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Crime And Punishment - School Essays

Crime And Punishment

“…the buzzing and struggling of some large fly as it swooped and beat against the windowpane.” (, pg. 332)
In the novel by Fydor Dostoevsky the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov consciously avoids truth and clarity of mind as he clings to his theory of the ordinary and extra-ordinary people, believing himself to be of the latter kind. He spends most of his time inside buildings in small rooms, thus avoiding to meet and talk to other people outside his petite world. Raskolnikov often evades looking through or at windows. However, often during conversations he instinctively walks towards windows while thinking about something else. This shows that his inside wants to be free and ...

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crime. In the former place he leaves money on the windowsill, while in the latter he takes money away. In both cases, however, the rooms are hot, and a feeling of an uncomfortable and unfriendly place is drawn in the reader's mind. Neither Raskolnikov's narrow room, Sonya's cheap apartment or Profiry's office, where the latter hints at the airlessness of the room and asks whether he shall “open a window” (pg. 404), seem very inviting either. However, these are the places where Raskolnikov spends most of his time talking to people. Later though, he himself observes, "…low ceilings and cramped rooms cramp the soul and mind…"(pg. 495) showing that he has started to understand his condition of suppression of his instincts and needs.
This also comes out when he, unconsciously, almost instinctively, walks to windows repeatedly while he is thinking of what to say. At Sonya's he walks "over to the window" (pg. 381) and comes "back after a moment or two" (pg. 381) having the changed the ...

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