Today we discuss Dostoevsky’s dark side. We talked about how
he says that he can feel enjoyment from the pain or misfortune of others. When
I read that section of the book, the part where he declared that when he saw
things “sublime and beautiful” and he understood that the world could be a
place of goodness, and then it makes him sink into a “mire”, I assumed that
this was because he insane or depressed constantly. Then I realized after the class discussion
that it’s a normal feeling that people suppress or do not want to talk about.
It like the phrase misery loves company. If you feel like your life is less
enjoyable then someone else’s, then you want to drag them down with you. It reminded me of a time when my older
brother built a beautiful Lego tower. My
parents were fawning over him, and I immediately became jealous. From this
jealous I decided that it was a good idea to destroy his tower. Even though I
got in trouble for it, I felt a weird sense of enjoyment for making my brother
feel the way I did.
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