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Inventing Reality: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In what scholars consider Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece, the author deals with the problems raised on two levels of understanding in two different realities. One can distinguish the objective, outer world represented by the society and its norms and an inner reality uniquely created by each character as a response to the feeling of rejection he has from society. All the characters in Crime and Punishment are always tortured by the idea of "having nowhere to go" (15) which is precisely what triggers the development of an inner world. The one that actually introduces this concept is Marmeladov, a former titular councilor, who destroyed his life and that of his family because of his drinking addiction. During their only encounter, Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov his story. Although he is drunk, Marmeladov's ideas do make sense in the context of their society. He was forced...

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