Essays on Notes from Underground

“Notes from Underground” is an article written by Claire Pentecost concerning the importance of soil. She says that she thought about soil when she was asked a question about seed. She appreciates that seeds are important and says that seeds make up an open-source system that has been running for generations. The survival of any organism is dependent on the environment (Pentecost 5). Any organism that destroys the environment ends up destroying itself in the long run. Soil plays a huge part in the growth and survival of seeds. Microorganisms and plants exchange materials and communicate beneath the ground. ...

“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is about a man who many would recognize instantly as having an existential crisis; he is a bitter, cynical, spiteful former civil servant. At the beginning of his journal, he assures the reader that his motive in writing is not to entertain them. He tells of his exploits as a spiteful civil servant, his skill at making people unhappy and his reason for staying at a job he despised and hated. Once he has made his cheerlessness and lack of mirth clear, he proceeds to expound on his situation, as well as the philosophy by which he ...

Anti-hero is a literary term that entered in literature in 19th century with Dostoevsky and its usage has flourished since then into the second half of the 20th century. The term has been used to describe protagonist characters in Greek drama and stories. The idea of “hero” sets a base for the definition of an anti-hero. The number of anti-heroes in contemporary literature and the society are growing. Currently, the gap between the heroes and the anti-heroes is narrowing in terms of their moral codes, personality and value judgments. The narrowing of the gap could be caused by the sociological, political ...

Whenever reading any written work of art, the reader always gets fascinated by the heroes of the story and more often want to identify with the said hero. But there are instances where anti heroes dominate the work and find themselves being followed closely by the readers. But wait, what totals up to make a character an anti hero, better still, who is an anti hero? An anti hero is that character who is the rival in the traditional hero or protagonist in a work of art. They do not possess the expected qualities that can enable them to be heroic ...

Throughout history, different kinds of tales have been written revolving around different kinds of themes, and in every tale, there is always a main character, sometimes known as the protagonist. The main character is often also known as the hero or heroine of the story. However, when the main character is profoundly imperfect in some way, but lacks in the characteristics and qualities that are typically possessed by a hero, then such a main character is known as an anti-hero. The anti-hero is usually a reluctant main character who believes that he does not have the ability to accomplish a goal. The anti-hero might ...

What is an Anti-hero?

Heroes are often the subject of fictional fantasies that most children often look upon as a symbol of strength, power and good will. In real life heroes are regarded as the exceptional individual that makes a difference in everything they do. However, like any other fictional stories if there’s a hero, there will always be a villain or otherwise the “anti-heroes”, Most often than not, the anti-heroes are the ones that defines the hero because the villains pushes the heroes to the edge of their strength. In a more realistic world, anti-heroes are not the usual image of evil that spends his entire ...

Notes from Underground is a highly acclaimed novel written by one of the greatest novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky is distinguished for weaving philosophical and theological threads in his brilliant narratives and the same is reflected in his novel notes from underground which was written in the year, 1864. Notes from underground is regarded as first existentialist novel. The author portrays a dreadful individual who deceive himself knowingly or un knowingly. The novel is divided in two parts; first part of the novel is told as monologue and is in the form of a diary which belongs to an underground man. This paper ...