Crime and Punishment Novel Responses “He was so immersed in himself and had isolated himself so much from everyone that he was afraid not only of meeting his landlady but of meeting anyone at all. He was crushed by poverty; but even his strained circumstances had lately ceased to burden him.” By portraying the protagonist as an individual who is going through major suffering‚ Dostoevsky allows the audience to establish that Raskolnikov is beginning to detach and isolate himself from the world‚
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Mary Ann P. Calamba TFG1 January 29‚ 2010 Selfless Love “For one she loves‚ for one she adores‚ she will sell herself! That’s what it all amount to; for her brother‚ for her mother‚ she will sell herself! She will sell everything!” (Dostoyevsky. Part 1. Chapter 4. pp. 53). The above statements were spoken by Raskolnikov‚ the novel’s protagonist‚ after reading the letter given by his mother‚ Pulcheria Alexandrovna. The letter stated that her sister‚ Dounia‚ will be married to Luzhin.
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Marmeladov and his daughter‚ the meek prostitute Sonya‚ whose love helps to redeem Raskolnikov; Raskolnikov’s devoted sister‚ mother‚ and best friend (Dunya‚ Pulkheria Aleksandrovna‚ and Razhumikhin); Dunya’s scheming suitor Luzhin and the sinister Svidrigailov; and the canny police investigator. Porfiry Petrovich. Finally‚ beyond its powerful plot and colorful characters. Crime and Punishment is marked by its insightful treatment of several major themes. Among other things‚ the book is an expose of social
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Raskolnikov lives a life which ultimately leads to his imprisonment in Siberia which provides an escape from the hellish St. Petersburg. He could have ended his life‚ but was instead redeemed. In contrast to this‚ the character Svidrigailov‚ who also has abandoned many morals through the attempted rape of Dounia‚ commits suicide‚ before he can repent his immoral ways. Dounia could have been his salvation‚ but his realization that he did not love her proved too much for him to handle
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negatively the concept of “home” is portrayed in Crime and Punishment. While St. Petersburg is typically regarded as a “window to the West” and a place of great promise‚ the city is actually a source of great disappointment for many of the characters. Svidrigailov notes‚"there are few places which exercise such strange‚ harsh‚ and sombre influences on the human spirit as St. Petersburg" (394). Landlords and landladies are
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Cited: Bloom‚ Harold. Bloom’s Major Literary Characters: Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov. Broomall: Chelsea House‚ 2004. Google Book Search. Web. 6 April 2014. Dostoyevsky‚ Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866. Trans. Sidney Monas. New York: Signet‚ 2006. Print. Llewellyn Worldwide. Dreams: What are they trying to tell us?. 1 November
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Batch: 2012-2015 Course Code: 50121212 Course Name: Projects I Roll #808 Assignment #A 126 Ancient Literature The Epic of Gilgamesh Introduction The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ an epic poem from Mesopotamia‚ is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independent Sumerian poems about ’Bilgamesh’ (Sumerian for Gilgamesh)‚ king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source
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