Crime And Punishment: Complementary Characters To Give Raskolnikov His Redemption
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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 complementary characters to give ....
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.... side is a result of his deliberate and premeditated actions, such as the theories he formulated 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. Raskoln ....
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