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Gaganov
Demons
The demons referenced in the novel’s title and epigraph symbolize the seductive but dangerously corruptive force of the ideology promulgated by people like Pyotr. The novel’s epigraph comes from Luke 8:32-6. In that biblical…
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Icons
Icons—depictions of religiously significant people or scenes, often painted on wood and venerated—symbolize Russia’s connection to its religious and, in Dostoevsky’s view, moral history. In several instances, members of Pyotr’s revolutionary faction and those…
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