The young Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, an aspiring, brilliant yet poor student lives in Russia in the early 1860's. It is late summer and Raskolnikov’s poverty has forced him into lodging at a cheap dirty garret where he is already deeply indebted to his landlady, Praskovya Pavlovna. His unique views and thought process lead him to make random rants about numerous subjects such as society. These intellectual arguments lean the novel to a more tense …showed first 75 words of 965 total…

…showed last 75 words of 965 total…at once and screamed.”(pg 71) After the murder he becomes extremely paranoid yet this is only caused by his subliminal belief that his crime was not actually justified hence further supporting the theme. It is possible that in the remainder of the novel Dostoevsky will follow the psychological and mental changes that take place in Raskolnikov’s nature. Also new totally unique characters will be introduced that will greatly influence and shape his future character.