CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE REAL AND POSSIBLE WORLDS IN F. M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL “THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV”

Abstract

This article describes the ways of conceptualizing the real world and possible worlds in F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov”. Analysis of the use of the keyword of the concept “world” shows F. M. Dostoevsky uses such expressions as the other world, God’s world, the New World, the World of Satan. In F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” several worlds are represented — the real world, full of suffering, evil, injustice; God’s world, full of love, harmony and brotherhood, the world of Satan, where evil forces dominate; the other world, where a person falls after death, as well as a new world, in which empiricism and science rule and in which moral issues do not matter, and everything is built on practicality; as well as the world of dreams. In F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” God’s world is opposed to the real world. Only through the union of the real world and the world of God can universal happiness and unity be achieved. F. M. Dostoevsky warns his readers that the construction of a “new world” is coming where darkness and sorrow will rule. This world rejects God and puts science at the forefront. In this new world, every person will live by himself, without responsibility for another, where lies will reign instead of truth. True unity of people is possible only in the service to humanity.