Articles on Crime and punishment

Russian author and philosopher, Fyodor Dostoevsky is well known for his substantial work which is Crime and Punishment. It was first published in the year 1866 in the conservative journal The Russian Messenger, in twelve monthly installments. Dostoevsky elaborated and interpreted several social, physical, mental conditions which he supposed to influence devil in a human being. No wonder, crime existing in a world is a topic to debate to ponder upon.

Raskolnikov was a law student who tried harder to commit the perfect murder of the old female pawnbroker. He assumed he will able to improve the financial condition of his own and to prove that he belonged to a lot of men not subject to predictable morals. After committing to follow the path of great men such as Napoleon Bonaparte, he set an opinion to chase his goal by any mean which may be legal or illegal.

The events saturated to call his theory into question as soon as murdered happened. Unfortunately, he killed pawnbroker’s half-sister when she encountered unexpectedly. In this dilemma and hustle and tussle situation, he overlooked entire money and was able to use small amount he took. Following to crime, he was engulfed by mental and physical illness.

This course of action leads to the hero’s trait of guiltiness. As the hero feel intense guilt, entire actions enforced him to feel guilty. The cunning espionage discovered the truth earlier but waited until Raskolnikov accept his crime. Raskolnikov, eventually realized that he has to choose either confession or suicide. A powerful psychological account, the story presents thoughts and emotions from each character’s point of view. Other characters such as Luzhin and Svidrigailov defeated themselves by capitalized others for their own selfish motif. Svidrigailov’s suicide proves to Raskolnikov the futility of egoism. Aided by Sonia, who grows to love him, Raskolnikov chooses life, confession, and punishment, without attaining true redemption. Raskolnikov was unable to choose his own motives behind crime; the protagonist acknowledges risks psychic disintegration by spacious aside traditional morality.

The world represented by Fyodor Dostoevsky is quite harsh and there are very few people who are either committed or helped during the crime. This is the case happened to both Raskolnikov and his family. This bare setting exposed the theme of misery, loneliness’, and alienation. Although Raskolnikov is far too arrogant throughout the major part of the novel to come to terms with religion or his idea of God, all around him there were a number of religious messages come at him from Sonia and others which firmly believes in god’ s act and its activities. The presence of religion is a unique paradox because this novel is about an essentially godless person who commits a grave sin.

The purpose of discussing the events happening in Raskolnikov and his family life is to direct the impact of crime on a particular mindset. This is being the ground reality of crime and punishments.