Crime And Punishment Essay, Research Paper

Fyodor Dostoyevsky?s stories are stories of a sort of rebirth. He

weaves a tale of suffering and how each character attempts to deliver

themselves from this misery. In the novel Crime and Punishment, he

tells the story of Raskolnikov, a former student who murders an old

pawnbroker as an attempt to prove a theory. In Notes from the

Underground, we are given a chance to explore Dostoyevsky?s opinion of

human beings.

Dostoyevsky?s characters are very similar, as is his stories. He puts

a strong stress on the estrangement and isolation his characters feel.

His characters are both brilliant and ?sick? as mentioned in each novel,

poisoned by their intelligence. In Notes from the Underground, the

character, who is never given a name, writes his journal from solitude.

He is spoiled by his intelligence, giving him a fierce conceit with

which he lashes out at the world and justifies the malicious things he

does. At the same time, though, he speaks of the doubt he feels at the

value of human thought and purpose and later, of human life. He

believes that intelligence, to be constantly questioning and

?faithless(ly) drifting? between ideas, is a curse. To be damned to see

everything, clearly as a window (and that includes things that aren?t

meant to be seen, such as the corruption in the world) or constantly

seeking the meaning of things elusive. Dostoyevsky thought that humans

are evil, destructive and irrational.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky?s stories are stories of a sort of rebirth. He

weaves a tale of suffering and how each character attempts to deliver

themselves from this misery. In the novel Crime and Punishment, he

tells the story of Raskolnikov, a former student who murders an old

pawnbroker as an attempt to prove a theory. In Notes from the

Underground, we are given a chance to explore Dostoyevsky?s opinion of

human beings.

Dostoyevsky?s characters are very similar, as is his stories. He puts

a strong stress on the estrangement and isolation his characters feel.

His characters are both brilliant and ?sick? as mentioned in each novel,

poisoned by their intelligence. In Notes from the Underground, the

character, who is never given a name, writes his journal from solitude.

He is spoiled by his intelligence, giving him a fierce conceit with

which he lashes out at the world and justifies the malicious things he

does. At the same time, though, he speaks of the doubt he feels at the

value of human thought and purpose and later, of human life. He

believes that intelligence, to be constantly questioning and

?faithless(ly) drifting? between ideas, is a curse. To be damned to see

everything, clearly as a window (and that includes things that aren?t

meant to be seen, such as the corruption in the world) or constantly

seeking the meaning of things elusive. Dostoyevsky thought that humans

are evil, destructive and irrational.