Reasons In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime

One might argue that Raskolnikov’s actions have been dictated by chance because of two reasons. The first reason is somehow by chance he was at the right spot at the right time and overheard that the pawn lady’s sister, Lizaveta Ivanovna will not be home around seven o’ clock the next day. It was just yesterday when he went to pawn lady’s house to mask out the last details and now he knows when she will be alone in the house. Raskolnikov realizes that this is the only chance that he has and if he doesn’t commit the crime then, a chance like this might not come again. The second reason I would say that Raskolnikov’s actions was dictated by chance was because of another coincidence of him being in the same restaurant as a student he did not know and a young officer who were having a …show more content…
The student also hated the pawn lady and even says, “I could rob and murder that damned old woman and I assure you I wouldn’t have a twinge of conscious” (pg 63). This sentence for Raskolnikov ended up stirring up the murder in his head again. He was surprised that somebody else was thinking the same idea that was going on in his head. ¬ The first nightmare that Raskolnikov has is about his childhood. After he visits the cemetery with his father and after that they are explained to walking along the cemetery and something catches Raskolnikov’s eyes. He thought it was some kind of celebration because there were a lot of people and they were all dressed up and drunk. He was watching how the people were all abusing this one mare and the owner Mikolka and others beating the mare to death with an ax. They all were showing a sense of delight in their faces there was no sense of grief. The young boy in the dream runs to the area where the mare is getting hurt and cries out against the act. He embraces the mare, kisses its head and strikes out in front of Mikolka with his clenched fist. Here is when he is pulled away by his father and questions his father, “why did they kill the