Clavis Libri

Theme

Revolution

The rupture of order: revolution, revolt, rebellion, radical reform.

Demons

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

the superior liberalism of Stepan Trofimovich and his circle, which awaits emancipation the way one awaits a party (Part One, Chapter I), the governor surrounded with the logic of his own liberalism (Part Two, Chapter IV), shame at having one's own opinion as the group's cement and the recipe for having four people kill the fifth (Part Two, Chapter VI), Shigalyov's system and the question of who would inform on a political murder (Part Two, Chapter VII), the plan for Ivan Tsarevich (Part Two, Chapter VIII), the seventy workers and the "On your knees!" (Part Two, Chapter X), the matinée audience discovering that it can answer back (Part Three, Chapter I), the fire that is in people's minds and not in the roofs (Part Three, Chapter II), the denunciation Pyotr never saw and of which he is as certain as two and two make four (Part Three, Chapter IV), the shot in the park and the promise of power to whoever rides the fools (Part Three, Chapter VI), and the only one who escapes, who three months later passes for a genius (Part Three, Chapter VIII).