Notes From Underground

Comment on the underground man’s actions. How is acting here in relationship to the claims he made in Part 1?

The Underground Man describes himself as a man with an acute conscious rather than as a man of action. A man of acute consciousness thinks about situations and issues rather than just acting on them. The underground man invited himself to Zverkov’s fair well party, which ended badly. No one wanted him there, but he chose to stay because he wanted to show that he could. But he ends up getting insulted by Zverkov by the end of the night. This angers the underground man and starts to think of ways to get revenge in his head. He thinks of many ways to hurt Zverkov and comes up with a whole scenario in his mind. But from past experiences the reader would not be surprised if he chickens out. It took him a very long time to get his revenge on the officer. His acute consciousness holds him back from acting out his ideas. All he can do is continue to think but when it comes down to acting he stops at the last minute. So instead of slapping Zverkov, he goes to a brothel where he sleeps with a prostitute and has a deep conversation about having a family and daughters. He will always be a man of thinking, he will think of scenarios where he is a man of action, but he will rarely every act out.

Roooster

My first thought of Rooster is that he is a greedy, self-centered, and egotistic man, he also seems to be lazy and a drunk. When Mattie first asks Rooster to help track down her father’s killer, who was supposed to be on an Indian reservation, he said no. But when she offered him one hundred dollars, he changed his mind and agreed to help her. He seems to think highly of himself since he is the marshal of his lands. I think that he thinks that he can get away with things because his title protects him. Rooster appearance is quiet intimidating with his eye patch, black their clothing, and his gun. When he was in the courtroom a lawyer pointed out he has shot 23 people in only six years. His response was he was only defending himself, but he showed no mercy for those 23 people he killed. As of now I am not a huge fan of Rooster, I agree with his fellow towns people who think he is rude, unfriendly, and uncooperative. But maybe will we see another side of him as the movie continues. So far, he is proving to the audience that he is the ultimate anit-hero and seems to be fine with that.

Notes From Underground 1

In the first two chapters we are introduced to the underground man, we begin to learn how he thinks, what his views are on many subjects, his lifestyle and also where he lives. The Underground man is a very pessimistic, spiteful, and confused human being. He finds joy in bringing other’s spirits down because misery loves company. But then he takes it back and says he was lying about wanting to bring people down, but he was lying because of spite. He is 40 years old in the first chapter and goes on and on about his liver problems, but he is to spiteful to get it checked out. Though he does respect medicine and doctors, but spite keeps him from getting help. He acts egocentric in some cases but not in others, for example the underground man believes he is more self-conscious than the average person and he thinks he is very intelligent. But in others scenarios, he says he isn’t good enough to become an insect. I think that the poor conditions he is living in might have had a huge influence on his negativity outlook on life, he has submitted into the underground lifestyle. I find him annoying and unpleasant and I don’t enjoy reading what he is thinking.