and turn into hate. ( Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859.I, 7) The alternative to the behavior of Svidrigaylov and Raskolnikov in the Crime and Punishment is Sonya or Sofia. Her name implies that Dostoevsky even through this wants to show how foolish the Greco-Roman foundation for the Western thought is. The only person that possesses the ultimate wisdom and the key to happiness is Sonya. The woman of Russia who believes and takes an the role of the mother for her sisters and brothers as well as for Rodion .She loves actively--with her body she sacrifices herself for her family. Sofia is the one with the answer: Go at once, this instant, stand at the cross-roads, first bow down and kiss the earth you have desecrated, then bow to the whole world, to the four corners of the earth, and say aloud to all the world: "I have done murder." (V, 4) Raskolnikov will not go because for him authority is another representation of amorality, no better than himself. They do not care about his soul or his remorse. They want to find the murderer and punish him. The point that follows out of is that no judicial system is enough to make one truly feel sorry. The issue of punishment is not what matters. Surely Sonya does not want Raskolnikov to turn himself in because she hates him or because she thinks that he is a vile and evil creature. She wants to save him and she knows that the first path to the savior is the admittance of one's own sin, and desire already exists. Sonya knows that Rodion will not be saved if he is merely sent to Siberia. She follows him with the offer and the example of her Christian love, fulfilling her words and actively loving, hoping that his transgression will not push him away from the world back into his own interior world in which nobody else has a place. Opposite to Sonya is what "humanists" do, what the "extraordinary" men do. Their idea becomes more than the actual humanity, more than the actua...
