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Crime and Punishment, Part IV Raskolnikov & Svidrigailov I (Ch. 1) Raskolnikov & Sonia I (Ch. 4) Raskolnikov & Porfiry II (Ch. 5-6)

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1 Crime and Punishment, Part IV Raskolnikov & Svidrigailov I (Ch. 1) Raskolnikov & Sonia I (Ch. 4) Raskolnikov & Porfiry II (Ch. 5-6)

2 Ch. 2-3 PulcheriaLuzhinRazumihinRaskolnikovDounia 8:00 meeting Relationships/Seating arrangement (Luzhin ostracized) Luzhin vs. Rask on: 1. Dounia 2. Sonia (302) Luzhin is rejected (pride, vanity, money, power – 304, 305, 306) Razumihin’s new plan? Rask & Raz in dark corridor (312)

3 Raskolnikov (Ego) Svidrigailov (?) Sonia (?) Porfiry (?)

4 RASKOLNIKOV vs. SVIDRIGAILOV (I) Nefarious details re: background Beats Marfa Petrovna (281) (sadist?) Debt, Prison Desire to thwart marriage b/t Dounia & Luzhin … Why? Luzhin: “criminal charge … fantastic and homicidal brutality … Resslich … mysterious relations … a niece … a deaf and dumb girl of fifteen … suicide … cruelly outraged …” (297) Servant Filka/Philip - suicide Ghosts? Is laughing pawnbroker a “ghost”? Eternity: “one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner” (288)

5 RASKOLNIKOV vs. SONIA (I) Sonia’s child-like love, compassion (for Katerina, children) vs. Rask’s cruelty Madness? Depravity? (“God”) (322) Connection b/t Sonia & Lizaveta New Testament – story of Lazarus, doubters (326-7) FOUR? (Part IV, Ch. 4) “Murderer and harlot …. Have transgressed … have had the strength to transgress” (328) Rask’s farewell message: “Freedom and power” (329) Ominous ending to scene?

6 RASKOLNIKOV vs. PORFIRY (II) (“Fear and Loathing in Petersburg”) Raskolnikov on the offensive (332, 333), Porfiry’s “knockdown blow” (342, 345) In between? “empty phrases…a few enigmatic words…incoherence” (336) pp. 337-338: Porfiry’s theory re: criminal psychology What Porfiry knows: fainting, meeting w/ Zametov, flat/blood … “surprise”? Case of “morbid psychology” (false confession) (343) – Irony?? “strange incident” = the REAL surprise, to both Porfiry & Raskolnikov! Apology, followed by Rask’s confidence: “Now we’ll make a fight for it …His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his ‘cowardice’” (356) Q.If Porfiry knows for sure, why doesn’t he turn Raskolnikov in?? AGENT OF REDEMPTION!


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