{"id":40,"date":"2013-06-24T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-07-19T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:05:25","slug":"crime-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Lida Prypchan<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/span><\/div>\n
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This work by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), though not considered his masterpiece, is certainly a novel that deserves to be read, discussed and admired by all of us and the entire world.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The most important aspect of this work is the psychological study of crime and the offender: every heartbeat, every thought of the protagonist is carefully analyzed by the author.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Plot of “Crime and Punishment”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A very cultured student with a powerful intellect \u2013 Rodion Raskolnikov \u2013 is in St. Petersburg (Russia), plunged in the darkest poverty. \u00a0At the start of the novel, he leaves his home and goes to the house of the lender Alena Ivanovna, an ignoble and mean woman, with whom he had dealt previously when he had financial problems.<\/span><\/div>\n


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It is not financial hardship that leads him there, but a preconceived plan. \u00a0While the old woman goes to get the money, he carefully studies the room\u2019s dimensions, and its entries and exits, the place where the usurer gets the keys and from where she then takes out the sum offered, the sound of footsteps on the ground and even the echo of the bell. \u00a0Going down the stairs, he wonders how he could come up with such an appalling idea. \u00a0But he goes to the tavern and, after a few drinks, the temptation returns to torment him. \u00a0In the tavern he meets Marmeladov, a former official, an unrepentant drunk, who is in the most awful situation imaginable: his wife has consumption and hates him, he has no food to give his young children, and his eldest daughter is now on the streets in order to bring some money home.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Rodion, on returning home, finds a caring letter from his mother. \u00a0Though the news is good, and it causes him more bitterness than satisfaction. \u00a0Dunia, his sister, was thrown out of the house where she served as governess, because her employer fell in love with her, and his jealous wife put her out on the street. \u00a0As compensation for that misery, Dunia met a man: Mr. Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a member of the nobility, twice her age and cold, reserved and aloof, but who is willing to marry her. \u00a0Dunia agrees to marry, which is clearly not a marriage of love.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Rodion understands the tremendous sacrifice his sister is making, and promises to himself that the wedding will not take place if he can help it. \u00a0That project then returns to his mind, and he rejects it again and again.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The crime he plans is not that of an impulsive, innate criminal; it is an intellectual crime, carried out in virtue of powerful reasoning, apparently, but misleading because evil does not stop being evil, despite all reasoning. \u00a0Raskolnikov says that Alena Ivanovna is an old, odious woman, that she is not useful to anyone, that dozens of families who suffer for lack of support would be saved from misery by the old woman\u2019s money. \u00a0With these thoughts, Raskolnikov ends up deciding: he will perform this terrible act of which he has already absolved himself.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The Crime<\/span><\/div>\n


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The crime is done with complete coldness and prepared without neglecting details. \u00a0Isolated in his little room, he makes a braid and forms a noose with it, which he adapts to his coat. \u00a0He wants to execute his\u00a0 plan with an ax that he will put under his coat. \u00a0He then prepares the object that he will take to pawn, which will gain him entry into the house of the lender. \u00a0He wraps this object, which is nothing more than a piece of wood that he joins a thin iron plate to, in white paper and he ties it in such a way that it is difficult to unwrap. \u00a0He then studies the moment when his doorman leaves for a long time in order to get hold of the ax. \u00a0He gets it and goes out to the street.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Alena Ivanovna is alone and is not suspicious of the student because she has seen him before. \u00a0While she tries to undo the tiny package, he raises the ax and, mechanically, allows it to fall on the old woman. \u00a0Raskolnikov takes the keys and runs to the dresser in search of the money. \u00a0And immediately he is pursued by an insane, crazy desire to leave everything and run away… At that moment, Isabel, the sister of the victim, arrives, and when Raskolnikov sees that she is about to scream, he raises the ax and consummates a second murder.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Afterward, he no longer is thinking of robbing, but of getting to safety. \u00a0He shuts the door well, carefully washes the ax and removes the blood stains from his boots. \u00a0His instinct, now greater than his reason, leads him to hide on an empty floor of the same house and then to flee with feigned serenity. \u00a0Raskolnikov finally reaches his little room, in time to return the ax to the doorman\u2019s attic. \u00a0And he finally reaches the safety of his bed, where he lies down to rest.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The Punishment<\/span><\/div>\n


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Initially it is not remorse, but a terrible fear of being discovered that is left in his mind by the traces of the crime committed. \u00a0The workers who were painting the empty floor, where he hid after committing the crime, are arrested and charged with the murder. \u00a0His friend Razumikin and his maid care for him. \u00a0Thanks to them, he does not die if he betrays himself in his delirium. \u00a0However, one thing regarding his fears is true: the intrusion into his life by Porfirio Petrovich, the district magistrate and Razumikin\u2019s distant relative. \u00a0Amid all this, Razumikin, who does not know that it was his friend Raskolnikov who committed the crime, insists on saving the painter accused of murder from the claws of justice, and this leads him to strengthen his relationship with his relative, the judge.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Two new developments give him a slight lease on life. \u00a0The drunk Marmeladov, whom he met at the tavern, was hit by a car and he takes him to his dump of a home, where he dies. \u00a0The other event is the arrival of his mother and sister to St. Petersburg. \u00a0Razumikin falls madly in love with Dunia, Rodion\u2019s sister. \u00a0Porfirio Petrovich harbors what is known as moral conviction regarding the crime, since he found an article by Rodion called “On Crime,” published by him upon leaving University, in which he divides men into the ordinary and the extraordinary: the former must live in obedience; the latter are entitled to dispense with all laws and violate them if they stand in the way of the full development of their personality. Does Rodion consider himself to be such an extraordinary man who was legitimate up to the moment of the crime? \u00a0Porfirio dedicates himself to finding out and Raskolnikov to disorienting him. \u00a0Raskolnikov comes to behave so strangely that he is taken for a madman.<\/span><\/div>\n


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One day Porfirio Petrovich presents him with a prisoner who confesses to the murder. \u00a0Is not the bestial joy that appears on Rodion\u2019s face one more piece of evidence for Porfirio? \u00a0Raskolnikov cannot support the harassment or the weight of his secret any longer, and he tells Sonia everything. \u00a0She does not believe him at first. \u00a0Then she is struck by the evidence. \u00a0She hugs him and swears that she will go to the jail with him… because, naturally, she expects him to give himself up and atone for his crime. \u00a0He doubts and is afraid, but through a long psychological process, he comes to the conclusion that what Sonia advises is best. \u00a0And he runs to the police station, where he hands himself in.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The Atonement<\/span><\/div>\n


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Rodion is taken to Siberia. \u00a0Sonia accompanies him. \u00a0Dunia and Razumikin marry and hide from the mother the tragedy of her son, and at last the poor woman dies.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Sonia was so happy and that joy was such a surprise to her that it almost frightened her. Seven years, only seven years! \u00a0In the joy of the first few hours, it was nearly the case that the two of them considered those seven years as seven days. \u00a0But here another story begins: the story of the slow renewal of a man, his gradual passage from one world to another.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lida Prypchan \u00a0 \u00a0 Work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky \u00a0 This work by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), though not considered his masterpiece, is certainly a novel that deserves to be read, discussed and admired by all of us and the entire world. The most important aspect of this work is the psychological study … <\/p>\n

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