Charecter Raskolnikov Character Analysis Essay

The Charecter Raskolnikov is a very interesting character to do a psychological analysis on. We also get a look into his point of view as the story is told from it. He is the protagonist of this novel, so we hear the most about him. He thinks he can pull off the, “perfect,” crime. He also believes he is above the system and is going to be able to go guiltless after his crime, which does not happen. The biggest thing we can pick off of him though is his yearning for a sort of seclusion from society, which can be used to figure out much about him. In the beginning of the novel we meet our protagonist. The first things we learn about our protagonist is he has little money and cannot pay his rent and we learn about his apperance which is tattered and dirty. He though does not seem to care that he looks ragged because, the neighborhood he lives in full of drunks and prostitutes. From his appearance we get our first clue about him. From his, “I do not care,” appearance we can figure out that he actually does not care or, the possibility which rears its head later, he is stressing about something. He is actually stressing about the crime he does not know if he wants to commit or not. Soon we find another hint that he is stressing out, and he is in deep thought, when he goes into a tavern for

During his nap he dreams about something he had seen when he was young. When he was younger he saw a group of people beating a equine to death. He then noticed that the people were happy, they were enjoying beating the animal to death. The part he found most disturbing though was a young boy sitting holding the animal 's head weaping over it. Here is the next part that can be looked at to build our knowledge about the protagonist. He is now dreaming about murder as he contemplates comitting it. This tells us how much he is thinking about committing the crime and how much stress he is feeling because of