Guilt, Suffering, Confession and Redemption in Crime and Punishment Ess

Guilt, Suffering, Confession and Redemption in Crime and Punishment You keep manu occurrenceuring screamed Raskolnikov, no longer able to restrain himself. Youre lying, you damned clown And he flung himself on Porfiry, who retired to the doorway, but without a trace of panic. I understand everything, everything He approached Porfiry. Youre lying and taunting me so Ill give myself outside(a)- You cant give yourself away any more than you have already, Rodion Romanovich, old man. Why, youve gone into a state. Dont shout, Ill announce my men, sir (Dostoyevsky, 34) No humane person with any values is able to commit a heinous crime without some feeling of guilt or remorse afterwards. Slowly, this guilt festers and eats away at ones conscience until the run of escape, reached by confession, thus leading to salvation. Throughout Dostoyevskys Crime and. Punishment the chief(prenominal) character, Raskolnikov is stricken with guilt and suffering that eventually lead to his confession and redemption motivated by many forces. Crime and Punishment is the story of a young intellect, Raskolnikov, who develops a dose theory. In his hypothesis, he matte up that certain men were extraordinary and could commit unethical acts without punishment or a guilty conscience. In his case, he wanted to rid the mankind of a parasite through the vicious slaying of an old pawnbroker, Alyona, and her sister, Lizaveta, in order to gain money so that he could continue his studies and to tick if he was truly extraordinary. Was he truly the Napoleon that he ideal he was? Could he walk over people with no get a line for their feelings or sufferings as Napoleon had? (Literary Criticism, 68) He is obviously no superman or Napoleon, but didnt get enough fre... ...ut its overwhelming power and the fact that it made such a painful impression on readers that those with well-set nerves fell ill and those with weak nerves had to give up reading it. (Kjetsaa, 183) Works Cited Bloom, Har old. Modern Critical Interpretations. New York, New York Chelsea business firm Publishers, 1988. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York, New York New American Library, Inc., 1968. Gale Research Co. 19th Century Literature Criticism. Detroit, MI 1984, Vol. 7. Kjetsaa, Geir. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writers Life. New York, New York Viking Penguin Inc., 1987, Magill, Frank. Masterplots. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Salem Press, 1976. Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1985. Timoney, John. Speech on Crime and Punishment. Mt. Holyoke College, November 10, 1994.