Male Characters
Monastery elder
Zosima
“Then I’ll finish my studies and pass the exam, and when the legal time comes, we’ll get married” (195).
Alyosha
Schoolboys have been taunting Ilyushechka by calling out “_______” when they see him, in response to Dmitri’s humiliation of the captain.
Whiskbroom
Daughter of military captain, Dmitri's fiancée
Katerina
Moscow
The adopted son of Grigory, but looks to Ivan for approval
Smerdyakov
“I could marry Grushka right now if I wanted to. Because with money one only needs to want” (184).
Fyodor
Katerina sends Alyosha with ________ to Captain Snegiryov in response to Dmitri’s offensive actions the week prior.
Two hundred roubles
Love interest of Dmitri and Fyodor
How long was Dostoevsky in Europe?
Four years
A man who receives word directly from Holy Spirits and doubts the institution of elders
Father Ferapoint
“She loves your brother Ivan Fyodorovich, and is persuading herself as hard as she can that she loves your brother Dimitri Fyodorovich” (197).
Said by Madame Khokhlakov about Katerina
Ilyushechka originally wanted his father to take revenge on Dmitri for his offensive actions by _______.
Challenging him to a duel
Daughter of Madame Khoklakov, plans to marry Alyosha
How many kids did Dostoevsky have?
Four
Ilyusha
“The boy stood silently and defiantly, waiting for one thing only-that now Alyosha would certainly attack him. But, seeing that he did not attack him even now, the boy went wild” (190).
Ilyusha
Father Ferapoint tells the Obdorsk Monk that _____ live in the monastery and he has personally been responsible for killing of several of them.
devils
The Captain's wife, Alyosha's mother, Simple
Arina Petrovna
The redemptive power of selfless love
Gets beat up by Dmitri
The Captain
“Your life, Katerina Ivanovna, will now be spent in the suffering contemplation of your own feelings, of your own high deed and your own grief” (201).
Ivan
Ivan mocks Katerina for her love of Dmitri, he tells her that she only loves him because he _______.
Insults her
A very opinionated wealthy woman
Madame Khokhlakov
What did Dostoevsky struggle with in prison.
To retain his faith in both God and the goodness of man
Bonus: Epilepsy