Crime and Punishment

‘Tis a stated fact that the physical environment surrounding a living creature has a profound impact on their mind, attitude, charisma, integrity, and basically all the key essentials that makes that creature unique from all others. What Dostoyevsky did in the novel, Crime and Punishment, was make the surrounding environment of St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 1850s, be a noticeably decaying place of both moral and virtue and with this theme of the city being in a constant downward spiral, the author was able to reflect the protagonist’s psyche, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, based off of this environment. With the morality of St. Petersburg slowly crumbling day by day because of how wretched and vile this hive filled with scum, villainy, poverty, smut, and drunkenness was, it could easily be compared to the same of Raskolnikov’s mental state and moral values. Although, Raskolnikov’s mental state is going down the drain like the rest of society, he still thinks very highly...