Topic > What is social determinism in The Note From Underground?

Even though for some reason he was just a servant, he always seems to act like he is superior to him. This behavior of the servant makes the underground man hate him so much and makes him develop this way of always feeling inferior to other people. At the same time, there is Hedda Gabler, who is a product of social determinism. She grew up in an upper-middle-class environment with different ambitions than women of her time, where they were expected to stay at home and have children. But just to meet society's expectations, she married a man she had never loved, and began living a life she never wanted. Hedda married Tesman, an academic student who was supposed to have potential success, not because she loves him, but only because, as she said, "he was so much more than all my other admirers offered me." In this quote she shows her true feelings, meaning that she never loved him and just married him because he was the best option among the