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Prompt: "Explain the treatment of women in the novel. (Treatment of women by men) *Consider Dounia, Sonia, Katerina Ivanovna, Lizaveta, Marfa Petrovna, Svidrigailov's betrothed, and the women witnessed in the streets."
Answer: Before I started the novel, my assumption was that the women in the novel would be flat characters who were oppressed and cliché. Upon reading the novel, I realized I was wrong.
The novel does take place in the late 1880's, therefore the women in the novel undoubtedly have less right than the men, and that is shown. However, the women in the novel are strong, and sacrifice much.
The women in Crime and Punishment can have jobs, although jobs that aren't as nice as jobs for men Like on page 3 in the streets there were "girls picking up a living as best they can".  They were not offered good jobs, but then again neither was Rraskolnikov. Still, if need be, a woman could earn her own money. Most of this money would, however, come from prostitution.
On page 24 Roskolnikov's Mother, Pulcheria, writes him a letter. In this letter the strength of his sister, Dounia, and their mother come forth. These women are strong enough to live through their daily sufferings of poverty, and hunger. Other women in this novel display similar abilities, such as Katerina Ivanovna, and Sonia. Both Katerina Ivanovna, and Sonia show lots of strength when giving sacrifices to take care of business in their daily lives. For example, Katerina Ivonovna is suffering from some sort of illness. "Katerina Ivanovna is full of generous feelings", according to Marmeladov, and sacrifices her health to care for her children. Sonia sacrifices herself by being a prostitute, so her family can have more money. Raskolnikov's sister and mother also sacrifice things. His mother sacrifices money to him, when she has none.
Although the women have good characteristics, they are also often seen as cold and irrational. When Sonia had picked a husband for herself Raskolnikov thought it was an irrational decision. Marmeladov describes his wife as caring, and good hearted but also "irritable and short—tempered". Men are also still quite controlling over women. When Sonia wants to marry Mr. Luzhin, Roskolnikov forbids it and says "there will "never such a marriage while I am alive".

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