Death is a scary topic that many people can not deal with. Murder is even a scarier topic that haunts the headlines of newspapers and top stories on news channels that is hard to escape from. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky shows how there is no such thing as a super man, it is just impossible to push out emotions; escaping emotions is impossible.

Raskolnikov thinks he can just commit two murders, get away with it, and get away with feeling anything. After murdering the two women, Raskolnikov thinks that he is immune to the normal human emotions that one would receive from committing the murders. Humans just can’t live without feeling emotions in one way or another. No matter how much one tries to push away the pain and sadness they feel there is no way of escaping it. Raskolnikov couldn’t realize this and that is his down fall. If only he had been able to realize that there was no way he would be able to hide from his emotions, and had dealt with them maybe he would have been able to handle the consequences and after math of the murders.

The super man theory is in fact proven to be impossible by Raskolnikov’s actions in Crime and Punishment. In fact Dostoevsky proves that it is better to live with your emotions and human faults rather than to be devoid of them. It is better to be able to live with yourself than to live a great life but not be able to look at yourself in the mirror. One day people will realize this and the world will be a better place, but until then life will just have to go on.