Crimes misc0 essays

Crimes misc0 essays two young women. After talking with Sonia, Raskolnikov fully confesses to the murder, and is sentenced to eight years in a siberian prision. Sonia follows him and with her help, Raskolnikov begins his regeneration. Rodian Raskolnikov is best seen as two characters. He often acts in one manner, and then suddenly in a manner completly contradictory. Raskolknikov is best described when Razumihim attempts to explain Raskolknikov to his mother and sister as being a "morose, gloomy, proud fanciful. He has a noble nature and a kind heart...he would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous, its as if he were alternating between two characters." (Dostoevsky 200) His two characters are best interpreted as 1)his detatched, cold, intellectual side which emphasizes "power" and "self will" and 2) his warm compassionate humane side which suggests self-submissive and meekness. The intellectual side is a result of his deliberate and premeditated actions, such as the theories he formulated about the crimes. The other side of his character, the warm compassionate side, operates without and interfering thought process. Ironically the two murders that he ends up committing relate back to the two aspects of Raskolnikov's character. In this dual murder, he has killed one person who is mean, wicked, and cold (Alyona), and a second, Lizaveta, who is warm, friendly, human, compassionate, and exceedingly innocent person. But does the author ever remind us of the murder at any time in the novel again? Not in the physical sense of the crime itself. The reader doesn't hear how heavily the murderers are weighing on his heart, or how he is tormented by the visions of the crime, only his pride's hurt. Raskolknikov never again recalls the massive amounts of blood everywhere, the ...