The House of the Dead
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Main Ideas
- Exploration of human nature and psychology under conditions of extreme humiliation and deprivation
- Critique and analysis of the 19th-century Russian penal system and its impact on the prisoners' personalities
- Issues of morality, guilt, and redemption through suffering and personal spiritual experience
- Reflection of the author's views on religion, faith, and the possibility of spiritual rebirth
- Contemplations on freedom, human dignity, and the ability to maintain humanity in extreme conditions
- Depiction of social injustice and the diversity of human characters against the backdrop of the harshness of prison life
Date of publication: 22 May 2024
Last updated: 13 July 2024
———The House of the Dead
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Genre: Classical literature