The Freedom to Choose Life

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky proposes ministry as the way to resist and overcome the world's evil. He employs two plotlines to do so. The action plot concerns the events surrounding the murder of Fyodor Karamazov. All evidence points to Dmitri Karamazov. Rational, circumstantial evidence convicts him; yet the reader knows he is innocent.The ministry plot occurs in this dark context where "small acts of love" are performed by The Elder Zosima, Alyosha Karamazov, and many others. T