Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing: to be able to dare! ... I wanted to dare, and I killed. I only wanted to dare, Sonya, that's all the reason.
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A student in St. Petersburg reasons himself into believing he may be a Napoleon, one of those rare individuals above ordinary moral law, and murders a pawnbroker to test the theory. What follows is not a detective story but a psychological study of what reason cannot account for: conscience, suffering, and the need for confession. Dostoyevsky's most widely read novel.