Guilt Crime and Punishment

A person obtains Guilt when they are accused of a crime they have committed, substantial, and minimal. Though there are exceptions sometimes when guilt begins to form and we have no power over it. On the contrary Guilt can also be when somebody who is blameless are said to have committed the crime. Guilt can come in many forms but one most common is a emotion. Though majority of all people that have a conscience feel bad for the wrongdoing that they commit. In the novels Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and Metamorphosis by Kafka the authors incorporates guilt into the plot showing guilt and its motives take part in the transformation of Gregor and Raskolnikov. The beginning of the novel is when Rodya commit’s the murder, and the rest are content with Rodya’s experiences with the regret and overbearing need to clear his conscience and exterminate the guilt building up inside of him. He Cannot accomplish this ambition of his until towards the center of the novel. The entire novel as a whole involves corruption, and relays how Rodya’s guilt constantly eats away at him and he just wants to evade it. Being a student that lives in poverty Raskolnikov thought thus in murdering the pawnbroker he would be doing a service to the world and society. Though he murders her convicting his crime, he must suffer the punishment the relentless feeling of guilt he start to feel right after. Raskolnikov wakes up "panting, all in sweat, his hair damp with sweat, and started up in a terror," (59). Despite all of his efforts Rodya can not get away from the guilt, it is stained upon him like the scarlet letter upon Hester Prynne. "Bits and scraps of various thoughts kept swarming in his head; but he could not grasp any one of them, could not rest on any one, hard as he tried..." (Dostoyevsky 86). He cannot take it much longer so he decides to confess and hands himself in to the police. The situation with Mikolka confessing to the murder towards the end of the book isn’t a major

Cited: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York: Modern Library, 1950. Print. Kuper, Peter, Franz Kafka, and Kerstin Hasenpusch. The Metamorphosis. New York: Crown, 2003. Print