![]() ![]() ![]() It was as though it were my most normal condition, and not in the least disease or depravity, so that at last all desire in me to struggle against this depravity passed.Īs men, we seek the sublime and beautiful, especially the more we know of it. ![]() But the chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so. The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was “sublime and beautiful,” the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether. To live in a society devoid of goodness, and-even worse-to know the good and realize it is beyond your reach because it is taken from you, can only antagonize a man’s heart. I would argue that it is even more revealing to look at the Underground Man as a product of his society. The reader may be led to believe that it is the Underground Man whom we are supposed to blame, or at least criticize, for his uncommon resentment and discomforting self-deprecation. More importantly, they did not know how to find, much less feel, meaning.Ī limitation on the choices and the quality of life that we are granted by our governments has an impact on our world outlook, this is the most protruding lesson from Part I: Underground. Petersburg was plagued by monotonous bureaucratization and workers like the Underground Man did not make enough money to provide themselves a meaningful life. The society in which the Underground Man lived was hardly free, we must remember. Is the Underground Man’s attitude truly of his own making? In other words, is he freely choosing to be a bitter old man without a care for himself or others? From a personal, subjective perspective of the character, we might say so, but there is hardly such a thing as a man whose person is completely isolated from the world. The Underground Man constantly contradicts himself, after all, revealing that he knows enough about his unfortunate (although self-inflicted) condition to recognize its atrophic impact on his health yet is wicked enough to make the seemingly intentional decision to choose against his interest. We should actually call him the antagonist of the novel, where there seems to be no protagonist anymore. Notes from Underground, moreover, published in 1864, is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels because of the protagonist’s peculiar outlook and attitude towards the world. The narrator’s disgruntled tone and masochistic remarks convey a sense of existential indignation towards the world. Petersburg than to move elsewhere it is preferable to tolerate a toothache because, he says, there is pleasure in pain-all out of spite. ![]() It is preferable to him to risk his own health than to consult a doctor it is better to breathe the polluted air of St. The Underground Man in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s famous novel tells us that he has willingly confined himself to a hermit’s life-out of spite. The fictional story of a Russian recluse appears less fictional now. There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove that only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” has never appeared less fictional.Īnd why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive-in other words, only what is conducive to welfare-is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being?. OL21025633W Page_number_confidence 91.46 Pages 166 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200914155613 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 385 Scandate 20200910055104 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780857860217 Tts_version 4.The fear of the coronavirus allows our governing bodies to keep us in isolation and the consequences of our permitting this act are more pernicious than we can imagine. C Boxid IA1932610 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:07:25 Associated-names Randall, Natasha Pierre, D. ![]()
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