Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky is known for his use of dualism and doubles in his novel, The Double. However, if you look closely enough you can see that Dostoevsky uses this theme throughout all of novels, including Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky uses several characters throughout the novel as doubles to the main character, Raskolnikov. One of his purposes for doing this is to elicit sympathy and understanding of the murderer, Raskolnikov, by showing just how similar he is to these characters. Dostoevsky also

been this way for many years. During the beginning of the realism period of writing, Notes from Underground was considered to be first of its kind. Dostoevsky used his own experiences and the political situation that occurred during that time to bring out the very real character like the Underground Man. There were several instances where Dostoevsky uses his writing to make the reader seem almost dumb. “Naturally, I didn’t sustain any friendships with my colleagues...” the beginning of the sentence

he is the only one who views the world as it truly is, which is in a very pessimistic light. He sees life as being meaningless and utterly pointless. Dostoevsky uses the Underground Man to portray the effects of communism. The Underground Man is a genius, but he fully embraces the atheistic and hopeless ideas that are presented by Marxism. Dostoevsky uses the Underground Man’s embracement of these ideas to show that the only way a thinking person can embrace communism is if he is a nihilist. He also

Dostoevsky as Performer Storytelling and reading aloud played a valuable part in young Fyodor's life, influencing his own later successful writing endeavors as well as his performance of literature. His nanny and wet nurse introduced the Dostoevsky children to folklore and lives of the saints through the stories they told. Nanny Alyona Frolovna "told the children stories of ancient Russia, of Saint Sergey of Moscow subduing a bear by the power of his holiness, of heroes and legends and folk

indifferent to what the man does with the girl. In this scene, Dostoevsky uses diction, figurative language and dialogue to convey the complexity of Raskolnikov’s thoughts and feelings. With this insight he provides, Dostoevsky reveals an inner-conflict that Raskolnikov struggles with: his desire to be protective and have good morals, which conflicts with his pessimism and lack of control over his emotions. At the beginning of the scene, Dostoevsky demonstrates Raskolnikov’s morals and protectiveness through

developments, and also negative. Marx and Dostoevsky both continue with that mindset as each one takes their own view of modernity respectfully. Both of the authors believe that change will occur, but both do not agree with how it will happen and who or what the results will affect. Marx focuses in the Communist Manifesto on society as whole and how modernity will occur, while Marx has to predict much of the modernity that will take place on an entire society. Dostoevsky decides to focus on one individual’s

against and does the complete opposite of his desires to deprive himself one satisfaction for another. Notes from Underground and Dostoevsky shows us again and again that the action of complete and opposite reaction to what is seen as normal and acceptable is not that of free will but the illusion of free will. There are any good examples of this and the first is when Dostoevsky introduces the reader to the Underground man's first example of pain suffering and consciousness with the paragraph about the

Fyodor Dostoevsky is a Russian author who writes novels that revolve around psychology. He demonstrates his ability to communicate with the reader by applying his in-depth knowledge and analyzing human behavior of people. By expanding his knowledge into different works he provides a mean for the public to understand psychology at works of literature. For example, in Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky, uses motifs to help illuminate the action of characters. Dostoevsky uses the motif of money in an

one must be able to transcend the elaborate diction and parodies, and comprehend the author himself, while also taking root the message Dostoevsky had originally intended in the time it was addressed. Understanding the author himself, along with the period in which the work was written, augments one’s overall discernment of the passage. In the age he wrote, Dostoevsky must have seemed eccentric and outlandish; nevertheless, looking back on him from today with a literary understanding of modernism, he

exchange, the mentally unstable Raskolnikov was introduced to the Nietzschean philosophy of the Ubermensch. This lead Raskolnikov to kill an elderly moneylender and her disabled sister. Using a violent mentally unstable criminal as his narrator allowed Dostoevsky to reveal the deleterious effect Western philosophy would have on Russian society if it was not counteracted by a return to traditional belief. Raskolnikov would be classified as insane under the Irresistible Impulse Insanity Defense. The Irresistible