Notes From The Underground Quotes

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Winston Churchill. As this quote shows, wars are often depicted as glorious moments in the history of our world and are celebrated throughout history, from the conquests of the Roman Empire to Napoleons domination of Europe. However, in A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin shows from his perspective the Revolutionary War and creation of a new nation without romanticizing the situation. He shows realistically the daily hardships that soldiers had to face while fighting for their lives for their

Despite his unpleasant attitude, the Underground Man does crave attention from others and wants to be respected for his intelligence and knowledge. However, he is completely unable to interact with people normally, a characteristic that is perhaps best illustrated through his experiences with the officer who casually pushes him aside one night when the Underground Man is looking for a fight (48). He tries to bring himself to challenge the officer, but lacks the “moral courage” to do so because he is convinced that if anyone were to witness him protesting and speaking “literary Russian,” they would “misunderstand and jeer at [him]” (49). He becomes obsessed with the idea of confronting the officer, dedicating “several years” (49) to “gather[ing] information” about him, even taking a pay advance to buy clothing that he believes will make him and the officer seem “on an equal footing in the eyes of high society” (52). Instigating a conflict is the only way that the Underground Man knows how to somehow participate in life, and regardless of whether or not the interaction he has is a negative one, it’s something. Though it

Quotation Analysis "This whole war,' he said. ' You know what it is? Just one big banquet. Meat, man. You and me.

Sofia Petrovna follows the life of Sofia Petrovna, a typist who works at the Leningrad publishing house. After the death of her husband and capture of her son, Sofia goes insane. It’s a type of unhinged that demonstrates itself in mirages minutely dissimilar from the deceits those surrounding her voice to guard themselves. Sofia Petrovna proposes an extraordinary and fundamental account of Stalin's Great Purges through simple fictional story arcs. First, there is the vanishing of seemingly innocent people. Sofia looses several people in her life throughout the duration of the novel with almost no warning or explanation. This provides an effective look into

During the second World War, an olympic record holder, Louie Zamperini, was one of the few men that got shot down into the ocean and was stranded for 47 days on a lonely, little raft. The great American hero we all have heard of didn’t start out like you would have thought. He was a young scoundrel who was influenced by his brother to run for something better than away from is problems. After years of running and going to the German Olympics to set the best lap run in the 5,000 meters, Louie had gone into the Air Force and had gotten into trouble at a Japanese POW camp after a crash. The book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, expresses Louie’s life exceptionally well, especially

Similar to Mandela, Tim O’Brien accentuates the changes one goes through, specifically when entering into an uncontrollable and traumatic state of military operations. Captured in Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, the physical objects brought into combat often reflect the mental, emotional, and physical transformations one might undergo during their experiences in battle. Rat Kiley, the fun loving member of the platoon, drops his candy, comic books, and light energy as his mental state becomes darker and darker when his best friend dies. Correspondingly, Mary Anne Bell loses her innocence and necklace she once had as she spends time learning about the enigmas of combat. Though most people will never directly be involved in warfare,

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Looks ahead, that is where your future lies.” This quote from Ann Landers perfectly describes the book Station Eleven because it shows us how Arthur Leander life decisions affected other characters in the story even right after he passed away. The novel starts with the famous known actor, Arthur Leander, who died from a heart attack in a Shakespeare play called King Lear. Then we time skip to 20yrs after to our main character who’s named Kirsten Raymonde surviving through the apocalyptic destruction of the world cause by called the Georgia flu that had happen. Station Eleven was mainly about characters like Kirsten, The Prophet (Tyler), Jeevan, and Miranda whose lives were changed due to the life choices

William Golding contends in his novel “Lord of the flies” that the dangers of evil which lurk inside all of us savagery are through the character Roger. When one considers the word savagery, specifically within the frame of william golding’s novel, savagery comes as a result of freedom and no consequences. In the novel when Roger gets stuck on the island he isn’t certainly evil in fact he is a very shy kid . Although as the story progresses we see him descending into it evilness and savagery. We see that when Roger is walking on the beach with mauris after kicking the kids sandcastle, “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed threw it at henry….threw it to miss.”(Chapter 4) This was a sign of savagery growing inside of him. He wanted to hit

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

So far, the Underground Man and Kant are in agreement. However, Kant believes that the endorsement of desires consists of having a reason to act on that desire, a reason based on what we perceive as some good. The type of good is unspecified - it could anything from the satisfaction of egoistic aims to the betterment of the human race. What is important is that we establish for ourselves what type of good on which to base our reasons. Free action is impossible unless we formulate our reasons independently; more specifically, we must decide for ourselves what is a good reason for acting. Although the Underground Man agrees that we must formulate our own reasons, he rejects the notion that reasons based on any concept of a perceived good can ever really be our own.

This is the quote I have chosen, because it just sounds cool. Just kidding I heard this quote in the movie Unbroken. It was a good movie and was based off a true story about Louis Zamperini’s life and the things he had to go through like, World War Two. I think this quote best is used in the story when he was in the war. He was in a prison camp and ,Mutsuhito Watanabe was the corporal.

In this paper I will be giving an essay that will have a brief introduction on how my overall topic has evolved from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century, ending with my thesis statement that will show you how it has evolved. This will also tell you how its evolutionary change has impacted our modern society of today.

Notes from the Underground is a novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In this book, Dostoyevsky illustrated his ideals through the words of his literary protagonist, the Underground Man. The Underground Man strikes the readers as a person

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground (1864/2008) comes across as a diary penned by a self-described “spiteful” and “unattractive” anonymous narrator (p. 7). The narrator’s own self-loathing characterized by self-alienation is so obvious, that he is often referred to by critics as the Underground Man (Frank 1961, p. 1). Yet this Underground Man is the central character of Dostoyevsky’s novel and represents a subversion of the typical courageous hero. In this regard, the Underground man is an anti-hero, since as a protagonist he not only challenges the typical literary version of a hero, but also challenges conventional thinking (Brombert 1999, p. 1).

Fyodor Dostoevsky’a novel “Notes from Underground” is known for being the first existentialist novel. A 40 year old man living in St. Petersburg, Russia known as the Underground Man works as a civil servant, but retired shortly after inheriting money from a distant relative. The Underground Man introduces himself by telling the reader, “I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man” (1). He also says he could never be spiteful and how he could never have a character because he does not have a conscious. He also talks badly about idealists and goes on saying that Utopian ideas are reasoning with no sense of reality. The Utopians also say that human beings are under control by laws of nature, which reflects how they will act. Also the Underground Man thought the Crystal Palace was a bad idea because man may not be able to have free will anymore. The Utopians do not think humans need to make their own decisions, but do things if they want to. The Underground Man and Dostoyevsky explain why having a world of Utopia would be very easy and boring and someone would have a stop to it, even if it is good, because human being need their own desire, which leads to Dystopia.