Discussion Questions Part 3

Roberto Ferro. Discussion Questions Part 3

1. He achieves the suspense throughout the novel by describing every single thing that happens in a way that we want to stay reading until we know the outcome. He does that description by showing us Raskolnikov's thoughts so we expect something to happen and we can identify with his situation. I think the most suspenseful scene we have seen is the one of the murders, because we are not sure of what's about to happen and the outcome of it is astounding. Another scene a bit less suspenseful is the one where Mermeladov dies, because we think he might make it but at the end everything goes bad, with him death and the family grieving. 

3. Each one of them is a villain in their own way, Raskolnikov is the one guilty of the murder, that's obvious, but he doesn't feel like it because he thinks he made humanity a favor, by eliminating a person that is not necessary and that brings more evil than good to the world. In the case of Luzhin, we don't know him much but we can say his crime is controlling Dounia in order for her to do whatever he wants, just because he has the social position and the money to provide for the whole Raskolnikov family, or at least her. Another crime we could adjudicate to Luzhin is when he visits Raskolnikov while he's sick, and he kind of insults him, but he doesn't feel guilty at all, he actually feels the contrary, with him being the victim. As for Svidrigailov, we know him even less than we know Luzhin, but we do know his crime, when he wants to have an affair with Dounia and by accident he ruins her reputation in the town they lived. We cannot define his current position because he hasn't appeared that much, but he suffered for it by dissolving his family, which ended up with his death wife.