▲ 55 r/language
Why are most extinct languages (according to Wikipedia) belong to the American continent? Is there any reason behind this or just a coincidence?
Not sure if this is the right sub to ask this. If not, kindly redirect me.
u/Im_mbn — 3 days ago
▲ 5 r/dostoevsky
Can somebody validate my interpretation?
I finished reading Crime and Punishment a couple of nights ago, and I've been pondering it ever since. While doing so, one idea led me to this way of seeing it:
I assume Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov are very similar, since they both have committed crimes and are being punished internally for it. Though we don't see much of the latter's turmoil, we can see the gist of it from the moments before his suicide. Their intent and fate may be different, but they both are pessimistic and egocentric. Svidrigailov even laments that he was haunted by the ghosts of his victims: his wife and the manservant.
This similarity brings up a theory that it was not actually Sonya that visits Raskolnikov in jail, but her ghost. The ghost he imagined to put off weight from his chest, just like Svidrigailov did.
Does my interpretation stand?
u/Im_mbn — 2 months ago