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MA𝗔 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻
There is a kind of inherent knowledge that we all carry within ourselves from the moment we come into this world. We are also shaped by our experiences, which determine how we perceive & judge the world around us, others’ actions, & ourselves.
As a reader, true wisdom is rare to perceive through just reading. I never know where I might come across the advice or wisdom that could change my perspective — and potentially my life — for the better.
May be that's why I'm an idiot.
Myshkin an idiot, is a prince, who is returning from Switzerland 🇨🇭.
Myshkin is a clean-hearted, pious individual who speaks plainly about whatever he wants to say. He cannot even think of doing something bad to anyone and will forgive everyone.
For that reason, people call him an idiot, thinking he does not know anything.
Now, after the publication of “The Idiot” in 1869, Dostoevsky expressed disappointment with certain parts of the novel. He was highly critical of the story, as he felt there was greater artistic and philosophical depth that could have been explored. He was also conscious he had failed to make the perfect man after all.
But, I think that's not the case. The example of Christ in the story is presented here as someone who acts as a bridge between the two extremes of the Love Triangle; he reaches up to heaven to his father and reaches down to hell when he touches the ground, taking all of humanity’s sins upon himself.
Prince Myshkin let go of Agalya without much saying, and things never really got cleared between them, and the reason why he stayed with Nastassya. Nastassya, though thinking she loved the Prince quite deeply, never really regarded Prince’s or Agalaya’s happiness more than she despised her own shame.
He is being sandwiched like all of us between two extremes.
He cannot truly love either woman, because he cannot choose between them. He is at the mercy of whatever suffering is before him. Myshkin's duality with Nastasya(The heaven) & Aglaya(The hell) shows that in absence of wisdom, we all stay idiot.
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