The Brothers Karamazov | Social Concerns
The principal social aspect of The Brothers Karamazov is the integrity of the family. As the tide suggests, there is great emphasis on the three brothers, their relationships with one another and with their father, and on the matter of crime in a family—in a way, a family is a model of society as a whole; and, if the family loses its integrity, so will society suffer dislocation. This is just what happens in The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoevsky had always possessed an intense interest in children and family life. For this novel, which took three years in the...
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