Essays on The Brothers Karamazov

The novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is about the complications within a family and reveals that people prefer to present a tranquil and perfect side to their family, but in reality, the dynamics are much more complex. The Brothers Karamazov is about a...

In contemporary society, the issue of freedom holds a priority among most individuals. Freedom has different meanings and is viewed by different perspectives by multiple people. As a result, people have different opinions regarding the manifestation of freedom at the local and international level. Jean-Paul...

In Notes from Underground and “The Grand Inquisitor’ chapter from The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky details two characters, the Underground Man, an older man disconnected from society who understands himself to be smarter and of greater consciousness than others, and the Grand Inquisitor, a Roman...

I agree most accurately when Carl Jung says that “I cannot let myself presuppose that my peculiar temperament, my own attitude to intellectual problems, is universally valid.” And thus when I try to look at Dostoevsky’s works intellectually, I try to be as empirical about...