Crime and Punishment

This book was actually quite perfect for my big question. Did society help form the way Raksnolvik act or was it in his nature. I believe that it was mostly society. The way he reacted to his job and poverty helped him decide that the pawn broker needed to die, because she was bad for society. If he had grown up in a better life style maybe he would not have thought that the pawn broker was a bad person. The guilt that he faced through out the course of the book however was in his nature. Society could not have effected his reaction to the murder that is all personal. So, for this book I think that society helped him to commit the murder, but his own nature caused his guilt.