Fyodor Dostoevsky S Crime and Punishment

Name: ______

Per: ______Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Webquest - Honors 10 – Chadwick

“Crime? What crime?...My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman…and you call that a crime?”

Crime and Punishment is a novel about a man who commits a presumptively random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.

Through this Webquest you will learn an understanding of the author of the novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well the novel itself and the characters in it.

You may use these websites to help you learn more about him and the novel Crime and Punishment:

Title: Fyodor Dostoevsky http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/biography.php

Title: Mrs. Chadwick’s 10 Honors – 2 (two documents) http://teachers.sduhsd.net/tchadwick/crime_punishment_webquest.htm

Title: Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoevsky URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm

Title: Fyodor Dostoevsky URL: http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/

I. Gain an Understanding of the author of Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

o When/where he was born: ______o When/where died: ______o Where he grew up: ______o Where he has lived throughout his lifetime: ______o Marriages ______o Any children? ______o Other family members ______o Aspects and experiences in his life that contributed to his work: ______o Anything else you find interesting about his life and the work that he has done ______o After doing a bit of research, what do you personally think of Dostoevsky? Reactions to occurrences in his life? ______

II. Interesting facts about the novel Crime and Punishment: o When did the original idea, a murderer's first-person confession, come to him? ______o What was the public reception/reaction to Crime and Punishment? ______2 o Other interesting facts about the novel: ______o Other works written by Dostoevsky: ______