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Katie WernerMr. OsterAP Composition & Literature12/13/13Crime & RedemptionFyodor Dostoyevsky sets his scoreic romantic novel, Crime and Punish custodyt, in nineteenth century Russia, and addresses the many psychological issues faced by lower class Russian citizens of the time, such as morality, insanity, alienation, poverty, and religion. In the novel, Dostoyevsky presents his character, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (also referred to as Rodya,) as a non-typical criminal who murders Alyona, an unfair pawnbroker, simply to test his theory that exceptional men are exempt from the law. In doing this, Dostoyevsky creates a complex character, whom, because of his meets and apathetic nature, fecal matter easily be perceived as evil or illegal He pulled the axe quite out, swung it with both arms, scarcely conscious of himself, and to the highest degree without effort, almost mechanically, brought the blunt side down on her head (Dostoyevsky 72). Raskolnikov commits this curse in suc h a cold, detached fashion, that based on this action and the additional murder of the pawnbrokers mentally disabled sister, Lizav...