But why didn't he? It's hard to know, and scholars disagree on this. It really doesn't seem like Myshkin saved anyone. Um, spoiler alert: Nastasya is murdered by Rogozhin, who is sent to prison Myshkin is driven completely catatonic by the experience and shipped off to Switzerland and Aglaya marries some con artist and is separated from her family forever. So what exactly are we supposed to make of the ending? Dostoevsky himself wrote his niece a long letter laying out the whole make-an-ideal-human program (check out " In a Nutshell"). And this isn't some analysis tacked on after the fact, either. We've spent a whole bunch of time discussing the idea that Myshkin is basically supposed to be Jesus, minus the supernatural and divine parts-you know, a walking, talking, perfect human being.
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