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shared by Susan Bistrican on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached

shared by Susan Bistrican on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached

Sonya the innocent From Grazhdanskaya 19 I continue on to Kaznacheyskaya, to Sonya Marmeladovna's house and the corner where Raskolnikov exchanged a few words with some whores. A madwoman eats bird seed on Kaznacheyskaya and a half-blind woman is selling used shoestrings. Dostoyevsky knew his Sonya well, and the whores are here again in Ploschad Mira, rubbing shoulders with the other freaks. The official records reveal that in 1868 there were two-thousand-and-forty-eight prostitutes in St. Petersburg. I say my farewells to Sonya's virtues and Dostoyevsky's unrealistic psychology.
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shared by Susan Bistrican on 29 Jul 11 - No Cached

One reason often given as to why prostitution is immoral is that it tends to involve coercion. In most cases, people do not freely decide to become prostitutes. In some cases, they are driven to the profession by desperation and a lack of other opportunities for employment.
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In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky uses the character of Sonia Marmeladov, whose first name means wisdom, not solely to illustrate God's mercy toward a fallen woman but to have her redeem both herself and Raskolnikov through God's mercy.
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He shows us that even the lowliest of the lowly lost are loved by the Father, and by their sufferings gain merit.
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[Raskolnikov] had to tell her [Sonia] who had killed Lizaveta. He knew the terrible suffering it would be to him and, as it were, brushed away the thought of it. (5.4.1) Raskolnikov knows that confessing, the act of speaking his crimes, causes him to suffer – yet, he can't stop doing it. He needs to tell. The suffering of telling is less than the suffering of not telling.
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[Raskolnikov:] "They say it is necessary for me to suffer! What's the object of these senseless sufferings? Shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?" (6.8.75) Here Raskolnikov is questioning the high premium everybody places on suffering as he debates whether or not to turn himself in, and submit to prison. Also notice that he thinks he'll get at least twenty years in prison, but he only gets eight.
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