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Crime And Punishment . - School Essays

Crime And Punishment .

In Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of
human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with
white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people
who are close to him and his realities: city people who either have faith,
or secular humanists who are so remote from reality that even when they love
humanity they despise humans because of their own inability to achieve or to
create paradise on earth. His novels The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and
Punishment are best examples of the poisonous effect of such ideals on the
common human. The rebellion of these humanists against the system and the
reality of human life ...

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to deal with humanity and its problems. Dostoevsky himself does not give a
clear solution nor does he leave one with the certainty of faith for an
example. He says himself:

Finding myself lost in the solution of these questions, I decide
to bypass them with no solution at all. (From the Author. The
Brothers Karamazov)

Through the presentation of crime and the issue of money which is often
connected to it, Dostoevsky retells a Bible story. His answer to the problem
of evil and human life filled with suffering, at least the most persuading
one, for a better society and better social conditions is active love. That
is not the love that is directed towards the humanity as a whole, but
towards the individual: "Strive to love your neighbor actively and
indefatigably" (II, 4). For Dostoevsky such love is a false one and he
presents it through such characters as Rakitin, Perkhotin and even Luzhin:

Consciousness of life is superior to life, ...

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it. To help people and try to forgive them if they do wrong or help them if
they need help is all that Alyosha wants. Faith in God and people is the
only way to live with love. To believe in God and to have trust in human
nature and destiny means to forgive and to repent. It means not hurting
others. Ivan gets trapped by the power of his own intellect and his own
pride: the pride that pulses in humans who want to know more. Ivan
contradicts himself with his rebellion. On one side, everything is
permitted, because there is no God (Ivan is an atheist), on the other the
rule of despotic Inquisitors who claim that there is God, but "know" the
truth: that there is no God. ...

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