Deep Analysis of Crime and Punishment: Resolution (Part Six) (Patreon)

Take a moment to pause and appreciate your journey through hell.

Look back on the wake of anxiety and bloodshed and ask yourself...

How do you feel?

Do you buy into the close of Crime and Punishment? 

What did you get out of this novel?

Let's dissect Dostoyevsky together.

Video Timestamps:

• 0:00 appreciate what you have accomplished
• 0:50 why Part Six is one of the best parts of the novel
• 2:00 register your impression of C&P
• 4:00 you don’t get away with anything
• 4:40 how many reread is C&P worth?
• 4:50 is Raskolnikov sincere?
• 8:00 what if Part Six were the opening of the novel?
• 7:00 comparing with opening of Dickens’ Bleak House
• 13:00 the ego death and Svidrigailov stealing the show
• 15:00 carry your cross
• 16:00 Solzhenitsyn as your Russian pathway if you loved Dostoyevsky
• 22:00 Dostoyevsky’s Shakespeareanism (Othello and King Lear)
• 30:00 deep reading of Part Six
• 44:00 the split in Svidrigailov
• 50:00 do you feel any remorse in Raskolnikov’s confession?
• 57:00 the final scene of C&P
• 58:00 your personal response

We raised a lot of questions in that video - and in the reading of this novel. 

Perhaps we're left with more questions than answers.

If you can hazard an attempt to answer any of them, please let us know.

What was this novel about for you?

Will you carry it within you going forward?

If you had to persuade another reader to pick it up, and stick with it, how would you do that?

Look forward to dissecting the Epilogue!

Happy reading, everybody!