Dostoevsky's Spiritedness Is a Kind of Retaliation Against the Rules of Society

Natastya represents for Dostoevsky sort of the human freedom and the human passion. She's almost kind of an existential hero in that way where she goes about everything in the most extreme way possible. Despite Prince Michigan's naive love, he doesn't have as much freedom as Natastya has because he's operating in this very narrow band of what he can do. He's sort of in a way chosen to be this perfect human and in a perfect human there's no room for human freedom.