Crime and punishment

 

The story narrates the life of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in the capital of Imperial Russia, St. Petersburg, who is forced to suspend his studies because of the misery in which he finds himself, despite the efforts of his mother Pulcheria and his sister Dunia to send him money.

His sister, with the intention of helping him, accepts the marriage proposal of a rich man, which makes his brother angry when he learns that she has accepted the proposal without having consulted him. But, although he does not want to accept the help, Rodion has airs of greatness, and in his delusions he believes he is worthy of a great future, comparing himself to Napoleon. So he has the idea of killing and robbing Aliona Ivanovna, the old usurer. This idea torments him for days, and grows inside him like a seed.