Fyodor Dostoevsky is rightfully consideredunsurpassed connoisseur of the human soul. Like no one, this writer realized that each person is a separate world of passions, beliefs and hopes. And because his characters make up the palette of the most vivid and diverse images of not only Russian, but world literature. One of them is Sonya Marmeladova. This article is devoted to the characterization and analysis of the heroine of the greatest psychological novel.
Unique female image
The Marmeladov family takes in Dostoevsky's novelspecial place. Each of its members is experiencing its own tragedy. The theme of “humiliated and offended” is also revealed in this work, but the image of the main character is incomparable to the power of suffering with any other, even in the works of the great Russian writer. That is why it is unique in literature.
Life story
Who is Sonya Marmeladova?Its characteristic is reduced to the following qualities: sincerity, mercy, kindness. The strength of each of them is extraordinary. And only the owner of the best human qualities is able to survive the tragedy that has fallen to her destiny, and at the same time not to harden her soul, not to lose her moral basis.
The protagonist of the novel once meets in a taverndrunk fallen man, whose stories cause laughter from others. Sonya Marmeladova - the daughter of this man. The life story of these people amazes Raskolnikov. And having become acquainted with a girl, an idealist student is no longer able to stay away from the misfortune that has affected this family. Poverty is not a vice, but poverty is another matter. It humiliates a person and causes him to commit a crime against morality. This is the tragedy of Marmeladov. His daughter went to the panel in order to feed his family. But at this time somewhere "lay drunk." And from now on he began to drink even more violently, almost to madness, infuriating his sick and worn out wife with adversities and hurting his daughter's already suffering heart. But the girl has an unusually loving and open soul. Otherwise, it is impossible to survive the torments that Sonya Marmeladova experiences.
Characteristic
Fallen women in society cause contempt.This fate did not escape Sonya Marmeladova. The fact that prostitution for her was the only possible way to feed her father, stepmother and their small children is of no interest to anyone. And few people are able to comprehend the depth of someone else's suffering. For this you need to have either Raskolnikov's detached idealism, or the loving heart of the father. The sister of the protagonist also penetrates to Sonya sympathy. However, such ugly personalities as Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov, can only be condemned. And it should be said that these characters are collective images. Such personalities abound at all times. But both those and others, as well as Sonya Marmeladova herself, understand that she has committed the greatest sin, has transgressed the law of morality. And it will not be easy for her to wash off the traces of a terrible vice.
Raskolnikov
The image of Sonia Marmeladova is amazing becausedespite her grief and contempt of others, she is capable of true love. We are not talking about that earthly feeling, which is more reminiscent of selfish passion, but about a different, true, Christian one. The girl has not lost the ability to sympathize. Perhaps the fact that she was at the bottom of social society for long? Or is it that nothing can kill the noble spiritual qualities? The author points to another reason.
That evening, when Raskolnikov confesses to Sonyaher atrocities, she decides to share with him the fate. But first he must repent and come to the investigator with a confession. And before leaving, Rodion Romanovich receives from the girl a cross that once belonged to Lizaveta. The one whose life was on the conscience of an ambitious student by chance, the murder of which smashed to pieces the already untenable idea of "having the right." And from this act it can be concluded that Sonya was given strength to survive and not lose herself faith. Only a Christian idea can save humanity. Only she has the right to exist.
In the epilogue
At the end of the work becomes finalI understand the role that Sonya Marmeladova played in the fate of Raskolnikov. "Crime and Punishment" - a novel that does not end with the recognition of the main character in the crime committed. After all, it is still not a detective story, but a work that has the deepest idea that is relevant at all times.
Raskolnikov confesses everything.But even in hard labor for a long time, he only blames himself for not being able to carry out his grandiose plans. Sonya accompanies him. She arouses sympathy with prisoners, while a strange student only dislikes. His soul is filled with suffering according to his own failed fate. Her - love for him. And the day comes when Raskolnikov realizes guilt, understands to the end the meaning of the words that she once told him. Until the release of another long seven years. But from the day of repentance Raskolnikov begins a new story - "the gradual renewal of man."
