Love In Crime And Punishment
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Intro:
In the novel Crime and Punishment
Thesis: Fyodor Dostoevsky uses romantic love, filial and familial love (family), religious love and humanitarian love in Crime and Punishment as the vehicle for complete moral and spiritual redemption. While both Raskolnikov and Sonya demonstrate love and in turn redemption, Svidrigailov’s life is void of love and eventually results in his death. FINISH THIS
Despite being closely associated with evil, sin and crime, Rodion Raskolnikov shows the four major types of love throughout Crime and Punishment including familial love, humanitarian love, romantic love and eventually religious love. These demonstrations of love become the principal cause of the eventual redemption of his character. …show more content…
Even after Svidrigailov offers money to the family and Raskolnikov, he denies the visitation of Svidrigailov and it becomes clear once again that the safety and well-being of the family is far more important than Raskolnikov’s welfare. Finally Raskolnikov establishes his connection with religion throughout Crime and Punishment in a more subtle manner than the other forms of love. The first example of Raskolnikov’s silent love for religion is during the murder scene at the pawnbroker’s apartment. When Raskolnikov kills Elizaveta and Alena he works incredibly hard not to damage the cross necklace that they are both wearing. He takes a significant amount of time to remove them carefully the necklaces from their necks without damage and without showing disrespect. This act demonstrates that while Raskolnikov feels that he may be able to transcend the law, he is not able to transcend God in his life. An additional time when Raskolnikov reveals not just love but utter need for God is when he is talking to his mother and asks for her to “pray for me(Raskolnikov)”(Page INSERT PAGE NUMBER). This is a very important passage in the novel because Raskolnikov is about to turn himself into the police and
Intro:
In the novel Crime and Punishment
Thesis: Fyodor Dostoevsky uses romantic love, filial and familial love (family), religious love and humanitarian love in Crime and Punishment as the vehicle for complete moral and spiritual redemption. While both Raskolnikov and Sonya demonstrate love and in turn redemption, Svidrigailov’s life is void of love and eventually results in his death. FINISH THIS
Despite being closely associated with evil, sin and crime, Rodion Raskolnikov shows the four major types of love throughout Crime and Punishment including familial love, humanitarian love, romantic love and eventually religious love. These demonstrations of love become the principal cause of the eventual redemption of his character. …show more content…
Even after Svidrigailov offers money to the family and Raskolnikov, he denies the visitation of Svidrigailov and it becomes clear once again that the safety and well-being of the family is far more important than Raskolnikov’s welfare. Finally Raskolnikov establishes his connection with religion throughout Crime and Punishment in a more subtle manner than the other forms of love. The first example of Raskolnikov’s silent love for religion is during the murder scene at the pawnbroker’s apartment. When Raskolnikov kills Elizaveta and Alena he works incredibly hard not to damage the cross necklace that they are both wearing. He takes a significant amount of time to remove them carefully the necklaces from their necks without damage and without showing disrespect. This act demonstrates that while Raskolnikov feels that he may be able to transcend the law, he is not able to transcend God in his life. An additional time when Raskolnikov reveals not just love but utter need for God is when he is talking to his mother and asks for her to “pray for me(Raskolnikov)”(Page INSERT PAGE NUMBER). This is a very important passage in the novel because Raskolnikov is about to turn himself into the police and