“Notes from Underground” was published in 1864 as a presentation of his first issue of 1860 “L'Epoca”. “Notes from Underground” was written by the author during a time when he faced many challenges in his life. Dostoevsky faced failure in the publication of his first newspaper “Time”, his financial position was becoming increasingly weak and embarrassing. Furthermore, his wife was dying and his conservatism had been eroded leading to a decline in his popularity among liberal-reading Russians and as a result, he became the focus of attacks from the radical and liberal press (Fanger 3). Therefore, this research seeks to find out how the author presents the aspect of the “underground man” and how he approached Charles Darwin's thoughts on man in “The Origin of Species”. The tone of “Notes from Underground” is high-pitched, strange and bitter. The bitterness of the book can be traced back to the multiple personal misfortunes suffered by the author while writing his novel. Through these personal tragedies it can be argued that the author presented the position of the "underground man" through his own experiences. Furthermore, the research supports the second belief that the novel's presentation of the “underground man” is grounded in the social context the novel addresses (Fanger 3). Through this, Dostoevsky was found to present man's suffering under the emerging worldview directed by European materialism, liberalism, and utopianism. When he began to write his novel, Dostoevsky had been guided by the romantic mistake of looking at utopian social life and the social vision of satisfying and perfecting regular life for man. Society's failure to achieve these results was the result of distant liberalism and materialism which reduced the ability to reason and... middle of paper... his physical inertia hinders his aggressive desires and compulsively talks about himself but he has no firm argument (Frank 50). Furthermore, the underground man is full of contempt for the readers but desperately wants the reader to understand, reads a lot but writes superficially, describes social thinkers as superficial, and wishes to collide with reality but lacks the ability to do so. Therefore the underground man is completely emotional, stammering, without true form. Works Cited Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground and the Grand Inquisitor, trans. RE Matlaw. New York: Dutton, 1960.Fanger, Donald. Introduction: notes from underground. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Trans. Mirra Ginsburg. NY: Bantam, 1992.Frank, Joseph. "Nihilism and Notes from the Underground." In Modern Critical Views: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Ed. Harold Bloom. NY: Chelsea House, 1988: 35-58