In "Crime and Punishment", the peculiarity of Dostoyevsky's literature is manifested, because, with it, his position as an artist and a thinker, was determined. After twice attempting, Dostoyevsky eventually succeeded to give Raskolnikov the posion of a central figure in his work. The name Raskolnikov was derived from the separatists (Raskolnik) of the Greek Church, appearing in the middle part of the 17th century. Through his successive murders and confessions made twice, the author attempted to predict the confrontation between the two world philosophies, the Greek Church and atheism, and between the ego and entity. In other words, the tragic rift between Dostoyevsky and Russia. Raskolnikov, of course, is not Dostoyevsky himself. By introducing Svidrigailof, a figure most closely reminiscent of the author, Dostoyevsky presents a most dynamic tension caused between "the one who sees" and "the one who is seen."
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