Small Characters In Three Novels

Constantin Stanislavski once said, “Remember there are no small parts; only small actors.” This quote explains how a little role can have a significant meaning regardless if it’s a small part or not. In the novels: Crime and Punishment, The Trial, and The Stranger all three novels provides readers with women who may have small characters in each novels, but each characters have a significant part. In all three novels, women are being depict differently by their choices of self-sacrificing, inferiority to men and powerlessness, and depicted as insignificant and weak-minded.
In the novel Crime and Punishment, the author Dostoyevsky uses the women as an example of depiction by self-sacrificing themselves. Two great examples of women who illustrates their sacrifices are Dunya and Sonya. Both characters reflect the positive and negative outcomes. To begin with, the character Dunya is willing to sacrifice her own freedom and happiness by hopes of marrying a man named Luzhin for the benefits of financial stability and not for true love. Also, she
The author Dostoevsky uses Sonya as a great example to readers the risk of how far a woman is willing to sacrifice herself in order to provide for her family. For instance, Sonya father Marmeladov explains to Raskolnikov that his family is experiencing financial difficulties. Marmeladov wife Katerina insist that Sonya should take a risk and start prostituting in order to make some money for their family. Katerina explains to Sonya, “ You live with us,’ she says, ‘you good-for-nothing, you eat and drink and use warmth’---and what is there to eat and drink, if even the children don’t see a crust of bread for three days on end (pg.18). Katerina is expressing her frustration towards Sonya and implies that she should start prostituting to support their family finically, since Katerina’s family is providing her with shelter and