The Philosophical Laboratory Case of Crime and Punishment Analysed in Three Narrative Levels
- Ece Yasirik
- May 27, 2024
- 1 min read
By Ece Yasirik
Author Biography:
Ece is a second-year English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. She has interest in Medieval Literature, Russian Novels and Short Stories (anywhere from Pushkin to Bulgakov), high-genre fiction, and futuristic poetry. When she is not in the library finding the dustiest books in the establishment, she likes to write fiction to entertain the public.
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The country, the city, and the mind: while being an arbitrary split, this is a handy one in discussing the arguments of Dostoevsky's polemical masterpiece Crime and Punishment. The novel argues for post-enlightenment ideas that snowballed into the nineteenth century and corrupted the country, both morally and philosophically. In this essay, the representation of the corruption of these three levels will be analysed within the framework of the thought experiment conducted on the impoverished student Raskolnikov, showcasing his intertwined fate with the state of Russia.
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