To fully understand the novel and the topics that are being discussed it is important to know at least a little bit about Russian culture.
The novel is filled with dialogues about life, moral and politics as well as a lot of drama among the characters. By the end of novel Myshkin ends up back at the Swiss mental institution. After a scandal between Nastasia Filipovna and Aglaya, Myshkin finally convinces Nastasia Filipovna to marry him, however right before the wedding Nastasia Filipovna still runs off with Rogozhin, who is her “path to the suicide”, and dies the same day of Rogozhin’s hand. Nastasia Filipovna herself lives with Rogozhin who occasionally beats her and she runs off and goes back to him over and over. She thinks that even If they were together, she would ruin his life. Nastasia Filipovna is the only one who can see Myshkin’s kindness as it is and that makes her think that he deserves someone better than her, especially because of her complicated past. Myshkin is also affectionate towards Aglaya Epanchin, General Epanchin daughter, who cannot make up her mind and likes and dislikes Myshkin at the same time. A six hundred pages novel mostly focuses on the Myshkin’s love towards Nastasia Filipovna, who is in love with Myshkin too, but thinks that she does not deserve to be with someone like him. Prince Myshkin is an extraordinary kind and open-hearted man and that confuses all of the characters who surround him and makes them think of Myshkin as an “Idiot”, a man with a lack of intelligence. Back in Russia he meets a lot of different people from high Russian Society like dark and mysterious Rogozhin, Rogozhin’s love - beautiful Nastasia Filipovna, greedy Ganya, General Epanchin, his wife Elizaveta Prokofyeva and three daughters - Alexandra, Aglaya and Adelaida and others. The main character, “The Idiot”, Prince Lyov Myshkin is a young man who returns to Russia from the Swiss mental institution after spending there several years trying to treat his epilepsy.
Philosophical novel “The Idiot” was written by the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in the 19th century.
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