Alejandro Ángeles
1. What is Raskolnikov’s motive for killing the pawnbroker?
Raskolnikov was deep in debt, he needed to get out of it quickly. Rodyon thought that if he killed the pawnbroker all of his problems would be gone.
Based on the last paragraph, we may consider desperation as the biggest motive behind his actions, but by the way Raskolnikov talked about the old lady, we could think he hated her. Hate could be a motive, but an unlikely one.
Lastly, Raskolnikov dreamed with killing the pawnbroker; his dream was so vivid that it made him feel that his destiny was to kill the lady. Because this dream made up his mind at last, “destiny” should be considered the motive.
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