Unconditional Love

Dostoyevski's woman characters, like Lisa in Notes from the Underground,

show unconditional love for others even when they are depreciated

and humiliated by others as she is by the anti-hero who suffers from

a pathological condition called ressentiment or self-hate due to repressed

feelings of envy and hatred. The anti-hero is cut from his emotions

and split between his heart and his head which dictates feelings of

negativity. Aloysha, in Brothers Karamazov, shows this capacity

of selfless love to Ivan, his brother as he goes insane when

he is accused of patricide. These characters counter the evil

that is represented by Dostoyevski's self-destructive characters.