Connections

In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, there are several factors that connect back to events and novel in the past. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne shows how hard it is for the Priest to hide his crime due to the amount of guilt he feels for what he did. He comes extremely close to going out in the streets and proclaiming his guilt to everyone. There is not difference in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment when Raskolnikov continually has to run away from situation that he would get in because he felt the burning desire to confess to the murders. Also, just before Dostoevsky was born, there was a terrible ruler in France who was trying to take over Europe. His name was Napoleon Bonaparte. To Dostoevsky, he was just as bad as Hitler is viewed today. He killed ruthlessly. He killed those who he thought were not equal or who did not deserve to like in his opinion. These thoughts are that in the same as Raskolnikov’s. He uses the excuse of cleaning up the streets of bad people who do bad things to other people. He killed just as Napoleon Bonaparte did.