The Idiot — 8 karakter
Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchina
Aglaya, the youngest daughter of General Epanchin, is remarkably beautiful, intelligent, but endlessly capricious, fierce, and childlike. All of society sees her as a perfect bride candidate. However, like Nastasya, she rebels against narrow social molds. She falls for Prince Myshkin but is equally ashamed of his oddities, which is why she constantly mocks him. Dreaming of an ideal man with a 'knightly' spirit, Aglaya cannot swallow her pride at the Prince's pity for another woman. With the hysteria she experiences in the final moments, she is forced to leave the Prince and is driven toward her disaster by escaping with a fake count through tragic choices.
Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya)
An ambitious, selfish, intelligent, yet ordinary bureaucrat working under General Yepanchin. His primary goal in life is to become rich, gain respect, and escape mediocrity. In this pursuit, he is ready to marry Nastasya Filippovna (even though he finds her repulsive) for the 75,000 rubles she brings. On the other hand, by courting Aglaya, he tries to chase a noble and clean fortune. Ganya is a character who bows down for money, yet because he feels deep shame for this state, he constantly lies and stands on the verge of a nervous breakdown at any moment.
Ippolit Terentyev
A high school-aged youth, on the verge of death from tuberculosis, an extremely rebellious, talented, yet at war with his own existence and the order of nature. He cannot accept the meaninglessness of his death; the idea that ordinary people in the world live while someone as intelligent and capable as him dies drives him mad. He writes a deadly manifesto of defiance against society, God, sycophants, and especially Prince Myshkin's passive Christian mercy. Ippolit, an angry scream against the sun and social justice, is one of the extreme characters in whom Dostoevsky embodies his existentialist crisis.
Lizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
She is General Yepanchin's aristocratic, somewhat hysterical, and eccentric wife. She takes pride in being the last noblewoman of the Myshkin family. Considering the Prince a distant relative, she forms a maternal, protective, yet simultaneously condescending bond with him. While not a very intellectual woman, her purity of heart and sentimentality make her someone who reacts warmly but erratically toward her daughters and the Prince. Although she senses Aglaya's dangerous romantic tendencies and tries to prevent them, she often remains amateurish and helpless in her struggle to maintain her family's social standing.
Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
A low-ranking bureaucrat and usurer who markets himself as a kind of theologian interpreting the Apocalypse, yet is actually cunning, opportunistic, alcoholic, and scheming. While he does not hesitate to fawn over the elite and the wealthy (especially the likes of Rogozhin), he covers this with philosophical and religious wordiness. With his hypocritical respect for the Prince, he constantly tries to survive by selling gossip and information.
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
In her youth, while still a pure girl, she was taken by her guardian Totsky and reduced to the status of a 'kept woman.' With her extraordinary, dazzling beauty, intelligence, and dignified stance, she never forgot the injustice done to her; she constantly kept Totsky under threat and mocked the hypocrisy of society. When she finds the pure love she sought in the Prince, she does crazy things to avoid sacrificing such a clean soul to her own dark destiny. She derives a senseless carnal or painful pleasure from harming both herself and those around her with great pride. Her end is completed by the catastrophe she has always been pursued by: being killed by Rogojin.
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
Rogojin is the sole heir to a vast fortune; he is the type of uneducated, wild Russian merchant. He acts with a dark and destructive passion for Nastasya Filippovna that borders on insanity. While thinking he can buy her by wrapping her in tens of thousands of rubles, he spirals into a realm of morbid jealousy and madness when he realizes he cannot own even a corner of Nastasya's soul. Although his path crossing with Prince Myshkin on the train gives them a kind of fateful brotherhood, Rogojin's cruel and possessive understanding of love is not enough to stop the catastrophe for both of them.
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the last surviving member of an old and noble Russian line. Because of the severe epileptic seizures he suffered since childhood, he was labeled an 'idiot' and spent four years in a mountain clinic in Switzerland. He recovers and returns to Russia at twenty-six without any financial security. Upon entering society, he becomes a figure the elite are unaccustomed to due to his sincerity, compassion, inability to lie, and absolute virtue. He possesses a depth of empathy and power of observation capable of seeing people's secret weaknesses and pains. While he does not hesitate to dedicate his life and reputation to easing Nastasya Filippovna's sufferings, he also falls in love with the childish and tempestuous Aglaya. He functions almost as a worldly Christ against the corruption brought by the Russian intelligentsia, liberalism, and capitalism. However, the network of dark passions, selfishness, and destructive relationships around him slowly consumes him, dragging him back into that initial, sickly void.