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.
A moral discussion on the ethics of prostitution by a WordPress blogger. In the text, Sonya is coerced into prostitution because her family is too poor and there are a lack of jobs, as this blogger points out as an argument of justification for becoming a prostitute.
