Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part Five, Chapter 3 commentary
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment September 1 - December 10, 2024
100 Days of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment
September 1 - December 10, 2024
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Crime and Punishment Part Five, Chapter 3, 15 pages
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Crime and Punishment Part Five, Chapter 4, 18 pages
“”Lord!” she suddenly cried, her eyes flashing, “is there really no justice?””
With scumbags like Luzhin, justice comes from the most unlikely of places - Lebezyatnikov!!! Luzhin of course can’t accept the Luzhin’s defence of Sonya - AND Raskolnikov’s!!! How can TWO atheists and radical intellectuals administer justice?!?!?! The world is a puzzle - AND a miracle…
And Sonya, maligned and chased out of her own father’s funeral?…
“Sonya, timid by nature, had known even before that it was easier to ruin her than anyone else, and that whoever wanted to could offend her almost with impunity. But even so, until that very moment she had always thought it somehow possible to avoid disaster-by prudence, meekness, submissiveness to one and all. The disillusionment was too much for her. She was capable, of course, of enduring everything, even this, with patience and almost without a murmur. But for the first moment it was too much for her. In spite of her triumph and vindication-when the initial fear and the initial stupor had passed, when she had grasped and understood everything clearly-the feeling of helplessness and offense painfully wrung her heart. She became hysterical.”
Poor Katerina… Consumptive, disillusioned, abandoned by all but Sonya - rushing out into the street “with the vague purpose of finding justice somewhere, at once, immediately, and whatever the cost.”
“And throwing over her head the same green flannel shawl that the late Marmeladov had mentioned in his story, Katerina Ivanovna pushed her way through the disorderly and drunken crowd of tenants who still crowded the room, and ran shouting and weeping out into the street—with the vague purpose of finding justice somewhere, at once, immediately, and whatever the cost.”
Ominous developments ahead… Brace yourselves…
Luzhin…
Crime and Punishment (1970).
