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

Guilt, Suffering, Confession and Redemption in Crime and Punishment You keep lying screamed Raskolnikov, no longer open 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 bronchitic give myself away- You cant give yourself away any more than you have already, Rodion Romanovich, old man. Why, youve gone into a state. Dont shout, Ill call my men, sir (Dostoyevsky, 34) No humane person with any determine is able to commit a heinous crime without some feeling of guilt or remorse afterwards. Slowly, this guilt festers and eats away at ones moral sense until the point of escape, reached by confession, thus leading to salvation. Throughout Dostoyevskys Crime and. Punishment the main character, Raskolnikov is stricken with guilt and suffering that eventually lead to his confession and buyback motivated by m any forces. Crime and Punishment is the story of a young intellect, Raskolnikov, who develops a superman theory. In his hypothesis, he felt that genuine men were extraordinary and could commit unethical acts without punishment or a guilty conscience. In his case, he wanted to rid the earth of a poriferan 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 see if he was truly extraordinary. Was he truly the Napoleon that he thought he was? Could he walk over people with no regard 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 spirit on readers that those with strong nerves fell ill and those with weak nerves had to give up reading it. (Kjetsaa, 183) Works Cited Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations. wise Y ork, New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York, New York New American Library, Inc., 1968. Gale Research Co. Nineteenth 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.