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…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…

…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…

…“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 the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character's role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian…

…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…

…. 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…

…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…

…, being nothing or accomplishing nothing in life suggests failure and is a source of suffering. A particular example is Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where a young Russian student, Raskolnikov, murders an old pawnbroker to prove his Extraordinary Man…

…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…

…is the ruler of the earth. It is man’s natural tendency to want to blame another for his faults or sins. It gives man some sick pleasure to see the innocent being punished for something that he did wrong. A scapegoat serves as a guilt remover or conscience…