The brothers K

Right now I am rereading book 5 to try and come up with an idea for my paper. I think that what I want to write about is that although Alexi is suppose to be the idealistic spiritual begin this should title should actually be given to his brother Ivan. The reason that i think this is because Ivan is not worried about the inner workings of god but rather the sufferings of man. I know that it is supposedly more idealistic to give up ones life for doing goods work but it seems as though Alexi has not ever really thought about why he is doing it. Ivan seems to be doing something that he feels as though can change the persecutive of man kind where Alexi is just following duty. How is it idealistic to blindly follow anything. Ivan makes the point about the little girl in the out house and this is what I feel like stings a cord that create a paper on. Rather than talking about the little boy getting ripped apart by dogs the little girl is a more powerful image because she lives afterwards, and that is the beginning of her fait to just become another human that is going to do evil in the world. During this conversation Alexi can barely deal with the ideas that are being brought up, he can barely talk and a feel as though this isin vocative of another human that is willing to allow suffering to happen in exchange for happiness. Which Ivan also brings up. Really I think that the thesis of my paper is going to be that Ivan instead of Alexi should be the ideal character not because he is not confrontational, but instead because he is willing to be confrontational to try and understand the problems in the world.