Notes From Underground: The Autonomic Remonstrance of a Persona

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School essay

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4 pages

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.doc

Published date :

10/29/2007

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Table of Contents Notes From Underground: The Autonomic Remonstrance of a Persona Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The first part of the memoir
  3. Pervasiveness within the ideology of the Underground Man
  4. Rebelling against society itself
  5. The stimulus provided by reading
  6. His attempt at socializing
    1. Visiting an old schoolmate
    2. Being treated with condescension
    3. His shabby apartment and pitiable lifestyle
  7. Conclusion

Abstract

Dostoevsky's classic, notes from underground maintains the transient ability to pass through the realm of classic literature and into the incendiary realm of the literary fiends who feed on accumulated grotesqueries. This transmutability is painfully not shared with the fabricated persona of the "underground Man" one of the most pathetic yet endearing characters ever to exist in prose. As his title suggests, the "underground Man" shuns humanity yet simultaneously and with a forceful dynamic believes that humanity is superior to him. The narrative voice is constantly in conflict with itself with equally robust ideologies cannibalizing themselves and pushing themselves forward so as to create an infinite stasis that he cannot transcend. The atomic theme of alienation and of the outcasts that society engenders is one constructed seamlessly well by Dostoevsky and the romanticism of the persona objectively watching itself is one admitted in earnest. The persona's shunning of humanity is similar to the irony of a little boy lashing out at an animal and laughing--the irony being that the little boy hurts as well. No other literary character is so absolutely self-effacing and filled utterly with inconsistent bile.

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