Rodi

— This is the same old woman, Raskolnikov continued, in the same whisper and without moving from Zametov’s exclamation — The same one about whom, remember, when they started talking in the office, and I fainted. What, do you understand now?

— What is it? What... “do you understand”? - Zametov said almost in alarm. Raskolnikov's motionless and serious face transformed in an instant, and suddenly he burst into the same nervous laughter as before, as if he himself was completely unable to restrain himself. And in an instant he remembered with extreme clarity of sensation one recent moment when he was standing outside the door with an ax, the lock was jumping, they were swearing and breaking in behind the door, and he suddenly wanted to shout at them, swear at them, stick out his tongue at them, tease them , laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh!

— You’re either crazy, or. said Zametov, and stopped, as if suddenly struck by a thought that suddenly flashed through his mind.

— Or?

The hero's appearance is described twice in the novel. At the beginning of the work, Raskolnikov is presented as a tall, slender young man “with beautiful dark eyes”, “remarkably good-looking”; Later, Dostoevsky created a different portrait of Rodion Romanovich - after the crime, he resembles a man struggling to overcome severe physical pain: “His eyebrows were knitted, his lips were compressed, his eyes were inflamed.” The author applied a similar “method of double portraiture” to describing the appearance of other characters - in particular, Sonya and Svidrigailov. This artistic technique allowed the writer to show that his characters, in a short period of time, went through a series of difficult trials that affected their appearance