Crime_And_Punishment_Review

Crime And Punishment Review Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment, written by Feodor Dostoevksy, is an amazing novel with multifarious themes and messages. It is a psychological thriller, a murder mystery, and an intricate detective story all in one. It is separated into forty-one chapters with six books and it also has an epilogue. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky delves deep into the life and mind of Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute student and a resident of St. Petersburg in the early 1900s. His need to become great urges him to murder an old pawnbroker, Alena Ivanova, and her innocent sister, Lizaveta Ivanova. Throughout the rest of the novel, he is plagued by his guilt and faced with the extremely long and painful journey to redemption. Rodion believes that a law of nature has divided men into two groups, the “ordinary” and “extraordinary.” The ordinary group exists only to form the structures of the world and society. The extraordinary men exist to cross the structures and barriers created by the ordinary people and to advance society. “The first class of people preserve and people the world, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.” Raskolnikov is fixated on the idea that he is a crime, society, rodion, people, ordinary, world, punishment, novel, murder, ivanova, human, extraordinary, written, woman, structures, story, redemption, reader, raskolnikov, pawnbroker, mind, men, guilt, dostoevsky’s, believes, alena, word, vocabulary, vividly, urges, upon, unveiling, unparalleled, two, torture, thus