In chapter 7 we finally find out the crime that Raskolnikov (or R) commits.After he has a vodka induced dream he sets out to kill the money lender. The dream is about an old horse (the money lender) being killed by it's master (R) because it's old and useless. The people jeering it on is symbolically R's mind, while the ones that want to stop it are his conschus. After having this dream R then proceedes to go through with the murder the next day (but he's got a plan because he's been thinking about this for a while). i can see why the author would write a book aboout this when you consider his life. Although he didn't grow up underpoverished he saw alot of poverty where he lived as a child. That may be why he writes about characters who are in poverty and debt. He may want to highlight their problems and humanize them. Dostoevsy did not start off writing complex physcological stories either, it wan't until he was exiled to Siberia that he began adding more depth. He was also the main provider for his deceased wife and sister in law's familys, and couldnot come with the stress and debt. This is very similar to Marmeladov.
Is it a crime if someone other than yourself benefits?
Why yes it is. A crime is still a crime no matter how it is dressed up.Murder is still murder. Stealing is still stealing. When the U.S government dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima during World War II it bebefitted America. Our enemy would be weaker and America would have an even better chance of winning the war. Our Eurpean Allies and enemies of Japan would have benefitted alot from it as well. But all the innoncent people who were killed our maimed or were mutated didn't. A crime was committed against those people and even though it would have benefitted others it was still wrong.
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