The Pawnbroker

kills the city’s pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, and then her sister, a bystander in the crime scene. Raskolnikov’s guilt affected him in two ways: he felt confused in his morals, and his reason as to why he committed the murders were distorted and blurred. Raskolnikov’s morals are seen to be protean and never absolute; he felt confused whether to be a hero or to be unconcerned and isolated from society because of his murder. Also, he feels he could justify the killing of the pawnbroker, for her ill-nature

Rhodia Raskolnikov sees himself as an Übermensch, taking it upon himself to murder a pawnbroker, and inadvertently her sister, in cold blood; simply because he views himself as above the average person in society. Raskolnikov’s actions, both leading up to his crime and his subsequent attempts at evasion of punishment illustrate a powerful

feature of human cognition is the humanistic approach to cognition. This was most greatly exemplified in the movie “The Pawnbroker.” In this movie, the main character, the Pawnbroker, shows humanistic cognition through the flashbacks shown throughout the movie. The Pawnbroker’s negative experiences in life color his emotions and affect the way he perceives those around him. The Pawnbroker is tormented by the loss of his family in the Nazi concentration camps, and treats everyone he meets with a rough indifference

Critical Analysis: What You Pawn I Will Redeem Sherman Alexie the author is a Native America that grew up in Wellpinit, Washington on the Spokane Indian Reservation with ancestry of several tribes. From personal attributes and his understanding of Native Americans Alexie developed characters in What You Pawn I Will Redeem. These characters represent some of the challenges that Native Americans face on a daily basis. This story begins with a short explanation of who the narrator is and

plays a large role in the story, as Raskolnikov is constantly on the edge of being good or evil. Raskolnikov can be viewed as morally ambiguous in for several reasons. His first act of evil was when he murdered the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta. He killed the pawnbroker because he believed that the world would be better off

Through his killing of the pawnbroker and her sister, Raskolnikov comes to realize that he is ineligible to deliver justice himself and must rely on the will of God to define his set of morals and standards. Raskolnikov first grapples with the idea that an individual, as long as they are “great,” can create their own sense of justice, and

and robs her. His intention was to only kill the pawnbroker but then her sister walked into the crime scene. Inevitably, he had to kill her as well. Not only does he bear the guilt of killing the pawnbroker, but also an innocent bystander. All Raskolnikov wanted to be was a superhero to his society. Raskolnikov was under the impression that the pawnbroker was stealing and as an act of heroism decides to kill him. He thought by killing the pawnbroker he was doing the world good. Hence his intention

while facing the hardships of life, like Sonia, Lizaveta, and Mikolka. Those like Raskolnikov, however, try to change the elements of life that provide challenges by taking drastic measures to modify society and life: by murdering an opportunist pawnbroker in his case. When reading Crime and Punishment, one can see that the difference in one’s response to suffering depends on whether or not violence is used. While Raskolnikov uses violence to change his circumstances, other characters respond to the

The book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1860s. It is about Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student, who devises and carries out a plan to kill Alyona Ivanovna, a pawnbroker, and unexpectedly killed her sister as well. The rest of the story follows him as he deals with his guilt. Eventually, he confesses to the crime and goes to prison. Although Crime and Punishment is about the fictional actions of a specific character, it does reveal details

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