In Crime and Punishmment, is Raskolnikov a believable character?

Question

I have this for a prompt for a short essay and I have no idea what it is asking for! I read and understood the book, but I don't know how to answer the prompt! If anyone could help that would be fantastic!

Answer 1

The question is asking whether Raskolnikov is true to life.  Could you believe that there could have been a character such as Raskolnikov and can you believe Raskolnikov.  Do you think such an obsessed character is believable?  Is his behavior believable?  Is his thinking believable?

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Answer 2

(in my opinion)yes he is a believable character,,, the prompt wants you to know whether a person with raskolnikov's characters can exist in your opinion and then it wants you to give examples as to why or why not u think that. my response is yes because he has personality traits that you would see in people. you can also talk about how he tries to rationalize his actions and how people try to do in our world every day.