How is Marmeladov punishing himself? How does the author show us that punishment (Tone, Vocabulary, Dialogue)?
Dostoevsky introduced us to this particular character as a subplot, so that we could be able to see the misery and poverty of russian society. Marmeladov claims to love his family, but can't get drinking habit under his own control. That would be his crime against himself. Raskolnikov doesn't seem to care about other people, but he listened and treated Marmeladov's gently, that means that Marmeladov's suffering is so apparent.
Dostoevsky created a whole monologue for this character, where he analyses himself and explain his own weakness for drinking. He does several analogies referring himself as a despicable man, because he argues that he can feel his wife suffering while she's coughing blood, and that’s why he drinks more and more in order to suffer twice as much. This specific part of his monologue explain us his own punishment. Alcohol is his own crime and alcohol itself it's his own punishment.
Another punishment could be when some horses ran over him, and after the accident he dies in his own house. But before dying he sees his daughter Lya barefoot, and this one was his favorite because she was the littlest and she was sick, and it hurt to him looking her that way. Also he saw Sonya, and at the beginning he didn't recognized her dressed like a prostitute and he felt terrible bad of what he has done to her. Dostoevsky in this particular scene uses lots of descriptions and the dialogs are mainly from Katerina Ivanovna, with the purpose to emphasise the damage Marmeladov has done to his family.
By: Christian Bauza, Giovanna Giusto, Mariana Rojo & Víctor Sánchez.
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