Essays on Grand Inquisitor

The grand inquisitor is a poem that is narrated by Ivan, who portrays a situation where Christ has descended to earth and particularly to Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Upon Christ appearing, he is seen welcomed by people, he walks the streets amidst people’s joy and heals the sick and puts blessings upon their hearts. However, he is arrested, and the grand inquisitor considers him one of the heretics who were going against the Catholic Church ("The Brothers Karamazov). The inquisitors has some problems with how Jesus did things and says that it is the ...

D. F. 5 The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky in his novel, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ is undoubtedly a classic piece of timeless literature. One of the central themes that the Grand Inquisitor addresses is that of freedom and responsibility. According to the Grand Inquisitor, human beings fall into either one of two categories as far as freedom is concerned. The first category is of those human beings who have the ability and actually do handle freedom. The second category is that of human beings who have the ability but cannot handle freedom. According to the Grand Inquisitor, a majority of human ...

Modern culture is so saturated in satire that it is difficult to find works that pursue the authentic and the sincere. Once works like 1984 and Brave New World opened the floodgates of cynicism and skepticism that the events of the two World Wars made to seem the proper perspective. Today, works like The Onion make satire a part of the culture. Popular programs such as Saturday Night Live and Conan live off satire, which means that members of modern culture look at life with a half-satiric eye. In the time of the first modern satirists, such as Voltaire and Jonathan ...