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Essay Instructions: this essay should be on Notes from Underground, Bantam Classics version, trans. Mirra Ginsburg. it should be about the "underground condition," and explore the narrator's character. any links to Nietzsche's Geneology of Morals that will be helpful should also be included. Parentheticall page citations is all that is really required.

*if writing about the "underground condition" is too general for an 8 page paper, it can also be written about the "spite" the narrator feels.

Essay Instructions: essay that explores the similarties and differences between Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Voltaires's Candide. Some topics to consider in both are the attention to optimism and what exactly constitues adversity in each piece.Must have a good thesis statement

Essay Instructions: My essay is a research paper. 5 to 7 pages, following MLA format. the topic is :what is an anti-hero, and how is the narrator of the novel "Notes From Underground" an anti-hero?
Addtional: Quote from the text whihc is the novel "Notes From Underground" and outside critics. Summarizing is acceptable as long as the summary is in service of a thesis. Outside research and quotation from scholarly source is required. in addition to the 5-7 pages comprising essay, be sure to also include a correctly formatted Works Cited page.

Essay Instructions: Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Summarize Dostoevsky's criticism of one of the following: religion, the West, socialism.

• Notes from Underground contrasts the "overly conscious" man with the "man of action." Briefly discuss the differences between the two as he describes them. Which best describes the Underground Man, and why?