Crime and Punishment, the name itself is very laconic and succinctly conveys the meaning of the novel. From one name, one can understand that first comes crime and then punishment. There are many Raskolnikov, and he thinks about the crime for a long time, and does not think about punishment. He thinks through the crime to the details, in his plan everything is perfect, he is capable of committing this crime and more than one suspicion will not fall on him.
Rodion chooses the time well, everything goes according to his plan, and develops in an ideal way, he is sure that there is not one weak point in his plan, but he is mistaken, there is one unplanned part in his plan, the return of the old woman's sister Lizaveta. He is completely unplanned to kill her. From the moment Lizaveta hit, punishment begins for Raskolnikov, he does not regret that he killed the Old Woman, on the contrary, he believes that by killing her he freed the world from bad person... He often resorts to his theory in order to justify himself. At first, the schismatics are punished in the form of mental anguish, he torments himself, his thoughts are filled with self-gnawing and self-burning. Experiencing and tormenting himself, his thoughts flow into something more than somovina, but into thoughts about the strata of society. These thoughts have visited him more than once before, but now, feeling all this on their own skin. Thinking differently. Who is he? "Trembling creature or having rights." In rather Raskolnikov, unable to withstand the mental anguish, the instructions of Sonya, he confesses. And then comes his second part of the "punishment", he gets to Ostrog. To hard labor, to Siberia. But that doesn't seem like a big problem to him. His soul had already changed beyond recognition by that time. For bodily not good, he does not care. But he did not only harm himself by confessing, but initially committing this crime. He doomed to "punishment" not only himself, but also all his relatives and friends. Sonya leaves with him to Siberia, where she sacrifices herself, her life, for the sake of Rodion. Mom dies from worries about her son. Having committed a crime, Raskolnikov receives a punishment and it is very difficult to say what this punishment is. A soul beaten with grief and self-destruction, a body worn out by work, or loved ones suffering from this crime. And it would seem, according to Raskolnikov's logic, he is doing a good deed, freeing the world from the old woman-pawnbroker, whose existence, according to Raskolnikov, burdens the lives of other people. According to his logic, having committed this crime, he, as a person who wanted to refer himself to “ Higher people”, Had to commit and turn away, not a bit hesitating about the perfect, but he is also worried. Raskolnikov, bringing his thoughts to the end, realizes that he is a "trembling creature", that he belongs to the majority, there is no spark in him that was in the same Napoleon. He's not disappointed in himself because of the crime. And due to the fact that he did not live up to his expectations. And perhaps this is the strongest of punishments for him.
1. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
2. "Crime and Punishment"
3. For grade 10
4. Psychological, criminal, philosophical novel.
5. The book was written in 1866. It was a difficult time that could turn into something more, for example, there was a financial crisis in England. In Russia, this is the formation of various political circles. An attempt by D.V. Karakozov to commit the assassination of Emperor Alexander II in the Summer Garden. A law was passed on the reform of the state peasants. They used the lands that were in their use.
6. The novel takes place in the sixties of the nineteenth century. On the throne is Emperor Alexander II. Events are unfolding in St. Petersburg.
Rodion Raskolnikov - the main character romana, an ordinary student Law University, who decided to test his theory in practice.
He falls in love with Sonya Marmeladova, who big influence on the life of Raskolnikov.
Sonya Marmeladova is the heroine of the novel, who makes her living with her body in order to feed her family. Falls in love with Rodion Raskolnikov.
Semyon Marmeladov is the father of the Marmeladov family, who lost his job and now drinks all the money Sonya earned.
Dunya Raskolnikova is Rodion's sister. He comes to town to help his brother with money.
Dmitry Razumikhin is Raskolnikov's only friend, also a student. Falls in love with Dunya, later marries her.
There are also other episodic characters in the novel.
Student Raskolnikov is having money problems. Having pledged his things to the old woman-pawnbroker, he decides to kill her and help other people who suffer from this old woman, as well as to test his theory in practice: who he is "a trembling creature" or "having the right". Having killed Alena Ivanovna, Rodion becomes the murderer of the innocent Lizaveta, the sister of the pawnbroker. He gets sick. Having met Semyon Marmeladov, he comes to his family's house and gives him his money. Raskolnikov is tormented, even going to confess everything. He alienates himself from his family, but becomes close to Sonya. She reads him an episode from the Bible, which helped the hero to embark on the path of spiritual resurrection. The hero confesses everything to the police. He is sent to a convict prison in Siberia, Sonya goes with him.
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1. Vague thoughts of Raskolnikov.
2. His acquaintance with Marmeladov.
3. A letter from home, from which the hero learns that his sister Dunya has been slandered by Svidrigailov and that Luzhin wants to marry her.
4. Raskolnikov's dream, in which the idea of \u200b\u200bmurder is clearly presented.
5. Raskolnikov kills an old money-lender and her sister.
6. Nervous disease Rodion after the deed.
7. Acquaintance of Raskolnikov with Luzhin.
8. Death of Marmelalov. Raskolnikov meets Sonya.
9. Arrival of Raskolnikov's sister and mother.
10. Raskolnikov's friend Razumikhin meets Dunya, Raskolnikov's sister.
11. Funeral service for Marmelalov.
12. Raskolnikov talks with the investigator Porfiry Petrovich.
13. Svidrigailov insists on his meeting with Dunya.
14. Meeting of the Raskolnikov family, Razumikhin and Luzhin.
15. Raskolnikov talks about Svidrigailov's intention.
16. Meeting Rodion and Sonya. Their conversation, overheard by Svidrigailov.
17. New meeting with Porfiry and his "surprise".
18. Luzhin behaves unworthily towards Sonya. He's been exposed.
19. Wake for Marmeladov. Katerina Ivanovna and her children were kicked out of the apartment.
20. Raskolnikov realizes that he is a murderer. Sonya's speeches after this confession.
21. Madness of Katerina Ivanovna and her death.
22. Porfiry directly asks Raskolnikov about the murder. He is not recognized.
23. Svidrigailov tells Duna about the overheard conversation between Rodion and Sonya.
24. Suicide of Svidrigailov.
25. Raskolnikov is aware of the need to confess to a crime.
26. Confession of Raskolnikov.
27. The life of Sonya and Rodion in Siberia, where he is serving a sentence in hard labor.
28. Mental and physical torment of Raskolnikov. Hope for revival.
Retelling
Part I
I
The action takes place in 1865. Raskolnikov, a former law student, is "remarkably good-looking," but "he sank down and became obese," he was "crushed by poverty." "His closet was under the very roof of a high five-story building and looked more like a closet than an apartment ... And every time the young man passed by, he felt some painful and cowardly sensation, which he was ashamed of and from which he winced." “Outside, there was a terrible heat, besides stuffiness, crush, everywhere limestone, forests, bricks, dust and that special summer stench, so known to every Petersburger ... A feeling of the deepest disgust flashed for a moment in the delicate features of the young man ... He he himself was aware that his thoughts sometimes got in the way and that he was very weak: the second day, as he had eaten almost nothing. He was so badly dressed that another, even a familiar person, was ashamed to go out into the street in such rags during the day. "
The hero thinks a lot about "a certain matter", the meaning of which is still unclear. He is looking for a way out, not wanting to "accept fate as it is." Raskolnikov decided to make a "test" for the "enterprise", thoughts about which arose a month and a half ago. This is the thought of killing an old woman. "He went deep into himself and retired from everyone that he was afraid even of any meeting", "he stopped his daily affairs and did not want to do it."
He went to the old woman-pawnbroker: “Well, why am I going now? Am I capable of this? " The percent Alena Ivanovna, an old woman "of about sixty, with keen and evil eyes, with a small sharp nose," demands a "pawn", and Raskolnikov will give her a watch and promises to bring another silver cigarette case one of these days. Leaving the old woman, the hero condemns himself for the thought that has long haunted him: “Oh God! How disgusting! .. And could such horror have entered my head? What filth, however, my heart is capable of! The main thing: dirty, filthy, disgusting, disgusting! .. ”In frustrated feelings, he enters the tavern.
II
In the tavern, his attention is drawn to the titular adviser Marmeladov. Judging by the reaction of others, he is a regular at the establishment. He has a swollen, greenish face, reddish eyes, dirty, greasy, red hands with black nails. From the confused and long speech of Marmeladov, the hero learns that he has a wife, Katerina Ivanovna, "an educated and noble woman," her three young children, that she married him out of despair: "You can judge ... to what extent her troubles reached that she, educated and brought up and famous surname, agreed to go for me! But she went! Weeping and sobbing, and wringing my hands - let's go! For there was nowhere to go. " And he drinks every last penny on drink, repents, but cannot do anything with himself. Five weeks ago, I got a job, but again I could not resist, pulled out the last money from the house and hit a binge.
Katerina Ivanovna forced Sonya, Marmeladov's daughter, to “get a yellow ticket” (go to the panel). Now the whole family lives on the money that Sonya brings. Marmeladov is already beyond despair: “After all, it is necessary that every person should be able to go at least somewhere. For there is a time when it is absolutely necessary to go somewhere! .. Do you understand, do you understand, my dear sir, what it means when there is nowhere else to go? Not! You still do not understand this ... "Raskolnikov escorts Marmeladov home. “The little smoky door at the end of the stairs, at the very top, was open. The stub illuminated the poorest room, ten paces long; all of it was visible from the entrance. Everything was scattered in disarray, especially various children's rags ... ”Raskolnikov witnesses a loud family scene. Katerina Ivanovna brings down her anger on Raskolnikov, considering him a friend of her husband. Raskolnikov leaves on the windowsill the little change that was in his pocket for the children.
III
In the morning, after a disturbing sleep, Raskolnikov eats yesterday's dinner brought by cook Nastasya and reads a letter from his mother. From the letter, he learns that his family has gone through the drama. Sister Dunya was slandered in the house of the Svidrigailovs, where she worked as a governess. The hostess Marfa Petrovna found a scene in the garden where her husband declared his love to Duna. After that, misfortunes began, right up to the eviction from the apartment. But Dunya bravely endured all the humiliation and insults. Later, Mr. Svidrigailov confessed to Dunya's innocence. Now, in the person of Marfa Petrovna, the family has acquired a patroness. Under her patronage, the sister began to be invited to lessons. There was also a groom - court counselor Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, “a man of 45 years old, trustworthy and with capital; smart and seems to be kind. " He "decided to take an honest girl, but without a dowry, and certainly one who has already experienced a plight." Luzhin believes that "a husband should not owe anything to his wife, and it is much better if the wife considers her husband for her benefactor." Luzhin is in a hurry with the wedding, as he is going to move to St. Petersburg and open a public law office there. Mother, Pulcheria Raskolnikova, hopes that this will help Rodion to make a career. At the end of the letter, the mother says that she and Dunya are soon going to go to Petersburg. The letter touched Raskolnikov and awakened a lot of feelings from compassion to hatred. He could no longer stay in the closet and ran out into the street.
Raskolnikov has long been impressed by the letter. The main idea that revolves in his head is not to marry Dounia with Luzhin. He is also outraged by the position of his relatives, who are ready to intermarry with a calculating and cruel businessman in order to get out of poverty and, most importantly, help him. And especially - the cynical position of Luzhin, who considers it beneficial to marry an educated girl from a poor family. The fate of a sister who does not marry for love is no better than the fate of Sonechka Marmeladova, who sells herself for money, Raskolnikov believes. But he remembers that he is a poor student, a loser, and that he has nothing to oppose to the capital of Mr. Luzhin. Suicidal thoughts occur to him. But the old idea again obscures everything.
V
First, he decides to go to Razumikhin, a university friend from whom you can always borrow money, but then abandons the intention. Having spent the last thirty kopecks on a glass of vodka and a piece of pie, he falls asleep in the bushes on Vasilievsky Island, exhausted by his thoughts. Raskolnikov has a terrible dream. He sees himself as a seven-year-old child. He walks with his father past a pub known for its drunken orgies. There is a cart at the porch, but it is not draft horses that are harnessed to it, but a skinny peasant nag. Drunk men come out of the tavern, one of whom, Mikolka, invites everyone to sit in the sleigh. Ridicule is heard. Mikolka beats the poor nag, which, due to the weight, cannot move from its place. And the more helpless the horse is, the more the owner grows into a rage - "whip to death!" The rest are connected to the beating. Nag suffers, Mikola finishes her with an ax. The father wants to take the child away, but the boy rushes to the dead horse and kisses it, then jumps up and throws himself with his fists at the healthy man. Raskolnikov wakes up: the secret of a long-cherished murder plan has been revealed. The dream had such an effect on him that in horror he abandons his original idea: “Can it really be, can I really take an ax, start hitting on the head ... No, I can’t bear it! Let, even if there is no doubt in all these calculations, be it all that is decided in this month, as clear as day, as fair as arithmetic. Lord! After all, I still won't make up my mind! "
Walking along Sennaya Square, at the bazaar, he meets the sister of an old woman-pawnbroker Lizaveta. The merchants persuade her to decide on some kind of deal secretly from her sister. From the conversation, he accidentally learns that tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening the old woman will remain at home alone, and feels “that he no longer has freedom of reason or will” and “everything is finally decided”.
VI
“The last day, which so accidentally came and decided everything at once, had an almost mechanical effect on him: as if someone took him by the hand and pulled him behind him, irresistibly, blindly, with unnatural strength, without objection. As if he had hit a piece of clothing in the wheel of a car, and it began to be pulled into it. " Raskolnikov recalls how the idea of \u200b\u200bkilling the old woman was born. He learned the address from a conversation overheard in a tavern with one of the students. He told his friend about a small and spiteful old woman-pawnbroker, from whom you can always get hold of money. She has a half-sister, a healthy and strong maiden Lizaveta, who is in complete submission to a frail old woman. The student considered it unfair that an old woman who was harmful, suspicious, and did not bring any benefit to society possessed innumerable wealth. “Kill her and take the money so that with their help you can devote yourself to the service of all mankind ... Do you think that one tiny criminal will not be eradicated by a thousand good deeds? In one life - thousands of lives saved from decay and decay. One death and one hundred lives in return - why, here is arithmetic! And what does the life of this consumptive, stupid and evil old woman mean on the general scale? No more than the life of a louse, a cockroach, and even that is not worth it, because the old woman is harmful. She's eating someone else's life. "
Raskolnikov catches himself thinking that this is close to his views. He spends the rest of the day and the next day delirious. He prepares the braid for the ax and sews it to the left sleeve of his coat, pulls out a hidden pawn from under the floor. Then he hears that the time is seven o'clock. Without incident, he managed to take an ax from the janitor's room and went to Alena Ivanovna's house.
Vii
Raskolnikov behaves nervously, and this mood is transmitted to the old woman. She doesn't trust him. Raskolnikov hands her a mortgage - a silver cigarette case. She turns to the window to get a better look at the thing. At this moment, Raskolnikov "took out the ax ... swung it with both hands, barely feeling himself ... almost mechanically lowered his butt on his head." He removes the keys from the dead and goes to her room. There, in a hurry, he puts parcels of mortgages in his pockets. And then a light noise catches his attention. Running out, he sees Lizaveta, who is bent over the murdered old woman. He is confused by the unexpected turn of events. Raskolnikov also kills her. He remembers her defenseless, childish eyes. Finally, he takes control of himself, washes his hands, an ax, examines himself and is about to leave. Then he discovers that the door was open, and immediately hears footsteps on the stairs. He manages to throw the lock on the noose. One client came to the old woman, then another. They find it strange that no one is at home and the door is locked. One of them decides to go down for the wipers and asks the other to guard at the door. Without waiting for help, the client leaves.
When Raskolnikov descends the stairs, he hears the departed return. And again he is lucky. He manages to hide in an empty apartment on the floor below.
Part II
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The next day, he slept until three in the afternoon. And only then did he realize that he had not hidden the things he had taken from the old woman. He began to fiddle with them feverishly, rinse off the blood, cut off the fringe stained with blood. There was a knock at the door. Nastasya brought him a summons from the police office. She found him sick and offered him tea. But Raskolnikov refused. He went to the office, thinking on the way about why the quarterly called him. In the office, it turned out that the owner, through the police, was collecting money from him for the apartment. He tries to win over the clerk and the assistant overseer. From him they take a receipt and an obligation to pay. As he leaves, he hears the conversation about yesterday's murder. He faints before reaching the door. They bring him to his senses, decide that he is sick, and let him go home.
II
In Raskolnikov's fevered brain, the thought of a search is spinning. He comes home, puts all his things in his pockets again and goes out into the street. He decides to throw them into the water, but it is crowded everywhere. Finally, on one of the streets between the gate and the adjacent wall, he discovers a cache. There he puts things. On the way back, he catches himself thinking that he did not even ask what was in the wallet and mortgages. "Because of what he took all the torment and went to such a mean, low, disgusting deed?" His legs led him to Razumikhin's house. He was unable to explain the purpose of the visit. I took it german translation, but then came back and put it back. Razumikhin considered him ill. Going out into the street, he almost fell under the wheelchair. The merchant's wife sitting in it takes him for a beggar and gives him a two-kopeck piece. Raskolnikov throws him into the Neva. "It seemed to him that he had cut himself off from everyone and everything with scissors at this moment." At night he is delirious. It seems to him that the assistant warden is beating up the landlady. In the morning with Nastasya, he falls into unconsciousness.
III
Raskolnikov woke up in his apartment a few days later. In the room - Nastasya, Razumikhin, the artel worker who brought him a translation from his mother. Razumikhin informed him that he had vouched for the apartment debt. I also learned that the clerk Zametov, whom he met at the police station, became a frequent visitor to him. He himself volunteered to get to know his friends better. Razumikhin says that he showed an increased interest in his things, helped to look after. After Razumikhin left, Raskolnikov inspects things, a stove, a wall, whether there are any traces of a crime left there. Razumikhin returns with new clothes for a friend.
IV
Zosimov, another friend, a medical student, appears on the threshold of the room and states that the patient's health is on the mend. Word for word, the conversation again returns to the murder of the pawnbroker and her sister. Raskolnikov learns that many were suspected: both the dyer Mikola from the empty apartment where Raskolnikov was hiding, and the clients who almost caught him at the crime scene. They began to suspect Krasilytsikov because of the earrings they found on the street and fought. Raskolnikov is convinced that the investigation is going in the right direction. The killer was in the pawnbroker's apartment when Koch and Pestryakov knocked, then hid in an empty apartment, and dropped the box with earrings on the street.
V
The conversation is interrupted by an unexpected visit. An unfamiliar gentleman appeared on the threshold of Raskolnikov's room, who turned out to be Dunya's fiancé, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin. He said that not far from him he found a temporary home for his mother and sister, as well as an apartment in which the young people would live after the wedding. Petr Petrovich makes an unfavorable impression on his friends. First of all, with your theory: "love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest." They interrupt the conversation, not wanting to enter into a discussion with him. The conversation again returns to the murder of the old woman. Raskolnikov learns that a certain Porfiry is interrogating the mortgagers. Zosimov believes that the killer is experienced and dexterous. Razumikhin objects to him: awkward, inexperienced, and this was the first step. "And he didn't manage to rob, he only managed to kill."
Luzhin, who was leaving, decided to put in a few clever words about morality in the end. Here Raskolnikov can not stand it and says that the murder fits into Luzhin's theory: “According to your theory! eh, what did you say to your bride that you are most glad ... that she is a beggar ... because it is more profitable to take a wife out of poverty, so that later to rule over her ... and reproach that she has been blessed by you? .. " Luzhin is outraged that Pulcheria Alexandrovna told Raskolnikov about this and distorted the meaning of his words. Raskolnikov promises to let him down the stairs for bad words about his mother. Luzhin says that now there can be no question of continuing the relationship.
VI
Left alone, Raskolnikov changed his clothes, took the twenty-five rubles left by his friends, and walked through the city. On the way, he went to the Crystal Palace tavern. There he ordered newspapers and tea. Zametov approached him and again began to provoke him to a conversation. Raskolnikov accepted the challenge. He deliberately turned the conversation to the murder of the old woman, told what he would do with the money, how he would cover his tracks. Under the guise of "I would have done this," he told about the cache where he hid the pledges taken from the old woman. He shocks Zametov, he calls him crazy. Raskolnikov continues: "What if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta?" Zametov hastily says that he does not believe in Raskolnikov's involvement. Raskolnikov receives confirmation that he was one of the suspects. Leaving, on the doorstep, he encounters Razumikhin, who scolds him for unauthorized walks. Razumikhin invites him to a party. Raskolnikov refuses. Walking through the city, he comes to the bridge. Looking down at the water, he is contemplating suicide. Suddenly, next to him, a young woman rushes into the water. They are saving her. Seeing this picture, he rejects his idea. Without knowing why, he comes to the house of the old woman pawnbroker, goes up to the rooms. There is a renovation in progress. He makes a strange impression on the workers by talking about murder. They chase him away. While pondering whether or not to go to Razu-Mikhin, he hears a noise in the street nearby. He goes there.
Vii
The wheelchair ran over a man. A crowd of onlookers gathered around, the police, the coachman makes excuses. Raskolnikov, leaning closer, recognized him as his casual acquaintance Marmeladov. He volunteered to show the way to his house. When Marmeladov was brought into the room, Katerina Ivanovna cried out desperately: "I got it!" - and rushed to her husband. She began to bustle around him, sent one of her daughters, Polechka, for Sonya. Almost all the tenants poured out of the inner rooms and at first they were crowded only in the doors, but then they rushed in a crowd into the room itself. Katerina Ivanovna went into a frenzy. “If only they let me die peacefully! - she shouted to the whole crowd, - what a show they found! Get out! Have at least respect for a dead body! " Raskolnikov suggests calling a doctor. The doctor says there is no hope. The priest comes for the last confession. Sonechka Marmeladova appears on the threshold of the room. Raskolnikov notes that she looks very ridiculous in her cheap but flashy outfits in the middle of a squalid environment. She never dares to approach her father. Marmeladov's gaze stops on his daughter, he asks her for forgiveness and dies. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna all the money he has left for the funeral. On the threshold Polechka catches up with him, he gives her his address. On the way home, he feels that his illness is receding: "My life has not died yet with the old woman."
Raskolnikov comes to Razumikhin's party, he volunteers to see him off. When they approach Raskolnikov's house, they see a light in his room. Rodion invites a friend to be a witness, he does not know what. But in his room he sees his mother and sister. The joy of the meeting is interrupted by Raskolnikov's swoon.
Part III
I
Raskolnikov comes to his senses and asks his family to leave him. The conversation turns to Luzhin. Raskolnikov demands from his sister to refuse him and sets a condition: “or he. or me". A dispute arises between him and Dunya. His mother does not want to leave him alone. She is worried about talking about his insanity. Razumikhin convinces them to leave him until morning. After the party, in an agitated state, Razumikhin tells Duna a lot of unpleasant things about the groom: "he is not your match." Razumikhin likes Dunya.
II
The next morning, going to Raskolnikov's family, Razumikhin scolds himself for intemperance. With all his appearance and behavior, he is trying to prove to Duna that she does not bother him at all. Again, the conversation turns to Raskolnikov. Razumikhin says that Rodion is "smart, but gloomy, gloomy, arrogant and proud, loves no one and is unlikely to fall in love." As for the act with Luzhin, he accuses Raskolnikov of unrestrained behavior. He apologizes to Dunya and for his words about her fiancé. Pulcheria Alexandrovna gives Luzhin's note to Razumikhin to be read. He writes that he wants to visit them in the evening, but asks that Raskolnikov is not there. She asks for advice from Razumikhin. He offers to go to Raskolnikov in order to solve it all together.
III
At Raskolnikov's they meet Zosimov, who states that he is almost healthy. They ask Raskolnikov about the incident with Marmeladov. Pulcheria Alexandrovna reports that the patroness Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova has died. We are talking about her gifts to Dunechka and about Luzhin, who has not yet made a single gift to the bride. Rodion and Dunya again have a quarrel over the groom. But then suddenly Raskolnikov's mood changes dramatically, and he tells her: "Yes, marry whoever you want." The mother gives him Luzhin's request. He agrees to do as his mother and Dunya decide. But Avdotya Romanovna has already decided that Rodion must be on this date.
The door of Raskolnikov's room opened and a girl entered. Raskolnikov did not immediately recognize Sonechka Marmeladova without bright, flashy outfits. She came to call Raskolnikov for the funeral service and her father's funeral. Raskolnikov introduced her to her mother and sister. The women were embarrassed, since Sonya's reputation did not allow them to be on an equal footing. When they left, Dunya bowed to her with "an attentive and full bow." In private, Pulcheria Alexandrovna says that the girl made an unpleasant impression on her, especially after what Luzhin wrote about her. Dunya calls him a "gossip," and Sonya calls him "beautiful." Raskolnikov, having heard about the interrogation of the pawnbrokers by Porfiry Petrovich, asks to introduce him to him. He wants to return his sister's ring and his father's silver watch.
Sonya came out from Raskolnikov. She is being pursued by a certain person who speaks to her. In the future, this meeting will be of decisive importance for the heroes.
V
Razumikhin and Raskolnikov are heading to Porfiry Petrovich. On the way, Raskolnikov, noticing a friend's sympathy for his sister, makes fun of him.
Raskolnikov's main goal is to find out if Porfiry knows about his recent visit to the old woman's house after the murder. There they meet Zametov. Raskolnikov learns that he is the last pawnbroker with whom Porfiry has not yet spoken. From the conversation, he understands that his involvement in the murder seems to them the most likely. He gets annoyed. Porfiry Petrovich's precautionary behavior worries him. Porfiry recalls an article by Raskolnikov, published in Periodicheskoy Speech. For Rodion, this is a discovery. He took the article to another newspaper and was convinced that it had not been published. Porfiry leads Raskolnikov to reasoning about his theory of "trembling creatures" and "having the right". According to her, ordinary people must live in obedience and have no right to transgress the law. And an extraordinary person, who can say a new word in his midst, "has the right ... to allow his conscience to step over ... other obstacles, if the implementation of the idea requires it." Razumikhin intervenes in the conversation: "after all, this permission for blood is more terrible in conscience than an official permission to shed blood, legal ..." Porfiry tries to catch Raskolnikov in details. Asks if he saw the dyers on his visit to the old woman's house. Raskolnikov is afraid of falling into a trap, hesitates with an answer. Razumikhin realizes himself, shouts: "Why, the dyers smeared on the very day of the murder, and he was there for three days!" Porfiry pretends to be embarrassed, kindly says goodbye to his friends.
“Both went out gloomy and gloomy into the street and did not speak a word for several steps. Raskolnikov took a deep breath ... "
VI
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin approached the house where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya lived. Raskolnikov assures his friend that Porfiry and Zametov suspect him. Razumikhin promises to talk to Porfiry about suspicions against Raskolnikov "in a relative way". Rodion decides to return to his place before going to his family. When he approaches the house, some passer-by calls him a murderer and leaves. This is enough for the fever to make itself felt again. He again recalls the details of the murder, tries to remember how this gentleman could know everything. He condemns himself for weakness. “How dare I, knowing myself, anticipating myself, take an ax and bloody?” He understands that suffering for the crime he committed will always accompany him.
He is forgotten in sleep. He is dreaming of that unfamiliar, silent person. He beckons him with his hand and brings him to the old woman's apartment. Suddenly he discovers an old woman sitting in a chair, takes an ax and hits her on the head, but the old woman only laughs. He rushes to run, but everywhere is full of people, they are silent and look at him condemningly. He woke up. A man came to him, whom he at first took for a dream. He introduced himself: Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
Part IV
I
Raskolnikov unkindly accepts Svidrigailov, remembering the story with his sister. Svidrigailov tells how Marfa Petrovna freed him from his faithful prison for cheating and that they lived together. He feels a kindred spirit in Raskolnikov, believes that they are "of the same berry field", that there is a "common point" between them.
Raskolnikov laughs and advises him to go to the doctor. Svidrigailov asks for a meeting with Dunya. Marfa Petrovna left Duna three thousand rubles. In addition, he himself wants to transfer ten thousand to her for the inconveniences and insults that she experienced through his fault. Svidrigailov insists on meeting with Dunya. Raskolnikov refuses.
II
In the evening Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go to Duna and Pulcheria Alexandrovna. On the way, Razumikhin reported a conversation with Porfiry, who did not say anything definite about his suspicions.
Luzhin wants to talk about the upcoming wedding, but considers it impossible to do so under Raskolnikov. He reprimands the women that they neglected his demand not to invite Raskolnikov. Dunya tries to reconcile her brother with Luzhin, proving that she cannot and will not make a choice between brother and groom. Luzhin, in anger, says that she does not value her happiness, reminds of material costs, communication with unworthy people, meaning Sonya Marmeladova. A quarrel breaks out between them. Dunya asks Luzhin to get out.
III
Luzhin did not expect a break. He was very happy with Dunya as a bride and wife. He still hopes to improve matters. Dunya completely reconciles with her brother, accuses herself of being flattered by the money of an unworthy person. Raskolnikov talks about Svidrigailov's intentions. Dunya is amazed at his proposal and believes that he is up to something terrible. Raskolnikov promises his sister that he will definitely meet with him. They are making plans for the three thousand left to Dunya Marfa Petrovna. Razumikhin offers to do book publishing. Everyone is passionate. Suddenly, in the middle of the conversation, Raskolnikov gets up and declares that he loves them very much, but for a while it is better for them to disperse and not see each other. They are scared. He turns them over to the care of his friend. Razumikhin calms everyone down, says that Rodion is ill.
IV
Raskolnikov came to say goodbye to Sonya. He tests his theory on Sonya, trying to prove to her that her sacrifice is in vain. In his opinion, it would be fairer to die. Sonya says that she cannot leave her relatives, they will disappear without her. Suddenly Raskolnikov bowed to Sonya's feet: "I bowed not to you, but bowed to all human suffering." On Sonya's dresser lies New Testamentbrought by the late Lizaveta. Sonya's friendship with the murdered amazes him. He asks to read him the Gospel of the resurrection of Lazarus. "The stub has long been extinguished in a crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room the murderer and the harlot, who have strangely come together to read the eternal book." Unexpectedly, Raskolnikov told Sonya that he had come “to talk about the case”: “I left my family today, now I have only you. We are cursed together, together we will go. " He promises to come tomorrow and tell who killed Lizaveta. Sonia passed on his feverish mood, and she spent the whole night delirious. In the next room Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation.
The next morning Raskolnikov came to Porfiry's police station. He said that he brought a paper with a request to return the things. Raskolnikov feels that Porfiry is checking him again. And he can't stand it: "I finally see clearly that you suspect me of the murder of this old woman and her sister Lizaveta." Raskolnikov becomes hysterical. Porfiry calms him down, says that Raskolnikov is sick and he needs to be treated. Raskolnikov accuses him of lying and playing. He demands that Porfiry explicitly recognize him as either a suspect or innocent. He again avoids answering. Porfiry speaks of a certain "surprise" in the next room. Suddenly something happens that no one expected.
VI
The dyer Nikolai was brought in. He publicly confesses to the murder of the old woman. The game continues. Porfiry and Raskolnikov both did not expect such a development of events. Raskolnikov leaves, but then analyzes the whole conversation for a long time. He catches himself thinking that he almost betrayed himself. Remembering that today is the day of Marmeladov's funeral, he goes to them to see Sonya. Suddenly the door to his room opened by itself, and on the threshold appeared mysterious man... In the same quiet and laconic manner, he asked him for forgiveness "for slander and anger." As it turned out, this would be one of those who heard stories of the murder in the apartment during a visit after the murder. It was a misunderstanding. He admitted that he was Porfiry's surprise. The hero is happy about this turn of events.
Part V
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Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin regrets the break with Dunya, blaming her brother for everything. He decides to take revenge. He rents a room next to the Marmeladovs. Luzhin asks his neighbor Lebezyatnikov to bring Sonya to him. He explains to her that there is no way to get help from the state, since Marmeladov served little and was defective. He apologizes for not being able to attend the commemoration and presents her with a ten-ruble note of credit.
Katerina Ivanovna, guided by the "pride of the poor," arranged a decent commemoration. But most of those invited did not show up. Raskolnikov came. She is irritated and quarrels in excitement with the mistress Amalia Ivanovna. It almost comes to a fight. At this moment Luzhin appears.
III
He accuses Sonya of stealing a hundred-ruble bill, citing Lebeziatnikov's testimony. Sonya is initially lost, but then denies the charges, giving him ten rubles. Katerina Ivanovna, indignant at the attacks on Sonya, rushes to her, twisting her pockets. A missing bill falls out of one pocket. Sonya cries in confusion. Lebeziatnikov enters in the middle of the stage. He calls Luzhin a "slanderer." He saw Luzhin toss a piece of paper at her, but thought it was out of noble motives. Raskolnikov, who had been silent before, explains that Luzhin wanted to take revenge on him, since “the honor and happiness of Sophia Semyonovna are very dear to me,” and to prove his innocence to his mother and sister. Luzhin threatens everyone with the police and the court. Sonya runs away to her home. The hostess exposes Katerina Ivanovna with the children from the apartment.
V
At this moment Lebezyatnikov comes and reports on Katerina Ivanovna's madness. Raskolnikov returns home and sees Dunya there. She says that she understands his strange behavior, as he is suspected of murdering an old woman. He asks Dunya to pay attention to Razumikhin - "he is businesslike, hardworking, real, capable of deep love."
Raskolnikov wanders around St. Petersburg again. Katerina Ivanovna makes children walk the streets, sing, dance and collect alms. Children run away from her. Rushing after them, she falls, blood flowing from her throat. She is taken to Sonya, where she dies. Her dying words: “What? A priest? .. No need ... Where do you have an extra ruble? .. There are no sins on me! .. God must forgive without that ... He himself knows how I suffered! .. But he won't forgive, so it is not necessary ! .. ... They drove away the nag ... Overstrained! "
Svidrigailov appears. Ten thousand, which Dunya does not accept from him, he intends to give to the Marmeladovs.
Part VI
I
Katerina Ivanovna is buried. Raskolnikov understands that Sonya does not change her attitude towards him. Razumikhin informs Rodion that his mother is sick, and Dunya received an unknown letter. He decides to meet with Svidrigailov to sort out his intentions regarding his sister.
II
At the door, he encounters Porfiry who has come to him. Porfiry tells him how he became suspicious of him. He says bluntly that there is no evidence against Raskolnikov. Trying to expose him, he relied on psychology and character. He confesses that he searched his apartment, provoked him in every possible way, and apologizes for that. But he immediately says that Nikolai, who has slandered himself, is not guilty. He is a schismatic, and for religious fanatics it is grace to accept suffering from the authorities. The crime has a different style. The agitated Raskolnikov asks Porfiry who killed him. “Yes, you did, Rodion Romanovich,” the investigator replies in a whisper. He says that he wants the best for him, and advises him to confess. He gives him two days to think. Raskolnikov does not confess to the murder.
III, IV
The hero goes to Svidrigailov, meets him in a tavern. They talk about Dun. Raskolnikov follows Svidrigailov. He is sure that he is plotting something against his sister. Dunya is waiting for him at Svidrigailov's house. But Raskolnikov does not see her. Dunya asks her former owner on the street to explain the case in which he invited her out on a date. But Svidrigailov insists on talking in his apartment. Dunya reluctantly agrees. There he shows her an empty room, where he overheard Sonya's conversation with Raskolnikov, and conveys the essence. Svidrigailov offers her the salvation of her brother in exchange for love. Dunya does not believe him and wants to leave. But the door is locked and the house is empty. She takes a lady's revolver from her pocket, shoots several times and misses. Svidrigailov approaches Duna. She throws the revolver, as she cannot kill, and asks to let her go. There is a moment of struggle in Svidrigailov's soul, and he gives her the key. Dunya leaves. He picks up the revolver she had thrown.
V
Svidrigailov spends the whole evening in taverns. On the way back he comes to Sonya, reports that the children are accommodated in a good boarding house. He gives her three thousand rubles, which she and Raskolnikov will need in hard labor. The same evening he leaves, takes a hotel room. In a dream, he dreams of a teenage girl who once died through his fault. At night he leaves the hotel, takes out Dunya's revolver and shoots himself in the temple.
VI
Raskolnikov decides to accept the punishment. He goes first to his mother and finds her at home alone. He seems to say goodbye, says that he always loved and will love them with Dunya. Asks to pray for him. When he returns, he sees Dunya. He tells her that he is going to the police station to confess to the crime. The theory still owns him. He does not feel guilty that he killed "an ugly, malicious old woman who sucked juice from the poor." He condemns himself for the cowardice that he failed to overstep the murder. Suddenly something stops him in his sister's gaze. He asks her forgiveness and promises to start new life.
Vii
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya. She puts her cypress cross on him. On the way to the station, he recalls the words of Sonya, who invited him to repent: "Go to the crossroads, kiss the ground and tell the whole world out loud: I am a murderer!" He does just that. He is mistaken for a drunken man. At the station, he meets Ilya Petrovich Porokh, whom he met during his first visit for apartment debts. Gunpowder informs him about Svidrigailov's suicide. Raskolnikov is shocked. He's leaving. In the courtyard, he sees Sonya, who has come for him. He does not hold her gaze, returns and confesses to the murder: "It was then I who killed the old official and her sister Lizaveta with an ax and robbed."
Epilogue
I
Raskolnikov has been serving a sentence in Siberia for a year and a half. Given his confession, as well as the "strange behavior" and precarious health of the killer, the court sentenced him to eight years of hard labor. "The offender not only did not want to make excuses, but even, as it were, expressed a desire to accuse himself even more." It turns out that Raskolnikov is a sympathetic, kind person who acutely perceives other people's pain. It turns out that once, at the risk of his life, he saved children in a fire, shared meager pennies with the needy father of a deceased comrade. Raskolnikov's mother, without understanding what the matter is, first goes crazy, and then dies. Sonya goes to hard labor for Raskolnikov.
Dunya is getting married to Razumikhin. He intends to save some money and go to Siberia so that everyone can start a new life together. Sonya informs in a letter to Raskolnikov's relatives, “that he shuns everyone, that the convicts did not love him in prison; that he is silent for whole days and becomes very pale. Suddenly, in the last letter, Sonya wrote that he was seriously ill and was in the hospital. "
II
He suffers from the disease "of wounded pride." He is ashamed that he ruined his life ineptly, but he does not repent of the correctness of his theory: "He judged himself severely, and his fierce conscience did not find any particularly terrible guilt in his past, except perhaps for a simple blunder." He looks for mistakes in his actions and condemns himself for confessing. Even Svidrigailov seems to him stronger, because he managed to die.
Raskolnikov “was not loved and avoided by everyone. In the end they even began to hate him ... Those who were much more criminal than him despised him, laughed at him. “You are a master! - they told him. - Did you have to walk with an ax; not a lordly business ... "" You are an atheist! You don't believe in God! - shouted to him. "I must kill you."
But they all fell in love with Sonya. “She didn’t curry favor with them; everyone already knew her, they also knew that she followed him. She did not give them money, she did not provide special services. Only once, at Christmas, she brought alms for the whole prison: pies and rolls. And when she met with a party of prisoners going to work, everyone took off their hats, everyone bowed: "Mother, Sofya Semyonovna, you are our mother, tender, sickly!" - said these rude, branded convicts to this small and slender creature. She smiled and took leave, and they all loved it when she smiled at them. They even loved her walk, turned around to look after her as she walked, and praised her; they even praised her for being so small, they didn't even know what to praise for. They even went to see her for treatment. "
Raskolnikov recovered hard. Shards of his theory came to him in delirium. He saw wars, massacres, when only the "purest and chosen" were saved. "He did not understand that this premonition could be a harbinger of a future turning point in life, a future resurrection, a new outlook on life." After his recovery, Sonya falls ill. Raskolnikov worries about her.
Once he was sitting on the steep bank of the river, and suddenly Sonya was next to him. She timidly held out her hand to him. “Suddenly, something seemed to grab him and, as it were, threw him at her feet. He cried and hugged her knees. At first she was terribly frightened. But immediately, in the same instant, she understood everything. Endless happiness shone in her eyes; she realized that he loved, infinitely loved her, and that this moment had finally come ... They wanted to speak, but could not. Tears stood in their eyes. They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of the other. They put in wait and endure. They still had seven years to go; until then, so much unbearable torment and so much endless happiness! But he was resurrected, and he knew this, he felt it with his whole being renewed, and she - she, after all, lived only his life! "
All of Dostoevsky's novels and stories are based on the experiences of the human soul. It doesn't matter to him what the hero does. It is important for him what he thinks about and what he says. In all the works of the author there are long dialogues and monologues. And it's very difficult to retell them summary... Dostoevsky ("Crime and Punishment" helps to make sure of this) is considered a genius writer. And for good reason: he looks deeply into the human soul.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment": a summary of the first part
Rodion Raskolnikov is the protagonist of this novel. Poor, dressed in rags. Lives in an apartment. Rather, it is a wretched little room, but there is nothing to pay for it either. Several months have passed since Rodion left the university.
The young man is in a difficult, nervous state. A plan arises in his head, which he mentally prepares for implementation. He decided to kill the old money-giver.
One evening Rodion meets Marmeladov. He talks about the bitter fate of his family. The fact that Sonya's daughter had to go to the panel, since there is nothing to feed the younger children.
Then Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, which upsets him very much. He goes to see Razumikhin, a university friend. On the way he meets a drunk girl, who is going to be approached by the gentleman with "dirty" intentions. Rodion sends her home.
And for himself, he suddenly decides that he will go to Razumikhin after he is done with his idea. At home, he quickly prepares for a crime. However, during a visit to the pawnbroker, it was necessary to kill not only her, but also Liza, the old woman's younger sister.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment": a summary of the second part
Early morning. Rodion wakes up with a nervous chill. He recalls yesterday's murder, examines clothes, trying to remove traces of blood. Hides the looted things behind the torn off wallpaper.
All further events occur as in a dream. Raskolnikov is summoned to the police about non-payment of the rent. He is acting unnatural, too aroused. Eventually he loses consciousness.
Wandering aimlessly around the city, he suddenly decides to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. But then a woman rushes from the bridge. A police officer rescues her. Rodion discards the thought of suicide.
He decides to go to the police. Suddenly a man gets run over by a horse. Raskolnikov recognizes Marmeladov and does his best to help him. He is relieved: the visit to the police has been postponed.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment": a summary of the third part
Rodion demands from his sister that she refuse her fiancé, since he does not accept her sacrifice. It occurs to him to go with Razumikhin to the policeman. It is important to find out - is he suspected of anything?
Going to dinner with his mother, Raskolnikov sees the janitor pointing at him to some bourgeoisie. Rodion tries to find out what the matter is, but freezes in place. The tradesman distinctly calls him a murderer.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment": a summary of the fourth part
Raskolnikov at his mother's dinner quarrels with his sister's fiancé. He accuses him of lying and drives him out. Sister Rodion says that her former owner Svidrigailov came to him. And that Svidrigailov's wife left Duna, according to her will, three thousand rubles.
After dinner, he says goodbye to his mother and sister and asks him not to be disturbed. And he himself goes to Sonya, daughter of Marmeladov. They talk for a long time. Rodion believes that they are both "in the mud", and they need to move on together.
Fifth and sixth parts: a summary. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
Luzhin invites Sonya to his place to give her ten rudders for the widow. And imperceptibly throws a hundred rubles into her pocket. Then he appears at Marmeladov's wake and accuses Sonya of stealing.
A policeman comes to Raskolnikov. They talk for a long time. Porfiry Petrovich tells Raskolnikov that he knows who killed the old woman and Lizaveta, her sister. And it was he - Raskolnikov. Only the investigation has nothing against him.
Prisoner Raskolnikov has been in Siberia for nine months. Sonya follows him, they see each other quite often. She writes about everything to Duna and Razumikhin, who became Duna's husband.
Scene from the film "Crime and Punishment" (1969)
60th years XIX in. Poor area of \u200b\u200bSt. Petersburg, adjacent to Sennaya Square and the Catherine Canal. Summer evening. Former student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leaves his closet in the attic and takes the last valuable thing in the mortgage to the old woman pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, whom she is preparing to kill. On the way back, he enters one of the cheap taverns, where he accidentally meets a drunken, out-of-place official Marmeladov. He tells how consumption, poverty and drunkenness of her husband pushed his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, to a cruel act - to send his daughter from her first marriage, Sonya, to the panel to earn money.
The next morning, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother from the province describing the misfortunes suffered by his younger sister Dunya in the house of the depraved landowner Svidrigailov. He learns about the imminent arrival of his mother and sister in St. Petersburg in connection with the forthcoming marriage of Dunya. The groom is a prudent businessman Luzhin, who wants to build a marriage not on love, but on poverty and dependence on the bride. The mother hopes that Luzhin will financially help her son finish his course at the university. Reflecting on the sacrifices that they make for the sake of their loved ones Sonya and Dunya, Raskolnikov strengthens his intention to kill the pawnbroker - a worthless evil "louse". Indeed, thanks to her money, “hundreds, thousands” of girls and boys will be spared from undeserved suffering. However, aversion to bloody violence again rises in the hero's soul after he saw a dream-memory of childhood: the boy's heart breaks with pity for the nag being beaten to death.
And yet Raskolnikov kills with an ax not only the "ugly old woman", but also her kind, meek sister Lizaveta, who unexpectedly returned to the apartment. Miraculously leaving unnoticed, he hides the stolen in a random place, without even assessing its value.
Soon Raskolnikov with horror discovers alienation between himself and other people. Sick from the experience, he, however, is not able to reject the burdensome worries of his fellow university Razumikhin. From the latter's conversation with the doctor, Raskolnikov learns that the painter Mikolka, a simple village guy, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the old woman. Painfully reacting to conversations about a crime, he himself also arouses suspicion among others.
Luzhin, who came on a visit, is shocked by the squalor of the hero's closet; their conversation develops into a quarrel and ends with a break. Raskolnikov is especially offended by the closeness of practical conclusions from Luzhin's "reasonable egoism" (which seems to him vulgar) and his own "theory": "people can be cut ..."
Wandering around St. Petersburg, a sick young man suffers from his alienation from the world and is already ready to confess to a crime before the authorities, as he sees a man crushed by a carriage. This is Marmeladov. Out of compassion, Raskolnikov spends his last money on the dying man: he is taken to the house, the doctor is called. Rodion meets Katerina Ivanovna and Sonya, who say goodbye to their father in an inappropriately bright attire of a prostitute. Thanks to a good deed, the hero briefly felt community with people. However, having met the mother and sister who arrived at his apartment, he suddenly realizes himself “dead” for their love and rudely drives them away. He is lonely again, but he has the hope of getting closer to the "overstepped", like him, the absolute commandment Sonya.
Raskolnikov's family is taken care of by Razumikhin, who almost at first sight fell in love with the beautiful Dunya. Meanwhile, the offended Luzhin presents the bride with a choice: either he or her brother.
In order to find out about the fate of the things that were pledged by the murdered, but in fact - to dispel the suspicions of some acquaintances, Rodion himself asks for a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich, the investigator in the case of the murder of the old woman pawnbroker. The latter recalls Raskolnikov's article "On the Crime" recently published in the newspaper, inviting the author to explain his "theory" about "two categories of people." It turns out that the "ordinary" ("lower") majority is just material for the reproduction of their own kind, it is they who need a strict moral law and must be obedient. These are "trembling creatures". "People proper" ("higher") have a different nature, possessing the gift of a "new word", they destroy the present in the name of the best, even if it is necessary to "step over" the moral norms previously established for the "lower" majority, for example, to shed someone else's blood. These “criminals” then become “new legislators”. Thus, not recognizing the biblical commandments (“Thou shalt not kill,” “Thou shalt not steal,” etc.), Raskolnikov “allows” “those who have the right” - “blood according to conscience”. The clever and shrewd Porfiry unravels in the hero an ideological killer who claims to be the new Napoleon. However, the investigator has no evidence against Rodion - and he lets the young man go in the hope that good nature will defeat the delusions of his mind in him and will herself lead him to a confession of what he had done.
Indeed, the hero is more and more convinced that he was mistaken in himself: “the real ruler smashes Toulon, makes a massacre in Paris, forgets the army in Egypt, spends half a million people in the Moscow campaign,” and he, Raskolnikov, suffers from “vulgarity” and “ meanness "single murder. It is clear that he is a "trembling creature": even having killed, he "did not overstep" the moral law. The very motives of the crime are twofold in the consciousness of the hero: it is a test of oneself for the "highest grade", and an act of "justice", according to revolutionary socialist teachings, transfers the property of the "predators" to their victims.
Svidrigailov, who followed Dunya to St. Petersburg, apparently guilty of the recent death of his wife, meets Raskolnikov and notices that they are "of the same fruit field," although the latter did not completely defeat Schiller in himself. For all his disgust for the offender, Rodion's sister is attracted by his seeming ability to enjoy life, despite the crimes committed.
During dinner in cheap rooms, where Luzhin placed Dunya and his mother out of economy, a decisive explanation takes place. Luzhin is accused of slandering Raskolnikov and Sonya, to whom he allegedly gave money for base services, selflessly collected by a beggar mother for his studies. Relatives are convinced of the purity and nobility of the young man and sympathize with Sonya's fate. Exiled in shame, Luzhin is looking for a way to discredit Raskolnikov in the eyes of his sister and mother.
The latter, meanwhile, again feeling the painful alienation from his loved ones, comes to Sonya. In her, who “crossed” the commandment “do not commit adultery,” he seeks salvation from unbearable loneliness. But Sonya herself is not alone. She sacrificed herself for the sake of others (hungry brothers and sisters), and not others for her own sake, as her interlocutor. Love and compassion for loved ones, faith in the mercy of God never left her. She reads the Gospel lines to Rodion about the resurrection of Lazarus by Christ, hoping for a miracle in her life. The hero fails to captivate the girl with the "Napoleonic" concept of power over "the whole anthill."
Tormented by both fear and desire for exposure, Raskolnikov again comes to Porfiry, as if worried about his mortgage. A seemingly abstract conversation about the psychology of criminals eventually brings the young man to a nervous breakdown, and he almost gives himself up to the investigator. He is saved by an unexpected confession in the murder of the painter's pawnbroker Mikolka.
In the Marmeladovs' walk-through room, a memorial service for husband and father is arranged, during which Katerina Ivanovna, in a fit of painful pride, offends the owner of the apartment. She tells her and her children to move out immediately. Suddenly Luzhin, who lives in the same house, enters and accuses Sonya of stealing a hundred-ruble banknote. The girl's "guilt" has been proven: the money is found in the pocket of her apron. Now, in the eyes of those around her, she is also a thief. But suddenly there is a witness that Luzhin himself imperceptibly slipped a piece of paper to Sonya. The slanderer is ashamed, and Raskolnikov explains to those present the reasons for his act: having humiliated his brother and Sonya in the eyes of Dunya, he hoped to return the bride's favor.
Rodion and Sonya go to her apartment, where the hero confesses to the girl in the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta. She pity him for the moral torment to which he had doomed himself, and offers to atone for guilt by voluntary confession and hard labor. Raskolnikov, however, laments only that he turned out to be a "trembling creature" with a conscience and a need for human love. “I will still fight,” he disagrees with Sonya.
Meanwhile, Katerina Ivanovna with her children finds herself on the street. She begins to bleed from the throat and dies, having refused the services of a priest. Svidrigailov, present here, undertakes to pay for the funeral and provide for the children and Sonya.
At his home, Raskolnikov finds Porfiry, who convinces the young man to confess: a "theory" that denies the absoluteness of the moral law, rejects the only source of life - God, the creator of humanity, one by nature - and thereby condemns his captive to death. "Now you need air, air, air!" Porfiry does not believe in the guilt of Mikolka, who “accepted suffering” according to the primordial popular need: to atone for the sin of non-conformity with the ideal - Christ.
But Raskolnikov still hopes to "overstep" morality. Before him is the example of Svidrigailov. Their meeting in a tavern reveals to the hero a sad truth: the life of this "insignificant villain" is empty and painful for him.
Dunya's reciprocity is the only hope for Svidrigailov to return to the source of being. Convinced of her irrevocable dislike for herself during a heated conversation at his apartment, he shoots himself a few hours later.
Meanwhile, Raskolnikov, driven by the lack of "air", says goodbye to his family and Sonya before confessing. He is still convinced of the "theory" and is full of self-contempt. However, at the insistence of Sonya, before the eyes of the people he repentantly kisses the ground, before which he “sinned”. In the police office, he learns about Svidrigailov's suicide and makes an official confession.
Raskolnikov ends up in Siberia, in a convict prison. Mother died of grief, Dunya married Razumikhin. Sonya settled near Raskolnikov and visits the hero, patiently enduring his gloom and indifference. The nightmare of alienation continues here as well: common convicts hate him as "an atheist." On the contrary, Sonya is treated with tenderness and love. Once in a prison hospital, Rodion has a dream reminiscent of pictures from the Apocalypse: mysterious "trichines", infiltrating people, give rise to a fanatical belief in their own righteousness and intolerance to the "truths" of others. "People killed each other in senseless rage" until the entire human race was exterminated, except for a few "pure and chosen." Finally, it is revealed to him that the pride of the mind leads to discord and destruction, and the humility of the heart leads to unity in love and to the fullness of life. "Endless love" for Sonya awakens in him. On the threshold of "resurrection into a new life" Raskolnikov takes the Gospel in his hands.
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