Discuss The Brothers Karamazov.

A number of critics (Wasiolek, Guardini, Camus, Lawrence, Shestov, and Rozanov) have claimed that the Inquisitor’s atheistic stance is powerful and ultimately unassailable. Other critics (Berdyaev and Mochulsky) have argued that the Inquisitor’s arguments are contradictory, and in the end, the Inquisitor’s anti-Christ(ian) position is disproved in the rest of the novel by Zosima’s teaching and Alyosha’s development as a character. Dostoevsky himself declared that the novel as a whole is a refutation of the Inquisitor’s philosophy. Take a position on this issue and defend it with support from the text. Discuss how Dostoevsky either fails to challenge or succeeds in challenging the Inquisitor in the course of the novel.