Was Raskolnikov mentally ill?

No you goddamned mongoloid
I know you only asked this to irritate me but fuck it, I'm mad

Raskolnikov is an embodiment of the sweeping nihilism in St. Petersburg during the mid 19th century, itself born out of a failed grasp at bourgeoise Socialism by the educated youths of the earlier 19th century. His descent into inhumanity and moral despondence is a criticism of the dangerous power of unbridled philosophical sophistry and twisted moralist manipulation which Dostoevsky saw as having been born out of that earlier era of Socialism. That he is ultimately saved by the trope 'absolved whore' and embraces Christianity has been alternatively interpreted as an earnest admittance of the need for religious absolution among the people of that era, or by some skeptics as a sarcastic satirization of many of the earlier Socialist's very ideals and a prediction of the bastardized return of that movement later under the Bolsheviks - both interpretations find validity in Dostoevsky's other works, notably Notes From Underground.

No he was Russian

How come he felt guilt for the crone, but not for Lizaveta?

Way to completely miss the point of the book.

>>9449355
No, but Dosto mentions that he's feverish and delirious (presumably from starvation). It suggests the author wanted to give him half an excuse, and lacked the conviction to make him truly cold-blooded.

>>9450651
Shh ... nobody cares about Lizaveta. Stop spoiling the book for everybody.

>>9450674
Nah more like some part of him thoroughly disagreed with the act and he felt tremendous guilt and shame and disgust for doing (or intending to do) it. Which presented itself as the symptoms you mentioned. I would disagree with that Dosto tried to use the illness as a way to absolve him of complete guilt for the deed and make him only partially guilty by making him sick. The feelings are the regular human reactions somebody would have to a deed like that. It's just that Raskol overrides them with his 'logic' and carries out the deed.

Looking back to your comment, I don't know if we actually completely disagree but I still like to put this out there.

>>9450674
>>9450734
I recall there being a passage in which the correlation between illness and crime is directly related, it would do well to read it again I think.
My interpretation that firstly, the feverish sickness is representative of the moral degeneracy and philosophical sophistry that the earlier anon mentioned. It doesn't excuse Rodya for his crime, but serves as an explanation or at least a large factor. Secondly, I think that the sickness manifests because of the schismatic nature of Raskolnikov, who is torn between and confused by the new age sophistry and his inherent morality which may be Christian in origin. The sickness doesn't manifest in other mental criminals like Svidrigailov because he is purely representative of the "Napoleon" which Rodya is obsessed with.

I want to *kiss* Sonia, lads

>>9449577
>bourgeoise Socialism
It always triggers me when somebody uses bourgeoisie as an adjective. Say bourgeois you mong.

>>9451040
I mistook Socialisme for a feminine noun. Way to not address the meat of my post though

>>9450426
/thread/

>>9450988
Sonia is a top tier qt p2t

>>9450988
I want to put multiple babies inside Dunia

>>9453402
>touching Dunechka
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

get a job \

He was a good boy but mentality I'll
Like almost all characters of Dostoevsky

>>9451040
>Reads a well articulated post
>Finds one flaw
>Hurr hurr, stupid

>>9452886
>>9453784
Won't bother with his post if he can't even get the basics right.

>>9450988
>>9452995
>>9453402
Sonia is an ugly nosed whore. She's yucky. Your taste in waifus suck.

>>9449355

Probably Oedipus complex

>>9453788
>french noun
>ends in an e
>not expecting it to be feminine

>>9449355
There's no such thing as mental illness.
Literally no such thing as a sane person

>>9453903
Hello Arcade Fire.

why the FUCK does this hack need to include so many characters with so many different names

>>9453928
There are only around 10 characters. It's a 600 page book.

>>9453936
I think he means specifically there's so many characters *who have* so many different names

You know as opposed to the average book that usually has about zero

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>>9450988
>>9452995
>>9453402
>>9453845

>>9453903
I tried telling my therapist that, but the bitch still had me detained

>>9453943
>getting detained by your own property

Weak stuff brah

>>9453936
There are more than that if you count thowe who make small appearances

On top of that it feels like each character has 3-4 variations of the same name and keeping track is such a pain

>>9453941
It's just Russian naming and social convention, don't be a sperg and it's pretty easy to keep track of who's who
Plus if you can't remember names like Svidrigailov, kill yourself

>>9453942

ohshi-

>>9453889
You mean like mâle or homme?

>>9454106
Socialisme has the unfortunate placement of that -isme which associated in my mind with -ine (as compared to -in)
Sue me

>>9454118
I will

>>9449577
good post. Attributing his actions and state of mind to mental illness simplifies his character too much.

>>9453943
I fuck my therapist every week and she loves it

>>9453903
This is some tumblrite phrase-making

Even if you were right then I could easily say that there is 'mental illness' inside and outside acceptible bounds of functionality.

>>9450651
He felt more guilt for Lizaveta, hence why he suppressed the memory of killing her

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>>9453505
Mentality you'll what? You'll like almost all characters of Dostoevsky?

>>9453928
You aren't capable of reading Russian lit

>>the thread in general, and so on
realizing more and more how foolish and inconsequential this site is

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>>9454207
>This is some tumblrite phrase-making