Comparing Bobok And The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man

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Throughout both stories, “Bobok” and “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” author Dostoevsky, opposed to positivism, negate a society oppressed with suffering and ethically defective people. Also, disclosed that happiness can be found through love, but not all are lucky to have that love.
In “Bobok,” discloses the pain of the characters, which they tolerated when they were alive and how grateful their lives, is after the death. The dead souls discuss very openly about the lives, although, some of their discussion were bitter, passion, including confession and corruption that they decline while they were alive.
However, in “The Dream of Ridiculous Man,” the ridiculous man is considered ridiculous by society because his beliefs are inconceivable

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