Redemption Time!!!!!!!!

Chapter 4 Part 6
This chapter was mainly about Svidrigailov talking to Raskolnikov about his association and relation with his wife Marfa. It was not expected at first but then it was like "myeh...i knew she was in on his evil doings" type of thing
Basically In the tale of Sviddy, he says that any woman can be seduced by flattery and he begins to do just that to Dounia. He goes everywhere did everything he said like her lil pet puppy obedient and all b/c she wanted him to "reform his ways"
It didn't work..apparently...
Things went south but that only made Sviddy want her more.
One can tell how pissed Raskolnikov was.
The rest of the chapter went on about hw Sviddy was going to marry a poor family's 16 yr old daughter who has been instructed to do whatever he wants. Raskolnikov accuses him of being a child molester which Sviddy accepts and laughs at. He doesn't care, as long as he is getting what he wants. Rasklnikov was pissed off so he stops Sviddy. They walk away towards the Hay Market...of course to Sviddy's irritation.
Chapter 5 Part 6
Raskolnikov is standing on a bridge unaware of his surroundings and that Dounia is there. Sviddy sneaks over an he and Dounia disappear. They go to Sviddy's room...uh oh.. The suspense is growing.
Sviddy tells her everything about Raskolnikov. Basically everything Raskolikov told Sonia. Dounia already knows from Rahzumihin and Raskolnikovs article Oncrime. Dounia tries to leave... the doors are locked....suspense continoues to grow....Dounia is scared...dun dun dun!!!!!Uh oh its Sviddy's Secular Sex Shenanigans!!!!!
She pulls out a gun, takes a step forward, gets a serious face, holds it horizontal like a gangster and starts cursing Sviddy out. "You want some of this bruh? Huh? Holmes You want some of this? Can't be locking a sista' up in a joint dog? Open the door before I blow your brains out!!!!"
Or something along that line....
The gun was of course a gift from Marfa Petrovna :)
In the end Dounia wastes all the bullets but one on him but misses. (1 did graze his head though)
She drops the gun and he grabs her hands. He asks her. Do you really not love me? She says no.
He gives her the key and tells her to run.
H notices the gun on the floor.. It has 1 bullet...(more than enough) ...He picks it up and goes outside....
Chapter 6 Part 6
Honestly...this chapter was scary :(
basically Sviddy went around gave Sonia 3000 roubles, encourages her to stop prostitution. He goes to his 16 yr old fiance's home and give s her parents money to give her. Then he leaves in the night in the storm. The scary parts were his dreams...I don't even wanna talk about that... (nor do i really understand them in depth)...In the end Sviddy goes around tellingeveryone he's leaving for America. He finds a policeman and tells him. The man doenst believe him. Sviddy takes out his gun all gangsta like puts it to the policeman's face and tells him to tell everyone he went to America. Then he blows his own brains out....like a boss.
This is the end of Svidrigailov and his redemption for his evil and wrongdoings...let us bow our heads in moment of silence.... alirght moving on!!!
Chapter 7 Part 6
Raskolnikov goes to mommy's home and they have a loving mother son moment.
His mom asked if they could all go with him (Her, Dounia, Razumihin, and even Sonia (whom she is ready to treat like her own daughter)).
He meets Dounia afterwards. She tells him he's already been punished for his crime because he's suffering for it.
He looks at her weird and like Joker from Batman says, I didn't commit any crime...i was helping society.
In fact if i hadn't messed up they would be praising me right now.
He tells her that his dead fiance knew about all of his theories when he gave Dounia a picture of her.
Then he tells her that it may b better for him to commit suicide or at least jump in river and let the water take him away to a new life (in my understanding of it...because that is possible).
They go their own ways and Raskolnikov starts talking to himself...
Should i confess? yes i should..but..no ...no i shouldnt....however... yes...yes yes...uh huh... hmmm... yes no yes no yes no yes no yes no ahhhh idk!!!!
Chapter 8 Part 6
Raskolnikov goes to Sonia's place. He asks for the crosses she was gonna give him as symbols of god and redemption. He tells out he is going to be carrying out her plan of redemption.
Sonia puts a copper cross around his neck.
Raskolnikov goes to the police station place thingy. On his way there he remembers Sonia's words, kneel, bow to the ground, pray, and scream out that he is the murderer. No one pays much attention, and the ones that do just laugh and walk away.
He notices Sonia stalking him sneakily. He realizes that she will follow him to the end of time and always be by his side.
Then he goes and tells Illya (the Explosive Lieutenant) that he was the murderer.
Epilogue 1
Raskolnikov is tried in court and everything goes smoothly. He confessed, its said that he was a bit coo coo at the time, and a list of a He gets like 8 years of penal servitude in Siberia.
He spends a while in prison in St. Petersburg. Razumihin, Dounia, and Sonia come to see him.
Then he is moved to Siberia. Sonia come with him. She maintains contact with him (though he ignores her) and the rest of his family. They keep the fact that he's in prison from his mother. Eventually she gets old sick and dies.
Later on Dounia and Razumihin get a letter saying that Raskolnikov is not doing so well. He's not getting along well with other prisoners, stopped eating, and has even gotten so sick that he was sent to the hospital.
Epilogue 2
Raskolnikov is in the hospital for a long time. he is mean to Sonia...butthole... X(...she's so nice to him but still...he refuses to respect her and all that she is doing for him.
He thinks he's serving a meaningless sentence for something that in his mind really wasn't a crime
In his head the more he thinks about the crime, the more he thinks it isn't a crime.
He wonders that if he had gotten away with the murder, would everyone have loved him for it? and stuff...
He thinks about Sviddy for a while...
Then he notices that the people in prison love life more than the people not in prison.
The prisoners don't like him. They say he is an atheist. Raskonlikov wonders where they got that idea from.
When he was in hospital he remembers his dreams about viruses and scary stuff.. and of course mentionings of CANNIBALISM!!! (this is not disjoint of The Road apparently)
Raskolnikov and a few others go off to the river bank to work.
He finds Sonia sitting next to him.
(This is a very notable part of Raskolnikov's life!!!!!!!!!!!)
She offers him her hand, he then, instead of being mean like usual, takes her hand with love.
This is the first time Raskolnikov has ever shown her that he loves her.
He is now a changed man, and even the prisoners treat him better now.
He swears to himself that he will love her a lott and make up for treating her bad when she did everything for him.
He asks Sonia to bring him a copy of the New Testament becasue he wishes to adopt her beliefs.
Sonia is absolutely ecstatic. Girl finally got her big break for all her hard work. :)
I'm so happy for her. :)
The book ends saying that the story of the rest of Raskolnikov's life and his return to society and all that good stuff...is a story for another time....
THE END!!!!
(credits)
(Insert Piano Solo)

I Love You!!!!!....now will you come visit me in jail??? :D ... Cuz i killed ur friend ^_^

Looking upon part 5 chapter 4, i'd say that our man Raskolnikov is very sensitive person.
He goes to Sonia to reveal to her who killed her friend, Lizaveta. He goes there to redeem himself.
When he tells her that her family is being evicted Sonia jumps up and is ready to leave but he consoles her.
He begins to question her. He asks if she could choose between Luzhins life and the life of Katrina and her family who would she choose and why?
Sonia tells him that she cannot choose who lives or dies, only god can do that.
This makes Raskolnikov think. Did he have the right to choose between who lives or dies? It would support his theory, that he would have the right to do so, but it would prove that Sonia is wrong. How could she be wrong though? She, after all is the suffering of humanity. He begins to believe in her and have faith in her.
She edges him to get to the point. She is restless she wants to know.
He slowly begins to reveal the secret to her. He makes her think and provides detail by detail. Until finally!!!!!!!!! She figures out that it was he who killed Lizaveta. She is appalled.
She then feels that she needs to be there for him.
He tries to explain his theory of the Extraordinary man to her. However she does not understand because it is only something that educated people would understand, and that only if they trapped themselves in a closet for 2 months. (Like Raskolnikov) Who could understand his logic?
Sonia advises him. She tells him to confess and serve his time, and beg forgiveness.
She wishes to give him a cross.
The cross is the symbol of Christianity. Christianity is based on the idea of redemption.
Thus the cross, to Raskolnikov, is a symbol of redemption.
In the next chapter Lebeziatnikov tells Raskolnikov and Sonia that basically...Katerina has gone psycho coo coo crazy. Leb says its a psychological thing associated with tuberculosis. Raskolnikov doesn't really care much about the rest of what he has to say and stops listening. I believe Dostoyesvsky has made Raskolnikov's character to be pretty rebellious. Where of course rebellious isnt the best synonym to use, but the least vulgar. :P according to thesaurus.com and urbandictionary.com :P
Raskolnikov goes home. His sister is there. She knows everything from his best buddy Razumuhin. She knows that he is "wrongly accused of the murders." She tells him that she will take care of their mother in his absence. Right before she leaves he basically tries to hook his buddy and his sister up by praising Raz in her presence. This makes her blush. It also creates a little happy scene in between a bunch of sad ones.
Afterwards Katerina goes crazy on the street wont listen to anyone and falls in blood. She is carried to Sonia's room where she then passes away saying that she doesn't need  priest, because she has not sinned.
Then Sviddy (Svidrigailov) appears saying that he knows everything. Wow...didnt see that coming. The next chapter...is a waste of time. Nothing of importance happens. There's Katerina's funerel. Sonia holds Raskolnikov's hand. He wakes up in bushes, talks to Razumhin, and the chapter ends with him and Porfiry...just chillin'
Porfiry says that he doesn't believe that Nikolay is the murderer. He couldn't have killed the 2 women. Then he accuses Raskolnikov. It was funny. It also shows how "rebellious" Raskolnikov is. Thats basically all that happend in that chapter as well.
Chapter 3 of part 6 was of nothing either. Raskolnikov goes searching for Sviddy. He finds him and they talk. Raskolnikov is disgusted at the fact that Sviddy is only interested in women. He's a player...an EVIL player. I thought Raskolnikov was "rebellious," but then there's this guy, Sviddy. Woo-Wee...I don't think i have to indulge that conversation for one to understand what i'm talking about.
That sums up what i read from the rest of Part 5 and first 3 chapters in Part 6.

How to convince your AP-LIT teacher that you read...

I have no idea how to convince this. I read the book, but i admit half the time when i read it just flows over my head. I rarely understand what is going on. I'm not much of a reader. 

Nevertheless, i still noticed how in chapter 1 of part 5 was basically about Luzhin complaining to his friend about the previous days events. His friend Lebeziatnikov seems like a pretty normal person. Probably a foil of Luzhin. Luz is mad at himself at all the money he spent over the marriage that he cant get back because he is such a loser. In reference to the German tradesman he bought the stuff from, he says, ""why am i such a Jew?"

I wonder what that means. Afterwards i got really confused and did not understand what was going on. I noticed how they were talking about the funeral Katrina was preparing. Apparently it is such a big event that everyone is invited. Even the people who don't know Marmeladov are invited to attend. After that they discussed a major thing in this book. The philosophy of Nihilism, and its relation to the city of Petersburg. To me it seemed like Luz and Leb were talking about creating a new community and discussing how it would be run. Though Leb is nice and a friend of Luz, Luz is such a bad person that even Leb starts to dislike him. He blames it on Luz's ill-humor and his anger issues over what happened yesterday. That and his inability to take in anything that makes him feel weak or inferior. Simply he is a rude despicable person. He makes me yawn, and sleepy. 

Katerina Ivanovna is a delightfully proud woman. She has skills, mad skills. Skills in wasting money that's not even hers!!! She took Raskolnikov's money and wasted it all on the funeral, with a giant feast and festivities and a giant robot chicken that shuffles....Okay maybe not the chicken but u get the point. Such a waste. After discussing that Luz speaks his mind to Sonia and gives her 10 roubles. All the while she couldnt look him in the face and Leb stood by the window irritated by Luz and angered. 

So how about Katerina having that big event, but she can't pay for it, but she blames certain other people for known people not being present. Pig headed old lady. X( This right here is the summarization of all of Chapter 2. No  I am quite serious. Sonia just sat there, with her quiet and modest, like usual. 

Chapter 3 took a twist that i didn't expect. Sure Katerina is stupid and prideful, but I never thought she would get happy over Luzer i mean Luzhin attending her grand function. However, i would like to add that, she got SERVED!!!!!!!!!!!!

However she does always protect Sonia and stuff. She even told Raskolnikov that when she receives her pension she wishes to open a school for daughters of gentlemen. That's so nice :)

Luzhin tries to frame Sonia for stealing one of his notes when he had given her 10 roubles earlier at the end of chapter 1. Katrina gets pissed off, not that she already isn't.

The landlady tell them to get out of her lodgings, and be sent to siberia for theft. 

Wow if theives are sent to siberia, i wonder where murderers are sent?

Leb steps up and flames Luzer and calls him names of relation to chemical waste... :P 

Raskolnikov then comes to the aid of the maiden and explains how Luzer is a sore loser and he was acting "with stupid middle school mentality" and trying to get revenge because he couldn't handle being dumped. 

I still think it comical how someone threw a glass out of nowehere and it chanced to hit the landlady. She went crazy and blamed Katrina and that was the end of it all. Now they are on the street, because Luzhin is a loser and can't do anything without feeling as if he were the center of attention, or having childish tantrums. 

This is what i read and i hope that this is very convincing that i did indeed read. 

The End...

aahh...ahhh...Nietzche!!!!....God bless you...huh, what god?

     Nietzche was a 19th century philosopher and a bunch of other things. He wrote about a bunch of stuff, usually philosophical, with great use of metaphors and irony. This is noticed in the book Crime and Punishment, how his philosophy of Ubermensch, Nihilism, Existentialism, etc... is presented in, usually, a very ironic matter. He also talks about death of God, perspectivism, eternal recurrence, ans the will to power. Most of his philosophies and concepts flow togather like puzzle pieces. All of his ideas are interlinked.
In Crime and Punishment we notice two very malicious characters. First is Svidrigailov and the second is Luzhin. Both not only argue against each other, they are the most in line with Neitzche's philosphies.
Those two characters line up with the philosophies of Will to Power, and Ubermensch.
Will to Power is a basis for understanding human behavior. Nietzche says that the will to power is even stronger than the will to survive sometimes. (That's ironically stupid, if you don't survive, then how does one expect to retain any power that one does gain. He also notes that it is only in intellectual beings that pleasure, displeasure, and will are to be found. This excludes a vast majority of people.
Ubermensch is a weird complicated concept. Its literal translation into English is SUPERMAN!!!!!
On the other hand this is also Nietzsche concept of "an over man" who overcomes the general perspective that society has and has the power to create a new perspective without forcing his perspective on others.
Raskolnikov lives with this concept in mind. He wishes to be an Ubermensch.
Svidrigailov and Luzhin seems to be pupils of the philosophy of Will to Power. They care about nothing and no one except themselves. Luzhin mainly wants power, and he will do anything to get it. Svidrigailov is more of an Ubermensch. He imposes his perspective onto others, not only to make himself look good, but simply because he can. In his meeting with Raskolnikov he continuously gave excuses to everything he did as well as assering his thoughts over Raskolnikov. He doesn't care for others as he thinks with his perverted sensualist mind. He is also abusive and abrasive. Abuse is the show of power. This guy is a bum, he even tries to give Dunya 10,000 roubles to convince her to his side, because he can.
Luzhin considers himself noble above all (especially Dunya, Raskolnikov, and Sonia...poor modest Sonia)
He constantly tries to show himself superior to others. When angered he lashes at Dunya how he a nobleman was planning to take her even though all the rumors about her. Besides that, he is always trying to make Sonia and Raskolnikov look really really bad. Uber-much? I should say so.
As we read on in Crime and Punishment we realize that all Luzhin wants out of Dunya is to forward his own career. As aforementioned in Will to Power, he is only using her for POWAH!!!!
In Part 4 Chapter 4 of C&P we see clearly another philosophy of Nietzche, Death of God....dun...dun...dun... !!!!!
Nietzche said developments in science and increasing secularization of society in general has killed off the concept of god. This makes him appear to be an atheist. He also accepted the fact that God served as the basis of meaning and value in the world for thousands of years.
Another philosophy of his is called Perspectivism. Here he says that the Death of God will eventually lead to loss of any universal perspective on things and along with it, basically, good of society. (truth, morals, ethics, goody goody, etc...) In the place of that society will create multiple, personal on the most part, diverse, perspectives of the world.
Sonia argues that god will not allow Polenka to have as horrible a fate as hers. Raskolnikov replies, what if there is no god? He, at the end, bows down and kisses her feet, in representation that he is bowing down to the suffering of humanity.
After that we notice the "doucheness" as my classmates would say, of Svidrigailov listening in on Raskolnikov and Sonia's conversation. As they recite the story of the resurrection of Lazarus, ironically, and when Raskolnikov tells Sonia that he will tell her who killed Lizaveta the next day...Svidrigailov gets a chair to get comfortable.
The next day he goes to see Porfiry...we all know why...to see what he knows. Raskolnikovs tells him that if he is suspected then throw him in jail, if not then let him go, but he will not be made a mockery of. He finds out that Porfiry belongs to a religious sect that emphasizes suffering for sins of others.
Then the painter confesses to the murder and bada bing bada boom Raskolnikov is of the leash.
He goes on with a new light. He embraces life. He has found a new determination to live and overcome the distress of his crime. He has received emotional redemption of his crime from Sonia and intellectual redemption from Porfiry. Even though just before his whole life depended on the validity of his theory.
Raskolnikov throws down Existentialism and embraces a view of the world similar to Dostoyevsky's Christian Orthodox view. :)

If psycopathy is a medical disorder, do I qualify for food stamps???

I'm not crazy!!!!!!!
So I took the crazy test... er...the social psycopath test and I got a good score.......

I got the following:

The test results don't suggest
strong psychopathic tendencies.


This does not mean the person isn't a potential mass-murderer. They may be mad, they may resort to violence. A close professional or emotional relationship with even the most normal of people may prove to be a damaging, or at least boring, experience.

I am kind of happy but also kind of worried about this....

Then I listened to This Americal Life 436: The Psychopath Test

The test is used to determine whether prisoners were a psychopath and if they could get parole.
The test is often called "the checklist"
Basically the psychopaths essentially were emotionless. The had no feelings, or anything at all.
There is one problem though. There is know way to measure psychiatric data.
The test created a measurement system.
Back in the day Social factors and environmental factors created criminals.
What the checklist did was create a personality test used for marginal academic research was used to predict criminal behavior.

There are worries that the parole boards would misuse this test.
Many values and moral issues with this.

Some people say the test isn't really good because it weighs heavily on the past.

Such, it is like setting up people who had bad bad childhoods to be labeled as psychopaths. Even if they we'rent.Not fair at all... :/

It's hard being a psychopath, or even being marked as one...

I DONT LIKE MONDAYS!!!! With all the minorities reporting criminal brain scans!!! X/

"I Don't Like Mondays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is a great way to start this blog. Simply because tomorrow is Monday and I don't like it.
However, this song, sung by UK band Boomtown Rats and written by Bob Geldof, is quite controversial in its happy sing-song nature. At first i could not decipher the meaning within the lyrics of the song, but after I did some research on the background, i was enlightened. Enlightened is quite a weird way to put it though.
Say we defined the first verse of this song and the most repeated verse of this song.
"The silicon switch inside her head
gets switched to overload."


"Tell me why 
I don't like Mondays"


Here the Geldof talks about how a switch goes of inside this girl's head. She goes nuts, an has lost her sense.
This girl, apparently of 16 years of age by the name of Brenda Ann Spencer, didn't like Mondays. So to make the day a bit more "lively" she went up to the local elementary school and started a shoot out. This resulted in the death of 2 adults, and the injury of 8 children and a police officer.

Why did she do such a despicable act of violence? Simply because she thought Mondays were boring, and that this would make things different than the usual boring day. No other reason at all. We can compare her to Raskolnikov (Ras*) from Crime and Punishment. Ras* murders the old pawnbroker lady simply because he thought society would be better without her. For something so simple both of these 2 people committed murder of (ironically) 2 people. On the other hand Brenda here did not feel any remorse for her crime. Ras* however went totally psycho over trying to redeem himself. He constantly argued whether or not he should turn himself in and take the punishment or bear the crime on his own shoulders. He unlike Brenda, had mental issues.

Certain psychologist, scientists, and neurologist have been going around conducting research based on their idea that brain scans reveal the mind of a criminal. They point out that brains of certain individuals that conduct certain acts of crime, are different than the brains of the rest of the population. The say that people with a condition called the antisocial personality disorder  typically do not care for right and wrong. This they may violate the law and the rights of others. It is not to say that they don't know the law, but they just don't have a feeling for it or for right and wrong.

Neurologist say that psychopaths have a deformation in a part of their brain. That part of the brain controls emotion, and psychopaths lack emotion, empathy, and guilt.
Thus is the case of Brenda Ann Spencer. She did not feel empathy, guilt, or emotion when committing crime. She just felt like it, because it would make the day better.

"Because the brain of a psychopath is compromised, Adriane Raine said,one could argue that they don't have full responsibility for their actions. That - in effect - it's not their fault.


Researcher have used this idea prove their point but also add that...

"Imaging was used...to reduce his responsibility. Yet is that not a slippery slope to Armageddon where there's no responsibility in society?"


Would this be valid in society? Brain scans to determine whether or not one is a psychopath, and if they are, to take social responsibility in amending that fault to make sure that that person maintains what we call civility. It's not like they can control how their brains turn out... *coughFATEcough*. We can't really blame them for that.

I really don't know about these things, but then again, god knows what the government does on it's own.
In the end, i'm pretty sure it has it's own agenda for criminals.

Last but not least we have The Minority Report!!!! Minority Report!!!! Minority Report!!!! Extra Extra Read All About it!!!

Future, Time, psychics with no lives!!!! Here is the minority report of a society where there is no wrong because all that is wrong is wrung out, caught, and punished before the wrong even takes place.
What a world it would be if crime could be predicted and stopped. However, doesn't that also mean that we have lost free will over to sum psychics (Precogs) and computers who may or may not be correct about what we may plan to do in the future. In the end we are punished severely of the crime we might never even would have committed.

Here in the society of The Minority Report the idea of Precrime is where a groupe of Precog (psychic) mutatants predict a series of reports which are then deciphered by a computer to see which of the reports correlate, and then assumes that those two (the majority report) represent what is to occur in the future. Then the ones accused to commit that crime are punished.
This however can be considered controversial. If one has not committed a crime then why should one be punished for it? On the other hand, it has been stated that Precrime has dropped crime by approximately 99.8%. It works but also against the free will of others.

If you think about it its like saying non-criminals are being punished because they are criminals in the future. Even though they haven't done anything yet, they are being prevented from doing whatever it is they would have done that would have been crime. Whew...thats a lot of deep stuff. Quite a brain puzzler time and stuff is....

All in all Criminal activity is thoroughly researched to decrease it. There are no real applicable ethical and morally sound solutions yet though. For that we must wait. Until then ....this is the Extra Extra Minority Report ...Signing out...

Redemption

re·demp·tion

noun /riˈdempSHən/  redemptions, plural The action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil - God's plans for the redemption of his world A thing that saves someone from error or evil - his marginalization from the Hollywood jungle proved to be his redemption The action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt The action of buying one's freedom

According to the above definitions of redemption, we notice how Raskolnikov (R) lives a life based solely around that one thing. 

It is his belief that if a man is strong enough or extraordinary then he needs not be saved from anything or be indebted to anyone. His whole life in this story is based on that fact. 

He is prideful, arrogant, compassionate at times (when it serves a purpose for his own ego), egocentric, etc... He is many things, but what do all of these things have in common? All together they assert a man of control, a man of power, and a man of attention.

Through out the novel we notice how he constantly says that he is a student, a man of education. One who creates theories, creates experiments, and studies them to see the outcome. To see whether or not they were correct in their theoretical analysis of a situation.

R theorises that an extrordinary mans feels no redemption.

He plans out a murder, of someone who would not be missed much by society. He commits crime. Then he waits for punishment. His punishment begins with fever, mental illness. Physical incapabilities. 

He constantly sought to confess and redeem himself after the murder, to submit to his failure. This would prove his theory of being the extraordinary man wrong. He must be able to overcome redemption. 

Another addition to that is the feeling of wanting to act alone and stand alone in superiority above others. One is superior when one is not in debt but indebted too by others. R shows this characteristic of his when he gives a 15yr old singer 15 kopecks, and again when he saves Marmeladov's life (sort of, he still dies later...) and takes him home, after which he leaves 20 roubles for the family. In a way R believes that this is his redemption, compassion. 

I think that people can be redeemed, if and only if their redemption is equal to their actions. One must serve their consequences, whether they be good or bad. If someone does something that is just utterly repulsive, gruesome, evil, then they must redeem themselves in just such a way that is repulsive, grueseome, and evil to the extent of redemption. The reason i feel the way i do on this issue if because i faintly believe in karma. I believe that what goes around comes back around. If you commit a crime then you are eventually going to have to redeem yourself one way or another. However everyone is different. Everyone perceives things differently. Some might not agree with me, and some might. In the end, in the circle of crime, there follows punishment, and hidden behind the shadows of punishment, is redemption.


P.S. Can i still take the quiz if everyone posts???...i need the grade... :)   

Fyodor and Psyche

Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions. Fyodor Dostoyevsky analyzed human psychology in the political environment of his home country of Russia. His touch on the exploration of the human psyche extends to Raskolnikov in C&P. Raskolnikov seems to have 2 different psyches or states of mind. One is kind and compassionate(+psyche). The other is selfish, loathing, and inglorious of the human character(-psyche).
I believe there is a connection between his father's work as a doctor for the poor and his childhood, and the compassion shown in Raskolnikov's +psyche. He was caring and loved to talk to the patients at the hospital. The hospital was located near a prison cemetery and an orphanage. This would have had a great effect for the kindness of the +psyche towards poor people, children, and people who need help.
There would also have been quite an effect on Dostoyevseky by the sadness and depressedness of the place where he grew up. There were poor people, people of filth, orphans, children/infants given away because people didn't want them, and of course the cemetery. What cemetery is not gloomy? In addition to this was all the crap that Dostoyevskey went through in his life. He had epilepsy, was sentenced death, then exiled, etc... All these must have had an effect on him. Making him think that human's, basically sucked. They were loathsome. This developed in C&P as Raskolnikov's -psyche.
This is the effect that Dostoyevsky's life had on the novel.

Of course everyone knows that there was a murder in C&P.
The question comes up at this time. Is it a crime if it is done for good?
Raskolnikov murders the old lady and her sister, but since he did there was a weight of lousy filth removed from the world. He even symbolically beat her out of her life. He quickly ends her sister's (who was a nice and caring) life quickly and does not think of it as anymore but an accident.
By removing flth from society isn't he helping society? It may be a crime but he just saved the economical lives of so many people as well. (This refers to the old lady being stingy with money,bad deals, and wasting money on things that were useless.)
One can compare this to a lie. People lie all the time. Lying is considered bad by society. However if one lies for the good of another or to help someone out then its not bad at all. For example, if some one lies to spare someones feelings or to make them feel better where telling the truth would have caused more harm, then lying is good.
Just as that if crime were done for good would it still be crime? I would have to say yes, it is still a crime, the only difference is the purpose behind the crime.

P.S. This blog is a day late due to medical illness

Crime and Punishment 1

This is just the beginning of the book, and it begins with narration by a young man.

Then the syntax changes to represent that of a 3rd person point of view. 

The story talks of a man walking to a building. On his way in his mind he is thinking. Just thinking and ignoring all else. Blocking out society as he wants to be an out cast. He doesn't want to be noticed. 

The story then moves on to say that he has been having dreams that he says are hideous but they tell him stuff like the amount of steps it takes to walk from home to the building. Kinda creepy isnt it?

Makes me think he's a bit loco. 

The story constantly goes back t saying that the people are German. Germans this, German that....

We find out the name of the young man is Roskolnikov, and he is a student.

He wanted to trade this lady a watch for some money. At that time he also seems to make some small plans. Remembering that there were certain keys in her right pocket. 

For such a lazy butt he does pay attention to a lot of things. 

The tone ad mood of the story switches from casual to serious every time the man runs into company. 

The story then talks of a drunk man who talks of his family and his problems to Roskolnikov b/c through his rags he seems to b a man of education. The story twists and turns from there on. Switching from different people as narrators from time to time. 

This provides style to the story and a special syntax too. 

However, as it is really late and i feel fairly sickly, and the fact that no one has received an email about the homework, i can say no more. 

Are we there yet...Almost...Will we ever get there...Sometime, not now...The Road

All I have to say is that the boy is not only naive, he's nice.
First, he does not know what he is talking about half the time but he still talks about it. Crows???
It's expected of him not to know, but he still talks as if he does. On the other hand he does catch on really fast.
Bright kid, but a real smarty pants.
Second, he sees a random guy on a road, in a world full of hungry carnivorous cannibals. What does he do?
He goes up to him, sympathizes with him, and gives him food. IDIOT!!! Listen to your father he could have made you his dinner. The kid is lucky the old man was nice.
I have no idea how the old man has even survived this long. He's half deaf and probably can't see the road correctly. Anyone could have jumped him,  and "gone on with it". He wouldn't have minded, unless he was still alive at the time they "went on with it..." I shudder at the thought.
I admire the old mans bravery and will to survive though.
In my opinion I think the old man was the comic relief of the story. His being old and having characteristics of the old, is mildly amusing. This is mainly pointed out during the conversation between him the man and his son.
All the while he still had the wisdom that came with age.
I like a quote he said.

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt
getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there."


The he also said, "Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."


That actually made me laugh at the irony of it. I remember one of my classmates (Fatima) was criticizing, with good reason, the fact that all the people in the world are still trying to live, but for what?  They have no reason to live, but they still keep trying.
I guess the man is shedding light to her statement. :P
I think the old man could have been a philosopher with the way he talked about life, god, death, and everyone else. Then again, he could have just lost his mind. Either way, philosopher or deranged old man, its all the same thing right?

Besides all that stuff i also think that as the man gets sicker, he is also getting more and more paranoid. Probably out of worry for his son but still. Its quite noticeable.
They stay at a house. Then the kid becomes paranoid. Like father like son as they say. :P
What i have come to notice, is that in the conversations that the father and son have, they say okay a lot.
It is as if they have been through so much crap that they are able to readily accept anything. They don't hesitate to do anything either. Unless of course, they are being paranoid or scared.

Cormac McCarthy does spend a lot of time describing macabre scenes. Makes you wonder what goes through his head all the time. How does he sleep?...I don't know about him but i'm going to have trouble sleeping tonight. with all the detail of heads of infants, dead bodies in graves, humans burned and charred in the heat. One word comes to my mind, eww.
Does anyone else think it is odd how the dude knows so many words that are simply synonyms for dead stuff???Sepulchre??? what diction that is, eh? lol
Then of course comes the beach...the good old sunny bright fun warm beach....
NOT!!! exactly the opposite...smog full, wet cold, ashy, down right depressing beach. Just like everything else in that world. Who swims into the ocean to scavange a ship?? Pirates all over again
I swear that man would probably be the worlds best scavenger. I wonder where he learned that from.
So much mystery...so little time. I take that back They still arent "there" yet. Will they ever get there? Probably, just not yet...smh....

The Road qoutes

I don't know what to say besides the fact that im so sleepy right now. I bet the son and father really knew how to deal with travelling and all that stuff. They sound like they were sleep deprived too. They were depressed half the time.

"Can i ask you something,

What

Are we going to die

Sometime. Not Now."

They are always expecting death like what is with that

Then they are always acting old and crap.

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

What is it now? They have Alzheimer's? They story portrays a lot of things but in my opinion it depicts life after the Apocolypse as very caveman like and old man like.

I dont want to drag this on as i feel like the boy and the man. Old, tired, sick, and presumably delirious.

Basically T.S. Elliot says the world ends in a whimper. It occurs slowly. And ends up like the world of death, or a big desert.

Yeats says that the world is ending as we speak. Since the new millennia came Yeats implies that a dark age will come since Jesus came during the last age which was good. So that means in a cycle, next comes bad. Linda depressing isnt it? Yea i feel the same way.

McCarthy says the world was burned. Yes folks i've said it , BURNED!!!! Scorched by god knows what. There is an abundance of religious quotes in all 3 pieces of literature. So that must have influences their way of thinking of what would happen when the world ended. All the end of the world scenarios out there. Can't say they didnt have any ideas floating around or trouble describing the world not as destroyed, but as it is now. :(

Isn't that deppresing?

Theres nothing more i can add to that at the moment. I might actually go delirious myself.

Resurrection at 5 AM(T.S. Elliot)... X(

WE NEED SLEEP!!!!!! Sleep i shall now get....