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The “man of action” is straightforward and goes after what he desires. People envy him

for this simple reason. I found out there is a good side and a bad side to being a man of action by studying the life of Mr. Razumikhin. He is the idea of the man of action come to life and provides the perfect study in the pros and cons of leading such a straightforward lifestyle.

In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky uses the character of Sonia Marmeladov, whose first name means wisdom, not solely to illustrate God's mercy toward a fallen woman but to have her redeem both herself and Raskolnikov through God's mercy.

He shows us that even the lowliest of the lowly lost are loved by the Father, and by their sufferings gain merit.

Crime and Punishment also portrays the dilemma of the Russian intellectual in the nineteenth-century. Dostoyevsky shows how Raskolnikov is corrupted by moral scepticism. The novel exposes the bankruptcy of intellectual or ideological arguments which lack moral concern or compassion.