A Defense Of Individualism Based On Foydor Dostoevskys Novel:notes F E

Fyodor Dostoevskys novel, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, has held many pass judgments, such as being a case taradiddle of nuerosis or a specimen of modern tragedy. The most popular label it has obtained however, is being the authors defense of individualism.The novel is writen as a performance, fragment triad, composition memoir, by a nameless personage who claims to be writing for hiom ego save consistently maipulates the reader--of whom he is morbidly aware-- to the point where there seems to be no judgement the reader can make which has not already been do by the writer himself.The underground man is represenative as a produce of individaul pathology or a biographical accident. He is "one of the characters of our recent past," part of a generation that is living out its days among us. Internal eveidence makes it wrap up that his generation is of the 1840s. He shows the fate of the isolated petty clerk and Dostoevkian idealist twenty years after, surveying his wasted life in the sunrise(prenominal) spiritual climate of the 1860s and at the same time finding confession for his own grotesque being in the simplistic views of the human temper now current.IN the first part of the novel, the underground man describes himself and his views, and attempts, as it were, to clarify the reasons why he appeared and is bound in our midst. The mention of his self and his views raise thequestion of how the two are related. Are we to understand his views as the produce of his wasted life or independently? There...