The Great Inquisitor is a novel written by Russian writer, philosopher and just a smart human – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.
Dostoevsky shows us the beginning of two worlds. First world is a world of freedom and free thought, where humans have their own rights and freedom of choice. Second world is a world of compulsion (or the world without free thought) where people must be under strict control of a dictator. (for example a human in history – Adolf Hitler)
The people have their choice, they can choose freedom or happiness, but freedom from suffering or happiness without freedom. And the most people go through a second. The first way is the way of the chosen ones. They refuse the great ideas of God, freedom and immortality, they possessed a false ungodly love for people, false compassion, and universal thirst for dispensation on earth without God. The Grand Inquisitor rebelled against God in the name of the person in the name …show more content…
Few are able to bear the burden of freedom and go after those who "desired to free love of man." The Grand Inquisitor takes care of the many, countless as the sand of the sea, which cannot stand the test of freedom.
The Grand Inquisitor says that "man seeks not so much God as miracles." That’s clearly true. After so many centuries, people man can imagine and create the other “God” and religion, or how the Great Inquisitor said “miracle”. Because all will think that the miracle is only can be appear from the God’s hand. These words affected the Grand Inquisitor low opinion of human nature, lack of faith in man.
And so the Grand Inquisitor takes the protection of weak humanity, in the name of love for the people deprives them of the gift of freedom, burdening