Patricia Ortiz
Crime and Punishment
Journal 1: Chapter 1
The mood of the story already is kind of dreary; I can imagine the setting in my head. The main character lives in a rundown building so it’s not surprising that he’s afraid of the landlady and owes money. Raskolnikov is described to be an emotionally detached, mad at the world, bitter, yet proud man. He wears ripped and old clothes but he still feels as though he is better than the rest of the people that live in his neighborhood and that they are inferior to him. The way the pawnbroker is described is extremely creepy. Nothing good can be expected by his relationship with the pawnbroker. Theres a feelings of distrust between the two, and he already owes her money is going back for more. So there is definitely something fishy. He becomes almost sinister when he drinks the beer at the saloon.
Journal 2:
(I’m not going to lie, it was semi-difficult to keep up having to read all these Russian names.)
Raskolnikov went through with the murders of the pawn broker and her sister, since then he is ridden with the guilt of the murders and panics everytime they are mentioned. This to me doesn’t seem like a real murder, this guy clearly has a conscience and its relevant how his poverty led him to the crime. He didn’t kill them because he wanted to kill, but because he needed money. Razumikhin and Svidrigailov figure out that Raskolnikov is guilty on their own. Some random guy that knows nothing about the case confesses to the murders, which is really strange but Porfiry knows it’s not true. He suspects Raskolnikov of being guilty but does not have enough evidence to arrest him. Raskolnikov ends up confessing to Sonya about the murders, she tells him to confess. There is real chemistry between the two. In my opinion svidrigailov is a weirdo, first he’s attracted to Dunya, then he gets engaged to a 16 year old girl, then he tries to rape dunya and ends up killing himself.
Journal 3 :
A year and a half later Raskolnikov is in prison in Siberia. He ended up confessing thanks to sonya, who moved to the town outside the prison. Just as I suspected, these two had a thing for eachother. Sonya ended up doing him a big favor by convincing him to confess, because instead of a life sentence he got a 8 year sentence of doing hard labor. I knew he wasn’t a real murderer, his motives weren’t sinister. And through his love for Sonya he was able to express remorse for his crime.
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I agree with you in that the setting was very easy to grasp, and although it represented a dirty, poor neighborhood, I think Dostoevsky was attempting to reveal the horrific quality of life in Russia in this time period. I also found that the guilt of the murders took its toll on Raskolnikov, as he became extremely anxious and possibly even embodying two different ends of an emotional spectrum. I liked how you noted the epilogue in your third journal, as I saw that many other students didn't do so. I also think the relationship that Raskolnikov shared with Sonya aided his mind and allowed him to relax (in a small sense) in the Siberian prison.
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when i first started reading the book i considered Raskolnikov a murderer and i didnt really like him, but by the end of the book i felt sympathy for him because he obviously regreted the murderers and did it out of panick.
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