According to the narrator, Russian Romanticism seeks “to see everything and to see often incomparably more clearly than our very most positive minds do” (Dostoevsky 40). This aspect explains why he does not visit a doctor for the treatment of his liver problem because suffering is his ‘free will’.Īnother social problem is Russian Romanticism.
The narrator questions the utilitarianism theory, which holds that the best action is the one that brings the highest benefits with minimal negatives.Īccording to the narrator, utilitarianism should be redefined to entail a form of free will that covers, “one’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice- however wild it might be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to a frenzy…most advantageous advantage” (Dostoevsky 20).
The first social problem that the Underground Man comes across is utilitarianism.
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