Don't Forget Those Secondary Characters
Point of View and Secondray Characters in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is told mostly by Raskolnikov. This allows the reader to feel the emotions that he is feeling due to his crime. The reader gets the sense of insanity that he starts to feel progressively throughout the book. You can draw the conclusion that he feels isolated from society, and starts to realize that he isn't above moral law from his words. For example
"he would not have been able to address a single human word to them, so
abruptly had his feelings been drained. He suddenly felt within himself a
gloomy sensation of tormented, infinite solitude and estrangement."(Part2;Ch1;p98)
You wouldn't be able to understand the emotions that are overcoming Raskolnikov if he wasn't narrating the book.
Aside from Raskolnikov, there are other important secondary characters in Crime and Punishment. First, Sonya plays a key role in the development of Raskolnikov's story. Her character is parallel to that of Raskolnikov's. This is evident through the fact that they both show sin in their actions. Sonya prostitutes herself out for money, and Raskolnikov murders two innocent women for money. Raskolnikov relates to Sonya and her situation, but does not let himself reconize that there is a key difference in their sins. Sonya's sin is a sacrafice for the sake of supporting her family, and Raskolnikov sins only for his own sake. Sonya is an important secondary character because she is a way for Dostoyevsky to show proverty, importance of faith in family and religion, and the poor treatment of women in the time frame this book is set in.
Another important secondary character in this novel is Svidrigailov. He may be considered a villan in the novel, but all the same is vital to the development of Raskolnikov's story. He becomes a better person with the death of his wife, and shows many good deeds. He is rough on the outside, but has generous attitude on this inside. He has his own thoughts and opinions that prove to be Dostoyevsky's more in depth analysis of the hardships that Russia is going through during the time period. An example of this is shown when Svidrigailov explains his vision of the enternity that you encounter after death. He explains it as " a single little room-a bathhouse in one of our backwater villages [..] sooty, spiders in all corners-and that's all there is to eternity."(Part4;Ch1;p277). I see this as an allusion to the condition that Russia is in during that time frame. Svidrigailov's bluntness is exatly what the book is in need of it.
All of the character's in Crime and Punishment were purposely added by Dostoyvesky to show the troubled times in Russia's past. They help make allusions to the proverty that Russia is stricken with.
KMART:)
Crime and Punishment is told mostly by Raskolnikov. This allows the reader to feel the emotions that he is feeling due to his crime. The reader gets the sense of insanity that he starts to feel progressively throughout the book. You can draw the conclusion that he feels isolated from society, and starts to realize that he isn't above moral law from his words. For example
"he would not have been able to address a single human word to them, so
abruptly had his feelings been drained. He suddenly felt within himself a
gloomy sensation of tormented, infinite solitude and estrangement."(Part2;Ch1;p98)
You wouldn't be able to understand the emotions that are overcoming Raskolnikov if he wasn't narrating the book.
Aside from Raskolnikov, there are other important secondary characters in Crime and Punishment. First, Sonya plays a key role in the development of Raskolnikov's story. Her character is parallel to that of Raskolnikov's. This is evident through the fact that they both show sin in their actions. Sonya prostitutes herself out for money, and Raskolnikov murders two innocent women for money. Raskolnikov relates to Sonya and her situation, but does not let himself reconize that there is a key difference in their sins. Sonya's sin is a sacrafice for the sake of supporting her family, and Raskolnikov sins only for his own sake. Sonya is an important secondary character because she is a way for Dostoyevsky to show proverty, importance of faith in family and religion, and the poor treatment of women in the time frame this book is set in.
Another important secondary character in this novel is Svidrigailov. He may be considered a villan in the novel, but all the same is vital to the development of Raskolnikov's story. He becomes a better person with the death of his wife, and shows many good deeds. He is rough on the outside, but has generous attitude on this inside. He has his own thoughts and opinions that prove to be Dostoyevsky's more in depth analysis of the hardships that Russia is going through during the time period. An example of this is shown when Svidrigailov explains his vision of the enternity that you encounter after death. He explains it as " a single little room-a bathhouse in one of our backwater villages [..] sooty, spiders in all corners-and that's all there is to eternity."(Part4;Ch1;p277). I see this as an allusion to the condition that Russia is in during that time frame. Svidrigailov's bluntness is exatly what the book is in need of it.
All of the character's in Crime and Punishment were purposely added by Dostoyvesky to show the troubled times in Russia's past. They help make allusions to the proverty that Russia is stricken with.
KMART:)
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