Dostoevsky

Double

• the human will in its search for total freedom of expression becomes a self-destructive impulse[^1]
• Golyadkin's identity is crushed by the bureaucracy and stifling society he lives in

[^1]: W. J. Leatherbarrow "The Rag with Ambition: The Problem of Self-Will in Dostoevsky's "Bednyye Lyudi" and "Dvoynik""