1. Crime and Punishment
... "ordinary" man, the reader can see that his actual theory, not his title, was to blame; the end does not always justify the means especially in the case of murder. Dostoevsky's irony lays within Raskolnikov's apparent lack of guilt for Lizaveta's murder. He seldom thinks of her murder, but is consumed by the culpable thoughts of having killed Alyona. The ironic ... ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate