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you’re self-obsessed to the point of … mania,
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She miunderstands her a lot, actually. Though she is right that Nastasya can be self-obsessed and brings on her own suffering, that’s because she hates herself. And Nastasya even enjoys seeing the suffering of men around her; that’s because she’s spiteful, (heavily implied to be) a survivor of abuse, and it gives a strange sense of relief to see that she’s burning others too, while she’s burning out (she knew she was never gonna live long by marrying Rogozhin :). And she couldn’t have otherwise; as she said in Part 1, her options were to stay with her abuser, marry Ganya who obviously only wanted her dowry, marry Rogozhin, or go to the streets and work as a washerwoman or prostitute. At least Rogozhin would’ve killed her sooner— that was her philosophy, and also to say that now she suffers at her own hand when she repeatedly ran away from both him and Myshkin and did dishonourable things in Moscow).
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