The Brothers Karamazov

Kaitlin Davis
AP English
The Brothers Karamazov

In a foreword to The Brothers Karamazov, Manuel Komroff said of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “Throughout his works he is concerned and occupied with four R’s./Revelation of man’s secret heart, Revolution, Russia, and Religion.” In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky examines, in depth, three of the four R’s using Ivan Karamazov to examine revelation, Alyosha Karamazov to examine religion, and Kolya Krassotkin to examine Russia.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky portrays his ideas about how mankind should treat one another through the revelation of one of the book’s main characters, Ivan Karamazov. In the beginning of the book, he is seen as disillusioned about society, particularly the people in it. He feels that no one cares about one another, so he doesn’t care either. Ivan’s revelation is essentially about the care and support that humans owe others.
Ivan Karamazov has his revelation quite late in the book. A...