Suffering In Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yuka Onya
AP English
12/17/15
Mr.Tobin
In Crime and Punishment suffering plays a major role in the story and guides the reader his attention throughout the entire book “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Suffering is the up and coming theme of this work. It twists itself into so many aspects of the story.The main character Rodion and Raskolnikov is the one who suffers from suffering in the very beginning of the novel until the final point . He feels very pessimistic about his own life the things and people that find a way around him. Rodion doesn’t authentically appreciate the way he lives and what does he come to. He suffers an immensely big deal because of the unwilling to spend and his helpless. Raskolnikov execrates that his

mother and his beloved sister Dunya have to preserve mazuma so that they could avail him, and he suffers because he could not avail them instead.
The letter that he receives from his mother makes his suffering even worse.

Raskolnikov understood limpidly that his sister who is a proud, virtuous girl would’ve never sold for her own gain, she would better starve from hunger than do such a thing. But she could facilely sacrifice herself for somebody else whom she dotes a lot and in this case her dear brother. And his mother is inclined to sacrifice her own daughter just for his sake. Rodion suffers a lot because he couldn’t take this immolation. It made him feeling irritated he was the man in their family, he was the one who was supposed to fortify them and it transpires the other way around which mortifies him making his self esteem go down. That’s when Raskolnikov’s conception to kill the pawnbroker torments him most of all. To prove his own theory which is that there are two types of people those who are good to reproduce only and the extraordinary ones, who have to set the rules for everybody else. According to his theory the extraordinary men have much more rights than the mundane

people.

They even could take the simple people’s life and travel away with it as long as it is done in order to achieve their goals. Raskolnikov considers himself one of those supermen who have been born for a certain purport, to be a bellwether, and make the rules for others. That could be revealed from his dream about the horse. One of the supermen that’s why he plans to kill the old pawnbroker that just ravages people’s life without doing any good on this planet. But could he or could not? That’s another quandary that torments him a lot. Is he that impotent that he won’t be capable of doing it, or is he the extraordinary man who will make it through. Raskolnikov’s dream about the mare can be habituated to study his mentality and discover the way he genuinely cerebrates. One of the significances of this dream can be that Raskolnikov can be represented by the mare itself. However the encumbrance that the horse has to carry can be two different things it depends if it’s view after the authentic murder. Raskolnikov's suffering has a direct relationship with his guilt over his malefaction. It is additionally an indirect result of his dual personality and his obsession to prove his "Extraordinary Man theory. He is represented as being either cold, perspicacious and isolated from society, or as being warm and compassionate. In the novel, he is shown as warm and compassionate when he fails to avail a prostitute being solicited by an older man and when he gives most of his mazuma to the Marmeladovs, The murder of the pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, is the result of his perspicacious side's need to determine whether or not he fits his "Extraordinary Man theory.

The humane and compassionate side of his personality was to suffer because of the actions of his cold and isolated side.

After committing the murder, Raskolnikov's body turns on him, mentally and physically. He become very ill. His personality is shown when he tells his family and additionally Razumihin to stay away. Dostoyevsky indites, "The conviction that all his faculties, even recollection, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him commenced to be an insufferable torture. This personal anguish that Rodya has to suffer with is a component of his theory because the theory requires the "extraordinary man to suffer Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov both suffered greatly for homogeneous malefactions of murder. Raskolnikov suffered physical ailments as well as emotional suffering whereas Svidrigailov suffered emotional and physical pains. Both men suffered for the same type of punishment, they took different ways to receive consequences for their

actions.
Raskolnikov picks to kill the pawnbroker in light of the fact that she is a female with a position of authority over him who moreover has the most exceedingly terrible qualities of a general public. The pawnbroker is the quintessential absolute opposite of him. Where Raskolnikov is an attractive, she is unattractive. Where Raskolnikov is impecunious, she is well-to-do. Where Raskolnikov is an anguish male, she is an overwhelming autonomous female. The lady persecutes the poor with her business of pawning items at a quarter of their real worth.She is physically weakness and effortless to overcome

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