Deeply intelligible post from BBC Blog re: Annie and Mitchell
I should really be posting this within another thread somewhere so please do delete or move if it's not deserving of it's own thread, just a little excited maybe that there are some sensible views and such still floating around on the blog. As much as I would love to claim the comparison as my own, it was the insightful work of one 'juju' on the BBC blog. Hail them, for they are win
But yes, was skimming this morning and thankfully a lot of the Annie bashing seems to have died down, but there are still a stubborn few (mostly ones who go so far as to blame Annie for scaring Owen, who went to Kemp who sent Lucy who caused Mitchell to murder...yeah, I know, I know *shakes head*), but then I saw this and it just made me victory dance. For reals.
"739. At 03:59am on 09 Mar 2011, juju wrote:
Never had Annie down as a Dostoevsky fan, but it occurs to me that she is essentially channelling Sonia from Crime & Punishment.
Although he is a man capable of great nobility of spirit, even heroism, and passionately attached to his friends and family, Raskolnikov commits the brutal murders of a pawnbroker & her sister, believing he is entitled to because the PB is vile and corruptly leeches off the poor, and because he identifies himself as a special case, a superior type of being not bound by normal moral codes. Because the PB angers and humiliates him, he despises her and sees her and her sister as fair game, who can be sacrificed to satisfy his needs, rage and appetites. Afterwards, although terrified of discovery, he is in no danger from the law which lacks any evidence to touch him, but finds he cannot live with his crime.
However hard he tries to justify killing the women under his own moral imperatives, he knows the PB's sister he killed was an innocent, and the murder haunts him. He befriends Sonya, who although a friend of the murdered sister, becomes a kind of grateful 'guardian angel' to him, and the spiritually pure conscience of the story. When eventually he confesses his crime to her, she insists he must hand himself in, and submit to legal punishment.
At first he resists, and she tells him he has to - it's about 'being human'. If he doesn't, “You will have ceased to be a human being, and how, how, can you live then? What will become of you?”
He acquiesces, grudgingly, with Sonia promising to "go with him wherever fate might send him". She accompanies him into penal exile in Siberia, devoting her life to looking after him. Finally, through the harshness of his punishment, he faces up to his demons. Her perseverance eventually pays off, and they forge some kind of a life for themselves. We are told, "They were raised from the dead by love". "
I just feel this so brilliantly captures Annie and Mitchell I had to share. I now also have to reread C&P after Sunday so I can pretend it's a continuation of the show, but one of my theories was that Mitchell would disappear somewhere in an attempt to redeem himself and Annie would go with.
But yes, was skimming this morning and thankfully a lot of the Annie bashing seems to have died down, but there are still a stubborn few (mostly ones who go so far as to blame Annie for scaring Owen, who went to Kemp who sent Lucy who caused Mitchell to murder...yeah, I know, I know *shakes head*), but then I saw this and it just made me victory dance. For reals.
"739. At 03:59am on 09 Mar 2011, juju wrote:
Never had Annie down as a Dostoevsky fan, but it occurs to me that she is essentially channelling Sonia from Crime & Punishment.
Although he is a man capable of great nobility of spirit, even heroism, and passionately attached to his friends and family, Raskolnikov commits the brutal murders of a pawnbroker & her sister, believing he is entitled to because the PB is vile and corruptly leeches off the poor, and because he identifies himself as a special case, a superior type of being not bound by normal moral codes. Because the PB angers and humiliates him, he despises her and sees her and her sister as fair game, who can be sacrificed to satisfy his needs, rage and appetites. Afterwards, although terrified of discovery, he is in no danger from the law which lacks any evidence to touch him, but finds he cannot live with his crime.
However hard he tries to justify killing the women under his own moral imperatives, he knows the PB's sister he killed was an innocent, and the murder haunts him. He befriends Sonya, who although a friend of the murdered sister, becomes a kind of grateful 'guardian angel' to him, and the spiritually pure conscience of the story. When eventually he confesses his crime to her, she insists he must hand himself in, and submit to legal punishment.
At first he resists, and she tells him he has to - it's about 'being human'. If he doesn't, “You will have ceased to be a human being, and how, how, can you live then? What will become of you?”
He acquiesces, grudgingly, with Sonia promising to "go with him wherever fate might send him". She accompanies him into penal exile in Siberia, devoting her life to looking after him. Finally, through the harshness of his punishment, he faces up to his demons. Her perseverance eventually pays off, and they forge some kind of a life for themselves. We are told, "They were raised from the dead by love". "
I just feel this so brilliantly captures Annie and Mitchell I had to share. I now also have to reread C&P after Sunday so I can pretend it's a continuation of the show, but one of my theories was that Mitchell would disappear somewhere in an attempt to redeem himself and Annie would go with.