Crime and Punishment
Part 1
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former law student, lives in extreme poverty in a small rented room in
St. Petersburg. Isolated and antisocial, he has abandoned all attempts to support himself and is brooding.
Obsessively on a plan he has devised to murder and rob an elderly moneylender. The next day, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother in
in which he describes the problems of her sister Dunya, who has been working as a governess, with her evil intentions.
employer, Svidrigailov. To escape her vulnerable position and in hopes of helping her.
Brother, Dunya has decided to marry a rich suitor, Luzhin, whom they are going to meet in St. Petersburg.
The details of the letter suggest that Luzhin is a conceived opportunist seeking to take advantage of
Dunya's situation about her. Painfully aware of his own poverty and helplessness, her thoughts about him return to the idea she had of him. TO
A further series of internal and external events seem to conspire to force him to make the resolution of
activate it.
In a state of extreme nervous tension, Raskolnikov steals an ax and goes back to the old man.
woman's apartment
Part 2
In a feverish and semi-delirious state, Raskolnikov hides the stolen items and falls asleep exhausted. He
He is very alarmed the next morning when he is summoned to the police station, but it turns out that he is in
connection with a debt notice from his landlady. Still feverish, Raskolnikov nervously listens to a conversation between Razumikhin and the doctor.
about the state of the police investigation into the murders: a peasant named Mikolka, who worked in
at that time a neighboring apartment, and he is interrogating the old woman's clients.
They are interrupted by the arrival of Luzhin, Dunya's fiancé, who wishes to introduce himself, but
Raskolnikov deliberately insults him and throws him out. He meets police officer Zamyotov, who was present when he fainted in the
office and openly mocks the young man's unspoken suspicions. He rushes to help and manages to take the stricken man back to his family's apartment.
Marmeladov asks Sonya to forgive him and dies in the arms of her daughter. Raskolnikov of his last
twenty-five were taken (from the money his mother sent her) to Marmeladov's consumptive widow, Katerina
Ivanovna, saying that it is the payment of a debt owed to her friend.
Feeling refreshed, Raskolnikov calls Razumikhin and they return to Raskolnikov's building together.
Upon entering his room, Raskolnikov is deeply shocked to see his mother and his sister sitting on the couch.
