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The Idiot
Title: The Idiot
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 3261 | Pages: 13.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Idiot
Of the many characters we see in Dostoyevsky's novels, few of the principal characters are female. However, in one of his more famous novels, The Idiot, we find perhaps one of the strongest female characters of most nineteenth-century literature, if not of Europe, then at least of Russia. Nastasya Filippovna, a proud, yet exploited woman, is by far one of Dostoyevsky's most intriguing characters. She has an instantaneous and dramatic affect on the characters surrounding …showed first 75 words of 3261 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3261 total…character was reduced to insanity by Dostoyevsky. It seems that he may sympathize with her situation, given the use of word choice we have seen, and even some of the ironic, yet sad depiction of a young girl violated. She has been refused her own identity and "renounces the world … she has almost ceased to exist and she knows it"(480). Nastasya Filippovna must die to escape the tragic and unjust plight of a woman scorned.
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