Power in Crime and Punishment

Nina MalleryMorgan GilbertNina MalleryMorgan Gilbert

 Murder of Alyona Ivannova and Lizafeta

unattractive “eyes sparkling  w/ malice” “The old woman was as always bareheaded.

Her thin, light hair, streaked with grey, thickly smeared with grease, was plaited in a rat's tail and fastened by a broken horn comb which stood out on the nape of her neck” (80)- Indicates evil

   Steals some goods but not many- only what he needed

unattractive “eyes sparkling  w/ malice” “The old woman was as always bareheaded.

Her thin, light hair, streaked with grey, thickly smeared with grease, was plaited in a rat's tail and fastened by a broken horn comb which stood out on the nape of her neck” (80)- Indicates evil

   Steals some goods but not many- only what he needed

Gives money to Marmeladov’s family

Drunk, tattered clothes Alternates hatred for justification He was a man over fifty, bald and grizzled, of medium

height, and stoutly built. His face, bloated from continual drinking, was of a yellow, even greenish, tinge, with swollen eyelids out of which keen reddish eyes gleamed like little chinks. But there was something very strange in him; there was a light in his eyes as though of intense feeling—perhaps there were even thought and intelligence, but at the same time there was a gleam of something like madness (10)

Power to do good- wants to believe he is good

Drunk, tattered clothes Alternates hatred for justification He was a man over fifty, bald and grizzled, of medium

height, and stoutly built. His face, bloated from continual drinking, was of a yellow, even greenish, tinge, with swollen eyelids out of which keen reddish eyes gleamed like little chinks. But there was something very strange in him; there was a light in his eyes as though of intense feeling—perhaps there were even thought and intelligence, but at the same time there was a gleam of something like madness (10)

Power to do good- wants to believe he is good

Sister’s engagement to Luzhin

“Almost from the first, while he read the letter, Raskolnikov's face was wet with tears; but when he

finished it, his face was pale and distorted and a bitter, wrathful and malignant smile was on his lips”

(41) b. I won't have your sacrifice, Dounia, I won't have it,

mother! It shall not be, so long as I am alive, it shall not, it shall not! I won't accept it!” (46)- protests that she will be forever indebted to fiancé- he does not want someone else to have power over her

“Almost from the first, while he read the letter, Raskolnikov's face was wet with tears; but when he

finished it, his face was pale and distorted and a bitter, wrathful and malignant smile was on his lips”

(41) b. I won't have your sacrifice, Dounia, I won't have it,

mother! It shall not be, so long as I am alive, it shall not, it shall not! I won't accept it!” (46)- protests that she will be forever indebted to fiancé- he does not want someone else to have power over her

Illness

Unconscious response to stress of murder Losing control of body Power given to Razuhmin

Unconscious response to stress of murder Losing control of body Power given to Razuhmin

.      Argues to free accused man-

Although against himself, his attempt do right thing- be good

Shows his loss of “power” over the police Power to control the police investigation

Although against himself, his attempt do right thing- be good

Shows his loss of “power” over the police Power to control the police investigation

Confessions in the story throughout

Atempts to gain power Disbelief leads to a conscious loss of power

Constant consideration of confession Razuhimin eye contact “I was ambitious to become another

Napoleon that was why I killed her.”

Atempts to gain power Disbelief leads to a conscious loss of power

Constant consideration of confession Razuhimin eye contact “I was ambitious to become another

Napoleon that was why I killed her.”

Final confession

Leads to Siberia Police have power punishment

Freedom Visual loss of power Final power over himself and life

Leads to Siberia Police have power punishment

Freedom Visual loss of power Final power over himself and life