What happens when a poor man has murderous thoughts? But, then, what happens when Raskolnikov feels guilty? Here are a few famous quotes from Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
"Why am I going there now? Am I capable of that? Is that serious? It is not serious at all. It's simply a fantasy to amuse myself; a plaything! Yes, maybe it is a plaything." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 1
"Why am I to be pitied, you say? Yes! There's nothing to pity me for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied! Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me?" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 2
"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 2
"Good God!" he cried, "can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open... that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, blood... with the axe... Good God, can it be?" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 5
"Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 13
"Life is real! Haven't I lived just now? My life has not yet died with that old woman! The Kingdom of Heaven to her-and now enough, madam, leave me in peace!" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 14
"Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions-it's like a dream." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 17
"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment-as well as the prison." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 19
"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 24
"Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!' Then God will send you life again. Will you go, will you go?" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 30
"It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Ch. 39
"They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Epilogue
2 comments:
This book seems interesting. Very effective use of rethorical questions. The fifth and tenth paragraph really caught my attention. I'm definately taking this book from the library next lesson.
It also contains some descriptive, which entranced me for a few seconds. I would like to read the book.
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