Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground - Exposing the Unseen Depths

Dostoevskys Notes from the Underg flesh out - Exposing the Unseen Depths of the Human brainiacThe lights are on al ane nobodys home. My elevator doesnt go to the top. Im not playing with a total deck. Ive lost my marbles. .cause I am cra-a-zy Just corresponding yooou -Barenaked LadiesCrazy. That is how Dostoevskys man from the underground is referred to as he writes his notes-- his paradox on life. Is he crazy? Are his ramblings notwithstanding the cries of a madman? Many would like to think so and our teller would probably agree that they are only normal in thinking that. They are decent people. And yet, maybe thither is a bit of truth in these notes. Perhaps we are each crazy. No? Ok, we are each decent people who function effectively in society. But what if there were hidden secrets behind the surface of this decency? Dostoevsky uses his narrator to reveal those unseen depths of the human mind. His craziness is merely an amplification of what all people have inside of them. This man from the underground attempts to break these handcuffs, but he too is human, and can never completely escape. He tries to uncover our eyes to a cycle to which humans are forever humble( Morson 482 ).Knowing of their contempt for him, our narrator follows his old schoolmates to a brothel missing to prove that he is unconquerable. He follows to undermine the superiority that he knows they bump over him. It is from this spiteful drive that the man from the underground finds his way to Liza, his next experience to genuine happiness. Instead of being faced with another round of proving himself, he finds that they had all gone their separate ways. It is her face that catches his fear when she comes in the room There was something simple and kind in... ... This deceptiveness festers until one can no longer be distinguished from any other. He conforms to the generalhumanness. He becomes a slave to society and loses the courage to break the chains that keep him from be ing vulnerable. This cycle makes him normal. He is what is expected. Works CitedCoetzee, J. M. Confession and iterate Thoughts Tolstoy, Rousseau, Dostoevsky. Comparative Literature, Vol. 37, No. 3. (Summer, 1985)193-232. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Three Short Novels Notes from the Underground. Garden City, NY Anchor Books, 1960.Matlaw, Ralph. complex body part and Integration in Notes from the Underground. PMLA 73.1 (March 1958) 101-109.Morson, Gary Saul. Paradoxical Dostoevsky. The Slavic and East European daybook 43.3 (Autumn 1999) 471-494.Paris, Bernard. Notes from Underground A Horneyan Analysis. PMLA 88.3 (May 1973) 511-522.