A Religion Of Russia's Very Own The third of Fedor Dostoevsky's five major novels, The Devils, also erroneously titled The Possessed, is a powerful political tract inspired by an assassination in 1869 and written in 1872. ... Dostoevsky is largely attacking Russian socialism's tendency toward atheism and its attempt to replace Christianity with a cult of the masses. ... Offering the Christian response to modern atheism in Russia is the novelist Fedor Dostoevsky, "The West has lost Christ and that is why it is dying; that is the only reason."" ...

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In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky explores the psychological aspects involved in criminal investigation and its effects on criminals. ... By shifting the focus, Dostoevsky suggests that guilt can destroy the human psyche worse than any punishment by the hands of men. By using emotions, Dostoevsky allows the reader to look inside the mind of a criminal. ... With this emotional torment, Dostoevsky shows the weakness of Raskolnikov's emotional stability. ... Dostoevsky paints Raskolnikov as a character that despises anything in which he has no control, m...

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Dostoevsky utilizes other characters in order to fully develop the complex picture of his central character Raskolnikov. ... Dostoevsky shows Porfiry opposed to both the legal and the moral transgressions of Raskolnikov's crime. ... He embodies Dostoevsky's theme that punishment imposed on a criminal does little good if the man himself rejects his own guilt. In addition, Dostoevsky further elaborates Raskolnikov's character by introducing his similarities to Porfiry. ... Dostoevsky stresses Sonia's belief in the power of suffering for others. ...

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The same stands for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character, Rodion Raskolnikov, demonstrates multiple stages of craziness but when examined by the a sensible reader his actions seem to be profound logic. ... Zossimov is not the only one to see Raskolnikov's strange ways, Razumihin, Raskolnikov's friend, thinks Raskolnikov to be "simply cold and inhumanely callous"(Dostoevsky 187). ... Luzhin's theory of "love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rest on self interest"(Dostoevsky 131) represent Raskolnikov's mindset and giv...

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The same stands for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character, Rodion Raskolnikov, demonstrates multiple stages of craziness but when examined by the a sensible reader his actions seem to be profound logic. ... Zossimov is not the only one to see Raskolnikov's strange ways, Razumihin, Raskolnikov's friend, thinks Raskolnikov to be "simply cold and inhumanely callous"(Dostoevsky 187). ... Luzhin's theory of "love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rest on self interest"(Dostoevsky 131) represent Raskolnikov's mindset and giv...

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By the end of Dostoyesky's Crime and Punishment, the reader is no longer under the illusion of the possible existence of "extraordinary" men. For an open-minded reader, and even perhaps the closed-minded ones too, the book is a journey through Raskolnikov's proposed theory on crime. It is a theory b...

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By the end of Dostoyesky's Crime and Punishment, the reader is no longer under the illusion of the possible existence of "extraordinary" men. For an open-minded reader, and even perhaps the closed-minded ones too, the book is a journey through Raskolnikov's proposed theory on crime. It is a theory ...

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As Sigmund Freud has stated, its greatness rivals that of Oedipus Rex and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky as it is a moral story about patricide, while also acting as a psychological understanding of humanity. ...

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Sacrifice between Raskolnikov and Sonia. After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. Fyodor Dostoevsky style of writing was one of articulate detail c...

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