Fyodor Dostoevsky has portrayed some essential truth of life using four literary tools: plot, symbolism, and figurative language. The story tells about a desperate man who realized the true happiness of life after a dream he dreamt when he fell asleep after a suicidal trial.
The author has categorized the story into three main parts: before the dream, during the dream, and after the dream. Before the dream, the man has been thinking that he was useless in the society and decided to suicide. The author tells the quality and present situation of the character by saying, “Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream...”(The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Web.)…show more content… The story has similarities with the Gospel. The girl that the man meets in the street can be seen as a bible, evangelist or the Holy Spirit. When the man tried to suicide, he suddenly recalled the girl who asked him for help in the street. And this made him hesitate to suicide. In Romans 8:26, it says, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” The girl helped him as the Holy Spirit help us to choose a right way. The second evidence is that the ‘dream’ in the story can relate to the Jesus Christ or the heaven. Jesus always shows our weakness and cruelty in us. The author says, “Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all!!”(The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Web.) The man realizes that it was not the world that made him suffers, but it was his own mind and behaviors which led him to suicide. Also, the author reveals how the heaven looks like by describing the people who showed up in the dream. The story says that, “They wandered about their lovely woods, and copses, they sang their lovely songs…” This is so much like what heaven looks like. The last evidence is that the man went out to find the girl who asked him for help: “And I tracked down that little girl… and I shall go on and on!”(The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Web.) His action looks very much similar with the evangelists. They are changed by Jesus and go