Russian Names The middle name of all male characters end in “ovitch” and of all female characters in “ovna.” This ending simply means “son of” or “daughter of” the father whose first name is converted into their middle name and is called a patronymic. For example, Rodya and Dunya’s father […]
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In the nineteenth century, the western world moved away from the romanticism found in the works of Pushkin in Russia, Goethe in Germany, Hawthorne and Poe in America, and Wordsworth in England and moved in toward a modern realistic approach to literature. While the world was still reading popular romantic […]
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Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an extraordinary young man and then formulates a theory whereby the extraordinary men of the world have a right to commit any crime if they have something of worth to offer humanity. To prove his theory, he murders an old, despicable […]
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