#pavel smerdyakov

[tiredandanxiouschaos]

Pasha's "It's always interesting to talk with an intelligent man" is my favourite line of his, because in my opinion it really shows both his more human and his more cunning side while also directly pointing at his feelings towards Ivan*. He praises Ivan with it. He insults him with it. He suggest they're similiar. He taunts Ivan with it. It's almost worshipful. It's not. It's insulting. Is it? He says it as if to honour Ivan. He says it as if to bring him to his own level, because he knows Ivan thinks he's better than him. He says it to bring himself down to Ivan's level, because after all, he's self-centered, he probably believes he's better than Ivan. He says it to show they are equal (each of them believe the other is lesser). He says it to show the bond between them ("what motivates me? hatred? is it love?"). Ivan despises this line for all the reasons and Pasha knows it.

*which are… confusing, I think even to himself, because I refuse to believe he's just an "ohhh cunning psychopath, he doesn't care about anyone!!"

[summercoldd]

Smerdyakov is one of the most well written characters out there. I will go as far as to say he's the most human. He's vain and keeps up appearances. His love for cooking is symbolic of his being tied to the physiological, rather than the religious. He knows there's no God and if there is, He must truly hate Pavel. He's cunning, he's angry, he appears incapable of love. He's ivan's devil, neither loved by God nor by his father. He was born out of rape and life was never fair to him thereafter. No one was. Even the kindest character, alyosha, didn't pay him much mind. That's how elusive he was. And here you guys are hating that poor baby!!!! Pavel smerdyakov has been hated and berated for too long. And you guys need to let him be. Enough is enough.

[falloutnewnobody]

rip pasha smerdyakov you wouldve loved posting obvious ragebait on reddit

[evilfaggotyuri]

hello dostoblr holds out my hands pitifully

[lychnvs]

a very regular family

[karaviav]

the smerderrrr

[gegengestalt]

Pasha meets his new baby brother future young master

[skyofdarkmatter42]

This sentence from Ivan's wiki page is sending me

[possessedbydevils]

Rakitin ships rated by the one and only me.

[openyourmindandlive]

pashenka was crazy for a guy who would in modern days argue with strangers on reddit non-stop and would draw borders on european maps in ms paint with idea of fixing them GIRL GET UUUUUUUPPPP!!!

[tiredandanxiouschaos]

Ivan Pavel

Brilliance can be Confused for rebellion,

Deadly to those with a mind unstable

who curse God, snatch the King's crown,

those who try to carve their own fall

with bloodied hands dig themselves out,

crawl out of their mind, an eternal fight

Brilliance, to me, is an excuse,

is misery hidden in a cloak, a noose

my own mind, my own soul,

is to understand my own goal,

this universe, fragile like a doll,

to understand what the world may call

God, is to know cruelty, ruthlessness - it's

you. (&) me.

[deimosatellite]

dostoevsky trying so hard to convince the reader that pavel is Horrid when he describes him as playing guitar and having curly blonde hair w a ribbon in it and gayboy clothes and bashing his abusive father's head in with a blunt object like GIRL YOU HAVE NOT CONVINCED ME IN THE SLIGHTEST

[falloutnewnobody]

A huge part of why I love alyosha is that despite being presented as this beautiful sunshine moral paragon, he is still flawed. Like, he's forgiving, kind, intelligent and pious and everybody loves him for good reason.

But despite all his moral goodness, Alyosha is still a baron's son, and his moral views are shaped by his wealth and social biases. He's significantly more class conscious than any other character sure, and holds the peasant class in high esteem. Yet, on the most personal level, he fails to uphold this side of his beliefs. He fails to extend even a small ammount of love and forgiveness to one of his brothers, the one most in need of that chance for love and help in finding a path to redemption, due in large part to his social class, and in doing so loses the rest.

not to say it's alyosha's fault obviously, but it's interesting to consider in the context of the wider class and theological ideas at play in the novel. save post to drafts.

[veresidae]

The silly brothers... Im on book 4 now...

[deceitful-circus]

the brothers karamazov but except they’re in a corn maze

ivan: lost but actually trying to find a way to the exit

mitya: only takes left turns

alyosha: cries

pavel: cheats by walking around the maze to the exit

[karaviav]

"his soul is where god intended🫶"