The Grand Inquisitor's Analysis

Some of the aspects of the community are a sense of identity and belonging. Being part of a community also sets certain boundaries which take us back to what the Grand Inquisitor said about how people seek to escape freedom. Wanting to live and worship in a community strengthens the idea of living within those boundaries which will automatically restrict freedom. The Grand Inquisitor says that people find freedom" dreadful", he says "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us: Make us your slaves, but feed us."(262)
Man is not hungry only for bread, he is capable of tireless searching for someone to worship. The Grand Inquisitor says that man want to believe and worship together, in a community. He says "This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time."(263). Most people want universal worship not because of solidarity or alliance but to abolish possible quarrels. The enthusiasm comes from the fact that anyone outside the community is a reminder of doubt and of the fragility of their moral system.
The Inquisitor's Church, which is connected with the Devil, tries to provide people with strength and security in their lives, even if by doing so it
One is alienated labour and the need for human beings to emphassize their communal essence. Human beings exist as a community, and what makes human life possible is our common trust on the vast network of social and economic relations which surround us all. Marx's view appears to be that we must, somehow or other, acknowledge our collective existence in our institutions. On the Jewish Question, Marx wrote: "Let us notice first of all that the so-called rights of man, as distinct from the rights of the citizen, are simply the rights of a member of civil society, that is, of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the