Because of this, he sees crime and prostitution everywhere he goes. Women are constantly sacrificing their lives and bodies for men, and in return these men mistreat them. The westernizers are revolting against the slavophiles, and if they won it would result in a loss of God and no limits to what anyone may do. All of these horrible things happening around Raskolnikov cause him to become angry and depressed. This leads Raskolnikov to murder the pawnbroker and her sister, an event that haunts him throughout the entire novel. Because of this murder, Raskolnikov becomes emotionally, physically, and mentally fatigued. The murder and the horrible conditions that Raskolnikov has to face show the extraordinary circumstances that he has had to deal with.
Tim O"Brien uses stylistic devices to convey the extraordinary circumstances that he goes through throughout the novel. He uses psychological realism, which means that the reader learns bits and pieces about an event before they learn the whole truth, to make everything seem even more extraordinary. He also repeats the same phrase over and over again. For example: In the beginning of the novel, O"Brien writes that there was once a young man that he would kill one day with a hand grenade along a trail outside of My Khe. He repeats this phrase over and over again and seeps in more information each time. Finally, more towards the end of the novel we hear the whole story of how it happened. This would be considered a repetition compulsion. According to Sigmund Freud, the repetition compulsion is to keep repeating an event over and over again hoping that eventually the outcome will change. Truth is one of O"Brien's main themes throughout the novel. He writes about something called happening truth and story truth. He explains that happening truth doesn't accurately show what actually went on. On the other hand, story truth, which is usually fiction, does accurately show what went on.
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