The Idiot
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Please note that the scripts were originally printed on foolscap paper, but have been scanned using an A4 scanner. There may be some cropping of the pages.
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. The prince is placed in the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of a worldly society, and the consequences both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved are explored.
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Episode 1: The Prince’s Return
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The prince returns to his home after travelling abroad. He sees the painting “Christ in the Tomb” by Hans Holbein
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Episode 2: A Party at which a Woman was Bought
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At a party, Rogozhin openly starts bidding for Nastasya Filippovna, ending with an offer of a hundred thousand rubles. Varya angrily demands that someone remove the “shameless woman”. Ganya seizes his sister’s arm, and she responds, to Nastasya Filippovna’s delight, by spitting in his face. He is about to strike her when the Prince again intervenes, and Ganya slaps him violently in the face. Everyone is deeply shocked, including Nastasya Filippovna, and she struggles to maintain her mocking aloofness as the others seek to comfort the Prince.
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