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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment Essay
Many people in today’s society have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on another. For instance, people wonder whether to run a red light because no one else is around. They will sit there having this battle in their head on whether to go or not. Raskolnikov had this same problem. The only difference between Raskolnikov and society is that Raskolnikov didn’t have the problem deciding whether to run a red light or not, but the problem of something much larger, murder. Even though he commits the murder, his good side wins out.
You can see Raskolnikov’s bad side when he is sitting in the bar listening to the two men talk about murdering the old woman. This is an example of his “devil side” because he states how he was just thinking the same thing that the tw...

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