Themes

Faith the lady who doubts the life to come and hears that the proof is the experience of active love (chapter IV of Book II), the servant who, with the mountain, shows that no one truly has faith (chapter VII of Book III), Fyodor's question to his sons, whether God... Reason Ivan's thesis that without immortality everything is permitted (chapter VI of Book II), Rakitin's reduction of it (chapter VII of Book II), the servant's argument about renouncing the faith (chapter VII of Book III), Ivan's Euclidean mind (chapter III of Book... Guilt Zosima telling the monks that each person is guilty before everyone (ch. I of Book IV), Brother Markel and the officer who beats his orderly (ch. II of Book VI), the teachings about the judge who is also a defendant (ch. III of Book VI), Alyosha asking the... Suffering Zosima's advice to seek happiness in suffering (ch. VII of Book II), the cases of children gathered by Ivan (ch. IV of Book V), the life of the elder, from Markel to the mysterious visitor (ch. II of Book VI), the doctrine that defines hell as the suffering... Family the forgotten son left among the servants and the two sons of the second marriage (ch. II of Book I, ch. III of Book I), the nature of the Karamazovs as stated by Rakitin (ch. VII of Book II), Fyodor's question to his sons (ch. VIII of Book III), Mitya's... Freedom and Oppression the obedience to the elder who takes the will of the disciple (ch. V of Book I), the Church that must contain the State (ch. V of Book II), Ivan who reserves for himself the freedom of desire (ch. IX of Book III), the Inquisitor who made men a happy flock... Justice and Law the ecclesiastical court and the punishment of conscience (ch. V of Book II), the supreme justice that Alyosha sees violated (ch. II of Book VII), the second ordeal of the inquest (ch. IV of Book IX), the arrest record (ch. IX of Book IX), the judge who can...