Part 5, Chapter 5:
The preceding scene is interrupted by the appearance of Lebezyatnikov who gives Sonia the dreadful news that Katerina has gone insane; she has taken her children into the streets and is trying to teach them to sing and dance like street performers.
Chapter Six is a heartbreaking scene where we see the desperate straits that Katerina and her children are in, and where we also see the total disintegration of Katerina's mind. Katerina is in a manic state which apparently is one of the symptoms of end stage consumption. (Consumptives are believed to be filled with manic energy before they collapse dying, which is a common motif found in 19th century literature and music - i.e.; CAMILLE and LA TRAVIATA). Katerina falls in the street hemorrhaging from the throat; she is then carried back to Sonia's flat where she agonizingly dies. Svidrigaylov shows up at Katerina's death scene and offers to pay for her burial and to make provisions for the children to be placed in
upscale orphanages.
Part Six, Chapters 1 & 2:
Porfiry informs Raskolnikov that the painter who confessed to the murder of Alyona, the pawnbroker, belongs to a religious sect that stresses suffering and pain for atonement; therefore, the painter confessed to this crime so that he might suffer. Porfiry again plays a brilliant cat and mouse game with Raskolnikov. Porfiry is so supremely confident that Raskolnikov will eventually crack and confess that he tells him that other than his behavior (the article he had written regarding the criminal mind and his return to the scene of the crime) Porfiry has no evidence linking Raskolnikov to the murders. However, he tells him that he knows he did the crime, even telling him why he did it and what he did after the crime. Porfiry uses his powerful knowledge of human behavior and psychology to unravel Raskolnikov.
The preceding scene is interrupted by the appearance of Lebezyatnikov who gives Sonia the dreadful news that Katerina has gone insane; she has taken her children into the streets and is trying to teach them to sing and dance like street performers.
Chapter Six is a heartbreaking scene where we see the desperate straits that Katerina and her children are in, and where we also see the total disintegration of Katerina's mind. Katerina is in a manic state which apparently is one of the symptoms of end stage consumption. (Consumptives are believed to be filled with manic energy before they collapse dying, which is a common motif found in 19th century literature and music - i.e.; CAMILLE and LA TRAVIATA). Katerina falls in the street hemorrhaging from the throat; she is then carried back to Sonia's flat where she agonizingly dies. Svidrigaylov shows up at Katerina's death scene and offers to pay for her burial and to make provisions for the children to be placed in
upscale orphanages.
Part Six, Chapters 1 & 2:
Porfiry informs Raskolnikov that the painter who confessed to the murder of Alyona, the pawnbroker, belongs to a religious sect that stresses suffering and pain for atonement; therefore, the painter confessed to this crime so that he might suffer. Porfiry again plays a brilliant cat and mouse game with Raskolnikov. Porfiry is so supremely confident that Raskolnikov will eventually crack and confess that he tells him that other than his behavior (the article he had written regarding the criminal mind and his return to the scene of the crime) Porfiry has no evidence linking Raskolnikov to the murders. However, he tells him that he knows he did the crime, even telling him why he did it and what he did after the crime. Porfiry uses his powerful knowledge of human behavior and psychology to unravel Raskolnikov.
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