Essay Archive - Book Report on Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
Book Report on Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
The main characters of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov
are, as the title suggests, the members of the Karamazov "family," if it
can indeed be called such. The only things that the members of this family
share are a name and the "Karamazov curse," a legacy of base impulses and
voluptuous lust. References to this tendency towards immorality are
sprinkled heavily throughout the novel; phrases such as "a brazen brow and
a Karamazov conscience," "voluptuary streak," and "Karamazovian baseness"
abound.
Fyodor Pavl....
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