/lit/ - Literature

Crime and Punishment is not an interesting morality play - it is about the pursual of female validation. When Raskolnikov realizes he won't get any good boy points for breaking up a domestic dispute, he betrays the female gender by kicking ass. But because it was female ass, he shows regret, then finally decides to return to the good - not because of its obvious truth or competence, but because he finally found the female validation he was always seeking - Sonya is a Russianization of the name Sophia, the holy feminine symbol of wisdom.
No real arguments are presented in the story, only emotional pleas that unconsciously revolve around men's biological drive to white knight. Given Dostoyevsky is on record for preferring Christ to truth, the book comes across no more mature than Isekai anime escapism, where the "good guy" gets the girl and everything works out in the end. Waste of time.