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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