Literary analysis of the novel crime and punishment
In 1866 the great author Fiodor Mikhailovich Dostoievski, born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, wrote a very important novel. A classic of Russian and canon literature of universal literature entitled Crime and Punishment. In this essay we will deal with the role of women in the novel and verify that the two main women of the novel crime and punishment were sacrificed for the love they had to their family;But not only that, that also a feeling of guilt and consequently a punishment. All this will be affirmed in the cases of Sonia and Dunia (the main women’s papers in the novel). It is worth mentioning that the feeling of guilt and punishment will be specifically expressed in the role of Sonia, not in Dunia’s. Although there will be sacrifice for love between both characters.
Crime and punishment recounts the story of Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former law student who lived under despair due to his economic problems. For this reason, Raskolnikov decides to kill an old usurer, to take an economic benefit from this woman considered a parasite for society. After crime we can see how Raskolnikov must face guilt, his punishment and redemption.
In the mid -nineteenth century the Russian society was in crisis. Poverty, ideologies and industrial growth were part of Russia in those years. The women of that time lived under the imposition of roles very determined by society, which were restricted to the care of the family and the education of the children, so that they lived submissive, without voice. There was also a conception of the time: the woman embodies an ideal, but does so in extent that she renounces her own interest to pursue only that of her family. A conception that implies at the same time, the exalting of women to a very high ideal plane, whose origin is probably to seek himself in cult, and the denial that he can live his own life in the same way that a man could do it. In crime and punishment and properly in this essay we will observe that Dostoevski used this concept of the time in his novel.
First, we will talk about the sacrifices. What are the sacrifices? Sacrifices are an act of self-inspired by the vehemence of love. (Royal Spanish Academy). So you can observe the relationship that this has with love. Love in the novel is reflected in different ways, whether love or family love, but by the end of this essay we will focus on the love of the family and which is totally reflected in the Papers of Sonia and Dunia.
As a basis to find a clear relationship between love and the sacrifices present in the novel by women, we will resume the role of Dunia. Dunia is the older sister of the main character of the novel, Raskolnikov. Dunia is presented to us as a simple girl, with principles, poor, polite and like Sonia capable of sacrificing for her family.
What was your sacrifice? The sacrifice that Dunia was willing to do for her family and especially for love, was to marry Piotróróróróróvich Luzhin, in order to help her brother with her economic problems. Luzhin, he was a very rich man, who does not love, unable to make her happy, who wanted to marry a woman of principles, well educated and that was faithful, but above all that he knew poverty, because “the husband should not beforced by nothing to her wife, being much better than the woman considers her husband as her protector ". This perspective is because the woman with whom he married should be mainly poor to consider him as a savior, a hero who had taken her out of misery and clearly Dunia was a woman who had all the characteristics, howeverI didn’t love him.
The next phrase refers to the moment when Pulketeria, mother of Rodia and Dunia, sends him to Raskolnikov a letter to tell him about the next wedding: “By divine will everything seems to have suddenly taken a favorable look and so you know how much he loves youDunia and what a heart of gold has ". So we can clearly observe how Pulke.
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