Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky's Warning to Big Dreamers (Full Summary & Analysis) 

“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.

Read this novel twice... Such a masterpiece

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

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.

You can't ruin a book with this much depth by giving the plot line. Great summary

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 always thought the Narrator was a disembodied voice. Now I know there is a face. You have destroyed the illusion. Love your channel

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

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.

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 😊

Honestly, Nailed it man.... Can't wait to read this novel

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. This channel provides an overview, yet catches infallible subtleties in a work. ✌️

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 👍🏽

By far this is the best and most indepth review of this book I found on RU-vid, great work man!

Excellent, thankyou. I must read the book again, it has been over fifty years now.

Tbh it is hard to find someone who can analysis it as you do 👏👏

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!

Thank you, great explanation and summery on the book.

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 RU-vid 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)

Outstanding commentary.

This is a great video. Thank you so much for creating this content.

Excellent comments on this one of the greatest novels ever!!

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!

You are doing a fantastic job. I have benefitted a great deal from your videos.

You are doing a great service

I thoroughly enjoyed it !!!

Wonderful insight

You are brilliant, I truly admire your works. Thank you

I'm in the middle of reading the book. Your video will help me a lot more in understanding the book. Thanks a lot.

great review

A superb discourse!

Good review

Without doubt my favourite novel. Astonishing. The epilogue floored me.

Fantastic, tks!

why is this channel so underrated!!!

Thank you for this analysis/Summary. I realy need this after finishing Crime and Punishment

Beautifully explained! Watching all your good works one by one... keep going! 😍

very nice explanation

Very well explained! I am reading it!

Just discovered your channel, and it's like finding a seam of gold in my back garden.

Really a very very good review of the novel

Thank you so much.

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

happy to see the face behind the channel!

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.

I liked this review of the book. ❤

One of the best summaries I have found on RU-vid. Thanks!

Great video

great review for a great book🙌

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

You nailed it sir. There is a comment before mine which used the word "insightful"--yep.

Thank you.

Great!!!

Great summery!

Well done. Thks

Thank you

Beautifully done. You speak so fast :)

excellent

Superb

Cool video.

Very insightful book and a critique on the current state of the woke western world.

I am going to read it now..Thanku sir

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.

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

Great to see your handsome face!😊love your literary knowledge! ❤️

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.

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!!

Abandon the groupist mentalities and adopt personal responsibility - there one will find true purpose in life.

Thank you for not playing background music..💚💚

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.

So good explanation ! What an excellent channel. Thank you Sir 🙏🏻 Are you also a Japanese ? 🍎

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.

I love this book. I felt just like Ralskonikov.

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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.

Oh my god you revealed your face! :D

Which translation do you recommend and why?

I love Dostoevsky

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).

Read it in my twenties and never forgot this work of genius.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That picture of J.S. Mill is the wrong picture. It’s Ben Franklin.

Hola por favor quiero la traducción en espanol abajo gracias!!! muy interesante!!!

Raskolnikov is a noir character

Can you please take a look at Greek writer . Kazantzakis it's his name

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.

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

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.

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. As: 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

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.

i worhsip the sith nietshe>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>fyodor there is nomercy.

Wish you were not reading prompter

nihilism isnt impossible its just that if you resort to nihilsm eveyoen will be your enemy however ifyou turn to nonvioeltn or white collar crime to survive youll last longer.