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sparklehare

sivusuun

aljoša the entire book

#alyosha karamazov

aaeeden

Here are some sketches based on my favorite book by F. Dostoevsky, 'The Brothers Karamazov'

Grushenka (Agrafena Alexandrovna)

The Elder Zosima

And my beloved Alyosha Karamazov

P. S. Thank God that I can read Russian literature in the original

#these are so gorgeous auauah<333 #!!!!!

tatsuyamss

Go forth, Alyosha!

#HELLO THSI IS THE BESTTHING EVER #alyosha karamazov

tatsuyamss

"... If only I could hear his little feet I should know him! But he's gone, Father, he's gone, and I shall never hear him again. Here's his little sash, but him I shall never see or hear now."

The Brothers Karamazov - (Book 2, Ch. 3) Peasant women who have faith

frankencain

ladyofmelk

ohhhhh my god u found a dead monk in your abbey? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite bernard gui?

wildspringday

divorcedwife

the bunnies karamazov

#this is the best thing ever

divinghoe-deactivated20181123

Are you in a relationship or just having fun right now?

neither

pavelsmerdyakov

my favorite alyosha moment ever is when he said that guy should be shot

pavelsmerdyakov

I’ve posted about this before but even though I am more like Ivan than Alyosha in terms of faith I still love Alyosha and not despite his faith but because he is just… not this cherubic picture of innocence and blind meek almost sacrificial goodness and faith that you kind of get trained to associate with Christianity growing up in the rural American Midwest. His goodness has teeth. His faith has been fought for. And he’s not afraid of the incredibly difficult questions that Ivan poses to him and he’s not afraid to say that that landowner should have been fucking shot.

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

alyosha karamazov is a great example of a character who does not make a lot of mistakes and is committed to being good and is very good but is still an endlessly fascinating and complex character. because contrary to popular belief goodness isn’t boring!!! it is actually incredibly difficult to choose what is good over and over again when it seems nothing good comes out of it! especially when everything around you is telling you you’re wrong and that your choices are worth nothing. and alyosha is told this repeatedly, that he is foolish and that his goodness is foolish because his father’s sins are in his blood, he is a karamazov just like him, and doesn’t he know it will catch up to him? doesn’t he bear the evil of his father and the brokenness of his brother? and despite trying his best to mend his family, to bring his brothers together, he is repeatedly hurt by everyone he tries to help (remember the kid who almost bites off his finger?), his father is murdered by his own son, ivan is losing his sanity, mitya is framed and sent to prison. and the question alyosha has to confront over and over again is why even choose to be good when nothing comes of it? why continue doing something that has no profit? and it’s not like he doesn’t question this! it’s not like he doesn’t doubt what he’s doing! it’s not like alyosha doesn’t doubt his own faith when he expects a miracle from the man he considered a living saint and then his body rots away just like every other man! it shatters everything he thought he knew! but despite everything alyosha kisses the earth and says there is still something good here. there is still something worth doing even if it cannot save my father or my brothers. if i can even give one person some small, good, sacred memory that will sustain them, even if that is all i can give them, it is still good. it’s the story of the grand inquisitor. the argument answered with a kiss. the kiss is in the only way that argument can be answered, despite logic choosing to love