Rodion is a very handsome young man with beautiful dark eyes, dark-skinned, middle-aged, young man, a former law student. In the very beginning, Dostoevsky presents us with the main character – Rodion Romanovic Raskolnikov. Such genre (and content) richness of the novel Crime and Punishment favours the well-established view of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s romance mastery, but on the other hand, shows that the novel is a complex narrative structure of rich content, so it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to classify a particular novel into a specific genre.

Finally, from the perspective of the story’s actors, given that the focus is on one personality, the protagonist Raskolnikov, whom the writer follows from chapter to chapter, who focuses on the narration of the narrative subject and is the mainstay of the inner monologue, this is a character novel. According to the technique of direct internal monologue introduced by Dostoyevsky into the modern novel, this is one of the best examples of a psychological novel. By the way, the plot is developed and the story is run, the novel shows the traits typical of a crime novel. In terms of content, given the many raised issues of human existence (social, political, ethical, philosophical, psychological), this is a problem-philosophical novel. In the face of the social milieu and the broad picture of a society layered on the rich and poor, which is still dominated by material misery – this is a social novel. That is why this novel contains characteristics of different types of novels.

‘Crime and Punishment’ have criminal, but also social and philosophical elements.ĭostoevsky developed a very complex, interesting and dynamic story that provides a rich picture of the social atmosphere, metropolitan and rural life, different human destinies, striking characters, moral dilemmas, and psychological breakdowns. Killing is never a solution to our problems when we do such a thing like the protagonist – Raskolnikov that’s the first point where our problems are beginning. Also, that there is no justification for murder, we have no right to judge other people. This psychological torture also contains the idea of this novel, that one person can avoid the punishments of society, but not the punishment of conscience, which is stronger and more terrible than any other punishment. Through a psychological portrayal of the protagonist – Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky in the novel shows that psychological punishment is far greater and painful than any other legal punishment. With this novel, the author wants to show that crime can not go without punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky the author of the book “Crime and Punishment” depicts Russia, capitalist society, the rules and laws that govern it, the cruelty of everyday people, the perpetration of a double murder on behalf of powerless students, and the ensuing punishment for the crime.

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