Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In both Crime and Punishment and Chronicle, it is obvious to draw parallels between the novel’s protagonist, Raskolnikov, and the movie’s protagonist, Andrew: both males are isolated by society, for which they are a contributing factor; both harbor a deep resentment against those around them; and both of them commit a violent act that ultimately marks their doom. The beginning exposition of both the novel and the movie spends a significant amount of time emphasizing the protagonists’ loneliness.…

Reading Response 3-30 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky was the most challenging book that I have read this year, prose-wise. Dostoevsky tends to go on at great length with his descriptions of Raskolnikov’s thought processes, which tends to lead to great blocks of text that can wear on the eyes after too long. However, I didn’t find the book boring - it was simply laborious to read and had a tone that was a little too nihilistic for me to really be able to get into it. I found that I…

the human soul created by God, it is necessary for people to form connections with their surroundings and relationships with others. These formations strengthen one from within and allow them to live in a physiologically healthy state. While reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, one sees the immense sadnesses placed on young Russian Rodin Raskolnikov when he is isolated from everything he loves both by himself and the people around him. The readers are able to see the…

In this chapter Fyodor Dostoyevsky takes the reader into the mind of Pyotr Petrovich, the morning after his disastrous interview with Pulcheria and Avdotya. Having awakened after such a horrible night, Pyotr, has a brief period of reflection upon all of his wrong doings during the engagement. He curses himself for having been so parsimonious with his money. He believes that it is due to his lack of benevolence that the engagement went so awry. Upon his returning to the apartment Pyotr learns…

Raskolnikov and Meursault show similarities through their existentialist views of life, actions towards others, and wanting of escape from the real world or conscience world. These character similarities suggest similarities in the views of the two authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Camus. The two authors are trying to convey slightly different, yet almost identical existentialist views to the reader. These views can be seen very much in the characters of Meursault and Risk. Both…

Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov revolves around the central idea that good cannot exist without evil because suffering is essential to salvation. Throughout the work of literature, everyone suffers, including the innocent. This concept of innocent suffering leads many people to doubt the good of the world and God; however, people, such as Ivan Karamazov, fail to realize that one cannot experience good if they do not know evil. The idea that suffering leads to salvation is developed in the…

Within Dostoyevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor and Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener are expressive figures facing problems of an existential nature. Consumed by an inability to find purpose in life, their actions and reactions become characterized by absurd and illogical streaks. The characters begin to align with the ideas surrounding existentialism, most notably with the “sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world." As they attempt to…

surrounding environment and the influence of certain events, neither anticipated nor facilitated by the individual are also significant. In order to make such an observation of character, I will be concentrating on the sons of Fyodor Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The moral stance of the four sons ranges from Alyosha, who is said to be good by nature and Smerdyakov, the one who murdered his father without a shred of guilt. The intent of this essay is to explore…

The objective of this essay is to explore the origins of conflicts in Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow. Although, both works differ drastically in tone and structure, the settings are comprised of similar elements. Still, the external effects of these tumultuous settings pale in comparison to the internal conflicts which ensue. As the reader accompanies the protagonists through their lives made of crucial decisions, the philosophical depth in both…

children (Unknown). Knowing the struggle of poverty, these children obtain enough motivation to strive for success or in times of desperation commit crimes such as stealing: food, clothes, or anything they need. In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, a young man, murders two women and is tormented by keeping it a secret. He as well as his family struggle to get out of poverty as well as his soul mate, Sonya Semyonovn. Sonya had to sacrifice her innocence to help…