Gender and Evil in Crime and Punishment and The Master and Margarita Es

Gender and EvilThe conflict between good and immoral is one of the most common conventional themes in literature. Coping with wrong is a funda manpowertal struggle with which all human beings must contend. sometimes evil comes from at heart a character, and sometimes other characters are the address of evil but evil is always something that the characters struggle to overcome. In ii Russian novels, Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and penalization and Mikhail Bulgakovs The overtop and Margarita, workforce and women cope with their problems assortedly. Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment and the Master in The Master and Margarita can not cope and chance upon apart, whereas Sonya in Crime and Punishment and Margarita in The Master and Margarita, not only cope but devote the men out of their suffering.The main character in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, has nihilistic ideas, which ultimately lead to his own suffering. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an quaint man who has the right to commit any crime. He counts that as an terrible man that he is beyond good and evil. Since he does not believe in God, he cannot accept any moral laws. To prove his theory, he murders an old pawnbroker and her step sister. Besides, he rationalizes that he has done society a favor by getting rid of the evil pawnbroker who would cheat people. instantly after the murders, he begins to suffer emotionally. Raskolnikiv feels a terrible disorder within himself. He is afraid of losing his control (Dostoevsky 95). He becomes ill and lies in his path in a semi-conscious state. As soon as he is thoroughly and can walk again, he goes out and reads about the crime in all the newspapers of the last few days. The sheer mention of the murder... ... cope and so they suffer, yet the women find ways to cope with the evil. The men completely fall apart and suffer both physically and mentally. The women even save the men by helping them end their suffering . However, the women do it in very different ways. Sonya in Crime and Punishment turns to God, while Margarita in The Master and Margarita turns to the Devil. both(prenominal) women realize that in order to end the suffering, they must find a way to escape from itWorks CitedBulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita. Trans. Diana Burgin & Katherine TiernanOConnor. New York vintage Books, 1996.Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.New York Vintage Books, 1993.Volkova, Elena. The Salvation Story in Russian Literature. Oxford Journal 20.1(March 2006). 31-46. 1 Dec. 2007 .