Believing herself to be guilty and in need of punishment and purification, Nastasya Filippovna fights yet, finally, submits herself to destructive forces that surround her. Valued by men only for her beauty or her possessions, feared by jealous women, Nastasya Filippovna succumbs to insanity and finally, her own murder. She finds she is unable to survive in the society of her time. Nastasya Filippovna has been systematically destroyed by her surroundings. She has an instantaneous and dramatic affect on the characters surrounding her. Nastasya Filippovna, a proud, yet exploited woman, is by far one of Dostoyevsky's most intriguing characters. However, in one of his more famous novels, The Idiot, we find perhaps one of the strongest female characters of most nineteenth-century literature, if not of Europe, then at least of Russia. Of the many characters we see in Dostoyevsky's novels, few of the principal characters are female.
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