Beauty versus Authority: The Dichotomy of Spiritual Approaches in "The Brothers Karamazov"
Ferapont sees the Enemy in everyone; Zosima looks for a friend in every enemy.
Ultimately, The Brothers Karamazov is about two ways of looking at evil. The two elders, Zosima and Ferapont, represent two distinct forms of spirituality and reveal the main tension of the plot – the glaring antithesis between two ways of dealing with evil in the world.
In Dostoyevsky’s imagery, the Karamazov clan embodies the total enslav…
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