Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in Urdu Hindi | Crime and Punishment Summary Themes MCQs

Crime and Punishment Summary Themes MCQs | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in Urdu Hindi

Introduction of Writer (Dostoyevsky)
30 October 1821 Moscow
2nd number in his siblings
His father was killed by a serf
Educated from boarding school | 1838 St. Petersberg | 1843 Education Completed | Realised his artistic skills
1846 published first novel Poor Folk | Admired by Belinsky
Liberal Group Petrashevsky - 1849 prisoned for 8 months | released |8 to 4 years (reduced) - Spiritual transformation
Introduction of Writer (Dostoyevsky)
Russian novelist and short-story writer
Psychological writing
had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.
regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived.
Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas.
His works are often called prophetic
In his time he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
Autobioraphical elements can be seen in his works
Major Works
Dostoyevsky is best known for his
novella Notes from the Underground and for four long novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed (also and more accurately known as The Demons and The Devils), and The Brothers Karamazov.
Each of these works is famous for its psychological profundity, and, indeed, Dostoyevsky is commonly regarded as one of the greatest psychologists in the history of literature.
Introduction of the novel (Crime and Punishment)
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Type Of Work: Novel
Genre: Psychological drama (Psychological Realism)
Language: Russian
Time And Place Written: 1865–1866, St. Petersburg, Russia
Date Of First Publication: 1866; appeared serially in The Russian Messenger before being published in book form in 1867
Publisher:The serial edition was published by the editor of The Russian Messenger, Mikhail Katkov; the two-volume book version was published by Bazanov.
Narrator : Third-person omniscient
Settings (Time) : 1860s
Settings (Place) : St. Petersburg and a prison in Siberia
Point Of View : The story is told primarily from the point of view of Raskolnikov but occasionally switches to the perspective of Svidrigailov, Razumikhin, and Dunya.
Characters
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (“Rodya,” “Rodka”)
Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (“Sonya,” “Sonechka”)
Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov (“Dunya,” “Dunechka”)
Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov
Dmitri Prokofych Razumikhin
Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladov
Porfiry Petrovich
Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov
Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
Alyona Ivanovna
Lizaveta Ivanovna
Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”)
Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”)

Summary of Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov | St. Petersburg | crime | old pawnbroker | money for a watch and to plan the crime
stops for a drink at a tavern | meets a man named Marmeladov | sickly wife, Katerina
finds an AX|kills pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta

Raskolnikov becomes annoyed with Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya
Razumikhin, meanwhile, falls in love with Dunya.
Raskolnikov visits the magistrate in charge of the murder investigation, Porfiry Petrovich, a relative of Razumikhin.
Zamyotov is at the detective’s house when Raskolnikov arrives.
Raskolnikov and Porfiry have a tense conversation about the murders
a man|calls him a murderer. |That night Raskolnikov dreams about the pawnbroker’s murder. When he wakes up, there is a stranger in the room.
Dunya breaks the engagement | Everyone is overjoyed
Razumikhin realizes, without a word being spoken, that Raskolnikov is guilty of the murders.
Raskolnikov goes to the apartment of Sonya | Sonya was a friend of one of his victims, Lizaveta.| biblical story of Lazarus
Raskolnikov visits Porfiry Petrovich at the police department |
Raskolnikov goes to Sonya’s room|confesses the murders| convince him to confess to the authorities
Svidrigailov | knows Raskolnikov is the murderer
Porfiry Petrovich appears and apologizes for his treatment of Raskolnikov in the police station.
Svidrigailov | attracted to Dunya| bring Dunya to his room|she refuses to marry |fires misses |she dislikes him |he allows her to leave | suicide
Raskolnikov |planning to confess|he confesses to one of the police officials, Ilya Petrovich.
A year and a half later, Raskolnikov is in prison in Siberia, where he has been for nine months.
Sonya has moved to the town outside the prison, and she visits Raskolnikov regularly and tries to ease his burden.
Confession | Mentally relaxed
After Raskolnikov’s arrest, his mother became delirious and died. Razumikhin and Dunya were married.
Raskolnikov remains as proud and alienated from humanity as he was before his confession, but he eventually realizes that he truly loves Sonya and expresses remorse for his crime.
Themes
Alienation from Society
The Psychology of Crime and Punishment
The Idea of the Superman
Nihilism
Crime
Money and Poverty


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