The Idiot

               The version that Ivan Pyriev the director gives to Feodor Dostoyevsky's tale “The Idiot” is to reflect the obsession of the elite including the destructive passion that a Prince has for one woman. The story starts by introducing use to the epileptic and impoverished Prince, who has just returned from a Swiss mental hospital to St. Petersburg in 1980. The Prince restricts his interests and activities to the social circles of his family and the aristocracy including their various problems. He starts to fall in love with Nastasia, who also reciprocates the feelings while at the same time being pursued by a classic villain by Rogogine (L. Parkhomenko).

              Due to the mental weaknesses of Prince’s he becomes inexplicable and self-destructive for the love that he has for Nastasia. Prince Myshkin is a highly adaptable character whose shades can be traceable in other writer’s characters such as David Storey, William Faulkner, and Graham Green. Though critics disagree about his significance, he can be viewed to be both among the supremely good and great characters in fictions and also as a princely humbug. He is also the archetypal holy fool figure whose radical innocence enables him to grasp the hidden truths of the worldly wise intuitively. He takes up the concept of the Christ –like the man and displays the norm of a fool so that others can be wise.

            Prince Myshkin is a seeker of anonymous lovers who craves for the beauty of unspoiled human intimacy by muddy claims. The idiocy of Myshkin is one of elevation above the wisdom of the wise which makes him be insulted and scandalized by Burdovsky Antip and his mates.

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