The Idiot, Chapter 5 요약

줄거리

1. The general introduces Prince Muishkin as a needy relative with fits, then leaves him with his wife and daughters.
2. The prince explains his copied signature of Abbot Pafnute, eats lunch, and pleases Mrs. Epanchin through conversation about their families.
3. In the sitting room, he describes how a donkey in Basel interrupts his melancholy and how recovery makes daily life precious.
4. He recounts a condemned man's reprieve, but admits that the man does not fulfill his resolve to treasure every minute.
5. Asked for a painting subject, he describes the face of a man approaching the guillotine and imagines his final thoughts.
6. The daughters question him about love and their faces; he denies romantic experience and offers to explain another kind of happiness.

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눈여겨볼 점

The reprieved man's admission complicates the idea that escaping death teaches someone to treasure every instant. Alexandra uses it to challenge that ideal.

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