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    Life The underground man from Notes from underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Ilynch from The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy share a variety of attributes such as the life. Tolstoy’s novella uses a structural path to elaborate the transformation of Ivan from a cold and self-righteous person to an intricately kind and confident individual at the end. On the other hand, Dostoevsky exhaustively applies the plot, tone, and structure to establish the personality of the underground man. The

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, published in 1864, is a novel revealing the thoughts of a fictional character, that is, the narrator, or the “Underground man,” but at the same time, it is a reflection of Dostoyevsky’s ideas. In this novel, there is an exploration of various themes and most importantly, with regards to the scope of this paper: consciousness and free will. The ideas Dostoyevsky conveys in this text are more easily comparable to other thinkers and their ideas, namely, Kant

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    therefore slip back into the circular pattern of inertia as before. Bell presents the idea that, for the Underground Man, "Liza can be seen as an indication of a truly viable alternative to the crystal palace, and consequently, also to the underground" (Bell 142). Due to her willingness to listen to and connect with the Underground Man, Liza's love could have been the antidote to the Underground Man's inert solitude. His agony waiting for her to come back to see her again is proven in his explicit

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    goes on working alone in a metropolitan city, because he can’t sleep at night. Travis lives alone, without his family, any friend and lover, so he doesn’t talk to anybody, but he spent watching porn and thinking about himself. He seems to be alienated from others and the society, at the same time he has already noticed his lonely situation. In Taxi Driver, Travis feels loneliness which ruins him gradually and finally makes him almost kill himself. A scriptwriter, Paul Schrader wrote the script of Taxi

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    he can’t sleep at night. Every single day of his life, Travis lives alone, without his family, any friend and lover. He doesn’t talk to anybody, but he spent his lifetime watching porn and thinking about himself. Therefore, he seems to be alienated from others and the society. Travis feels lonely in his situations, which appear in the film. His loneliness ruins himself gradually. Because of his loneliness, finally, Travis almost kills himself. A scriptwriter, Paul Schrader wrote the script of Taxi

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    deprive himself one satisfaction for another. Notes from Underground and Dostoevsky shows us again and again that the action of complete and opposite reaction to what is seen as normal and acceptable is not that of free will but the illusion of free will. There are any good examples of this and the first is when Dostoevsky introduces the reader to the Underground man's first example of pain suffering and consciousness with the paragraph about the Underground Man's toothache: “HA, HA, HA! Next you’ll

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “notes from the underground” is very different from all the literary work I have read. The protagonist in this novel on part I keeps on rambling jumping from one subject to another, seems depressing at times, but from the very first sentence “I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man”, it digs my curiosity to know more about this sick, spiteful character. It seems Dostoevsky’s protagonist is mad and has contempt for everything and arguing against conformity and reasoning. The

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    The battle between society and man, the social creature, would be a definition of social alienation. As a result of the wounds casted upon a man from society, that man begins to alienate himself and retreat. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in “Notes from Underground,” shows us the Underground Man who, after expecting the world to work like it does in literature, finds himself being isolated for the last twenty years of his life. Ralph Ellison, in “Invisible Man,” shows us an Invisible Man who, in the beginning

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    Underground Man Analysis

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    The Underground Man is a person of extremities and contradictions. His character is harder to gauge than most because he varies on every single position he gives. He is a wicked man, who can perform no wicked acts, an evil man, who has his stretches of good, and a man of freedom and free-will who has imposed among himself rules and his own underground prison. The Underground Man is hyperconscious, he is highly intelligent, and is well read, yet this has led him down a path of inertia. He is an apathetic

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    Isolation from the Underground When you’re in your room with your door locked, you’re trapped. In your own world, isolated from every human contact trapped by your own or other’s actions. That is, until the isolation breaks by an outside force. Whether that was someone physically letting you out or by your own hands. Isolation is something we all experience at one time or another, but we can deal with it differently. Isolation by definition is “the state of being in a place or situation that is

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