benefit to the whole of humanity). (Part III, V, 249). As Raskolnikov states to Porfiry he feels that if indeed it is all right to "step on" people as one wishes the reader can only behold the total arrogance of Raskolnikov's character. As exhibited throughout the novel Raskolnikov can seem to feel that event that happen are indeed to help him, possibly sent by a higher cause, these incidences however turn out to be simple coincidences which end up giving him a false level of confidence.
             Taking into consideration events that do befall upon Raskolnikov the reader is given a much broader view of what is happening, as opposed to Raskolnikov's one-track mind. When Raskolnikov is contemplating going through with his plan he enters a bar and hears two young men talking. Coincidentally they happen to be talking about the same thing that hes was contemplating on his own, his reaction was that he was meant to here the conversation. FD does a terrific job showing Raskolnikov's thoughts:
             "But why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving... the very same ideas? And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? This coincidence always seemed strange to him. This trivial talk in a tavern had an immense influence on him in his later action; as though there had really been in it something preordained some guiding hint...." (Part I, VI, 64)
             FD paints the picture of Raskolnikov sitting in a bar fixated that some force had meant him to here this to give him that extra push. While it can be agreed by many that no outside force was interacting with his life the scene depicts him heavily involved in what he feels as something so much more then it really is.
             After he commits the murders however he starts to lose his old since of being a &q...