crime and punishment
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Crime and Punishment
There are many themes in "Crime and Punishment", but the three I've underlined in my essay I think are most important. Love, extraordinary versus ordinary, and suffering before redemption, are the themes I've chosen. They all have huge effects on the main characters and without them the novel would be incomplete.
One of the important themes of this novel is love. It would seem weird that a novel, which appears to be about the crime of murder and its punishment, would have any hint of love in it. But love is very present in this novel. We notice that, without love, Raskolnikol might of never come to his journey to salvation. When Raskolnikov at last gives in to his love for Sonya, as we see at the end of the novel, his whole persona changes. His fellow prison-mates finally accept him, he himself realizes that he's not a super man, and he opens the bible Sonya gave him for the first time. Him opening the bible shows us that he's on his way to forgiveness from god and his new life as an ordinary man...