I believe that as a class we should discuss this quote from the second chapter of the epilogue, "Why does my action strike them as so horrible?" he said to himself. "Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and  blood was shed." I feel that we should examine this quote because after all that Raskolnikov has put us through and all that we have seen him go through, I feel like he has betrayed himself and more importantly I believe that he has betrayed ME. I mean honestly, after all that he has been through and after all that he has put himself through, he is still trying to justify his actions. I had hoped that with his confession to the police, he would have finally accepted that he had done the wrong thing or that he had done wrong. Sadly however, he decides to disappoint us one last time by trying to make himself feel a little better about himself and what he did.