SLAVIC 210 Chapter BK Book 2 Ch 7: A Young Man Bent on a Career
16 Mar 2018
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Zossima tells alyosha to join his family at dinner rather than stay by his bedside. Zossima tells alyosha that the monastery is not the place for him - when. Zossima is dead he wishes that alyosha would leave the monsatery. "you will have to bear all before you come back" (page 81) Both alyosha and rakitin (zossima"s novice student) want to know why zossima bowed to dmitri. Rakitin believes that dmitri is a "sensualist" and shall one day kill fyodor (and this is why zossima bowed because he predicted this great crime) Rakitin explains that dmitri is in love with a woman grushenka for whom he left his fianc . Rakitin: "what is at the root of all you karamasovs is that you are all sensual, grasping, and crazy!" (page 84) Dmitri and ivan are close now because ivan wants dmitri"s fianc while dmitri wants grushenka. Fyodor: has money but will not marry her.
