The Pawnbroker

in order to study. After a while Raskolnikov becomes destitute, living miserably. Raskolnikov is prideful, stubborn, and charismatic,which makes him an interesting character. Raskolnikov’s deep pride is one reason for him killing Alyona the old pawnbroker. Yet, Raskolnikov believed that killing Alyona would help humanity and take away evil from society. Such sentiments are spoken by a man he overhears, “"Kill her, take her money and with the help of it devote oneself to the service of humanity and

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nature can be observed through the murder and his thoughts afterwards which encompasses the overall purpose of Crime and Punishment. The novel begins with Raskolnikov’s cogitation and execution of the murder of Alyona, a successful but stingy pawnbroker, and her daughter. In the poorly

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are that an extraordinary man may overstep the law if he thinks it is bettering a situation, in other words they, “seek destruction of the present for the sake of the better”(261). This is what Raskolnikov thought he was doing when he killed the pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna. “The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with