I just finished reading Crime and Punishment. It was obviously fantastic, but something has bothered me about Raskolnikov's motive. It seems his motive was that he wanted to be an extraordinary man, however, why did he think killing was what was going to make that happen?
I understand that in his article he stated that extraordinary men can get away with things outside of law, simply to justify progress, etc. However, what progress was Raskolnikov thinking he was achieving by murdering her? It seems he mostly used his own theory as an excuse to call himself extraordinary because he was so unsatisfied with his own life, being mostly ordinary himself.
I apologize if I missed something obvious, as this is the first book I've finished in, well, years.