Both murders soon took a toll on the participants' mental health. Raskalnikov, after hiding the stolen objects under a rock and returning to his flat, fell into a stupor of panic. This caused him to become physically feverish and mentally disoriented, continually asking himself, "What is wrong with me?" He feared he had a disease that was causing him to lose his reason. He falls in and out of sleep, shivering, and when called to the police station (his landlady had reported his debt to the police), he faints at the mention of the crime. He also ponders whether or not to confess to the crime, deciding to confess on numerous occasions but failing to do so, deciding not to let his guilt get the better of him. Accompanying this stupor is a paranoia that everyone around him knows that he committed murder. He feels that he is part of a large "ruse." They are playing games with him, trying to trap him into confessing. These fears of the "ruse" stay with Raskolnikov throughout the course of the novel.

In Macbeth, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffered emotional trauma after the murders. At the banquet celebrating Macbeth becoming king, Macbeth saw the ghost of Banquo and began to talk to him. "Thou canst not say I did it; never shake

A prime example of a "ruse" occurred when Nikolai Dementiev confessed to the crimes. Nikolai Dementiev was a young painter who was working in the house when Raskolnikov committed the murders. Accused and chased by the police, he tried to hang himself, then confessed to the crimes, even though he did not commit them. Raskolnikov, hearing he was off the hook, began to wonder why Detective Porfiry was trying to trick him, trying to "deceive him like that...he must have some plan; there was some design, but what was it?" (Dostoevsky, 413). This mounting paranoia and desire to get the crimes off his chest eventually led Raskolnikov to confess the crimes to his lover, Sonia Marmeladov. Shortly afterwards, Detective Porfiry, eventually putting two and two together, was able to figure out that Raskolnikov was the murderer. Raskolnikov eventually confessed, asking god for forgiveness, and was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia.

The protagonist in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is Rodion Romaych Raskolnikov, a poor former student living in a one room apartment in Petersburg. He is jobless and broke, unable to pay the rent for his apartment and on the verge of being kicked out by his landlady, Praskovya Pavlovna. To obtain money, Raskolnikov pawns some items to an old women, Alyona Ivanovna, a women he finds to be repulsive "at the first glance, though he knew nothing special about her." (Dostoevsky, 61). Later on during the day of Raskolnikov's first meeting with the woman, he happens to hear a university student in a bar state that he could "kill that damned old woman and make off with her money...without the faintest conscience-prick." (Dostoevsky, 63). Raskolnikov learns from the student that Ivanovna is rich, dying, and planning to bury all of her money in a monastery. This is an outrage to the college

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