Crime and Punishment: (Almost the End)

Convince me you read! Read pgs. 305-342 (chapter 1-3 of part V) and blog
thoughtfully. What's interesting about these chapters? Significant?
Notable? Confusing? Obfuscating? Be sure to spellcheck and proof your blog
entry before posting. Sound as smart as you are.

Those of you who blog thoughtfully will not take tomorrow's quiz.

Also, work on locating lines and excerpts that support your gorup's
theme/motif/symbol. A good strategy might be folding a sheet of paper in
half, writing lines on one side of the paper, and writing the significance
or the way in which they support your theme/motif/symbol on the other
half. I'll review your notes tomorrow and then we'll discuss.


Finally, some good ol' family action (kind of)! We realize how materialistic Luzhin actually is and the breaking of their engagement seems right now. It is amusing how Luzhin thought that giving more presents to Dunya would help convince her to still stay with him if he had done it. Really now? You would have lost more money that you would have now. We can anticipate what's going to happen when they arrive to Katerina's memorial dinner soon enough. It will certainly highlight Luzhin's self-serving nature. Not so charitable as he was first described in the novel. Katerina uses so much of Rody'a donation to them of a memorial dinner! How does she have the audacity to do that?! Obviously, with your husband's death, you are doomed for more poverty than you already have. Swallow your pride for goodness' sake, you have children to take care of. Your pride doesn't even cost that much and you claim to be noble?! How convincing considering where you're living now. Do you think your claim will suddenly bring you money? You're going to be the same position you were the previous day: poor. And then you go insult your guests and argue with your landlady! You're asking to die, really, you're already coughing blood and all that. Can you not think?! (I learned that (?!) is called an interrobang, interesting fact...) It's ironic that Luzhin's friend, Leb, tells everyone that Sonya was indeed innocent and Luzhin was plotting to ruin her reputation. It's a hit towards her morals because despite being a prostitute, her morals are better than probably everyone else's. 


This is were the lines are probably blurred. I don't resent Rodya as much and his murder isn't the focus of the story. We see worse people, Katerina and Luzhin. This makes Rodya seem like the protagonist now when you contrast them together, but it still doesn't change the fact that he murdered somebody.