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© S.V. Koponev

“Am I a trembling creature, or do I have a right?”

Notes not by a politician, but by a psychologist about the roots of lack of spirituality and degeneration, drug addiction and AIDS in modern Russia.

In integral medicine, there is such a law: every disease is a reflection of your character, and if you have hemorrhoids, then your character is hemorrhoids. This principle works at all levels. For example: every nation deserves its ruler; foreign and domestic policy is a continuation of the moral development of the politicians themselves and the people who elected them. “We wanted the best, but it turned out as always,” remember, and it cannot be otherwise.

Who today just does not talk about drug addiction. Facts and horrific statistics of drug use by our youth are exaggerated in the media. Articles are published with revelations that the country is deliberately put on the needle, that a country in which one-fifth of the youth are drug addicts has no future. Facts emerge here and there that the main terrorist act of the Chechen and Afghan militants is the distribution of drugs on the territory of Russia, that this terrorist attack is planned and sometimes imported heroin is specially infected with hepatitis and AIDS. A lot of rehabilitation centers have opened with offers for treatment, one better than the other. The most interesting thing about these clinics for drug addicts is that people who have never tried a drug and, in fact, without knowing what it is, are trying to treat this disease. This is reminiscent of a joke, like a deaf person trying to explain to a blind person what flowers are, and a blind person trying to explain what music is to a deaf person.

It would not be for the state, as after the civil one for homeless children, to open rehabilitation centers by analogy with the “Republic of Shkid”, (such have long been available abroad), where former drug addicts and under the supervision of psychologists would raise newcomers. But no, because this requires civil maturity and the will of our politicians. In addition, we need a public non-profit movement of drug addicts and especially their parents, that is, again, some kind of civic consciousness is needed, or, to put it better, the maturity of politicians and the parents themselves, which we do not have. In fact, what happens is that the parents of drug addicts, by any means and in the presence of any more or less truthful advertising, send their children for big money to rehabilitation centers, where, as a rule, they do not treat drug addicts for drugs, but rather successfully treat parents for money. The state, as in the case with all sorts of financial pyramid schemes, simply stands aside and allows the population to be robbed further.

There is such a saying - "an apple from an apple tree ...", and there is such a joke - "do you know who the pig's parents are? .." - you guess - a pig. So in this case, the basis of such an act of parents to push their child to any advertised center, in fact, is the desire to remove away "out of sight" the negative image of their own conscience, their fiasco and delegating responsibility once again to some uncle .

So, on the one hand, our state was already predisposed to this disease, on the other hand, we were not ready for this war either organizationally or psychologically, which is also a symptom of the disease of the country itself. In other words, it would be strange if the infection of drug addiction passed our country by. The miracle didn't happen. Indeed, how can a country be ready for this, which is devoid of any core, which throughout its history has repeatedly changed its historical face, either sliding into Asianism, or forcibly dragged by the ears into Europe. Solid voluntarism, as they say, mixed with cataclysms. A kind of testing ground for historical experiments and the game of the gods. The roots of drug addiction, however, must be sought in our godlessness, but where does spirituality come from? As the state collapsed, the religion of Russia also changed many times. From a pagan country to a Christian one, and back; and again recently hung crosses. How absurdly and at the same time symbolically crosses, stars and pagan burials coexist on Red Square. You will laugh if it were not so sad for your country. From the speakers of radio and television, you can only hear - do not forget your story, but the result is the opposite - we forget and draw the opposite conclusions to be correct. After the revolution of the 17th, instead of preserving and using the intelligentsia, the nobility and the prosperous peasantry for their intended purpose, they were uprooted into dust and vegetated in the backyards of the planet, slipping into nowhere for 70 years. During the years of Soviet power, having exterminated the most productive and responsible population of the country, for almost a century we raised an infantile population, completely devoid of a sense of responsibility for their actions. Eternal adult children. The state, as it were, was our parent. We completely entrusted all the responsibility to it, and it controlled us and led us through life into a brighter future. And so from kindergarten to school, then to college, then we became young specialists until old age, from the nipple to the neck of the bottle, and sucked something. Sheer irresponsibility, infantilism, there was no sex, but there was an endemic masturbation for the Western way of life, especially in stagnant times. They masturbated before perestroika, and then it turned out that sexual relations, first of all, imply great responsibility between people and, if you like, some kind of moral maturity, i.e. responsibility for themselves. And who taught us this, if we lived with mothers and grandmothers up to gray temples.

And here is our social maturity. The bible says, "Judge a man not by his words, but by his deeds." Perestroika came, and it would be necessary to destroy the non-working system to the ground, and then ...... We did not destroy anything and did not touch anyone. The bankrupt figures were pitied, they were allowed to change their masks and completely plunder the country, thus continuing to valiantly slip further. What about freedom of speech, you say? Yes, some kind of freedom of speech has appeared, but with modern PR technologies, this freedom is in the hands of those who pay for these technologies. P.R. - this is the formation of people's consciousness, this is power. Here it is worth once again thinking about the philosophical question of what is more primary - consciousness or matter. Money through P.R. form consciousness, hence matter is primary. And if the consciousness of the people determines the consciousness of their chosen government and the course of their own history, then the idea.

Unfortunately, perestroika did not lead to a change in the mentality of officials, red directors, police and military leaders. Perestroika demolished only signs and did not touch upon the essential side of democratic changes, namely: the consciousness of people in power and the means of those in power. As Dostoevsky said, a real revolution is, first of all, a revolution in the minds of the individuals that make up a given society. If the revolution is based only on material prerequisites (rob the loot), then this is not a revolution, but an envious rebellion or conspiracy. Nevertheless, the coup of 1917 radically changed the mentality of the people, because the ruling and thinking elite of the people was completely demolished. That is, it is true that later the white emigrants said that Bolshevik Russia is no longer that Russia, but something else. Our perestroika, on the contrary, did not change anything, except for the next division of property, moreover, it simply secured this property for those in power. That is, we again step on the same rake, only from the other side. We should arrange perestroika in 1917 without fundamentally changing the mentality, but in our time we simply need a radical transformation, a revolution in the consciousness of Homo Sovieticus. Accordingly, based on the above, by analogy with the parents of drug addicts, they would early age to pay more attention and love to their children, and in parallel, as they grow up and against this background of love, gradually load them with responsibility and duties within the family. Well, when the trouble of drug addiction happened, parental love is inappropriate, and cardinal measures are needed here in relation to the restructuring of the personality of a drug addict. The feeling of conscience and parental guilt for their children at this time is superfluous, because through these feelings parents become an easy victim of their liars, the children, the police, and doctors too.

Returning to our country of Russia, we, it would seem, its citizens thought that it was enough to change the system and everything would be as it is, as it is with people. But no, as it turned out, democratic freedom is more a moral concept than an economic one, and implies, first of all, the responsibility of every citizen for his country. As they say, there are no laws in life, it is free, but burdened with responsibility. Do you know why we have one part of the population openly stealing, while the other sees it and is silent? Very simple: the other half is waiting for its moment to steal something too. Mutual responsibility for robbery. Let your neighbor steal, next time he will let you steal. It seems that people in this country fly for a while, so to speak on a rotational basis, to hit the jackpot and then relax and live for their own pleasure, but in another country. It turns out that we are all not citizens, but shift workers. Shift workers have no concept of home, they are temporarily in this territory and their main goal is to earn extra money in any way, and at least the tundra does not grow there. And again, the root of this attitude towards their country is in our godlessness. We are militant atheists, we conquer, rape nature, and since our souls are mortal, we do not believe in divine justice, so what else can we do, how not to live to the fullest, while we are alive, while we are young, and what kind of morality can we talk about? speech. No moral root, and where does he come from.

Really democratic reform in Russia should carry a number of strong measures for the repentance of society as a whole, the Orthodox Church in the form of reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox Church in exile, a ban on the professions of the former party elite and the nomenklatura, the top teachers, the military and the police. Remember the Bolshevik "revolution" and that revolutionary perestroika, and such extreme methods as repressions and executions. In no case do I call for this, but admit that Russia changed dramatically then in the 17th. Do you know why we can't eradicate hazing in the army? And because there is a continuous line of transmission from one call to another, but the officers are the same, and they cannot manage in a different way, nothing has changed, and the line of succession has not been broken. It is impossible to create a full-fledged yogurt on a dairy culture of kefir, the starter is not the same, it is necessary to change the starter, and this implies drastic measures. Why are democratic changes stalling in our country, but because, apart from the signs, nothing has changed. The former political bankrupts are in power, but if they used to be afraid of something, and fear was their religion, now they are not afraid of anything and plunder the country without a twinge of conscience, and make it bankrupt, but now economically. Have you ever thought that the most important part in repentance is the return of debts, in our case, democratic transformation had to take place against the backdrop of the restoration of historical justice. All factories and factories, all surviving real estate, once expropriated from the nobility and industrialists, had to be returned to the heirs of the former owners. All Eastern European countries, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and others, did this, and reforms do not stall there, the world community realized that this was a long time and that this society can be trusted, since it actually realized the mistakes and repented. Investments flowed, they were forgiven old debts. I wonder how Western banks could give us loans at all without seeing these significant changes. But when it came to the dispossession of modern oligarchs, we are all for it, and what moral right do we have to do this if we did not return the former loot to the old owners.

Thus, an indispensable condition for historical progress is the political maturity of the so-called electorate and the rulers they have chosen, their recognition that we have stagnated and even degraded for 70 years, and their repentance. Further, it would be necessary to introduce seemingly cruel, but necessary measures to ban professions and return property, to restore historical justice. But we got what we got. The former communist became president, the nomenklatura was transformed into oligarchs, criminals and the police engaged in racketeering and destruction of each other, it is more convenient for impoverished officers not to strain to rely on bullying. Due to plunder and chaos (read the redistribution of the national product and property), the state is unable to maintain order even at the previous socialist level, and why, it is better to create the appearance of serving the fatherland. One gets the impression that becoming a statesman, in fact, is not to serve honor and truth to one's country, but to be closer to the trough in the distribution of material wealth, that is, again, to be shift workers. In the heat of the moment, of course, I indiscriminately accuse everyone of dishonesty, nevertheless, of course, I understand that there are honest officers, policemen, priests, and even bureaucrats. But the trend shows that if they are such, then it is not for a very long time, and in general in such an environment it is unprofitable, ungrateful, and very dangerous to be honest.

And now remember what kind of prisons we have and what order is in them. Guessed, our prisons are our country in miniature, only in a more visual form. There is a godfather, there are six henchmen, there are scumbags who do not comply with the laws of thieves and whom they are trying to “wet in the toilet”, and the majority are cattle, men, and this is against the backdrop of Versace jackets, ties, democratic slogans and the legitimacy of power. By the way, what kind of legitimacy of power can we talk about when, apart from showing off on the burial of the remains of the royal family and Prince Kirill Romanov, nothing was done to return the descendants of the Romanov dynasty to their homeland, and return their property to them. And where is the Nuremberg trial of the Communists and other descendants of the sailor Zheleznyak, who dispersed the Russian Duma in the 17th year. Understand that there really is a white bone and blue blood of the nobles. This is simply called education, the state of mind of any aristocracy, any country. The nobles themselves have always carried the historical memory of their country, its continuity, if you like, responsibility. Since the time of Peter the Great, the Russian nobility has absorbed the knightly customs and laws of honor of the Baltic Germans, who, under Elizabeth and Catherine, accounted for up to 60% of the Russian officers. And during civil war white officers refused to receive awards in a fratricidal war. Understand, cook's children cannot govern the state, they have neither the ethics nor the skills to do so. Or rather, of course, they can, but how - we still see it.

And so, rushing from one extreme to another, we cannot in any way develop a middle class in our country, at least not a white bone, but white-collar workers; to develop people educated and brought up in the spirit of professionalism and patriotism. All the time upheavals, revolutions and perestroika. In the end, we need to decide - we have Colombian capitalism or thieves' laws; whether we are a Christian country or a pagan one; We are Asia or Europe, and not stand all the time on treason, like a prostitute who is waiting for someone to pay more. In fact, what we've been doing lately is trying to sell ourselves to the highest bidder. Then we run to America, having named us, the Americans turned away, as they noticed in the morning the loss of money from their pocket, according to which there was no agreement. Then we were offended by them and ran to Europe, but due to the fact that Europe has already had half of the female half of our fatherland, it is not particularly eager to fuck our country as a whole. One gets the impression that Russia's entire foreign policy consists in one thing - who would be more profitable to surrender, and even thank God for the price of oil. In this regard, our "far-sighted" policy is easily miscalculated by Western politicians, and it is precisely because of this that they are afraid of us, because they know what to expect from us. And what to expect is noticeable from the trends, namely: when everyone fucks us and when the price of oil falls, there will be nothing left for us but to become boors and take offense and start openly threatening the whole world with nuclear warheads. Give money, otherwise we will give you... So we get Chechnya, but on a global scale. Compare hostages, ransoms, embezzled budget money, everything will be the same, but Russia will act as the world Chechnya. Moreover, the Russian people, naturally in the person of their government, as if offended by all these democratic promises, will think with full confidence that America and Europe have deceived them, thrown them, and will shout that the West simply owes us "in kind for life." Since this article is supposed to be about drug addiction and AIDS, it can be assumed from the above that drug addiction and AIDS will also take on some kind of perverted state. The problem of drug addiction in our country will be dealt with only for political advancement to power, that is, to the trough; and drug addicts, and especially AIDS addicts, out of annoyance that they are left to their own devices and initially deprived of any spirituality, will take to the streets at night to bite the other half of the population, thereby infecting them with AIDS. That is why we are a headache for ourselves and especially for the world community. We ourselves have earned our present for ourselves, but for them it would be good if this one-sixth of the world did not exist. It would be less of a hassle.

From the above, we can assume the policy of the West towards Russia and for Russia, namely: the gradual transformation of the federal structure into a confederal one. Then the separation of the outskirts from the center. The concentration of nuclear weapons in a compact place with the subsequent bribery of the political leadership of this place or its local destruction by a targeted nuclear strike.

Well, you say, groaned. So everyone can, but “murka is weak”, where is the way out, what, so to speak, to do again. How old are these questions, and how can we not step on the same rake again, but from the other side. Well, now, I think that in the world of space flight and virtual reality, this rake does not really exist. And the old philosophy of surplus value and capital accumulation doesn't work the way it used to. If we assume that politics is the psychology of the people, then it turns out that the way out is not in philosophy and the national idea, but in psychology. Dogmas and concepts of a hundred years ago, on the contrary, lead away from reality. Due to the underdevelopment of the collective consciousness of our society, our collective slogans are just as underdeveloped. All slogans are conceptual, and concepts are a game of the mind, and the mind is limited by its upbringing, and we themselves understood what kind of upbringing, i.e. none. Our mind, like a corrupt girl, is easy to control and manipulate, which is what they do with us, and through ourselves, throughout history. Due, for the most part, to the underdevelopment of our consciousness, we, like hedgehogs in a fog, cannot see the picture in its full aspect, we are easy to control and, through a legalized drug - television, hang noodles on each other's ears. The best way out of this situation would be, as in the good old days, to invite the Varangians from outside, the new Rurikovich, to reign in Russia. And it would be nice from the same Sweden, where socialism has long been built. But this is unlikely, and therefore for those who disdain modern Russian politics, as a psychologist, I offer individual salvation through spiritual practices to expand my individual consciousness. Thus, a layer of people who cannot be manipulated will gradually form, a truly civil society will develop. Step by step, with God's help and attracted to each other, an ontological - essential mutation of the consciousness of the rest of the population may occur, a neurosomatic revolution will occur, in comparison with which the French and scientific and technological revolution was only a forerunner.

So, I propose a new manifesto - a revolution in the consciousness of each individual separately is necessary. And at first, reflection can serve as a test for determining the correctness of one's act: if some action unites (integrates), then it is from God; if it separates, then from the evil one. Do not confuse with the slogan - "we are friends against someone." The slogan "proletariat of all countries unite" is not appropriate here, because the proletariat united against the non-proletariat. So, I propose a new slogan: "Long live creative thinking and spiritual practices to expand individual consciousness."

To check your current state of consciousness, I give a test for creativity: *

Is this article really written by a great patriot of Russia or not? *

And how should each person in this country decide who he is "a trembling creature, or has the right."

© S.V. Koponev, 2001
© Published with the kind permission of the author

"Am I a trembling creature, or do I have a right?"

Vladimir Grigoryan

Recently, we again argued with friends about the introduction of the basics of Orthodox culture at school. They are wonderful people, moreover, Orthodox. But at the same time they share liberal ideas. So there was some bitterness in the conversation.

“Maybe we should just let the parents decide for themselves?” I suggested.

Why should parents decide? - I heard in response. - When the children grow up, they will choose for themselves.

- It will be too late.

It's not about faith - you can come to God even at ninety. But there are things that need to be laid in childhood. What is good, what is bad. Who are the saints, what is love. And most importantly - why do we live? And the new school subject is the basis not only of Orthodox culture, but of what can be called education.

A society deprived of basic values ​​is doomed to degradation and death. For more than twenty years, children have not been brought up in schools at all. Why be good? Orthodox say - for the salvation of the soul, because it is beautiful, gives joy, makes you a man. The communists said - for the sake of the happiness of mankind in this world, the building of communism. What can a multicultural society offer in return? That you need to be good, otherwise you won't get a good salary, you won't become efficient and competitive. This is not an answer.

Of course, the communists were wrong, they could not build a brave new world. But the understanding that without faith nothing good will happen, they adopted from Christians. And now, while we're playing political correctness, the kids are going crazy. Not only in the medical sense, although that too. It seems to them that intelligence and education are enough, and the mind, the desire for wisdom are practically not in demand.

“It will be too late,” I said to my friends. A month has not passed, as a young lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov shot six of his colleagues and a guy who came to get a job. Before that, the killer wrote a manifesto on his VKontakte page, where he confessed his hatred of humanity. It seems to him that it has no right to exist, because it destroys nature, like a cancerous tumor, and is not capable of anything else - only to consume and consume. I am now retelling what the media wrote about this, although I have read the manifesto and know that it is not only about this. The main thing in the text is that humanity is perishing because the thought “love one another” is imposed on it. And from this children are born. There are too many of us, it would be nice to reduce. Dmitry participated in the environmental movement, rescued birds and loved weapons since childhood. Mother asked how he combined it - love of nature and rifles. And he kept silent. After all, you don’t admit to your mother that you are going to shoot at people.

The newspapers also came up with a story of Vinogradov's great love for Anna, an employee of the company. What exactly is it that brought the guy to the handle. He courted, even bought tour packages to England. But the girl refused, then broke off the relationship altogether, and the romantic Vinogradov sighed and suffered. In fact, she didn't give up on anything. They completed the paperwork, and on the eve of their departure, Anna received an SMS from her admirer: "I'm with you, with ... I'm not going anywhere." Periodically sent "romantic" messages like: "Give me back my book, creature."

It's called "love" now.

He has two educations, he is not only a lawyer, but also a programmer. Among the favorite writers is Kafka. The manifesto is written in impeccable language, you can feel the intellect, if we talk about the ability to shape and present emptiness. This guy almost managed to grow up effective and competitive, he is five minutes away the one that the liberals of the 90s could be proud of. This is their new man, born in 1992, the year the reforms began. And then this new man took two rifles and went to hunt people. And after that, 10 thousand visitors to VKontakte gave him "likes" - bonuses confirming that they were satisfied with what they read. How many are there really? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

Among the reasons that brought Hitler to power, they forget to name one, perhaps the most significant. His support was the same young people who were desperately, sickeningly bored with life. They did not know why they should do this, and were ready to kill and die, and Nazism just turned up under their arm. Dostoevsky described a similar state in Crime and Punishment, when there was no fascism at all. The difference is that Raskolnikov knew how to love, the gospel entered his flesh and blood with mother's milk, with communion. The whole structure of the then life was against the abomination that he invented and professed. What is the opposite of her now? Capital of innovation Skolkovo? Suppose they do not plunder, they invent something there, they introduce something. Will this convince the grapevines that life has meaning, that humanity has the right to life? Not at all.

The mother of the Moscow killer, by the way, is a good woman. She just couldn't do it alone. And society proudly declares that it will not help people like her raise children. Out of principle. Personal violence-s. Something from Vinogradov's mother laid down almost reflexively works. He apologized to the families of the victims. However, he did not imagine that it would come to this, that he would have to look them in the eye. I wanted to commit suicide, but did not have time to become a martyr of that very ancient religion, which is covered either by socialism, or nationalism, or Islam, or liberalism, and in the case of Vinogradov, some environmental considerations.

There is a line in his manifesto where he is outraged that people save the lives of disabled children - they interfere with evolution. This old idea was updated and put into circulation by the idol of today's atheists Alexander Nikonov. Before, I had not imagined that he was popular among them, it was painfully vile, but it turned out that he was almost the number one ideologue. His followers first filled the forums, insulting the Church, Christ, and now they just started killing us.

“You invented all this, but the basics won’t fix anything,” I hear the voices of my friends.

Yes, they won't fix it on their own. Do you have other suggestions? After all, for twenty years they have not figured out where else to start. “I am the door: whoever enters by Me will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture” (John 10:9).

Vladimir GRIGORYAN

I killed myself, not the old woman...

F. M. Dostoevsky

F. M. Dostoevsky is the greatest Russian writer, an unsurpassed realist artist, an anatomist of the human soul, a passionate champion of the ideas of humanism and justice. His novels are distinguished by their close interest in the intellectual life of the characters, the disclosure of the complex and contradictory consciousness of man.

The main works of Dostoevsky appeared in print in the last third of the 19th century, when the crisis of the old moral and ethical principles became apparent, when the gap between the rapidly changing life and the traditional norms of life became obvious. It was in the last third of the 19th century that people began to talk about the "reassessment of all values", about changing the norms of traditional Christian morality and morality. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, this became practically the main issue among the creative intelligentsia. Dostoevsky was one of the first to see the danger of the coming reassessment and the accompanying "dehumanization of man." He was the first to show the "devilry" that was originally hidden in such attempts. All his main works and, of course, one of the central novels - "Crime and Punishment" are devoted to this.

Raskolnikov is the spiritual and compositional center of the novel. External action only reveals his internal struggle. He must go through a more painful split in order to understand himself and the moral law, which is inextricably linked with human essence. The hero solves the riddle of his own personality and at the same time the riddle of human nature.

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov - main character Romana - in the recent past, a student who left the university for ideological reasons. Despite his attractive appearance, "he was so poorly dressed that another, even a familiar person, would be ashamed to go out into the street in such rags during the day." Raskolnikov lives in extreme poverty, renting a closet that looks like a coffin in one of the St. Petersburg houses. However, he pays little attention to the circumstances of life, as he is fascinated by his own theory and the search for evidence of its validity.

Disappointed in the social ways of changing the surrounding life, he decides that the impact on life is possible with the help of violence, and for this a person who intends to do something for the common good should not be bound by any norms and prohibitions. Trying to help the disadvantaged, Rodion comes to the realization of his own powerlessness in the face of world evil. In desperation, he decides to "break" the moral law - to kill out of love for humanity, to commit evil for the sake of good.

Raskolnikov seeks power not out of vanity, but to help people who are dying in poverty and lack of rights. However, next to this idea there is another - "Napoleonic", which gradually comes to the fore, pushing the first one. Raskolnikov divides humanity into "...two categories: into the lowest (ordinary), that is, so to speak, into the material that serves only for the birth of their own kind, and actually into people, that is, those who have the gift or talent to say a new word in their midst ". The second category, the minority, was born to dominate and command, the first - "to live in obedience and be obedient."

The main thing for him is freedom and power, which he can use as he pleases - for good or for evil. He confesses to Sonya that he killed because he wanted to know: "Do I have the right to have power?" He wants to understand: "Am I a louse, like everyone else, or a man? Will I be able to cross or not? Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right?" This is a self-test of a strong personality, trying his strength. Both ideas own the soul of the hero, reveal his consciousness.

Separated from everyone and shutting himself in his corner, Raskolnikov hatches the thought of murder. The surrounding world and people cease to be a true reality for him. However, the "ugly dream" he's been cherishing for a month disgusts him. Raskolnikov does not believe that he can commit murder, and despises himself for being abstract and incapable of practical action. He goes to the old pawnbroker for a test - a place to inspect and try on. He thinks about violence, and his soul writhes under the burden of world suffering, protesting against cruelty.

The inconsistency of Raskolnikov's theory begins to be revealed already at the time of the commission of the crime. Life cannot fit into a logical scheme, and Raskolnikov's well-calculated scenario is violated: at the most inopportune moment, Lizaveta appears, and he has to kill her (and, probably, her unborn child).

After the murder of the old woman and her sister Lizaveta, Raskolnikov experiences a deep emotional shock. The crime puts him "beyond good and evil", separates him from humanity, surrounds him with an icy desert. A gloomy "sense of painful, endless solitude and alienation suddenly consciously affected his soul." Raskolnikov has a fever, he is close to insanity and even wants to commit suicide. Rodion tries to pray, and laughs at himself. Laughter turns to desperation. Dostoevsky emphasizes the motive of the hero's alienation from people: they seem to him disgusting and cause "... an endless, almost physical disgust." Even with the closest he cannot speak, feeling an insurmountable boundary "lying" between them.

The path of crime for Raskolnikov (and, according to Dostoevsky, for none of the people) is unacceptable (it is not for nothing that Dostoevsky compares Raskolnikov's crime with death, and his further resurrection takes place in the name of Christ). The human thing that was in Raskolnikov (he supported a sick fellow student for almost a year at his own expense, saved two children from the fire, helped, giving the last money for the funeral, Marmeladov's widow), contributes to the speedy resurrection of the hero (Porfiry Petrovich's words that Raskolnikov "didn't fool himself for long"). Rodion is resurrected to a new life by Sonya Marmeladova. Raskolnikov's theory is opposed by the Christian idea of ​​atonement for one's own and others' sins by suffering (images of Sonya, Dunya, Mikolka). It is when the world of Christian spiritual values ​​opens up for Raskolnikov (through love for Sonya) that he finally rises to life.

Tired of "theory" and "dialectics", Raskolnikov begins to realize the value of ordinary life: "No matter how you live, just live! What a truth! Lord, what a truth! A scoundrel is a man! And a scoundrel is the one who calls him a scoundrel for this." He, who wanted to live as an "extraordinary person" worthy of a real life, is ready to put up with a simple and primitive existence. His pride is crushed: no, he is not Napoleon, with whom he constantly relates himself, he is just an "aesthetic louse". Instead of Toulon and Egypt, he has a "skinny ugly registrar", but even that is enough for him to fall into despair. Raskolnikov laments that he should have known in advance about himself, about his weakness, before going to "bleed". He is unable to bear the burden of the crime and confesses it to Sonechka. Then he goes to the station and confesses.

With his crime, Raskolnikov crossed himself out of the category of people, became an outcast, an outcast. "I didn't kill the old woman, I killed myself," he admits to Sonya Marmeladova. This isolation from people prevents Raskolnikov from living.

The hero's idea of ​​the right of the strong to commit crime turned out to be absurd. Life has defeated theory. No wonder Goethe said in Faust: "Theory, my friend, is sulfur. But the tree of life is eternally green."

According to Dostoevsky, no lofty goal can justify the useless means leading to its achievement. The individualistic rebellion against the order of the surrounding life is doomed to defeat. Only compassion, Christian empathy and unity with other people can make life better and happier.

We all look at the Napoleons,
There are millions of bipedal creatures
We have only one tool...
A. S. Pushkin

Each century in the history of mankind is associated with some person who expressed his time with the greatest completeness. Such a person, such a person is called great, genius and similar words.

The century of bourgeois revolutions has long been associated in the minds of readers with the phenomenon of Napoleon - a little Corsican with a lock of hair that fell on his forehead. He began by taking part in the great revolution, which revealed his talent and the talents of his kind, then he shrunk this revolution, and in the end he crowned himself.

Some identified him with the hydra of revolution, others with the hydra of counter-revolution. Both of them were right.

Many tried to imitate him, for many he was an idol.

Dostoevsky's hero also imitates his idol, Napoleon, but such as he was later. No desire for a revolution of "little people". Full of disdain for them, Rodion Romanovich calls such people trembling creatures. He trembles at the mere suggestion that he may be somewhat similar to them - to you and me, in other words. It is difficult to talk about what Raskolnikov really thinks about life and man, because he never expressed his ideas himself. When others retell his article, Rodion notices that this is not exactly what he wrote, that it only looks like.

However, the retired student does not renounce something. In his opinion, every great man is a criminal, because he violates and cancels the laws established before him. And if he does not obey the laws and stands above them, then for him there are no laws at all. In his opinion, a great man is generally arranged differently than a “trembling creature,” and Raskolnikov plans his crime precisely as a test, an exam for a superman. If, after the murder of the old pawnbroker, he does not feel remorse, then he is a superman, "having the right." Raskolnikov says something about charity or even about the reorganization of society, but his psychological "double" Svidrigailov is proof that superman will never take care of people, because he is no longer a person. And over- or under- - it's all the same.

The author rewarded his hero with an ax to kill. Some saw in this almost a comparison of Raskolnikov with a peasant revolt, with a revolution. But the revolution means the activity of the people, and Raskolnikov refuses the "human anthill" in general in any kind of activity.

Does the individual, homo sapiens, have a "right"? History has long given us the answer to this question. "Supermen" and "superior races" have always suffered defeat in history. Like Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov.

Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in 1866.

The main character of the work is Rodion Raskolnikov. With his theory "I am a trembling creature or I have the right" he claims that humanity and man in itself are criminal, but there are crimes for evil, and there are for good. Raskolnikov has a desire to help people, but he understands that he will have to act dishonestly. The protagonist decides to commit a crime for a long time, but seeing human suffering (Marmeladova, a letter from relatives, a drunken girl, etc.), he stops hesitating.

F.M. Dostoevsky at the end of the novel "broke" Raskolnikov's theory. Infidelity began to appear at the beginning of the work, when Rodion had not only the old woman, but also Lizaveta (her sister), as well as the child she was carrying. But partly for her sake, the crime was committed. He begins to feverishly hide the things acquired as a result of the crime, not because of the search, but because he simply cannot use them as an honest person.

The author in Svidrigailov and Luzhin showed Raskolnikov his future if he does not go astray. They all have different goals, but the means are the same. After talking with them, the main character realizes that his path will only lead him to a dead end: "I didn't kill the old woman, I killed myself."

Raskolnikov did good deeds: he helped financially his student friend, gave the last money to Marmeladov, took care of a young drunk girl, etc. With the help of this "wake up" his human qualities. After the death of Svidrigailov (he committed suicide), Raskolnikov completely abandons his theory - a crime for good. Before his death, Svidrigailov tried to improve: he helped the children of Katerina Ivanovna, released Dunya and asked her for love, because every person needs something good.

By comparing Luzhin, Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky shows their similarity, even though they have different means.

Rodion understands that he is "the same louse as everyone else." Sonya helps him get on the right path, urging him to repent. He sees that Sonya is in the mud (forced to sell her body), but at the same time she is clean. These torments only elevate her soul. Raskolnikov's theory is contrasted with the suffering of Sonya, Dunya (marries an unloved person to help her family), Mikolka (takes on the misdeeds of other people and suffers because of them). At this moment, Rodion "resurrects" to life, he sees a new world filled with spiritual values, with the help of love for Sonya.

Thus, the protagonist's theory "I am a trembling creature or I have the right" is understood as I am either a louse in this world, or I have the right to commit crimes for good. But, as proven, this theory is completely wrong.

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