Main and minor CHARACTERS of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Born in Moscow in 1821, he is one of the most internationally recognized writers, especially in terms of realistic novels. Crime and Punishment is one of his best-known psychological novels and was first published in The russian messenger the year 1866. At unPROFESOR we want to introduce you a little more into the universe of this famous writer and this wonderful novel. To do this, we will start by getting to know the main and secondary characters of Crime and Punishment since Dostoyevsky is precisely characterized by being able to create a very elaborate psychology in each of his characters.

The main plot of this work revolves around Raskolnikov, a young university student who is in misery but feels enormous lust for power. Due to these circumstances, he begins to plan the murder of an old widow and usurer that although at first it will begin as a simple fantasy, it will end up becoming something much more serious. From the commission of the heinous murder, the character will enter

Rodion is the main character of Crime and Punishment the Dostoyevsky's Summit novel. Through his voice we know the story. He is described as a nervous and very intelligent boyHe has a lust for power even though he lives in a rather poor family. Her dire situation forces him to abandon university studies. He lives in a pension room in St. Petersburg and owes several months' rent, his landlady, an old usurer, has sued him for it.

Fed up with the situation, he decides to start robbing the old woman to get richer. He begins to do it but is soon immersed in an existential crisis that will also lead him to plan and fantasize about the idea of ​​the murder of the old woman.

It's a complex character and in which we will go deeply through his thoughts and the struggle of himself with his own consciousness. Only love can save you.

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Sonia is another of the main characters of Crime and Punishment. In the novel she is described as a sweet 18 year old girl, daughter of a former official - Marmeládov - drunk through whom she and Raskolnikov will meet. All the injustices in the world seem to fall on them, although she learns to accept them from submission and a certain generosity.

She is young but very responsible, she is in charge of taking care of all her siblings. Is able to see the good part of Raskolnikov and she offers him all his love so that he can get out of the crisis in which he finds himself, from his own interior.

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In this lesson on the main and minor characters of Crime and Punishment we are now going to analyze those that have an important relevance but are not protagonists of the work, that is, the secondary ones. There are several characters in this sense and, therefore, here we analyze them in detail:

Avdotia Románovna Raskólnikova

He is one of the supporting characters of Crime and Punishment more interesting. Is about the Hermana of the main character, she is described as an educated girl, of great dignity, humble and simple. Decide marry a man of power To help her brother, this will be a key circumstance for Raskolinkov's fantasies to become real. However, the circumstances in which she is involved when arriving in Saint Petersburg will make her end up falling in love with the best friend of her brother, whom she will marry and she will accompany Rodión in his sentence and condemnation.

Aliona Ivanovna

She is Rodion's landlady and is described as a woman old, ugly, unpleasant and usurious who will come to explode even her own sister. She owns a lot of money and lends it in exchange for valuables. It will be key to the murder since she is about the woman Rodión decides to kill.

Arcadio Ivanovich Svidrigailov

This is another of the secondary characters of Crime and Punishment most prominent since it is the antagonistic character of the novel, in charge of embodying evil and corruption in history. He is the husband of the former employer and is implicated in the murder of his former wife. Arcadio pretends to Dunia and although he has a reputation as a pedophile, he really comes to love her, although it is not reciprocated.

Her character revolves around guilt and there is a moment where he cannot bear her, it will be then when he will give a considerable amount of money to Sonia to help her with the orphans and will march to commit suicide to another city.

Marta Petrovna Svidrigáilova

She is the former patron of Dunia and wife of Arcadio, of whom she was poisoning victim.

Porfirio Petrovich

This character is the judge to whom the investigation into the death of the usurer has been assigned. He admires and loves Rodión, with whom he will hold reflections and conversations of high intellectual content during the play. It will be in these conversations and in written articles that he finds about the student that will lead him to conclude that he was the culprit of the murder. He will also be in charge of making Rodion surrender.

Dimitri Prokófich Razumijin

Raskolnikov's friend and nephew of the judge, helpful and protective of Rodion's mother and sister from the first moment. He will be the first to find out that his friend is involved in the murder of the old usurer. She will end up marrying Rodion's sister.

Katerina Ivanovna Marmeládova

Marmeládov's wife and Sonia's stepmother. She goes mad a victim of tuberculosis. She will organize a meeting to honor the death of her husband.

Pulkeria Aleksándrovna Raskólnikova

She is pious, humble and gray-haired. She is the mother of Raskolnikov and Dunia. She will feel the pain of her son although she will not be able to wait for him until the end of the prison to which he will be subjected.

Pyotr Petrovich

Man that she asks for Dunia's hand. Her economic power will be the hope of the family.

Semyon Zakharovich Marmeládov

Former official drunk and fallen into misery, Sonia's father. He will serve as nexus so that the two protagonists meet.

Lizaveta Ivanovna

And we finish this list with the secondary characters of Crime and Punishment to talk about Lizaveta, seamstress and sister of the old usurer. She is a noble and kind being, but even so, she will end up being killed by Rodion as well, although he will very much regret taking her life from her.

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