"Crime and Punishment"

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This paper examines the theme of suffering through the character Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment". It shows how suffering is presented as reaching a different level of spirituality and touches on the the theme of God and confession in the novel.

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"Dostoevsky's view on crime and punishment is a direct result in the person's ability to suffer. The salvation of the soul comes through this ability. This suffering is not a cold or sickness; it is not poverty or hunger it is deeply rooted in the soul. It is Raskolnikov's soul that searches, wanders in a hopeless state to become closer to God. His murder is a direct result of this. He is man tormented by himself but he has no salvation. He wants to connect to god, he wants to suffer. He murders knowing his soul has created the ultimate act. He is not a man that can kill and not be affects. He is not a man that can shrug his sins. He knows now that he will suffer, he must find salvation while God is away from him, he must search his soul deep and find God again, because He has left him during this terrible act."

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