Crime And Punishment Essay: Raskolnikov's Room

Most of the characters in Crime and Punishment live in small, crowded homes. Raskolnikov’s room is tiny and depressing. Raskolnikov’s mental state was changed because of his room. He does not have enough room to live his life. “He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her” (1). This is where his poverty and his living situation tie together. Raskolnikov cannot afford to put himself in a better home. He does not have a job or any source of income. He is relying on selling things to the pawnbroker. His terrible living situation drives him to the point of murder. It develops an idea in his mind. It changes him into a person that no one wants to be. When Marmeladov is talking to Raskolnikov in the tavern, he explains his living situation. His home is intolerable. Marmeladov explains how he had to leave and

Siberia is portrayed as clean and uncontaminated. This portrayal is a little ironic. Siberia is the location of the prison that Raskolnikov is living in. In Crime and Punishment, the prison is not seen as a place of suffering. The suffering of Petersburg is over. “On the banks of a broad solitary river stands a town, one of the administrative centres of Russia; in the town there is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison” (527). The prison is said to be in a fortress. It is a much nicer place than Petersburg. The prison has changed Raskolnikov for the better. He has developed into a nice and caring man. He does not complain and he is glad to see Sonia. “She wrote that his health was satisfactory; he did his work without shirking or seeking to do more; he was almost indifferent about food, but except on Sundays and holidays the food was so bad that at last he had been glad to accept some money from her, Sonia, to have his own tea every day” (533-534). Raskolnikov has developed from a depressed man to a hardworking man. Siberia has changed his attitude and his look on