Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov
Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov is the protagonist of the novel ″The Karamazov Brothers″ and at the same time is "only a witness" in the trial of the murder of his father, the old pervert.
Without decoding this image, it is impossible to explain "his mystery" and the whole novel. [1] According to the older brother, "Ivan is a grave". Alyosha says directly: "Ivan is a mystery".
The incredible master of the pen, Dostoevsky, loves puns. The three brothers have their own hypostasis.[2]
| Literary-historical images | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| First name, nickname | Patronymic | Family name | |
| Фёдор Fyódor |
collective image of "Old Russia" or the time before the Tsardom of Russia when there is no state, but only individual Russian principalities, and Russian tsars with this name are weak | Карама́зов Karamázov | |
| Дми́трий, Ми́тя Dmítry, Mítya |
Dmitry Donskoy won the Battle of Kulikovo and brought Moscow as the center of Russian lands | ||
| Ива́н, Ва́ня Iván, Ványa |
Ivan the Terrible, first tsar of Russia and founder of the state | ||
| Алексе́й, Алёша Alekséy, Alyósha |
Alexis of Russia, father of Peter the Great → Russian Empire | ||
| Па́вел Pável |
killer | Смердяко́в Smerdyakóv | |
| The key phrase is finally book V "Pro and Contra" by Iván Karamázov: "Goodbye to everything previous, it's over with the previous world forever; let there be no more news or bone than him; in a new world, in new places and without looking back! ” On the way to Moscow (Moscow, third Rome). | |||
If there is a person who is Ivan's "other conscience" – Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov – for his dirty work, then the intellectual Ivan must answer the question "Why?", That is, give the motive. And the protagonist reveals it beautifully in the chapters of the novel "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor". The key phrase for understanding the whole novel was uttered by Alyosha after the end of the story about the great inquisitor of Ivan - "... this is Rome ...".
If there is any historical figure without whom the history of Russia is impossible, as we know it today and as it was for Dostoevsky, it is the image of the first Russian tsar – Ivan the Terrible.
References[edit]
- ↑ Dostoevsky // Orthodox Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- ↑ Russian classical literature; literary reference book; pp. 62-64; ISBN 954-8706-21-0 Search this book on
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