Roskolnikov+The+Dual+Character

=10. Roskolnikov emerges as a dual character, capable of cruelty and compassion, deliberation and recklessness, and alternating between a desire for solitude and companionship.= =Why has Dostoyevsky created such a complex psychological portrait?=

-Dostoyevsky had lived through many aspects of life and the loss of his mother is what creates his characters' attachment to women.
==-His underlying hatred for his father's actions and the way he was murdered spurred Roskolnikov to murder the pawnbroker and her sister. Also could be contributed to the fact that his father's serfs killed his master, and his character kills the people in charge.== == ==

=="He thought of her. He remembered how continually he had tormented her and wounded her heart. He remebered her pale and little face, but these recollections scarcely troubled him now. He knew with what infinite love would now repay all of her sufferings."(541-542)==

==-Irrational/Above the law side: Thinks that his thoughts and his motives are above the laws of morality because he is ultimately helping humanity. He has justification for his deeds and does them with the thought that he needs to accomplish them.==

=="The old woman was a mistake perhaps, but she’s not the point! The old woman was merely a sickness . . . I was in a hurry to step over . . . it wasn’t a human being I killed, it was a principle! So I killed the principle, but I didn’t step over, I stayed on this side . . . All I managed to do was kill. And I didn’t even manage that, as it turns out . . ."(274)==

==He believes that the only thing that is supposed to matter to him is the success of killing the principle that stopped him from living a life. The principle was the pawnbroker that had hurt many people and made them pay.==