Wednesday we’ll begin with Raskolnikov’s encounter with Marmeladov (and subsequently Marmeladov’s family), which introduces many of Dostoevsky’s distinctive techniques:
· role of confession
· role of environment
· the sort of despair that for want of a better word we can call “existential”
· the life of the social misfit
· poverty and desperate circumstances of those who suffer it
· the dead end of social determinism (via Lebezyatnikov)
· forgiveness and redemption
Then we will shift to setting in general, and Raskolnikov's environment in particular
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