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Essay / Raskolnikov's Analysis of Crime and Punishment
As stated previously, suffering is defined as "pain caused by injury, illness, loss, etc." ” which includes both “physical and mental/emotional pain” (Merriam-Webster). However, the idea of suffering involves much more. Suffering is not only caused by physical factors such as injury or emotional pain. For example, it may be the feelings experienced following the loss of a loved one. Additionally, socioeconomic status contributes to the extent to which one suffers as well as the tolerance a person has for this emotional and physical pain stated in the definition. When a person is economically deprived of the basic necessities of life, he suffers not because he chose to do so or because of the mistakes he made, but because of his inability to raise his social status. They simply cannot acquire the luxury of living that citizens of wealthier classes have because they cannot afford them. The definition also fails to mention that suffering does not just cause “pain.” Suffering has the capacity to provoke other feelings in humans, such as amplified guilt following a mistake made in the past. “Pain” itself is not specific enough to describe the different emotions associated with suffering. Humans are multidimensional creatures who are plagued by many conflicting feelings reverberating from a social situation. The idea of suffering is not exclusively negative either. This can bring