Thought Entry 9

This reading is very similar to the Phantom of the Opera because the main character is very similar.  He lives in a very isolated place in Petersburg and doesn’t show much.  He talks about how he had taken so much ridicule among other things that he couldn’t take it anymore and live among these other people.  He compared it to being a mouse.  But then he talks about things that aren’t very pleasurable like a toothache and talks about how he gets satisfaction from these things.  He is similar to the Phantom in that sense in that he gets pleasure out of strange things like that.  And he talks about retaliating to the people that have been making his life like this and how he couldn’t do it.  That is similar and not like the Phantom both.  Because the phantom doesn’t necessarily do anything that he physically takes initiative it is more of just the others being frightened of his being.  But he does take some initiative and to frighten some people at the same time which this man in Notes From Underground does not.