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Falling Underground


Falling Underground
A comparative analysis of the 'anti-heroes' of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes From Underground" and Albert Camus' "The Fall".
1,252 words (approx. 5 pages) | 2 sources | MLA | 1993 Israel


Paper Summary:

The paper compares and contrasts two stories - "Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and "The Fall" by Albert Camus. It shows the way in which the protagonists - a nameless anti-hero in Dostoyevsky's novel and Jean Baptiste Clamence in "The Fall" - deal with their disillusionment with society and humanity.

From the Paper:

"In 1864 Fyodor Dostoyevsky introduced his nameless anti-hero, an introverted individual who is introspective and self-conscious. The character's constant dilemma regarding his self worth causes him to alternately retreat into the safe anonymity of his 'underground' and to strike out and humiliate people in order to revenge himself for his own humiliation at the hands of others. In his own notebooks, Dostoyevsky asserts that he portrayed in his protagonist a "real man of the Russian majority" (Notes From Underground 9). Nearly a century later Albert Camus introduced Jean Baptiste Clamence as "a hero of our time" in The Fall which Lermontov defined as "a portrait but not of one individual; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression" (The Fall 3)."

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APA Citation:

Falling Underground (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Falling-Underground/16222

MLA Citation:

"Falling Underground" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Falling-Underground/16222>




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Hebrew University, often referred to as the "Harvard of the Middle East" is a fully accredited University conforming to the highest European standards. I have completed B.A. degrees at Hebrew U in both English and Comparative Literature and have completed all coursework towards my M.A. with the exception of my thesis.
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