Themes

            There are several lessons that Fyodor Dostoevsky wanted his readers to obtain from reading his novel. A murder is a murder. It does not matter how bad the person is, they are still a human being. We see this through Raskolnikov’s actions after the murder. He starts to faint when people talk about the murders around him. He also gets very paranoid that everyone knows that he committed the murders. He starts accusing random people of thinking he is guilty and loses several friendships by doing so. Another theme is kindness. Fyodor Dostoevsky made Raskolnikov a very harsh and angry character who made himself believe that he was right in killing the two old women because he is all together better than them. If he was just kind to people, then he could of avoided this whole ordeal.