- How does the city serve simultaneously as a symbol of society and of Raskolnikov's state of mind?
- What impact do the descriptions of the various apartments--including those of Raskolnikov, Alyona, Sonya, Luzhin, and Dunya and Pulcheria Alexandrovna--have on our understanding of the characters who inhabit them and the events that take place within them?
- What effect does having the murder occur at the very beginning of the novel have on the structure of the novel?
- How should the reader reconcile Svidrigailov's charitable gestures at the end of the novel with his violent confrontation of Dunya during the same time frame, and does his eventual suicide affect the response?
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
IB Lit: Transgression and Redemption Final
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