Crime and punishment: inevitable dementia
The nineteenth century was the period of industrialization in Europe, which brought with it a change of ideology at the social and economic level, however, Russia presented a slow progress to be governed by Tsarism, this being demonstrated in crime and punishment, a novel made byFiódor Dostoevski in 1866, who tells Rodia Raskolnikof, a poor young man with postponed studies who fight to survive in the city of Sant Petersburg and that before the news that his sister is going to marry to improve the lives of his family,executes a terrible plan that would condemn it psychologically.
Raskolnikof is an intelligent and thinking person, he demonstrates it when he interacts with people throughout history, but the need and situation he goes through, not only he, but his mother and sister, makes him change to reason, beforeThis is determined to assassinate Alena, described as an old usurer from which she could benefit when stealing her assets, she initially surrounds her knowledge and sanity so that everything went perfect, until the time of the murder comes where the victim does not end up beingOnly Alena but also the sister of the old woman, following this the protagonist is immersed in a state of delirium and madness, proposed in the decisions she begins to make when confusing in addition to contradictory, something that he had warnedhimself and that he assured would not happen. At the time of committing the crime, the culprit was affected by a loss of will and reasoning, to which he replaced a kind of child unconsciousness, truly monstrous, precisely at the time when prudence and sanity were more necessary. (Dostoevski, 1866, p. 190)
Based on this we can connote how Rodia immerses himself in what he thought was not going to end, and it is easy to reason because he had not done any atrocity, but once done there is no turning back, and he had to refrain from the consequences andsequels that generated killing.
To conclude, in my opinion crime and punishment is an excellent book since it emphasizes human psychology and how it is affected by the different actions we perform on a day -to -day basis, but that depends on what our conscience does notHe is calm for an event in which we were not honest to the point of starting to consume, as well as happened with Raskolnikof evidencing the different nuances that the novel possesses and that help us interpret what is the sense of guilt, which does not lead usto another thing that an inevitable dementia.
Bibliography
- Dostoevski, f. (1866). Crime and Punishment. St. Petersburg: the Russian messenger.
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