Comparing Kierkegaard And The Brothers Karamazov

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The word existentialism and the concept we know today first came up in the twenty first century, but there are allegations prior to that date from authors like Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky that match with the concept, even if back then was not knowingly existentialism. These two authors expressed concerns with existentialist topics such as our bound to be here and now, the concern of how we find ourselves in the world first and them find a meaning to our presence here, how this search of meaning and identity becomes a personal choice. In the case of Dostoyevsky he left pieces like The Brothers Karamazov where the author expresses thought out the reflection of its characters how we have an active role in deciding what to believe on. In the case