Question

Importance of yellow symbolism in crime and punishment

Answer 1

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Explanation:

• In Crime and Punishment, several characters' faces are described as yellow and ''wasted.'' In these cases, the color yellow is associated with poor health and death, or corruption of the body.
• When Raskolnikov meets Marmelodov in Part 1, Chapter 2, he's struck by the clerk's unhealthy complexion. ''[B]loated from continual drinking, [it] was of a yellow, even greenish, tinge, with swollen eyelids out of which keen reddish eyes gleamed like little chinks.''
• Similarly, when he meets Porfiry Petrovich, he observes that ''[h]is soft, round, rather snub-nosed face was of a sickly yellowish colour, but had a vigorous and rather ironical expression.''
• Raskolnikov himself has ''feverish eyes and [a] wasted, pale and yellow face.''