Concept
Karamazov Sensuality
Also known as a sensualist, sensuality, sensual, grasping and crazy, his low sensuality, All we Karamazovs are such insects, sensual lust, a tempest.
Rakitin's name for the impulse he thinks binds Fyodor Pavlovitch and his sons: appetite, acquisitiveness, and passionate disorder carried like a family inheritance. He applies it first to Dmitri, then extends it to Ivan and even to Alyosha. The idea is not a settled doctrine so much as a way characters explain the Karamazov pull toward desire and self-exposure.
III-III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse
Dmitri takes up the idea in his confession to Alyosha, calling himself an insect driven by sensual lust and insisting that the same insect lives in all the Karamazovs. His version makes the concept less a sneer from outside and more a torment he recognizes inside himself.
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