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October to December 2024 Article ID: NSS9110 Impact Factor:8.05 Cite Score:9 Download: 2 DOI: https://doi.org/ View PDf
Innocence in a Corrupt World: Prince Myshkin as a Christ Figure in The Idiot
Dr. Rajkumari Sudhir
Asst. Professor (English) Govt. Sarojini Naidu Girls P.G. College, Bhopal (M.P.)
Abstract: This paper explores
the portrayal of Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin as a modern Christ figure in
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. Through Myshkin's embodiment of pure
Christian virtue, Dostoevsky examines the possibility of absolute goodness in a
morally compromised world. The paper argues that Myshkin's tragic fate
illustrates the impossibility of sustaining pure goodness in a society that
neither understands nor values it, highlighting the spiritual poverty and moral
bankruptcy of the Russian aristocracy.














