Crime+and+Punishment



FINAL HOMEWORK: The Epilogue: Love it? Hate it? Steven Cassedy from the University of California started an article with this opening: "One issue which has continued to capture the attention of readers of "Crime and Punishment" is the problematic nature of the Epilogue. Every Dostoevsky critic worth his salt, it seems, in discussing the structure and organization of this novel, has felt called upon either to condemn the novel's final pages as superfluous, anti-climactic, unworthy of the rest of the work, or to rush to the defense of the Epilogue, offering various ingenious schemes which conclusively prove its inevitability and necessity. "

What side do you come down on? Do you condemn it or defend it? Explain your answer and use the text to offer support. One page.

**C R I M E and P U N I S H M E N T ** “Why does my action strike them as so horrible?” he said to himself. “Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? … Well, punish me for the letter of the law … and that’s enough. Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps. But those men succeeded and so they were right, and I didn’t, and so I had no right to have taken that step.” **- Raskolnikov **



[|Fyodor] [|Dostoevsky]

[|Character List (from Middlebury College)]

**Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov** The main character who is alternately called Rodya, Rodenka, and Rodka. **Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov** Rodya's sister, alternately called Dounia. **Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov** Rodya's mother. **Semyon Zakharovitch Marmeladov** A drunkard who figures prominently in a bar conversation with Raskolnikov. **Katerina Ivanovna** The wife of Marmeladov. **Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov** Marmeladov's daughter and devoted step-daughter of Katerina Ivanovna, who prostitutes herself and later falls in love with Raskolnikov. Also called Sonia. **Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigaïlov** Dounia's former employer who arrives in St. Petersburg. **Marfa Petrovna** Svidrigaïlov's wife who dies and leaves Dounia a bundle of needed money. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin** A rich man who thinks he can buy happiness for Dounia, his love. His name, comically, means "puddle." <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Dimitri Prokofitch Razhumikin** Raskolnikov's best friend and guardian of Dounia. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Andrei Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov** A tenant in the same building as the Marmeladovs and a liberal. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Porfiry Petrovich** The overseeing police officer on Raskolnikov's case. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Alyona Ivanovna** The moneylender who Raskolnikov murders. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Lizaveta Ivanovna** The simple-minded sister of Alyona and a friend of Sonya. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Praskovya Pavlovna** Raskolnikov's complaining landlady who is owed back-rent. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Nastasya** Praskovya's servant and a friend of Raskolnikov. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Amalia Fyodorovna** The Marmeladov's landlady who causes a big scandalous fight at a dinner party. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Kapernaumov** Sonia's landlady. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Zossimov** A friend of Razhumikin and a doctor who cared for Raskolnikov. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Nikodim Fomitch** Chief of the police. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Zametov** A clerk in the police station and a fiend of Razhumikin. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Ilya Petrovitch** A police official. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Nikolay and Dimitri** The painters, one of whom admits to the crime. =Mr. Gillespie’s Guide to Russian pronunciation= **Doo-nee-ya** **Marm-a-LED-off** **Nas-taz-ya** **Por-feery Pet-TROV-itch** **Zam-YET-off** **Zoss-SEE-moff** **Luzge-in (rhymes with illusion)** **Ruzu-MEE-kin** **Svid-dree-GAY-loff** **Lebey-ZJET-nik-off**

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