So it finally ends here..

         To come to a close, Crime and Punishment ends very dramatically with most of the characters drifting away from each other. Svidrigailov suicides and fakes it by concluding that he's going to America. Rodya's mother falls ill and dies. Dunya and Razumihin get married while Rodya and Sonya go to Siberia for eight months of hard labor. It fascinates me how religion is the focus point near the end of the story to bring a sinner to the righteousness of humanity. However, Rodya still thinks and believes that what he have done wasn't wrong at all. This will definitely support the trial play for next week by bringing up Rodya's confession and his same beliefs after confession. 

          As Dostoevsky, the author of C&P, ends the story with Rodya still in prison and leaving the story without much of an ending, poses a question that may change the story. What if Rodya did, which he did, comes to Sonya for help, but religion was excluded? The author relied on a single "female" character holding figures of God/Jesus to enlighten Rodya's mind and liberate his sufferings of guilt. What if religion and love wasn't the climax of the story, but rather an input on justice or heroism? In evidence, Rodya evicted this way because he had lacked the influence of care and love, which in the whole story he had barely, spoke to his mother. Apparently, Sonya was the only one who actually revealed love even after he confessed about his crime. But that is what I loathe about the story. I understand that she's very religious, but we're talking about a murder here. How is she not petrified by the way he killed the pawnbroker and her sister? There is hardly anybody in the world that would actually convince a person into confession when the murderer is right next to you. That will give you some cutis anserina. 

          Overall, the story does introduce heroism in a great factor, but it didn't necessarily be regarding murder because there are, in fact, many ways to show heroism into the society deprived of causing harm. I presume it was Dostoevsky's way to indicate how crime is truly unscrupulous and that everyone deserves punishment at a degree of whether we know what we see to was erroneous or having acknowledged. "An error" is what Rodya have said.