The Underground Man's Self-Loathing

In Part II, Chapter III, he describes most of his childhood, and he reveals how troublesome it truly was. He was an orphan sent off to a school by his distant relatives. The Underground Man says that he was also treated horribly at said school because he was different from the rest of them. His experiences are already unfavorable as he mentions that his “schoolmates received me with spiteful and pitiless jibes because I wasn’t like any of them,” (744). These personal and social events in his young life are the beginning of his struggles, and starts the negative and self-conscious mindstate he accumulates as he

In Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto, Shelby argues that the urban poor’s refusal to work in legitimate jobs or engagement in criminal activity is justified as it does not violate the principle of reciprocity or neglect civic obligations. Shelby’s arguments focuses on determining whether or not deviant behavior is reasonable from the perspective of justice and reciprocity in society. This principle of reciprocity is derived from Rawl’s doctrines such as the basic structure of society and justice as fairness. In this paper, I will reconstruct Shelby’s argument that deviant behavior does not necessarily violate an individual’s civic obligations. I will argue that Shelby’s dichotomy of moral and civic obligations is arbitrarily defined

Through the past few weeks, the University Of Akron has participated in a series of events known as Rethinking Race. These events gave students and staff the opportunity to further understand the struggles many people go through to receive fair treatment. During these past weeks, I have had the privilege to experience the Tunnel Of Oppression and well as a film named Race.

What is the meaning of spite? Spite is a desire to harm, anger, or defeat another person especially because you feel that you have been treated wrongly in some way. (Merriam-Webster) In the Notes From the Underground, the author starts the novel with, “I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man.” (pg. 1) From the beginning, the word spiteful is used many times, it foreshadows what the author is trying to convey to the readers. The author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was a Russian writer, who changed with the era. Through his imprisonment in a labour camp in Siberia, his views on a utopian society changed. Before his imprisonment, he believed in utopian societies, yet after ten long years of labour his views drastically changed and became suspicious in utopias. Through his later novels, the reader sees through Dostoyevsky’s lens and gains an understanding on why he no longer

In the article “Confessions of a Sociopath” it’s stating that not all sociopaths are violent. However, they might have violent thoughts but they will not act upon them. Sociopaths have a lot of signs that cause them to know if they are sociopaths like have a death stare, having violent thoughts of killing or really injuring someone, and saying cruel thing to friends or family member. Meanwhile, some sociopaths do act on these violent thoughts and kill people. One in every twenty-five people are sociopaths. Most of those sociopaths are not serial killers. Only about twenty percent of men and women in prison are serial killers. One story that might have caused the one girl sociopathic behavior is because her dad was abusing her and her family

She figured that he had been missing for at least two days or maybe more. Kass was walking through the scary forest when suddenly the flashlight on her phone went off. Kass was having second thoughts about turning back and heading to the village. Instead, she sat of the ground to pray to Master Dan the Snowman. “Dark, completely dark in the middle of the forest looking for my boyfriend while Krampus is just waiting to take me, and make me lucky number thirty three. Master Dan if you hear this, please I apologize for disobeying you. Can you help me get out of this scary forest, if you choose not to help me, it is fine I should have never disobeyed you.” Kass said praying to Dan the Snowman. Then kass realized that her boyfriend's phone still had charge. She decided to use the flashlight on his phone. Kass continued to walk through the forest, as she got deeper it started to get colder, darker and the goosebumps on the back of her neck spread to her whole body.

While the underground man (UM) can be perceived as a dark person by some, he can also cause us to feel pity for him. Mixed emotions and many thoughts is what this character evokes to the reader. This man without a name can be thought to have no identity, he is an individual alienated from society. I personally believe that the UM is a very thoughtful person. I oppose to the thought of this man being in-sane as discussed in class. The underground man might not be “normal” or might seem to not be following the norm. This is only because this man is preserved and unexperienced. He does not know how to act due to his alienation from society and therefore, has many difficulties.

“I get so tired of people saying, ‘Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that’, I’m like ‘Well no, fantasy is reality’, that’s what Lewis Carroll showed in his work,” spoke animator, writer, producer, and director Tim Burton in regards to the themes of depression, isolation, and fear within his collection of work. Influenced by Gothic fiction and the art and film movements of Expressionism, Surrealism, and Noir, Burton crafts the inner world of the outcast and explores the ideas of Jungian and Freudian psychoanalysis in his films, particularly in Vincent (1982), Beetlejuice (1988), and Edward Scissorhands (1990). This paper will explore Burton’s aesthetics of chiaroscuro lighting, color symbolism, and composition to recreate the realism of human emotions through the eyes of a misunderstood character’s solitude in a highly fantastical world. Burton breaks conventions of narrative Hollywood cinema and focuses less on the script, but largely on the psyche of the character and the visual outer world that portrays their inner anxieties. Although, Burton’s films are directly influenced by the work of Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Robert Wiene, and Salvador Dali, he creates his own auteur style by mapping out the psychological journey of his characters through symbolic hand-drawn concept and costume designs that mirrors his own struggles of displacement throughout his life.

The world has changed over many of years, its grown to be a nation with more fatality crimes and more in debt. Many people believe this society is great but others feel that its growing more and more into a destructive society.

Deviance occurs in everyday life. Everywhere you look, one society or another may consider your thoughts, beliefs, or actions to be deviant. For the children of Appalachia, everyday life would be deviant through the viewpoint of the rest our country, but for these children, it is the norm. The documentary looked at multiple children living in Eastern Kentucky; their homes, families, schools, careers, entire lives were completely exposed for the world to see their deviance. This is a look at the children of Appalachia and how they set the standard for deviance in the United States today. Some of the forms of deviance we will be looking at include what people’s attitude towards the child are, how their deviance is constructed, poverty, drugs,

"Many times I have suffered in the cold, in beating rains pouring in torrents from the watery clouds, in the midst of the impetuosity of the whirlwinds and wild tornadoes leading on my company—not to the field of...war...but to the land of impartial freedom, where the bloody lash was not buried in the quivering flesh of a slave...." (7,p.i).

Robert Merton was a well educated individual big on learning societies focus and concerns, his career as a criminal theorist initiated at his start as a professor at the University of Columbia. His claims involved the why and how groups of people in America excluding other countries would involve the American Dream “wealth” as a mean to commit crimes trying to achieve the “goal”. In every city we could map out the social groups by crime rates and incident rates Nichols, Lawrence a sociologist explained “Robert K. Merton gained renown as a distinguished sociologist, especially in connection with the paradigm of 'structural-functionalism ' and he publicly self-identified as a 'structuralist. '” (Lawrence Nichols. Sep2016) That explained

this section, the narrator’s actions are dominated by a desire to fulfill his socially defined

I am shocked by the underground man’s inability to feel kindness and gentleness in any way at all. He tends to cherish the misery of others and despise the societally accepted good things in life. The underground man proposes reasons for this hate but it really is simply because of a plagued and evil heart. Men are generally not like this in their hearts and I tend to believe in all men having greatness in their hearts and that all men do only what they believe to be right when tasked with making difficult decisions. Perhaps this man is playing a game to tempt his sanity like the extraordinary man but I believe that he actually is evil inside. To say that this man is an outcast is an understatement. Everyone that I have ever met wants to do

The pain of rejection is a common feeling in the human experience. Feeling unwanted can have a powerful negative effect on one’s self perception. The clones in Never Let Me Go and the monster in Frankenstein both experience this. The pain from this ultimately ruins their self confidence and causes them to believe that they are inferior.