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... In the 1800’s, the time when Crime and Punishment was written, the extraordinary man theory was a hot topic in Russian society. ... These discussions possibly lead Dostoevsky to the idea of the superman theory for his novel Crime and Punishment. ...
Friedrich Nietzsche’s superman theory also plays an important role in Crime and Punishment. ... Evidence of this can also be found in Dostoevsky’s notes for Crime and Punishment. ... With such an ambition in his mind, he chooses murder as his expedient - that is, the very crime through which one human being can assert a maximum of self-will and power over another human being. ... It is not his strength, but his lack of strength, or rather his doubt of it, that drove him to the crime. ... He is admitting to Sonya that he perpetrated the crime only for himself. ... Hegel’s theory states that one small crime can be wiped out by thousands of good deeds. ... “For Raskolnikov this crime was not really a crime. ... Furthermore, Raskolnikov believes he did not commit a crime. ... Therefore his actions will be noble in the end, and the crime will be insignificant. ...
After all, Raskolnikov does not even believe he is committing a crime. ...
Ordinary criminals, Raskolnikov had theorized, rob and steal out of need or viciousness; and they break down at the moment of the crime, leaving all sorts of clues scattered about, because they inwardly accept the justice and validity of the law they are breaking. ... But, he was convinced, nothing of the kind would happen to him because he knew that his so-called crime was not a crime. Reason had persuaded him that the amount of harm his crime would do was far outweighed by the amount of good it would allow him to accomplish. ... With the superman theory being such a controversial issue at the time the novel was written, Dostoevsky decides to incorporate the theory into his novel Crime and Punishment.
Approximate Word count = 2431
Approximate Pages = 9.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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