Dostoevsky uses the novel Crime and Punishment to depict the prejudices in society, and to show the world what they are doing by judging a person by their societal status. Why should the cold world tell us if we are good or bad based on how we appear to people who don’t know us? The characters Dostoevsky creates to show us what are minds are trained to do are the saintly prostitute Sonia, and …showed first 75 words of 654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 654 total…to society she is a prostitute, shunned and disdained by the world. The world can not see her inner beauty because they are to busy being concerned about the morality of her occupation. Petrovitch is embraced by a society that ignores his shortcomings and does not see that he is evil inside. Just as society can only see bad in the goodness of Sonia. Society can only see the good in the evil of Petrovitch.