Notes from Underground

Paper: How might you outsmart the Underground Man? (TENTATIVE TITLE) According to the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s “Notes from the Underground,” [FIX INTRO] The Underground Man is elusive. It is dififcult to properly identify the characteristics of this individual. Indeed, that seems to be one of the goals of the Underground Man – to challenge any attempts to reason and rationalize the world. Perhaps the question is, how can one outsmart the Underground Man? As one contemplates on this…

hard thing to come by these days. Everyone seems to be worrying about what they’re doing wrong instead of appreciating the right. For some it’s their job, and for others it’s the way that they present themselves to their peers. In the novel Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, he says “Man only likes to count his troubles: he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” I agree with what Dostoyevsky is saying. We are all different people with different phenomena intruding our daily lives but…

characters survive from poverty and Raskolnikov ends up confessing his crime. In Crime and Punishment many of the characters live in poverty and struggle to get out of it;…

water And wash this filthy witness from your hand’” (Shakespeare 57 Act 2 Scene 1). Towards the end of the play, Lady Macbeth shows signs of the guilt sinking in by saying “‘ Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’’ (Shakespeare 157 Act 5 scene 1). In the final acts of the play, Lady Macbeth kills herself with her own hands, not being able to withstand the guilt. In the Lion King after Simba is saved from the stampede, he finds his…

Superman does not Dream In Part 3 of Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov once again wrestles with his emotions after his murder of Alyona and constant evasion of the police. The police just found a piece of Raskolnikov's writing from about two month before. He describes his belief for the need of some great being to be above the law, in order to make their society more safe. Once reminded of his old writing, Raskolnikov begins to wrestle with himself whether he truly…

In Fyoder Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, many characters deal with internal conflict causing them to commit large and small crimes. Dostoevsky introduces a variety of characters, each of which has their own value that they contribute to the book’s theme. Each character has his or her own opinion which crimes are necessary and what deeds are evil. Some characters need to commit crimes just so they can survive in this harsh world, while others commit crimes because they think it will…

deals with within their mind after committing a murder. Both books are centered on one criminal act that allows the reader to delve into the thought process of a convicted murderer, each varying from one another. In The Stranger, Meursault is seen as a static character while in contrast Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment is seen as a dynamic character. Though each have different philosophies and motives for their actions both protagonists carry out an underlying theme in each novel, that…

The protagonist and characteristics are the two most prominent literary elements in “Notes from the Underground” The story Notes from the Underground is divided up into two parts. The first part opens with the Underground Man talking about his way of life and how he views people. He states that his liver is in bad shape and won’t go to a doctor out of spite for them. He also states that he worked for civil service job and only held on to it for food. He says that he is overly self conscious…

interests will lead to euphoria contained inside of a utopia. Scanlan, in his analysis of Notes, vehemently criticizes this flawed philosophy because he argues that Dostoyevsky, through the creation of such a character who emphasizes his unconstrained free will as his moral superiority, effectively refutes the solely moral or scientific stance on the human condition. Through his in-depth study of the underground man, Scanlan argues that the actions in the best interest of man are perpetrated…

classes heavily controlled most of the power in the population. Notes from the Underground, which takes place around the mid 1800’s in Russia, the European Enlightenment began rolling in. Within this time many ideas of egoism were born and so, the author analyzes life in depth. Throughout the story, the author explores the embodiment of the social class through the reflections of his main character. The protagonist in Notes from the Underground metaphorically explores how the lower class was…