Elena Smukler Crime and Punishment He remained alone in a world that only he understood. He sat in a room like a spider, days went without food, and he lay in the darkness without purpose. He rested still thinking, his mind swarming with strange dreams of which he could not even begin to describe. How could he become a man daring enough to stoop and pick up the power, for in the eyes of men …showed first 75 words of 894 total…

…showed last 75 words of 894 total…he was, in effect, portrayed to be truly happy granting his love to Sonya at the end of the novel. Suffering --- however horrifying, awful, hideous, and disturbing it may be --- causes a person to become more sincere, strong-minded, and perceptive. It causes a person to become isolated from society until they accept it and allow it ennoble them. It forces a person to recognize the wrong of their crime and accept their punishment.