The Roles of Women in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

After looking past its controversial sexual nature, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita can be read as a criticism of the capitalist system. Nabokov uses the relationship between the novel's narrator, Humbert Humbert, and the novel's namesake, Lolita, as an extended metaphor to showcase the system's inherent exploitive nature in a way that shocks the reader out of their false consciousness, by making the former a man in the position of power - a repulsive, manipulative pedophile — and the latter a young female victim — as well as a spoiled, vapid, unruly child. Each is to the other nothing more than a commodity — Lolita being the perfect consumer and Humbert Humbert being a man of privilege who views others

Women are discussed and or portrayed in both “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky and “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In “Crime and Punishment” there are several female characters, many of which play large roles in the main characters’ story. However, women are only mentioned a few times in “The Communist Manifesto”, but it is essential to the point the authors are trying to convey. Each of these literatures see women and different ways, some more positive, negative, and or diverse. Nonetheless, I believe both pieces of literature see women as vital or essential aspects of society.

In Isabel Allende’s short story, “The Judge’s Wife”, she uses fate to perpetuate her theme of the irony of rape culture, which justifies a rape by focusing on the flaws of the victim. Allende centers on the childhood of Nicolas Vidal, and leaves out details Casilda, the victim of the rape, in order to make the reader sympathize with Vidal; she gives humanity to him, and makes Casilda subhuman in comparison. Vidal is exempt from his crimes due to the “fatal omens” (186) that have been thrust upon him since his unwanted birth, and these omens are what serve as justification for these actions. Furthermore, Allende describes Vidal’s past with a strikingly negative connotation, noting that the “the street had made him merciless and the solitude

Women have always been considered fragile and dependent on men due to society. While society treats women better today, nineteenth century women had many rules and regulations forcefully thrust upon them or else they would be outcasts. These standards ruled their lives and choices, and disregarding them caused rejection. These societal standards in nineteenth century Russia shaped the character and actions of Sonya and Dunya in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment.

Where little things mean the world , in “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the story “Trifles” explores the oppression women faced in years past, it's about a time when women played a small role in many situations, and was thought of as not having much importance. Women were thought of only being interested in the little things of no importance as it goes with the meaning “Trifles”. A man has been murdered by his wife, but the men of the town who are investigators of the crime are unable to solve the mystery Mrs. Wright left behind, until they establish the women's lingo as clues to solve the mystery. The story's symbolism illustrates Mrs. Wright motives to kill her husband and escape her imprisonment of life. Throughout the story you come to see

One of the major themes in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov explores who is deserving of and the nature of forgiveness. While this theme is demonstrated throughout the entirety of the novel, it is emphasized and exemplified through Grushenka’s interaction with Alexey Karamazov in Book Six, Chapter III when she recounts the story of the old woman and the onion. Through this scene, Dostoevsky conveys to the audience that even the most wicked of people is deserving of forgiveness. However, forgiveness can only truly be obtained by the wicked on the condition that they repent.

In this passage, Raskolnikov is reflecting on the murder he had committed earlier in the novel, the murder of the pawnbroker and her innocent sister. This passage from Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, begins with Raskolnikov wondering “who [was] that man who sprang out of the earth,” who knew he was a murderer (Dostoevsky 274). He wonders if he has left “[a] clue” behind, which would explain how the man knew the truth (274). The accusation by the man torments him emotionally, and he wonders how he could have ever “t[oo] up an axe and shed blood” (274). This emotional torture leads to him doubting that he is a superman, something he completely believed in. When Dostoevsky refers to the “real [m]aster,” he is referring to Napoleon

Lolita. The epic journey of a mentally deranged peodophile and his descent into complete and utter madness, accompanied by his fantasy girl. A girl that exists only to please and torment Humbert Humbert, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Lolita. A novel that completely negates the female character, dehumanizing and objectifying them, to the point where they could easily be replaced by inanimate objects or abstract thoughts. This is done through the thoughts, comments, and actions of the main narrator, Humbert Humbert. This is driven by Humbert Humbert's own misogynistic needs to have power over all things, the female sex in particular.

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, he presents a story not merely on punishing a man for murder who wishes to seek betterment in the world, but rather he wished to express his philosophies through his work. Throughout the novel, hallucinations torment Raskolnikov for murdering Aliona and Lizaveta Ivanovna. He begins imaging events and becomes suspicious of everyone. Eventually, internal and external forces pressure Raskolnikov enough to turn himself in. In the midst of this, Dostoyevsky presents other characters with their own backstories and foibles, leading to their eventual punishments. In his novel, Dostoyevskey presents “crime” as simply an action that exudes negativity, whereas he utilizes “punishment” in multiple ways,

The presentation on women’s education, and positions in marriages cleared up many of my issues with the novel, “Crime and Punishment,” by Feodor Dostoevsky. Raskolnikov’s sister concerned me the most, because she basically gave up all her freedom, to marry a wealthy man. The reason she did this was so that her brother could have a better future, and to keep her family name alive. I thought this was weird, but according to the presentation, marriage was a career goal for women. This explains why she was so eager to give up her freedom for this man. To me, it didn’t even seem like she actually loves him. In fact, he sounds super suspicious, yet she married him anyways. I feel like this shows how women in Russia were willing to do whatever it

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote “Crime and Punishment” in 1866, during a time of Russian history where there was a convergence of several different, and oftentimes contradictory, political, philosophical, and economic ideologies. Not only was this a period of many conflicting sentiments, it was also a time of great change, with the Russian government implementing several reforms that changed the course of the country forever. One such reform was the freeing of the serfs under Alexander the II, Tsar of Russia. As progressive as this was, there was a still a major collective of people who were still grossly underrepresented in Russian society. This group of people are women as a whole. Women that lived in Russia during the middle of the nineteenth

Crime and Punishment is a literary achievement in philosophical fiction that was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born November 11, 1821 in Moscow, Russia. Fyodor is arguably one of the best literary psychologists with such works such as Crime and Punishment which explores loosely the philosophical theory of existentialism. Existentialism “emphasizes the existence of each individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). He attended St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering and graduated in 1843. He left his position as Sub Lieutenant in order to pursue a career as a writer. Fyodor was active in Socialist circles and was arrested

To take this a step further than Dostoyevsky, I don’t believe that the term “innocent” applies only to children. Those who have had their free will taken and are forced to suffer are also innocent. Had Dostoyevsky lived through the age of holocaust, he would’ve agreed with me. Jewish people, forced into concentration camps, were torture and killed; their religion the sole reason. They had faith, but their suffering was watched idly by their god as six million of “his people” were killed. They were rational people facing an irrational world that was indifferent to them. The concept of human suffering is too much for Ivan to blindly accept.

In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Raskolnikov is a young man who kills the city’s pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, and then her sister, a bystander in the crime scene. Raskolnikov’s guilt affected him in two ways: he felt confused in his morals, and his reason as to why he committed the murders were distorted and blurred. Raskolnikov’s morals are seen to be protean and never absolute; he felt confused whether to be a hero or to be unconcerned and isolated from society because of his murder. Also, he feels he could justify the killing of the pawnbroker, for her ill-nature, but this seems to change during the novel for he admits that he has no understanding why he has killed them.

In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, many people are punished for their wrongdoing. Normally, the harshness of a punishment corresponds with the severity of the crime. However, this is not the case in the book due to gender discrimination in Russian society. Women are punished more harshly than men in relation to the severity of their crimes because of gender inequality and a culture of shaming women.