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Setting of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment
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Crime and Punishment Setting Analysis
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1. Historical Period
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Setting
Setting : Definition and Categories
Literary Definition:
the time and place of the story
Setting includes the following :
Categories
- Physical Location
- Weather
- Day & Night
- Social Status
- Historical Period
- Details of Immediate surroundings
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Setting is important
Importance
1. It gives context to the character's actions
2. Creates the mood (how the reader feels)
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1. Historical Period
2. Social Status
3. Weather & Day/Night
5. Details of Immediate Surrounding
Overview
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Social Status
2. Social Status
How did the people's social status affect them and their living conditions?
How did it affect other people?
The Poor People
The Poor
The poor :
- Lost their jobs (Raskolnikov)
- Fell into prostitution (Sonya)
- Drank all their properties (Marmeladov)
- Molested children
Poverty was everywhere.
Most of them did not have a sense of direction, and many did anything they wanted to do.
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The Affluent People
The Affluent
They are rich and, however, cruel.
They take away poor people's last hope.
Examples:
The Old Woman - Ivanovna: Only cares about herself. Raise loan interests and took away people's money.
Dunya's Husband - Luzhin: Capitalist who used money to grab Dunya's heart. Putted them in poor rooms
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The City
St. Petersburg the capital:
- Full of poverty, diseases and crimes;
- Had poor architecture and thus was crowded
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Representation
Raskolnikov: a representation for all people during that time period.
They struggled in crimes and poor living standards.
Shows the terrible social surrounding that depressed the people.
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3. Weather &
Day/Night
Weather &
Day/Night
How does weather, day, and night affect characters and their actions?
Weather : HOT
It was HOT
"On an exceptionally hot evening early in July..." (Dostoevsky 1)
- Summertime
- Heat = high tensions
- Foreshadows that something violent is going to happen
Day & Night
Day and Night
Standard
Day
Premium
Night
The Ultimate Effect of Weather on the Story
Effect
“The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster... and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer—all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.”
(Dostoevsky 17)
- creates an atmosphere of tension and irritation
- foreshadows that something is going to happen
"His nervous shudder had passed into a fever that made him feel shivering; in spite of the heat he felt cold..." (Dostoevsky 109)
- Heat might have also contributed to Ras’s fever
- Also contributed to paranoia and hallucination
4. Immediate Surrounding
Immediate Surroundings