pg. 98

This page is part of the chapter entitled "Lizaveta". The bottom of page 98 describes a scene where Fyodor Pavlovich is dared to rape poor Lizaveta. Fyodor ends up impregnating Lizaveta and when the child is born Lizaveta dies where she gave birth. In my opinion this is one of the worst things that Fyodor has done so far. What kind of monster rapes a mentally handicapped person in the first place? Then he lies about it to everyone in the town to make himself look like a more honorable person. Even after his grusome behavior leads to the death of the poor woman, Fyodor still has her son as a slave when he gets older. Although Fyodor does take an interest in Smerdyakov, the poor boy is still under the command of Old Man Karamazov. I think that Fyodor should have been the one in eternal debt to Smerdyakov, and in the end he did pay the sacrifice of everything that he had done to the boy.