Analysis of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1. Crime and
Punishment
Prepared By: Monica San Juan

2. Background of the Author
• Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. Setting
• Petersburg

4. Themes
• Ordinary vs. extraordinary
• Suffering

5. Character Analysis
Analysis
Role
Desires
Psychological
disorder
Displacement
Result/way of
accepting
incompleteness

6. Character Analysis
• Semyon Zaharovitch Marmeladov
Husband of Katerina and father of Sonia
Wanted to be loved and be a great man to
his family
Found pleasure in suffering/pain
Displaced it to drinking beers
Died

7. Character Analysis
• Katerina Ivanovna
Wife of marmeladov, had three children
Desire of becoming rich
Became insane
Hurting her children, squandering money
Died because of tuberculosis and brain
fever

8. Character Analysis
• Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov
Obsessed to Dounia, but married to Marfa
Paedophilic
Attempt to rape Dounia, hallucinate
Proposed to a sixteen-year old girl, and
dreamed of young girls
Killed himself

9. Character Analysis
• Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin
Fiancee of Dounia, vain
wishing people to recognize and worship
him
Full of insecurity, selfish and did a bad
thing
Displaced it to anger, and to Sonia
Escape through getting away from
Raskolnikov family

10. Character Analysis
• Pulcheria Alexandrovna
Mother of Raskolnikov
Desire of having a complete family
Became neurotic
Displaced her desire in thinking positive
things
She died because of brain fever.

11. Character Analysis
• Sonia Semyonovna
Became a prostitute, the Ego, soul mate
and the half of Rodya
Wants change
Accepted her incompleteness

12. Character Analysis
• Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov
Major character of the novel
Desire to be an extraordinary man
Became hypochondriac
Displaced his desire by murdering a
pawnbroker and helping poor people
Leave a new life inside the prison