Subverting Chernyshevsky, Anticipating the Avant-Garde: The De-centered...
There has been a lot of critical investment on the lines of drawing parallels, comparisons and contrasts between Notes From Underground and Chernyshevsky’s sensationally Utopian novel What Is To Be...
View ArticlePrufrock, Underground: Anonymity in the Face of Desire
In all of modern literature, there are few protagonists as self-effacing, miserable, indecisive, or morally contemptible as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Underground Man. Given the Underground Man’s interminable...
View ArticleContrast Analysis of the Main Heroes of Notes from Underground and Diary of a...
Sample Student Paper on Lu Xun and Dostoyevsky’s Madmen Mad Protagonists Matters and issues of the mind have both intrigued and puzzled writers for about as long as people have been writing. Some such...
View ArticleNotes from Underground and Sartre’s Philosophy: Existentialism Arisen from...
On the surface, it appears that the Underground Man is no more than Dostoevsky’s attempt of a fascinating and contradictory refutation of Chernyshevsky’s proposal of rational egoism as a solution to an...
View ArticleThe Underground Man and Freedom Beyond Reasons
In Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, the Underground Man proposes a radically different conception of free action from that of Kant. While Kant thinks that an agent is not acting freely unless he...
View ArticleDostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most influential authors in world literature. This Russian author had written several remarkable novels including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov....
View ArticleAction vs Inaction in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground
Action versus Inaction in Notes From Underground In Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the narrator, the Underground Man (UM), compares the “man of action” to the self-conscious...
View ArticleAdverse Advantage: An analysis of the Underground Man’s ideas
Armed with a view that strongly opposes the ideas presented by rational egoism, Fyodor Dostoevsky conducts an all-out assault against the theory in his 1864 novella, Notes from Underground. The...
View ArticleAn Analysis of the Anti-Utopian Notion in “Notes from Underground”
Notes from Underground, completed in 1864, is considered one of Dostoevsky’s most deviously insightful works, famous for its gloomy description of not only the dark historical period but also the dark...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Achieve Dominance
Within the first few sentences of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky introduces the protagonist of the story, an unnamed man who narrates his life, as a bitter and emotionally...
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