Nastasja Filipovna

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Nastasja Filipovna Nina Plavanjac in the novel IDIOT by F. M. Dostoevsky

Is the Christ-like prince Myshkin truly the key to understanding Christianity as Dostoevsky envisions it in a possible impossible world? Is Nastassya Filippovna the Mary Magdalene whom only an idiot, like this prince who is the best of all people in the worst of all worlds, can understand and accept? For the ancient Greeks, an idiot is a man who is not interested in public affairs, can one, according to Dostoevsky, be similar to Christ only by being deeply immersed in personal suffering, happiness, love, and the misfortunes of other people? Are the prostitute Sonya Marmeladova and the maintained woman Nastassya Filippovna the only saints worthy of love in the pantheon of Fyodor Mikhailovich? Raskolnikov will kill the old woman as an unreasonable act of Andre Gide or as an act of freedom of Charlie Manson, will Rogozhin kill Nastassya Filippovna - instead of killing the prince Myshkin who would resurrect anyway like every Christ or Lazarus whom the Son of God will call from the underworld where sinners burn in eternal fire? It seems that questions, as always, are more important than answers, and that the world inevitably ends in madness and holy madness like all the heroes of the poetry and thoughts of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.