Information about the author:
Jasmina Vojvodić
Jasmina Vojvodić, PhD in Philology, Professor, Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures, Section of Russian Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, I. Lučića St., 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
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Abstract:
The article examines the clothing of the heroes in the novel Crime and Punishment. The clothes of the poor (e.g., rags, cheap materials) are analyzed, as well as clothes that hide and reveal (such as an axe invisible from the outside, blood on clothes), grotesque clothes, and so on. The analysis particularly emphasizes the clothing of the lovers. The clothes of the characters speak both about the falseness of love and about sincere feelings and the development of love between two couples: Razumikhin-Dunya and Raskolnikov-Sonya. The change in Raskolnikov’s clothes, carried out with Razumikhin’s help, is the first step in the hero’s restoration. Sonya’s headdress (a green drap-de-dames scarf) changes as she grows from a girl, almost a child, to a grown woman in the novel’s epilogue.
Keywords: clothing, poverty, love, headdress, Crime and Punishment.
