Fyodor Dostoevsky Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Dominic Daleo 12/7/16 Mrs. Gifford English 12H
1. An author's word choice greatly affects the meaning of a passage. Depending on how it was formatted, them connotation can be understood or lost. Fyodor Dostoevsky chooses his words wisely; for if he had not, the truth wouldn’t be understood. “You know, I will tell you a secret: perhaps it was not a dream at all!! For then something happened so awful, something so horribly true, that it could not have been imagined in a dream… but I will tell the truth. The fact that I… corrupted them all.”(page 7 end of ¶2). The main character here battles with his inner spite and love of his ideas. People say he is incapable of being able to dream these things which he remembers so vividly. He is spiteful because he is ridiculed by others …show more content…
Additionally, Fyodor alludes to a biblical reference in section III. After he is “suddenly, quite without noticing how, found myself on this other earth…” He describes this place of “paradise” and somewhere near or in the Greek Archipelago. He explains everything a s holy and radiant. His diction is supporting his views of paradise like “the grass glowed with bright and fragrant flowers” and “caressing sea…”. Then people greet him joyously and welcoming. “...On it lived people who had not sinned. They lived in such a paradise as that in which, according to all legends of mankind, our first parents lived before they sinned…”(III, pg. 5 last ¶). When he says “our parents lived before they sinned”, this suggests he is dropped in a place similar to The Garden of Eden. How they have not sinned like before Eve was tempted. This purpose is most likely to define the purity in this dream and the placement is almost near his epiphany/change. His tone as he describes his current state and the surroundings suggests that the character has changed for the better. Before he was depressed and almost committed suicide and now he is rejoicing in the place he is in, in this
1. An author's word choice greatly affects the meaning of a passage. Depending on how it was formatted, them connotation can be understood or lost. Fyodor Dostoevsky chooses his words wisely; for if he had not, the truth wouldn’t be understood. “You know, I will tell you a secret: perhaps it was not a dream at all!! For then something happened so awful, something so horribly true, that it could not have been imagined in a dream… but I will tell the truth. The fact that I… corrupted them all.”(page 7 end of ¶2). The main character here battles with his inner spite and love of his ideas. People say he is incapable of being able to dream these things which he remembers so vividly. He is spiteful because he is ridiculed by others …show more content…
Additionally, Fyodor alludes to a biblical reference in section III. After he is “suddenly, quite without noticing how, found myself on this other earth…” He describes this place of “paradise” and somewhere near or in the Greek Archipelago. He explains everything a s holy and radiant. His diction is supporting his views of paradise like “the grass glowed with bright and fragrant flowers” and “caressing sea…”. Then people greet him joyously and welcoming. “...On it lived people who had not sinned. They lived in such a paradise as that in which, according to all legends of mankind, our first parents lived before they sinned…”(III, pg. 5 last ¶). When he says “our parents lived before they sinned”, this suggests he is dropped in a place similar to The Garden of Eden. How they have not sinned like before Eve was tempted. This purpose is most likely to define the purity in this dream and the placement is almost near his epiphany/change. His tone as he describes his current state and the surroundings suggests that the character has changed for the better. Before he was depressed and almost committed suicide and now he is rejoicing in the place he is in, in this