Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodin Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money.
However, once it s done he finds himself racked with confusion, paranoia, and disgust for what he has done. His ethical justifications disintegrate completely as he struggles with guilt and horror and confronts the real-world moral consequences of his deed.
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This book is a violent rush of emotions and I wanted to take up on the challenge of designing a book cover completely different from others. Why this book stands out for me, is because it stresses a lot on the human emotions and feelings and I wanted to design a book cover which implies the different states of mind of the central character.
His paranoia, confusion and compassion was what I wanted to showcase to the readers. Referring many previous book covers, I found that illustrations and paintings were used a lot and many display any random scene in the novel or give the readers a whole different idea of what the novel is.
Through my use of emotions expressed through eyes, the readers would get an idea of what this novel revolves upon and what they are to expect from this novel.
