Summary "The Brothers Karamazov" - the great work of F.M. Dostoevsky

F.M. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, a short summary ... The first lines of the novel begin with the epigraph: "Verily, verily I say unto you: if a grain of wheat falls into the ground and does not die, it will remain one; And if it dies, it will bear much fruit (the Gospel of John). " It is in these words that the main idea of the work sounds. What do they mean? The world is a struggle and the unity of two opposites. Is death always evil? Is white always light? Do we need a fight? Is suffering necessary? What is the soul in this fight? Who is God in this duel? And is there any? These and other questions are read in the fates, actions, words of the main characters ... Summary: The Brothers Karamazov

The novel takes place in the small town of Skotoprigonjevsk in the 70s of the 19th century. On the first page we find ourselves in a monastery, in the skete of the elder Zosima, who is known in the district as a righteous man and healer. The namolennoe place becomes a scene on which the protagonists gather. The author acquaints us in detail with each of them, symbolically anticipating subsequent tragic events.

Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is the father of a large family, a man of lewd, cynical, boundlessly greedy and unusually cruel. An extraordinary, sometimes terrible eagerness to power, to earthly pleasures and pleasures, erases all existing boundaries between good and evil in it, destroys eternal values. The relative, spiritual thread that connects it with the children is lost too.

The elder son Dmitry Karamazov is a man with unbridled passions, he, like a pendulum, throws from one extreme to the other. He is honest, ready for generous deeds and at the same time can be extremely cruel and ruthless. His soul is drawn to love, to light, to deep faith, and every day he gives himself the word that he will stop this disorderly life full of drunkenness and debauchery. But the forces influencing the oscillations of his pendulum are so great and uncontrollable that the creative energy in it instantly turns into destructive energy. This is the so-called spontaneous "Karamazov" force, which to some extent was transmitted from his father, Fyodor Pavlovich, to each of his offspring.

Ivan Karamazov is an average son, externally calm, mature, rationally washing. But in it rages passions and the struggle between faith and godlessness does not stop. At first glance, he is rather a silent observer, rather than an active participant in the unfolding drama. But this impression is deceptive. His tacit consent played a decisive role, it became a real killer .... However, we will not run ahead.

Continuing to describe the summary of The Brothers Karamazov, let us return to the youngest son of Fyodor Pavlovich, who, according to Dostoevsky, is the main person. Alyosha Karamazov is the third, the youngest son is a novice with Zosima, an honest, sincere, deeply religious youth who is in constant search of truth and reconciliation. It was from his submission that the whole family gathered in the skete of the elder to resolve the inflaming property dispute between the father and the elder brother.

What are human passions? This is a frantic desire to enjoy here and now. It is so great that a person is ready to take extreme measures to get it. It is in the possession of someone or something that he sees himself really happy. Just such a duel for happiness occurs between Dmitry and his parent. At stake are three thousand rubles and the beautiful Grushenka, into which both are immensely in love. The reconciliation of the elder does not take place. On the contrary, everything ends in a scandal.

Zosima, seeing the soul of a man through the eyes of God , gives everyone a parting word. Before Dmitry, he kneels, truly loving his future sufferings and for the pain through which he needs to go through to purify himself. He blesses Ivan, wisely noticing that the question in his heart has not yet been resolved. To Fyodor Pavlovitch, he says that his buffoonery is solely due to the fact that he is ashamed of himself. And he punishes Alesha now with his brothers and father.

Everyone disagrees, and a number of events unfold in the town of Skotoprigonievsk. They follow one after another: thrown in a furious word, thoughtless deeds, increasing grievances. They, like a storm that grows with every minute, grab everyone and everything along the way, turning black, ready to crash and destroy everything around. Someone will perish, but someone will stand ....

Dmitry increasingly requires money from his father. With each passing day, hatred and jealousy become stronger. He watches his beloved Grushenka day and night at his father's house, if she, tempted by the money of Fyodor Pavlovich, decides to come to him. He becomes extremely suspicious and, in a fit of fury and despair, beats the parent. But in his soul there is another mystery, his shame - he trudged another three thousand with Grushenka at an inn in the village of Mokroye. And Katerina Ivanovna, his formal bride, gave him this money to send to their sister in Moscow. The huge shame and guilt in front of the girl for his theft, for his betrayal, for his love for another, push him to a desperate step.

Ivan is secretly in love with Dmitry's bride. Every day he sits "beside the tear" and unwillingly plunges into her tortured soul, where there is a struggle between the feat of fidelity to the groom and a deep feeling for him, Ivan. Every day he observes the uncovered cynicism of his father, who is ready to exchange everything and everything, only to live to the end in his filth. Every day he becomes an unintentional listener of the deeply immoral, low reasoning of Smerdyakov, who is allegedly the illegitimate son of Karamazov from the vagabond of Lizaveta. He listens and with a feeling of revulsion realizes that the footman's words to some extent resonate with his own thoughts. Is everything permissible or not? If you believe in God and the immortality of the soul, then not everything, but if not ... Hence, everyone chooses how it is better and more comfortable for him to settle in the world.

In his doubts he writes the poem The Grand Inquisitor, in which he raises the main questions: acceptance of God and rejection of the peace of God, what is justice, the pursuit of perfection, and what is the true harmony of God, what is the difference between human happiness and true. The culmination of his "storm" is the last conversation with Smerdyakov, in which the latter advises him to leave the city for several days, hinting at the fact that in his absence, anything can happen to his father. Ivan is indignant, but at the same time intrigued, and agrees ...

Alyosha, following the dictates of the old man and his own loving soul, talks, teaches and tries to help everyone. He sees a turmoil in everyone's heart, he observes this endless cruelty and indifference, he witnesses an endless duel between true values and sin, in which a person more often chooses to fall into the abyss, and doubts also arise in his soul. At this time, the elder Zosima dies. Awaiting for some miracle after his death appears around, but instead of the expected one there is a smell of decay. Alyosha is confused. Too many stones on his way to the truth, which are knocked down and want to be destroyed ....

Passions are heating up, the storm is coming, and the death of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov becomes the apotheosis. Who is the murderer? The confluence of circumstances and facts speak against the eldest son. He is arrested. The trial begins. Dmitry is a libertine, a deceiver, a drunkard and a drunkard, but he is not a murderer. Smerdyakov admits to Ivan in the murder of his father and tells in detail how it happened, warning that it was he, Ivan, who inspired him, and with his secret consent a terrible crime occurred. Ivan is in despair. On the one hand, he does not admit guilt, but on the other hand, the conscience says the opposite. He intends to go to court and talk about how everything happened in reality. Smerdyakov, disillusioned with him, in his ideas of permissiveness, gives him stolen money and hangs. Ivan is in feverishness before the court and confesses his contribution to this crime: "Lackey killed, and I taught."

Ekaterina Ivanovna, in hysteria, gets out a decisive letter, Dmitry's last message to her, in which he writes in detail about his desire to kill his father and take the money due to him. This evidence becomes key. Thus she saves Ivan and destroys Dmitry, the ulcer of her heart, which she promises to love forever, no matter what ... In concluding to describe the summary of the "Brothers Karamazov", we pass to the final, no less symbolic scene - the funeral of the little boy Ilyushenka Snegirev. At the funeral, Alyosha urges the gathered to love life, to appreciate its wonderful moments, to be kind and honest ....

"Brothers Karamazov": summary, conclusion

At the end of the road, I always want to go back to the beginning and remember where it all began .... Coming to the description "Summary of the" Brothers Karamazov ", we touched on the epigraph. In conclusion, I would like to return to him: "Verily, verily I say to you: if a grain of wheat falls to the ground and does not die, it will remain one; And if it dies, it will bear much fruit (the Gospel of John). " "Wheat grains" fell into the ground. Many of them were trampled, pressed into the mud and destroyed, but it was their "death", their fall, pain and suffering that would bring "much fruit" - spiritual cleansing and love ....