The relationship between Dostoyevsky and the characters of The Brothers Karamazov"I would die happy if I could finish this last novel, because I would have fully expressed myself." This statement from the author of “The Brothers Karamazov” helps elucidate the underlying purpose and theme of one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Superficially, the novel deals with a gruesome parricide and how the secondary characters engineered the direct and indirect circumstances leading to the murder. Yet the book delves deep into the human psyche and soul, particularly that of the author himself. The novel, as inferred from the aforementioned personal statement, can be best described as an autobiography of Dostoevsky filled with his beliefs, values, theories. , and a glimpse into a beastly world. Through the main characters – Ivan, Alyosha, Dmitri, Father Zosima and Smerdyakov – we can perceive the different facets of Dostoyevsky himself, the good and the evil. Not only do we see his characteristics through the protagonists and antagonists of the novel, but also his beliefs regarding life, religion, and love. Among his personal beliefs embedded in his fictional characters are: faith in love rather than faith in miracles, the importance of suffering as a means of salvation, and the importance of the Russian "people" and children in the future 20th century. But despite Dostoyevsky's dominant presence in his masterpiece, one variable inevitably affects all of his characters as well as the entire living world: death. Thus, through the novel, he introduces us into his tormented mind and soul, hoping to influence future generations in his belief in a better humanity, unafraid of the specter of death that will crush the cowardly but unharmed. ..... middle of paper ... see the soul of a man who carried vengeance in his heart, while maintaining a love for humanity characteristic of the biblical Job, whose sufferings only made bring more sympathy and blessings in the eyes of God. Ironically, Dostoyevsky presented Alyosha Karamazov as a young man who would instill in innocent children the love and spirituality necessary to transform Russia from a backward country into a world power. These children indeed changed Russia 30 years later, not as spiritual lovers but as violent rebels in a communist revolution. They sought to liberate peasants and workers in theory, but in reality they created a totalitarian state more powerful than even Peter the Great could have imagined. Today, Russia, once powerful, lies amidst the same poverty in which it lived a hundred years earlier. Truly an ironic twist on a prophetic man's beliefs.