Through background information, the author explains to his audience that Raskolnikov is a student at the university

Through the characterization of Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky clearly portrays the essence of crime and punishment. Raskolnikov commits murder and pays for it through psychological torture. His isolation from other human beings creates for him a sort of mental prison. He even suffers physically to sickness and deterioration. Through Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky gets a theme across to his audience: Sin will be punished; no sin will go unpaid for.

Raskolnikov’s plan had two sides to it. The first was to overstep the obstacle (kill the old pawnbroker) and the second was to become stronger as a result of it. He apparently fails the second objective for he said, “ I was only capable of killing. And it seems I wasn’t even capable of that . . . I am perhaps viler and more loathsome than the louse I killed.” Raskolnikov fails to overcome the moral codes and consciousness of society, and instead begins to decay and crumple from guilt and isolation. In the first chapter, the narrator tells us directly of Raskolnikov’s isolation saying, “He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he d

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