Although I caught on to much of what was discussed in class today, there were a few points that particularly caught my attention because I failed to pick up on them while reading on my own. I’ll admit that my opinion on the narrator was a biased one. His character did not appeal to me because I thought that his “playing around” with people’s happiness was pathetic. However, I failed to realize that he was simply admitting to something that we are all guilty of. We are not used to reading about or hearing someone admit to something in such a straight-forward manner (he says what we do not) so our natural instinct is to judge. The narrator, however, seems to be a man of deep emotional understanding; having developed the ability to comprehend both sides to every decision, which for some, is very difficult to do.
What stood out to me the most about the discussion was the talk about religion as a form of superstition. I never made the parallel between religion and superstition, but after discussing it in class, I realized just how similar the two are. They are concepts created by humans in order to add a sense of comfort to those who follow their rituals/beliefs.
I am looking forward to tomorrows lecture and I find that the majority of Dostoyevsky’s novel has a deeper, underlying meaning (usually about the human psyche) which I find to be very interesting.
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