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* DisabledLoveInterest: The epileptic prince initially believes he can't marry ''at all'' because he is an "invalid" and later there's a huge to-do of getting over that fact when Aglaia's parents are deciding whether he would make a good husband.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Inverted. Prince Myshkin launches into a CharacterFilibuster denouncing Roman Catholicism as anti-Christian, and worse than atheism. He and most of his audience are, of course, Russian Orthodox.
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* CharacterFilibuster: Myshkin launches a screed against the Catholic Church, claiming that it is an anti-Christian, power-hungry institution that created atheism, and that the Russian Orthodox Church should stand against it.
* ChristianityIsCatholic:Inverted. {{Defied|Trope}}. Prince Myshkin is a Russian Orthodox Christian and launches into a CharacterFilibuster denouncing Roman Catholicism the Catholic Church as an anti-Christian, power-hungry institution that created atheism; against the Catholic Church and worse than atheism. He and most of his audience are, of course, Western ideas stands the Russian Orthodox.Orthodox Church.
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Innocent Cohabitation is no longer a trope
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* InnocentCohabitation: For the time Myshkin and Nastasya live together it's this, though the rest of society tends to assume something else is going on.
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* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: Prince Myshkin suffers from epilepsy, and even when not having seizures, he's plagued with nervous fevers and trembling and headaches so often that one gets the impression he very seldom feels completely well. In addition, there's Ippolit, who's dying of consumption.
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Not So Different TRS. When no-one in-story realizes it, it's not an example/
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: This mindset causes a great deal of the conflict in the novel, as no one (including Nastasya herself) can understand why Myshkin would care for 'disreputable' Nastasya when the 'pure and perfect' Aglaia is in love with him. It's notable because this one distinction of their sexual experience and background is all that separates the public opinion, as one can make the argument that the two beautiful, proud, capricious, intelligent and rebellious women are NotSoDifferent apart from it.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: This mindset causes a great deal of the conflict in the novel, as no one (including Nastasya herself) can understand why Myshkin would care for 'disreputable' Nastasya when the 'pure and perfect' Aglaia is in love with him. It's notable because this one distinction of their sexual experience and background is all that separates the public opinion, as one can make the argument that the two beautiful, proud, capricious, intelligent and rebellious women are NotSoDifferent quite similar apart from it.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: Aglaya and Nastasya's confrontation ends with them forcing Prince Myshkin to decide which is more important, his love for Aglaya, or his pity for Nastasya?
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* MoralDilemma: Aglaya and Nastasya's confrontation ends with them forcing Prince Myshkin to decide which is more important, his love for Aglaya, or his pity for Nastasya?
