TBK: Locations

Quiz:

1.     To what city does Adelaida Ivanova run off with her lover and the captain’s daughter want to go to work for the Emancipation of women?

2.     Where does Pytor  Alexandrovich actually live ?

3.     In what city does:

a.     Ivan enters at age 13

b.     Mitya bought to live after he is after being removed from Gregory

c.     Pavel Fydorovich want to open up a restaurant?

4.     Fyodor goes her for  a couple years after his wife dies? (Two places)

5.     Where is it said that the concept of an elder was conceived ?

6.     Where  did Prokhorovna son go?

7.     Where does the woman with the baby who donates the money come from?

8.     Near where does Alexey gets attacked by the school boys ?

9.     Where does the captain live?

Answer:

1.     St. Petersburg

2.      Paris

3.     Moscow

4.     South of Russia and Odessa

5.     Athos and Sinai

6.     Irkutsk Siberia

7.     Vyshergoryge

8.     Mikhailosky street

9.     Lake Street

Place	Event or Association
1.     Our District, Town	The entire narrative takes place here yet the reader is never privy to the exact location of “Our Town/District.
2.     Russia	It is explicitly stated that the story is taking place in Russia though where.
3.     Petersburg	1.     Adelida Ivonia runs away her with her lover from Fyodor 2.     Captain’s daughter would like to go and work on Emancipating women of Russia
4.     Paris	Pytotr  lives here
5.     Lake street	Captain who Dimitri hassaled lives here as well as the boy that attacked Alexey with the stones.
6.     Monastery/Hermitage	Alexey’s new  Home and Father Zosima his Mentor’s home .
7.     Corner beyond the Apirary	Father Ferapont’s who is the antagonist of Zosima,  old decaying wooden cell located here. Father Freamont is described as being a bit on the crazy side.

8.     Moscow	1. Fydor wife runs off to her lover 2. Mitya grows up here after being dumped upon a woman as Pytotr returns to France to pursue his interests. 3. Ivan comes here to attend school at 13 after realization that he is realized to be very intelligent 4. Ivan returns to Chermashyna  here after cutting Katrina loose  with hopes of later touring Europe.
9.     Europe	Ivan calls Europe a grave yard but that it will be a good idea to do so to get over Katerina.
10.  Fydor’s House	Described as a Harem, Whorehouse, Drunkard’s den.
11.  Ditrimi’s place	Described as a “wretched place”
12.  Lady Khoklova ‘s House	Described as the largest house within the destrict
13.  Mickailovsky street	Alexy on his way to see Lise stops to Break up a fight between a solitary boy and six others wonating to attack him.  Alexey  is attacked by the boy he tries to save, he later finds out that his brother beat up his his father though the boy begged for mercy for his father.
14.  The Tavern	Ivan in the true fashion of a sinner pours out his heart to Alexey who he didn’t thus far have much of a relationship with though sharing the same mother.

The novel uses location in a rather peculiar fashion. The reader is not privy as to where  the story is taking place but rather to places in the past or present associated with the story as proximities where the story is taking place. A classical example is in chapter  III of Book two when father Zosima speaks to the women that have come to receive his blessing, the reader is given the social station of the women and their various predicaments but not exactly where they are from but we know that they are from varying distances such as 200miles away, 4miles away and the only person’s location from the encounter that is known is the woman with the baby that donates to the Monastery.

The Location is Dostoevsky is also elemental in the parallel of the sinner and the saint, in which the novel has no distinction between the two states as God is discussed both in the Monestary and in the Tavern (a most unlikely source of such conversation) .  In the Monestary  Father Zosima implores Alexey to remember that men on the outside of the Hermitage are no better than those on the outside, a rather interesting dynamic as evidenced in the characters. The locations also on  an interesting factor that both sinners and saints can share a common domain respectful of each other as evidenced when the brothers visit the monastery though they are unbelievers, and their fears are no different. The locations are also indicative of the characters and the lives that they lead.