... of Dostoevsky's style such as symbolic representation of words are lost when the original Russian text is translated into English. Although translation nullifies some of Dostoevsky's style, there are many other qualities of his style that are not lost through translation. The personality of the characters that Dostoevsky creates reflects the manner they speak at length through dialogue. Every character in Crime ... ...

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... eventually proceeds to reject everything within human society, even choosing to disregard his own language and beliefs. "Which must needs suffer by my want of capacity, as well as by a translation into our barbarous English" (Page 270, Paragraph 1) This example represents a significant resentment for human society, where he is even disgusted with his own dialect and language. In this incident, he ... ...

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