Raskolnikov

Noun

Meaning

a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil

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Of course, like all young men, I tried to be as unhappy as I could - a kind of Hamlet and Raskolnikov rolled into one. Jorge Luis Borges

In his self-revealing discourse with the wily police investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov all but chants his mantra that superior people (his preferred example is Napoleon) have earthly given rights to kill. Source: Internet

I always reference Garbo when I teach Crime and Punishment, because Raskolnikov is isolated by his act of murder, and he demands solitude more than once. Source: Internet

"While drawing literary parallels, a better candidate for the role of Rodion Raskolnikov is former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who made a decision to launch an aggression against Iraq in 2003 on the pretext that it had weapons of mass destruction. Source: Internet

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