Which of them should die? Why do you ask such questions that have no answer? Who am I to judge who shall live and who shall not? Raskolnikov reminds Sonya that he had promised to tell her today who killed Lizaveta. To Sonya's frightened response, he first asks her to guess and then tells her to "take a good look at me.
She shrinks from Raskolnikov. Recovering immediately, she flings herself on her knees in front of him, crying out: "What have you done, what have you done to yourself?. There is no one, no one unhappier than you in the whole world. A sudden feeling of tenderness floods Rodya's heart and softens it, and he asks Sonya: "Do not forsake me.
I will follow you wherever you go. I will even follow you to prison. When Sonya asks him how he could bring himself to do such a thing, Raskolnikov offers explanations ranging from his poverty to his Ubermensch theory.
Each of his reasons is rejected so that Raskolnikov never successfully explains his crime. After many attempts to explain the crime, he turns to Sonya and asks "tell me what to do now? When Rodya questions this, she tells him again: "Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it. He reaches for it, but decides it would be better if he accepted it later, and Sonya agrees: "When you accept your suffering, you shall put it on.
She answers that she will follow him everywhere, even to Siberia. Raskolnikov suggests that he might not be ready to go to Siberia. Sonia gets a clearer sense of the significance of Raskolnikov's confession. Sonia tries to understand why hunger or money , but Raskolnikov rejects her simple explanations.
Raskolnikov attempts to explain. Was it so he could prove himself to be a Napoleon? Was it for financial security? It was to prove that he could do it-to exercise his power over himself.
To see whether he was a louse or a man, whether he had the right to transgress the law. Raskolnikov concedes that when he murdered the old woman, he murdered himself. After the murders, he discovers that he is indeed a louse like everyone else. He asks what he is to do.
Sonia cries:. Will you go, will you go? Raskolnikov makes one last effort to hold on to his pride. Perhaps he is a man after all and not a louse. Why should he give himself up to those who cannot understand him?
He tells Sonia that the police is already on his trail. Sonia asks if he has a cross on him. She gives him hers made of cypress wood she has Lizaveta's. They will suffer together and bear the cross, Sonia proclaims. Not wanting to hurt her feelings, Raskolnikov tells her he will take the cross at a later time. At that moment, Lebeziatnikov knocks on the door.
How would she decide? Sonia says that only God decides who lives and who dies — it could never have anything to do with her. Then, she tells Raskolnikov to get to the point, unless he's only interested in tormenting her. She cries for five minutes, then Raskolnikov says he agrees with her. After that, he feels "helpless" and desperate. Though he doesn't expect it, he suddenly hates Sonia.
But, when he looks at the "love" in her eyes, the hate disappears. He sits next to her on the bed. His voice is frozen, he can't tell her. She begs him to tell her what the problem is. He tells her it's nothing, and she begins to feel sorry for him and his pain. Raskolnikov tells Sonia that he's there to reveal Lizaveta's killer. He makes her guess. She looks at him and looks at him, until she realizes that he's the murderer.
She is horrified but thinks he's "suffering" badly, and she wants to be there for him. Sonia vows to stand by him and even to go to prison. She feels disoriented and strange. She can't believe she's hanging out with a real murderer.
Something awful occurs to her — the money he gave her family was stolen from the pawnbroker. Raskolnikov reassures her, explaining that he doesn't even know if he stole any money. He tells her about hiding the purse under a rock. He tells her that he wishes his motive had been money. Then, he wouldn't feel bad. They are now holding hands. Now, he tries to explain his Napoleon theory to Sonia.
You remember: great men won't let anything stand in the way of their greatness, not even other people. Great men kill for progress. Sonia doesn't quite understand his logic.
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