Analysis Of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes From The Underground

Looking at the World from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky prepares the world as he knows it for a revolution. Notes From The Underground plays into the Russian Revolution. According to class discussion, this is not as radical as Dostoyevsky would get. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “In 1849 he was arrested for belonging to a radical discussion group; sentenced to be shot, he was reprieved at the last moment and spent four years at hard labour in Siberia, where he developed epilepsy and experienced a deepening of his religious faith” (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, 2014). Dostoevsky pushed for his writing to be the driving force to get the Russian people to understand what was going on with the Czars, “I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official. I was rude and took pleasure in being so” (Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Notes-from-the-underground." ). There are a lot of cultural context clues that allow the reader of his work to put together exactly how his life was, to put the reader in his shoes. The aspects that standout

Many people all over the world have to live with epilepsy, “Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder and affects people of all ages. Epilepsy means the same thing as "seizure disorders". Epilepsy is characterized by unpredictable seizures and can cause other health problems. Epilepsy is a spectrum condition with a wide range of seizure types and control varying from person-to-person”( http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/epilepsy-101/what-epilepsy). This disease could very much been a driving force in Dostoevsky’s writing. A majority of people do not understand what epilepsy can do the person, “Public perception and misunderstanding of epilepsy causes challenges often worse than the seizure” (Public perception and misunderstanding of epilepsy causes challenges often worse than the