# The Karamazov Nature · the broad heart

a distilled thread of the BKZ (Brothers Karamazov) book-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦The Karamazov Nature:BKZ:9eb74b⟧

**who —** The Karamazov Nature — the ‘broad,’ earthy, sensual vitality the brothers share: capable of the basest sin and the highest love at once.
**what —** The novel's anthropology: human beings are wide enough to hold the ideal of the Madonna and the ideal of Sodom in one heart, and must choose.
**where —** In all the brothers, and in the reader Dostoevsky implicates.
**why —** Because Dostoevsky's whole vision is that we are not simple — that the same broad nature can murder a father or kiss the earth.
**how —** By appetite, intensity, and a refusal of the lukewarm — the Karamazov is never merely moderate.

**the seal —** I am broad — too broad; I hold the Madonna and Sodom in one heart, and the whole drama is which of them I will let win the house.

> a catalogued personification of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880, public domain) under the DLW standard —
> literary commentary and cataloguing, not an original creation.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · BKZ · The Brothers Karamazov · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0