Themes

Compassion and Charity Marie and the children of the Swiss village (Part One, ch. VI), the marriage proposal in which the prince founds Nastasya's honor on what she suffered (Part One, ch. XV), the pity he tells Rogozhin he feels for her and that Rogozhin does not feel (Part Two,... Beauty the portrait of Nastasya, in which the prince reads suffering and pride (Part One, ch. III), the beauty that is an enigma (Part One, ch. VII), the instant before the attack, which he calls beauty and prayer (Part Two, ch. V), the phrase that beauty will save... Madness Rogozhin's holy fool (ch. I of Part One), the idiot the prince himself says he once was (ch. III of Part One), his confession that he knows people take him for an idiot (ch. VI of Part One), the light that precedes the fit on the hotel staircase (ch. V of... Death the pain of knowing the hour of the guillotine (ch. II of Part One), the condemned man waiting for the firing squad (ch. V of Part One), Countess Du Barry asking the executioner for one more little minute (ch. II of Part Two), Hippolyte inviting everyone to... Money and Wealth the seventy-five thousand rubles of Totsky (ch. IV of Part One), the eighteen thousand of Rogozhin (ch. X of Part One), the money Ganya calls vile because it even gives talents (ch. XI of Part One), the hundred thousand thrown into the fire (ch. XVI of Part... Faith the holy fool whom God loves (ch. I of Part One), Rogozhin's question before the Holbein copy, whether the prince believes in God (ch. IV of Part Two), Lebedev's Wormwood star (ch. IV of Part Three), Hippolyte's question about how to believe in the... Truth and Lies the resurrection of the soldier Kolpakov (ch. VIII of Part One), the general who insists that his friend lives in an apartment whose nameplate bears another name (ch. XII of Part One), the game of sincerity (ch. XIII of Part One, ch. XIV of Part One), the...