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, operates without and interfering
             thought process. Ironically the two murders that he ends up committing relate
             back to the two aspects of Raskolnikov's character. In this dual murder, he has
             killed one person who is mean, wicked, and cold (Alyona), and a second,
             Lizaveta, who is warm, friendly, human, compassionate, and exceedingly
             innocent person. But does the author ever remind us of the murder at any time in
             the novel again? Not in the physical sense of the crime itself. The reader doesn't
             hear how heavily the murderers are weighing on his heart, or how he is
             tormented by the visions of the crime, only his pride's hurt. Raskolknikov never
             again recalls the massive amounts of blood everywhere, the ...