Wendell
Pfeffer
Reaction: Crime and Punishment Chapter 4
part I, II and III
The
book Crime and Punishment is getting
better and better. I do see the connection between Crime and Punishment and Notes
from Underground clearly. But it still astounds me why a monotonous boring
short story would ever inspire him to create such a fantastic, entertaining and
suspenseful novel. Right off the bat though as I began to read Notes from Underground I knew that his
explanation on consciousness relates directly back to Raskolnikov because he is
a man of little consciousness. What I
mean from that is Raskolnikov is a type of man that decides to take vengeance
if he thinks it is for the good of society. The incident that I am bringing
into this is when he murdered the pawnbroker woman. He thought it was okay to
kill her because she wasn’t helping out society. Raskolnikov thought that she
was actually in turn hurting it and thus needed to be killed. Now that he has
done the job and killed her he keeps obsessing over every single little detail
of what happened during the murder, which has brought him to suffer from his
remorse and fear of getting caught.
Aside
from the correlation between the two novels these last three chapters have been
quite exciting. There still seems to be a great deal of debate between Luzhins
and Dunyas marriage. Not only does Raskolnikov think that they aren’t a good
match, but Svidrigailov thinks the same as well. Svidrigailov does not want the
marriage to happen and wants Dunya to marry him instead. He came to Raskolnikov
for help. I think he is absolutely insane because what kind of man asks to
marry someone else right when his wife dies. This makes me think that he killed
his previous wife and he doesn’t even have that much money, which makes Luzhin
a better husband than him. I also don’t even like Luzhin, he thinks he owns
Dunya and her family. I’m glad that he revealed his true colors at the meeting
because not only did it save Dunya from a terrible marriage, but it actually
showed her and her family how much of a bad person he is. Raskolnikov though is
in big trouble and if it weren’t him from acting so blatanly suspicious in
front of everyone especially infront of Porfiry when they had their
conversation he probably would have gotten away with the murder. Razumkhin now
knows he committed the murder but what will he do. Will he obstruct justice to
save his friend or will he tell Porfiry so that he can make a quick arrest. He
has to think quickly because Raskolnikov will soon be gone.
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