Through the Russian design of the characters featured in Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoevsky develops the idea of purity redeeming the mortally damned through self-sacrifice. The reader receives a direct source of rehabilitation curving Raskolnikov's deteriorating mental state through the eyes of his subconscious love Sonia.
             Sonia and Raskolnikov share several similarities, which preserve through their interactions with one another. Both characters harbor self-sacrificial characteristics, both struggle to find meaning in their corrupt lives, and both claim an unfulfiling existence, but oddly enough the two characters find solace in each other's presence while putting aside Raskolnikov's constant religious berating towards Sonia's only outlet for hope.
             The desire to help those that surround oneself more than the wish to help just oneself requires an unnatural state of mind among the human populous, but also easily brought on through pressures by society, politics, and so forth compelling such an attitude of self-sacrifice. Although, Sonia portrays an alternative mind set through a form of altruism for her family, her only true tie to this hell of world she calls home. She volunteered her body for moral slaughter through the possession of a single yellow card in turn sacrificing the only physical purity she harbored for money-money to save her family from starvation and a higher sense poverty.
             Raskolnikov, on the other hand, plays on his own self-sacrifice tendencies when convenient, revealing his undistinguished state of mind towards such an idea. Part of Raskolnikov's multi-mind sets consists of calculated maneuvering while considering the murder of the pawnbroker as an action for the good of society-a definitive motivation of extrinsic nature. Sonia and Raskolnikov's characteristics mirror each other's tendencies to link towards self-sacrifice, in turn, providing an amalgam of psycholog...