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fandomsecrets2008-03-05 06:18 am
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[ SECRET POST #425 ]
⌈ Secret Post #425 ⌋
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Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 139 secrets from Secret Submission Post #061.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, 0 too big, [ 1 ] repeat.
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75. It's been a while since I read it, but as I remember--the fact that the murder itself and who actually was responsible for it were left as ambiguous as they were was. . .the point. The action itself meant less than the meaning it had for each of the brothers, the guilt each of them thought he bore for it: Dostoyevsky is all about the inner life and the subjective, anyhow--he's not much of one for ~*~hard objective fact~*~ about anything. To some degree each of the brothers had 'sinned in his heart' towards their father (as Jimmy Carter would say >.>); the guilt and the sin of his murder was attached to all of them in some way.
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(Anonymous) 2008-03-06 05:58 am (UTC)(link)And it's been a while since I've read it, myself: your wonderful comment makes me want to go read it again~!
Some tl;dr, but it's interesting
The 'idiot' or the holy fool character from "The Idiot", Prince Myshkin, who is so like Alyosha, was originally -not- written as a good character at all--Dostoyevsky changed his character dramatically from sinner to saint as he wrote. This is recorded in his notes. And a lot of criticism of The Idiot has been written speculating on how much this main character really changed his colors. Because although Myshkin is at heart a completely unimpeachably saintly character, in practice he brings nothing but harm to the people around him. By being selfless and impersonally loving and even ~*~Christ-like~*~, he only actually ends up hurting those he loves, and who love him. Maybe not intentionally, but still, however 'beautiful' a human being he may be within his own soul--pretty much everyone he comes into contact with in the course of this novel ends up worse off at the end, because of him. I've heard similar arguments made about Alyosha--that from the woman he's engaged to, to his friends, to all of his brothers, he doesn't actually manage to save any lives or souls other than his own. So from a purely utilitarian perspective (according to some critics of Dostoyevsky, at least), the existence of a person like Myshkin or like Alyosha isn't 'worth' it: they may not mean to, but they cause more suffering than they relieve.