Crime and Punishment Abstract

Crime and Punishment Abstract

Crime and Punishment Abstract
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a former student who lived in a tiny garret on the top floor of a run-down apartment building in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is not doing as great as he thought he would be doing. He is very sick, dressed in rags, short on money, and talks to himself, but he is also handsome, proud, and intelligent. He is contemplating committing murder and he thinks it is a good start to his nee life. He goes to the pawnbroker’s apartment, Alyona Ivanovna, to get money for a watch and to plan the crime. Afterward, he stops for a drink at the tavern, where he meets a man named Marmelodov, who in a fit of drunkenness, has abandoned his job and proceeded on a fice-day drinking binge, afraid to return home to his family. Marmelodov tells Raskolnikov about his sickly wife, Katerina Ivanovna, and his daughter, Sonya, who was forced into prostitution to help try and support the family. Raskolnikov walks with Marmelodov to Marmelodoc’s apartment, where he meets Katerina and see firsthand the poor conditions they live in.
The next day, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, informing him that his sister, Dunya, will be getting married to government official named Luzhin and that they are all moving to St. Petersburg. He goes to another tavern, where he over hears a student talking about how society would be better if the old pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna were dead. Later, in the streets, Raskolnikov hears the pawnbroker will be home alone at her apartment the next evening. This gives him enough adrenaline to actually follow through with his plan after all. He sleeps well and wakes up the next day, finds an ax, and fashions a fake item to pawn to distract the pawnbroker. That night, he goes to her apartment and kills the old lady. While he searching through he room for money, her sister, Lizaveta enters the room finding her sister dead on the floor. He immediately grabs the ax and kills her as...

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