The Margin

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America

Also known as that America.

America first appears as the foreign escape Kolya rejects while talking with Alyosha. To him it is not romance but a mean and silly flight from useful work in Russia. The place is already less a real geography than a test of whether one runs away from the work at hand.

XI-IV. A Hymn And A Secret

In Dmitri's escape plan, America becomes the country where Dmitri might flee with Grushenka, but he immediately feels the pull of conscience and the rival claim of the hymn underground.

Epilogue II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth

After the verdict, Dmitri accepts the escape in principle yet already hates America as exile by another name, fearing that he and Grushenka will choke there from homesickness for Russia.

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