Mar 28
“You will never attain salvation. Your prayers are ignored, and you can never redeem yourself.”
- Evil Myshkin, probably
#dostoyevsky#the idiot#prince myshkin#lev nikolayevich myshkin#the more I think about the concept of evil myshkin the more terrifying it is#like here you have a character who’s supposed to be the embodiment of all things good and believes in the good of all#and for that character to lose faith in others and abandon his humanity is kinda fucked up if you think abt it#it’s like a metaphor for an uncaring god or smth#if the symbol of salvation gives up on you then what else should you hope on?#despairrr#also i’d think the more rogozhin’s influence took ahokd of myshkin the more his skin turned corpse-like#like holbien’s painting of the dead christ#myshkin without faith and love is like a walking corpse#my art#fyodor dostoevsky#evil myshkin au
