Crime and Punishment is a book set in Russia, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and focuses on a theme of alienation.
The book starts when the main character- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov- goes to a pawnbroker,Alyona Ivanovna. While there Raskolnikov trades his watch for the money he needs to pay his rent and to plan out how he could rob Alyona. This entire sequence of events makes up the exposition of Crime and Punishment and introduces alienation as the theme.
From there the rising action begins and Raskolnikov ends up going to a bar, where he meets and listens to Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov rant about his wife's past and his daughter, Sonia. Semyon continues endlessly about how his daughter needs financial help, yet he still asks and takes …show more content…
Climatically,his decision to not kill the pawnbroker falls through. Due to negligence on Raskolnikov's part, he also ends up killing the pawnbroker's sister-Lizaveta Ivanovna, a slow and submissive person- because she saw the crime …show more content…
He brings the dying Seymon to his home and this leads to Raskolnikov meeting Sonia for the first time. Sonia turns into a crucial character for Raskolnikov's development into a better and respectable individual.
Drama happens involving Raskolnikov's sister's engagement, but at the same time he confides in Sonia he is a murderer. Sonia- even if Lizaveta was her friend- comforts Raskolnikov and urges him to turn himself into the police.
Finally, after the theatrical events of Raskolnikov's sister's engagement wraps up, Raskolnikov confesses his crime to the police and ends up in a jail in Siberia. This event marks the start of his change into a better person; wrapping up the story in a somewhat satisfying resolution.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky does a brilliant job at crafting a theme of alienation, but in the wrong way. His tone of guilt and confusion is done beautifully, but is more felt by the reader towards the written than the characters because of his writing
The book starts when the main character- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov- goes to a pawnbroker,Alyona Ivanovna. While there Raskolnikov trades his watch for the money he needs to pay his rent and to plan out how he could rob Alyona. This entire sequence of events makes up the exposition of Crime and Punishment and introduces alienation as the theme.
From there the rising action begins and Raskolnikov ends up going to a bar, where he meets and listens to Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov rant about his wife's past and his daughter, Sonia. Semyon continues endlessly about how his daughter needs financial help, yet he still asks and takes …show more content…
Climatically,his decision to not kill the pawnbroker falls through. Due to negligence on Raskolnikov's part, he also ends up killing the pawnbroker's sister-Lizaveta Ivanovna, a slow and submissive person- because she saw the crime …show more content…
He brings the dying Seymon to his home and this leads to Raskolnikov meeting Sonia for the first time. Sonia turns into a crucial character for Raskolnikov's development into a better and respectable individual.
Drama happens involving Raskolnikov's sister's engagement, but at the same time he confides in Sonia he is a murderer. Sonia- even if Lizaveta was her friend- comforts Raskolnikov and urges him to turn himself into the police.
Finally, after the theatrical events of Raskolnikov's sister's engagement wraps up, Raskolnikov confesses his crime to the police and ends up in a jail in Siberia. This event marks the start of his change into a better person; wrapping up the story in a somewhat satisfying resolution.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky does a brilliant job at crafting a theme of alienation, but in the wrong way. His tone of guilt and confusion is done beautifully, but is more felt by the reader towards the written than the characters because of his writing