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Sam McLucas The Fourfold in Dostoevsky’s Characters Zosima awoke on the day of his duel to a feeling of overwhelming guilt. Soon, however, that guilt gave way to a piercing light, and all around him, the birds, the trees, and even the sun seemed to rejoice. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov emphasizes an individualistic view of…

Book 12 of The Brothers Karamazov takes place in a Russian courtroom where Dmitri is the center of a whirlwind of legal and public fervor. In his trial, lawyers battle to ascertain the guilt of Dmitri. The trial, and the spectacle surrounding it is meant, at least in context, to measure the goodness of Dmitri’s…

Summary:       A paper that focuses on the relationships between the “fourfold” present in Heideggeran thought and the characters in Dostoevsky. I will also focus on the different ecopoetic elements that are intrinsic to the fourfold and present themselves in Zosima and other characters. For example, when Zosima has his epiphany before his duel, overlay landscape,…

In Book 6 of The Brothers Karamazov, the character of Elder Zosima is explored thoroughly, with his personal history and religious transformation being the focal point of the chapter. The character of Elder Zosima, as he is portrayed in Book 6, relates to the writings of Alexander Dugin, in how he is portrayed as being…

During chapter 3 of The Brothers Karamazov, elder Zosima speaks to a mother who questions her own faith, with their dialogue entering a deep philosophical tone, with Elder Zosima reassuring the mother of her own capability of love and goodness. In his discourse, Elder Zosima reflects the thinking in S.L Frank’s The Meaning of Life,…

The end of Jane Austen’s Emma sees a climactic ending headlined by marriages between almost all of the main characters. During these final scenes, there is a shift in many of the characters, of which many relate to the thinking of Martin Heidegger because of Heidegger’s musings about a person’s state of “being”. At the…

Sam McLucas Grace in the Face of Calamity What better time is there than during captivity, when one loses all autonomy and hope, for virtuous grace to flourish, and steel itself against despair and hopelessness? It is in these moments, cut off from the material and left only to reflect on that which can not…

Mid-Semester Memo One Paragraph Summary A comparison between two different scenes present in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Both of these scenes show characters exhibiting otherworldly grace in the face of calamity. One being Pamela’s representing otherworldly grace, and specifically in the context of being faced with an unjust death. As she believes she is…

During the second Canto of The Faerie Queene, Phaedria takes Cymochles to an island filled with an abundance of nature, where he lulls him to sleep. Present on the island was every species of beautiful fauna in the world, and Cymochles lost his purpose and concentration. Spenser chose this landscape and situation to be the…

At the end of the fifth canton of book 1 in Faerie Queen, there lies an interesting excerpt about the fate of those who become consumed by pride. The Redcrosse knight, having defeated Sansjoy in single combat, leaves the House of Pride, because he is warned of a dungeon where those consumed by pride are…