The hotel room is cramped, filthy, scantly furnished, and unpleasant. In the first dream, Svidrigailov is roused from sleep by a little mouse scurrying on his bed, under his sheets, and inside his bedclothes. Svidrigailov struggles to catch the mouse, but he can only do so temporarily before it once again eludes his grasp.
This dream reminds Svidrigailov that no matter how hard he may struggle, he will inevitably return to his old ways. Until this point and after it, Dostoevsky uses only drab grays and sickly yellows to describe the squalor of St. Svidrigailov eventually forces himself up the stairs and into a flower and hey-strewn room with a small coffin in the middle. She [is] only fourteen, but her heart. Svidrigailov, looking upon the girl whom he had caused to drown herself, is sharply aware of his role in this tragedy.
Unwilling to dwell in misery and guilt any longer, Svidrigailov throws open a window, allowing the wind to lash furiously against his face and chest, rousing himself and, he hopes, precluding any more painful nightmares.
Moved to pity by such a pathetic sight, Svidrigailov takes the girl into his room, removes her drenched clothing, and tucks her into his bed. However, after she is in bed, the girl undergoes a strange transformation. It was depravity, it was the face of a harlot. He is moved to anger by the girl and attempts to hit her, even though the anger he feels is directed at himself for being so depraved; this episode, which is a nightmare from which he wakes up just as he tries to hit the girl, forces Svidrigailov to face the consequences of his actions, that every young life he touches is stripped of its innocence and thrust into depravity.
Svidrigailov, now fully awake, sits in his hotel room, unsuccessfully trying to grab at the flies hovering around his veal. Realizing the truth in his dreams, he is filled with horror at his own depravity. Svidrigailov leaves the hotel in order to find a suitable place at which to kill himself.
Svidrigailov, having lived so long in vice, knows it is too late for him to turn back. Svidrigailov knows that his sinful actions will one day lead him somewhere fatal, but he delays his fate through his extreme self-absorption and unwillingness to notice the consequences his actions had on the world around him. Ironically, it is his own dreams which bring Svidrigailov back to reality.
Dostoevsky also uses the nightmares, along with several other parallels, to show the similarity between the situations of Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov.
On several occasions, Svidrigailov warns of the grave consequence should Raskolnikov continue to overstep the moral line: a choice between life in Siberia or a bullet in the head. Svidrigailov is speaking from first-hand knowledge when he urges the transgressor to seek redemption because he knows before long Raskolnikov will have sunk so far into depravity there will be no choice left for him to make.
Svidrigailov feels there is no other choice for him except to will his own death. Svidrigailov's suicide is part of Dostoevsky's thesis that no man can set himself apart from humanity.
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My Preferences My Reading List. Moved to bad by such a horrible sight, Svidrigailov takes the girl into his space, removes her drenched clothes, and tucks her into his bed.
However, following she is in the sack, the particular girl undergoes an odd transformation. He is moved to anger by simply the girl and tries to hit her, even though the anger this individual feels is directed at himself for being so depraved; this episode, which is a nightmare from which often he wakes up just as he tries to struck the girl, forces Svidrigailov to face the consequences of his actions, that every young life he touches is stripped associated with its innocence and thrust into depravity.
Svidrigailov, now fully awake, sits in his motel room, unsuccessfully trying to grab at the jigs hovering around his veal. Svidrigailov leaves the motel in order to find a suitable place where to kill himself. Svidrigailov, having lived so extended in vice, knows this is past too far for him to turn back.
As luck would have it, it truly is his own ambitions which bring Svidrigailov again to reality. Dostoevsky also uses the nightmares, along with several other parallels, to demonstrate the similarity in between the situations of Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov.
On a number of occasions, Svidrigailov warns of the grave consequence need to Raskolnikov continue to overstep the moral line: a selection between life in Siberia or a bullet inside the head. Svidrigailov is speaking from first-hand understanding when he urges the particular transgressor to seek payoff because he knows before long Raskolnikov will have got sunk so far directly into depravity there will end up being no choice left with regard to him to make.
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