Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

Central Questions/Concepts 1. Poverty vs Dignity. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (Rask), also known as “Rodya” or “Rodka,” faces many obstacles dealing with poverty throughout the novel; anywhere from avoiding your landlady because you're in debt, or just not having food and water. Raskolnikov does not let that get to him. He never wants to lose his Dignity no matter how deep in poverty he gets. Raskolnikov’s mother sends him a letter telling him that his sister is to marry a wealthy man, so she can

Petersburg, late July, 1860. The main character is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov , a former student who dropped out of university because of poverty. His relatives are his mother, Pulkheria Alexandrovna, and his sister Avdotya Romanovna. He also have a friend named Razuminkhin Dmitri Prokofich, who plays an important role in the story. There are other characters who are not really important, but they all take parts of the story. The story start with Raskolnikov, who lives in a small garret on the top floor

suffering worked its way strongly into his novel Crime and Punishment. The protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, was an impoverished former student who lived in St. Petersburg. Raskolnikov believed that he could make the world a better place by murdering a crooked pawnbroker and taking her money to help the needy; Raskolnikov ends up murdering the pawnbroker as well as her innocent sister. Through Raskolnikov and Katerina’s journey to redemption Dostoevsky is able to convey that redemption is

The protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, decides to murder and rob an old pawn broker, Alyona Ivanovna, not due to his desperate need of money, but due to a theory he wants to test. Raskolnikov leaves no evidence which would lead the investigation to him; however, the police lieutenant in charge of the case, Porfiry Petrovich, a meticulous thinker

sympathetically than we otherwise might. In Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the character of Raskolnikov is one who may be considered evil or immoral for his actions, however his portrayal by the author is one that instills sympathy in the reader for the character due to his motives and personal, internal consequences he suffers for his crime of murder. There is considerable evidence supporting the view that Raskolnikov wants his theory surrounding the murder to be proven wrong, to get caught, and to be

novel in which the primary element that plagues the protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, is not a person but rather an idea; his own idea. Raskolnikov has an unhealthy obsession with rendering himself into what he perceives as the ideal, supreme human being, an übermensch. Raskolnikov forms for himself a theory in which he will live purely according to his own will and transcend the social norms and moralities that dominate society. Raskolnikov suggests that acts commonly regarded as immoral are to be reserved

Wilson Fisk, the kingpin of crime in the Netflix series Daredevil, evinces a perfect comic book black and white mortality. The two-sided criminal was loving to his mother, girlfriend, and in his own perversive way, the city of New York. From a human psyche standpoint nevertheless; what drove Fisk, what are his reasons for his criminal ways, and what caused him to be that way? Fisk was born in New York City to a drunk father and a caring mother. His father constantly beat his mother and made Fisk

Dostoevsky's 1865 novel Crime and Punishment is the story of an expelled university student's murder of an old pawnbroker and her sister. The idealistic ex-student, Raskolnikov, is ultimately unable to live up to his own nihilistic theory of what makes a "Great Man" and, overcome by fits of morality, betrays himself to the police. Exiled to Siberia, suffering redeems the unfortunate young dreamer. Crime and Punishment is similar in many ways to Balzac's Pere Goriot, especially in respect to questions

prime example of the dangers of seeing in black and white. Raskolnikov's existence is a grey area, because although he’s a murderer, the reader is sort of rooting for him. To me, Crime and Punishment is about the different tones morality can take. Raskolnikov is a murderer, but to him, and maybe some of the readers, he is justified in his act. This crime doesn’t define him as a moral or immoral person, that is for the reader to decide. Sonya is a similar example of the fluidity of morality, because she’s

THE DECONSTRUCTION OF RASKOLNIKOV AS ÜBERMENSCH ‘Murderer!’ he said suddenly, in a low but clear and distinct voice (pg. 231). In just one word (Part 3, Chapter VI of Crime and Punishment), the stranger’s direct label is a stabbing remark in opposition of Raskolnikov’s assumed identity. It is the debasement of a man-god, to be more apt a superman, who is ever so close to falling off the perch and into the abyss. “It was impossible to be sure, but it seemed to Raskolnikov that his face again wore