Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment"

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Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky fi rst plunges the readerinto Raskolnikov's fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains whymost readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevskysubsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov's thinking, effecting aconversion in reader sympathy. By examining the multiple justifi cations for murderRaskolnikov gives as he confesses to Sonya, Dostoevsky debunks rationality-basedtheories. Finally, the question of why Raskolnikov and others, including the reader, focus on the murder of the pawnbroker and forget the unintended murder ofLizaveta reveals a narrative strategy based on shame and guilt.