The young man, Raskolnikov, is a poor student who has to sneak out of his house to avoid his landlady, whom he owes a long-overdue rent. He walks the streets of the city in tattered clothes, although he feels no shame, holding little regard for the destitute people who inhabit the neighborhood of St. Petersburg he is traversing. He visits the home of an old woman, a miserly pawnbroker with a reputation for cruelty called Alyona Ivanova, with the seeming intention of pawning his watch.
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Punishment and Crime
Punishment and Crime
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The book then concludes with an epilogue that takes place in a prison in Siberia, eighteen months after the day of the murder and nine months after Rodion Raskolnikov had been confined in the prison. Raskolnikov had received a lighter than usual sentence of just 8 years because of the circumstances of his confession-having confessed even though another had confessed to the murder-, as well as numerous witnesses testifying to his numerous acts of charity, mental instability as well as the fact that he had not spent any of the money. We learn that Dunya and Razumikhin are married and that Sonya had moved to Siberia to be close to Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov gradually moves from being sullen and distant as well as being antagonistic to Sonya to eventually realize the error of his theories and appreciating Sonya’s importance to his life.
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- 1Punishment and crime begins from the point of view of a young man living in squalid conditions at a St. Petersburg boarding house.2 years ago