Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky's Warning to Big Dreamers (Full Summary & Analysis)
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Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is the most famous Russian novel. In this video I will summarize it, tell you its philosophical ideas and some unique storytelling techniques used in this novel.
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“Dostoevsky cuts the bullshit and tells us all those things at the very beginning of the novel”.
Such an underrated point. Thanks for summing up why I love this writing style so much.
Appreciate it!
It's not true though, we are drip fed his real motive
@@billystronk4251 The motives revealed early on are still true motives (poverty, sickness, seeing it as an ultimate good), but the driving force is revealed later to (wanting to prove himself an ubermensch)
Read this novel twice... Such a masterpiece
Wow. Enlightening. Thanks for sharing. Pfffft
infjs shoudl burnin hell...
Read it every 10 years of your life. It gets deeper and deeper. The same goes for Idiot and The Karamazovs..
@@vsirrmk I just read it for the first time very recently and i am 17. I will undoubtedly read it again in my mid twenties, then mid thirties and so on.
What woule change if you read same novel again and again
Those of you who are older will remember the TV series Columbo, a police detective played by Peter Falk. The creators of that series based it on the witty detective chasing down Rodion Romanovich Roskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich.
Yes Colombo is great. I have seen clips of it.
What did you think of Katerina Ivanovna’s character? It was so hard to read when she was on the page, so uncomfortable, so full of anguish, so full of pain and isn’t afraid to show it….. I loved it
Yes it’s hard to read about her miseries and cruelty, a stereotypical stepmother. But her character adds to the depth and breadth of the novel and dostoevskys genius in writing a variety of characters.
That whole family was so full of pathos. Sonia was the best of them.
The chapter when she dies is one of the best in the book. She is completely unhinged. Especially when she forced the children outside to sing and beg after getting evicted.
@@scottsinger7110 when shes asking for money in the street and the policeman comes, gives her money and then she falls bleeding. What an amazing book!! I've just read it for the first time last week.
Nothing has moved me more than the speech of Marmaladov about the day of judgement. " Where is the girl who took pity on her earthly father, the filthy drunkard.... Come forth ye drunkards. .and we shall weep. But we shall understand all things.." That is the best description of the grace and pity of Jesus I have ever read in life.
I read Crime and Punishment, I marked all the important parts in the book and read them again (as far as them seemed important to me). So, with full confidence I can say that this man summarizes Crime and Punishment in a grandiose way!
Hope to see more such kind summaries!
I always thought the Narrator was a disembodied voice. Now I know there is a face. You have destroyed the illusion. Love your channel
Just another bastard talking literature. nothing fancy.
I am a great lover of Russian literature and Dostoevsky is among my favorites, The Idiot is perhaps my favorite, it is almost impossible to choose one.
Russian writing is a summit, the melancholy aurea, the surgical precision of the emotions and weaknesses of the soul, everything enchants me. I started in my teens with Tolstoy's War and Peace and never stopped.
Beautiful video! Congratulations!
Thank you! I haven’t read any Tolstoy expect a short story. I have read Dostoevskys C&P and brothers karamzavo and notes from underground. I like liked a hero of our time by lermontov and dead souls by Gogol
@@Fiction_Beast You should do The Ramayana or tagore short story kabuliwala
also you should do chinese literature I suggest thus book that I found called the dream of the red chamber.
Thank you for those great suggestions. Ramayana is on my radar. Also the red chamber. They’re on my list which is pretty at this point. I’m plowing my around the world. Appreciate your comment.
The Idiot ❤️
I just love the character of Razamokhin and his caring Raskolnikoff when his friend was sick and his sister and mother came to visit St Petersburg to meet Raskolnikoff after 3 years. I mean the way they met Razamokhin was so interesting and very funny at times when Razamokhin would flirt at Dounia and much enough, i would love a man like Razamokhin❤love Dostoyevsky
Thank you so much for this. I am in the process of reading this, and some of it (the horse dream) disturbed me. (The murders don't disturb me as much as that horse scene!) The contrasts between "morality " and the absence of it are profoundly evocative.
I thought the horse scene was really funny honestly, dark and uncomfortable, but hilarious because of the absurdity. I felt that he wrote that scene with the intention of a dark comedy. Or maybe I'm sick idk 😅
@Andy Caylor you're probably right! I might have been overly sensitive when I listened
@@andycaylor12It wasn't quite the dark comedy for Nietzsche. He had the same nightmares after reading that part, and one of his last acts was to embrace a horse that was being beaten.
I've just finished this wonderful book. It's been a couple of days and yet it hasn't left my mind. Loved listening to your video explanation, thank you 😊
Just finished reading it. Took me a long time to finish it, but buy was it worth it. I'm glad he found solace in the end.
You can't ruin a book with this much depth by giving the plot line.
Great summary
So great to see this channel grow so much in the last couple of years. I still remember when it was just a few thousand subs and a few hundred views per video... great work 👍🏽
Thank you. This channel provides an overview, yet catches infallible subtleties in a work. ✌️
By far this is the best and most indepth review of this book I found on CZcams, great work man!
Honestly, Nailed it man.... Can't wait to read this novel
Thank you! You’re very kind.
@@Fiction_Beast the man is already dead his books need to be burned.
@@jarrodyuki7081 His books need to be burned because he's dead or because the books themselves are garbage?
@@ClearOutSamskaras tssssk.
because its garbage antiexistentialist.
Tbh it is hard to find someone who can analysis it as you do 👏👏
Excellent, thankyou. I must read the book again, it has been over fifty years now.
Wow. Would be great to hear how it feels reading it after such a long period.
I'm reading it now (audio version when I travel for work).. I like your take on the story & plot, you cut to the bone right away ! super clear explanation I have listen to 5-10 explanation on CZcams to better understand it, as it’s a bit hard.. FYI this is my second book after ‘the master and Margarita’… that book blow me away and I had to listen to it twice in a row… and took a long time to get out of my mind (positive / very good self-learning process)
Excellent comments on this one of the greatest novels ever!!
Thanks! Yes definitely one of the greatest.
This is a great video. Thank you so much for creating this content.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are doing a fantastic job. I have benefitted a great deal from your videos.
I credit this novel as my first step back to Christ after a long miserable road of atheism. God bless Dostoyevsky in Heaven. He changed my life!
Doestoevsky could almost be the apostle to the atheists.
Thank you, great explanation and summery on the book.
You're very welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the video.
I passed spelling in Kindergarten too
why is this channel so underrated!!!
Please spread the words. Thanks so much.
I'm in the middle of reading the book. Your video will help me a lot more in understanding the book. Thanks a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow. How enlightening
Hmmmmph
Without doubt my favourite novel. Astonishing. The epilogue floored me.
You are brilliant, I truly admire your works.
Thank you
Many thanks!
Thank you for this analysis/Summary. I realy need this after finishing Crime and Punishment
Thank you!
Just discovered your channel, and it's like finding a seam of gold in my back garden.
So i graduated thinking I'd hopefully never have to read a novel again, but thanks to your channel, i bought the brothers karamazov. Sounds stupid maybe but thanks for that
Wonderful insight
Beautifully explained! Watching all your good works one by one... keep going! 😍
Thanks a lot 😊
Sir please make more videos on British literature specially on Postmodern novels! 😃
Any novel in particular?
You are doing a great service
Excellent, as always, thank you. I may already have mentioned it, but he is my favourite Russian writer. While reading Crime, I could not wait to get back to it. But I digress, what I really wanted to mention is that this novel was a required read in grade 12 high schools in Canada. If my memory tells me, and my wife agrees, it was hated by most students. What a shame. But then, not many students took Othello or Hamlet to a beach party.
thanks for the great comment. I agree the best way to get people dislike a book is to make it required reading. Crime is a book you should discover and read i think after high school or college.
@@Fiction_Beast I am in 10th grade and this book was required for honors English, such a long book but I enjoyed it and your analysis really helped clarify the background for me. Thanks so much!
Outstanding commentary.
great review
Good review
I thoroughly enjoyed it !!!
Thank you! Awesome to hear that.
You nailed it sir. There is a comment before mine which used the word "insightful"--yep.
Appreciate it.
Fantastic, tks!
very nice explanation
One of the best summaries I have found on CZcams. Thanks!
Wow, thanks!
this is a really insightful video to explain this novel, very clearly explained the philosophies behind the book and Raskolnikov! loved hearing you're insights on this really dense novel
Glad it was helpful!
What are you are insights? 😒 hmmmph
A superb discourse!
Thank you!
Really a very very good review of the novel
happy to see the face behind the channel!
Very well explained! I am reading it!
Wonderful! It’s a great novel.
I think quite a few young men 16 - 22 years old harbor at least a little of the feeling that they are above ordinary morality. A lot of them, including myself, felt like we were somehow transcending when we slugged down a case of beer and smoked a couple of joints. We'd go out in the country and drive insanely fast, another thing a lot of young men are bad about. It seemed like every year a carload of kids had a fatal accident driving insanely fast. It's a good thing there wasn't a lot of speed around at the time, (This was a long time ago.) because I probably would have become addicted to that. My friend and I eventually had a head on collision. He lost his knee cap. I got my front teeth broken in half. They had to remove his kneecap eventually. But we were putting other lives in danger driving that fast. We thought we were very smart, and nearly immortal. That is a story that is repeated in a lot of towns.
Same here. I totaled my sports car driving 140mph at 22 years old with that same mindset. I was the only person involved in the crash, and I had no major injuries. What’s sad is that after the accident, I had a dichotomy of thought. One was immense guilt, realizing the danger I put others in and how so many innocent people don’t walk away from accidents. The other thought - for some reason I had walked away largely unscathed, and perhaps that meant I had some large, unrealized purpose to fulfill. As if it somehow further proved the point of my invincibility and transcendence.
At 28, I no longer think that way, and the latter thought was rather short lived even back then. But it’s interesting how the ego can take over. Having just read this book, it puts things into perspective.
Great!!!
Thank you so much.
I liked this review of the book. ❤
I've read it once and I intend to read it again as I have missed a lot of compression in the arguments despite active reading. Gosh it's so dense the arguments.
great review for a great book🙌
Glad you think so!
Great to see your handsome face!😊love your literary knowledge! ❤️
Great video
Thank you!
Thank you.
Beautifully done. You speak so fast :)
Thank you! 😊
excellent
Your a savior I find it hard to understand the book but after watching this and I start reading it and I am starting to love the book. thank you so much
Cool video.
Very insightful book and a critique on the current state of the woke western world.
Superb
Well done. Thks
Thanks for watching!
Read it in my twenties and never forgot this work of genius.
Brothers Karamazov better by far.
Thank you
Excellent analysis and synopsis of said novel; which is very worthy of its designation as a Classic!!! However, there's one further detail that's worth noting vis-a-vis, 'Crime and Punishment' - and, quite frankly, most of Dostoevsky's novels: they're polyphonic (see Mikhail Bakhtin's, 'The Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics'); that is, in each of the novels composed by Dostoevsky the characters are enabled by the novelist to express a unique, individual and interesting voice to the work in question. Hence, the dynamism, breadth and depth one experiences whilst immersed in a novel written by the great Fyodor Dostoevsky! RGB-Y3 out!!
So good explanation !
What an excellent channel.
Thank you Sir 🙏🏻
Are you also a Japanese ?
🍎
Great summery!
Thank you!
Abandon the groupist mentalities and adopt personal responsibility - there one will find true purpose in life.
I find Svidrigailoff the most interesting character I've ever seen in a work of literature. Did he strike anyone as much as he did me?
I’ve just read this book and I loved it. I appreciate hearing your thoughts on it.
That's great! Thank you for watching.
I am going to read it now..Thanku sir
Great 👍
Great video. If you still do them can you put that last part about spoiling the plot but still good to read at the beginning? That way viewers can choose.
I love this book. I felt just like Ralskonikov.
Thank you for not playing background music..💚💚
I'm currently reading it for the 2nd time, straight after finishing it for the first time. I'm laughing at the jokes this time round, having taken it very seriously the first time. The best laugh so far is in Part 2 Chapter VI. Zamyotov has just had his mind blown by Raskolnikov's weird but true confession in the Crystal Palace, and afterwards can only decide a certain officer is a 'blockhead' after pondering the conversation for a long time. 😂 Its a wonderful punchline.
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fun video. couple notes from political phil: (1) utilitarianism =|= ends justify means; (2) god is dead =|= “rationalism”. versions or aspects of these large ethical frames can overlap but they are not the same and often are opposed. also, i don’t get the sense R thinks he is a great world-historical figure or übermensch at all. he may mumble about that early on but that is radically absent very quickly, & before the murders.
Which translation do you recommend and why?
David Mcduff Translation is the best
Oh my god you revealed your face! :D
I wouldnt say raskolnikov thought he was a great man, but he wanted to prove himself to be one. Recall how he tried thinking the crime through and rationalizing the morals of it, but realized that a great man would not be paralyzed by such things.
Eight years is a bit lenient for a double murder. Was that a realistic sentence in Czarist Russia? (I've only seen the film, not read the novel, yet).
Your argument is solid other than the fact that Dostoevsky used religion as a place holder or security blanket. As you see in Brither’s katana’s it is the essential question of life. Will you take the oath of god or not. The result is what you talk about in humanism.
Hola por favor quiero la traducción en espanol abajo gracias!!! muy interesante!!!
Por que gritas animal salvaje.
I love Dostoevsky
Me too! He’s one my favorite novelists.
That picture of J.S. Mill is the wrong picture. It’s Ben Franklin.
Oops! Thanks for pointing it out. I’m just secretly hoping Ben Franklin was a utilitarian himself so my philosophical argument can stand. The annoying thing about CZcams is once you post a video you can’t change it. I hope it’s not a major distraction. Hope you enjoyed the rest.
I'm sorry, but I think what the book is trying to tell all readers is that people suffer all the time for their actions and morality makes them feel guilty for everything they've done, no matter what kind of person they are punished for. its moral and will be according to the action.
Your biggest tormentor is yourself. That's what I got out of it. Ralskonikov punished himself far worse than the law.
We put ourselves in great difficulty when our mind becomes the servant.... Anger, hatred, selfishness, cruelty, jealousy etc. starts surfacing.
He who has conquered his mind to be his master has the quality of kindness, compassion, peacefulness, selflessness.
We live in a world of duality of Peace/ war, light/darkness, rich/poor, honest/dishonest.
We are responsible for the actions and consequences we undertake.
I read it and also enjoyed it. But not as much as like others. I was loving the parts of raskolnikov. If there was a book about raskolnikov lying sick on his bed and thinking and thinking i could have read it. But some other charecters part from the book like svidrigailov and luzhin were so boring to me. Spacially, when the long philosophical paragraphs of these charecters starts. In one sentence, i loved loved loved the psychology of this book but didn't like the philosophy much. I'm thinking about to rereading it. Please, give me some advice. Btw, love you sir. As a bengali I've a request. Please make some videos about bengali literature. Its a very rich literature. It's also the most richest literature in India.
Thank you! I made a video on Tagore. Check it out.
There is, in a way. "Notes From Underground".
Can you please take a look at Greek writer . Kazantzakis it's his name
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - summary and analysis
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@@Fiction_Beast just saw it very good . Thank you very much
Raskolnikov is a noir character
Did not think you looked like the way you do
I read this book when I was a high school student in Canada. It started my 40 plus year love affair with Russian literature. I have lived in Japan in a mountain village in a wonderful 200 year old farmhouse. I am a successful craftsman and textile historian. All that is missing in my life is you. Are you looking for a life partner? I may be your man.
Nietzsche speaks not to the many
Sometimes I wonder if this book would have been better if the crime went according to plan and Raskolnikov only killed the pawn broker. Then we could see if Raskolnikov would have wrestled with his conscience when his guilt was less obvious. Seems to me a decent person had no chance the way things went down. Still a great book and I know the other girl's murder makes Sonya's part in the book more compelling.
That’s a good question. I guess Dostoevsky added another layer by the accidental show up
@@Fiction_Beast Yeah, I think it does add an implied lesson, which is we can't control how things will go whether we plan well or not. That is another reason we shouldn't take the place of God, even over our own decisions.
It's just since Raskolnikov goes through this arc realizing he isn't above feelings of crushing guilt, it might have been more interesting if he had only killed the pawn broker, someone he saw as bad and worthless.
remember that all entities are mortal and that warrants are required for polygraphs and brain scans. also cameras can be bypassed or frozen. stealing or piracy is not as serious as murder.
Dickens criticized aspects of industrial revolution, Jane Austen would not have, Thatcher, of course would not have. I ll look forward to a video, that studies this contrast and its impact.
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Every society / country is rooted in rejecting some kind of labor , slave labor for us (Now min wage labor), prostitution for USSR, opium agriculture sino Brit, mechanical labor for Britain industrial revolution, debt prisons in Europe UK, pyramids construction in Egypt... You get the gist .ban, however, doesn't resolve the human condition which created the need in first place. That's untapped economic potential of a society. Long lasting enterprise (or government for that matter) works around the rejection or ban on name of employment scheme, microfinance, learn to code, gig economy, freelance and same wheels start rotating again.its just using tech to reinvent accepts, very rarely it enables or empowers which was not economic before it. Adam Smith pin factory hypothesis was no different and Thomas picketty S thesis doesn't change it
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Omg
Honestly, I thought you were racially East Asian by your voice. Maybe from Korean ethnically. This is the first time I've seen your face
A bastard son of Genghis Khan and Dostoevsky!
universality is black note. if you want good things in this world you have to follow machiavelli and nietzche and think outside the box become a wolf. there no other way to have more happiness than others!!!!!!!!!!!!!! religion is cage formed by human society. so are morals.
cao cao once said i would rather betray the world than have the world betray me!!!!!! fyodor is from gulag thats why he believes man can never transcend god or the herd. but history and science has shown it can be done.