you longed for Russia as an unknown but promised land; you read a lot of books about Russia, perhaps excellent books, but for you—pernicious; you arrived in the first flush of eagerness for action, so to speak, and flung yourself into it!
Honestly really good observation about the Prince, and correct too. The Prince is a catalyst without which the passions of all these characters possibly may never have boiled up and spilled over so terribly as it had. Though Myshkin is a positively good man, absolutely Christ-like, he does not have the power of Christ and ultimately failed — and it’s heartbreaking, because he really did mean well. Radomsky is also the one who told him that ‘heaven on earth is difficult to achievement however it may seem to your splendid heart.’
