Biogrophy Of Dostoevsky

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God for taking his father away from him is evident in the character Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov, like Dostoevsky, does not understand how a loving God can bring so much suffering to the world. The childhood suffering of having only one parent is also demonstrated by Adelaida Ivanovna, who "left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovich with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands." Dostoevsky felt abandoned by his father, much like Mitya was abandoned by her mother.
In 1838 Dostoevsky entered an Engineering Academy as an army cadet. While he was in the service, he was extremely lonely. He had no friends, and suffered from severe depression. He despised the army, and this made him despise all forms of the government, including the Russian Orthodox Church. His lonliness during this period is parallel to the lonlieness that Raskolnikov faces in the novel Crime and Punishment. Technical studies and the army greatly bored ...

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