Hedda Gabler/C&P

I would like to start with Hedda Gabler, and would just like to say that as a whole I felt sorry for her. Maybe it's because I have a bleeding heart for any woman who has to live the kind of life she did. First off she felt like she had to marry George because that was her only option or she would be alone and well that to me is borderline tragic because it's true. If she hadn't married what were her other options for her life? I don't feel like she really had any. Not only that but she never went anywhere, she was so confined to that house and that marriage that it drove her crazy. I feel like she was essentially oppressed by her house wife lifestyle that she had to escape it. It's a shame that she took people down along the way but I sum that up to the madness that plagued her because of her mundane life. I also sympathize with her because I too would be a terrible housewife if there were no television.



Now crime & punishment. Which for the record I was secretly hoping would turn out to be an epic romance... but to my disappointment an old lady took an axe to the head.
Anyways.
"...I only say he is a nice man in his own way! But if one looks at men in all ways—are there many good ones left?”
I feel like Razhumin’s character says some incredibly interesting things. Like he just has random spurts of knowledge (and I'm sitting there like "dang Razhumin... get it boy.") This line to me stuck out a lot. I felt like he was speaking to Raskolinov in a sense. Or at least that line is completely relevant to the predicament that Raskolinov is currently in. I just thought this line was so interesting… and essentially it contains a lot of truth (I say truth specifically because that is the perpetual focus in this class). But as I got to thinking about it not all aspects of a person are all good. So really he’s simply right, there’s always something back within a person and if you look at those things then who is really good? Totally intriguing to me. Cause really if I think about it I have qualities or even thoughts that if that's the only thing people saw then I wouldn't be a good person... man, I feel like I'm calling myself out. But honestly if we looked at every aspect of every person there would be plenty of bad things... I'm not positive where I'm going with this other than I'm perplexed by the whole idea.