Part 1 of this three-part series provided a plot overview of War and Peace, while Part 2 examined its key themes. In this concluding...

The previous post summarized the plot of War and Peace .This essay, the second of the three-part series, examines its central theme. The novel’s core message is that the grand events of history—depicted in the war strand—are shaped by the collective actions of countless individuals, some of whose personal dramas are chronicled in the peace strand. This makes the question of what constitutes a purposeful life important as the impact of each individual’s moral choice—though in

The first part of this three-part essay on War and Peace (the Briggs' translation) delves into its plot and historical context, while the...

How good life is when you do something good and rightful! The above words spoken by the protagonist, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, in his extraordinary speech at the stone , sums up the central message of this masterpiece. The Karamazov family The Karamazov family consists of the father, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and his three sons: Dmitry or Mitya (the eldest), Ivan (the second), and Alexei or Alyosha (the youngest and the protagonist). Fyodor, the father, is a womanizing

It was I who killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them The above confession, made at a police...