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End of part 2 chapter 4
Fedka a convict offers his service pf killing captain labyadkin and his sister but nikolay refuses, 3 roubles advance 1500 roubles cost.
Dasha and nikolay having affair.
Nikolay planning to announce his marriage with marya to everyone. He married marya in drunk state to win a bet.

Stavrogin confirms the marriage.

He is the intellectual source of both Kirillov's radical atheism and Shatov's religious nationalism, yet he feels nothing for either cause. His passive acceptance of Fedka's presence and his total emotional detachment mark the beginning of the catastrophe to follow.

Shatov's marked fate at the hands of Pyotr's group.

end of part 1 chapter 5
varvara's home
praskovya and varvara both gets letter hinting scandalous ties between nikolay, dasha & marya.
pyotr tells about the letter stepan telling to save him from the scandalous marriage
captain lebyadkinm nikolay & pyotr dramatic entry
truth reveal about ties between nikolay & marya
nikolay & pyotr have contrasting character
shatov punches nikolay, but he refuses to retaliate

End of part 1 chapter 3

Stepan still in shame & confused as why he accepted to marry dasha (binded by varvara's word ?)

Narrator got feelings for liza but stepan hasn't introduced him to her. He is irritated)

Nikolay made dasha pregnant and to cover up this scandal varvara is trying to get stepan and dasha married asap.

But stepan adores and wants only varvara.

Some misunderstanding between Nicolas and lizaveta.
Varvara wants stepan to marry darya(dasha)

Nicolay is capable of any insane and violent act even when he is fully rational or aware. He is short tempered hot headed guy. Till now he has punched a guy in a party, kissed the wife of liputin and acted violently in the jail at middle of the night.

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