“They were resurrected by love”
F. FM Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” is an image of the difficult moral path of the main character to the truth, which, according to the writer, consists in love and faith in God.
To the same understanding in the finale of the work begins to come and Rodion Raskolnikov. However, this “simple” truth was given to him extremely difficult, the hero paid for it an appalling price. In search of truth and justice, Raskolnikov decides to kill a man and, despite the fact that his whole nature protests against this crime, he commits it. All the subsequent action of the novel is the debunking of the act of the hero and his theory, which allowed “to transgress the moral line”. Each line of his work, the author exposes the theory of Raskolnikov, shows its destructive essence,
However, Dostoevsky wants not only readers, but also his hero, to understand the horror of what was invented and what he did. Therefore, he “reduces”
Sonia is the moral antipode of Raskolnikov. She denies the rebellion peculiar to Rodion, and chooses the path of humility before God. This girl – “harlot” in terms of public morality, because she went out to her family not to starve to death. However, from the point of view of Christianity, Sonya is sacred, because she sacrifices herself for the sake of the well-being of her neighbors and keeps God in her soul (“What will happen to them?”).
But, in spite of everything, Sonya and Raskolnikov are similar in many respects. These are two complex natures who live a tense spiritual life, suffer from their “humiliation”. I think that the heroine, as well as Rodion, thought a lot about the possibility of “ending everything at once” – about suicide.
In addition, both heroes are outcasts in society who have committed terrible crimes and,
In Rodion’s theory, “she did not understand anything,” but she felt her injustice. Sonia does not believe in the “right to kill,” objected Raskolnikov: “Do you have the right to kill?”
However, in the confession of the hero Sonia, the heart understood the most important thing: Raskolnikov is unhappy, he suffers. That’s why she says to him: “What have you done with yourself?”; “No one is any more unhappy than you in the whole world.”
This heroine kept faith in God, despite all the misfortunes that she experienced. She chose the path of true humility before God, the belief in the possibility of rebirth. According to Dostoevsky, it is this path that leads to salvation. It is not for nothing that the episode in which Sonya reads to Rodion the biblical legend of the resurrection of Lazarus is considered one of the climaxes of the novel. The path of spiritual rebirth of the heroine also reads to Raskolnikov, despite his skeptical disbelief and the ongoing riot. However, for Sonia’s soulful recovery of Raskolnikov, his coming to God becomes a new mission, even more important than maintaining a family. For her in Rodion, whom she fell in love with for his suffering, first of all, now the whole meaning of life is. On it, she sent all her love, care, strength of faith. That’s why Marmeladova pushes Rodion to confess his guilt,
Thus, having reconciled, Sonia saves not only herself, but Raskolnikova. It was love for Sonya that opened this hero to the possibility of reconciliation with life, with people. It is no accident that the attitude of convicts to Raskolnikov changed after his meeting with Sonia: “On that day he even thought that as if all his convicts, his former enemies, were already looking at him differently.”
Sonia’s self-sacrifice helped the hero to take the first step-to abandon the rational comprehension of life: “he would not have solved anything consciously, he only felt.” Instead of dialectics, life came. “Only then did Rodion understand how important the heroine is to him, that he loves her as much as she did him: “she understood, and for her there was no longer any doubt that he loves, loves her infinitely, and that this moment has finally come.”
In the final of the novel, the writer gives heroes hope for a revival, a return to the “right”, “natural life,” filled with love for each other, for people, for God: “They wanted to speak, but could not.” Tears stood in their eyes. both were pale and thin, but in those sick and pale faces the dawn of a renewed future was already shining, full of resurrection into a new life. ”
Thus, the love of Raskolnikov and Sony helped both heroes to find the meaning of life, to believe in themselves and in the possibility of happiness, to want renewal and rebirth. These people found each other and, at the same time, found the true goal, united with God. This, it seems to me, is the humanistic and optimistic pathos of Dostoevsky’s novel, which shows that spiritual revival is possible for everyone,
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