The Irregular Plot Pace of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor...

Reflective Statement on Crime and Punishment I first considered exploring the effect of irregular plot pacing and the placement of the murder at the beginning of the novel when I picked â€Å"The Effect of Irregular Plot Pacing† as a literary discussion topic. Now in order to determine the effect of these factors, I had to understand what irregular plot pacing was. Irregular plot pacing is the rhythm of the novel, of the chapters and scenes and paragraphs and sentences. Its also the rate at which the reader reads, the speed at which novel events occur and unfold. Its using specific word choices and sentence structure--scene, chapter, and novel structure--to tap the emotions of the reader so that the reader feels what the writer wants the reader to feel at any given time during the story. Particularly in Crime and Punishment it is referring to the relative time (real time like years, days, weeks†¦etc.) it takes for events to take place compared to the amount of pages and at which speed Dostoevsky unfolds these aforem entioned events. After discovering all of this and analyzing various examples throughout the novel I came to the conclusion that irregular plot pacing can reveal the importance that Rakolnikov, and even Dostoyevsky, places on certain events. It also affects the manner in which the novel is read. For example Dostoevsky took a lengthy twelve pages for Rakolnikov reading of his mother’s letter at the first stages of the novel, when in real time it should have taken