Crime and Punishment | Social Concerns
As the title suggests, the principal social emphasis in Crime and Punishment is on crime, both as a social phenomenon and as a personal action. Also, social class appears importantly, especially the problems created by abject poverty, as does the matter of the abuse of power.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was fascinated by the impulses that cause people to commit crimes (an interest that was intensified by his imprisonment with countless hardened criminals in Siberia) and the resulting emotional and psychological effects of the act. His protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, has already...
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