Why Does Svidrigailov Kill Himself?

At last, even Svidrigailov realizes that he cannot live completely alone and isolated from the rest of humanity. When he realizes that he cannot have Dunya, he is forced to commit suicide. Suicide is the only thing left that he has not willed for himself.

Why is Svidrigailov bad?

Svidrigailov is perhaps the most nefarious character in Crime and Punishment. He is a cheater, abuser, pedophile, and perhaps even a murderer; one person even ends her own life after he violates her. Even though he is consumed with guilt and dies by suicide, Svidrigailov never faces justice.

Why does Svidrigailov say he is going to America?

Svidrigailov's comment, that he is going to America, has a tinge of mystery about it, but might be explained by the fact that America was an impossible ideal, a land of mythical freedoms and purity, for many Russians without the means to travel there.