With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in
The literary character that I most readily identify with would be
Dostoevsky's Alexei, The Gambler. I can relate to him because like me, he
is a man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his
addiction to ....
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.... stark contrast to what his society deemed
proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the
penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing by what he thought was
right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he
did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively
miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish himself. This
is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had loved for
years, ruined it by going ....
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