Part 1, Chapter 5
The child Raskolnikov weeps and tries to protect the mare being beaten to death by Mikolka—the divided psyche later split between murderer and pitying onlooker.
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov's nightmare of a peasant beating a mare to death is the novel's most famous symbolic passage, foreshadowing the murder and dramatizing his divided self.
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