Crime and Punishment (Parts V, VI, Epilogue)

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Crime and Punishment (Parts V, VI, Epilogue)

•  25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,
  and the life he that believeth in me, though he
  were dead, yet shall he live
•  26And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
  never die. (John 11)

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Raskolnikovs realization

• Three / 6 (325-326)
• The real overlord
• I killed the principle
• Raskolnikovs dream Three / 6 (pp. 328-330)

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Sonya Marmeladova

• Paradox of virtue and vice how can one remain
  chaste and be a prostitute
• Sonya (from Sophia wisdom St Sophia was the
  mother of three daughters Faith, Hope and Love)
• One of a paradigm of prostitutes in the novel
• The path of degradation and destruction
• First description Two/7 (pp. 220-221)

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Raskolnikov and Porfirys three questions

• So you still believe in the New Jerusalem, do
  you. Yes I do.
• And do you believe in God?
• And do you believe in the resurrection of
  Lazarus
• (Three/5, pp. 310-311)

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Raskolnikovs painful Resurrection

• Raskolnikov and Sonya the reading of the Gospel
• Regarding the Resurrection of Lazarus
• (Four/4 pp. 388-91)
• Sonya, like Maria Magdalena, a prostitute
• Go to the crossroads (Five/4 p. 501)

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Raskolnikovs imitation of Christ

• Six/8 (pp. 626-7)
• Jerusalem
• Via dolorosa
• Drain this cup.
• Crossroads

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The epilogue

• Raskolnikovs Dream (Epilogue/2 p. 651-2)
• In his illness he dreamt that the entire world
  had fallen victim to some strange plague.
  Everyone was to perish, apart from a chosen few,
  a very few.

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The Revelation

• Never had they believed so unswervingly in the
  correctness of their judgements, their scientific
  deductions, their moral convictions and beliefs.
  Entire centres of population, entire cities and
  peoples became smitten and went mad. No one
  could agree about what should be considered evil
  and what good.

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• Only a few people in the whole world managed to
  escape they were the pure and chosen, who had
  been predestined to begin a new species of
  mankind and usher in a new life, to renew the
  earth and render it pure

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The New Jerusalem

• Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the
  temple of my God, and he shall go no more out
  and I will write upon him the name of my God, and
  the name of the city of my God, which is new
  Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from
  my God and I will write upon him my new name.

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The Holy City

• And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
  coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a
  bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21.2)
• (Epilogue/2 p. 652)

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Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov

• Parallel to Raskolnikov resurrection or suicide.
• We are privy to the dreams only of Raskolnikov
  and Svidrigailov
• From St Petersburg returns to Babylon
• Description Three/4 (p. 290)
• Responsible for the death of his wife, Martha
  Petrovna

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Svidrigailov

• Intends to marry a sixteen-year old girlSix/4
  (571-73)

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The Sistine Madonna vs the Icon
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Svidrigailov and Dunya

• You poisoned your wife, I know that now, you
  yourself are a murderer. (Six/5, p. 590)
• She flings the revolver aside.
• So you dont love me?
• There ensued a moment of terrible, dumb conflict
  within Svidrigailovs soul. (592)

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Svidrigailovs Dreams(Six/6, pp. 603-5))

• The mouse dream
• The drowned girl dream

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Svidrigailovs suicide

• S chooses suicide at the end of Six/6 (p. 611)
• Parallels Raskolnikovs confession at the end of
  Six 8 (pp. 632-3)

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Dmitry Prokofievich Razumikhin

• Razumikhin from razum intelligence
• Vrazumikhin from Russ. Vrazumit to bring to
  senses
• Luzhin misnames him Rassudochkin from rassudok
  (logic, rationality)
• Energetic, hardworking, but not a slave to
  rationalism

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SECONDARY CHARACTERS
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Alyona Ivanovna

• Widow, pawnbroker, plans to leave her wealth to
  monastery
• Sister Lizaveta (pious, always pregnant!)

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Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin

• Possible significance of first name and
  patronymic?
• Luzhin puddle

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

• Later, in confessing the murder to Sonya,
  Raskolnikov claims, "Did I really kill the old
  woman?
• No, it was myself I killed.... And as for the old
  woman, it was the Devil who killed her, not I.
• What does he mean by this? What motive does
  Raskolnikov give for his murder?

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Discussion (cont.)

• Why does he confess to Sonya? Why doesn't the
  confession ease him of his inner torment?

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Discussion (cont.)

• Discuss Raskolnikov's theory of the ordinary
  versus the extraordinary man. Can you think of
  modern-day examples of this theory put into
  practice?