In Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Brothers Karamazov there is description of baseness or the base of the soul that the Karamazov family seems especially affected by This baseness is put in the light of an act so that is simple and unyielding to human nature in its natural form Animalistic actions take place of rational thought while touched by this base feeling of the soul One might go so far as to imply that base actions are a sign of weakness in the human mind yet is not being base a sign of strengt