Understanding how far your psyche can be pushed is useful for everyday life and in the long term. Dostoyevsky rightly showed how Raskolnikov was shaped by his mental and external conflicts, ultimately showing the importance of this character in the book. Even though he is the main character, if Dostoyevsky failed to emphasize how Raskolnikov's reason eluded him, it would be difficult for the reader to understand his actions. Ultimately, knowing that Raskolnikov was mentally incompetent when he committed the crime of murder and then hid his guilt, foreshadowed that at the end of the book he would surrender in some way. 'another one. Mental capacity and its limitations can be considered an important aspect of a person's personality, as shown in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment with Raskolnikov, who was unaware of the limitations of his psyche, causing him to lose the reason. Raskolnikov already seems mentally unstable at the beginning of the book, "he had become so completely absorbed in himself... he had lost all desire to [be concerned with importing...