Raskolnikov's Delimma

This article is about Raskolnikov's definition of the criminal and the man above moral laws.You might think that it was his conviction that there are men who are only supposed to breed and men who are supposed leaders,"Great Men".But ye his actions contradicted all he had to say. He reduced his life to a theory that echoed something significant to him.

“Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then later on Raskolnikov discusses the great men who have killed a great many people who are considered heroes they besieged cities and burned mothers with their babies, they are the real heroes but when he kills a morally filthy old woman why is he in such distress,why, is he not a man of beyond the socially sustained social moral values.

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Even though he realizes in the end that life is more important than a theory.He still made a great point about how it is all about appearances and nothing more.A prideful student kills a louse and fails, he is a murderer, a man kills thousands of people and wins he is a hero, all is about appearances.