Joshua Cohen's Comment on Alexia's Post

             I find your observation about the fact that he hid his evidence under a rock as being that he is hiding the equally heavy burden of the evidence under an equally heavy rock. At first I thought that he did that because there were other people around the canal and his refusal to hide the rock in the canal was just further evidence of his paranoia in the situation and that the rock was the first place where there were no people around to see him. Also, I feel like the further into the novel we get, the less we know about what is going on. I am not sure we are getting further into Raskolnikov’s mind and I almost feel like we are starting to leave it, or lose ourselves in it. As my previous blog post mentioned, I am not sure if what Raskolnikov is seeing is real or if he is imagining it anymore because of just how insane Raskolnikov is going, therefore it is difficult to say we are getting further into his mind because he seems to be shutting everything out and losing all coherence and as he loses grasp on his mind, the reader seems to be forced to lose grasp on the situation in a very similar manner. Yet if the things Raskolnikov are seeing are real, then they just seem to convenient and I feel that the whole investigation being described in Raskolnikov’s room is just a way to make him feel even more guilty because of just how painfully aware Raskolnikov is of others unjust punishment for something he did. Finally, the irony behind the lady giving Raskolnikov money out of pity is extremely ironic seeing that Raskolnikov was the one who felt all high and might to give away his money, but as soon as he commits the crime that he felt was necessary to continue to exist, he can no longer exist.