The Brothers Karamazov

My last paper tmr will be Philosophy.
My favourite module for the sem.
One of the readings - a chapter from the novel, The Brothers Karamazov - was most impressionable.
It's because it was the only reading which stemmed from a novel, the others were papers/articles.
An excerpt from the chapter:

"This poor child of five was subjected to every possible torture by those cultivated parents. They beat her, thrashed her, kicked her for no reason till her body was one bruise. Then, they went to greater refinements of cruelty -- shut her up all night in the cold and frost in a privy, and because she didn't ask to be taken up at night (as though a child of five sleeping its angelic, sound sleep could be trained to wake and ask), they smeared her face and filled her mouth with excrement, and it was her mother, her mother did this. And that mother could sleep, hearing the poor child's groans! Can you understand why a little creature, who can't even understand what's done to her, should beat her little aching heart with her tiny fist in the dark and the cold, and weep her meek unresentful tears to dear, kind God to protect her? Do you understand that, friend and brother, you pious and humble novice? Do you understand why this infamy must be and is permitted? Without it, I am told, man could not have existed on earth, for he could not have known good and evil. Why should he know that diabolical good and evil when it costs so much? Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up people, they have eaten the apple, damn them, and the devil take them all! But these little ones!"

Initially, I was inclined to empathise alongside Dostoevsky's reasoning, which was,
so eloquently crafted to effect appeal in its readers.
We see suffering all the time, experiencing it ourselves as well.
Why the natural calamities, the injustice and why the bestial acts to innocent ones, we question.
But let us not forget Romans 5:12,
"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—"
and Romans 3:23,
"...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

It is so easy to be swayed and deceived; our hearts are desperately wicked.
It is so human indeed.

Alas, The Brothers Karamazov is dubbed one of the supreme achievements of literature and
quoted to contain "everything there was to know about life".
It will be a good read, that is if I have the patience to finish the ginormous volume of text.

I hope I'll write fine tomorrow.
Am getting ready to smile because I can then say I've just completed my first semester of Uni life.
Absobloominglutely Awesome.
Amigos Adios.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to always tell the difference."