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The reason for this is his four years in a mental institution in Switzerland. He is thus a sort of social outcast, although he does not hesitate to share this fact with Rogozhin and Lebedyev. Rogozhin appears to share a profound insight in Myshkin's character when he refers to him as a "blessed innocent" (p. 11):
you are a regular blessed innocent, and God loves such as you." (p. 11).
Myshkin then appears to take no offense, or even to be unaware of the somewhat sarcastic tone used by his companions when interrogating him.
When Myshkin has finished his story, Rogozhin also relates an event from his life. He has stolen money to buy earrings for the town beauty, Nastasya, who will also play a central role in the novel. The theme of redemption is countered here by materialism. He borrows...
When he recovers, his father dies and Rogozhin inherits money. The theme of redemption is addressed here in a minimal sense. Rogozhin does something wrong - he steals money. For this he is punished with illness:
arrived in a fever. The old woman began reading the Lives of the Saints over me, and I sat there drunk. I spent my last farthing in the taverns and lay senseless all night in the street, and by morning I was delirious, and to make matters better the dogs gnawed me in the night. I had a narrow squeak." (p. 10).
Rogozhin however finds himself redeemed as he is speaking to his companions: his father has died, and when Rogozhin recovers, he is told that he has inherited money. After the
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