The House Of The Dead Literary Analysis Essay

Fyodor Dostoyevsky creates an uncommon form of a true story in his book, The House of the Dead. He does this by providing an accurate point-of-view from what has happened to him when he was in a Siberian military prison serving four years of his life. Dostoyevsky was put in prison because he was part of the Petrashevsky Circle, a group of writers that got together to oppose writings of western philosophy. ¬¬All of the writers took part of this knowing it was illegal and all of them got caught, including Dostoyevsky himself.
As he was sentenced in his prison, Fyodor saw the literary potential about his experience. The Russian police department really did not like the Petrashevsky Circle and there was only a few people who took apart of it.

An example of this is when Fyodor notices the unusual temperament of the criminals, in the book he says, “Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruelest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.” This shows how confused Fyodor is when he is just getting accustomed to the prison. Later on, Fyodor Starts to kind of understand a few people around him and gets a good angle about how the prison works. He provides an excellent perspective on prison life in the 1800’s as his prison life reaches the end. As his prison sentence ends he really starts to learn more about his own life and how he should live it after prison. Dostoyevsky says, “No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.” Fyodor understands gradually what these prisoners are feeling and expresses it very well in his entries. During this time, Dostoyevsky creates one of the best books not only for the content and work he put in, but for his own point-of-view and his interpretation of Alexander’s writings, he ultimately realizes that his inmates are normal people and they shouldn’t be judged by other people due to a mistake they have