There are two great mountains in Russian literature that cannot be bypassed under any circumstances, one is Leo Tolstoy and the other is Dostoevsky, lu Xun once said of him:
Dostoevsky is the great interrogator of the human soul, and he tests the men and women in the novel in the midst of unbearable circumstances, stripping them not only of the whiteness of the surface and of the evil hidden underneath, but also of the true whiteness hidden underneath. Moreover, they refused to be killed happily, and tried their best to let them live longer.
Dostoevsky, on the other hand, cannot in any way get around Crime and Punishment, which, along with War and Peace, is considered the most influential Russian novel. More than a century has passed since the novel was published, but whenever you read it, the book is as poignant as it was when it was first born.
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The protagonist of Crime and Punishment is named Raskolnikov, a former law student who lives in extreme poverty in a small rental house in St. Petersburg. Poisoned by anarchist ideas, he became increasingly withdrawn and anti-social, feeling that he could do whatever he wanted.
He gave up all attempts to support his family, and in order to prove himself extraordinary and solve the problem of survival, he was obsessed with his own plans to murder and rob a pawnshop proprietor.
His sister, a governess, chose to marry a wealthy suitor, Lujin, who was clearly an opportunist, but was taking advantage of her situation in order to relieve his stress and relieve the burden on his family.
Raskolnikov was furious at his sister's self-sacrifice, which he felt was no different from the women who sold themselves, and he painfully realized that it was all due to his own poverty and incompetence, and under this series of stimuli, his mind returned to his own thoughts, and he was determined to carry out his own murder plan.
Subsequently, Raskolnikov infiltrates the pawnshop lady's house and kills the lady boss, but the lady's sister unexpectedly appears at the murder scene, and he has no choice but to kill her sister.
After the murder, Raskolnikov suffered from the pain of his heart, because his behavior broke all good, he suffered a punishment more painful than the sentence, he could not afford to be sick, it was better to live than to die.
At this time he fell in love with Sonia, who had become a prostitute because of the compulsion of life, she was a devout religious believer, inspired by the religious forces, Raskolnikov confessed the entire murder case, and under the advice of Sonia, went to surrender himself, and was finally sentenced to exile in Siberia for eight years, Sonia chose to accept punishment with him, and in Siberia the two decided to believe in God, to be baptized and to repent and be born again.
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Crime and Punishment blends an extremely fascinating blend of conspiracies, philosophies, politics, societies, morals, and religions, all of which are intertwined to create a literary masterpiece that captures the profundity of humanity's most terrifying and vulnerable moments.
The exquisite literary techniques of the novel are very easy to arouse the emotional resonance of the reader, and each stroke is written on the tight nerves of the person and the complex psychological activities, so that the reader becomes Raskolnikov, walking through every process before his crime - when committing the crime - after the crime, sadness of his sorrow, joy of his joy, so that the reader completely integrates with the characters, forming a hearty, dream-like reading experience.
Before writing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky originally envisioned two separate novels, one about the inner turmoil of a murderer and the other about the tragedy of the destruction of a family due to a frivolous, alcoholic patriarch, but in the end Dostoevsky cleverly weaved together a number of unforgettable characters to create a great novel.
Dostoevsky perpetuates the reader's memory with intricate plot lines, such as Raskolnikov's treacherous escape from the crime scene that makes people anxiously look forward to it, the dark antics of the funeral feast that are unforgettable, and the sinister scene where the kind sister pulls out a revolver and fights the hooligans who try to harm her...
Each character is carefully set off, each character is written in their own unique language and language, and the novel seems to tie every thread together, so perfect and attentive, churning forward, bringing devastating damage to the lives of the characters, and ultimately leading them to self-redemption or death, and this self-redemption or death belongs not only to the characters in the book, but also to every reader who reads the book.
Dostoevsky brilliantly connects the reader to the emotional state of his character and is able to create seamless transitions between scenes or from one character's thoughts to another by harnessing the wings of emotion. For the most part, this emotion is a follow-up to guilt, the murder scene and its fanaticism, and this emotion is so real and natural that the reader feels they must share raskolnikov's burden of guilt.
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"If I'm guilty, please forgive me (although if I'm guilty, I can't be forgiven)... I will strive for the rest of my life to be brave and honest, even if I am the murderer. Maybe you'll hear my voice one day in the name. ”
I believe in everyone who has read Crime and Punishment. More or less, there will be such a confusion: is Raskolnikov worthy of forgiveness and forgiveness?
For such a complex literary figure as Raskolnikov, we must judge not only from the perspective of individual human beings, but also from the perspective of all human beings.
In the text Raskolnikov is described as a proud and selfish man who has strange ideas about morality. On the one hand, he justified his crime by saying that the victim was a worthless person, but on the other hand, he was saddled with guilt, and this contradictory idea constantly tormented him.
Amazingly, the author has insight not only into the psychology of the criminal, but also into the psychology of the outsider, the torment that Raskolnikov experienced in the planning, the criminal psychology at the time of the murder, so accurately portrayed to the reader that although one cannot forgive him for the sins he has committed, it is difficult not to feel sorry for what happened to him, which is a complex manifestation of human nature.
Raskolnikov's family and friends, who were insiders, were more profound in the question of forgiveness.
They made no secret of their feelings and convictions that what Raskolnikov had done was unacceptable, incomprehensible and cruel. However, they do so without condescension, without anger, without judgment, without indifference, without contempt. They choose to treat offenders as equal victims and loved ones in need.
This brings the question to a deeper and more complex side: Can criminals be victims at the same time?
The innocent and tragic death of the pawnshop lady and her poor sister, who had suffered a catastrophe, had no direct conflict with Raskolnikov, but had died inexplicably at the hands of Raskolnikov, and they were the victims of the whole world. But at the same time we must admit that Raskolnikov was also a complete victim, he was poisoned by anarchism, he was poisoned by the social reality of the time.
And the decision on whether or not to forgive Him is not in our hands, but in His own hands. If Raskolnikov had not turned himself in, whether he had lived the rest of his life in torment or peace of mind, he would have been a repugnant bug;
If Raskolnikov chooses to kill to pay for his life, to get rid of all this by suicide, whatever the purpose, he is a repugnant coward, because all of the above is a continuation of what he wants, and his choice is still to detach himself from society and sentence himself only according to the value standards of his own world, which can only be regarded as escape, not as forgiveness and liberation.
At the end of the novel, Raskolnikovko chose to surrender himself, accept the punishment of the law, exile to Siberia, and finally accept religious baptism, find the home of the soul, this is ostensibly secular and religious forgiveness of Raskolnikov, in fact, Raskolnikov himself forgiven himself, he can finally bravely face his heart, good or evil, it is him, even if he escapes to the end of the world, he can not escape the cage of human nature, it is better to accept everything that should be accepted, forgive himself in repentance.
Raskolnikov is no one else, it is a combination of all the attributes of human beings, so in each of us, the indispensable one carries some of the attributes of Raskolnikov, when the criminal commits a crime is that we are committing a crime, he and we and the people he hurt are victims, we forgive him or not forgive him can only achieve formal meaning, the ultimate meaning is to let himself give himself a chance to forgive, to get salvation, to redeem himself, but also to redeem you and me.
As the text says: I have not bowed to you, I have bowed to all the suffering of mankind