Crime and Punishment
“…the buzzing and struggling of some large fly as it swooped and beat against the windowpane.” (Crime and Punishment, pg. 332)In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov consciously avoids truth and clarity of mind as he clings to his theory of the ordinary and extra-ordinary people, believing himself to be of the latter kind. He spends most of his time inside buildings in small rooms, thus avoiding to meet and talk to other people outside his petite world. Raskolnikov often evades looking through or at windows. However, often during conversations he instinctively walks towards windows while thinking about something else. This shows that his inside wants to be free and knows the truth about his place among others, while the conscious part of his mind is not able to comprehend that until the very end. His mind is like a “fly as it … [beats] against [a] windowpane” (pg. 332) longing to join the world out there, but not understanding this desire rationally yet. Marmeladov’s room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [are] closed, in spite of the stifling heat” (pg 114) the day he commits the crim
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Approximate Word count = 842
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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