Numerology in Crime and Punishment

[William Ryan]

The Russian world is a big place  - can you be more specific about who 
believes this?
Will

On 22/12/2010 19:56, Lewis B. Sckolnick wrote:
>  In the Russian world the number four is the number which represents 
> death.
>
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>> I am currently teaching Crime and Punishment to a group of Advanced
>> Placement high school seniors.  We are trying to figure out the 
>> significance of
>> numbers in the book, especially the number four which he uses 
>> constantly.
>> The scene in the police station shortly after the murder is inundated 
>> with the
>> number four and most people live on the fourth floor.  Razuhmikhin, 
>> however,
>> lives on the fifth floor.  Don't want to make too much out of it, but 
>> when
>> someone of Dostoevsky's caliber emphazises a number there is most likely
>> something behind it.
>>
>> Thanks for any input!
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