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Comparing Dostoevsky's 'Crime And Punishment'

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Cameron Williams
Mrs. Peel
English
December 10, 2016

Person Reading Inventory
The title is Crime and Punishment.
The Author is Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Crime and Punishment was published in 1886.
The genre of Crime and Punishment is crime fiction and fiction.
. The characteristics meet with the genre because there’s murder and crime for example Raskolnikov kills Alyona Ivanovna and her sister.
The setting is in 1860s and in St. Petersburg and in a Siberia prison. The tone is very tragic and very emotional.
Raskolnikov- He was former student in St. Petersburg who was poor. He gets so obsessed with the idea of murdering that he gets a mental illness. Because of the illness he counts his steps and has no control over his …show more content…

Unlike her brother she is kind and nice. She is more mature then her brother and she has a lot of confidence and she is very proud.
Svidrigailov- He is violent but nice, he gives money to his fiancé’s family, Dunya, Katerina Ivanovna and her children. He commits suicide because Dunya rejects to sleep with him and he kills himself later.
The summary- Raskolnikov was student who was very poor in St. Petersburg. He starts to get obsessed with the idea of murder and gets a mental illness. He murders Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta, a couple days after that he meets an official at a police station and almost confesses his crime, but he doesn’t. Dunya is about to marry Luzhin, but in the wedding Raskolnikov doesn’t allow his sister to marry a nasty and mean man. He meets this girl named Sonya and tells her what he did. While he is telling her Svidrigailov quietly listens, he uses the information that he has heard to try and sleep with Raskolnikov sister Dunya. She rejects him and he kills himself. Raskolnikov confesses his crime to the authority and is sentenced 8 years in a Siberia …show more content…

3 quotes- “It’s simply a fantasy to amuse myself.” I think this quote is important because this is what he was thinking and it shows how serious the mental illness.
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.” This quote is important because he is with Sonya and she thinks he is bowing down to her but he is actually bowing down to the suffering of humanity.
“I wanted to murder, for my own satisfaction.” This quote is important because it shows how bad his illness was and why he was committing murders.
Symbols/Motifs- Motif, almost everyone is poor in the novel, because of him being poor he tries to stay away and distance himself from everyone else, this is probably why he started to have bad thoughts. He was by himself for too long and didn’t really have any one to talk

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