Therefore, this form of confusion, which leads to indecision and inertia paint the Underground Man as an anti-hero as heroes take charge of their lives and circumstances to direct the plot of a story or movie.
In addition, the man knows that the only reason he cannot execute any task is personal doubts, which emerge from over analysis of everything. His over analysis of every situation makes him hypocritical of every situation and thus he does not know what to do.įor example, when he says, “for the most part I preferred being alone not trying to justify… no that’s a lie…” (Dostoevsky 42), it becomes clear that he is very confused about himself. He is so paralysed by having to select what to do that his decision is not to choose. He is looking for a path to enable him to live in peace unfortunately, his inactivity and indecision cannot yield the desired results. From these sentiments, we can see a hopeless man who does not have any goals. The book, just like the movie, starts with main character’s words, “I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man…I was uncivil” (Dostoevsky 1). This paper highlights how the main character in the movie and book, Notes from the Underground, exemplifies antihero. However, the Underground Man’s inactivity and indecision disqualifies him from becoming a hero. A hero stands out by making and executing heroic decisions.
Such is precisely the essence of all consciousness and thought.In both the movie and book, Notes from Underground, the main character fails to portray the attributes of a hero. Well, and how am I, for example, to set myself at ease? Where are the primary causes on which I can rest, where are my bases? Where am I going to get them? I exercise thinking, and, consequently, for me every primary cause immediately drags with it yet another, still more primary one, and so on ad infinitum. For in order to begin to act, one must first be completely at ease, so that no more doubts remain.
How to explain it? Here’s how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for the primary ones, and thus become convinced more quickly and easily than others that they have found an indisputable basis for their doings, and so they feel at ease and that, after all, is the main thing. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow minded.
“For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia – that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms.
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