![]() ![]() In The Devils, none of the novel’s characters sees Raphael’s painting with ease, the painting of the Madonna is hard to understand for those who see beauty in aesthetic symmetry and those who see beauty in ugliness and sensuality. It is man’s inner struggle that he finds beauty in sin, sensuality, and the ugly. The higher aesthetic beauty which could be compared to Madonna is what man strives for beauty that is pleasing because it offers harmony and it is eternal. In Two Kinds of Beauty, by Robert Louis Jackson, the author describes sensuality as “the ideal of Sodom” as opposed to “the ideal of Madonna” which Dmitry speaks about in Brothers Karamazov. The Madonna is a symbol of beauty in the image of Christ which man has trouble understanding. ![]()
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