Also known as the Karamazovs, The Karamazovs, this Karamazov family, all the Karamazovs, all you Karamazovs.
The Karamazov family is the line of Fyodor Pavlovitch, made up of three sons from two marriages. Dmitri belongs to the first marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, while Ivan and Alexey belong to the second. The family is introduced through money, neglected children, and a father whose vice and shrewdness sit side by side. From the start, the household is less a home than a set of broken claims on blood, property, and duty.
I-III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family
The brothers and their father are gathered in one town for the first time, with Ivan acting partly as mediator in Dmitri's dispute with Fyodor.
II-VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive?
The family exposes itself publicly in Zossima's cell, where father and sons turn inheritance, desire, and resentment into scandal before outsiders.
III-IX. The Sensualists
The conflict becomes bodily violence when Dmitri attacks Fyodor in his own rooms while Ivan and Alyosha try to restrain him.
IX-II. The Alarm
After Fyodor is found murdered, the Karamazov name becomes attached to a public case of suspected parricide.
XII-I. The Fatal Day
At trial, the family history is turned into evidence and moral argument, with the father, sons, inheritance, servants, and household disorder all placed before the court.
XII-XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm
Dmitri's guilty verdict leaves the family broken into illness, conviction, and Alyosha's continued work among the living.
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