He had never experienced such a strange and awful sensation. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. Crime and punishment is a novel by fyodor dostoevsky that was first published in 1866. Crime and punishment study guide contains a biography of fyodor dostoevsky, literature essays, a complete etext, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Crime and punishment quizzes about important details and events in every section of the book. At the beginning of part ii, less than a day after the crime is committed, raskolnikovs punishment begins to unfold. Book summary raskolnikov, an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an extraordinary young man and then formulates a theory whereby the extraordinary men of the world have a right to commit any crime if they have something of worth to offer humanity. Summary after the murder, raskolnikov collapses into a deep sleep.
He becomes paranoid, worried that his senses will betray him and that he will forget some crucial detail in disposing of the stolen goods or overlook a spot of blood on his clothes. Immediately after the crime, he becomes ill and lies in his room semiconscious for several days. Crime and punishment quiz that tests what you know about important details and events in the book. Book summary to prove his theory, he murders an old, despicable pawnbroker and her halfsister who happened to come upon him suddenly. The narrator closes the novel by stating that this mans renewal is the matter of another story. Sparknotes is here for you with everything you need to ace or teach. Spark notes crime and punishment aids readers in two ways. And what was most agonizing was that it was more a sensation than a conception or idea, a direct sensation, the most agonizing of all the sensations he had known in his life. See a complete list of the characters in crime and punishment and indepth analyses of raskolnikov, sonya, dunya, and svidrigailov. First, he has long wanted to meet him, and second, he wants help in obtaining an interview with dunya. Svidrigailov announces that he has come to see raskolnikov for two reasons. As he himself notes, his punishment is to suffer emotionally and, though he would hesitate to use the word, spiritually. Razumikhin claims that numerous witnesses attest to seeing the painters fighting in the buildings courtyard this is the same squabble drawing the painters out of the apartment, allowing raskolnikov to enter and hide. Whereas part i of crime and punishment was devoted to the crime, the remaining six parts of the novel are concerned with the punishment.
Heres where youll find analysis about the book as a whole. As he himself notes, his punishment is to suffer emotionally and, though he would. When he recovers, he hurries home thinking that the police suspect him of the murder. Crime and punishment thug notes summary and analysis. Razumikhin argues that their playful fighting is not in keeping with the horrible nature of the murder, which would have occurred just previously. Classic literature, original gangster s1 e1 crime and punishment thug notes summary and analysis duration. His name is raskolnikov, and hes thinking of doing something really, really bad.