![]() ![]() ![]() His split personality inspired Stevenson’s story of Jekyll and Hyde. Raskolnikov’s name means “split in two” or “schismatic”. The reader sees how Raskonikov has become desensitised and how his ideas (influenced by his reading of Hegel and Bentham) have unintended consequences. ![]() Raskolnikov kills her, too, without a second thought. But during the murder, the victim’s kind and vulnerable sister walks in. Besides, to him the pawnbroker is a “louse” whose murder will be a net benefit to society. He does it partly to prove an idea that he has written about: that exceptional people, like Napoleon, can be above the law. The plot hinges on how, one summer’s day in St Petersurg, a penniless student, Rodion Raskolnikov, murders an old woman pawnbroker. An incredibly influential novel, Crime and Punishment also has a particularly contemporary political significance. It is now 150 years since the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. ![]()
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