In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, the protagonist, Raskolnikov, has a theory about crime concerning the ordinary and the extraordinary man. As the story progresses, Raskolnikov begins to question his own theory and eventually loses all faith in it. Bibliography lists 1 source. A five page paper on this classic novel by nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The paper maintains that Raskolnikov s crime lies in his arrogant assumption that his life and goals are worth more than someone else s, and that he even has the right to make that kind of judgment.
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A five page analysis of this short story by famed Soviet dissident Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. The story tells of a poor woman in rural Russia, and the official corruption that made her life and those of her fellow villagers so difficult. No additional sources. The Queen of Spades was written in 1834, only a few short years before he was to die in a duel over his socialite wife. It is the ironic story of a compulsive gambler, Hermann, who will stop at nothing to obtain a Countess s secrets on how to win in card games.