Crime And Punishment: Complementary Characters To Give Raskolnikov His Redemption

Part I of Essay
In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky develops a character with a split personality. Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov is a high strung, complex man. Throughout the novel Raskolnikov undergoes many changes brought about by many different things. Dostoevsky uses complem ....

Part II of Essay
.... about the crime. The other side of his character, the warm compassionate side, operates without an interfering thought process. Unfortunately, he often acts in a warm, friendly, charitable or humane manner, and then when he thinks over his actions intellectually, he regrets them. Such as, when he gives the Marmeladovs his money, then shortly afterwards regrets giving the money away. Raskolnikov would always act in a charitable and humane manner: he would sacrifice himself for his fellow man. The complimentary characters come about wh ....