Ivan is narrating a poem that he has written, “The Grand Inquisitor.” In the poem, Christ reappears in the form that he that he took when he first walked the earth. His arrival is mundane and uneventful and occurs during one of the most infamous moments of human suffering—a time in which devout Christian people were most in need of Christ’s love and forgiveness. Ivan narrates his poem to Alexei to prove his point that Christ’s love for people is impossible on earth. He sets his poem during the Spanish Inquisition to show how humans are more likely to kill…