What was taking place in him was totally unfamiliar, new, sudden, never before experienced. Not that he understood it, but he sensed clearly, with all the power of sensation, that it was no longer possible for him to address these people in the police station, not only with heartfelt effusions, as he had just done, but in any way at all, and had they been his own brothers and sisters, and not police lieutenants, there would still have been no point in this addressing them, in whatever circumstances of life. Part II, Chapter I I think that we should discuss this quote because it is the first change in Raskolnikov. What Sonya puts in him is a desire for what is missing in his life. He has a desire to turn back to Christianity because that is what he deep down knows is true. I think throughout the whole novel his is trying his best to believe in his own idealology, because that is what he wants to be true, but deep down knows that he is wrong. He will not admit it becau...
