This painting is called “Christ on The Cross between the Two Thieves”. It was created in the Baroque Era by a famous painter named Peter Paul Rubens in the year 1619 through 1620. The painting encompasses many key themes from The Brothers Karamazov, such as: love, suffering, and free will. The themes represented in the painting proves Ivan misunderstood suffering and free will which caused his rebellion against God; "It's not God I don't accept, understand this, I do not accept the world, that He created, this world of God's, and cannot agree with it" (The Brothers Karamazov pg. 245). This painting also proves Alyosha’s counter arguments. That suffering purges the sinful man of his vice and draws him closer to truth. Also, that free will presents man with a choice and by this choice he is able to truly love.
There is a lot of symbolism which compares to The Brothers Karamazov. First, Christ on the cross symbolizes truth and represents the suffering of …show more content…
In the book Dimitri believes in God, but continues sinning. However, out of love for Grushenka he resolves to give up his sinful ways and live a virtues life. At first, Ivan rejected God out of spite and his conversation with Alyosha and Smyrkov helped him to realize his error. Towards the end of the book he started moving towards truth, towards Christ on the cross, and therefore he too represents the repentant thief.
The unrepentant thief on Jesus’s right symbolizes the prideful sinner who refuses to love God by his own free will. In The Brothers Karamazov this is Floydor. He admits he’s a ‘sinner’ and a ‘blackguard’ who deserves to go to hell. It is clear in the book that Floydor lived a life of sin and was not in a state of grace. He was murdered by his own son as an unchanged man, just as the unrepentant thief died unchanged man on the cross. Both men refused to love Christ out of
There is a lot of symbolism which compares to The Brothers Karamazov. First, Christ on the cross symbolizes truth and represents the suffering of …show more content…
In the book Dimitri believes in God, but continues sinning. However, out of love for Grushenka he resolves to give up his sinful ways and live a virtues life. At first, Ivan rejected God out of spite and his conversation with Alyosha and Smyrkov helped him to realize his error. Towards the end of the book he started moving towards truth, towards Christ on the cross, and therefore he too represents the repentant thief.
The unrepentant thief on Jesus’s right symbolizes the prideful sinner who refuses to love God by his own free will. In The Brothers Karamazov this is Floydor. He admits he’s a ‘sinner’ and a ‘blackguard’ who deserves to go to hell. It is clear in the book that Floydor lived a life of sin and was not in a state of grace. He was murdered by his own son as an unchanged man, just as the unrepentant thief died unchanged man on the cross. Both men refused to love Christ out of