Notes from underground (analysis)

Notes from underground

(Friday, September 13th, 2019)

This class was quite interesting. Since the book "Notes from underground" is a little bit complicated to understand (specially the first part), the teacher made some questions regarding society in order to make a relation with the situation of the book. Questions such as what factors would make a person resentful with society, what activities we commonly do make ourselves feel happy ( are they considered "taboo"?) , if you were getting to the end of your life, would you like to write your memoirs ( why , why not?) and others were asked. At first I did not understand the purpose of these questions, but later the teacher made the relation between these questions and the story of the book, so I could get the idea of what the main character of the book tries to explain in his story. Then, the teacher explained the term "Utilitarianism" that means if we want to make something that makes us happy, we can do it no matter what the others may think. Finally, the teacher told us about an activity for the next class regarding the same book. we will have to read a specific chapter and we will debate. I think  this will be very fascinating. 

Checking the attendance list 😃

Working in different groups 

Sharing our opinions regarding the questions