Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThis guide features explanations of themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, and facts and essay topics. |
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Alexandrovna and Dunya alienation Alyona Ivanovna ANALYSIS LITERARY ANALYSIS ANALYSIS SUMMARY apartment argue asks bell jar body paragraphs CHAPTERS V-VII commit the crime committing the murder confess Crime and Punishment death delirious discuss Dostoevsky dream Dunya and Pulcheria Epilogue feels fiancé Fyodor Dostoevsky idea Ilya Petrovich Katerina Ivanovna Kill a Mockingbird kill the pawnbroker killing Alyona kolnikov landlady Lebezyatnikov LITERARY ANALYSIS LITERARY literary essay Lizaveta Marfa Petrovna Marmeladov memorial dinner moral mother murdering Alyona narrative narrator Nastasya nihilism nikov novel pawnbroker's pawned Petersburg PLOT OVERVIEW police station Porfiry Petrovich Porfiry's poverty prison prostitute protagonist Pulcheria Alexandrovna question QUOTATIONS Raskol Raskolnikov becomes Raskolnikov goes Raskolnikov leaves Raskolnikov meets reader realizes resolve reveals REVIEW & RESOURCES rubles seems sentence Siberia sister society SPARKNOTES story stranger subplot SUMMARY & ANALYSIS superman suspect Svidrigailov symbol takes tells Raskolnikov themes thesis thinks thousand rubles topic trying utilitarian Zamyotov Zossimov