Crime and Punishment... Rodya confesses.

1.   Continue to read Crime & Punishment. Before Monday complete pgs.
342-399 (the rest of part V and chapters 1-3 of part VI). Blog a response
to convince me that you read. Comment on any appearance of your
theme/symbol/motif in the assigned reading.


So Rodya finally confesses! I was surprised at how sympathetic Sonya was to him and how God would forgive him if he confesses the murder publicly. I expected her to be shocked and repulsed  by his actions. Despite confessing, he is still confident and wants to find, even if it's just a little, proof that he is, indeed, an ubermensch. I am shocked at Katerina's treatment towards her children. How can she, as a mother, demand her children to go beg in the streets while saying that they all have aristocractic blood. I highly doubt begging in a street surrounded by poverty and demanding that you're "richer" than everybody else is going to help you. It's also quite ironic, i suppose. She dies and  even after her death, forced people to pay for her problems. This time, Svid pays for her funeral and takes care of the children. Why don't you just dig a deep in the ground and call it a day? 


I think I've found my favorite characters (finally) who would be Svid and Porfiry because they're smart men. Rodya is smart also, but he's an emotional wreck and committed the murder. Even without much evidence, Profiry is confident in his assumption that Rodya is in fact the real murderer and Rodya's words does not sway him. He even has the courage to tell him where he hid the loot if he decides to commit suicide. Svid is a cunning man, he plays life like a game of chess. He's quite an eavesdropper and with his play on the board, he is might be able to manipulate Rodya to his own gain.