Two Aspects of an Empathy-a Study on F.M. Dostoevsky's Idiot and L.N.Tolstoy's Resurrection

공감의 두 양상: 『백치』와 『부활』을 중심으로

The purpose of this paper is to compare the empathy of Dostoevsky 's novel 『Idiot』 and Tolstoy' s novel 『Resurrection』. The empathy can be seen not only in the emotional dimension, but also in the cognitive and the will dimension. Myshkin was emotional, lacking reflection and moral standards. He sympathized with almost all characters, but his empathy could not stop heroine's death. On the other hand, the empathy of Nekhliudov and Katiusha is not limited to the relationship of two people and it is gradually expanded by sympathy with others. His empathy develops with compassion and love for others through reflection on oneself. Thus, while the empathy of Myshkin is a passive level of empathy, Nekhliudov's empathy is an active level of empathy