Notes on CRIME and PUNISHMENT: Part One
Notes on CRIME and PUNISHMENT Part 1 Page 1: End of an afternoon in July in St. Petersberg. It is unbearably hot and the streets of St. Petersburg are fetid with garbage and sewage. The young man, unnamed, lives in isolation. The ubermensch does not need people. What terrible act is he contemplating? Page 2: Conflict of thought vs. action. Example of Hegelian Theory of synthesis. “Can I really be capable of that?” The root word of Raskolnikov is Raskol which means schism in Russian - a perfect name for this conflicted man hanging between his emotions to do good, to be compassionate, and his cool analytical intellect to sit back and judge. Page 3: Contemplating an unspeakable but at this point unknown act. The young man is strikingly good looking, darkly handsome and taller than average, but he is dressed in rags. He is strangely concerned with the conspicuousness of his hat. But why should that distress him so? Pages 4-5: The...