Andrew SmithI began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.
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In The Idiot, Dostoevsky tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a young man from a very wealthy family, who has been declared insane. Throughout the novel, he is repeatedly told by his father and others that he is ill and that his illness is causing him to lose everything he has worked so hard for. He must be cured and sent away to a sanatorium, where he will recover his sanity. But Myshkin refuses to give up.
He continues to try to shake off his illness and refuses to submit to anyone’s authority. When he finally speaks out at the end of the novel, he says: “I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.”
Source: Grasshopper Jungle
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