Fyodor Dostoyevsky?s stories are stories of a sort of rebirth. He weaves a tale of suffering and how each character attempts to deliver themselves from this misery. In the novel Crime and Punishment, he tells the story of Raskolnikov, a former student who murders an old pawnbroker as an attempt to prove a theory. In Notes from the Underground, we are given a chance to explore Dostoyevsky?s opinion of human beings. Dostoyevsky?s …
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…clinically) depressive of some sort. They complain of a detachment to life and alienation from other people, just going through the motions. They are suffering, but are unwilling to give up and are also helpless in terms of feeling better. They are confused as to what to do in the future and see it only as a bleak possibility, just more problems. And with the collapse of certainty, men and women will do crazy things.