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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes From A Dead House

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In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Notes From a Dead House, The Russian legal system placed guilty men in a Siberian labor camp where they are forced to slave all day as their punishment. Depriving them of freedom and an identity are just some of the many heartbreaks and tragedies these men are forced to face. This idea is further developed during the scene which takes place in the prison infirmary. Dostoevsky uses themes to address the brutal and inhumane conditions within the prison.

During the beginning of the novel the reader's automatic instinct is to fear the characters because of what they have done, a crime which landed them in prison. The author measures us from the beginning stating “ I am firmly convinced that there is still no need
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