Is Crime and Punishment a
psychological novel? Give reasons for your answer.
Dostoevsky is known for producing great psychological
works which are undercut by social, religious and political issues and
institutions. The psychological tension in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment arises in two
distinct moments. First, fairly quickly into the text, the audience knows
Raskolnikov is a desperate, impoverished man who commits two gruesome murders.
The audience is also aware of several of the other characters’ downfalls
including greed, alcoholism and stalking. However, the reader must wait until
the very end of the text before Raskolnikov’s punishment for committing murder
is revealed; at roughly 500 pages a reader has quite a long wait. When
Raskolnikov’s personality dramatically swings and he carries out his plan to
murder pawnbroker Ivanovna and then her sister, who interrupts his plan, the
reader acts as a witness to the crime.
Dostoevsky plays with the spacing between the crime and
the punishment to create a deeper psychological tension for Raskolnikov and the
witness (the reader). Not only is Raskolnikov tortured by the time span, which
contributes to his guilt but so is the reader. The time span allows the reader
to not only be physically affected but to also be emotionally affected. The
time span allows the reader, as a witness to the crime, to be held effectively
silent, unable to give testimony while Raskolnikov is with his family and with
investigators.
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