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possessedbydevils · 12 days

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My friend gave me a kids ver of cno with illustrations

It's so cute 😭

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lmaowh-at · 9 months

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lineup of my updated c&p designs :-) from left to right it’s Porfiry, Sonya, Rodion, Razumikhin, Dunya and Svidrigailov

#crime and punishment #rodion raskolnikov #dmitri razumikhin #dunya rasolnikova #sonya marmeladova #porfiry petrovich #svidrigailov #fyodor dostoevsky #🧩

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rosquinn · 7 months

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Svidrigailov: hear me out dude. do you believe in ghosts? of course you believe in ghosts! so, i hear voices. you hear voices. i am tormented by my wife. you are tormented by the pawnbroker you murdered. you have incel mentality. i am straight up an incel. we are in the same boat here. i mean, when i entered this room and i saw you passed out on the sofa i thought “that's my man. he's just like me fr”! we should be best buddies, you know. also, i can give you 13000 rubles

Raskolnikov:

Svidrigailov: please let me see your sister again

#BROS DESPERATE #crime and punishment is so funny....#crime and punishment #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #svidrigailov #classic lit #mine

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 4 months

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Dostoevskij's characters that would totally be on Epstein's list:

Nikolaj Stavrogin

Pëtr Verchovenskij

Svidrigajlov

Fyodor Karamazov

The underground man

Rakitin wanted to be there but wasn't invited

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marvel-starwarsfangirl · 6 months

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Not my roommate suggesting to make Dostoevsky into a musical. Just imagine Crime and Punishment as a musical. That would epic!

Raskolnikov having an epic ballad about his inner torment.

Or Svidrailgov and Luzhin singing their villain song about their schemes.

Sonya getting a sweet song would be nice.

This is a random thought that popped in my head lol

#crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #pyotr petrovich luzhin #svidrigailov #sonya

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rknchan · 1 year

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coming up with designs for characters i had never drawn before and sonya <33 just sonya

#if there is one sonya fan left on the earth it is me #russian literature #ruslit #c&p #crime and punishment #dostoyevski #dostoyevsky #sonya marmeladova #pyotr petrovich luzhin #luzhin #lebezyatnikov #andrei semyonovich lebezyatnikov #porfiry petrovich #svidrigailov #arkady ivanovich svidrigailov

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forbearne · 3 months

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haunted by svidrigailov’s ‘i knew we would be close’ because he and raskolnikov are both transgressors of morality, only svidrigailov is like that through his nature and raskolnikov committed a transgression to dare. and then he got used to it, the lying and hiding, and when he speaks it is the voice of a murderer’s because there’s nothing human scum can get used to, so maybe he is as base as svidrigailov?? but he’s NOT. he murdered and told himself it was for the money, but then he gives everything he has to a poor family. he’s not because he still wants to fight and get out of depravity, but svidrigailov just embraces his. ARGHHHHHH

#i have NEVER shared my thoughts on literature before :(((#I HAVENT FINISHED THE BOOK YET #IM ON CHAPTER SIX PART FOUR #i hope i dont cringe at this when i finish the book #crime and punishment #svidrigailov #raskolnikov

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destinywalender · 11 months

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Svidrigailov

#fanart #crime and punishment #Dostoyevsky #russian literature #svidrigailov

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theinsomniacindian · 4 months

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Crime and Punishment as Incorrect Quotes

Nastasya: Man, I only ever see you awake, do you ever shut down or stop running?

Raskolnikov: Oh, I’m always running

Raskolnikov: The question is from what

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Raskolnikov: You're my best friend and one of the only people I actually like, I would do anything for you.

Razumikhin: I want you to eat three meals a day and have a decent sleep schedule.

Raskolnikov: Absolutely not.

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Dunya: I’m going to take you out

Svidrigailov: Great, it’s a date!

Dunya: I meant that as a threat.

Svidrigailov: See you at five!

#crime and punishment #c&p #Преступление и наказание #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #raskolnikov #dmitri razumikhin #razumikhin #avdotya romanovna raskolnikova #dunya raskolnikova #dunya #arkady svidrigailov #svidrigailov #incorrect quotes #c&p incorrect quotes #fyodor dostoyevsky #fyodor dostoevsky #indu reads dostoyevsky

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everything-on-red · 11 months

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ok so i finished my little stylized designs for crime and punishment characters!

top: raskolnikov, sonya, svidrigailov, porfiry, luzhin.

bottom: dunya, razumikhin, lizaveta, alyona, marmeladov, katerina.

i had a lot of fun with little design details, like katerina having a widow’s peak, or making the buttons on dunya’s dress match raskolnikov’s coat.

#my friend saw this and said “diary of an extraordinary kid” 😭#fanart #crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #art i made #art that i am self conscious about #raskposting #raskolnikov #sonya semyonovna marmeladov #svidrigailov #porfiry petrovich #luzhin #dunya raskolnikov #razumikhin #lizaveta ivanovna #alyona ivanovna #marmeladov #katerina marmeladov

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hamliet · 2 months

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Hey first just wanna say it’s cuz of you that I caught an intrigue for Russian literature, and have decided to read most of dostoevskys bibliography, and I just finished crime and punishment. Obviously I’m absolutely floored by the entire thing but someone that stood out to me was svirdgailov. Those last couple scenes of him were absolutely amazing and had me reeling, I wanted to know your opinion on him

Hello! And ahhh I'm so happy to hear that!!

Svidrigailov is indeed a very interesting character. He's an antagonist, but the vast majority of his crimes are in the past. Yet they're significant: he rapes an underage girl and she commits suicide. He murders his wife. He propositions Dunya and then corners her. But he also then does some charitable things like actually providing for Sonya's stepsiblings after Katarina dies, and giving Sonya enough money to leave her profession and move to Siberia with Raskolnikov.

So, he's done the worst deeds imaginable in the story--worse than Raskolnikov. And rather than face guilt, he kills himself. Yet, he also is the one who provides for others for absolutely no benefit to himself.

You'll often find Sonya and Svidrigailov compared as foils who represent two alternate paths for Raskolnikov: life or death, suffering or escape.

Rask is obviously another foil. Raskolnikov's name means "schism." and that's because he's both extremely generous and extremely cruel--kinda like Svid. He also donates all his money to Marmeladov's family before he even knows them, when it benefits him not at all. Yet he murders Alyona to benefit humanity... and Lizaveta to protect himself.

The guilt over his crimes haunts him and forces him to face suffering via turning himself in and serving his sentence. But he's in part only able to do this (and eventually to truly repent) because of love. His family and Sonya love him. Svidrigailov wants Dunya to be his Sonya; however, there are some key differences. Raskolnikov empathizes with Sonya, but Svidrigailov doesn't empathize with Dunya very much.

I'd say he desperately wants to use Dunya to feel better about himself. And he wants her to love him, because he's incredibly lonely and lost. When she finally convinces him that she never, ever will, he then donates all his money to Sonya (whom he sees as Raksolnikov's Dunya, and Dostoyevsky makes this especially clear when Svidrigailov literally eavesdrops on Sonya and Raskolnikov's conversations) and commits suicide.

Yet the problem is that Svidrigailov doesn't see Dunya in the same human sense that Raskolnikov sees Sonya--he sees her as a Good Girl who can save him from himself, but doesn't actually try to explore what makes her "good," or what she wants out of life. Even his chasing Dunya down comes after he betrayed her by propositioning her while he was her married employer, then allowed her to be badmouthed and fired which could have destroyed her entire life, and then he made amends... yet murdered his wife to chase after Dunya. That would be like Raskolnikov murdering Katarina Ivanovna and Sonya's siblings to chase after her. It kinda provokes a different response.

Svidrigailov wants to be saved from himself. But the way to save himself is to look at himself at his core, to kiss the earth and confess, as Sonya tells Raskolnikov to do. Raskolnikov's motives are also very interior, and they have always been so--he wanted to prove himself an ubermensch of sorts, but failed. Svidrigailov's seem to be more about avoiding himself, yet still, as with Raskolnikov, the truth of who they are still seeps out despite attempts to avoid it.

You can only run so far from yourself.

Svidrigailov is a tragic character, and if you were drawn to him, he's also a prototype for other characters in Dostoyevsky's works: Rogozhin from The Idiot, and most obviously, Stavrogin from Demons--in which essentially the entire book revolves around the enigma that is Stavrogin.

#ask hamliet #crime and punishment #svidrigailov #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #sonya marmeladova #dunya raskolnikova #fyodor dostoevsky

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possessedbydevils · 1 month

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Hot take Svidrigailov is the best and most entertaining character to read