Crime and Punishment Analysis (Part 2)

[@cohan30]

Your videos have been very helpful to me. I was inspired to read classic literature recently and this is my first Dostoyevsky book. I struggle sometimes with comprehension, so I seek out videos like yours and you’ve really helped me to connect with this book in a deeper way. Thank you for making these, I know it can’t be easy!

[@harrison_williams]

I just finished part 2 tonight and couldn’t wait to compare notes with your analysis. So far both videos have been well researched, offering good insights and greatly enhancing my experience with the text. Can’t wait to finish part 3! Thank you.

[@SophiaClef]

You're welcome! I'm glad they help 😊

[@NeighborhoodStreetrat]

Thank you so much for your amazing contribution to society by uploading these! I'm falling in love with this book as I read it and your videos have certainly enriched the experience. This is an easy enough book to read and understand the story, but the levels of depth you've uncovered thus far have helped uncover depths within myself I didn't know were there. The book does a good job on its own, but I've already mentioned your videos to those I've recommended the book to. Thank you!

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you! I'm really glad they helped.

[@SophiaClef]

I'm sorry for the delay! The export took longer than expected.

[@singh3100]

What your thoughts on general themes of crime and punishment As in suffering is inevitable and leads to redemption? Great minds suffers most? Class system? Utilitarianism ? Just trying to make sense of it all Always appreciate your work

[@SM-gd2rn]

One thing I noticed in dostoevsky's books is how the protaginasts sometimes starts walking with a total absent mind yet the always end up arriving to their destonations

[@shanichen1188]

Thank you very much for your excellent analysis! Can you please enable the option of automatic subtitles in this video? This is the only video in this series that doesn't have automatic subtitles. Thank you.

[@christinewhite6993]

I just read this book for the first time. I bought the book in a small shop while on a short vacation on Cape Cod, Massachusetts (not far from my home).You are never too old to learn. Thank you for your wonderful insights. I'm in love now with Russian literature.

[@PowderedDonutCrew]

You have really been aiding my understanding of the text and I am so very thankful. This is my first time reading Dostoyevsky, and honestly a text in it's class and I have been finding it as recondite as it is shocking, disturbing, and soul-rending. I couldn't help but crying during a certain fateful scene in part 2. Anyway, comparing my understanding with your more well rounded insights has been a true joy and help. I have a feeling that I will need to reread this masterpiece moreover to grasp the subtleties you describe. I'm LOVING it tho

[@SophiaClef]

I'm glad it helped. 😊 Certain parts were definitely more touching than I expected.

[@stetsonstarkey]

Great job on these analysis videos! Do you plan to continue making more of these?

[@jeffseng6385]

Thank you again. I really love listening to you give your knowledge and insight. Reading the book I felt as though I was in the mind of Raskolnikov ( going mad with him?). It is in this sense that I was rooting for him, just like when you said you wanted to tell him to stop when he was talking to the police officer.

[@oliviaeff4154]

You are amazing! I enjoyed your analysis like I was enjoying the book all over again! Thank you!

[@shelby9367]

I absolutely love your videos they’re so helpful. Thank you!!

[@nvnrmchl]

part ii lesssss go!

[@1337Jag]

All the iconographic and theological connections with Sonya are fascinating. The other characters in this story seem so realistic, yet Sonya seems like a paragon of sorts.

[@curiousme8]

Simply wow! Thank you, Sophia! 🙏

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you!

[@blingcicero6570]

Thank you. This novel is so difficult. I'm reading it for fun and many times I'm lost.

[@SarcasticSplendor]

Hey ! Have you managed to go through the entire book ? Wherever you have any difficulty we're here to assist one another. Enjoy the read.

[@samual9371]

Brilliant analysis! watching and taking notes. and for some reason you remind me of Virginia Woolf xx

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you! 😊

[@jackierabinowitz9287]

Thank you

[@chhhhhris]

I read Lenin's _"What is to be done?"_ although, its certainly different than Chernyshevsky's.

[@SophiaClef]

Yeah, while I was looking for the book cover, I found out that Lenin wrote a book with he same title. The more you know...

[@chhhhhris]

@@SophiaClef Yea just going through my notes on it, Lenin actually criticizes _severly_ Chernyshevsky's brand of Socialism - _Narodnism,_ for what it was at the time, and for what its followers had later turned it in to.

[@sitting_nut]

@@chhhhhris while chernyshevsky's book was popular among revolutionaries, socialists, and radicals in general(including with lenin who read it many times by his own admission, hence the title copy), i don't think "narodnism" can be called "chernyshevsky's brand of socialism" . he was one of many influences to it at best. also lenin never liked any ideology or movement that was not controlled by a small band of professional revolutionaries. even when ideology was basically the same as his, as was not the case with "narodnism".

[@chhhhhris]

@@sitting_nut Do you also think the moon and sun are _"basically the same"_ ?

[@sitting_nut]

@@chhhhhris you missed the "not" .

[@wyattmurr9933]

Thanks for your analysis! You are saving me for my school quizzes! Also, you are extremely beautiful :)

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you! 😊

[@moritzwagner4332]

Thank you again for the video. While reading, I really did not see so much symbolism in this work. Wow. Now I feel kind of stupid haha.

[@SophiaClef]

You shouldn't feel stupid, though. I'm sure I missed some of the things you noticed.

[@user-fm9zl6mc3w]

You may have said this, but I think the orientation of the axe symbolises the irony of taking punishment into your own hands, of adorning yourself with the right to act as judge, jury and executioner, as God. It bring no true reckoning for the evil person, but only destroys you, only makes a victim of innocents around you (Lizavetta). Ultimately, his crime did nothing for the greater good, only serving to tear apart his whole world.

[@SarcasticSplendor]

What if you are way too philosophizing and that unusual axe orientation just betrays Raskonikov's awkwardness and mechanicity during the murder !

[@liamwilliams146]

Never thought I'd find my dream wife on youtube

[@bernardsandberg2187]

It is very interesting and very well prepared with a lot of indepth knowledge. But the accent and the speed with which the Russian names/words are said forces one to re-run the videos. By the way I am struck by the face of the narrator. It looks like one from the turn of the century (19th/20th)...