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As an important part in Benedict Anderson’s theory of nation formation, Modernity and Fatality are comprised in Imagined Communities (1983). The dual interactions between Modernity and Fatality, which lurks behind his theory, is indispensable to the understanding of his theory of nation formation. However, few investigations on the effect of interactions has been done in the previous works. The specific contents of Modernity and Fatality were firstly introduced in this paper. On this basis, the dual interactions between them is emphatically analyzed, including the circumstances and the incurred results. The purpose of this paper, is to obtain the precise understanding and application of the theory, by analyzing the interactions between Modernity and Fatality.