The weapon Raskolnikov imagines and prepares for before the murder, including the loop sewn inside his coat to carry it unseen. It is a crude practical object, but his planning turns it into the point where theory becomes bodily action.
Part I, Chapter VII
He takes the axe from the porter's room, kills Alyona and Lizaveta with it, washes it, and returns it, though no cleaning can restore the plan he thought he controlled.
Epilogue
At trial, the axe belongs to the factual reconstruction of a crime whose motives still resist simple explanation.
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