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Too much goodness can become a form of violence. Prince Myshkin, the protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, is the best illustration of this. In classical literary interpretations, Myshkin is celebrated as a holy fool who is also a moral absolute dropped into a corrupt society. He does what he thinks is right though it goes against social conventions totally. For example, he can walk into a party to which he has not been invited. When people laugh at him for s...
