Finally OVER! Now that’s a serious weight lifted off my shoulders.
Everyone was such weasels back then. Svidrigailov is the biggest of them all. I’m actually glad that he committed suicide. Yes, I know, it’s terrible to feel schadenfreude, but in this case, it’s natural. He was such a scumbag, that I was happy to see him go. I wonder if there ever was any money for Dunya. Also, why in the hell would his dead wife that he supposedly murdered leave any money to her husband’s crush? That seems like a forced act. Perhaps on her deathbed Svidrigailov forced her to add the money to her will. I wouldn’t put it past him.
I’ve been confused so many times in this book over names that I’ve decided finally to never read this book again and save myself the headache.
Was there really that much disease back then? Both mental and physical? Because it seems strange that what killed Ivanovna also killed Ivanovna’s wife, and made her tear and beat at her children’s clothes.
In total, Svidrigailov publically committed suicide, and told a cop right before he was going to do it that if anyone asked, he was in America. Raskolnikov’s guilt ate at himself until he finally turned himself in (with Sonya’s help), and went to prison. Nikolai is not in jail because of Raskolnikov. Razumikhin is no longer friends with Raskolnikov, after learning that he’s a murderer, proving that he wasn’t really friends with Raskolnikov after all. Katerina Ivanovna is dead, along with her husband, leaving her children orphans. Sonya and Raskolnikov are in love. Dunya and Luzhin are not married.
I just realized the similarity between this book and Hamlet. The main characters, both male, are recovering from traumatic experiences in which an innocent person died. Both carried that around, until finally it ate away at them, and they killed people. However, in the end of Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is paying for his crimes by doing time, whereas in the end of Hamlet, Hamlet pays for his crimes with his life. Also, only in Hamlet did he drive away the love of his life. In Crime and Punishment, they “lived happily ever after”... sort of. This was a good book, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to someone with a lot of free time.
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I'm happy that Rachel saw the same correlation between the main characters of Crime and Punishment and Hamlet. I felt like the drama in both books was very similar. The large amount of characters in Hamelet and Crime and Punishment made things very confusing at times, but they all seemed to blend together toward the end of the story. Rachel is also correct on the fact that this book should only be recommended to someone who has a lot of free time and enjoys complex characters!
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