PLAIN AND PLEASURE IN THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Plain and Pleasure in the Brothers Karamazov

Plain and Pleasure in the Brothers Karamazov

Introduction

The main characters of Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" is, as the name implies, members of the Karamazov family, "if it truly can be called such. The only thing that members of this family share a name and "Karamazov" curse ", the legacy base impulses and voluptuous lust. Links to this tendency to immorality sprinkled heavily throughout the novel, such phrases as" brazen forehead and conscience Karamazov, "" sensualist in a row "and" Karamazovian meanness "abound.

Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, the father of the brothers Karamazov, is the embodiment and source of this vice. Dostoevsky It creates such perversion and depravity that one can not feel positive emotions. His appearance - he was "sluggish" with "small, suspicious eyes" and "long, cavernous mouth with full lips, behind which one could see small pieces of black teeth "- accurately reflects his foul, loathsome character. He has no respect for himself, he loves to play the part of the shameless" clown "for attention, even though the account which he receives a negative. Because he does not respect himself, he can not have respect for others, either. He has no respect for women, for example, he despised "sensualist" and he satisfies his passion at any cost. He drives his wife to distraction by attracting "women of ill repute" in their house in front of her. Even more amazingly, he raped mentally disabled woman who later dies birth of his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov, which grows as a servant of his father.

Fedor is even more blatant disrespect for his three legitimate children. After the death of his wife, he refuses them because they "would have been a hindrance to his debaucheries". He was never the true father of any of them. When his eldest son, Dmitri, is becoming an adult, even Fedor so cruel as to deny Dmitri his inheritance, and instead use the money to lure Grushenka, with whom his son is in love.

This is Alyosha, the youngest brother, who is most successful in escaping the curse Karamazov. Miraculously, he is almost the complete opposite of his father, he was calm, "a lover of humanity", which everyone likes. When the reader first meets Alyosha, he was a young monk of strong faith, a disciple of the elder Zosima, he is the epitome of the teachings of Zosimus, that we should love someone unconditionally and not to condemn the action of man. Indeed, Alesha treats everyone he meets with respect and love, and, consequently, each responds to it as well. He suffers nothing without conviction, even "dirty debauchery" of his father. As a result, even his father grows up to be "genuinely loved him." (Dostoevsky 1984)        Alyosha playing a mediating role in the novel. Alesha Dostoevsky deliberately created as a static character who goes through several changes, and hence it is stable, strong character, around which the conflict of the novel ...