Crime and Punishment When you think of the word superman what comes to mind Is it a hero with a cape and superpowers Well according to Raskolnikov his idea of a superman does not include a cape and is not very heroic Raskolnikov came up with a theory that there are ordinary people and there are extraordinary people In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Raskolnikov believes that he is not an ordinary person but a superman Throughout Crime and Punishment this theory of a superior