There are many reasons for violent acts. Some commit violence because they want to harm others and some because they want to harm themselves, but some because they believe they are helping the world in some way or another. People commit these kinds of acts because they don’t think clearly; causing them to justify their violent actions as caring ones. In Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the characters, Rodion Ramonovitch Raskolnikov, Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, and Katerina Ivanova Marmeladov, suffer from a psychological imbalance which in return is expressed to the public as acts of uncivil violence as seen through brutal murders and the abuse towards the ones they love. This leads readers to conclude that although one may seem
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From leaving school and still calling himself a student (Dostoevsky 5), to being impoverished but yet giving away his money (27), it is clear even in the first couple chapters that Raskolnikov does not come to terms with his reality. Raskolnikov even writes an article that explains his theory on how “‘all men are divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary.’ Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law… but extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way’” (259). This concept continues to express the idea that the extraordinary change the world for the better because they can surpass the law. This idea consumes Raskolnikov and becomes the motive for his actions of brutally killing a pawnbroker, giving his victim “another and another blow with the blunt side on the same spot. The blood gushed as from an overturned glass, the body fell back” (80). Raskolnikov divulges that he “wanted to find out then, and …show more content…
Svidrigailov is constantly searching for love but can never seem to find it because he tries to get it by force. When Dounia comes over to his flat one night because she thinks Sonya is there, he begins by asking Dounia if she “would like [him] to take [Raskolnikov] abroad?” (487), to help him escape his destiny of prison. Svidrigailov tries to calm her with giving her some water and asks her “how [she] feel[s]” (487). All of these actions seem innocent and caring until Dounia tries to leave and discovers that he has locked her inside (488). Dounia asks if Raskolnikov could really be saved, and “he began with glowing eyes, almost in a whisper and hardly able to utter the words for emotion”… “‘You… one word from you, and he is saved’” he said “trembling” (488). “‘I love you too... I love you beyond everything… Let me kiss the hem of your dress, let me, let me…’ He was almost beginning to rave” (488). Dounia becomes frightened of course and demands that he open the door (488), but he doesn’t. Svidrigailov wants love so bad that be begins to try to persuade her; telling her that if she “‘were willing to save [her] brother of [her] own accord… [she] would be simply submitting to circumstances, to violence’” so she technically would not be committing any sinful acts (489). He justifies his actions because he loves her and
From leaving school and still calling himself a student (Dostoevsky 5), to being impoverished but yet giving away his money (27), it is clear even in the first couple chapters that Raskolnikov does not come to terms with his reality. Raskolnikov even writes an article that explains his theory on how “‘all men are divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary.’ Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law… but extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way’” (259). This concept continues to express the idea that the extraordinary change the world for the better because they can surpass the law. This idea consumes Raskolnikov and becomes the motive for his actions of brutally killing a pawnbroker, giving his victim “another and another blow with the blunt side on the same spot. The blood gushed as from an overturned glass, the body fell back” (80). Raskolnikov divulges that he “wanted to find out then, and …show more content…
Svidrigailov is constantly searching for love but can never seem to find it because he tries to get it by force. When Dounia comes over to his flat one night because she thinks Sonya is there, he begins by asking Dounia if she “would like [him] to take [Raskolnikov] abroad?” (487), to help him escape his destiny of prison. Svidrigailov tries to calm her with giving her some water and asks her “how [she] feel[s]” (487). All of these actions seem innocent and caring until Dounia tries to leave and discovers that he has locked her inside (488). Dounia asks if Raskolnikov could really be saved, and “he began with glowing eyes, almost in a whisper and hardly able to utter the words for emotion”… “‘You… one word from you, and he is saved’” he said “trembling” (488). “‘I love you too... I love you beyond everything… Let me kiss the hem of your dress, let me, let me…’ He was almost beginning to rave” (488). Dounia becomes frightened of course and demands that he open the door (488), but he doesn’t. Svidrigailov wants love so bad that be begins to try to persuade her; telling her that if she “‘were willing to save [her] brother of [her] own accord… [she] would be simply submitting to circumstances, to violence’” so she technically would not be committing any sinful acts (489). He justifies his actions because he loves her and