Stanley Chernyshevsky's Eyes-Wide Shut

The Underground Man is alone because he has chosen to be; he is hyper-conscious, meaning he is too aware and over analyses everything – his biggest worries are petty compared to what is going around him. As a society, we worry so much about ourselves and our own persona, we sometimes become paranoid. A perfect example is given when the Underground Man is on the verge of having dinner with his old comrades and he notices a stain on his trousers “The worst of it was that on the knee of my trousers was a bug yellow stain. I had a foreboding that that stain deprive me of nine-tenths of my personal dignity.” (NU 48) He immediately panics as he worries about whether his friends will see it, and goes as far as to consider forgetting dinner because he is so embarrassed. As shameful as it is to admit, we too have reached the point where we are so concerned with out outer appearance that we let it dominate most of our life – there are several instances where we dictate who we associate with and who we befriend based on their appearance. He is severely misanthropic, marked by hatred, distrust, and disdain toward the human race; he believes himself to be more intelligent and perceptive than most other people, and this contrast with the fact that he despises himself and frequently feels inferior or humiliated. Due to his lack of loving relationship growing up, he goes through life full of shame and self loathing, often falling into existentialism. The Underground Man’s urge for

The novella “Notes from Underground” describes the life and thoughts of a character many simply call the “Underground Man.” This piece, written by Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is divided into two parts: one solely the Underground Man’s thoughts, and the second the story of an event that occurred in the Underground Man’s early adulthood. The entirety of the novella is centered around the narrator’s ideas and state of mind, which relate to his past and how the Underground Man views his life. The Underground Man has not appropriately dealt with the experiences from his life, and because of this his actions and attitude toward life are negatively affected. His writings depict that the meaning of the text is in his thoughts, which stem from his life when he was younger.

This show can be seen on TV every Christmas season. Then Ron Howard takes this short film and draws it out to be a two and a half-hour long movie. The worst aspect of the movie is that it makes a mockery of Seuss's main message: “Christmas doesn't come from a store.” This movie is all about selling, from those furry talking Grinch dolls to endless fast-food tie-ins.

Would you want to be thrown out of a window? In the novel, Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky talks about a scene where the underground man wanted to be thrown out of a tavern window after seeing another man get tossed out of it. The social control theory does a good job at explaining the underground man’s need to fit in with society. Do you want to be constantly in debt that you never have money and are a burden to your friends? The strain theory explains really well the scene in the book where the underground man does not get invited to the going away party and does not have the money to pay for it. Both of the theories had interesting histories and more than one theorist has had some input on both.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer that discussed the psychological state of the human soul in many of his works, one in particular is Notes from the Underground; which was published in 1864. Notes from the Underground, had a great influence in the 20th century; the novel takes a man’s inability to communicate with society and uses it to teach readers about the importance of other humans in our daily lives and how that affects the way we think, live, and learn. Although the narrator has alienated himself from society, Dostoyevsky uses his knowledge of diction, style, grammar, and many other literary devices to show the reader that the narrator is lacking the knowledge to communicate

Good vs Evil: Karamazov Style The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky establishes the duality of man in the character of Dmitri Karamazov, and further illustrates the two sides with the lives of his brothers Alexei and Ivan. Alexei illustrates the saintly life, and Ivan represents the rejection of God and morality. Each character is firmly established as such by Dostoevsky in order to show the reader where each lifestyle leads, to manifest in an exterior manner the interior conflict of Dmitri, and ultimately to decide the victor of the classic contest between good and evil.

Everywhere in the world all countries go through different cultural changes, and Russia during the 19th century was no exception. Many cultural changing reforms were passed during Alexander the Seconds rule. The reforms impacted not only the culture of the time, but also the writing of many authors. Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of those authors. His book Crime and Punishment describes how life was like in the lower classes. The culture of Russia during the years 1855 to 1881 was shaped by its tsarist autocracy while the literature of Fyodor Dostoevsky evinces its cultural connection.

Stanley Kubrick, known for his critically acclaimed films, sent the world into a frenzy with the film he released right before his death. His last movie, Eyes Wide Shut, based on Traumnovelle (Dream Story), is a social commentary on the consumerist society we live in today and its relationship to the class system in place. It is important to note that the backdrop of the film is Christmastime in New York City. People who are familiar with Kubrick’s films are aware that everything the camera passes is relevant to his overall message. Notorious for his perfectionism, it was not surprising to find he had, “sent a designer to New York to measure the exact width of the streets and the distance between newspaper vending machines,” in order to reconstruct Greenwich Village in London, where they were filming (Nicholson 2017). The film took 15 months to complete, earning Kubrick the Guinness world record for longest continual film shoot. This time frame is more believable after learning he once made Tom Cruise shoot 95 takes of him walking through a door, Cruise even developed an ulcer working under Kubrick. However, all the extreme measures paid off. Even the background actors play an important role in the film. People are mulling around the streets of Greenwich Village running errands, living their lives, and enjoying the short lived holiday ambience. In almost every one of the shots in the film, there is a Christmas tree lit with rainbow lights affecting the clarity of the air. In

The spiritual life of each person in the world is as individual as a fingerprint. Thousands of different religions create a myriad of outlines for worship, but every personal belief system is unique. “The Three Hermits” by Leo Tolstoy tells of three holy men living a silent life of prayer on an island by themselves. When an Archbishop catches word of them, he insists on diverting his own travel route so that he may visit the hermits. With diligence, he teaches the men the Our Father and departs to return to his ship. Later, the three hermits chase after the ship as if they were running on ground, for they forgot the Our Father and wished to be retaught by the Bishop. Crossing himself, the Bishop assures the hermits that their prayers will be heard by God and asks that they pray for him and other sinners.

Dostoevsky often refers to Alyosha as “the hero of [his] story whom” he loves a lot (Dostoevsky, 338). The Brothers Karamazov is set up to be a novel whose main lead and hero is Alyosha, “an early lover of mankind” (Dostoevsky, 18). Alyosha throughout the novel is described as a good natured young man who is loving and caring, which I believe is the reason Dostoevsky wants the reader to believe that Alyosha is the hero as he meets his criteria of a true hero. In Karamazov some of the themes Dostoevsky introduces are love, change and forgiveness—characteristics that Alyosha has from the beginning. Additionally, one of the major themes Dostoevsky introduces in the novel is change; he toys with the idea, can people really change, if yes, how? In the novel Dostoevsky does show the reader that individuals can change through Dmitri and Zosima and the catalyst for change most often is active love. Initially in the novel the word Karamazov is linked to baseness, sensualist, drunkenness and loose morals that are in general all the characteristics Dmitri is believed to embody. However, by the end of the novel Dmitri’s character transforms, which is why I disagree with Dostoevsky’s analysis that Alyosha is the hero, rather I believe the real hero of the novel is Dmitri Fyodorvich who actually changed while Alyosha’s character remained rather static. Dmitri is introduced as someone who grew up entitled and “spent a disorderly adolescence and youth” (Dostoevsky, 11), his own father

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, born November 11, 1821, is a Russian novelist and also a short story writer. Dostoyevsky is portrayed as one of the finest novelists who ever lived in his time. He has written some of the greatest novels of all time such as “Notes from the Underground” and “The Idiot.” In 1876, Dostoyevsky published a short story called, “A Gentle Creature,” which is a story about the chronicles of the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that comes to his shop frequently. The pawnbroker in “A Gentle Creature,” is the main plot and character of the story. The setting of the story is inside of his pawn shop. The narrator of this story is a pawnbroker and the dilemma is that there is dead girl. The pawnbroker begins by having a flashback to be able to describe how everything got to the point of the girl’s death.

The 19th Century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky once wrote that a society can be judged by the conditions within its prisons. In that same vein, you can determine the strength of a society by how it treats those living on the outskirts of society, the most vulnerable and stigmatized citizens. Prostitutes are nearly at the bottom of the American social hierarchy, just above pedophiles, rapists, and violent criminals. Prostitutes are vilified in a way suggesting that they’re somehow victimizing other people. In fact, that stigma has enabled some of the most sinister serial killers and rapists to target prostitutes because their victims have been deemed by our culture as unworthy of their most basic human rights.

It is a controversial, yet often agreed upon knowledge that some people are born more intelligent, charismatic, loving or even on the dark side. Furthermore, there is also the effect of one’s upbringing, surrounding environment and the influence of certain occurrences, particularly those that were neither anticipated nor facilitated by the individual. In this essay, I will explore the idea of how accountable and intensely criticized or praised one person should be for their choices that follow such constricted conditions. I will be studying characters from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, characters such as Alyosha who is said to be good by nature and Dimitry who is impulsive and emotional and naturally acts before he thinks. I argue that if against all odds of nature and uncontrollable circumstance one turns good, by definition of the novel, like Demitri or Ivan, possibly, that person should be the “hero.”

The film that I chose to analyse is none other than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind is a very intriguing movie that explores many dimensions of relationships ups and down. The creative genius behind this production is Michel Gondry, a very cleverly written script by Charlie Kaufman and the cherry on the top performance by Jim Carey and Kate Winslet. Although this film has been widely raved about by film critics, there are still many who find this movie rather confusing or boring. However, this film has formed a cult-like fan base that has devoted their time and energy into understanding and analysing this film. This paper will further analyse this film through different aspects such as the directors style and influence, the film style, narrative construction, generic features of the film, symbolism and others.

Throughout the course of completing this paper I made many major revisions. Initially, I intended to talk about the causes of suffering in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Chekhov's Vanka and Sleepy. As I made my discovery draft and even my first draft, my argument did not answer the question of why the claims I raised mattered. I compared the types of suffering in the works and the characters reactions to suffering, but I could not make a definitive statement about what the authors were trying to get across. Because of this, I had to change my argument and the works I was using. For my new argument, I decided to explore the idea of freedom and how the lack of it leads to suffering. In this paper, my thesis was stronger because I answered the "so what?" question. My body paragraphs were stronger too because my topic sentences were assertive. In my first draft of my new argument I had a strong argument but the structure interfered with the flow of it. In my final draft, my paragraphs are grouped by common themes instead of by works. My conclusion is also more developed. It does not merely restate my introduction but brings up new ideas. Overall, these factors have strengthened my paper for the better. I believe I deserve an A on this paper.