ABSTRACT
The revolutionary motif is not unrelated to the parricidal motif in The Brothers Alyosha Karamazov. This chapter considers the father's violence to women and his sons in the novel along with tsarist violence to his people. It analyses the plot with emphasis on the Karamazov family history. The chapter explores how Smerdyakov's epileptic seizure and hysterical fits in the case of other brothers become an indexical moment to a violent family history which was silenced. It also explores the moments, examining how they point to an alternative, silenced side of history. Furthermore, the history of violence has no origin, as know the benefactress also maltreated Sofia. If Petersburg is 'epilepsy-inducing', creating the epileptic mode of being, Alyosha's countryside is equally 'epileptic' considering the fact that the family repressed its traumatic history, which only appears in flashes in the moment of seizures.
