Raskolnikov’s Suffering in Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov’s Suffering in Crime and Punishment In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, suffering is an integral part of every introduced character’s role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. The pain Raskolnikov experiences is pangs of either physical or mental anxiety. In owing his landlord money, he is revolted at the thought of having …

…Quotes 1.) “…he had been in an over-strained, irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.” 2.) “The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench…all worked painfully upon the young man’s already overwrought nerves.” 3.) "This marriage shall never take place while I live, and Mr. Luzhin may go to the devil. No, mother, it shall never be, not whilst