(413 words) The image of Raskolnikov in the novel Crime and Punishment does not create the most pleasant impressions of him, both for the other characters of the novel and for its readers. Despite the fact that he was quite handsome (had long dark brown hair, was tall enough), his appearance frightened people on the street, he walked in old rags and always wore a strange hat. But the most important quality is its internal alienation from all the people who surround him. It pushed him to a crime.
However, he did not dare to kill, until he received a letter from his mother, where she reports on the marriage of his sister with a man whom she does not love, and marries only for the benefit and well-being of the family, and in particular Rodion himself. This news upset him so much that he immediately thought about the need for a crime, because he could not fix the situation in a different way. But how could it not (say the attentive reader)? After all, Razumikhin could earn honestly and trample his own path to success. What prevents Rodion from saving his sister by other methods, to forget about illusions and theories in order to save the family? And what he himself said to the maid Nastasya: he needs everything at once! So, we are faced with a not-so-smart and far-sighted young maximalist who could have ended his life next to Marmeladov at a bar in a tavern, leaning on the neck of another Sonechka. Alas, while women like Dunya deny themselves everything, work, work, men like Rodion live quietly on their mother’s retirement and sister’s salary, inventing theories. Even the nobility that many readers want to attribute to the hero is doubtful: the example of the Marmeladov family shows that he tried to help unfamiliar people, but his own nobility led to sadness and frustration. He would gladly return the money left to himself.
After the crime, Raskolnikov realized that his theory did not work. Previously, he considered himself a person with rights, but now he felt like one of the people of the first category. He could not spend the stolen money on his needs. But at the same time, Raskolnikov realizes that he has become a killer. He becomes disgusted by himself, and he regrets what he has done. Relatives and friends are trying to support him, and pull him out of an oppressive state, but Rodion refuses to accept anyone's help, and remains alone. After the murder, the alienation of the hero took unthinkable limits, and he became even more miserable.
Thus, the author showed not a hero, but an antihero, whom the reader should be sorry. But his personality does not cause pity for me, because in it I see the infantility of a teenager and the vices of a man crushed by poverty, but neither this selfish and cruel young man has no nobility or conscious active kindness.
