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Chapter I establishes the generational critique at the heart of Demons. Dostoevsky presents Stepan Trofimovitch and his 1840s liberal generation as well-meaning, poetic, and vain aesthetes whose detachment from reality, moral ambiguity, and abdication of parental duty directly pave the way for the radical, destructive nihilism of their children's generation (represented later by his son and Varvara's son