Crime and Punishment - Madness
Demur, you're straightaway dangerous - Emily Dickinson Knowing the difference between insanity and intense clarity is often difficult when dealing with eccentric characters. Comedians such as Johnny Carson, while at times appearing utterly mad, are extremely self-controlled at all times, even when pouring liquids down their pants. Raskolnikov, a less humorous example, is thought by many characters in Crime and Punishment to be batty on several occasions, Zossimov and Zametov being only a few examples. His madness, however, his delusion and monomania, are disguising a real and sane objective. Wisdom can appear in the midst of lunacy, and Raskolnikov's spiritual journey that is the heart of Crime and Punishment explores this idea. The most defining eccentricity of Raskolnikov's character is his obsession with theory. His own theory of the ordinary and the extraordinary becomes the framework of his whole existence, in that he views everything he does through the twisted lens of his idea. I
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Approximate Word count = 1148
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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