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Analysis Of Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Trembling he removes an ax from behind his back. Haltingly, he raises it above his head. Then with sudden conviction the figure strikes the old woman with the butt end of the ax. Again and again he drives the blunt end of the ax into the woman’s neck before finally examining the body and realizing that his target is dead.
The murder of Alyona Ivanovna and her stepsister Lizaveta adds to countless other death in Petersburg both incurred in crime and out of despair. The stifling and powder-keg feel in the air must implies something is about to happen and in this case what happens is an explosion. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicts the transition from sanity to insanity and reveals humanity's proud arrogance and its severe
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