidrigailov just as Svidrigailov longs to be like Rask because each one has qualities that the other wants in their life.

In Fyodor Dostoevsky book Crime and Punishment, women at this time in Russia were not the equals of men in terms of education and power. In Crime and Punishment the women in the story were self-sacrificing in their actions, which in return paid off for the women. Majority of women, in Crime and Punishment, such as Sonya were selfless in their actions. The women in this story play a motherly role towards the men. Women in this story may have lived in a male dominated society, but it seemed that the words the women spoke in this story were very strong in influencing the men. Sonya plays a major role in Raskolnikov's life, being the person Raskolnikov relies on while he was in and out of prison. Raskolnikov felt a heavy connection with Sonya

In Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, there are many “illuminating instances” that present “casements,” displaying key openings that reveal deeper meanings embedded throughout the story. In this particular scene, Rodya has recently been sent a letter from his mother describing what has happened to Dunya. The letter discusses the discerning past with her boss, Svidrigailov, and her upcoming marriage to Luzhin. Clearly, Rodya is unsettled by these names of Svidrigailov and Luzhin, along with their backgrounds and intentions. As he wanders St. Petersburg, his mind is everywhere. At one moment he is contemplating the impossibility of Luzhin’s described character; at another, he is speaking of Svidrigailov to himself. Then suddenly, he

In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky creates a psychological thriller, in which he reimagines his own life through the eyes of Raskolnikov. Whereas the Russian government sentences Dostoevsky to Siberia as punishment for sedition, Siberia serves a means of atonement for Raskolnikov. This type of religious undertone reinforces the novel’s existentialistic messages that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice. It holds the view that humans define their own meaning in life, and try to make rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe. Thus, humans create their own purpose in life and their choices define who they are. Dostoevsky utilizes figurative language, specifically biblical allusions, as a way of conveying and clarifying these themes to the reader. By connecting to Bible, the author universalizes the intention, allowing the reader to apply the text to their own lives, and granting the audience further insight into the novel. Thus, biblical allusions help enrich the themes of Crime and Punishment while also cementing the central message of salvation- anyone, even murderers, have the potential to redeem themselves.

In the novel “Crime and Punishment”, the author, Fyodor Dostoevsky gives the reader a glimpse into the mind of a tormented criminal, by his guilt of a murder. Dostoevsky’s main focal point of the novel doesn’t lie within the crime nor the punishment but within the self-conflicting battle of a man and his guilty conscience. The author portrays tone by mood manipulation and with the use of descriptive diction to better express his perspective in the story, bringing the reader into the mind of the murderer.

As Raskolnikov’s internal struggle becomes evident, Dostoevsky uses Raskolnikov’s disoriented state to illustrate nihilism’s ineffectiveness as a catalyst for social change. Raskolnikov’s radical philosophy is initially used as justification of his murder, a gambit to escape St. Petersburg’s poverty crisis. By labeling the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna as a “louse” and being largely apathetic towards any emotional or social repercussions, it is suggested that her death is for the greater good of not only Raskolnikov, but the whole of society; this lack of emotional substance in his logic brands him as a cold-blooded utilitarianist. However, it is a different story after the murder, where even Raskolnikov begins to doubt the legitimacy of his own argument. He realizes that his adrenaline rush prevents him from stealing much of the pawnbroker’s money, and with what he does manage to salvage, it is hidden away, nullifying any constructive benefit he had hoped to provide. Additionally, the murder of the pawnbroker’s innocent sister Lizaveta, whom prior to the even Raskolnikov feels

The room is as shabby as it is small--not a seemingly likely place for posing intellectual questions of great significance. But Dostoevsky is a writer fond of achieving great things with equally great economy. Just as he stretches a two-week period into a hefty novel, Dostoevsky makes a dingy student's apartment more important than a grand palace. Raskolnikov's room becomes a nexus for the story. It is there Raskolnikov cowers, broods and slips into depraved and fitful slumber. Almost all of the major characters in the book pay a visit to the room, and sometimes it even seems as if they are all stuffed into the tiny space at once. Yet the room is more than just a meeting place, more than a central location. It takes on a character of its own, illustrating Raskolnikov's mental turmoil, becoming an image of him to others and perhaps even doing much to induce or at least enforce his degenerate state.

Those that are extraordinary have the right to commit crimes (murder) in a justifiable way in accordance with their beliefs. Those who are merely ordinary do not have that right to do so. In Raskolnikov’s confession to Sonia started off with him turning pale and he rose from the chair to sit on her bed. When she questioned what was wrong he replied that there was nothing wrong. She demanded he tell her because she knew it was all nonsense. He finally told her that he came to tell her who killed Lizaveta. Sonia immediately knew it was Raskolnikov as she began to tremble all over. Surprisingly she embraced and kissed him and Sonia said she would never leave his side through his trials (409-413).

In chapter one of part one in Crime and Punishment, an unnamed male character has just left his home and is walking through the Hay Market. Our character is from a lower socio-economic status, as he is, “crushed by poverty,” (1) and as he is wearing “rags”, that, “even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed.” (2) Prior to the passage starting the young man is talking a walk during July through Petersburg, and is contemplating a deep thought, a thought he has had for a whole month. The passage starts off by describing the area that the young man is walking through, filled with drunks and walking through the area of town where the poor and working class dominate the area. This gives him camouflage, as he describes it, “types so various were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.” (3) In this passage there is

People often judge others based on physical appearances, such as what they wear or their hairstyle. The style and condition of a person’s home and room can also reveal their character, as homes are the place where they spend most of their time. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel titled Crime and Punishment, the author includes descriptions of rooms to influence the reader’s interpretation of the characters. Specifically, by describing the furnishing and size of the rooms of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the protagonist, Sonya Marmeladov, the prostitute, Alyona Ivanovna, the pawnbroker, and Porfiry Petrovitch, the police inspector, Dostoevsky reveals the wealth, social status, and personality of each of the characters. In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the novelist uses symbols, connotations, and metaphor to describe the rooms associated with characters to reveal the wealth, social status, and personalities of the characters.

From declaring he wanted to become a Napoleon to wishing for financial independence to murdering for his own sake, he rattles off various motives, showing his obsessive rationalization (394-397). By presenting his conflicting intentions, Dostoevsky exhibits the chaos within Raskolnikov’s mind.

In times of need, people resort to madness. This is shown in the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The characters, who live in extreme poverty, resort to madness. Set in St. Petersburg, this novel deals with the impact of utilitarianism, that drives the main character Raskolnikov, to commit murder, and from his overpowering guilt and paranoia. In addition, Katerina Ivanovna, the wife of Marmeladov, and a mother of three, must cope with an alcoholic husband and,

Often times in literature, we are presented with quintessential characters that are all placed into the conventional categories of either good or bad. In these pieces, we are usually able to differentiate the characters and discover their true intentions from reading only a few chapters. However, in some remarkable pieces of work, authors create characters that are so realistic and so complex that we are unable to distinguish them as purely good or evil. In the novel Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky develops the morally ambiguous characters of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov to provide us with an interesting read and to give us a chance to evaluate each character.

Crime and Punishment is a literary achievement in philosophical fiction that was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born November 11, 1821 in Moscow, Russia. Fyodor is arguably one of the best literary psychologists with such works such as Crime and Punishment which explores loosely the philosophical theory of existentialism. Existentialism “emphasizes the existence of each individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). He attended St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering and graduated in 1843. He left his position as Sub Lieutenant in order to pursue a career as a writer. Fyodor was active in Socialist circles and was arrested

We all have at least encountered a person who is in fact intelligent, proud, and handsome, but because of their overly esteems of themselves, they begin to doubt anyone credibility, begin to think that they are superior than everyone to the point where they end up separating themselves from the world around them. And it often costs them the lost of their talents. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s book ‘Crime and Punishment’, where he portrayed Raskolnikov as a man who thinks too high of himself and too little of everyone else. Moreover, his deep-seated aversion and disconnection of everyone around him, leads to his intentionally murdering the pawnbroker Ivanovna, and her half- sister, who happens to be in the way. To cover after his crime, Raskolnikov ended up spending his life misleading and deceiving everyone who is suspicious of him. And when he no longer can, he looked to be redeemed and where he arrived to confess. It is certain that Raskolnikov’s process of moral degeneration and redemption is the result of his lack of caring and sensibility for his personal relations and social relations which the Ethics of Care argues that as human beings, the relations of care that we cultivate or fail to cultivate with family members, friends, neighbors, fellow citizens, and so on, are vital to our moral life.