Nastasja Filipovna

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NASTASJA FILIPOVNA Nina Plavanjac in the play based on the novel THE IDIOT by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Is the Christ-like Prince Myshkin truly the key to understanding Christianity as Dostoevsky envisions it in an impossible world? Is Nastasya 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 person uninterested in public affairs. According to Dostoevsky, can one be similar to Christ only by fully immersing oneself in personal suffering, happiness, love, and the misfortunes of others? Are the prostitute Sonya Marmeladova and the kept woman Nastasya Filippovna the only saints deserving of love in the pantheon of Fyodor Mikhailovich? Will Raskolnikov kill the old woman as an unreasonable act like in André Gide's thoughts, or as an act of freedom like Charles Manson's? Will Rogozhin kill Nastasya Filippovna - instead of killing Prince Myshkin, who would have risen again like every Christ or Lazarus called from the underworld by the Son of God, 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 insanity like all the heroes of the thoughts and songs of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. ORGANIZER/SOURCE: The Association for the Development of Arts "VULPE".