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Crime And Punishment Dream Analysis

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Dreams are a series of thoughts and images that occur in a person’s mind while they are asleep. One person might believe that these dreams are random and another could think that they are conscious thoughts or foreshadow what is going to happen in the future. In the novel, Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky, dreams play an important role as the story progresses. Raskolnikov has three main dreams that show how he changes throughout the novel. They are all pertinent to the murder of Alyona and even the murder of Lizaveta. The first of the dreams happen as a young boy is walking down the street. Raskolnikov’s first dream is about a young boy is who is walking with his father and drunken man and a horse. This man is beating his horse because he cannot pull a cart that is overloaded and too heavy. This dream is used to foreshadow the murder of the pawn broker, Alyona Ivanova. The horse represents her and the young boy and drunken man both represent Raskolnikov. The young boy is the innocent of him and shows that there is part of him that does not want to and knows that he should not commit the murder. The drunken man shows the part of Raskolnikov who thinks that she is doing nothing good …show more content…

Raskolnikov progresses throughout each one of these dreams. In the first one, this shows the murder that is going to take place and how he thinks that Alyona is not a deserving member of society. The dream in the apartment shows the guilty and panic that is going through Raskolnikovs mind. The final dream shows how he has grown and no longer thinks he is above everybody else and is just a normal member of society. He knows what he did is wrong and he should punish for it. Each one of these dreams play an important role in novel. Could dreams in real life reveal as much as they do in novel? Imagine the dream a person had, representing the next face in their

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