Event
Dmitri's Assault on Grigory
Also known as hit Grigory with all his might, a terrible blow, struck Grigory on the head, knocked him down, leapt down, looking after his victim, old Grigory shouted at the top of his voice "Parricide!", I’ve killed him, I’ve killed him, the blood of another old man, the terrible blows inflicted, violence on a poor old man.
Grigory tries to protect the inner rooms of Fyodor Pavlovitch's house when Dmitri storms in looking for Grushenka. Dmitri strikes the old servant with all his strength, knocking him down before breaking further into the house. The blow is part of the same eruption that soon turns on Fyodor Pavlovitch, but Grigory's injury has its own force because he has served the family since Dmitri's childhood.
VIII-IV. In The Dark
The assault has a darker echo in the garden, where Grigory catches Dmitri at the fence and cries out before Dmitri strikes him with the brass pestle and leaves him bleeding on the path.
IX-III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal
During the preliminary questioning, Dmitri admits he is guilty of the blood of another old man and is overwhelmed with relief when he learns that Grigory is alive.
IX-V. The Third Ordeal
Dmitri reenacts the blow while being questioned, and the investigators turn his return to look at Grigory into a question of pity, fear, and calculation.
XII-X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
The defense uses Dmitri's movement back toward Grigory as evidence that pity still acted in him even at the most incriminating moment.
XII-XII. And There Was No Murder Either
The garden assault is reinterpreted again as an act followed by confused compassion rather than cold foresight.
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