Dostoevsky also uses the craving for money in his characters to signal his disapproval with greed and miserliness, like in the case of Ganya in ‘The Idiot’. However, the act offers no such benefits, and Raskolnikov is even unable to make use of the money he steals. In ‘Crime and Punishment’, faced with the humiliation of seeing his family make great sacrifices for his sake, as well as the bitter disappointment of falling short of his family’s expectations of his greatness, Raskolnikov decides to commit murder and rob to gain wealth to assert his self-dignity and meet not only his economic obligation, but social expectations expected of him. For Dostoevsky, the desire for wealth is not usually an end in itself, but a desire for a sort of freedom and allowance to assert one’s freedom. Given his own life of penury, this is hardly surprising. The issue of money occupies a central position in Dostoevsky’s writings. Killing Alyona becomes not only a means to an end to his poverty, but also a chance to assert his self will.ĭostoevsky is primarily concerned about how best to balance this individual urges for freedom which usually comes at the expense of another’s freedom, and the desire to achieve harmony and peaceful coexistence in society. For Dostoevsky, the opposite of freedom, Incarceration, and various other ways human freedom is limited, can also act as a valid redemptive force for the deviant, the sinner, and the evildoer. In ‘Crime and Punishment’, Raskolnikov’s desire to test his strength by seeing if he could kill for the higher good and live with the consequences is linked to the helplessness of his poverty, providing him with almost no other outlet for expressing his freedom.
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In “ Notes from the Dead House“, Dostoevsky documents the gradual progression of a regular man to a serial killer this man kills first presumably to right a wrong, to remove an evil, or possibly for some motive he decides within himself to be just, but soon having tasted the sense of freedom that comes with operating outside the bounds of conventional morality, he soon takes a liking to kill and so kills for a variety of other purposes. Seeing no other way and being incapable of asserting self will in any other way due to various limitations (poverty, lack of charisma, etc.), the individual sometimes resorts to crime and gets his thrill from the feeling of breaking beyond the bounds of human and society’s own moral and legal boundaries. Dostoevsky’s idea of freedom is influenced by his own experiences with incarceration and then forced military service. In “Notes from the Dead House”, Dostoevsky, building from his experience with criminals incarcerated alongside him in Siberia, attempts to explore the dimension of the desire for freedom as expressed through deviance.
The issue of individual freedom is a central one for Dostoevsky, and occupied center stage in many of his works.
An opinionated individual with strong opinions on subjects like religion, spirituality, politics, economics, and aesthetics.
Dostoevsky often had a lot to say about the Russian society of his time, and these ideas are most times reflected in his works.
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