Dostoevsky: Discovering Romantic Realism as Infinite Capacity for Spiritual Intelligence

 

Prof. V Srinivas1, C Praveen Kumar2

1Dean, Faculty of Arts Kakatiya University, Warangal, TS, India.

2Mystic and Philosopher, Trained Graduate Teacher, MJPTBCWRS, TS, India.

*Corresponding Author Email: english.praveen@gmail.com

 

ABSTRACT:

The Romantic-Realist aims to focus on the medium of literary art as both fiction and reality as life which physical and transcendental literary device as it actually is. Both the real and the romantic are inherent in all human affairs; However, in this present research it dwells into Realism and Romanticism as matter of study through Dostoevsky and his brilliant philosophy bringing modern man realizing the ultimate objective is nothing. It also lays emphasis on existential Reality in Romantic spirit. The Romanticist embraces artistic conditions for presentation of literature of life which will create for men pure desire and imagination by lifting them out of by creative writing in interested lives. Man, when he wants to gain himself, demands isolation as Realism entangles with more physical boundaries which he has to overcome with observation within himself. A Realist, therefore, is interested primarily in happenings; it seeks for some act or attitude that shall be remarkably striking to the physical world. Nevertheless, the most irresistible appeal of Romanticism is to identify purposeless living in leaving oneself within to attain eternal peace and isolation.

 

KEYWORDS: Dostoevsky, Romantic-Realism, Spiritual, Intelligence, Theory.

 

 


INTRODUCTION:

There is no cutting edge difference in dividing Romanticism and Realism. Spiritualism doesn’t really mix the philosophical summary literary genre. The experience of life is like running water and memory is just a reservoir lasted many years just to dig into the past as many times as moving out over the lives where Realism is believed to have impacted, to break free accumulated apostles and conduct through Romanticism, and worked for people across. It is believed that spirituality has been constructed the oneness of God and it has touched many lives once or while in whole lifetime. In any religion across the globe it talk about the eternal Self of which the whole world needs a thought about this idea of oneness.

 

 

Hamilton puts it, “the distinction is not external but internal; it dwells in the mind of the novelist; it is a matter for philosophic, not literary investigation.” Brander Matthews says of the novelist: “Either he de-lights in the Classic or else he prefers the Romantic; for him to be an eclectic is a stark impossibility.”[3 p.33] It is indeed possible for a writer to create and treat the subject matter either Romance or Realism in the method of an existential philosophy. It might not be needed a genius brain combine theory and text with the imagination of a desire and blood in the work of creative art per se, in other words, with the keen perception and broad vision of the reason, but to the memory, “to all that dim instinct of passion, mystery and sympathy in things that is man’s oldest inheritance to the reality of living.

 

The Romanticist are unique blend of the unusual, the pleasure, the imaginatively stimulating in the occurrences of daily life, and lays emphasis upon them to rediscover potential hidden in lonely spirit.

 

Analysis of Dostoevsky and Spiritual Intelligence:

 

These works of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment of Dostoevsky sweeps us on by sheer intensity of action through a series of events with embodiment of narrative technique to present most of important elements of mystery, terror, premonition, suspense really makes surprise and climax a real learning from these.

 

Richard Griffiths defines “The spiritual intelligence paradigm is based on a synthesis that integrates science and spirituality, and thus enables spiritual intelligence to be experienced directly, as an innate capability, without relying on religious faith. [5 p.4] The SQ paradigm therefore legitimizes spirituality in contemporary comprehension in relevance to Dostoevsky’s philosophy.

 

In this juncture it is not possible to think in the centre of altitude from the everyday physical world in doing so we do not drive to measure length with equal measure of weight in assessing one’s life experiences or to analyze the niceties of psychological distinctions in character evolution. It is thus the world recognizes the people by their deeds.

 

As Realism is splitting physical objects into smaller entities to understand and repair the machine and also to study the creature and things with equal pace. It is a scientific evaluation of knowledge but the Romanism does not examine too profoundly rather by making people and experience as union in bringing together more vivid understanding to become more humane and deeper involvement of life.

 

It is possible the things they do, whether the imaginary or be historical, or impulsive are the tools of one’s aspiration. The protagonist may be merely suggested or may be elaborately depicted with all the picturesque detail of the most withered Realism. Dostoevsky, for example, is minutely accurate in the description of mental boundaries, conscious, and believe system and faith in God in the account of the individual journey in life where Realism is quite against to it.

 

Series of events in lives of the Karamazov swung around serves only as the noise essence for things that happened physically moving characters are nothing to sanitize mental lessons at times this background is merely pictorial, at times it is fatefully symbolic; but it possesses always the suspense of the unusual or a terrific suggestiveness discovered in the usual [2 p.56]. Into the deeds of men and these events of life experience that frames them, the Romanticist reads the mystery of all human existence.

 

Study of Spiritual Intelligence:

The great Romanticist is gifted with the language of a common person as it appeals to million to suggest that sharing common ground of human emotions to unveil what one has to find its meaning whole life in searching for purpose. It is only after realization it may be that most of the works of this genre will choose to lay his emphasis only on aspects such as emotional appeal called Romantics [1p.8]. It may be that writers choose to against to distinguish themselves intelligent to vary this emphasis with another that more properly belongs to the school of Realism. However, combination of these leads another more profound thought in Richard Griffith’s spiritual intelligence that will be attained though withholding qualities and capabilities of one’s higher self.

 

For any literary work, even the bizarre event of the lives in all parts of the globe is a common experiences but one may relate those happenings not as extraordinary events of sorrows and sufferings entangled in simple life dramas of gradually unfolding motive and character. Man will search out the puzzle of individuality for the meaning and fulfillment, that which makes the study of every life more intriguing than the unraveling of the most involved detective story that builds a strong plot in most of these novels. It leads to examine into the effects of natural law of equality of character or his destiny without losing any of the appreciation of the beauty or the horror of coherent experience. Ordinary life events evolve into complex, firm outlines and strong emotion to which a series of events alone moulds them into subtly extraordinary individuals. Once he attains impersonal, altruistic of the Romantic- Realist that alone brings to the scientific investigator, together with the perception of the nobility of life and of the spiritual significance eternally [2 p.29]. He then belongs to the category of philosopher and the poet. And, above all, he may possess that transcendent quality of style which at once reveals and veils the beauty, the glory, the fatality, the mystery of actuality as life goes and grows with it.

 

This is to be a Romantic-Realist; of such rare union of investigator, sage, and philosopher is the genius of Dostoevsky. We have seen that Romantic-Realism arises primarily from a perception of the actual. Now actuality must be realized through experience; that is, through action and observation reassembled and emphasized in the memory, directed and harmonized through the reason, and interpreted through the imagination. In the list of imaginative skills of the individual and imagination itself and observation, therefore, it follows that the objectivity combing together such as the emotional appeal of love, joy, tragedy, suffering, pain, sacrifice, heroism, insanity and crime, and also revolution and anarchy, adventure and devotion. This the material out of which Dostoevsky tried to stitch the suit of savagery, murder, love, beauty, fate, self-respect, and heroism. Yet such events as these, which lie at the heart of all, Romance, it becomes a serving plate of Realistic in exercising the circumstantial objective. The works of Dostoevsky are a psychological study of the soul of a man or a woman in the harsh realities than any other writer, he has succeeded in conveying to us the sense of the profound ambition that raps every human being, that perception we all have within us as capacity for self-realization learning suffering is expected sympathy that recognizes of the irony of fate, of the inscrutability of nature. With the dramatic imagination of the Realism that happening around the country and the nature observation of the Romanticism, Dostoevsky assembles us from impersonal events that occur in our lives that have strong motives, and character is built from it.

 

Those incongruous situations and startling relationships, or those apparently neither a matter of fact nor manner of occurrences which hung around nothing in significant to what is within human beings. The writer as then, like the thinker, or the scientist, seeks the truth and makes his appeal to human entity that life has serious motif and signifies nothing, however it is felt as gift or acquisition and therefore, moral enduring in limited capacity of delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives to our sense of pity and beauty and pain [5 p.2]. Spiritual intelligence is subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that join together to understand and love more and leaves alone of innumerable hearts to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds all humanity to live and relieve.

 

Spiritual Romantic Realism:

Unlike 18th Century Realists and early 19th century Romantics, the 21st-century Romantic Realist does not bother to look into history, mythology, theory rather would invest holistic approach in exotic fashion to study and follow the subject matter by which to express individualized imagery, artistic view, and lifestyle itself. It is an eclectic thinking of the contemporary necessity cultivating the expression indirectly focuses on spiritual on the shallow level. However, the routes are remained Romantic-Realism that expresses values through images of the present, the here and ever, the real and relevant.

General focus of evolution to comprehend inwardly reduces activity in the brain’s cerebrum while thinking about oneself expands it. These thoughts and observation led to connect mutually reinforcing and strengthen neuro-psychic experience as experiencing of losing oneself in living with non-identification. Soulfulness and sacrifice also rebuilds activity in the thought process that has deeper effect on most profoundly experienced Yogis [4 p.33] While it is too early to draw relevant and ultimate conclusions from these findings, however, the scope is still widen as it hints at a physical connection between the experience of being lost in thought and the sense of self for recommended study scrupulously.

 

CONCLUSION:

It is a part of never ending cycles of life: Romantic Realism is of two of theories that connect two living standards of beings which were made into single unity of evolution called spiritual. It is a way of life and disconnecting birth and death. While exploring the romantic and realistic revamps in general personality of the people as both cognitive and physical. They have potential limitations as well. For instance, worshipping God and devotion can make a Romantic and Realistic while in the lap of death bed in the company of beloved people as relationship seems to be more exciting and less likely to become boring.

 

A record of memory is a psychological imprint that revokes in literature that suggests spiritual intelligence in particular as it fosters many elements of physical and mental path: It creates satisfying function of brain and it reduces anxiety, depression, neuroticism, and emotional reactivity. The present research also leads to greater behavioral regulation and has shown progress in the treatment of good conduct world-wide. Fortunately, this Spiritual Intelligence is associated with increased subjective well-being. Study of literature in this genre reforms humanity, develops empathy, as measured by the ability to positive well-being.

 

REFERENCES:

1.      Clowes, Edith W. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890-1914. Northern Illinois University Press, 1988.

2.      Fanger, Donald. Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: a Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. Northwestern University Press, 1998.

3.      Hug, William J. “Matthews, Brander (1852-1929), Author, Scholar, and Teacher.” American National Biography Online, 2000, doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601075.

4.      Kumar, Chinta Praveen, and Prof. V. Srinivas. “Romantic Realism: A Comparative Study of Dostoevsky and JM Coetzee.” Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017, p. 189., doi:10.5958/2321-5828.2017.00027.4.

5.      Hamilton, Joseph Christie. Hamilton. 3rd ed., vol. 1, Marissa Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992.

 

Web:

·       https://sqi.co/spirituality-for-atheists/

·       http://www.livescience.com/7565-death-experiences.html

 

 

 

 

Received on 06.04.2020         Modified on 29.04.2020

Accepted on 21.05.2020      ©AandV Publications All right reserved

Res.  J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2020; 11(2):145-147.

DOI: 10.5958/2321-5828.2020.00025.X