Dostoevsky, by his own admission, was concerned about the fate of “nine-tenths of humanity,” morally humiliated and socially disadvantaged under the conditions of the bourgeois system of his time. The novel “Crime and Punishment” is a novel that reproduces pictures of the social suffering of the urban poor. Extreme poverty is characterized by the fact that “there is nowhere else to go.” The image of poverty constantly varies in the novel. This is the fate of Katerina Ivanovna, who was left with three young children after the death of her husband. Crying and sobbing, “wringing her hands,” she accepted Marmeladov’s offer, “for there was nowhere to go.” This is the fate of Marmeladov himself. “After all, it is necessary for every person to have at least one place where he is pitied.” The tragedy of a father forced to accept his daughter's fall. The fate of Sonya, who committed a “feat of crime” against herself for the sake of love for her loved ones. The suffering of children growing up in a dirty corner, next to a drunken father and a dying, irritated mother, in an atmosphere of constant quarrels.

Is it acceptable to destroy an “unnecessary” minority for the sake of the happiness of the majority?

Dostoevsky is against it. The search for truth, denunciation of the unjust structure of the world, the dream of “human happiness” are combined in Dostoevsky with disbelief in the violent remaking of the world. The path is in the moral self-improvement of each person.

The image of Sonya Marmeladova plays an important role in the novel. Active love for one's neighbor, the ability to respond to someone else's pain (especially deeply manifested in the scene of Raskolnikov's confession of murder) make the image of Sonya ideal. It is from the standpoint of this ideal that the verdict is pronounced in the novel. For Sonya, all people have the same right to life. Sonya, according to Dostoevsky, embodies the people's principles: patience and humility, immeasurable love for people.

So, let's take a closer look at this image.

Sonechka is Marmeladov’s daughter, a prostitute. She belongs to the “meek” category. “Short, about eighteen, thin, disgruntledly pretty blonde with wonderful blue eyes.” We first learn about her from Marmeladov’s confession to Raskolnikov, in which he tells how she went to the panel for the first time at a critical moment for the family, returned, gave the money to Katerina Ivanovna, and she lay down facing the wall, “only her shoulders and body were shaking ", Katerina Ivanovna stood at her feet on her knees all evening, "and then they both fell asleep together, hugging each other."

Sonya first appears in the episode with Marmeladov, who was hit by horses, and who, just before his death, asks her for forgiveness. Raskolnikov comes to Sonechka to confess to the murder and shift part of his torment onto her, for which he hates Sonya herself.

The heroine is also a criminal. But if Raskolnikov transgressed through others for himself, then Sonya transgressed through herself for others. From her he finds love and compassion, as well as a willingness to share his fate and bear the cross with him. At Raskolnikov’s request, we read him the Gospel brought to Sonya by Lizaveta, the chapter about the resurrection of Lazarus. This is one of the most majestic scenes in the novel: “The cinder had long gone out in the crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room a murderer and a harlot, strangely gathered together to read an eternal book. Sonya pushes Raskolnikov to repentance. She follows him when he goes to confess. She follows him to hard labor. If the prisoners do not like Raskolnikov, then they treat Sonechka with love and respect. He himself is cold and alienated from her, until insight finally comes to him, and then he suddenly realizes that he has no person on earth closer to her. Through love for Sonechka and through her love for him, Raskolnikov, according to the author, is resurrected to a new life.

“Sonechka, Sonechka Marmeladova, eternal Sonechka, while the world stands!” - a symbol of self-sacrifice in the name of one’s neighbor and endlessly “inexorable” suffering.

You can be great in humility.

F. M. Dostoevsky

The image of Sonechka Marmeladova in the novel “Crime and Punishment” is for Dostoevsky the embodiment of eternal humility and suffering female soul with her compassion for loved ones, love for people and boundless self-sacrifice. The meek and quiet Sonechka Marmeladova, weak, timid, unrequited, in order to save her family and relatives from hunger, decides to do something terrible for a woman. We understand that her decision is an inevitable, inexorable result of the conditions in which she lives, but at the same time it is an example of active action in the name of saving the perishing. She has nothing but her body, and therefore the only possible way for her to save the little Marmeladovs from starvation is to engage in prostitution. Seventeen-year-old Sonya made her own choice, decided on her own, chose the path herself, feeling neither resentment nor anger towards Katerina Ivanovna, whose words were the final push that brought Sonya to the panel. Therefore, her soul did not become bitter, did not hate the world hostile to her, the dirt of street life did not touch her soul. Her endless love for humanity saves her. Sonechka's whole life is an eternal sacrifice, a selfless and endless sacrifice. But for Sonya this is the meaning of life, her happiness, her joy, she cannot live otherwise. Her love for people, like an eternal spring, feeds her tormented soul, gives her strength to walk along the thorny path that is her whole life. She even thought about suicide to get rid of shame and torment. Raskolnikov also believed that “it would be fairer and wiser to dive straight into the water and end it all at once!” But suicide for Sonya would be too selfish an option, and she thought about “them” - the hungry children, and therefore consciously and humbly accepted the fate prepared for her. Humility, submission, Christian all-forgiving love for people, self-denial are the main things in Sonya’s character.

Raskolnikov believes that Sonya’s sacrifice was in vain, that she did not save anyone, but only “ruined” herself. But life refutes these words of Raskolnikov. It is to Sonya that Raskolnikov comes to confess his sin - the murder he committed. It is she who forces Raskolnikov to confess to the crime, proving that the true meaning of life is repentance and suffering. She believes that no person has the right to take the life of another: “And who made me a judge: who should live, who should die?” Raskolnikov's beliefs terrify her, but she does not push him away from her. Great compassion makes her strive to convince, to morally cleanse Raskolnikov’s ruined soul. Sonya saves Raskolnikov, her love resurrects him to life.

Love helped Sonya understand that he was unhappy, that, despite all his visible pride, he needed help and support. Love helped to overcome such an obstacle as a double murder in order to try to resurrect and save the killer. Sonya goes to get Raskolnikov to hard labor. Sonya's love and sacrifice cleanse her from her shameful and sad past. Sacrifice in love is an eternal trait characteristic of Russian women.

Sonya finds salvation for herself and for Raskolnikov in faith in God. Her faith in God is her final self-affirmation, giving her the opportunity to do good in the name of those to whom she sacrifices herself, her argument that her sacrifice will not be useless, that life will soon find its outcome in universal justice. Hence her inner strength and resilience, which help her go through the “circles of hell” of her joyless and tragic life. A lot can be said about Sonya. One can consider her a heroine or an eternal martyr, but one cannot admire her courage, her inner strength, her patience is simply impossible.

In this development of the lesson, the image of Sonya Marmeladova is revealed, it is shown that it was in this “outcast” girl with a pale and thin face that a great religious thought was discovered, that it was communication with Sonya that forced Raskolnikov to admit his guilt and confess.

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Topic: “Eternal Sonechka, while the world stands...” (The image of Sonya Marmeladova in F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”)
Teacher: Kuular Chimis Eres-oolovna. MBOU Secondary School No. 1 Shagonara

The purpose of the lesson:
- consider the image of Sonya Marmeladova;

Show that it is in this “outcast” girl with a pale and thin face that a great religious thought is revealed, that it is communication with Sonya that will force Raskolnikov to admit his guilt and confess.

To develop students’ ability to analyze an episode in the context of the entire work;

Develop the ability to conduct independent research;

Prepare students for homework

Epigraph: “A person deserves his happiness, and always through suffering”
F.M.Dostoevsky

During the classes:
I Organizational moment.
II Repetition of the covered topic. (...)
III Explanation of a new topic

Radion Raskolnikov said to Sonya: “... I chose you...”. Why did he choose her? Why? What role does Sonya Marmeladova play in the life of the main character Rodion Raskolnikov? These are the questions we must answer in today's lesson.

Teacher:
So, Raskolnikov committed a crime that led him to a dead end. Sonya received a yellow ticket at this time. The lines of their lives intersected at the most critical point for them: precisely at that moment when they had to decide once and for all how to live further. Raskolnikov's old faith has been shaken, but he has not yet found a new one. Doom and an involuntary desire for death as a way out of the deadlock took possession of him
Porfiry Petrovich, during a conversation with Raskolnikov, advises him“Become the sun, everyone will see you. The sun must first of all be the sun.", that is, not only to shine, but also to warm. Let us continue his thought.
But not Raskolnikov, but Sonya in the novel becomes such a warm light, although at first glance, she seems to be far from this moral height.

Guys, I asked you at home to prepare thin and thick questions about heroin, let's start with the thin questions.
Thin questions are questions that require a short and quick answer. You can answer in one word.
Thick questions are questions that require a detailed, complete answer.
Choose yourself who you will ask the question to.

2. Verbal portrait of Sonya.
- What kind of Sonya do you imagine? Please describe her.
- How does Dostoevsky describe it? (read by one student)

3. Working with portraits of Sonya taken by different artists. Slide show.

In disclosure author's intention D.A.’s illustrations will help us. Shmarinov to the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment". On one of them, the artist captured Sonya Marmeladova with a candle. Looking at her pale face, one cannot help but feel “inexpressible excitement”, trepidation, some kind of inner burning of Sonya. Her portrait is perceived as a symbol of conscience, suffering and deep compassion, as a symbol of the duty that she awakens in Raskolnikov, leading him to moral rebirth. Sonya holds a candle, which illuminates her from the side and below, which highlights her face. Light becomes a “constant epithet” in Sonya’s characterization and in other drawings by the artist.
- Do you think the artists were able to convey the image of Sonya?

It is also interesting to trace the reasons for the author’s choice of the surname and name of Sonya Marmeladova.What does the name Sonya, Sophia mean? Why did Dostoevsky call her that name? (slide).
Student message. “Sofia, Sophia, Sonya - this is one of Dostoevsky’s favorite names. This name means “wisdom”, “Intelligence”. And, indeed, in the soul of Sonya Marmeladova, this is the image of all women, mothers, sisters. Sophia is also the biblical name of the mother of the three martyrs Faith, Hope and Love.

The rays of warmth emanating from Sonya’s soul reach Raskolnikov. He resists them, but still, in the end, kneels before her. This is confirmed by the hero’s encounters with her.
It was Sonechka, a defenseless victim of a cruel world, who brought to repentance the murderer who rebelled against injustice and inhumanity, who wanted to remake the world like Napoleon. It was she who saved Raskolnikov's soul
Why does a fallen woman save Raskolnikov’s soul?
(Sonya transgressed through herself for others. She lives according to the laws of love for people, committed a crime against herself, sacrificed herself in the name of the people she loved.)
What features does Dostoevsky emphasize in it?
(Dostoevsky constantly emphasizes her timidity, shyness, even intimidation.)
Tell us about Sonya's life.
(Sonya’s stepmother, Katerina Ivanovna, condemns her to life on a yellow ticket. The children, exhausted by hunger, survived thanks to Sonya. Her sacrifice penetrates the souls of people with warmth. She gives Marmeladov the last “sinful pennies” for his obscene drunkenness in the tavern... After the death of her father, death stepmother, it is she, Sonya, the fallen one, who sees the meaning of her life in caring for orphaned young children. Even to the people around her, such an act seems truly Christian, and her fall into sin in this case seems holy.)
5. Sonya and Raskolnikov
Please tell me how Raskolnikov views life and by what laws does Sonya Marmeladova live?
(Raskolnikov does not want to accept life as it is, he protests against injustice. His theory pushes him towards the path of violence against others for the sake of his well-being. He is ready to step over the corpses of others, strives to create conditions for himself first of all, in order to then change life, strives to rise above this “anthill.” Raskolnikov’s idea and crime create a conflict in his soul, lead to separation from people, make the hero despise himself most of all for his humanity and sensitivity to the suffering of others. Her life is built according to the laws of self-sacrifice. In shame and humiliation, in conditions that seemed to exclude any purity (moral), she retained a sensitive and responsive soul.)
So, Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. How does he explain his first visit to Sonya? What does he expect from him?
(He is looking for a kindred spirit, because Sonya also committed a crime. At first, Raskolnikov does not see the difference between his crime and Sonya’s crime. He sees in her a kind of ally in crime.)
How can we explain Raskolnikov’s behavior, unceremoniously looking around the room? Who did he expect to see?
(He wants to understand how she lives as a criminal, how she breathes, what supports her, in the name of what she committed a crime. But, looking at her, he softens, his voice becomes quiet.
Raskolnikov expected to see a person focused on his troubles, exhausted, doomed, ready to grab hold of the slightest hope, but he saw something different, which gave rise to the question: “Why was she able to remain in this position for too long and not go crazy, if she really couldn’t was to throw myself into the water.”)
How does Raskolnikov imagine the girl’s future?
(“Throw yourself into a ditch, end up in a madhouse, or throw yourself into debauchery.”)
Three roads and all disastrous. Why didn't she do this? What is the reason?
(Faith, deep, capable of working miracles. Strength. In Sonya I saw the strength that allows her to live. Its source is in caring for other people’s children and their unfortunate mother. She trusts in God and awaits deliverance.)
Through his acquaintance with Sonya, Raskolnikov discovers a world of people living by different laws, the laws of human brotherhood. Not indifference, hatred and harshness, but open spiritual communication, sensitivity, love, compassion live in her.
What book did Raskolnikov notice in Sonya's room?
The book that I noticed on the chest of drawers in Sonya Raskolnikov’s room turned out to be the New Testament in Russian translation. The Gospel belonged to Lizaveta. The innocent victim suffers death silently, but he will “speak” with God's word. Raskolnikov asks to read to him about the Resurrection of Lazarus.
Why was this episode from the Gospel chosen?
(Raskolnikov walks among living people, talks to them, laughs, is indignant, but does not recognize himself as alive - he recognizes himself as dead, he is Lazarus, who has been in the grave for 4 days. But, like the dim light of that candle stub that illuminated in “this beggarly room of a murderer and a harlot, who strangely came together to read the eternal book,” the light of faith glowed in the soul of the criminal in his possible resurrection.)
Work with text.
Read the episode of Sonya reading a passage from the Gospel, monitor Sonya’s condition. Why does she feel this way? (The music “Ave Maria” is playing. Sonya’s hands were shaking, her voice was not strong enough, she couldn’t pronounce the first words, but from the 3rd word her voice rang and broke through like a stretched string. And suddenly everything was transformed.
Sonya reads, wanting him, blind and unbelieving, to believe in God. And she trembled with joyful anticipation of a miracle. Raskolnikov looked at her, listened and understood how Jesus loves those who suffer. “Jesus shed tears,” - at this time Raskolnikov turned around and saw “that Sonya was shaking with a fever.” He expected this.)
She wanted Raskolnikov to accept faith in Christ and through it be able to go to rebirth through suffering.
Why is the Gospel read by a criminal and a harlot? (The Gospel shows the way to revival; we felt the union of souls.)
Dostoevsky highlighted the words “I am the Resurrection and Life.” Why?
(The soul awakens.)
What impression of Sonya does Raskolnikov leave with?
(Raskolnikov, listening to Sonya’s stories about Katerina Ivanovna, her heartfelt reading of the Gospel, changed his opinion about her. Sonya loves people with Christian love. Raskolnikov, who does not believe in God, dreams of power over all trembling creatures, understood Sonya’s truth, her sacrificial purity. )
Leaving Sonya, he said that he would tell who killed. “I know and I’ll tell you... I’ll tell you alone! I chose you.”
In the novel, it is important not only to whom Raskolnikov comes with a confession, but also where this happens - in the apartment of the tailor Kapernaumov, where Sonya rents a room. Kapernaumov is a significant surname.

Sonya - the embodiment of pure good - finds something in common in Raskolnikov, as if the embodiment of pure evil, and vice versa, Raskolnikov, in the depths of Sonya’s soul, sees his own reflection, knows that they will once go “on the same road”, that they have “the same target".

Two truths: the truth, Raskolnikov and, the truth, Sonya. But one is true, the other is false. To understand where the truth is, you need to compare these heroes, whose fate has much in common, but they differ in the main thing.

What is Sonechka's strength?
(In the ability to love, compassion, self-sacrifice in the name of love.)

Sonya, with her love, pity and compassion, her endless patience and self-sacrifice, and her faith in God, saves Raskolnikov. Living by his inhuman idea, not believing in God, he changes only in the epilogue of the novel, having accepted faith in his soul. “To find Christ means to find your own soul” - this is the conclusion to which Dostoevsky comes.
I would like you, like Sonya, to love people for who they are, to be able to forgive and to give the light emanating from your soul to other people.
7. Homework. Essay “I chose you...”

The image of Sonechka Marmeladova in the novel “Crime and Punishment” is for Dostoevsky the embodiment of the eternal humility and suffering of the female soul with its compassion for loved ones, love for people and boundless self-sacrifice. The meek and quiet Sonechka Marmeladova, weak, timid, unrequited, in order to save her family and relatives from hunger, decides to do something terrible for a woman. We understand that her decision is an inevitable, inexorable result of the conditions in which she lives, but at the same time it is an example of active action in the name of saving the perishing. She has nothing but her body, and therefore the only possible way for her to save the little Marmeladovs from starvation is to engage in prostitution. Seventeen-year-old Sonya made her own choice, decided on her own, chose the path herself, feeling neither resentment nor anger towards Katerina Ivanovna, whose words were the final push that brought Sonya to the panel. Therefore, her soul did not become bitter, did not hate the world hostile to her, the dirt of street life did not touch her soul. Her endless love for humanity saves her. Sonechka's whole life is an eternal sacrifice, a selfless and endless sacrifice. But for Sonya this is the meaning of life, her happiness, her joy, she cannot live otherwise. Her love for people, like an eternal spring, feeds her tormented soul, gives her strength to walk along the thorny path that is her whole life. She even thought about suicide to get rid of shame and torment. Raskolnikov also believed that “it would be fairer and wiser to dive straight into the water and end it all at once!” But suicide for Sonya would be too selfish an option, and she thought about “them” - the hungry children, and therefore consciously and humbly accepted the fate prepared for her. Humility, submission, Christian all-forgiving love for people, self-denial are the main things in Sonya’s character.

Raskolnikov believes that Sonya’s sacrifice was in vain, that she did not save anyone, but only “ruined” herself. But life refutes these words of Raskolnikov. It is to Sonya that Raskolnikov comes to confess his sin - the murder he committed. It is she who forces Raskolnikov to confess to the crime, proving that the true meaning of life is repentance and suffering. She believes that no person has the right to take the life of another: “And who made me a judge: who should live, who should die?” Raskolnikov's beliefs terrify her, but she does not push him away from her. Great compassion makes her strive to convince, to morally cleanse Raskolnikov’s ruined soul. Sonya saves Raskolnikov, her love resurrects him to life.

Love helped Sonya understand that he was unhappy, that, despite all his visible pride, he needed help and support. Love helped to overcome such an obstacle as a double murder in order to try to resurrect and save the killer. Sonya goes to get Raskolnikov to hard labor. Sonya's love and sacrifice cleanse her from her shameful and sad past. Sacrifice in love is an eternal trait characteristic of Russian women.

Sonya finds salvation for herself and for Raskolnikov in faith in God. Her faith in God is her final self-affirmation, giving her the opportunity to do good in the name of those to whom she sacrifices herself, her argument that her sacrifice will not be useless, that life will soon find its outcome in universal justice. Hence her inner strength and resilience, which help her get through the “circles of hell” of her joyless and tragic life. A lot can be said about Sonya. She can be considered a heroine or an eternal martyr, but it is simply impossible not to admire her courage, her inner strength, her patience.

F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” was written in 1866 based on modern events as a “psychological report on a crime.” Main character This work is by former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. The title of the novel suggests that at the center of the book psychological life and the fate of this person.

Raskolnikov commits a crime by killing an old pawnbroker, and in the epilogue he serves his sentence in hard labor. But an even greater punishment for him is separation from people, pangs of conscience and the consciousness of his failure as a great man.

The central idea of ​​the novel is the idea of ​​the resurrection of the soul, of its rebirth to a new life. If Sonya Marmeladova had not been next to Raskolnikov, he would not have been able to resurrect himself for a new life.

Sonya is conceived by the author not only as the protagonist’s double in fate (she also “overstepped”), but she also acts as Raskolnikov’s antipode in terms of the truth that she follows in life. At the end of the novel, Sonya's truth becomes the hero's truth.

Before us is a psychological and ideological work in which each of the heroes has “a special point of view on the world and on himself,” as the literary critic M. M. Bakhtin puts it. Each hero of Dostoevsky lives in accordance with his idea. Raskolnikov’s idea is the right of a proud person to transform the world, to eliminate suffering in it. Sonya's idea is infinite love for one's neighbor, in “insatiable compassion” and self-sacrifice, in faith in God, who “will not allow” more suffering than a person can bear.

Dostoevsky is convinced that a person has no right to demand happiness. Happiness is not given so easily, it must be earned through suffering.

The image of Sonechka carries the main idea of ​​the novel. This heroine is moral ideal author.

Let's look at why Sonechka is called “eternal” in Dostoevsky’s work.

We first learn about this girl from the story of her father Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov. After the “test,” Raskolnikov leaves the apartment of his future victim “in decisive embarrassment.” He realizes that the planned murder is “dirty, dirty, disgusting”, and goes into the tavern. Here he listens to the story of the family of the former official Marmeladov. The native daughter of this drunken and degenerate man was forced to go on a yellow ticket to save hungry children. She was pushed to this by her stepmother Katerina Ivanovna, “generous, but unfair,” “a hot-blooded, proud and unyielding lady.” When the children once again began to cry from hunger, Katerina Ivanovna began to reproach Sonya for being a “parasite.” The meek stepdaughter quietly asked: “Well, Katerina Ivanovna, should I really do this?” The stepmother, sick with consumption, “with excited feelings”, “with the crying of children who did not eat,” said “in a mockery”, “more for the sake of insult than in the exact sense”: “Well... why take care of it? Eco treasure! It was then that the poor girl went out into the street for the first time, and after a while she brought her stepmother 30 rubles as a sign that she had betrayed herself for the sake of her family.

Even then, listening to Marmeladov’s painful story about his daughter, Raskolnikov, who has not yet killed the old woman, but is only plotting a terrible crime, decides that he will tell only Sonya about everything. Even then he decides that the girl will understand him and will not leave him.

After visiting the Marmeladovs' beggarly corner, the young man experiences conflicting feelings. On the one hand, he condemns poor people reduced to extreme poverty: “Oh yes Sonya! What a well, however, they managed to dig! And they use it! That's why they use it! And we got used to it. We cried and got used to it. A scoundrel gets used to everything!” But on the other hand, he feels compassion for these humiliated and insulted, who have “nowhere else to go.” A desire arises in him to change the world, a desire to act, and he calls all his moral hesitations “prejudice”, “feigned fears”: “... and there are no barriers, and this is how it should be!”

The next day after meeting Marmeladov, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother. From it he learns that his sister Dunya decides to marry a respectable, wealthy lawyer Luzhin. The young man understands that his sister is sacrificing the failure for his well-being. In his thoughts, the image of the “eternal Sonechka” appears as a symbol of self-sacrifice for the sake of loved ones: “Sonechka, Sonechka Marmeladova, eternal Sonechka, while the world stands!”

Creating the image of the “eternal Sonechka”, the author attaches great importance to the portrait of his heroine. For the first time, the appearance of this fragile girl appears in the confession of her father: “... she is unrequited, and her voice is so meek... blonde, her face is always pale, thin.”

Three portrait details create gospel motifs and make us see in the heroine a prototype of the Mother of God. Firstly, this is the family’s large green draped shawl, which Sonya covered herself with when returning from the street. This is a symbolic detail. Green color- This is the color of the Virgin Mary. Dradedam - thin cloth. This word sounds like Notre Dam - the French name for the Virgin Mary. Secondly, “burnusik” - “cloak and outerwear different types, male and female, as if based on an Arabic model.” Such clothes were worn during the time of Christ. But the most important detail is psychological. When Marmeladov comes to his daughter to ask for money “for a hangover,” Sonya’s look is described in detail: “She didn’t say anything, she just looked at me silently... It’s not like that on earth, but there... they grieve for people, cry, but don’t reproach, don’t reproach!” Sonya does not condemn her father for sin, she loves him endlessly and has compassion for her lost father. Sonya's gaze is the gaze of the Mother of God, who looks at people from heaven and yearns for their soul.

Raskolnikov first sees Sonya at the bedside of her dying father. A girl in a “penny outfit”, but “decorated in a street style, according to the tastes and rules that have developed in her own special world with a brightly and shamefully outstanding goal.” Only before his death did Marmeladov realize how immeasurably guilty he was towards his daughter when he saw her “humiliated, murdered, dishonored and ashamed, humbly waiting for her turn to say goodbye to her dying father.” Only before his death did he ask his daughter for forgiveness.

Portrait detail – “wonderful” Blue eyes"- emphasize Sonya's inner beauty.

If the first portrait conveys the abnormality, unnaturalness, and ugliness of the girl’s existence, then the second portrait, given in the episode of her visit to Raskolnikov’s apartment, reveals the inner essence of the “eternal Sonechka.” The truth is revealed in Rodion Romanovich’s reflections on the girl’s fate: “All this shame, obviously, affected her only mechanically; real depravity has not yet penetrated a single drop into her heart.” in the second portrait, the heroine’s “childishness” stands out. Before us is “a modestly and even poorly dressed girl, still very young, almost like a girl, with a modest and decent manner, with a clear, but seemingly somewhat intimidated face.”

The central place in the novel is occupied by the episode of reading the Gospel. Sonya, at Raskolnikov's request, reads to him about the resurrection of Lazarus. Conveying the excitement of a girl reading the most precious and intimate, the author reveals to readers main secret her life - the hope of resurrection. To a young man failed to make Sonya his like-minded person. Fragile and small Sonya turned out to be spiritually strong and resilient. In this scene, the author conveys the inner strength of his heroine with the help of portrait details: “her weak chest was all swaying with excitement”; “she suddenly cried out, looking sternly and angrily at him,” “meek blue eyes that could sparkle with such fire, such a stern energetic feeling,” “small body, still trembling with indignation and anger.”