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An Analysis of Imagery and Diction in a Selected Passage of Crime and Punishment
Through forceful and precise manipulation of both imagery and diction, Fyodor Dostoyevsky creates a violent scenario involving the slaughter of an innocent mare in order to foreshadow the murder of Alyona Ivanovna by Raskolinkov. Dostoyevsky depicts the killing of the horse as one of senseless and meaningless violence by using specific word choice that is both active and carefully selected.
Rather than simply referring to the horse as a "horse" (47), Dostoyevsky forces the reader to consider it as a helpless victim. He calls the horse a "poor old beast" (47), a "little mare" (48), and a "dying mare" (49), in order to emphasize the horse's defenseless nature and as the victim of the men's unwarranted assault. Though the mare is obviously the victim of a motiveless attack, Dostoyevsky further emphasizes its' victimization by calling it both "poor" and "little" (48). When referred to as a "mare",......

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