Throughout, my blogs I have discussed Rakolinkov confliction over admitting the truth of what he did. By using the methods of form, intertexual codes, and examining character I was able to analyze how everything ties itself together. In the end of the last blog the audience witnesses Raskolinkov being arrested after he reveals the truth: He killed the old women and her sister. After the conclusion of part six of Crime and punishment the epilogue concludes the story. The author through his unique and startling language is addressing the audience. He addresses the audience by telling us what has become of Raskolnikov
In the prison there is a penal exile of the second category, Rodion Raskolikov. Since the day he commited his crime almost one and a half years have passed. p. 637 |
The author is letting us known how much time has passed since Raskolinkov has been committed. Through this passage the audience can infer that even though he committed a hazardous crime he hasn’t been put to death. There is also the fact that Russia has different ways of dealing with criminals. There are also other factors that led Raskolinkov to murder then the normal means.
The sentence, however, turned out to be more lenient than might have been supposed, given the crime that had been committed, and this may have been for the reason that not only did the criminal make no attempt to justify himself-he seemed even to display a wish to incriminate himself further. p.638 |
What the narrator wants the audience to believe is that Raskolinkov didn’t murder under the normal intentions. He murdered for the purpose of taking away someone who did nothing, but create unpleasantness under all who the old women interacted with. The case was complicated because unlike most criminals he made no attempt to defend himself which caused confusion and anger among all who supported him. This led his case to be investigated by other people who had known Raskolnikov either he was sane or mental.
In short, the upshot was that the criminal was sentenced to penal servitude of the second category for a period of only eight years in all, in recognition of his having turned himself in and in view of certain circumstances that had reduced his guilt. p.640 |
I think the narrator is trying confince us the auience that even though Raskolinkov did a crime he is someone who did a lot of great deads. I think that the narrator wants the audience to accept the fact that Raskolinkov is in fact innocent and we should be focusing more on Raskolinkov's situation in prison. While the trial begin his motrher became very Ill and his sister Dunya and Razumikhin rushed her out of the contry. They also made the dissuiion that they woldn't tell their mother the truth about what Raskolinkov had done. There wasn't any need however, because she never once asked about what had happeened. I believe that Pulkheria Aleksandrovna knew what really had happened and had saved her grief by not asking what had happened. This is what i believed what led his mother to die. She couldn't deal over the fact that her son had gone to prison and it slowly ate away at her soul and killed her.
In the end Sonya became the corapodent at contacted with Raskolinkov in prsion. It was because of her that he held onto his connection between her sister and himself. He was able to learn that Dunya and Razumkhin had moved to Siberia to lay low for awile and decided to get married. Once estab lished in Siberia his friend became a teacher at the school there. The letters kept coming telling him all that he was missing and revealing tht Raskolinkov was in an ill state of mind. She did tell his sister that she had made many contacts through the prsion. Sonya became well known in the prison sending letters back and forth between the other people in the prsion.
One day Sonya's letters stopped Raskolikov becomes nervous even frantic asking about her. The audience is made to believe that she could die. It is even truly possible because many charaters his mother, Sonya's father, ect have gone through sufferage and then end misserable. Thankfully, that isn't the case because Sonya revels herself sitting next to him and smiling. It is at this moment that Raskolinkov has fallen in love with her and will do everything he can to do a good thing in the world to make amends. He is both telling the end of the story we all being waiting for, but also setting up the future. This could have made a sequal, but it didn't happen, so as the audience we are left to crate our own stories.
Crime and Punishment affected me a reader. The book had deep and complicated language of not b eing simple of revealing how to reveal plot, and charater. At times the book went over my head when Raskolinkov was over thinking things. I believe this is because of my limited exsposure to complex texts. This book has taught me stuctures of how to indirectly reveal information. These processes will help me to develop as a writer.