The Underground Man.
The Underground Man : Bachelor Paper details Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man abhors the way in which progressive thinkers of his era worship reason, but he does not necessarily totally reject reason outright. Discuss his attitude toward reason and logic. What value does he assign to logical, rational thinking, and how does he make use of it? For a starting point, pick a passage and begin your discussion with a close reading. Arriving at a thesis from this close reading, use the rest of the paper to explore the problem(s) of reason that the Underground Man seems to be critiquing. Do the Underground Man’s concerns seem relevant to modern culture?