Crime And Punishment

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do not know how

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 ...

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love for life, regardless of the meaning and the logic behind

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 ...

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