The Incarnation Of Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment

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The Incarnation of Dostoevsky's World in that of Raskolnikov Abstract This essay examines the social, philosophical, and psychological elements that had affected the Russian Society as well as the world of Dostoevsky’s novel “ Crime and Punishment ˮ. This essay demonstrates the wild impact and clashes left by these theories on the life, choices, and mentality of the novel and the characters embodied, the most important of which is the character of Raskolnikov. Highlighting an “in-depth exploration of the psychology of a criminal, the inner world of Raskolnikov, with its doubt, fear, anxiety and despair in escaping punishment and mental tortureˮ. “Raskolnikov a young man expelled from the university… fell under the influence of strange, …show more content…

Her love which resembles God's love to all men helped him to accept guilt, her reciting to him the biblical story of Lazarus who was raised from the dead by Jesus and like him to be raised from his own death to a new life. Taking a “leap of faithˮ toward religion as Kierkegaard argues. The cross Sonia gives to him before he goes to the police station was meant not only to symbolize his achievement of redemption or Sonia believes of what religion can offer him, but to help him recognize the sins he has committed, by giving him the cross she gives of herself to bring him back to humanity, her devotion, self-sacrifice, and concern about him - like that of Jesus toward humanity - will ultimately save and renew him, unlike Sivdrigailov, totally alone and unloved kills himself. Sentenced to eight years of penal servitude in Siberia, and Sonia follows him there, presents an ironic picture of the prison as a place to end suffering, of healing and redemption for the sinner untouched by the pollution of vice which St. Petersburg …show more content…

He concerns himself not with the process of murder, but with the impact murder leaves on the psychology of the criminal, suggesting that actual imprisonment counts, so little and much less terrible than the stress, doubt, fear, despair and anxiety of trying to avoid punishment. The working of Raskolnikov mind after the killing, the intense guilt and half-delirium state in which guilt throws him, enables the reader to understand this character as an embodiment of beliefs and characteristics that impels him to commit his crime, and provides a clear picture of the character within the context of the events that took place in the novel

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