 Frank notes that "the moral-psychological traits of his character incorporate this antinomy between instinctive kindness, sympathy, and pity on the one hand and, on the other, a proud and idealistic egoism that has become perverted into a contemptuous disdain for the submissive herd".Raskolnikov's inner conflict in the opening section of the novel results in a utilitarian-altruistic justification for the proposed crime