ing to comfort him he awakes from the dream, and after standing up in horror says, "Thank God, that was only a dream." Then he questions what the dream represents; trying to figure out if it is a premonition of him killing the old lady, Alyona Ivanovna. He cries "Good God! Can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open..." Raskolnikov then argues that he could never commit such a horrible crime saying, "...yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it... Why am I going over it again, then? Yesterday, I said to myself that it was base, loathsome, vile, vile... the very thought of it made me feel sick and filled me with horror." Goes on to say, "I couldn't do it! Why, why then am I still...?" The dream and the following conversation with himself display the two sides of Raskolnikov. He is arguing both sides, of why he could or could not com
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