They're all nuts: Dostoevsky's characters

Just in case you were beginning to think that the beautiful Aglaya Epanchin (?) is a sane character and potentially a stabilizing influence on Prince Myshkin, who is deeply in love with her - you realize that this is a Dostoevsky novel (The Idiot) and that they're all nuts! There are occasional level-headed characters in Dostoevsky, but not many - and almost none in this totally mad one, The Idiot. Aglaya to start with: she seems to be in love with Myshkin, or at least to be friendly toward him - she invites him to meet her at night in the park on a bench for a private rendez-vous and then, to his disappointment (I think, he's pretty naive) and our surprise, she tells him: let's be friends! When they're spotted by her mother, everyone gets upset - would he be a good match for her, probably not, not rich enough, and presumably kind of weird and simple-minded. Somewhat later, they get in a dispute, and Myshkin leaves the Epanchins for hims dacha - but she sends Kolya after him and has Kolya deliver Myshkin a hedgehog. The next night, they're all around a table - The Prince and all the Epanchins - and Aglaya doesn't say a word until she finally blurts out, asking him about the hedgehog. He doesn't know what to say, ultimately understands it as a declaration of love. He says he loves her and wants to marry her. She asks him a series of blunt questions - how much $ does he have, etc. Ultimately, she asks him something sort of stupid and bursts out laughing and runs out of the room. She and her sisters laugh - she's just been incredibly cruel to Myshkin for no reason at all - or at least she says she cannot marry him because of his sordid history with Nastasya, a weak explanation for her bizarre beahvior. She's totally weird and crazy - but in that sense no different from the others around her: Nastasya, who rejects several offers of marriage and runs off into the night with the rogue Ragozhin; Ippolit who reads aloud his two-hour confession and then tries to shoot himself in the head (he misses); Rogozhin, who tries to stab Myshkin out of odd jealousy; the drunken Generals; the insinuating and obsequious Lebedev; and on it goes. Who's exempt? Only young people (Kolya, for one) and of course Myshkin himself, the eponymoyus Idiot: part of the message of the novel even with or perhaps on account of his naivete and social awkwardness, he's the most sane of the characters and would make the best "match" with any of the eligible young women: but he'd spent his youth being "treated" in Switzerland and he's therefore damaged goods - just like Nastasya, who's a fallen woman because she was Myshkin's consort for several months (he probably never touched her - he's the most seemingly virginal character in the novel, maybe in all of literature).