Part 1, Chapter 1
He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.Read in Books4Free →
Alienation and Isolation
From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov's psychological cutting-off from humanity is both cause and consequence of his crime; the novel anatomizes modern intellectual loneliness.
Part 2, Chapter 2
After the murder, on the bridge: a sense of being utterly severed from human contact—'as though he had cut himself off from everyone and from everything at that moment.'
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