Abstract:

One of the best representatives of the nineteenth century Russian literature who focused on philosophical reflections on the reason for human existence and dealt with the deep moral responsibility for the future of humanity is the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. The continuation of the Slavic tradition and a romantic nationalist, the author’s novel “Idiot” (Idiot, 1869) belonging to his maturity period is very important in terms of reflecting the concept of universal love and the ideal of the perfect human being. Prince Myshkin is the representative of the perfect human in the novel. The author describes a person who would be considered perfect both morally and spiritually. He realizes the moral superiority of suffering and “compulsory” acceptance with Prince Myshkin. For this reason, she embodies the tragedy of sainthood in the novel. Another main heroine of the novel, Nastasya Filippovna, is the equivalent of pain for Prince Myshkin. In this context, Nastasya, who is the main subject that makes the task that Dostoevsky assigned to Myshkin more understandable, appears before us as the “tragic symbol of beauty.” The reason why we chose the novel “Idiot” in our study is that it allows the author’s thoughts, which are key for his art and philosophy, to be examined in a multi-faceted manner. The element that constitutes the original aspect of our study is to give the essence of Dostoevsky’s understanding of ideal human and beauty in the context of the comparison of the characters of Prince Myshkin and Nastasya Filippovna. Nastasya Filippovna’s self has been tried to be presented.

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