| The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Sussex:33047] Hey man I made an account just to reply despite being 12 years late but and I love your input but I wanted to add something about Crime and Punishment and how it relates to the song. In the novel, Raskolnikov is affected by an overestimation of his psychological abilites and general importance as a human being- this is one face of the arrogance of the intellect- but besides this grandiose aspect of his personality, he has a very compassionate nature which expresses itself at multiple instances- he gives what little money he has to a suffering family despite hardly being able to afford food, he saves a young girl from being raped, among other things. [SPOILER ALERT] When, near the end of the novel he is convicted for the crime of murder, the people of the community come to his defense and he gets a significantly reduced sentence in Siberian prison on account of all the things he had done out of love for other people. He still had to suffer punishment for his crime, but inasmuch as his life was governed by love, he was redeemed. At the very end of the book this point is driven home- he struggles deeply to learn the humility to forget his grandiose self-image, but in doing so he comes "down to earth," as it were, and is ultimately redeemed when he finds he is finally able accept his humanity enough to love Sonya, an impulse he had always viewed as beneath him. |
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