Connection Between Crime And Punishment

The mind of a criminal reveals a lot of different factors as to why someone decides to become a criminal. Because of these different factors, it makes it hard to understand the criminal. In the novel, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky expertly develops the main character by showing his thoughts throughout the novel and his reactions to each situation. Throughout this crime novel, the main character, Raskolnikov, had to deal with both external and internal conflict from being a murderer. There were many situations in what makes Crime and Punishment, a psychological crime novel as the book tells the whole process of the motive for committing the crime and the events after. In the beginning of the book Raskolnikov talks about killing
The novel shows the thoughts in Raskolnikov’s mind in order to reveal Raskolnikov’s way of thinking as a criminal. “Not more than five minute later he jumped again, and immediately, in a frenzy, rushed again to his clothes. How could I have fallen asleep again; when nothing has been done!” (Dostoevsky 90). In this quote, Raskolnikov starts to experience the flaws in his murders causing him to lose faith in himself. Raskolnikov also begins to act very differently with the thought of getting caught in mind. He starts to worry about leaving evidence behind and wondering if it's placed in a good spot. He leaves his blood-stained clothes in a hole in a wall at first, but becomes paranoid thinking that it is not a good enough of a hiding place. At this point in the story, Fyodor suggests a new goal for Raskolnikov: to get rid of his sickness. Dostoevsky writes not with the actual consequences of the murder but the psychological factor with tormenting guilt that eventually leads up to the punishment towards the end. By not mentioning Raskolnikov’s imprisonment until the end of the novel, Dostoevsky suggests that actual punishment is much less terrible than the stress and anxiety of trying to avoid punishment. Raskolnikov’s sickness motivates him to want to confess just so he can get over it and accept his punishment. In this quote, “…he was aware of what he was doing, but could not stop himself…and what if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta?” (Dostoevsky 165) shows that Raskolnikov basically confesses to the murder to a cop. Although Zametov did not believe it, Raskolnikov actually said it as the guilt was built up inside him so much that he could not take it. He starts to have an internal conflict with himself as to confess or not confess as he confesses to the cop. Later in