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CRIME AND PUNISHMENTBY

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Reviewed By:Owais Hussain FarooqiA.S. 218Academic Group IV


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About the AuthorGeneral Summary of the WorkAuthors ConclusionCritical Analysis

General recommendations

SEQUENCE OF PRESENTATION


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About the Author

Russian writer of realist fiction andessays.

Author of fifteen novels and severalshort stories.

Pioneers of the school of thought ofexistentialism.

One of the greatest and mostprominent psychologists in worldliterature.


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Dostoyevsky's literary works explored humanpsychology in the troubled political, social and

spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. On November 16 1849, Dostoyevsky, along with

other members of the Petrashevsky Circle, wassentenced to death.

Dostoyevsky's sentence was commuted to fouryears of exile with hard labor at a katorga prisoncamp in Siberia.

Dostoyevsky was released from prison in 1854,and was required to serve in the SiberianRegiment for five years.


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This experience inspired him to write The House of theDead.

Other books by same author:

The Gambler

Notes from Underground

The Idiot

The Brothers Karamazov

The Possessed


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SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

Novel is the depiction of the life of Raskolnikov.

A person who though is a very able individual but doesnot or is not able to use his gifted abilities for his own

and social good. Being a loner he gradually slips away from humanity

and gets alienated to a large extent.

He commits murder of two women. Conscience of Raskolnikov speaks to him that the

crime would be a heinous thing to do but he stillcommits it.


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Writer very artistically depicts the feelings of

Raskolnikov before and after committing thecrime.

The post crime phase of the novel reflects that

Raskolnikov who killed expecting that it wouldease his life, had failed to do so.

The police officers suspect him only because he

fainted when the murders were talked of at thepolice station.


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Raskolnikov confesses at the very later part of thenovel.

His ultimate confession is a matter of how remorse ,search to reconnect with the society, love, happiness,family, affection and social belongingness remold

Raskolnikov into a social animal. Raskolnikov s regret, his confusion, his fear, his love

for Sonya for whom he confesses and his

rediscovering his love for his mother and sister Dunyaare painted as very powerful emotions of pull and pushon a human soul.


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Raskolnikov is a case of split personality.

On one hand Raskolnikov felt the urge of helping agirl who was raped, but he does not do anything forher just because he considers the social evils

impediments in his way of virtue and feels he shouldnot concern himself at all.

At one time he is sympathetic and other second he is

becomes inhuman.


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AUTHORS CONCLUSIONS

The author has embarked upon delivering amessage that in those times was new to thereader i.e. existentialism.

Writer vitalizes the mind with a new ideologythat reason is not the justification of whatever anindividual or group of individuals does.

It was love that embraced Raskolnikov andreseeded humanity in him.


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He concludes that it is our relations and the

affection we enjoy in them which keep alive ourconnection with the entire society and keep thehuman instincts alive in us.

Reasoning according to writer is a very subjective

matter and hence can never be the source of lawor law itself.


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CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Dostoyevsky has the convincing force in the details ofevery happening.

Depiction of how soliditary intelligence can prove tobe a social malady is admirable.

But at some points author gets overly ruthless and

unfeeling towards certain events.

Depiction on occasions becomes so very full of agony

and hatred that an ordinary reader has to have thenerves to digest such inhuman and scornful behavior.


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The author has good command on using thevery appropriate style of writing such that hehelps the reader portray the entire picture.

Author has dealt magnificently with criminalpsychology and behavior in this novel.


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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

It is an exciting novel, in that it keeps theinterest of the reader intact and alive till thevery last page.

Book may not be recommended to anyone

who wants to read for pleasure, but has to bean essential part of ones home library if thepurpose of ones reading is understanding

many harsh realities and bitter truths ofmans

life.


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