1. crime and punshiment
... in a society stand above the ordinary human and moral law. Based on his theory he believes that the murders he commits would make him a part of this high class. To test his thesis, he murders an old woman that is a greedy moneylender. He feels her death is no great loss to society because she preys upon the misery and poverty of ... , and the simplest power of reflection were failing him began to be an insufferable torture". He believed he needed to suffer greatly before he can find redemption from a life of sin. The first sign of Raskolnikov's suffering is his illness after the murder, ...
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