The End

              

     The end of “Crime and Punishment” has left me feeling…indifferent. The book was pretty good, it told an actual story and shows the hero after he gives him up. The ending wasn’t surprising and I expected that Raskolnikov would give himself up for a long time. The book just gives me an impression of, eh.  As in, oh, I’m done with the book now. I did like how loose ends were tied up. Dunya and Razumikhin got married. R realizes his love for Sonya (I was afraid that he would mistreat her for the rest of their lives) and they resolve to live their life together after R gets out of prison. An R’s mom goes crazy dies, which is sad because she only cared for her son. My favorite part of the book is during Dunya and Svid’s scene. The scene where Svid has Dunya locked in his room and asks her whether she loves him. Of course, she replies no, and so he kills himself. Very Shakespearean in my opinion. Before he kills himself however Svid gives his money away to Sonya (for R) and his fiancé, which shows that he wasn’t a really bad guy. Although we find earlier out that he poisoned his wife. I liked the part when R confessed, he should have done it a long time ago but I was glad he just did it. This novel has taught me about many things, especially suffering. Everyone in the book seems to be suffering. It’s as if they aren’t living life until they do. And many of these characters want to suffer. Dunya wants to, because in a conversation between R and Svid, Svid comments that if Dunya were born in an earlier time she would make herself a martyr. Sonya suffers because she takes on unnecessary tasks like supporting her family and bearing R’s sins. And R just suffers from page1 to page 463; he’s the poster child for it.  But all in all I enjoyed a good majority of the book and it has taught me many things (like the physiology of criminals)