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Religious Slavery and Freedom of Personality in the Brothers Karamazov

The chapter entitled “The Grand Inquisitor” is unquestionably an integral part of The Brothers Karamazov. The poem allows Ivan to express many of the reasons that he cannot accept certain aspects of Christ’s behavior, the existence of God, and mankind’s intertwined freedom and suffering. Within...

Novel Religion The Brothers Karamazov 2 Pages

Do Fools Need Faith?

“That remark you just made: ‘Not to be so ashamed of myself, for that is the cause of everything’ – it’s as if you pierced me right through and read inside me. That is exactly how it all seems to me, when I walk into...

Novel Religion The Brothers Karamazov 5 Pages

The Brothers Karamazov’s Wound

In his essay, “The Brothers Karamazov: Idea and Technique” Edward Wasiolek examines two aspects of Dostoevsky’s work. He begins with an exposition of the scene in Elder Zosima’s cell and Ivan’s internal struggles with religion, and then follows this with a detailed look at the...

Novel The Brothers Karamazov 3 Pages

The Brothers Karamazov and Their Contemporary Russia

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, exaggerates the extremes of Russia, saying that “[Russians] need continually…two extremes at the same moment, or they are miserable and dissatisfied and their existence is incomplete. They are wide, wide as mother Russia.” In many of his works, Dostoyevsky’s...

Novel Russia The Brothers Karamazov 2 Pages

Will Justice Be Served: Dostoevsky’s Depiction of Justice in The Brothers Karamazov

One of the major themes of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov is the concept of justice, both earthly and divine. Dostoevsky investigates the differences between the two forms and examines several aspects of justice. The novel introduces several different philosophies on justice and shows what...

Justice Novel The Brothers Karamazov 6 Pages

Dostoyevskiy’s View of Submission

Often, authors develop a central idea in a novel by presenting it repeatedly in differing forms throughout the work. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov is a perfect example of this technique. Specifically, over the course of the work Dostoevsky speculates about the nature of...

Crime Novel The Brothers Karamazov 6 Pages

Breaking Down the Motifs of the Brothers Karamazov

Nature of Crime in The Brothers Karamazov The central act in The Brothers Karamazov is the murder of father Fyodor Karamazov. As such, the novel could be thought of as a crime story, the purpose of which is to find out who committed the heinous...

Crime Novel The Brothers Karamazov 4 Pages

The Role of Family Ties in 'The Brothers Karamazov'

Reading a Dostoevsky book doesn’t give us any insight into the mind of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky almost never makes a blanket statement in his books, and, in general, very few opinions voiced by characters in his novels can be traced back to the author himself....

Family Relationships Novel The Brothers Karamazov 6 Pages

Applying Freud’s Approach to the Brothers Karamazov

When reading a book as brilliant as The Brother’s Karamazov, one wonders where Dostoevsky’s inspiration came from. According to Sigmund Freud, the novel must not be studied as a fiction but as a science, that being psychology. It seems that the innermost thoughts of Dostoevsky...

Lying Novel Psychology The Brothers Karamazov 7 Pages

Religion and Critical Thinking: A Union Created by Dostoyevsky

“You see, like you, I suffer from the fantastic and so I love the realism of earth. Here, with you, everything is circumscribed, here all is formulated and geometrical, while we have nothing but indeterminate questions!”(said to Ivan by “The Devil”, 776) Through Ivan, Dostoevsky...

Justice Novel The Brothers Karamazov 4 Pages