Though such people are very stupid, the Underground Man envies them. People who can take revenge usually act without thinking. The Underground Man then insists that he is very proud, but if someone slapped him in the face, he would not be able to avenge himself. Eventually, the Underground Man came to find pleasure in humiliation. Consciousness causes humiliation by allowing us to recognize our own powerlessness against these laws of nature. The Underground Man accepts the doctrine of determinism, which claims that all our actions are determined by the laws of nature and are thus not up to us. The Underground Man tells us that he could never have character because his consciousness has become overdeveloped as a result of being too cultured. Only men of action who are not intelligent can have any kind of character. He could never become spiteful or anything else because his nature did not allow him to have any character. Almost instantly, however, he reverses his position, claiming instead that he is not at all spiteful but merely wanted to be. He was a civil servant and tortured petitioners who came to see him. He says that he is a sick man and a spiteful man. The narrator of the novel - the Underground Man - introduces himself to us. The first part presents us with the psychology and the ideas of the novel's protagonist.
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