Crime And Punishment: Protagonist And Antagonist Essay
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Crime and Punishment is considered by many to be the first of Fyodor
Dostoevsky's great books. Crime and Punishment is a psychological account of a
crime. The crime is double murder. A book about such a broad subject can be
made powerful and appealing to our intellectual interests if there is ....
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.... in the novel. We are introduced
to this complex character in Part 1. We get to know the poverty stricken
condition that he resides in, and we get to know his family situation as we read
the long letter from Raskolnikov's mother. Then we witness the murder as it is
graphically described by Doestoevsky. After reading this graphic description of
the murder, how can the reader be sympathetic towards Raskolnikov? How can the
reader believe that a murderer is the protagonist? It is, in fact ....
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