Essays on Crime and Punishment

The novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky contains an underlying theme of salvation. The main character, Raskolnikov, struggled with sinful intentions and actions, which caused him to die spiritually. His spiritual death resulted in rebirth through a spiritual revival, which he found after an internal struggle with guilt and conviction. Raskolnikov’s death and regeneration...

According to Sigmund Freud, ‘to represent the sense of guilt as the most important problem in the development of civilization and to show that the price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt” (Carveth). Guilt is a feeling that one experiences when...

Guilt is an emotion that is felt by everyone at least once in their life. By definition guilt is an emotion felt during a failure or when a person does something morally wrong. This definition also states that guilt allows a person to make amends and to find ways to avoid repeating that same transgression....

Sigmund Freud was a pioneer in psychoanalytic dream interpretation which is the process of explaining the way unconscious thoughts and emotions are processed in the human mind during sleep. Freud’s theory says that dreams represent a hidden gratification of a repressed wish. Part of his theory states that dreams consist of two different parts, the...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment suggests an intriguing conversation starter about the sources of criminal conduct, is the earth in charge of an individual’s activities, or does the craving for wrongdoing begin from inside? Russian pundit D.I. Pisarev trusted the previous. He conjectured that Raskolnikov’s ‘critical destitution’ was the reason for his offensive activities, and...

Central to any crime, especially murder, is the moral conviction that an individual experiences as a result of their actions. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological drama, Crime and Punishment, protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov’s theorizes that there are certain extraordinary individuals in society to whom mundane laws do not apply as they are “supermen” whose primary objective is...

Author Fyodor Dostoevksy once stated, “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological drama, Crime and Punishment, protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov’s theorizes that there are certain extraordinary individuals in society to whom mundane laws do not apply as they are “supermen” whose primary objective is...

Fyodor Dostoevsky, a profound, intellectual author, published Crime and Punishment, which is full of suspense and dives through the minds of several characters. Dostoevsky allows the reader to feel for the character Rodion Raskolnikov, as he is the protagonist. The author wants the reader to feel slight sympathy for Raskolnikov and his crimes because of...

Almost all the heroes of the two novels by F. M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” and “Idiot” are compared in pairs, revealing an internal kinship or difference. Absolute opposites are the main characters of the two novels – Rodion Raskolnikov and Prince Lev Myshkin. They have a lot of differences and similarities, but one thing...

Central to the prosecution of any crime, especially murder, is moral conviction that an individual will experience as a result of their actions. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological drama, Crime and Punishment, protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov’s theorizes that there are certain extraordinary individuals in society to whom mundane laws do not apply as they are “ubermensch” whose...