Who Is The Narrator In The Note From The Underground

In the Note from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, in part on of his fictional

narrative the narrator introduced himself as a man who is spiteful and who diagnosis himself as

sick. He mentions how his acts are product of his spitefulness and that he finds himself

unattractive. The narrator is not very trust worthy because he contradicts himself and his beliefs,

he belief his very sick but does not believe in doctors, even though he has much respect for

medicine and doctors. In this narrative of part one it really hard to trust the narrator because of

the many contradictions he makes about him being spiteful man. He expresses that even though

he believes his a spiteful official because he was rude and took pleasure on being

He also makes a reference to Nikolai Chernyshevsky's “What Is to

Be Done?” by mentioning the “Palace of Crystal” from the fourth dream in the novel, he kind of

make fun of it by saying what good of having a crystal palace if their no suffrage and by

comparing it to a hen’s house. This narrator just makes me not trust him because he changes his

mind to much, he is a spiteful person. He believes that suffrage is the origin of the conscious, but

that the conscious is a man greatest misfortune even though he believes without it there is no

happiness. It is funny how he wants us to enjoy that he is making fun of What is to be Done by

comparing the crystal place to a hens’ house and saying he would not take a hens’ house for a

mansion. Dostoevsky is very sneaky because even though he does not mention the tittle of What

to be Done, he does uses it in sentence to make clear to that he is making fun at a specific work

of writing.

Note from the Underground it a very interesting fictional narrative, the narrator tries to

confuse us regarding if he is a spiteful person, at first he admits to being spiteful, but throughout

the reading he kind of denies it. Just by how the narrator makes fun of people show he can’t