Part one of term paper
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's , the main character is a man with two contradicting personalities a dark grim side and a warm loving side. The terms dark and grim used loosely to describe his intellectual side. It was this side of him that allowed him to commit a great sin, a murder of an old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov wants to use intellect to act a ...

Part two of term paper
... a strong, short-tempered man. Raskolnikov engages in a fist fight with the man out of the kindness of his heart. After helping her, he was "at that moment stung" and questioned his actions. "Why did I go meddling in all that! Who am I to help anyone? Do I have any right to help? Let them all gobble each other alive - what is it to me?" Clearly this illustrates the imbalance acting out inside of him. This imbalance causes Raskolnikov to ostracize his emotional outbursts. The clash between the ...