Crime and Punishment
...ave me only 2 roubles for my silver watch! Surely it has greater value than that! Defense: Do you have any personal relationship with Ms. Ivanovna? Rodya: None, sir. My relationship with her was purely business. Defense: How about ms. Lizaveta ivanovna? Rodya: I don’t know her personally. Defense: According to your plea, Mr. Raskolnikov, for a long time you were disturbed by the idea of killing the pawnbroker. Is that correct? Rodya: Yes. But back then, I consider it rubbish, yes, an atrocious thing! Oh how loathsome! God, how loathsome it all is! Defense: What made you pursue the idea? Rodya: As I was passing by the Hay Market, I overheard that Lizaveta, Alyona Ivanovna’s only house mate, will leave the house at exactly 7:00 the next day! Then, everything came flashing back! I saw it all! Vividly, in a dream! The warm sticky blood and the axe! Defense: No more questions, Your Honor. ~ Prosecution: Mr. Raskolnikov, did you kill Alyona Ivanovna? Rodya: (chuckles) Did I kill the old hag? No, not the old hag- I killed myself! Prosecution: (sternly) Answer the question please. Rodya: Oh, yes! Yes! I killed her! Prosecution: Would you tell the court why? Rodya: Because I am extraordinary! And an extraordinary man has the right, that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep… certain obstacles. Prosecution: Mr. Raskolnikov! Do you realize that the crime you committed is equivalent to lifetime imprisonment or worse? Rodya: Crime? What crime? Killing a foul, noxious louse, that old moneylender, no good to anybody, who sucked the life-blood of the poor, so vile that killing her ought to bring absolution for forty sins – was that a crime? Prosecution: (shakes head and pulls an axe out of nowhere) Do you recognize this, Mr. Raskolnikov? Rodya: yes Prosecution: Please tell the court what this is. Rody...