Σύνοψη βιβλίου
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being, similar to Napoleon, who can murder without repercussions. Raskolnikov theorized that there are two types of men: ordinary and extraordinary. He believed that since he was of the latter or a "super-human," that he could justifiably perform what society considered a despicable act - the killing of the pawnbroker - if it led to his being able to do more good through the act. Throughout the book there are examples: he mentions Napoleon many times, thinking that for all the blood he spilled, he was not morally culpable, as he was "above" the conventions of society.
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