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…Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. Although the author never committed anything like the atrocious murders depicted in the novel, the nihilistic traits of his…

…Religion in Crime and Punishment... This is kind of a long entry, but I have been needing to get all this written down somewhere anyways, so take what you want... To understand the concepts of religion and Christianity proposed by Dostoevsky…

…Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are best examples of the poisonous effect of such ideals on the common human. The rebellion of these humanists against the system and the reality of human life becomes more important, thus love becomes the filter…

…The worst crime one can possibly commit is murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of one human by another, usually premeditated. It is malice in its ultimate form. The legal punishment for murder is most often life imprisonment, ensuring the villain…

…. In the novel Crime and Punishment, the author Feodor Dostoevsky paints a picture of a man's environment and how evil has affected him. This "environment" reveals a dark, depressing society lurking with instances of evil. Through his characters' trials…

…, even when pouring liquids down their pants. Raskolnikov, a less humorous example, is thought by many characters in Crime and Punishment to be batty on several occasions, Zossimov and Zametov being only a few examples. His madness, however, his delusion…

…“But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood…” With these words, Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment…

…In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov concocts a theory: All men are divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’. The extraordinary man should have the right to eliminate a few people in order to make his idea known to all humanity; however, the ordinary…

…The primary conflict in Crime and Punishment is the internal development of Raskolnikov's character. In Raskolnikov's mind are two contrasting personalities, each demanding control over him. One side, brought out by poverty and egoism, is the murderer…

…The women of Crime and Punishment share several common characteristics, that of self-sacrifice, suffering, and strong will. The three main female characters of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, Dounia, Sonia, and Katerina Ivanovna, all possess these attributes…