Zemlja kao crnilo.
Iz zemlje niče zeleno.
Zeleno kao svetlost.
Ima li čovek pravo da izigrava Boga? Ima li on pravo da oduzme nekome život, bez obzira koliko bi to dobra ili zla nanelo?
Počinivši zločin, glavni lik romana, misli da poravnava pravdu na zemlji. Jer ubiti babu zelenašicu, nije greh. Međutim, u delu se javlja jedno jurodivo stvorenje, kako bi Rusi rekli, jedno bezazleno biće koje ničim nije načinilo nikakav greh, pa samim tim ničim nije zaslužilo da bude ubijeno. S' obzirom da se ona (Lizaveta) našla u pogrešnom vremenu, na pogrešnom mestu, Raskoljnikov je morao i nju da ubije. Jedno ubistvo, vodi drugom ubistvu. Ubistvo nevinog bića, koje ne zaslužuje da bude ubijeno, zapravo je centar njegovog pokajanja.
Kroz celo delo se uočava agonija „prihvatiti ili ne prihvatiti“ pravoslavlje. Medjutim, prihvatanje pravoslavlja, jeste moralni zakon na koji je pristao. Ono predstavlja i njegov pristanak na iskupljenje. Otišavši u Sibir na odslušanje kazne od sedam godina jeste još jedna simbolika, odnosno, kao što je ceo roman simboličan, tako je i sama kazna simbolična. Sedam – kao sedam smrtnih grehova, kao sedam dana stvaranja sveta, kao činjenica da sedmica predstavlja pravo usamljeno biće, tajanstveno kada se radi o njegovim mislima i osećanjima.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of realistic philosophical and religious themes.
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of "Tsarist Russia", he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile.
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of "Tsarist Russia", he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile.
