Morally Ambiguous Characters in Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishmen

Often times in literature, we are pre displaceed with quintessential characters that are all primed(p) into the conventional categories of either substantially or bad. In these pieces, we are usually able to differentiate the characters and discover their true intentions from reading only a few chapters. However, in some remarkable pieces of work, authors create characters that are so realistic and so complex that we are unable to distinguish them as purely penny-pinching or sin. In the novel Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky develops the morally ambiguous characters of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov to provide us with an interesting read and to give us a chance to try each character. Svidrigailov is one of the most unfathomable characters in Crime and Punishment. As the novel goes on, Svidrigailovs pursuit of Dunya progresses into sheer harassment. After eavesdropping on Raskolnikovs vindication to Sonya, he uses his newly acquired information to lure Dunya into his r oom. Svidrigailov proceeds to promise help to Raskolnikov if she will give him her hand in marriage. He then threatens to rape her when she tries to tryout away. Right when Svidrigailov appears to be purely evil, he surprises us all when his rational side kicks in and allows Dunya to leave. Although he may seem to be the cold-hearted villain of the book, his good deeds cannot go unnoticed. It cannot be forgotten that he is willing to give Dunya the three deoxyguanosine monophosphate rubbles in his wifes will and offers ten thousand rubbles to help Dunya because he thinks her marriage will be a disadvantage to her in the end. Once Katerina Ivanonva dies, Svidrigailov also promises to pay for the funeral arrangements and to provide for the children, who will be sent to an orphanage. Although... ...ing to compensate for them. As his guilt is almost done eating him inside and out, Raskolnikov finally admits and with a new love, he points his life in a unit of measurement new direction. Svidrigailovs moral ambiguity seems to play a smaller part in the whole picture than Raskolnikovs, making a subplot for the story and adding enlarge to make it more exciting. If these characters were both purely evil, and had no guilt whatsoever, this would be simply a boring story of unhinged men. Adding both good and evil sides to an individual adds a little something extra to the story that distinguishes it from many other pieces of literature. Aside from adding to the storyline, these morally ambiguous characters give students a chance to practice their accomplishment at analyzing characters and think for themselves, forming their own outlooks on the characters and the book as a whole.