A Study Guide for Fedor Dostoevski's "Grand Inquisitor"
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Othello" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Auto Detailing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for "Postmodernism" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for Fedor Dostoevski's "Grand Inquisitor"
Related ebooks
The House of the Dead: “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDostoevsky: Volume 6, #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrime and Punishment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Agent (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House of the Dead Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Galsworthy's "Japanese Quince" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Crime and Punishment: 200th Birthday Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for "Realism" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudy Guide to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Spinoza of Market Street" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConstellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen Wister Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ulysses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Legislators Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legislators: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudy Guide to Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Annotated Keynote Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Washington Irving's "Devil and Tom Walker" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRasputin: The Untold Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5James Joyce: A New Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Brothers Karamazov Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Criticism For You
A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Secret History: by Donna Tartt | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for A Study Guide for Fedor Dostoevski's "Grand Inquisitor"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Fedor Dostoevski's "Grand Inquisitor" - Gale
7
The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880
Introduction
The Grand Inquisitor
was originally published as the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, his last and perhaps his greatest work. Dostoevsky died just months after the novel was published, and he did not live to see the peculiar situation of his novel’s most famous chapter being excerpted as a short story—something he did not intend. A further peculiarity arises from the fact that the story is not excerpted the same way every time, so that whole paragraphs of the novel may be included or excluded from the short story, according to each editor’s sense of how best to make the part seem like a whole.
The legend of the Grand Inquisitor is a story within a story. Jesus returns to Earth during the Spanish Inquisition and is arrested. The Grand Inquisitor visits him in his cell to tell him that he is no longer needed on Earth. The Church, which is now allied with the Devil, is better able than Jesus to give people what they need. The story has often been considered a statement of Dostoevsky’s own doubts, which he wrestled with throughout his life.
Throughout the novel the themes of the legend are repeated and echoed by other characters and in other situations. Ivan explains some of what is to come before he tells the story, and he and Alyosha discuss the story when he is finished telling it. In the excerpted form, it is more difficult for readers to determine who is speaking, whose story it is, and how it is to be taken.
Author Biography
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, the capital of Russia, on October 20, 1821. The son of a Russian family of moderate privilege and wealth, he was highly educated and raised in the Russian Orthodox religion. His father was a doctor and a member of the aristocracy, and his mother’s family belonged to the merchant class. They had a house in town and a country estate with more