Taken to be an idiot, the naïve Prince Myshkin visits his distant relative General Yepanchin and hopesto charm him, his wife and his three daughters, but hisife changes drastically after he stumblesupon a photograph of Nastasya Filippovna. Deeply infatuated with her, he finds himself caught inaove triangle, whicheads him into a web of blackmail, betrayal and finally, murder. Inspired byChrist’s suffering, Dostoyevsky portrays the Russian Holy Fool’s purity as of a ‘truly beautiful soul’and navigates through the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. The Idiot hasbeen titled a classic beyond the temporal and spatial bounds.