Crime And Punishment Psychology

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment the Graphic Novel is a novel written by David Zane Mairowitz that is classified as a psychological drama. The thesis that is in the graphic novel is to show the psychology that comes with “crime and punishment” and to show how Raskolnikov isolates himself from society. Mairowitz main points throughout the graphic novel was to show religious redemption, to show how everyone has a love and feeling for something in life, and to show the psychology thoughts that come with crimes and punishments. One of the first things that we see play put in Crime and Punishment The Graphic Novel is how Raskolnikov isolates himself from society and isolates himself from the people who care about him. In the beginning of

He never dresses to impress anyone and his clothes are always tattered because he lives in a area in which everyone is very poor and dresses the same as he does but he believes that he looks good enough to look better than everyone else in the clothes that he wears. In the novel we see that in Raskolnikov’s psychology is that he believes that he is superior than everyone else and sees other people as his “tools” to use them to satisfy his own needs. After Raskolnikov commits the murders, he finds himself in an even deeper hole when his isolation grows. The extreme guilt he gets after he commits the crimes causes the isolation to grow. Throughout the entire novel we see Raskolnikov push away the ones who care about him. Throughout the book time after time we see him push away people who are trying to help him like Sonya, Dunya, Alexandrovna, Razumikhin, and Petrovich, in which ends up really hurting Raskolnikov and he suffers consequences. In the end of the book,

Raskolnikov finds the islotion that he brought upon himself becomes intolerable.

Throughout Crime and Punishment we don’t really see what the effects of the murders are. You would expect that right after the first murder in part one when Raskolnikov kills

Raskolnikov never has any feeling of sin or devoutness for the murders that he committed and it neither shows that he has found redemption from his sins. Instead of the cross symbolizing that he has found redemption for what he has done it symbolizes that he has begun on a path toward recognizing the sins that he has committed. There is also significance in the fact that Sonya was the one who gave him the cross.

She is attempting to bring Raskolnikov back to humanity and her love and the concerns she has for him. Like Jesus, he is the one thing that will bring you back to salvation and the forgiveness of your sins, and is the only thing that will ultimately save Raskolnikov and bring him redemption. The graphic novel of Crime and Punishment written by Mairowitz is definitely a novel that I would urge people to read. Throughout the novel we see how the psychological angle of a criminal is and how Raskolnikov fights with his guilt and cannot tolerate it. I believe that

Mairowitz point is to try and point out that its human nature to have feelings of guilt and love.

Even though Raskolnikov did not feel any sin from the murders he did he still feels the guilt