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

rude in reality

he said he couldn’t be spiteful, but not even an embittered man. He says that even though he

believes to be a spiteful man, in his conscious he knew he was never really spiteful, which make

me doubt if to really believe what he is narrating.

The narrator is a man that complains a lot, he is never satisfied with others, not his

surrounding or his own self. He complains about his maid and the climate of where he lives and

how it is affecting his health, but also acknowledges that he can live better and at a cheaper price

elsewhere, but refuses to live anywhere else that isn’t St. Petersburg. This narrator is not very

trustful; he complains about his health but doesn’t want to make a change, which shows he

is very stubborn within himself. He not trustful because even though he mentions he is not a

spiteful man, after he said he was, in reality he is a spiteful person because of how he expresses

himself about others and in general anything. His attitude is just disrespectful, hurtful and

unkind.

This isn’t exactly a Utopian society, but a dystopia, because it doesn’t remove suffering or

Pain, the narrator himself is suffering physically and mentally. In his world poverty and wealth

exists, not everyone is treated equal and the environment and society he lives in is not perfect nor

good. He questions if suffering and pain maybe good in a society, then he states that it is good

and that men love suffering.

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

be

trusted, it like he enjoys it and fines pleasure in it. He as the man that live underground envy the

normal men, but does not desire to be like him, even though he desires difference. The

underground man isn’t like any other men, but I believe by underground he means all the secret

and the thing that are hidden in his conscious that he wants no one to know. He can be referring

to the man that within, under him that no one can acknowledge, not even himself. There are

things that should never be shared or told because of how it may ridicule the person and make

them seem despiteful, cruel and malicious, even though it very entertaining to the reader of

reading a writer’s thought in a fictional writing.