About Laughter as A Way of Visualization in Dostoevsky

The author explores the function of humor in the prose of Dostoevsky. Заменить Humor is capable of combining grand and minor. A joke may reveal to the reader whole shafts of content. This function is carried out by a multitude of verbal alogisms of general Ivolgin, captain Lebyadkin and Madame Khokhlakov. Humor in Dostoevsky may serve to uncover a valuable content behind the funny and the negligible. The funny helps to reach a visualization of the characters created by the writer. The funny, which unexpectedly flashes in Versilov and Stavrogin, gives them sudden visibility. The characters of the novel The Idiot, who find Prince Myshkin funny, ascribe to the reader’s view a special keenness, not at all comical, but tragic. Laughter in the gamut of Dostoevsky transpires as an essential color – one aiding him in his creation of the vibrant and multicolored picture of the world.