1. Crime And Punishment
"But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood- With these words, Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment, gives the reader a clear look at the type of ideas which fill the mind of his main character. Raskolnikov, the protagonist ... said, " I was only capable of killing. And it seems I wasn't even capable of that . . . I am perhaps viler and more loathsome than the louse I killed." Raskolnikov fails to overcome the moral codes and consciousness of so...
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