The Religious Aspect of Die Räuber

NotesThe text is that of the Säkular-Ausgabe.Karl does have bis deeper moments in III, 2 and IV, 5. For example: “Es ist doch eine so göttliche Harmonie in der seelenlosen Natur, warum sollte dieser Mißklang in der vernünftigen sein? ... ” (IV, 5). But these more thoughtful parts do not seriously affect the general social reference of his thought and action.Such a passage reminds us of the great impression made by Die Rduber on Dostoevski. (Cf. D. Cyževškyj, “Schiller und die ‘Briider Karamazov,’ “Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie, VI [1929], 1–42.) The father’s invocation of the innocent heart of childhood in this play of crime and passion recalls the final chapter of The Brothers Karamazov, where the passion and terror of the novel close in Alyosha’s words of childhood and innocence: “And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honor or fall into great misfortune—still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling ... . You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”

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