Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
Svidrigailo most complicated character in the novel. He is that kind of nihilistic other side of raskolnikov, the murderer side. Deborah martinson also sees Svitrigailov as a kind of mirror image of raskolnikov. We've got a guy who is a murderer and a saviour. Do you think that crime and punishment doesn't have any simply good or bad characters? Well, maybe, actually on a very similar subject, because efgeni is asking, are there for dostoyevsky, no purely good or bad people? There are quite a lot of them this novel too, because sone is an angel
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