"Crime and Punishment" is an outstanding social psychological novel by Dostoevsky, the three giants of Russian literature, with delicate psychological descriptions, profound thoughts and feelings, sharp language descriptions, and each character is alive, with different social status and personality characteristics of the form of expression of life.
Lu Xun said that Dostoevsky put the men and women in the novel in an unbearable situation, tested them, and not only stripped away the whiteness of the surface, but also tortured the evil hidden underneath, but also tortured the true whiteness hidden under the sin.
The word "dignity" is constantly proposed in the text, the dignity of the poor. In describing that Karina Ivanovna was too poor to know what to give to her children the next day, she had to take out half of the twenty rubles that Raskolnikov had given her and hold a meaningless funeral meal. She believes it is her duty to "solemnly" mourn her deceased husband and let all the tenants know that "he is not only not worse than them, but perhaps much better than them" and that no one has the right to "arrogantly" in front of him. The author makes his own point: the self-esteem peculiar to the poor plays the greatest role, and many poor people make the last effort to spend the last few kobies they have accumulated on certain social etiquettes that everyone must observe in our daily lives, just to show that they are "not worse than others" and not to let others "blame".
"Poverty is not a sin" Everyone strives to maintain their dignity. The neurotic protagonist Raskolnikov, the stubborn and indomitable sister Dunya, the thin and shy, humiliated but kind-hearted Sonia, the arrogant and arrogant Lu Ren who tried to prove himself by despicable means, the Svedriguelov who forced his wife to die, chased Dunia unsuccessfully and made a great deal of kindness, and properly placed the Sonia family and shot himself...
From ancient times to the present, men and women in their lives have been trapped in various customs and etiquette, and they have done their best to maintain their self-esteem.
"Sometimes, we meet people we don't know, we haven't said a word, but somehow we suddenly become interested in them."
It is this kind of fate that allows the protagonist Raskolnikov to meet Marmeladov in the tavern, and this only side of the fate makes him understand Sonia, who has also suffered deeply, and he worships all the sufferings of mankind. When they met again, the drunken Marmeladov had been crushed by the carriage and his flesh was blurred. In the panicked crowd, Raskolnikov recognized him and showed the most natural and kind nature under his cold exterior - shouting at the crowd to carry the wounded home, without hesitation, inviting doctors and priests, and giving his family what little money he had left as burial expenses.
But it is such a kind-hearted person who paranoidly develops a theory of his own: people are generally divided into two categories, one is the low -level (ordinary) people, and this kind of people, as a kind of breeding material, is a conservative person, conformist, docile and obedient. They are contemporary masters; the second is the high (extraordinary) people, gifted or gifted, able to express new insights in their own environment. For a better future, tend to destroy. They are future masters. That is, "the first type of people protects the whole world and multiplies the world in numbers; the second type of people pushes the world forward and leads the world to its own ends." Both categories of people have completely equal rights to exist. It was under the impetus of this set of cognitions that Raskolnikov hacked to death the treacherous old usury woman with an axe, as well as her innocent sister who accidentally bumped into the murder scene.
Since then, Raskolnikov has been caught in endless doubt, inner struggle and pain. "Everyone must at least have a way to go Wow..." In the tavern, Marmeladov's words became the impetus for Raskolnikov to practice his theory, and also the inspiration for him to find someone to talk to after being tortured by his thoughts. "Human nature is a mirror, the brightest mirror! Then look in the mirror and look at yourself! Sure enough, Sonya, Marmeladov's daughter, had a pure and noble spirit and was the most suitable candidate.
Raskolnikov had not had a long conversation with anyone in a long time. His repressed struggle of thoughts left him mentally shattered, and after feeling infinite loneliness and isolation, he desperately needed an outlet for expression. Undoubtedly, the lonely Sonia fell in love with him, she bore his pain, and also resolutely saved his soul that was about to be devoured by darkness - pushing Raskolnikov to turn himself in and follow him to Siberia for hard labor.
"One heart contains an endless source of life that nourishes another heart" After the trials of time, for Sonia, her pale and sickly face flashed "the dawn of a new future"; for Raskolnikov, "life replaced reasoning", and his cold heart became soft. They are all hopefully making great efforts for a new life.
This novel has a large number of psychological portrayals, revealing the protagonist's torment psychology, and also reflecting the meaning of the word "punishment". Punishment did not begin after the verdict, but from the moment he had just practiced his theory with the act of committing a crime. Although in the end, both Raskolnikov and Sonia understood each other's intentions and were willing to regard the seven years (the remaining years of their sentences) as if they were seven days. But "he can't easily get a new life, he must pay a high price for the new life, and he must make great efforts for it in the future." ”
After reading Crime and Punishment, you will appreciate what real literature is. Works from more than a hundred years ago still bring a spiritual feast to countless readers.