Crime And Punishment: Complementary Characters To Give Raskolnikov His Redemption In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky develops a character with a split personality. Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov is a high strung, complex man. Throughout the novel Raskolnikov undergoes many changes brought about by many different things. Dostoevsky uses complementary characters to give Raskolnikov his redemption. One such person is Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov. Raskolnikov is best seen as two characters. He sometimes acts in one manner and then suddenly in a manner completely