Hardships Of Love

Love is not easy. Love makes us feel emotions that we never even thought we were capable of feeling. A force that makes us feel unquenchable yearning, but at the same time, joy, but then it is a force that cannot be described through emotions or words -- this is love. You feel happier and more joyful than ever before. You feel like things are finally starting to fall into place. An emotion that brings out the hot passion from deep within, this is love. There is no feeling, no experience and no reality like being in love. However, the hardships that separate us from love, the obstacles that stand in our way; It is usually during those hardships that love is everything. True love can be experienced only during and after the journey through …show more content…
He justifies the crime in his mind for a number of different reasons, before he reaches the root cause of his action. At first, he tried to tell himself that he needed the money and he would be doing everyone a favor because the pawnbroker was a miserable person. However, this reasoning was quickly and resolutely rejected for several reasons. First, he didn't steal much money at all, and he buried the money he did take without using it. Second, he felt physically and emotionally sick about his crime, which negated the sense that her life had no meaning. Afterward, we are told about Raskolnikov’s theory on the extraordinary. We find out in Crime and Punishment, that Raskolnikov had written an article about people being divided as either ordinary or extraordinary. According to this article, Raskolnikov believed that extraordinary people possess the ability to transgress the law without guilt or second-guessing. Thus, it is believed that Raskolnikov killed in order to test whether or not he was one of these extraordinary people. Raskolnikov’s ‘test’ provided him with the results he needed. By breaking the society’s moral codes, Raskolnikov was excluded from the benefits of being ‘normal.’ If people were to know of his crimes, Raskolnikov will no longer have access to love. He cannot handle living a lifestyle of isolation. And right when Raskolnikov is about to break apart from madness, he sees Sonia. …show more content…
After everything that Sonia has done, Sonia cannot do more for Raskolnikov. She can’t serve his prison sentence for him. Sonia can only accompany Raskolnikov to Siberia and do whatever she can to help him there. At this point, Raskolnikov wants to suffer alone. Even after everything the two had gone through together, Raskolnikov stays stubborn, in order to hang onto his pride. As if to prove for the final time, that his motives were right. Around this time, Sonia disappears. Someone who had so persistently stayed by his side previously had disappeared. Raskolnikov begins to worry, and after what must be a painfully agonizing period of time, he realizes and concludes that without Sonia, he would be nothing. Once Sonia comes back, we are given a scene in which Raskolnikov weeps at the feet of Sonia. This is where the true confession