Raskolnikov is not the average man. In fact, he has the potential to be the complete opposite, the esteemed “extraordinary” man, defined as one “who, above good and evil, may transgress any law that stands in …show more content…
In analyzing his motives and various rationalizations of different theories, Raskolnikov uses his motives and rationalizations to become a means through which he can test whether or not he is an extraordinary man. In the end, he comes to terms with the fact that he is not an extraordinary man and cannot be because he “can only love the helpless and hopeless” (Marchant 12), which if he were an extraordinary man, he would only care about himself and his own needs. Like others, Raskolnikov wishes that he could have been that one genius, the one out of a million extraordinaire, yet that is not his fate. His fate is only to be superior to