Knowledge of crime or bad deeds lead to guilt. " I was not delirious, I knew what I was doing," he cried straining. "I was quite myself do you hear?" (Dostoevsky 310) This quote shows that Raskolnikov knew what he was doing and that

I have found that justice is always served. You might not get caught by the law but you will have to deal with your own guilt. I don't feel that society today has such a realization of guilt. "It clearly indicates the consequences of sin" ( Howell 71). This novel shows the consequences of sin very well. The consequences are very bad. While reading this novel I thought to myself, could O. J. Simpson be going through the same thing at this time? Is he at the point of confession? Will he confess? This story that was written over one hundred years ago still applies to society today. A guilty conscience is a very difficult thing to live with.

he was guilty. Even through his extraordinary man theory he knows that he had done wrong. He would like to believe that he was in the right but in the back of his mind he knows that he is in the wrong. "Good God, am I going out of my senses?"(Dostoevsky 130) This shows that he doesn't know what is happening to himself. He thought that he would have no remorse for this crime but he came out with a lot of guilt. The extraordinary man theory seemed to be a scapegoat for himself. There was not a really big need for the pawn-broker to be killed. She was not really hurting anyone. "In Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov constructed his whole theory of the extraordinary man for one purpose only, to justify in his own eyes a quick and easy way for profit. He had to come quickly, at the first good opportunity, to dishonest means of wealth. The question arose in his mind: how is one to explain this desire to oneself? As a weakness or a strength? It would have been much more simple and believable to explain it as a weakness, but it was much more pleasant for

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