“All I wanted was to do some daring thing…that was my sole motive” (Alexia Barrios)

So now that Rodia has confessed to Sonya of his role in the murders is this internal struggle that he has been having within himself since the murder come to an end? His confessing to Sonya is a major and his promise to later come clean to the police is a major development in the novel, as it seems that he is finally choosing to beginning the road to redemption.

 In the entire book so far he has been driven both mentally and psychologically ill due to the guilt that he was carrying on his conscience, and though it was evident that his role in the murders was going to be discovered I was unsure if his pride would allow him to confess. His pride has been a big factor in keeping the truth to himself as he believe that he is a above the rest and that the murder was entirely justifiable since he believes he was ridding of a evil human being. But him confessing allows me to believe that he has overcome this believe that he holds the power to judge people and act on this judgments as he did with the pawnbroker. He realizes that his philosophy in which he used to justify this act was a total farce and he says that “All I (Rodia) wanted was to do some daring thing…that was my sole motive” proving that this act was stemmed on emotions more than a philosophy. In my opinion, this act of violence was a way to prove to himself that he was a powerful human being since unconsciously he knew he was a coward, so in order to remove that he wanted to commit an exceptional act in which he stepped over the moral boundaries set by society and take matters into his own hand. For a moment he wanted to play God. He wanted to believe that he had the power to judge people and if they were considered parasites execute them or eradicate them from society for the better good of the people.

Though he first confessed the murders to Sonya only, now the plot as thickened now that Svidrigailov overheard the conversations. Though, Sonya intents on the information are honorable being that she is attempting to get him to confess, I doubt Svidrigailov’s will be the same. The fact that Rodia has now let his secret comes out makes the plot more interesting in the sense that who knows who else will learn of the truth and what intend to do with that information.