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

Gender and EvilThe conflict between good and worthless is angiotensin-converting enzyme of the most common conventional themes in literature. Coping with unfairness is a funda workforcetal struggle with which every(prenominal) hu valet beings must contend. Sometimes evil comes from within a character, and sometimes other characters are the source of evil but evil is al rooms something that the characters struggle to overcome. In two Russian novels, Fyodor Dostoevskys nuisance and Punishment and Mikhail Bulgakovs The Master and Margarita, men and women administer with their problems differently. Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment and the Master in The Master and Margarita put forward not cope and fall obscure, whereas Sonya in Crime and Punishment and Margarita in The Master and Margarita, not only cope but pull the men out of their suffering.The main character in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, has nihilistic ideas, which eventually lead to his own suffering. Raskolnikov , an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an extraordinary homosexual who has the right to commit any crime. He believes that as an extraordinary man that he is beyond good and evil. Since he does not believe in God, he whoremongernot accept any moral laws. To prove his theory, he murders an onetime(a) pawnbroker and her step sister. Besides, he rationalizes that he has done society a upgrade by getting rid of the evil pawnbroker who would cheat people. Immediately by and by 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 room in a semi-conscious state. As soon as he is well 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, soon enough the women find ways to cope with the evil. The men completely fall apart and suf fer 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 women picture 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 diary 20.1(March 2006). 31-46. 1 Dec. 2007 .