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The investigator works towards Raskalnikov's temporal redemption.
The russian people are generally eastern orthodox Christianity.

P.126, the change, the interval.
Raskalnikov (inconsistent) he rails against the marriage her sister wants to have. He threatens to disown her. Then suddenly, he says he doesn't care if she marries. And he means it, because that other part of his personality is now dominant. So there's a fight going on inside of him. The division of Raskalnikov can be looked at in many different ways. One way is to look at him embodying the philosophical dispositions of having cold logic yet being remarkably passionate. The romantics are sort of heirs of the englightenment yet they react to the enlightment with these airs of emotion that are the opposite of will and reason.

He says he will not suffer to the fate of will and reason that makes others ordinary.

The stirrings of his conscience lead him to a state of near madness (almost like Macbeth's) and this is the cause of his nightmares, and sleeplessness. It emerges that after the murder his reason had grown feeble, broken apart, indicating that Raskalnikov himself, has broken in two. And in this way he represents that modern man has been torn apart, dostoyevsky sees the disenchantment already in the early 20th century. We see the effects of the collapse of morality and the loss of face. We see the effects in society, prostitution, pedofilia, gambling, etc. The vices are prevalent in the novel. The conditions in which people live are horrible.

Raskalnikov's name establishes as analogy between an ecclesial schism between the Russian church as well as a schism between humanity and God. Raskalnikov's name is the sectarian, the separated. A breach in the natural law separates us from nature, from our fellow man and from the giver of the law, God.

It is the task of Sonya and the investigator to bring back Raskalnikov to the fold (independently of each other) through confession and then penance. Which is spending part of his life in prison.

There's a secondary writer who notes that Porphry and Sonya represent the State and the Church working in harmony, respectively. (Pierce wrote this). Porphy's name comes from the name of the purple cloak worn by the Byzantine attributors.

Sonya's name comes from Sophia, which evokes 'HAGGIA SOPHIA' holy wisdom (that's the name of a cathedral i think).

Raskalnikov's name means the heretic.

Svidirigailov - the barbarian. He stands in symbolic opposition to Sonya and Porphry, he sort of represents the diabolical. He's completely reprehensible. He is representative of one half of Raskalnikov's personality.

The landlady, Alyora, is a usurer, she's horribly.
The extra-ordinary people are Alyora, Luzhin 'look at where love has gotten us, I split my coat and now two people are cold instead of one', Svedryiaglov.

The ordinary people: Lizaveta.