In the next fifteen pages of "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the narrator continues to contradict himself with everything written. The narrator makes a point and then refutes it shortly after. He even says that he does not agree with what he has written multiple times throughout these passages. In this way, it is difficult to see what his true viewpoints are. However, I can still comment on the points in which he had one opinion.
He continues to hold true to the fact that the human race gets satisfaction out of suffering for some reason. I still cannot wrap my head around this. Suffering has the word "suffer" in it for a reason. He believes that people do not always act in accordance with their own best interests which I think is sometimes true. However, I do not believe that our choices are controlled by the laws of nature versus our own free will which he claims as fact. He does acknowledge that this is a theory that is a little bit contrived.
Overall, I find the narrator's points of view to be insightful but I do not agree with every idea written.
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