Comment on Morales

I really enjoyed Jessica’s comparison of the story of Pinocchio to Raskolnikov’s faltering mental state. It makes this story seem less complex than the vocabulary in which it is presented. I noted also what Jessica noted about Porfiry and how close Raskolnikov comes to telling the truth about the crime. Unintentionally, Raskolnikov shows his guilt by his facial expressions and nervousness when around the police and Porfiry. I, like Jessica, thought the mysterious figure, or the “artisan” may be a figment of Raskolnikov’s imagination, possibly even his conscious. His conscious seems to be following him around, like a shadow, saying nothing but serving soley as a reminder of what he has done to make him feel so guilty. The only thing that the man says, calling him a murderer, is the truth. He says no lie nor does he threaten Raskolnikov in anyway. This makes me believe that he isn’t a real person. Had a real person known that Raskolnikov committed the murder of the old lady, they would have most certainly told the authorities.  I could see the artisan as the devil, in some sense, in that he seems to just be waiting for Raskolnikov to make another mistake like the one he already has done. Overall, Jessica brought up some incredibly valid points.