Crime and Punishment Secondary Characters Questions on Crime

Crime and Punishment Secondary Characters

Questions on Crime and Punishment 1. What is your favourite character in the work and why? 2. Which scene in the book made the greatest impression on you? 3. What features does Dostoevsky dwell on in descriptions of characters?

Secondary Characters • Which secondary characters do you find most interesting? • How does Dostoevsky draw his characters: are they realistic, or are they caricatures?

Porfiry Petrovich • Name: Porforios was Greek philosopher and mathematician • Neoplatonist, applied logic • Description (Three/5, p. 297). • Indiarubber 397, 399 • Two times two p. 403, 404, 405

Dmitry Prokofievich Razumikhin • Razumikhin from razum – ‘intelligence’ • Vrazumikhin – from Russ. Vrazumit’: ‘to bring to senses’ • Luzhin misnames him Rassudochkin from rassudok (logic, rationality) • Energetic, hardworking

Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin • Possible significance of first name and patronymic? • Description (Two/5, p. 176) • Luzhin – ‘puddle’ • Who is he?

Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov • Description (Five/1, p. 435) • 441 Environment • 451 two and two.

Nikolai / Mikolka • First appearance in Porfiry’s office (Four/6, p. 418) • Porfiry’s description. • “A Raskolnik. ”(Six/2, p. 542 -4)

Alyona Ivanovna • Widow, pawnbroker, plans to leave her wealth to monastery • Sister Lizaveta (pious, always pregnant!)