Raskolnikov, Hasan

Submitted by linda (United States), Jan 13, 2010 at 23:53

From Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Epilogue, Chapter Two:

"In misery he asked himself this question, and could not understand that, at the very time he had been standing looking into the river [at Pipes' website], he had perhaps been dimly conscious of the fundamental falsity in himself and his convictions. He didn't understand that that consciousness might be the promise of a future crisis, of a new view of life and of his future resurrection."

"The murder is only to prove that he can do it; to prove that he is absolutely independent of morality."

The murder is the symbol of his powerlessness.

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