Crime and Punishment
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5 pages. This longtime classic is summarized in this paper. The major theme of the book is explained and supported with examples. Other themes such as characterization, setting, and point of view, are also considered and touched upon as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAdosky.rtf

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ZOSSIMOV, A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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This 3 page paper analyzes the minor character of Zossimov in Doestoyevsky's work, Crime and Punishment. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBzoss.rtf

Doctor Zhivago
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A 4 page paper which examines the story of “Doctor Zhivago” and illustrates how everyone, in some way, can relate to him and his struggles. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: RAzhivag.rtf

Doestovsky and His Many Themes
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A 6 page comparative essay discussing how markedly different the author's characters are in four of his most popular novels. "Crime & Punishment," "The Idiot," "Possessed," and "The Brothers Karamazov." Bibliography lists these 4 primary sources, as well as 3 additional, outside sources.
Filename: Dostovk2.wps

Dostoevsky and “White Nights”
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A seven page paper analyzing the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story in terms of whether he was modeled after Dostoevsky himself. The paper presents abundant historical evidence to show that he was, and notes how the creation of this story may have helped Dostoevsky resolve issues in his own life. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: KBdostoe.wps

Dostoevsky's "Notes From The Underground"vs. Goethe's "Faust"
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An 8 page paper comparing and contrasting Goethe's (German) and Dostoevsky's (Russian) view of the dark side of existence as depicted in these two novels. The writer posits that each book illustrates mankind's growing fascination with his own dark side --offering little hope for redemption (particularly true of "Notes From The Underground"). Bibliography lists 6 critical sources.
Filename: Faust.wps

Dostoevsky's 'Grand Inquisitor'
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A 5 page paper analyzing the function of this parable told in the middle of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. The paper shows how the implications suggested in this parable affect not only the way we look at religion, but how we as a free people regard the society in which we live. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Grandinq.wps

DOSTOEVSKY, LERMONTOV AND COMPARISONS
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This 4-page paper compares Perchon of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Times and Raskolnikov of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Though these two characters are vastly different, this paper points out the theme that both characters are walking contradictions.
Filename: MTdosler.rtf

Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and “Notes from the Underground”
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An eight page paper looking at these two works in terms of whether the protagonist’s ends justify the means taken to achieve them Through tying both protagonists’ motives to irrationality, the paper argues that they do not. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBcrime.wps