Crime and Punishment
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Confessions
Half on the confession of Raskolnikov, and half on mine. Why an atheist would confess at all, and why I cannot leave the question alone.
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5 essays on this topic.
Crime and Punishment
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Pride and Poverty, Revisited
I had thought poverty would inevitably triumph over pride. The memorial dinner proved me wrong. Dignity, even when hollow, is sometimes the only thing left holding a person together.
Crime and Punishment
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Chess With Porfiry
What looks like a friendly chat is a disguised interrogation between two grandmasters. Porfiry opens with gambits, plays to vanity, and ends with a trap Raskolnikov barely escapes.
Crime and Punishment
2 min read
Pride and Poverty
Katerina Ivanovna's pride was never going to survive her circumstances. Poverty is the great equalizer, and it forces her into a fight that her former life left her unequipped to win.
Crime and Punishment
2 min read
Raskolnikov's Dream
On the dream of the horse. A child's empathy inverts into the mob's amorality, and the inner voice is silenced. The silence is only temporary, and when it returns, there will be a price.