e does not feel that he had sinned.
All he did was violate laws that were made by society. Raskolnikov
definition of crime was evil will in action. Raskolnikov knows that he
possesses no evil will, and so he does not consider himself a criminal. He
is capable of justifying his crime. He murdered a pawnbroker that was of
no use to society and wanted to use her money to improve his life and
career. Not only was he helping himself by attempting to improve his
career, but he was also helping society as society would benefit from his
career. He would also free his mother and sister from the encumbrance of
financially supporting him, and thus maybe even prevent the marriage of his
sister to the evil Luzhin. We are introduced to Raskolnikov's thoughts
about mankind when we read about Raskolnikov's published article. He
divides man into two classes: the extraordinary man and the ordinary man.
He considers himself extraordinary and the pawnbroker to be ordinary.
Presumably, the murder of the pawnbroker was an experiment of his theory.
One could argue that his experiment failed because he had to rely on his
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