(273 words) Reading Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”, everyone willy-nilly sympathizes with Raskolnikov, who decided to kill in the name of his own theory. The hero was on the verge of madness, and Sonya Marmeladova became a real salvation for him. Sonya is the first to whom Rodion confesses to his crime. He feels a soul mate in her, saying that she "also transgressed." However, despite the girl’s occupation, he reveals to her his most terrible secret, after which she directs the hero on the path of moral rebirth.
Surely at first, many readers had a biased attitude towards the daughter of a former official, Marmeladov, because of her profession. But Dostoevsky made sure that Sonya would quickly attract not only Raskolnikov, but also readers. The mystery of this character is compared with the main meaning of the novel, because simple replicas of Sonya put the hero in a stupor. “This is a louse!”, “And who put me here as a judge: who should live, who shouldn’t live?” - we understand that the author’s voice is hidden in these objections.
Sincere and pure in soul, Sonya helps Raskolnikov not only by understanding him. The heroine advises to repent of her crime, "the suffering to accept and redeem yourself with them." Rodion was already afraid not even of punishment and not that his secret would be revealed. He understood that he would not be able to live like that, so Sonya finds the right solution for him.
All the words and actions of Sonya open the way for the hero to renew. The day before Raskolnikov’s confession, she read him a parable about the resurrection of Lazarus, and at the end of the work we already see Rodion repentant and his moral resurrection. The truth of Sonya Marmeladova is the truth of Dostoevsky, who in the novel affirms the Christian commandments with her lips: do not kill, do not steal, love your neighbor, pacify pride. The entire course of the novel is built on the destruction of theory, but Sonya is that key character, thanks to which the author's position is so clearly revealed.
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