Crime and Punishment

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  • Crime
  • and
  • Punishment
  • is
  • a
  • novel
  • by
  • the
  • Russian
  • author
  • Fyodor
  • Dostoyevsky.
  • It
  • was
  • first
  • published
  • in
  • the
  • literary
  • journal
  • The
  • Russian
  • Messenger
  • in
  • twelve
  • monthly
  • installments
  • during
  • 1866.
  • It
  • was
  • later
  • published
  • in
  • a
  • single
  • volume.
  • It
  • is
  • the
  • second
  • of
  • Dostoyevsky's
  • full-length
  • novels
  • following
  • his
  • return
  • from
  • 10
  • years
  • of
  • exile
  • in
  • Siberia.
  • Crime
  • and
  • Punishment
  • is
  • considered
  • the
  • first
  • great
  • novel
  • of
  • his
  • "mature"
  • period
  • of
  • writing.
  • Crime
  • and
  • Punishment
  • focuses
  • on
  • the
  • mental
  • anguish
  • and
  • moral
  • dilemmas
  • of
  • Rodion
  • Raskolnikov,
  • an
  • impoverished
  • ex-student
  • in
  • Saint
  • Petersburg
  • who
  • formulates
  • and
  • executes
  • a
  • plan
  • to
  • kill
  • an
  • unscrupulous
  • pawnbroker
  • for
  • her
  • cash.
  • Raskolnikov,
  • in
  • an
  • attempt
  • to
  • defend
  • his
  • actions,
  • argues
  • that
  • with
  • the
  • pawnbroker's
  • money
  • he
  • can
  • perform
  • good
  • deeds
  • to
  • counterbalance
  • the
  • crime,
  • while
  • ridding
  • the
  • world
  • of
  • a
  • vermin.
  • He
  • also
  • commits
  • the
  • murder
  • to
  • test
  • a
  • theory
  • of
  • his
  • that
  • dictates
  • some
  • people
  • are
  • naturally
  • capable
  • of
  • such
  • actions,
  • and
  • even
  • have
  • the
  • right
  • to
  • perform
  • them.
  • Several
  • times
  • throughout
  • the
  • novel,
  • Raskolnikov
  • compares
  • himself
  • with
  • Napoleon
  • Bonaparte
  • and
  • shares
  • his
  • belief
  • that
  • murder
  • is
  • permissible
  • in
  • pursuit
  • of
  • a
  • higher purpose.
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