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The Underground Man is extremely alienated from the society in which he lives. He feels himself to be much more intelligent and “conscious” than any of the people he meets. However, he is aware that his consciousness often manifests itself as a skepticism that prevents him from having confidence in any of his actions.
The Underground Man is a spiteful man whose ideas we may agree with and admire, but whose actions we hate and deplore. These contradictory reactions to him suggest something of the duality of his own nature. For example, he resents being insulted and yet consciously places himself in a position where he cannot avoid being insulted.
Nov 1, 2004 · The intensity of the underground man’s struggle can be felt from his very first words to us: that he is “a sick man… a spiteful man.” For page after page of impassioned narrative, the underground man breathlessly pours forth his invective at the world, screaming laments about the pointlessness of it all, all the while knowing there is no one at whom to scream.
Jan 14, 2024 · Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Notes from Underground’ is a novella that delves into the existential angst and introspection of its protagonist, the ‘underground man’. Set in 19th-century Russia, it masterfully explores themes of rationality, free will, and the human condition, challenging traditional notions of society and personal identity.”.
The Underground Man writes that Chernyshevsky holds that man never has really had any caprice or will of his own, and that he himself is something of the nature of a piano-key or the stop of an organ, and that there are, besides, things called the laws of nature; so that everything he does is not done by his willing it, but is done of itself, by the laws of nature.
The Underground Man embarks on memory lane back to his early twenties, when he as a young man working as a government employee. The first thing he talks about is his face; he hates his face because it looks stupid. He declares that, in his youth, he was both a coward and a slave, as is every decent man in the world.
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129. over which a person has control. In the unfolding of the underground man's "confessions," we begin to find the reasons why the underground man is zloi. These reasons stem mainly from his refusal to attach the "common man's" meanings to himself and his life due to his exaggerated consciousness and vanity.
