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holland
holland
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College - Sophomore

What does the ghost of Martha represents for Svidrigilov in Crime and Punishment? Is it a sign of horror for Svidrigilov?

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Posted by holland on Monday March 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM and tagged with crime and punishment, ghost, martha, svidrigilov, symbols.

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  1. texas
    texas Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    Svidrigaïlov went on, looking at him deliberately. “But what do you say to this argument (help me with it): ghosts are, as it were, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the organism is broken, one begins to realise the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer becomes one’s contact with that other world, so that as soon as the man dies he steps straight into that world. I thought of that long ago. If you believe in a future life, you could believe in that, too.”

    “I don’t believe in a future life,” said Raskolnikov.

    Svidrigaïlov sat lost in thought.

     It sounds to me that He is in reverence of the ghosts.... But that could be wrong I took this straight out of the book hope I helped!

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    Posted by texas on Tuesday March 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM