Guilt, suffering, confession and redemption in crime and punishment"You continue to lie!" Raskolnikov shouted, unable to restrain himself. “You’re lying, you damn clown!” And he threw himself at Porfiry, who retreated to the threshold, but without a trace of panic. “I understand everything, everything!” He approached Porfiry. “You lie to me and taunt me, so I will betray myself…” “You cannot betray yourself more than you already have, Rodion Romanovich, old man. Well, you have entered a state . Don't shout, I'll call my men, sir! (Dostoyevsky, 34 years old) No human person with values ​​is capable of committing a heinous crime without some feeling of guilt or remorse afterwards. little by little, this guilt festers and eats away at the conscience until the point of flight, reached by confession, thus leading to salvation. Throughout Crime and Punishment the main character, Raskolnikov is struck by guilt and guilt. suffering which ultimately leads to his confession and redemption motivated by many forces. Crime and Punishment is the story of a young "intellect", Raskolnikov, who develops a theory of the superman. In his hypothesis, he believed that some. men were extraordinary and could commit unethical acts without being punished or having a guilty conscience. In his case, he wanted to rid the earth of a parasite by viciously killing an old pawnbroker, Alyona, and her sister, Lizaveta, in order to earn money so he could continue his studies and see if he was truly extraordinary . . Was he really the Napoleon he thought he was? Could he walk on people without caring about their feelings or their suffering like Napoleon did? (Literary Criticism, 68) "He is obviously neither a superman nor a Napoleon, but he did not have enough freedom... middle of paper ...... but his overwhelming power and the fact that 'it made such a painful impression on readers that those with strong nerves fell ill and those with weak nerves had to give up reading it (Kjetsaa, 183) Works CitedBloom, Harold Modern Critical Interpretations, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment New York, New York: New American Library, Inc., 1968. Gale Research Co. Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Literature Detroit, MI 1984, Vol 7. Kjetsaa. , Geir. New York, New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987, Magill, Frank Masterplots, NJ: Salem Press, 1976. Terras, Victor Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale University Press, 1985. , John. punishment, Mt. Holyoke College, November. 10, 1994.