In the novel Memories from the House of the Dead, Dostoyevsky tells us about a strange psychological state that he observed among the prisoners during his stay with them during his imprisonment. This is a condition that Dostoyevsky seems to be fully convinced of in prisoners and in others, given his recognition that those outside the prison walls are not necessarily better than those inside.
And this is the case
His observation is that some prisoners may deliberately cause quarrels, not because of hostility in them, nor because the situation deserves a quarrel in the first place. But they quarrel because of what results after the quarrel: many people trying to calm them down, talking to them, and comforting them, even with a word, to end the quarrel. In those moments, these people find value for themselves, and a word raises their value, which has a profound impact on their souls.
They are not evil as many people imagine them to be. They are thirsty for attention, eager for any word that raises their value, and dying longing for the opportunity to make people address them with some respect.
Here, Dostoyevsky concludes that the worst criminals can return to becoming a normal human being if he finds someone who understands him, someone who appreciates him, and respects him as a human being.
The beautiful thing about the novel is that Dostoyevsky wrote it about his period of imprisonment, and instead of it being a personal memoir for him, it turned into something like a psychological analysis of everyone he encountered..
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