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Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes From The Underground Analysis

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Notes from the Underground presents the conflicting ideologies coming to surface during the 19th century through the narrator, The Underground Man. Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky as an opposition to the growing radical ideology of the ninetieth-century, primarily nihilism; Dostoevsky uses the underground man to toy with these ideologies and expose the inconsistent ideas. Through the underground man, Dostoevsky reveals the “…confession of his tragic vision of a man, [and] of his despair before that vision” (Jackson 17). It is with reference to Notes from the Underground that the critique on the perpetuating ideas of humanity, from Dostoevsky and other scholars at his time, are explored. By investigating the tension between ideology and the underground
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