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PART I: CRIME
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CHAPTER 1: RASKOLNIKOV & THE PAWNBROKER Debts – landlady & pawnbroker (loathsome characters; concerns re: power/ socioeconomics) Alienation/Isolation vs. Engagement Paralysis/Inaction Internal vs. External (setting, clothes, etc.) Psychological vs. Physical “a thing like that” (2), “‘hideous’ dream” & “‘rehearsal’ of his project” (4), “do it” (4), “like this then too” (5), “another object in coming” (6), “such an atrocious thing” (8)
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CHAPTER 2: MARMALEDOV’S STORY Wife = Katerina Ivanovna (+ 3 children) Daughter = Sonia (prostitute) * Cycle: Death, Rebirth Strength/Weakness (23) M’s masochism Rask’s schism (26-7)
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CHAPTER 3: ANOTHER STORY Rask’s isolation/”monomania” Room? “I am thinking” (29) – paralyzed! Pulcheria’s Letter Mistreatment at hands of Svidrigailov Marfa Petrovna – repents -> rebirth (35) Pytor Petrovitch Luzhin = characterization?? Connection(s) between story of Marmaledov & story of Pulcheria/Dounia?
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CHAPTER 4: THE DRUNK GIRL AND THE FAT DANDY Raskolnikov’s opposition to Dounia’s engagement? “You Svidrigailov!” Sonia …. Dounia … young girl … Change/Schism in Raskolnikov “Is it for me to help?” (52) Compassion vs. Indifference
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CHAPTER 5: RASKOLNIKOV’S DREAM
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Significance of Setting? Importance/Purpose/Impact of Dreams? p. 57 & Mortimer essay p. 598 Mikolka: “My property!” (implications?) R’s father: “It’s not our business” (implications?) Interpret the Dream (Who’s who? Who’s Raskolnikov??)
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LIZAVETA IN THE HAYMARKET Awakens, crosses Bridge (63): “Freedom” Significance of setting? Lizaveta : Pawnbroker:: ______________ : ______________ Fate …. “condemned to death” (p. 65)
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CHAPTER 6: PREPARATIONS The officer and the student Fate, again? Rational argument (68-9) Daydream re: oasis “wonderful, blue, cold water” (71) Moral scruples vs. rationality Nature of Criminals: “failure of will and reasoning power” (74) Various “trifles”?
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CHAPTER 7: MURDER Thumping heart (77) Kills her “mechanically” Murder, then robbery Lizaveta (82-83) “But here a shock of terror awaited him such as he had never known before” (84) Whodunnit -> Whydunnit
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