The Things We Carry

The Search for Justice

   Often times in many novels there are many themes of love, hate, forgiveness and the search for justice. A prevalent theme in the novel, Crime and Punishment, is the search for justices, its meaning , importantance, and success in finding it is varied for multiple characters in "Crime and Punishment."
   Now the protagonist of this novel us Raskolnikov Romnavich. Who finds himself in search of justice. Is journey begins as he begins to struggle financially to the point where he's living in a closet, can't pay his rent, and has dropped out of school. He begins to sell his valuables to a mean old pawnbroker in exchange for a loan. The problem lieing in the fact that she gives less money than the item are worth and expects more back in payment than she loaned him.
   So this ideal comes into Raskolnikov's head to murder her and free all the people on debt to her. This very decision is where we gain insight into his understanding of what justice is. For in his mind Ridding the world of such a horrible being would better the lives of many. All those who were in debt to her would no longer be and thus in the end she mist certainly would not be missed.