Essays Tagged: "Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

Dostoevsky's "The Gambler " As A Reflection Of Myself. Personal comparison

e love was not her but gambling.Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this character that Fyodor Dostoevsky created is similar, in a lot of ways, to myself. I find myself the object of addic ...

(3 pages) 72 0 2.3 Mar/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Characterization of characters in Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamozov"

"a brazen brow and a Karamazov conscience," "voluptuary streak," and "Karamazovian baseness" abound.Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, the father of the brothers Karamazov, is the embodiment and the source o ... o later dies giving birth to his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov, who grows up as his father's servant.Fyodor is even more blatantly disrespectful to his three legitimate children. After his wife's death ...

(12 pages) 81 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Christianity in Dostoyevsky's "Crime and punishment". An overview

Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An OverviewFyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, " If someone succeded in proving to me that Christ was outside the truth, ... ion of the Third Edition. 1975 ed.Frank, Joseph and David I Goldstein, Editors. Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987.Monas, Sidney, trans. ... runswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987.Monas, Sidney, trans. Crime and Punishment. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky. New York: Penguin, 1968.Morsm, Gary Saul. "How to Read. Crime and Punishment." C ...

(10 pages) 140 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Chess Players" Book Three Chapter Five We were assigned a chapter of Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky had to find major motifs in the chapter.

ed, it becomes tangible evidence. It carries more weight than that which is given by word of mouth. Dostoyevsky's use of the written word in this chapter shows the avoidable. Porfiry knew that Raskoln ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Brothers Karamazov chapter 4 Analysis and response.

Chapter four of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky raises some serious issues about religion and society in general. The conversatio ...

(5 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoyevsky, Rebellion-Existence of God.

In the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoyevsky, chapter four is entitled rebellion; Ivan is questioning the existence and/or character ... e rationale of the Russian people and their agreement with the verdict.The most interesting part of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is Ivan's explanation as to why he is telling Alyosha these sto ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This discusses the duality of the characters in "Crime and Punishment."

To be human is to be full of contradictions. In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the relationship between a young man that commits a murder and his friends and fa ...

(5 pages) 47 0 3.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

19th century Russian writers and how they dealt with the Western Influence of that time.

"First Love" or "The diary of a superfluous Man" would be more helpful.The works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky with their creative and passionate power shook Russia in the 1870s to give a uniq ...

(8 pages) 122 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Analyzes Eminly D's poem much madness to crime and punishment

eye" which holds true for writers of all types in the past, present and future. The same stands for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character, Rodion Raskolnikov, demonstrates ...

(3 pages) 49 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Crime and Punishment

Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview FyodorDostoyevsky wrote, " If someone succeded in proving to me that Christ wasoutside the truth, an ... ion of the Third Edition. 1975 ed. Frank, Joseph and David IGoldstein, Editors. Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. New Brunswick,New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Monas, Sidney, trans. ... Brunswick,New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Monas, Sidney, trans. Crimeand Punishment. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky. New York: Penguin, 1968. Morsm,Gary Saul. "How to Read. Crime and Punishment." C ...

(9 pages) 38 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

This paper compares the views of Darwin and Dostoyevsky during the Englightenment Era.

deemed irrational thinking was beginning and was noted by the famous writings of Charles Darwin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Charles Darwin published his second book, The Descent of Man in 1871. Within this ... couldn't believe what they were reading; everything that they once believed in was now in question.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author infamous for his book "Crime and Punishment" was one of the first to open ...

(2 pages) 38 1 1.0 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

World Lit

n both One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the temperature is consistently apparent throughout the novels. The temperature ... e heat, the temperature physically beats down on him. The sun's heat is like his guilty conscience, Fyodor Dostoyevsky uses the sun's heat to emphasis the guilt of Raskolnikov. The heat from the sun m ...

(5 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Happy Endings

ly in Raskolnikov, the main character of the non-Christian fiction Crime and Punishment, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Raskolnikov is a former university student who lives in Petersburg, Russian in t ...

(3 pages) 7 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Crime And Punishment

In the distinguished novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, some of the most significant events are mental and psychological taking place in ... esses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an ax and robbed them.Fyodor Dostoyevsky gives the psychological internal events of Raskolnikov's life a sense of exciteme ...

(3 pages) 2759 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

It is through the understanding of other people and our relationships with them that we come to understand ourselves and our lives. Discuss. "Tirra Lirra By the River" by Jessica Anderson.

to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky.The quest for self knowledge is viewed as a long and arduous journey, a voyage th ...

(8 pages) 14 0 5.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

DOSTOYEVSKY VS NIETZSCHE

hought to be born to achieve great things and they should be respected as higher or greater beings. Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of the novel Crime and Punishment, attacks this theory and teaches tha ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy