Book Review- Crime and Punishment
- Nov 30, 2024
- 4 min read
Pain and suffering are always obligatory for someone with broad intellect and deep feeling. Truly great individuals must experience great sorrow in this world. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most of the bookworm community know about the famous and amazing Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I really admire classical literature and the way they deliver the lines and make their sentences much important in really simple yet strong ways.
In these novels, you will encounter with day to day, daily matters of life soon you won't know it finds the way to your veins and into your heart. Such simple lifestyle matters lead you to something very broad, however; Crime and Punishment was not a simple matter.
This novel follows the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an ex-student of law, lives in
Saint Petersburg in extreme poverty. He lives in a tiny room, is isolated and introvert.
Lack of fortune or lack of purpose in life drag him to a state where he kills a pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat. He was fully disgust with this old-lady, the one that has money who shouldn't have and is entirely cruel toward others and her living has no value.
Raskolnikov thinks that killing this woman is actually a service to the world or a savior to those suffered by her.
He kills for the money, yet he never used the money. Or did he really kill her for money?
The novel describes state of a murderer who has done a certain crime but is confused about it and the process of his thinking from the happening of the crime till the end.
He tries to justify and convince himself that certain crimes are not crime if you try to remove injustice or obstacles in the world.
Untill end he never regret killing her, but pity the crime!
Most of the time he struggles with his conscious about the crime he has done and how he should or shouldn't admit that. He is filled with guilt, confusion and distress, but can we really justify our crime toward others?
Do you think people should be allowed to commit crime when they feel, it will do good to the world? Isn't why the world's great leaders won't stop shedding blood? And think the world and whoever is living in it are their own property?
Who is allowed to take human beings life? And who is not?
This novel puts you in challenge to think and see through human's nature.
That's why I adore these kinds of novels specially Dostoevsky , because they challenge you to go beyond your thinking and question yourself, your own existence.
The most frequent question that I was asking myself was that " does poverty, suffering and struggling trigger you to do something out of question?"
How a person finds the gap between good and bad? Or something in-between?
Will you suffer for what you have done? Or not?
I always pity those who can not be a help to themselves. They suffered a lot still they never truly want to do something about it. They never realize that whatever the cost we should live and have life in our own way. Maybe they have different philosophy in their heads. When Raskolnikov could do much better in life, but he didn't, I became so angry that why is he not taking things into account and start his life, but his sense of life always put me through shock that even though he never had money but still was willing to help others and was so wise and he had conscious which makes him different and not everyone could understand it.
I know that every one of us suffer a lot in life, but what is life without scar? Scars tell the stories of great suffering and bearings. Scars will make you different and understandable. Scars will define that you've lived, you've made mistakes and you've experienced great deal.
I loved the climax of the story and I loved the words. I loved how they make words so much precious and beautiful.
I loved the courage of the women and the gratitude and bravery of some men.
You would never want to miss things by not reading this book.
Here are some quotes from the book Crime and Punishment
Always the same with these Schilleresque beautiful souls: up to the last moment they dress a person in peacock feathers, untill the last moment they hope for the good and although they have a feeling about the other side of the coin, they won't utter a single word about it to themselves for any reason. The thought alone offends them; they brush away the truth untill the person they've so embellished rubs their noses in it with his own hands.
In a morbid condition, our dreams are often distinguished by their extraordinary clarity, intensity and a heightened resemblance to reality.
One must simply exercise one's willpower and all one's reason over these difficulties, and they will all be overcome in their time, when one becomes familiar with all the details of this affair in all of its precision.
And everything's explained by only stupidity! That's why they don't like the living process of life itself: they don't need a living soul! The living soul demands life.
Clever people get tripped up most easily on just such insignificant details. The cleverer a person is, the less he suspects that he'll be tricked by something so simple. You have to trick the cleverest person with the simplest matter.
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