(A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least. I was rude and took pleasure in being so. The Underground Man is a spiteful man whose ideas we may agree with and admire, but whose actions we hate and deplore. I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I have been going on like that for a long time-twenty years. Then a messenger burst upon this scene, saying the Tsar had decided to spare their lives (as it. referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. But still, if I don’t consult a doctor it is from spite. Fyodor Dostoyevksy, 29, watched as fellow prisoners were tied to a stake, readied to be shot. by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Author). Of course, I can’t explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot ‘pay out’ the doctors by not consulting them I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite.
Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. In Dostoevskys Notes from Underground, the underground man demonstrates and exercises a disturbed and confusing duality, a consistent conflict of self and.
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