Father Sergius: Scene Diagram

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III
  1. father’s deathbed

1.    K. tells mother and sister

1.   Seeks God without seeking the world’s praise. Roams from village to village, begging but not drinking like other vagabonds
  1. Kazatsky as cadet

2.    enters monastery (prays/gives alms)

2.   Dancing peasants reminds him of court ball
  1. 10 years later: Kazatsky as officer and social climber

2.    in cell, daydreams of Maria

3.   Teaching peasants how to read; arrest
  1. court ball

3.    3 years later: ordained as priest. No longer cadet with bad temper

4.   enters Siberian prison
  1. Maria and Nicholas I

4.    7 years later: transferred to monastery near St. P.  Meets with general

 

  1. Maria and Kazatsky become engaged

5.    Becomes hermit, chops wood

 

  1. Maria decides to confess affair to Kazatsky

6.    Carnival, attempted seduction by Madame Makovkin; chops off finger

 

  1. Kazatsky spurs her

7. Makovkin becomes a nun

 

  1. Decides to become a monk

8.    7 years more as a hermit; becomes a healer

 

 

9.    Succumbs to temptation of merchant’s nymphomaniac daughter; leaves monastary