The Brother's Karamazov By Dostoevsky

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As a grown man, Dostoevsky was tremendously affected by the amount of distress he suffered in his childhood. The children in his novel, The Brother’s Karamazov portrays a simple, yet complex nature that highlights the norms of a society and their relationships with their father and with each other. As children, they have to test their strength and develop their own reasoning of confusing situations. The main relationship portrayed is that of the brothers with their father, Fyodor and that’s where psychology comes in. The attachment styles and Erikson’s psychosocial stages is where we can analyze who they are as people, and how their childhood has affected them as individuals. Before going into depth of the children’s relationship with