"The extraordinary...have the right to commit all kinds of crimes and to transgress the law in all kinds of ways, for the simple reason that they are extraordinary." [1] Dostoyevsky's main characters are divided into two philosophical categories. The first group maintains that man is not equal, but divided into two groups--the ordinary and the extraordinary. Ordinary people are trapped within the laws and traditions of society, existing only to reproduce their own kind. The …showed first 75 words of 1680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1680 total…Haven: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988) 41. [5] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Constance Garnett (New York: New American Library,1958) 19. [6] Ibid., p. 104. [7] Harold Bloom, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (New Haven: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988) 1. [8] Ernest J. Simmons, Russian Realism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1965) 117. [9] Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, p. 308. [10] Ibid., p. 340. [11] Ibid., p. 510. [12] Ibid., p. 99. [13] Marc Slonim, An Outline of Russian Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958) 135. [14] Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, p. 271. [15] Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, p. 728. [16] Ibid., p. 729.