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Katya's Post-Trial Confession

Also known as I am the cause of it all.

Katya's post-trial confession happens when Alyosha visits Katerina Ivanovna five days after Dmitri's guilty verdict. With Ivan lying sick in the next room, she tells Alyosha that her anger at Ivan helped drive the courtroom disaster. She admits that her claim about Ivan persuading her of Dmitri's guilt was said to wound Ivan, and she calls her own temper the cause of everything.

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