Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Great Russian author who was a very dark and mysterious who only wrote

The novel ‘Notes From the Underground’, written by philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is a narration of ideology and life experience written by a male character who calls himself the underground man. The underground man’s ideology is a personalized application of Kierkegaard’s existentialist theory to his life. It is my belief that the underground creates this ideology after learning of his imminent death from liver disease in order to prove to himself that his life was successful and

On September 9th 1828 Leo Tolstoy was born. Tolstoy was the youngest of four boys. In 1830 Leo’s mother passed away. Seven years later his father died as well. Leo was taught mostly at home by French tutors. After failing out of school Tolstoy went back to his parent’s estate to become a farmer. He would soon fail at this as well. Tolstoy then joined the army in 1854 as a junker where he fought in the Crimean War. As a junker he lots of free time. He used this free time to

After school he attended Princeton University,while he was there his stop doing his work and start focusing on writing his books, so he was placed on probation.but in 1917 he dropped of Princeton and join the Army. But afraid that that his literary legacy would

To further the understanding of the reader, the author takes us back into the Underground Man’s past to show how there was no singular cause of his present isolation rather he has been this way for many years. During the beginning of the realism period of writing, Notes from Underground was considered to be first of its kind. Dostoevsky used his own experiences and the political situation that occurred during that time to bring out the very real character like the Underground Man.

For centuries, Russian architecture has been colorful, masterful, and vivid to the eye and imagination. Towers that were shaped like globes, each painted a different bright color skied above expansive buildings. Many of these buildings are still in existence today; their pictures engrained in textbooks and children’s minds as to how the Russians live. How could this possibly relate to a man who wrote stories like Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground? How could the mind of Dostoevsky burst in color when his writing is known for its decayed stance? Simply because of the way he was constructed, much like the towers were: with many different materials and conditions put in place to craft what could be considered one of the writers to ever come out of Russia. However, he was not without his critics, much like those who look at the pictures of buildings and proclaim how bad they were done and what could have been done better based on how it was previously done by others. But would it have been better any other way? Would Dostoevsky even have cared about their opinions? And what exactly brought on the style of writing that is seen in his famous works?

That Rodya is convinced by this line of reasoning to the point of action suggests that he also is devoid of the deontological ethics that are associated with the traditional, Orthodox Russia. Rodya’s willingness to commit this heinous crime which ultimately destroys not only Alyona, but also Rodya himself and the innocent Lizaveta suggests that Dostoevsky's novel is a critique of the nihilistic utilitarianism of Rodya.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, a Christian, is known for his pieces of literature diving further into religion. The word religion represents a wide variety of different branches, such as Christianity, Humanism, Existentialism, and Christian Existentialism. All of these appear in Dostoevsky’s renowned novel The Brothers Karamazov. The author himself was quite fond of the different world views and portraying them through the characters in his works. Comparing and contrasting the characters through differing personalities and moral values based on their view of life.

Although the reader gets a lot of insight into Raskolnikov’s thoughts through the way Dostoevsky sets up the narrative of the novel, we never imagine what it’s like to actively think like Raskolnikov. Yet, still, a question remains. Why would Dostoevsky fully submerge the reader into the mind of a murderer?

In this paper, I plan to explain Dostoevsky’s criticism of Western Individualism. Dostoevsky’s first criticism resides in the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it, “which is presented by the character Alyosha (Dostoevsky 3). Allowing this character to discuss this topic, along with the commentary of Ivan, demonstrates their mindset to solely focus on their own lives, opposed to caring for others. This leads to them living for the now, and not focusing on how their decisions will affect their future or others. Dostoevsky disapproves of this notion because living by this mentality encourages the guidance of logic, which is dangerous because it could tell you to kill yourself. From Dostoevsky’s Eastern Orthodox background, he believes that the only way from living from this situation is to deny it. By denying this way of living, the focus toward life will not be directed toward yourself, but toward the way you can impact the environment around you. Ivan clearly does not believe in these values, due to his intentions to commit suicide at the age of thirty. As said before, living by the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it” leads to death, and Ivan indulges in this to the fullest (Dostoevsky 3).

in which the narrator tries to live in part II, and the reality that he rejects in part I, are

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground depicts a man who is deeply rooted in a lifestyle of misanthropy and bitterness. He is highly governed by his own burdensome philosophies. The Underground Man (as he will subsequently be referred) lives by the precedent of his own conceptions on how life should be lived. His understanding of the way people should interact socially and how individuals should be engaged emotionally has been thought through thoroughly. He is highly contradictory in his rationalization of his own practices, but appears to rather revile in his own self-pity. The Underground man has a penchant for feeling sorry for himself and rather than take part in society naturally, he forcibly places himself in encounters that will

Leo Tolstoy’s religious household, his service in the Russian military during the Crimean War and his time spent traveling abroad, and his descriptive and immersive writing style all come together to make him one of the most highly regarded authors of his time.

Storytelling and reading aloud played a valuable part in young Fyodor's life, influencing his own later successful writing endeavors as well as his performance of literature. His nanny and wet nurse introduced the Dostoevsky children to folklore and lives of the saints through the stories they told. Nanny Alyona Frolovna "told the children stories of ancient Russia, of Saint Sergey of Moscow subduing a bear by the power of his holiness, of heroes and legends and folk tales, Christianity and Russian myth intertwined"; the stories were so vivid and frightening that the children had trouble sleeping (Gunn 10). During the winter their former wet nurses would make a ceremonial visit to the Dostoevsky family, staying

The Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky stands at the very summit of Russian literature. No 19th-century writer had greater psychological insight or philosophical depth.  None speaks more immediately and passionately to the mood and tone of the present century. This essay will discuss how Dostoyevsky's intent to portray a 'truly beautiful soul' manifests itself in the novel The Idiot, and access Dostoyevsky's success or failure in achieving his intention.

During this period his wife, Maria, and his brother Michael died. He left with financial responsibility for the magazine, Epokha, which he and his brother had been jointly running and for the son of his late wife from her first marriage. Dostoevsky was devastated, sank into deep depression and suffered from a gambling compulsion, which resulted in massive debts. His epileptic seizures, which may have started in 1839, increased in frequency. Perhaps this also induced him to return to creative writing. In 1864, he published Notes from Underground (1864), a subtle psychological study of an outsider.