Crimes misc0

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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 & haughty...suspicious and

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,

and with her help, Raskolnikov begins his regeneration.

"suffering of humanity". No one is less fit for a life of prostitution than is Sonia,

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