Today's discussion of "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was insightful just as yesterday's discussion was. When I read the book the first time, I did not notice all of these subtle themes and ideas so it was interesting for me when they were brought up. For some reason, it is much easier to detect these ideas when we read the passages together in class. One of the prominent subjects we talked about today was the fact that the narrator is clearly trying to rationalize the fact that he does not have any goals in life. He does not even have many aspirations. He rationalizes this by claiming that only fools amount to anything in their lives. This is obviously not true.
However, one subject touched on in class kind of inferred that Jewish people feel guilty in some way. I do not think that this applies to everyone since I am Jewish and I do not feel this way at all. I am actually proud to be Jewish.
All in all, the discussion today was effective and taught us a lot about the intentions of the novel.
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