Razumihin In Crime And Punishment

In the book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Razumihin acts as a good man and helps out Raskolnikov despite Raskolnikov being extremely hostile towards him sometimes. Razumihin is defined as a good man because of his beliefs. Through his beliefs of telling truth, accepting errors, and accepting suffering Razumihin is good. Additionally, Razumihin has a strong dislike for socialites and a like for the true goodness of mankind.c Razumihin is defined as good and uses this definition to define mankind as good.
Razumihin is defined through his theories as good. Razumihin explains to Pulcheria Alexandrovna about his anger over people’s need for the lack of individualism and explains man’s privilege. Razumihin tells her, “‘ That’s one
Razumihin explains his belief of mankind of mankind only knowing that they are man through the use of emotions. He believes that human emotions are the only way to reveal truth. Razumihin recognizes the true nature of man and defines it through his reasoning that one can only know they are apart if mankind if they take their mistakes and learn that there is a purpose in their suffering. The errors man creates are a result of man’s emotions and only when man accepts errors can they be good. And since man is naturally an emotionally being that must accept that to be good. Since Razumihin is an emotional being then he is defined as good because of this belief. Razumihin recognizes that the only true way for man to be good is to be truthful and find purpose in suffering. Additionally, Razumihin is defined as good because Raskolnikov thinks about how Razumihin is never distressed. Raskolnikov thinks about how “..no failure distressed him, and it seemed as though no unfavourable circumstances could crush him. He could lodge anywhere, and bear the extremes of cold and hunger” (43). Raskolnikov develops the idea of Razumihin being good because he lives by what he defines as good. Despite the conditions in
Razumihin understand why socialites do not like the “living process” and tells Porfiry, “‘That’s why they so dislike the living process of life; they don’t want a living soul! The living soul demands life, the soul won’t obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!’” (203) Razumihin explains that man is naturally emotional and good because that is the exact reason socialites dislike the “living process of life.” They fail to realize that the soul of man is stuck with emotion. What the soul demands is the emotional state of man to guide and live by, to make and accept errors. The soul of man cannot be ruled by logic and therefore proves that man is inherently emotional and thus inherently good. Similar to how Razumihin is defined as good through his emotional nature, so is mankind. Next Razumihin tells Pyotr how there is no practicality in human nature. Razumihin yells at Pyotr that, “‘Nonsense! There’s no practicality.’ Razumihin flew at him. ‘Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are fermenting,” he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, “and desire for good exists, though it’s in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands. Anyway, there’s no practicality. Practicality goes