This theme, which draws clear connections between the physical environment and its affect on an individual's thoughts and beliefs, is present throughout Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, Crime and Punishment. ... The theory of Raskolnikov, which suggests the existence of superior beings that possess the right and the power to transgress moral and written law to ultimately meet their means, eventually drives him to commit the crime and test his theory. After the crime, Raskolnikov is continually tortured by his conscience and realizes that he is not a superior being as he thought but rathe...

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