Unbelievable! I was right! Raskolnikov did kill people! And, because he’s INSANE (which I also predicted), he accidentally killed more people than he meant to! He killed the pawnbroker and the pawnbroker’s sister. I’m a little amazed that he would be so brutal as to use an axe instead of a gun, but maybe it was a spur of the moment type thing. When are the police going to find out that he killed them? Because he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who can keep secrets for long. He seems like the kind that would be eaten alive by his own guilt. And weren’t the police investigating him before he killed the two women? Gosh this book is getting exciting!
I think everyone knows a person like Razumikhin. They are caring, loyal, super friendly, passionate, and stone cold stupid. He cares for people so much that he doesn’t have any room in his mind for intelligence. He has street smarts, but no useful knowledge. I think I can safely say that he will not be finding out about Raskolnikov’s murder streak unless he is told directly. He’s just not smart enough to deduce.
Oh God I haven’t cried over a book since Lovely Bones. But why did Raskolnikov as a child call a dying woman, forced to carry a cart full of heavy drunk men like a horse, a nag, even after her death? I bet the reason he felt compelled to kill the pawnbroker and the pawnbroker’s sister was because the memory of this incident was clouding his judgment, and forcing him to make up for the fact that he couldn’t save the woman from dying, and he couldn’t kill the men for murdering her. He’s got serious issues that still, after all this time, are not worked out, and are manifesting themselves in his current life. There’s a good chance he’s going to kill again, if he isn’t caught for the first murders. Because in a study I read somewhere, it says that murderers often play out a tragic death from their past, and won’t stop reliving it until he changes the outcome, which is impossible, or perfectly recreates the initial incident. Good luck with that! Basically Raskolnikov is a sociopath with a plagued memory in a volatile time in Russia’s history. He’s destined to kill again, basically!
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I don't think he is that crazy! I think he is a perfectly fine man who is somewhat more intelligent than other people around him, who came up with his own ideas about life. He studied the history and saw that great people (like Napoleon) was able to kill, but he achieved a greater goal so all those deaths did not matter as much. I don't think that his beliefs and acts come from his childhood,but from the location he got placed in. Raskolnikov went to a private university for some time, the hard times forced him to drop out, but evendroped out he still possesed more knowledge than all the uncaring,corrupted drunks living in St. Petersburg. Seing himself in such a slump, he reached the conclusion that he won't get anywhere by doing what everybody is doing.By doing the extramile he hoped to do wonders. I don't think he will kill again either, because once his plan did not work the first time, he won't do that error again. In the end he realized that his way of thinking was wrong. I think he is a really unique individual, who did the wrong choice but has chances to do better in the future. I agree with you in your description of Razumikhin. He is that loyal, best friend who will always believe you and stay at your side no matter what you do to get him away. Everybody should have a person like him in their life. Hard moments would pass faster! I love him.
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