Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide focuses on narrative
strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how
Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov's fevered
brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers
root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevsky
subsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov's
thinking, effecting a conversion in reader sympathy. By examining
the multiple justifications for murder Raskolnikov gives as he
confesses to Sonya, Dostoevsky debunks rationality-based theories.
Finally, the question of why Raskolnikov and others, including the
reader, focus on the murder of the pawnbroker and forget the
unintended murder of Lizaveta reveals a narrative strategy based on
shame and guilt.
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