Understanding how far you can push your psyche is useful for everyday life and in the long term. Dostoevsky correctly showed how Raskolnikov was shaped by his mental and external conflicts, ultimately demonstrating how important this character was in the book. Even though he is the main character, if Dostoevsky failed to highlight how Raskolnikov's sanity was slipping away from him, it would be difficult for the reader to understand his actions. In the end, knowing that Raskolnikov was mentally incompetent when he committed the crime of murder and continued to hide the fact that he was guilty hinted that by the end of the book he would give up one way or another. Mental capacity and its limitations can be seen as 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 that caused him to lose his sanity. Raskolnikov appears to already be mentally unstable at the beginning of the book, "he had become so completely absorbed in himself... he had lost all desire to [concern himself with importing...