Part 1, Chapter 2
Marmeladov's tavern confession introduces Sonia: she 'took the yellow ticket' to feed his starving family—her sacrifice frames the novel's theology of suffering.
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sonia, forced into prostitution to support her family, becomes the novel's Christ-figure whose suffering love offers Raskolnikov the path to redemption.
Part 4, Chapter 4
Sonia reads the raising of Lazarus from John 11 to Raskolnikov—one of the novel's most famous scenes, linking her gospel reading to his spiritual death and possible resurrection.
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Raskolnikov confesses to Sonia; she cries 'What have you done—what have you done to yourself?' and vows to follow him to Siberia.
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