Crime and Punishment | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

garret (Raskolnikov's room) - The tiny rented room where Raskolnikov spends most of his time in thought. Raskolnikov sometimes expresses his contempt for the dingy, cursed room.

St. Petersburg - A cosmopolitan city that is a spiritual and intellectual hotbed of various peoples and ideas.

Hay Market - It is considered to be the slums of St. Petersburg, where the working and lower classes congregate.

green shawl - It becomes an object associated with suffering. Sonia puts it on when she comes back from sacrificing herself for the first time.

yellow ticket -...
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