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only father seen in the novel, Marmeladov, is a drunkard and is portrayed as a “dead-beat” dad, who only drank and did not tend to his family’s need, but instead added to their misfortunes. Alcoholism is a massive problem that is mentioned in the book among numerous characters; consequently, shuns it for this reason. He abhorred alcoholics, especially alcoholic fathers.
Rodion imprisoned in the novel is the replica of in reality. After his successful release of his first novel Poor Folk in 1846 at age twenty-eight, he was arrested on account of publishing illegal articles of rebellion against Czar Nicholas I advocating changes in Russian society in 1849. Another parallel is seen as the person with power is to be thrown out of their rank by the mild mannered citizen i.e. Rodya and the Pawnbroker, and Czar Nicholas I. When the was waiting to be executed by the Czar's firing squad, a royal messenger dramatically announced a reprieve. ’s life was spared. ...

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light sentences, on of ten years and the other eight. This imprisonment of the brilliant, yet emotionally unstable author leads him to believe “that in order for punishment to work, it had to make the criminal accept his own guilt. His ideas about rehabilitating criminals were far ahead of the accepted attitudes of his time.” There are other experiences in Dostoevsky's life that are important to understand exactly what he admires and abhors in human personalities. At the age of seventeen he left home to study engineering in a military school, Leningrad, in St. Petersburg. He was miserable there, because he was really more interested in literature, than in what he was ...

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