Deep Analysis of Crime and Punishment: Sonya and Svidrigailov (Part Four) (Patreon)

Part Four of Crime and Punishment really turns up the heat and leaves us breathless.

This part, and, one might argue, the rest of the book belongs to Sonya and Svidrigailov - two dimensions of Raskolnikov, the man in between, when taken to the extreme.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 how does this part compare with its predecessors? 
• 0:30 the nuanced meanings of "punishment" 
• 2:30 Raskolnikov would have gotten away with it but... 
• 5:00 Dostoyevsky's art of dark panellism  
• 7:00 Sonya and Svidrigailov  
• 8:30 "willing suspension of disbelief" 
• 9:00 how to write great villains  
• 11:00 Aristotle's Ethics  
• 16:00 do only the sick see ghosts? 
• 22:00 the power of intention and making oneself sick 
• 32:20 "In the Beginning was the Word" 
• 33:00 "In the Origin there was the LOGOS" 
• 37:00 publisher and writer as decentering God  
• 39:00 Raskolnikov, Sonya, Lazarus

In the next video, we're going to read the story of Jesus and Lazarus (John 11)  in real time along with Sonya and Raskolnikov.

Happy reading!