Víctor Daniel Sánchez Gallegos

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Part 3 Questions

How does Dostoyevsky archive and sustain the suspense on his novel? How does he use description to enhance the turmoil in Roskolnikov's mind?

First of all one of the techniques that Dostoyevsky uses, is that we only see what he wants us to see, he plays with our minds and makes us feel like if we were Raskolinkov, we know all his feelings, all the things he is doing, and more important what he is thinking, etc. Dostoyevsky in my opinion wants us to feel identified with Raskolinkov and in some way feel himself. Thanks to this, we the readers want to know more about this egocentric and different character. He describes perfectly all the scenes in the novel, and uses the stream of conciusness type of narrator.

Compare the major female characters: Sonya, Dunya, Katerina Ivanovna. Do you think they are well-rounded characters or stereotypes? How does each figure in Roskolnikov's actions?

In my opinion Sonya and Dunya are characters well rounded because they care about their family and Roskolinkov, they do a lot of things in other to help the people they care about.

In the other way, Katerina Ivanovna is a character full of stereotypes because the reality is that she is really poor but she always tries to convince others that she comes from an aristocrat family. Another thing is that she is always trying to have the attention of other by pretending she is the leader of her family, always complaining.