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Essay Instructions: This is the topic that I should write about. A common critical misconception concerning Dostoevsky’s work is that it (supposedly) shows that suffering improves people. A close study of the work reveals that this is not necessarily the case, for while Dostoevsky builds on the idea that suffering may have a redemptive value if it is undertaken in the right spirit, he does not claim that all suffering necessarily elevates a person. Dostoevsky suggests in his novels that certain responses to one’s own and others’ suffering may be morally valuable and perhaps even spiritually uplifting, while other responses may be morally degrading. To demonstrate this or some other aspect of suffering in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, as a pre-writing exercise, before starting on the paper, you might first list a number of examples of suffering in the text and then determine what is thereby revealed. (Such a brain-storming exercise may yield a thesis). You might want to consider the suffering of the peasant women who come to Zosima for consolation and Dmitri’s night at Mokroe (which transforms him) in contrast to various examples of self-interested suffering (such as Katerina Ivanovna’s self-laceration, for example).

This is a thesis-driven paper which advances an argument about some aspect of the text. (At least three apt supporting passages from the text, which are fully integrated in your argument, should be included, and you should certainly show your engagement with Dostoevsky’s artistic style.) The paper is not to be about the author or things external to the text ! The paper should reflect your own careful reading and analytical reaction to the text.

Please when you gonna use text from the book, citations show where you took them (Book #, chapter #) so i can find them in my book. Thesis statement should be in first or second paragraph. There is only one resource - book, don't take anything else. Thank you so much.

Essay Instructions: The Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Take-Home Examination

Students are required to answer two (2) questions in total from the questions listed below. Question no. 1 is obligatory.
Students may choose any other question from among questions 2 to 5.
You are allowed to write a maximum of five (5) pages for each individual question.
Answers are to be typewritten and double-spaced.

Questions

1. Compare and contrast L. N. Tolstoy and F. M. Dostoevsky with respect to their writing style and their thought.
2. With reference to all the works discussed in class, outline how these works are a reflection of the age in which they were written.
3. Discuss ‘The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor’ (Brothers Karamazov) as Dostoevsky’s attempt to deal with the question of free will in human existence. Comment on his analysis.
4. In Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych, the death of the main protagonist is in reality a form of rebirth. Discuss.
5. Both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky possessed a profound spirituality. Compare and contrast their approaches to the question of faith.

Hello,

This is a take-home examination in a course entitled The Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. It must be written in english .

Essay Instructions: I want the reactions of the four novels one per page. Each page should have 300 wordsor more with the reaction of each book, doesn't need to be double spaced. It should be written in third person . Try not to retell the novel or use parts from it, what my opinion is about the novel only . thanks .

the novels are

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, introduction by alice hoffman
"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert

Essay Instructions: Pick a passage or particular question or assertion that interests you in The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) from (Part Two, Book V: Pro and Contra) Chapter 4,"Rebellion" through Chapter 5, "The Grand Inquisitor".
Analyze a central concept in it, pose a question about its argument or its place in religion and literature, and theodicy.

This is a response paper, so 1st person and rhetorical questions are appropriate. The analysis should start out specific and close to a single excerpt, question, or assertion, and then expand, broaden toward the paper's resolution.
Please make it sound intellectual. Don't be afraid to wax philosophical.