George Eliot's "Janet's repentance" and Leo Tolstoy's "Father Sergius": sympathy instead of homily

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In the paper the author makes an attempt to prove that the story "Father Sergius" reflects Leo Tolstoy's acquaintance with George Eliot's works, which attracted him by the ethical pathos of "love for God and one's neighbour", human "measurement" of religious belief and claim for sympathy and compassion. The similarity of the key scenes in "Janet's Repentance" and "Father Sergius", in which the two desperate characters obtain a response confession instead of a sermon and sympathy instead of homily, proves that Tolstoy actively used the methods of aesthetic realization of Eliot's "religion of humanity" in his later works.

George eliot, creative dialogue, plot, religion of humanity, leo tolstoy, character

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