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A 3 page essay that briefly discusses the theme of suffering in this novel. Suffering is an omnipresent theme in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, as, with only a few prominent exceptions, everyone in the novel is desperately poor. However, from the first page of the novel, Dostoyevsky makes it clear that primary cause of his protagonist's suffering is not his poverty. Raskolnikov, who is also referred to as "Rodya" or "Rodka," is a former student and living in poverty as the novel opens, but it is not poverty that makes his existence torturous; rather it is his nihilistic, superior attitude toward other people that is the principle cause of his suffering. Dostoyevsky makes this clear by contrasting Raskolnikov's suffering against that of characters who do have functional relationships, such as Sonya, the woman with whom Raskolnikov eventually realizes he loves. No additional sources cited.
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clear that primary cause of his protagonists suffering is not his poverty. Raskolnikov, who is also referred to as "Rodya" or "Rodka," is a former student and living in poverty
as the novel opens, but it is not poverty that makes his existence torturous; rather it is his nihilistic, superior attitude toward other people that is the principle cause of
his suffering. Dostoyevsky makes this clear by contrasting Raskolnikovs suffering against that of characters who do have functional relationships, such as Sonya, the woman with whom Raskolnikov eventually realizes he
loves. While Raskolnikovs poverty is extreme-his clothes are so ragged that Dostoyevsky describes them below that of a beggar-the protagonist has little concern for his impoverished state, as it
is clear that he is preoccupied with crime it is that he is planning to commit. The novel begins at a point where Raskolnikov has drawn in upon himself so
completely that he is totally isolated: emotionally, psychologically and socially. "He (Raskolnikov) had plunged so far within himself, into so complete an isolation, that he feared meeting not only his
landlady but anyone at all. He had lately ceased even to feel the weight of the poverty that crushed him" (Dostoyevsky 1). However, fate brings him into contact with the
Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically because of poverty, she maintains her religious faith and her devotion
to her family. It is her love and kindheartedness that redeems Raskolnikov and he is thinking of her that causes him to find the courage to confess his crimes,
the murder of a pawnbroker and her daughter. The rationale that Raskolnikov uses to rationalize the murders, his inner turmoil prior to committing the murders and his mental suffering afterwards
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