Kirilov's believes that "God is the pain of the fear of death." This allows him to conclude that by overcoming the fear of death, God will be destroyed and he himself will be become a god. The other son's of the next generation are affected by the same boredom. While some people will shoot themselves to fill the emptiness from the lack of the divine, others will go about performing pranks will attributing them to the moral collapse of the society. Verkhovensky leads a group of people that's ultimate goal is to remove the existing order in order to create future harmony. Shigalov devised a plan that was believed to end their enslavement to the eternal cycle of balance and boredom. Finally, Dostoyevsky created a character that believes in nothing, the true nihilist Stavrogin. For Stavrogin, there is not belief or disbelief, good or evil; there is no hope for him to end his eternal boredom. Therefore he resorts to indifference where no hope can ever be seen for the character Stravogin. .
So, Dostoyevsky describes that people suffering from boredom due to the lack of the divine in their lives eventually lead to some people becoming revolutionaries. The political causes they commit are dependent on ways to alleviate the removal of religious order caused by the generation of the elder Verkhovensky.
For Conrad, revolutionary ideology and politically-inspired violence is directly linked to the philosophical unbelief in the effectiveness of every human effort. This guides Mr. Verloc into a ridiculous, socially produced existence. The characters in the secret agent are continually defined by the people that influence them. For Mr. Verloc, Mr. Vladimir's direction to commit an act that would be a damaging blow to society is a driving force behind the actions of Mr. Verloc. Also, Verloc's serves as a police informant that further compromises Mr. Verloc's existence in order to meet the expectations of the Chief Inspector Heat.