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Definition of Setting
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Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Part 1: Book 3, Chapter 1: In the Servants’ Quarters
Explanation and Analysis:
The Brothers Karamazov is set in an unnamed rural district of Russia in the 1860s. This was a period of rapid social transformation in Russia, as depicted by Dostoevsky. Shortly before the beginning of the novel, legal reforms put an end to the centuries-old practice of serfdom, by which landowners held legal rights over peasant laborers who could be bought and sold along with the land upon which they lived and worked. These reforms profoundly altered social relations across the nation, though change came more slowly to many rural areas.
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