Eddy Diamantis - Crime and Punishment- Journal 1

Eddy Diamantis
AP Literature

Crime and Punishment- Journal 1

Although a bit confusing, we are introduced to Raskolnikov ad his eventual crime in part one. As soon as Raskolinkov is introduced, he seems a bit odd going off on rants to himself about his life and what the future possibly holds for him. After he fails to get the amount of money he wanted from the pawnbroker, he meets Marmeladov who seems like a smart man but obviously too lazy to take his family out of poverty once Raskolnikov see’s his living conditions. I feel like Raskolnikov is generous to certain people not out of kindness but out of guilt, especially when he gives money to marmeladovs family and not wanting his sister to marry pyotr petrovich. As raskolnikov goes back to the bar and overhears a conversation about how disliked the pawnbroker is, he feels totally justified in murdering her since a few have the same ideas as him and he obviously feels smarter than everyone else since he thinks he can commit the perfect crime but he obviously cant since he ended up killing her sister too and not leaving with all the valuables like he wanted.
The actual Punishment in part two in the book begins where raskolnikov realizes the punishment has begun when he tries to hide his tainted clothing and panics over a summons that does not have to do with the murders. Raskolnikov only makes it more obvious that he committed the murders when he passes out at the police station. He is also a very ungrateful person for not taking the help that his kind friend razumikhin is offering him. Even though raskolnikov finds himself to be smarter than everyone else and is so afraid of being caught, I find it ridiculous that he almost confesses the murders to the inspector. I feel that Raskolnikov will need all the help he can get in order to redeem himself and keep himself safe from the law since he obviously is not as smart as he thinks.