Alexa Ferrer Post 2

These run-on sentences are driving me insane. After figuring out we, the audience cannot trust our narrator reading this book has become all the more difficult. Everything he says he contradicts and I think contradiction is a reoccurring theme in this book. How can we believe in anything when there is always something to contradict it? How can we stand for something when we contradict ourselves in all other aspects of our life? Dostoyevsky says we revenge ourselves because we see justice in it. We throw ourselves a pity party or dwell on a mistake we made because it is supposed to make us feel better. However, in the grand scheme of things how does that even make sense? I think what Dostoyevsky is trying to get at is that we should just accept our actions and move on. I think Dostoyevsky’s main problem is that he cannot find validation in his own existence because he cannot be “defined” due to the constant contradictions in the world that make it impossible for him to define his character.