Pawnbroker

that he is allowed to break the law if he chooses to do so. Little did Raskolnikov know that he would be paying such a costly price for his “deed.” Svidrigaylov and Raskolnikov meet just as he awakes from his dream of reliving the murder of the pawnbroker. Svidrigaylov is Dunya’s former employer who obsessively tries to make her love him. He acts as a foil for Raskolnikov. Both are criminals, haunted by their dreams, and are “birds of a…

He wakes up shaken, soaked with sweat, and gasping for breath. Raskolnikov recalls the dreadful way the mare was murdered and he says aloud to himself that of course his plan was just a fantastical one and he reassures himself that “yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it” (62). He exclaims, “...I couldn't do it!”, but his belief in his inability to complete the plan wavers when he then says in the same breath, “there is no flaw in all that reasoning…” (62). The flip…

side of him from his charitable actions following Marmeladov’s death. Immediately, he responds with “‘to rob her, of course’” followed by telling her to “‘stop it,’” suggesting no other reasonable excuse exists to explain why a man would rob an old pawnbroker (412). Furthermore, his curt, rehearsed response remains incapable of explaining the true motivation behind turning a seemingly magnanimous man into a murderer. Unsatisfied by these answers, Sonya pushes for more explanation from him.…

entering of the characters furthers Saint Petersburg’s role as a liminal space. For instance, throughout Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov paces the streets of St. Petersburg as he wages war with his own morality. As he must decide between murdering the pawnbroker and letting his sister marry for money. The liminal journey that Raskolnikov undertakes to understand good and evil are merely underscored by the liminal spaces that he visits (Lavendier 26). In The Idiot, Nastassya Filippovna is…

first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits the murder to test…

something morally stops him from stereotypically being good with money. This is an odd perspective that’s somewhat contradictory and difficult for Americans to understand: that money isn’t everything, but in a way, his kindness and ambition led to the pawnbroker giving him his grandmother’s regalia anyway. Jackson Jackson’s fellow Native Americans came and went, but the only consistent relationships were with the stable people around him like Mary at 7 Eleven and the nice policeman. When he does…

In the novel Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov's motive for murder relies less on monetary gain, as he doesn't end up successfully robbing the pawnbroker, and less on his utilitarian rationalization that by killing her he was doing the community a favor, but instead more so on him subconsciously wanting to feel like he could accomplish something for himself; as he let his urges take over reason. For Raskolnikov, who is constantly caught up in his thoughts, his initial dream serves almost as a…

alienates himself from his family, his friends, and most of society. He wallows in the chaos of his mind, and premeditates his crime, and in his overconfidence, transcends moral acceptability for societal good, considering the murders of the dishonest pawnbroker, Ms. Ivanovna, and her sister his duty in order to better the decrepit society in which he lives, as a form of “survival of the fittest” and to “guide and correct nature.” After murdering Alyona and Lizaveta, he takes their money, but…

expectant gaze. Dostoevsky clarifies the extent of Raskolnikov’s paranoia; he believes a confession is inevitable. The dream reveals Raskolnikov cannot tolerate the pressure of those around him and, to some degree, he believes his murder of the pawnbroker is a…

Vykupistof (Redeemed one)
Redemption can be defined as being forgiven for your actions done onto yourself or others. In the novel Crime and Punishment the author Dostevesky teaches us that you must go through extreme self reflectance and harm to be redeemed for your actions. But you must also feel true sympathy for what you did. Dostevesky does a amazing job of showing us different characters going through redemption of avoiding redemption. This novel shows us that self realization, forgiveness…