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lauraredcloud at 12:07pm on 16/10/2008 under crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky, recaps
lauraredcloud at 12:07pm on 16/10/2008 under crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky, recapsI found out the numbering of the chapters restarts in each successive Part. We're on chapter 5 of Part 1. I'll have to change my numbering convention.
1.5
Raskolnikov decides not to go to Razumikhin's after all; he'll go "after it," he tells himself. Thinking about actually doing "it" makes him shudder. He wanders onto a nice suburban island and proceeds to fall asleep in a bush. I think he has a sleeping sickness. He has a dream about a man beating a horse to death, repeating that it is "my property." Not sure what that was all about. Perhaps a "theme." Maybe it will become clear later.
Raskolnikov walks home inefficiently through the Haymarket, where he happens to see Lizaveta, the pawnbroker lady's large stupid sister, making plans to be out of the house at 7:00 the next evening.
1.6
Raskolnikov hears a couple of students gossiping about Lizaveta. She is not very pretty, but apparently she is the town bike, and "constantly pregnant". She is also kind and submissive, and her sister Aliona is always beating her. They also remark that Aliona is so moneygrubbing and mean, that if she were to die, it would only improve the world. Raskolnikov is uncomfortable because their reasoning is both obviously simplistic and eerily close to his own.
Raskolnikov goes home and sleeps heavily. ( Drink! )
1.7
Claiming that he has a pledge, Raskolnikov gets Aliona Ivanovna to let him in, and when her back is turned, he beats her with the blunt end of the axe. She goes down easy. I'm starting to like Raskolnikov a little less, you guys. I'd say my like-o-meter is down around 5 from a previous 8. Carefully trying to avoid the pooling blood, he raids the body and then begins looting the apartment, pawing through gold, jewelry, and furs. ( Murder's also murder! )
So ends Part 1. I've read a bunch of Part 2, which I'll recap soon. It's pretty excellent. We finally get to meet Razumikhin and he doesn't disappoint.
1.5
Raskolnikov decides not to go to Razumikhin's after all; he'll go "after it," he tells himself. Thinking about actually doing "it" makes him shudder. He wanders onto a nice suburban island and proceeds to fall asleep in a bush. I think he has a sleeping sickness. He has a dream about a man beating a horse to death, repeating that it is "my property." Not sure what that was all about. Perhaps a "theme." Maybe it will become clear later.
Raskolnikov walks home inefficiently through the Haymarket, where he happens to see Lizaveta, the pawnbroker lady's large stupid sister, making plans to be out of the house at 7:00 the next evening.
1.6
Raskolnikov hears a couple of students gossiping about Lizaveta. She is not very pretty, but apparently she is the town bike, and "constantly pregnant". She is also kind and submissive, and her sister Aliona is always beating her. They also remark that Aliona is so moneygrubbing and mean, that if she were to die, it would only improve the world. Raskolnikov is uncomfortable because their reasoning is both obviously simplistic and eerily close to his own.
Raskolnikov goes home and sleeps heavily. ( Drink! )
1.7
Claiming that he has a pledge, Raskolnikov gets Aliona Ivanovna to let him in, and when her back is turned, he beats her with the blunt end of the axe. She goes down easy. I'm starting to like Raskolnikov a little less, you guys. I'd say my like-o-meter is down around 5 from a previous 8. Carefully trying to avoid the pooling blood, he raids the body and then begins looting the apartment, pawing through gold, jewelry, and furs. ( Murder's also murder! )
So ends Part 1. I've read a bunch of Part 2, which I'll recap soon. It's pretty excellent. We finally get to meet Razumikhin and he doesn't disappoint.