Crime And Punishment

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Crime and Punishment Response Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a story full of suspense and intensity. Dostoevsky does an amazing job telling the story of a man named Raskolnikov who starts off as a nice person and all but then ends up as a murderer. He helps a man named Marmeladov who he meets at a tavern. The man is drunk and he shows his good side by taking him to his house and later on in the story gives the family some money once the man passes away. However, the money was a gift from his mother. He claims to be so poor yet he still gives Marmeladov’s family money. As the story goes on, one can see what kind of a man Raskolnikov really is. Later on in the story, Raskolnikov decides to kill Alyona Ivanovna, the pawnbroker whom he truly despises. The reason is so absurd. There are many times when he is about to give up but still goes through with his plan in the end. An example of when he almost gave up was when he said, “can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open...that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, blood...with the axe...Good God, can it be?” (53). He did not care about anyone but himself at this point. He is a murderer and nothing would change that. Not only did he kill the pawnbroker, but also kills Lizaveta when she walked into the scene and saw her sister dead on the ground. A man who is willing to split a person’s head open because he does not want to pay his apartment bill, just does not have a heart at all. The story wraps up with Raskolnikov finally confessing to the Police and going to prison in Siberia. “It was I who killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them” (458). I knew he would confess eventually because of the title of the book. However, what I do not understand is why Sonya, Marmeladov’s

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