I get it, it’s theatrical, the personalities of the bros because of Fyodor’s influence on them, the reader & narrator are sharing a joke about how over the top it all is. But I didn’t like it. I read for entertainment, I was not consistently entertained-I was consistently frustrated 

I will let the public’s view on the prosecutors speech sum up my feelings. “But that was all rubbish” “there were some vague spots” “got a bit carried away”