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Crime and Punishment
The main character of the novel Crime and Punishment by Feodor
Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, is in reality two totally contradicting
personalities. One part of him is the the intellectual. He is cold,
unfeeling and inhumane. He exibits tremendous self-will. It is this
side that enables him to commit the most terrible crime imaginable -
taking another human life. The other part of hi ....
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.... He is torured by the
cruelty in mankind and yet he himself is able to repeat it.
Ralkolnokove justifies his crime through a philosophy that he has
come up with. The man with power is the man to rule over all others.
But this power is only given to those who dare to take it. Raskolnikov
wanted to see if he had the courage to take that power. He also had to
battle with his rationalization of the murbers. He claimed that since
Alyona, the f ....
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