Crime and Punishment - Part 1 / 2 | Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest novelists, as his works are characterized by a storytelling ability that captivates the reader, and by their strong expression of the inner human soul. He expressed this in the titles of his novels, which describe humans in various situations and behaviors: The Gambler – The Adolescent – Mistreated and Humiliated – Crime and Punishment – The Idiot… and Crime and Punishment is considered one of the peaks of human works. It is that open mystery of the human soul, what goes on in its depths, and open to issues of existence, torment, good, evil, love, crime, madness, passions, utility, and illness… The character of Raskolnikov is an attempt to understand the complexities of human personality, presenting several interpretations, discussing the motives and subconscious drives that led Raskolnikov to act against reason. Dostoevsky’s book Crime and Punishment presents the idea of the impossibility of knowing man, and forces us to look into what lies within our souls, to find those passions that rage within its characters, and how the human soul carries, at the same time, the highest ideals alongside the lowest baseness… how a person carries within him the power to commit crime and the desire to achieve justice.