"Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
This is another novel by a famous Russian novelist and writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Theme of the novel revolves around a Prince Myshkin who has returned from a sanatorium after few years.
The prince arrives at a relatives home in Russia and falls in love with the daughter of his relative Aglaya.
Prince was suffering from epilepsy. He has not much confidence in himself.
There is one more character in the story who is Anatasya Filipovna, ex-mistress of an aristocrat. She is supposed to be a bad woman for the society.
Prince falls in love with her also and tries to woo her by his recently inherited property from a distant relative. But Anastasya sees the simplicity in Myshkin and even if she wants to marry him but says otherwise and chooses another guy Rogozhin. She leaves the place with Rogozhin but she never forgets the prince.
On the other hand Agalya also gets attracted towards Myshkin for his simplicity but never accepts it openly. She says that Myshkin is a retard but had hidden feelings for him.
Myshkin follows Anastasya and Rogozhin for the next few months. Anastasya also meets secretly with Myshkin secretly but she never decides to stay with Myshkin.
Prince come backs to his relative and stays with Aglaya's and her family for some time along. During this time he gets fit and people think that he is not a proper match for Aglaya. But Aglaya follows her and takes care of her.
during this period Agalya and Anastasya communicate with each other and Anastasya tries to convince Aglaya to marry with Myshkin as she is a good match for him.
At one meeting all three again get stuck in a situation and both the women ask him to choose between his real love for Aglaya and the pity-love for Anastasya. Myshkin was unable to take a decision which makes Agalya feel bad and she moves away and Anastasya promises to marry Myshkin.
But again at the last moment she finds it difficult to marry Myshkin as she loves him so much and thinks that being with her will destroy him and runs away with Rogozhin.
Myshkin follows them again to find out next day that Rogozhin has stabbed Anastasya and she is dead now.
Myshkin tries to console Rogozhin for the death of Anastasya but he gets broken himself.
Rogozhin goes to jail and Myshkin back to sanatorium.
Aglaya marries to a guy against her wish to marry at all.
The most important point in this whole novel was a different definition of love.
Aglaya and Anastasya both love Myshkin and so he feels for both of them. But the biggest difference is that Aglaya loves but can't accept, Anastasya loves accepts but can't take it to a further level as she fears it will destroy Myshkin. Finally, the most complicated Myshkin who loves Aglaya for her being what she is and loves Anastasya for her being considered as a 'fallen' one. His love for Anastasya is a kind of pity or I'll better like to say a kind of kinship which he feels for himself too. This love is beyond the known forms of love because both of them (Myshkin and Anastasya) wants to sacrifice their love for the betterment of each other.
The first sentence that I quoted in the beginning can be taken as the theme of the whole plot. Or I will like to put it in simple words as we are far more complex than anybody can explain.
This indecisiveness stays with most of us for the lifetime as we always be dual minded for any decision. We are never sure whether we want to be logical, rational or just lead by heart. And this is the beauty of the nature that we still come out with the best ones.
Finally, love lives in sacrifice and over the time we realise that it was good for most of us involved in such situations. I'm not saying that every story should have a sad ending but in the end we can definitely see in most of the cases people are much better apart than being together.
I'll like to say that Anastasya and Myshkin being apart was good for both of them but it was not true in case of Aglaya. But reason has its limits and it is the love that makes us human whether we are successful or not.
Love
This is another novel by a famous Russian novelist and writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Theme of the novel revolves around a Prince Myshkin who has returned from a sanatorium after few years.
The prince arrives at a relatives home in Russia and falls in love with the daughter of his relative Aglaya.
Prince was suffering from epilepsy. He has not much confidence in himself.
There is one more character in the story who is Anatasya Filipovna, ex-mistress of an aristocrat. She is supposed to be a bad woman for the society.
Prince falls in love with her also and tries to woo her by his recently inherited property from a distant relative. But Anastasya sees the simplicity in Myshkin and even if she wants to marry him but says otherwise and chooses another guy Rogozhin. She leaves the place with Rogozhin but she never forgets the prince.
On the other hand Agalya also gets attracted towards Myshkin for his simplicity but never accepts it openly. She says that Myshkin is a retard but had hidden feelings for him.
Myshkin follows Anastasya and Rogozhin for the next few months. Anastasya also meets secretly with Myshkin secretly but she never decides to stay with Myshkin.
Prince come backs to his relative and stays with Aglaya's and her family for some time along. During this time he gets fit and people think that he is not a proper match for Aglaya. But Aglaya follows her and takes care of her.
during this period Agalya and Anastasya communicate with each other and Anastasya tries to convince Aglaya to marry with Myshkin as she is a good match for him.
At one meeting all three again get stuck in a situation and both the women ask him to choose between his real love for Aglaya and the pity-love for Anastasya. Myshkin was unable to take a decision which makes Agalya feel bad and she moves away and Anastasya promises to marry Myshkin.
But again at the last moment she finds it difficult to marry Myshkin as she loves him so much and thinks that being with her will destroy him and runs away with Rogozhin.
Myshkin follows them again to find out next day that Rogozhin has stabbed Anastasya and she is dead now.
Myshkin tries to console Rogozhin for the death of Anastasya but he gets broken himself.
Rogozhin goes to jail and Myshkin back to sanatorium.
Aglaya marries to a guy against her wish to marry at all.
The most important point in this whole novel was a different definition of love.
Aglaya and Anastasya both love Myshkin and so he feels for both of them. But the biggest difference is that Aglaya loves but can't accept, Anastasya loves accepts but can't take it to a further level as she fears it will destroy Myshkin. Finally, the most complicated Myshkin who loves Aglaya for her being what she is and loves Anastasya for her being considered as a 'fallen' one. His love for Anastasya is a kind of pity or I'll better like to say a kind of kinship which he feels for himself too. This love is beyond the known forms of love because both of them (Myshkin and Anastasya) wants to sacrifice their love for the betterment of each other.
The first sentence that I quoted in the beginning can be taken as the theme of the whole plot. Or I will like to put it in simple words as we are far more complex than anybody can explain.
This indecisiveness stays with most of us for the lifetime as we always be dual minded for any decision. We are never sure whether we want to be logical, rational or just lead by heart. And this is the beauty of the nature that we still come out with the best ones.
Finally, love lives in sacrifice and over the time we realise that it was good for most of us involved in such situations. I'm not saying that every story should have a sad ending but in the end we can definitely see in most of the cases people are much better apart than being together.
I'll like to say that Anastasya and Myshkin being apart was good for both of them but it was not true in case of Aglaya. But reason has its limits and it is the love that makes us human whether we are successful or not.
Love
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