Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
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Sonya Is a Very Difficult Character
Dostoyevsky's sonya is a difficult character. She reminds raskolnikov that he has killed two people. But it is actually, at the same time, essential to his development. An email now from barbados, from denis paine, who writes: i've always been struck by the stark similarities in character between sonya's feckless father, mamladof and dickens's mister micawber in novel david copperfield. Both are essentially good natured, but dangerously weak men.
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