Part one of term paper
“…the buzzing and struggling of some large fly as it swooped and beat against the windowpane.” (, pg. 332) In the novel by Fydor Dostoevsky the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov consciously avoids truth and clarity of mind as he clings to his theory of the ordinary and extra-ordinary people, believing himself to be of the la ...

Part two of term paper
... inside wants to be free and knows the truth about his place among others, while the conscious part of his mind is not able to comprehend that until the very end. His mind is like a “fly as it … [beats] against [a] windowpane” (pg. 332) longing to join the world out there, but not understanding this desire rationally yet. Marmeladov’s room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [are] closed, in spite of the s ...