Complex sentence: In his article, Dobrolyubov described Ekaterina as "a ray of light in a kingdom of darkness", seeing her family and the other town dwellers as symbolizing the ignorance and the conservatism of the'old world'.
Split into simpler sentences: In his article, Dobrolyubov described Ekaterina as "a ray of light in a kingdom of darkness". Ekaterina's family and the other town dwellers symbolized the ignorance and the conservatism of the' old world'.