Both Uses of
instigate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- 'Oh, you are going to perform an act of heroic virtue: to confess you murdered your father, that the valet murdered him at your instigation.'†
Chpt 11 *instigation = the act or process of starting something or causing it to happen
- Supposing that he did agree, it would still follow that Dmitri Karamazov is the murderer and the instigator, and Smerdyakov is only a passive accomplice, and not even an accomplice, but merely acquiesced against his will through terror.†
Chpt 12instigator = someone who starts something or causes it to happen
Definition:
start or set into motion -- typically some kind of conflict