(Crime and Punishment) Two for One Deal! A Full Heaping of Crime with a Side Order of Guilt Please!

Shabooyah!! Crime and Punishment certainly verifies that people will act of their own accord with Rodya's thesis and murders, and what I like even more is that Rodya not only works for himself, he is on a journey to work with himself so he can find himself. A journey of self-discovery and understanding is much different from fighting for your ideals against society. While he does avoid the investigations and breaks the law, Rodya really doesn't fight against society as much as he does not go along with society's expectations. Only when he has satisfied himself, he admits to the murder. If that's not acting foremost of his own accord, I do not know what is. In addition, Dunya refuses the marriage even though that is what she ought to have done. Then of course when Rodya is in jail, he still defies society by not sulking and being content in the dungeon or otherwise spiteful at his standing. Rather, he undergoes further personal development. Still, something I realized is that I do not know the basis for Russian society very well, and something to consider is that Rodya and Dunya both were not raised in St.Petersburg, which means they are possibly products of another society.