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Analysis of the play its people will be counted by actions. Features of the composition of the comedy "Our people - we will get along" and its stage fate

Analysis of the play its people will be counted by actions. Features of the composition of the comedy "Our people - we will get along" and its stage fate

25.04.2019

The famous Russian playwright Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, who received a law degree, worked for some time in the Moscow Commercial Court, where property disputes between close relatives were resolved. This life experience, observations, knowledge of the life and psychology of the petty-bourgeois merchant class formed the basis of the work of the future playwright.

The first major work of Ostrovsky was the play "Bankrupt" (1849), later called "Own people - let's get along", under which it is now staged in all theaters of the country and the world. However, then, in 1850, after being published in the Moskvityanin magazine, the play was banned from being staged; moreover, for writing this work, Ostrovsky was taken under the covert supervision of the police.

It was this circumstance that later gave reason to V. F. Odoevsky, a writer and public figure, to attribute Ostrovsky’s play to the category of Russian tragedies: “I consider three tragedies in Rus': “Undergrowth”, “Woe from Wit”, “Inspector General”. On the "Bankrut" I put the number four. Readers of The Moskvityanin put Ostrovsky's play on a par with Gogol's works and even called it Merchant's Dead Souls.

What is the tragic thing that happens in the work, which the author himself attributed to the genre of comedy? Already this first comedy demonstrates the features of poetics that will be inherent in all Ostrovsky’s plays that made up the repertoire of the new Russian drama: focusing on moral issues helps not only to analyze the social aspects of life, but also to understand family and domestic conflicts, in which bright character traits of the characters are manifested.

In the play "Bankrupt" complex compositional a structure that combines a description of life like an essay with intense intrigue. The slow-motion exposition includes moralizing episodes that help the reader understand the "cruel morals" of the family of the merchant Bolshov. Small skirmishes between Lipochka (the merchant's daughter) and her mother, visits by the matchmaker, meetings of Samson Silych Bolshov with his daughter's potential suitors - all these scenes almost do not lead to action, but they provide an opportunity to penetrate into the closed merchant world, which actually reflects the processes in the whole of Russian society.

The playwright chose a plot based on a widespread case of fraud among merchants at that time. Samson Silych borrows a large sum from his fellow merchants. But now he doesn’t want to repay his debts, and he doesn’t think of anything better than declaring himself bankrupt - a failed debtor. He transfers his decent fortune (this is evidenced by both the surname Bolshov and the patronymic Silych) to the name of his clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, and to strengthen the deal, he gives his only daughter Olimpiada for him. Bolshov is sent to a debtor's prison, but he is calm, because he believes that Lazar will pay the necessary amount of debt for him from the money he received. Yes, that's just "our people", Podkhalyuzin and his own daughter Lipochka, do not give him a penny.

In the comedy of the young playwright there is a war of all against all. The conflict between “fathers” and “children”, traditional for the literature of the 19th century, takes on a true dimension: the author depicts a vulgar and ridiculing merchant environment. At first, none of the characters in the play causes a positive attitude. Lipochka dreams only of a groom "from the noble" and argues with her mother on any occasion. The tyrant father, who himself determined the daughter's fiancé, justifies his act with the following words: “For whom I command, for that I will go. My brainchild: I want to eat with porridge, I want to butter butter ... I fed her for nothing!

However, the generation of "fathers" in the person of Samson Silych causes more sympathy than "children". The hero's surname is from the word "bolshak" - that is, the head of the family. This is indicative, because he himself is a peasant in the past, and the merchant is only in the first generation. Becoming a merchant, he learned the mercantile law: "Don't cheat, don't sell". Bolshov decides to cheat for the sake of his daughter's future and sincerely believes that there can be no catch on the part of Lipochka and her fiancé, because they "their people - will be considered". But life is preparing him a cruel lesson.

The younger generation in the play is not presented in the best light. Lipochka talks to the matchmaker about enlightenment and emancipation, but does not even know the meaning of these words. She does not dream of equality or freedom of personal feeling - her ideal comes down to the desire to get rich and "live on your own". Education for her is just a tribute to fashion and contempt for customs, so she prefers "bearded" suitors "noble" cavaliers.

The author of the comedy, showing "fathers" and "children", brings two generations of merchants together. But sympathy remains on the side of the elder - Bolshov. After all, he still believes in the sincerity of kindred feelings and family relationships: their people will be considered, that is, they will not let each other down. Insight comes in the finale: a tyrant with a speaking name Samson becomes a victim of his own scam. Having conceived a forgery, he believes that it is possible to deceive someone else, because if you don’t deceive, you won’t live. But he does not even imagine that such a philosophy can also be applied to him. Having entrusted the money to Podkhalyuzin, the naive and rustic merchant remains deceived.

But if a naive, ingenuous faith in people still lives in Bolshovo, then nothing is sacred for the former clerk, and with a light heart he destroys the last moral stronghold - the fortress of family ties. All that remains in him is the resourcefulness and flexibility of a rogue businessman. Previously, he only had to assent and please his master, but now the quiet clerk is turning into an insolent and cruel tyrant. The student has surpassed his teacher - justice is restored, but not in relation to the merchant.

In response to her father's request to pay her debts, her own daughter reproaches her father for living with him until the age of 20 and not seeing the world. And then he is indignant: they say, why now give all the money and walk around in cotton dresses again? The newly minted son-in-law generally argues as follows: “We can’t just be on our own. After all, we are not some kind of petty bourgeois.”.

When the only daughter regrets ten kopecks to creditors and with a light heart sends her father to prison, Bolshov's epiphany occurs. A suffering person wakes up in him, and the comedy turns into a tragedy. It is no coincidence that many performers of the role of Bolshov (M. Shchepkin, F. Burdin) saw in the image of a merchant abused by children, deceived and expelled

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In the play, the author, with his characteristic humor, describes the merchant environment with its own habits and aspirations. The main characters of the work are at the same time narrow-minded and arrogant, stubborn and short-sighted. Each of the characters in the play deserves close attention.
Samson Silych Bolshov, a merchant, the head of the family, is above all concerned with his money matters. He is ignorant and mercenary, it was these qualities of his that played a cruel joke with him. His wife, Agrafena Kondratievna, is a typical merchant's wife. Having not received any education, she, nevertheless, has a very high opinion of herself, but lives only with pressing, everyday problems. Daughter Olimpiada Samsonovna, or Lipochka, is ill-bred, uneducated, does not even know how to dance properly. But at the same time, she firmly believes that she deserves the most profitable groom. Lipochka's reasoning about her desire to marry a noble is especially ridiculous and absurd. The clerk Lazar Elizarych Podkhalyuzin, whom Lipochka eventually marries, is mercenary, selfish, he does not have the slightest gratitude to the merchant Voltov, to whom Podkhalyuzin, one might say, owes everything. Podkhalyuzin values his own person above all else. And as a result, he achieves what is so important to him.
The rest of the characters complement the picture of the merchant's life drawn by the author. All the heroes of the play are equally primitive, they do not have the slightest hint of nobility, striving for the beautiful and the sublime. The ultimate dream for them is to provide everyday, everyday needs.
The relationship between “fathers” and “children” is interesting. In the daughter, not the slightest respect for the mother is noticeable. During a quarrel, they exchange characteristics that are unflattering to each other. Lipochka is completely devoid of such a quality as respect for elders. She is indifferent to her mother and father and thinks only of herself. She is petty, stupid and fully corresponds to the family atmosphere that is depicted in this play.
“Fathers” treat their “children” with complete indifference as well. For the merchant Bolshov, the daughter is only a means to increase capital.

The play “Our people - let's settle” shows the world of soulless people, in which everyone lives according to their own laws. “Children”, growing up, adopt the attitude of “fathers” to life, so they do not have the slightest doubt about how to proceed in the future.

The antagonism between the rich and the poor, the dependent, the “junior” and the “senior” (Dobrolyubov’s expression) is developed here and demonstrated not in the sphere of the struggle for equality or freedom of personal feelings, but in the sphere of the struggle of selfish interests, the desire to get rich and live “of one’s own free will”. All the lofty values to which the dreams and actions of the progressive people of the era are directed are replaced by their parodic counterparts. Education is nothing more than a desire to follow fashion, contempt for customs and preference for “noble gentlemen” over “bearded” suitors. In Ostrovsky's comedy there is a war of all against all, and in the very antagonism the playwright reveals the deep unity of the characters: what is obtained by deceit is retained only by violence, the rudeness of feelings is a natural product of the rudeness of morals and coercion.

The play reached a very high level of generalization. Based on individualization, the playwright created types that gave flesh and shape to the whole phenomenon of Russian life, entered the cultural memory of the nation as "Ostrovsky's types".

8.2. Analysis of the play "Thunderstorm"

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The action of the drama takes place in the provincial town of Kalinov, located on the banks of the Volga. In merchant houses, behind high fences, behind heavy locks, invisible tears are shed, dark deeds are going on. In stuffy merchant mansions reigns arbitrariness tyrants. It is immediately explained that the cause of poverty is the shameless exploitation of the poor by the rich. Two groups of inhabitants of the city of Kalinov perform in the play. One of them personifies the oppressive power of the "dark kingdom". These are Wild and Boar, oppressors and enemies of everything living and new. Another group includes Katerina, Kuligin, Tikhon, Boris, Kudryash and Varvara. These are the victims of the "dark kingdom", but expressing their protest against this force in different ways.

Drawing images of the representatives of the "dark kingdom" - Wild and Boar, the author clearly shows that their despotism and cruelty are based on money. This money gives Kabanikha the opportunity to manage in her house and command wanderers who constantly spread her ridiculous thoughts all over the world, and in general dictate moral laws to the whole city. The main meaning of the life of the Wild is enrichment. The thirst for money disfigured him, turned him into a reckless miser. The moral foundations in his soul are thoroughly shaken.

The young forces of life rise up against the "fathers" of the city. Katerina, the main character of the play, is a strong and free nature, pure and bright, loving and sincere, but in the world where she has to live, these qualities are not only not inherent in most people, they simply cannot understand them. Her tragedy is that the girl is forced to live in captivity, forced to change her moral convictions. Inner purity and truthfulness do not allow her to lie in love, deceive, pretend. Dobrolyubov called Katerina "a ray of light in a dark kingdom." Her suicide, as if for a moment, illuminated the deep darkness of the “dark kingdom”.

This work was published in 1860, during a period of public upsurge, when feudal foundations began to crumble, and a thunderstorm really gathered in a stuffy, disturbing atmosphere. In Russian literature, a thunderstorm has long been the personification of the struggle for freedom, and in Ostrovsky it is not just a majestic natural phenomenon, but a social upheaval.

N. A. Dobrolyubov, speaking about the innovation of Ostrovsky the playwright, believed that his works did not fit the usual rules, and called them "plays of life." Actions and characters develop in them in a new way. Following Griboyedov and Gogol, Ostrovsky acts as a master of dramatic conflict, realistically reflecting the social contradictions of the era.

In The Thunderstorm, the conflict is not at all reduced to the story of the tragic love of Katerina and Boris. This story itself reflects the typical conflicts of the era of the 60s of the XIX century: the struggle between the obsolete morality of tyrants and their unrequited victims and the new morality of people in whose soul a sense of human dignity is awakening.

Accents in understanding the tragic fate of Katerina can be placed in different ways. From a social point of view, her tragedy is determined by the conditions of her existence, the inability to escape from the city of Kalinov, despite the fact that this desire has turned into an all-consuming passion for her. The victory of the "dark kingdom" in the conflict with Katerina is a foregone conclusion. The challenge that she poses to Kalinov's world dooms her to defeat: after all, in order for her dreams to come true, either she must leave Kalinov (which is impossible), or the entire social and everyday life must collapse. A "captive" of Kalinov's world, Katerina thus faces a solid "stone wall": "cracks" have already formed on it, but she is still unshakable. Many characters (Tikhon, Kuligin, Kudryash and Barbara) are dissatisfied with the patriarchal way of life, but their dissatisfaction does not develop into an open protest.
The philosophical aspect of Katerina's tragedy is her opposition to fate. In this conflict, the heroine also cannot win: she must either submit to the will of fate, resigning herself to her fate as a victim of the "dark kingdom", or resolve the dispute at the cost of dying.
The psychological side of her tragedy is an insoluble contradiction between the consciousness of sin and the indomitable will that prompts her to do things contrary to the internal moral prohibition.
To understand the tragic fate of the heroine, all three interrelated aspects of her tragedy are important: social, philosophical and psychological. Only taking into account the complexity of the tragic contradictions that arose in The Thunderstorm, it is possible to correctly assess the position of Katerina. In the banal situation of the betrayal of a merchant's wife, significant social, philosophical and psychological content is "packed". Adultery from a purely everyday fact turned into a tragedy of the individual, for whom love relationships were not the cause, but the result of her opposition to the outside world. Katerina's "sin" is not that she violated the everyday prohibition, but that she dared to question the inviolability of the existing order of things. Its fate was determined by the collision of two historical eras.
For the first time in Ostrovsky's dramaturgy, the quagmire of habitual existence became not only the subject of satirical ridicule, but also a source of lofty tragedy. Thus, the tragic and the comic in The Thunderstorm are two poles of the author's attitude to the patriarchal merchant life.

8.3. Analysis of the play "Dowry"

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Satirical comedies and psychological dramas are two areas of Ostrovsky's work that are most associated with post-reform reality.

The best psychological drama by A. N. Ostrovsky is rightfully considered "The Dowry". It is often compared with the "Thunderstorm", and to a certain extent this is true. "Thunderstorm" is the main work of Ostrovsky's pre-reform dramaturgy, "Dowry" absorbs many motifs of the playwright's post-reform work. The comparison of these plays is also suggested by the fact that in both of them a drama of an outstanding female nature unfolds before us, leading to a tragic denouement. Finally, it is also important that in both plays a significant role is played by the collective image of the Volga city in which the action takes place. But the difference between the epochs depicted in these plays led to a complete dissimilarity between the artistic world of "Thunderstorm" and "Dowry".

"Dowry" is a drama of the bourgeois era, and this decisively influences its problematics. If the soul of Katerina in The Thunderstorm grows out of folk culture, inspired by the moral values of Orthodoxy, then Larisa Ogudalova is a man of the new time, who has broken ties with a thousand-year-old folk tradition, who has freed a person not only from the foundations of morality, but also from shame, honor, conscience. Unlike Katerina, Larisa lacks integrity. Her human talent, spontaneous desire for moral purity, truthfulness - everything that comes from her richly gifted nature, raises the heroine high above those around her. But Larisa's life drama itself is the result of the fact that bourgeois ideas about life have power over her, influence her understanding of people. The motive of trade, which runs through the whole play and is concentrated in the main plot event - bargaining for Larisa, embraces all the male heroes, among whom Larisa must make her choice. And Paratov is not only not an exception here, but, as it turns out, is the most cruel and dishonorable bidder. Responding to the enthusiastic stories of his bride about the courage of Paratov, who fearlessly shot at the coin held by Larisa, Karandyshev correctly remarks: "There is no heart, that's why he was so bold." And Ostrovsky agrees with this opinion, although Karandyshev is not the spokesman for the author's assessments. In general, there is no such hero in the play, but almost each of the characters at one time or another correctly assesses the situation and the people involved in it.

The complexity of the characters' characters - whether it is the inconsistency of their inner world, as in Larisa, or the discrepancy between the inner essence of the hero and external behavior, as in Paratov - this is the psychologism of Ostrovsky's drama. Paratov for everyone around him is a great gentleman, a broad nature, a reckless brave man, and the author leaves all these colors and gestures to him. But, on the other hand, he subtly, as if by the way, shows us another Paratov, his true face. At the very first meeting with him, we hear a confession: "What is "pity", I do not know this. I, Moky Parmenych, have nothing cherished; I will find a profit, so I will sell everything, anything. " And right away we find out that Paratov is selling not only "Swallow", but also himself to the bride with gold mines. Ultimately, the scene in Karandyshev's house also subtly compromises him, because the decoration of his apartment and the attempt to arrange a luxurious dinner is, after all, a caricature of Paratov's style and lifestyle. And the whole difference lies in the amounts that each of the heroes can spend on it. The scene that characterizes both rivals who seek Larisa's love is deeply significant. Thus, for Ostrovsky, the means of psychological characteristics are not self-recognition of the characters, not reasoning about their feelings and properties, but mainly their actions and everyday dialogue. None of the characters changes in the process of dramatic action, but only gradually reveals itself to the audience. Even about Larisa, the same can be said: she begins to see clearly, learns the truth about the people around her, makes a terrible decision to become a "very expensive thing." And only death frees her from everything that worldly experience has endowed her with. At this moment, she seems to return to the natural beauty of her nature. The finale of the drama - the death of the heroine amid the festive noise, to the accompaniment of gypsy singing - is striking in its artistic audacity. The state of mind of Larisa is shown by the author in the style of "strong drama" and at the same time with impeccable psychological accuracy. She is softened, reassured, she forgives everyone, because she is happy that she has finally caused an outburst of human feelings - Karandyshev's reckless, suicidal, inconsiderate act, which freed her from the humiliating life of a kept woman.

One of the first comedies by A.N. Ostrovsky "Bankrupt", or "Our people - we will settle!", Was written in 1849. She was immediately noticed by the reading public and brought well-deserved fame to the author.

Its plot is taken from the very thick of life, from legal practice and merchant life, well known to the playwright. The deceit here begins with a small thing - with the ability of the clerk to tighten the matter more tightly or “sniff” through the hand of an arshin of chintz in front of the nose of a gaping buyer; continues with the large and risky scam of the merchant Samson Silych Bolshov, and ends with the younger and more dexterous scoundrel clerk Lazar Elizarovich Podkhalyuzin fooling his master, an old rogue and rogue. This whole life is based on the mechanisms of deception, and if you do not deceive, you will be deceived - that's what Ostrovsky managed to show.

Merchant Bolshoi announces that he has become bankrupt. In fact, this is one of the moves in a commercial game, with the help of which he intends to "close" settlements with creditors, to avoid paying debts. Bolshoy transfers all his fortune to the name of the "faithful person" - the clerk Podkhalyuzin. This resourceful servant is a match for his master: guided by more than just romantic feelings, he marries the daughter of Samson Silych Lipochka, and then appropriates his father-in-law's property. Bolshov is sent to a debtor's prison. He could have been saved. To do this, it is enough to return to creditors at least a small part of the debts. But Podkhalyuzin and Lipochka, even during their engagement, decided that the old people "had some weirdness in their lifetime, now it's time for us." And Samson Silych's debts remain unpaid...

The clue to this plot lies in the habitual psychology of tyranny. Big generally recognizes moral laws and rules, but not for itself; his morality works only in one direction. For all - morality, and for him - benefit. Bolshoi belongs to the old breed of Moscow merchants: it is rude, straightforward and rustic. Everyone in the house - from Agrafena Kondratievna's wife to the boy Tishka - trembles at his appearance, and the feeling of this boundless power over the household warms the soul of Samson Silych. He has no reason to doubt that the mute relatives and servants are blindly obedient to him. Bolshov thinks that the whole world is divided into strangers, whom it is a sin not to deceive, and his own, who are determined by nature itself to obey his will and remain in domestic slavery. He cannot allow the thought that his people are plotting anything against him or being disobedient. Bolshov is ready to deceive everyone around, but he shows unexpected gullibility towards Podkhalyuzin - and everything loses on this. But Samson Silych is even more let down by what, it would seem, is the source of his strength - his self-righteous arrogance, stupid confidence in the authority of strength and fear for "his own", among which he has the right to include Podkhalyuzin, brought up from childhood in the house. But Podkhalyuzin deceives his benefactor impudently, cynically, showing the shamelessness of a businessman, a nascent new entrepreneur, before whom Bolshov himself may seem like a naive simpleton.

Ostrovsky, as it were, unfolds the theme of tyranny in time, following outlandish changes. Tyranny is shown not only as the fruit of savagery, ignorance, but also as a forced man's former insignificance being avenged. The fact that once Samson Silych traded golits on Balchug, that good people called him Samsonka and fed him with cuffs, he will never forget and never forgive. Now he is mocking his family, as if on account of his former humiliations. And as soon as power in the house passes to Podkhalyuzin, this quietest clerk, who kept repeating only “I can’t know, sir” and “as you please,” becomes cold, autocratic and impudent.

Ostrovsky's satire was invariably attracted by the semi-educated environment, domestic "philistines in the nobility." Behind the heights of external enlightenment, borrowed words and manners, often still caricaturely distorted (all these “antrigan”, “interesting”, “prominazh”, “incomprehensible to the mind”), lurked the same rudeness of concepts, mental underdevelopment. The author discovered the comic effect of petty-bourgeois semi-culture: dreams and omens, the aesthetics of "cruel romance", special rites of acquaintance and courtship - with his own bluffs, approaches, favorite conversations about "what do you like better - winter or summer" or "what is better - a man or a woman."

And every time the reader is convinced of how poor the reality of such a life is.

Nikolai Ostrovsky's play Let's Settle Our People is generously saturated with Gogol's traditions. She, like Dead Souls, aptly described the shortcomings and vices, but not of the noble, but already of the merchant world. The plot was based on the usual common story in those years about fraud among the merchants.

Duplicity and metamorphoses of comedy heroes

Samson Bolshov is a noble merchant in the city, he borrows a large sum of money from his comrades, but has no desire to give it away in order to further increase his fortune.

Taking advantage of the fact that the tendency to declare himself bankrupt was already quite widespread in Moscow, Bolshov came up with a scam that, in his opinion, was brilliant, enlisting the support of his daughter Lipochka.

The girl passionately dreamed of getting married. But in her understanding, the groom must meet all the requirements of high society: to be of noble birth, to dress fashionably, to have a fortune.

But the father prepared another batch for his daughter - the clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin. Marriage to the unremarkable Lazar causes Lipochka a real hysteria, because her girlish dreams are irreversibly crushed.

However, the girl cannot go against the will of her father and marries him. Meanwhile, Bolshov brings his scam to life - he rewrites all his property in the name of Podkhalyuzin, declares himself bankrupt and goes to prison.

But Bolshov does not suffer in prison, because he firmly believes in his preliminary agreement with his daughter and Podkhalyuzin: they had to immediately pay a security deposit for his release.

But Podkhalyuzin and Lipochka decide not to spend money on their father's freedom and do not pay a ransom for him. Thus, the young family spends their father's wealth without a shadow of a twinge, while their father is in prison.

Duplicity of Lipochka

Lipochka, who on the first pages of the novel appears before us as a bright and kind girl, in the course of the development of the plot turns out to be worthy of her greedy, greedy father.

For Bolshov, who, despite his desire to get rich fraudulently, there are still concepts of honor and family kinship. He could not even think that his own daughter would be able to leave him in trouble.

But Lipochka had completely different views on life: she no doubt colludes with her husband, whom she previously hated and shares the family wealth with him.

Duplicity of Podkhalyuzin

The clerk Podkhalyuzin, while serving with Bolshov, masterfully wins his trust in himself. Moreover, playing the role of a humble servant, he manages to manipulate the merchant.

For the sake of money, the clerk is ready to do a lot, including changing his lifestyle in order to best meet Lipochka's needs. Life wisdom does not help Bolshov to figure out the true plans of his future son-in-law, and he no doubt transfers his entire fortune to him.

Of the many heroes, only Bolshov evokes a semblance of pity in the reader. In his act, he was guided by the desire to get even richer, but we should not forget that he retained in his soul the concepts of trust, honor, family relations, as a reliable stronghold of life.

Unfortunately, this was not inherent in the duplicitous Lipochka and Podkhalyuzin, who, in the pursuit of money, lost all spiritual values.

The play very clearly shows the changes in the life orientations of the main characters. For the sake of material wealth, they betray a loved one, dooming him to torment, suffering and shame.

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The play is about a merchant family whose head is so greedy that he wants to hide his wealth. His capricious daughter marries the one to whom he rewrites their property. Young people live in luxury, spitting on their parents. The father should even be put in a debt hole. However, the cruelty of "his" children is more offensive to him.

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A play about greed and selfishness. She teaches that by raising children by her bad example, the same parents get.

Summary Ostrovsky Let's get our people together

The play begins with a scandal between mother and daughter. The girl Lipa demands that a groom be found for her, because she is bored. They call the matchmaker, but her task is very difficult: give your daughter a noble groom, father - rich, mother - courteous. Trying to please everyone, she finds almost an ideal, but only the other groom will not yield to “his own”.

The family's clerk is Lazar Podkhalyuzin. He himself deceives buyers, and teaches workers. He likes Lipa, and even more - a beautiful life. And the clerk bribes the matchmaker to cancel her acquaintance with the candidate for husband.

Lazar himself becomes the groom, although at first Lipa is against it - he is too simple. But, taking advantage of her father's trust in him, playing on his greed, Podkhalyuzin convinces him to transfer all their property to himself - to hide wealth. Now Olympias agrees, fearing poverty, to a "rich" groom.

At the wedding, parents ask not to offend them, because all the wealth is now in the son-in-law. He throws the phrase that gave the name to the play. However, after some time, Lipa and Lazar, enjoying luxury, refuse their parents a penny, the father even has to fall into a debt hole. Olympias laughs at them, is not afraid of curses, believing that she did not get enough wealth from them in her youth. Lazar still tries to deceive creditors by wearing the worst frock coat.

All the heroes turn out to be greedy deceivers, but only the older generation has already received a "reward" from children like them, and the children, apparently, are just about to come.

Read the summary Our people will consider Ostrovsky by actions

Action 1

Olimpiada Bolshova, or as she is affectionately called Lipochka, has reached the age when it is time to get married. This girl sits all day with a book, looking out the window, but her thoughts are not at all about what she read, but about dancing.

The Olympics is reminiscent of the ball, which took place about a year and a half ago. Now she is saddened by the fact that she has lost the skills of a beautiful dance. And if she had to dance today, it would be bad. She tries to perform different dance steps, but this activity does not bring her pleasure.

In the next episode, Alexander Ostrovsky shows the reader another heroine - mother Lipa, whose name is Agrafena Kondratievna. Mother scolds Lipochka for her early dances and for not holding poppy dew in her mouth since morning. As a result, this conversation develops into a quarrel. The main reproach from daughter Lipochka is that her mother has not yet found a suitable match for her.

Further, Lipochka's hysteria is described, and most importantly, Olympias will not calm down until they marry her to a good fellow. Mother cannot look at her daughter's tears and invites a matchmaker. The matchmaker's name is Ustinya Naumovna. She arrives smartly and drinks with Lipa's mother, discussing various events along the way.

Ustinya Naumovna complains that it is not possible to pick up a groom for the Olympics because they all do not know what they want. And, most importantly, Lipa's mother and father also cannot decide what kind of young man their only beloved daughter should be as a husband.

While there are rumors about the groom, Sysoy Psoyich Rispolozhensky comes. This is a petty employee who was once expelled from the court for the abuse of alcoholic beverages. At the same time, Bolshov arrives and, together with Sysoi Psovich, they discuss how Father Lipochka can improve his financial situation.

As a result, Bolshov decides to declare himself bankrupt. But first, he is thinking of registering all his property in the name of his clerk, Lazar Podkhalyuzin.

Action 2

Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolayevich introduces the reader to Podkhalyuzin, who at this moment is only thinking about the Bolshova Olympics. He loves her for a long time and hopelessly. Mindfully, Podkhalyuzin understands that Lipa has an education and she needs a good groom, an “equal”. Podkhalyuzin has some savings at this point in time. As a result, Podkhalyuzin decides to go to Bolshov and marry his daughter.

Podkhalyuzin is in a good mood and even sends his servant for a tincture of mountain ash. Around the same time, Podkhalyuzin is visited by Rispolozhensky, who talks about Bolshov and his generous payment for services. Podkhalyuzin understands that an opportunity has come and offers twice as much, for his part.

After this conversation, Lipochka's matchmaker, Ustinya, appears, who is talking, which is now difficult for the bride of a noble groom. Podkhalyuzin begins to ask the matchmaker about this and that, and in the end she tells him that she found a profitable match for Lipochka. Podkhalyuzin promises matchmaker Ustinyushka a certain amount of money if she spreads gossip that the merchant is a beggar.

Then Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolaevich describes the episode in the office. Podkhalyuzin gradually hints at marriage with Lipochka. Bolshov does not allow this idea. And Lipa and Podkhalyuzin talk about the upcoming engagement and talk about mutual love.

Action 3

Again Alexander Ostrovsky transfers the action to Lipa's house. At this moment she is very smart, cheerful and waiting for her betrothed. Mother touches her daughter. The father, on the contrary, is restrained and a little emotional, as it should be for a true man.

Ustinya appears - the matchmaker, and says that the groom is slow, Lipochka will not dare to go to woo. Women get emotional. Bolshov decides to find a profitable match for his daughter on his own. Lipochka is about to leave for her girl's room, but her father says that it is at this moment that the groom will appear. At this moment, Lazar enters the house. The priest declares Podkhalyuzin the groom of the Olympics.

Everyone present is in shock. Lipochka is unhappy with her father's choice. She dreamed of an educated groom. Podkhalyuzin is the wrong party for her. Lazar sees that not quite what he wanted happened. Bolshov himself is adamant. He says that he will not change his male decision. He tells the young people to sit next to each other and have a word, and invites the rest to the table.

The wife and the matchmaker complain to Bolshov about the choice of a groom for Lipochka. He is adamant in his decision and will not change anything.

Left alone with Lipa, Lazar decides to find out why he fell into her disfavor. She also refers to his lack of education. He, in turn, admits his poverty, but at the same time emphasizes that a rich bridegroom will need a rich dowry of the bride and her father may go bankrupt through this.

After this conversation, Lazar shows the official papers to the Olympics, according to which he is the owner of all "Bolshov's goods." Lipa begins to think ... She eventually decides that her father's choice is even "as if nothing."

Then Lipa watches him speak, realizing that he does not speak French. This fact depresses her for some reason. Lazarus, on his knees, begs to make him happy. After all, Lipochka for him is his whole life, his happiness ... Then Olympias asks Lazarus to take her somewhere far away from "this hell."

As a result, the young play a wedding. Everyone is happy and well…. No one thinks about what is there, in the near future?

Action 4

Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolaevich takes the reader to the house of the young Podkhalyuzins. In this house, everything is arranged in a new order. Lazar admires his beloved's terrible French pronunciation. She is ideal for him.

Ustinya appears. She comes to Lazar Podkhalyuzin for a reward, but instead of the promised money and an expensive fur coat, she receives a penny and rags. Coming out of their house, the matchmaker shouts that he will denounce the young to the whole village.

Suddenly Olimpiada sees his father through the window. He and his mother enter the house of the young and explain that he is bankrupt. Neither the daughter nor the son-in-law want to help their parents.... From a respected person, Bolshov turned into a laughing stock. He is accompanied on the streets, he is not free.

Bolshov is enraged by his son-in-law's act and regrets what he has done. He is disturbed by the thought that he, as they say, dug a hole for himself with his own hands. But, as you know, what has been done cannot be returned.

Bolshov is again forced to ask his daughter for money, otherwise he will be imprisoned and sent to Siberia. She does not give him anything, and then the father and mother wish the young to continue to amuse the devil. At the end of their visit, they curse their daughter.

Lazar Podkhalyuzin is confused after the visit of his father-in-law and mother-in-law. He even wants to go to work for Bolshov's debts. But, at this moment, Rispolozhensky appears for a debt. He is denied money, then this man wants to tell everyone about Lazar's documentary and money fraud. Lazarus assures the most respectable public that he can be trusted.

Conclusion from the story

The play by Alexander Ostrovsky describes an ordinary merchant family. The father of the family, Bolshov, is incredibly stingy and greedy, so he wants to hide his good financial condition. He has a capricious and spoiled daughter named Olympias. The head of the family insists on her marriage to Lazar Podkhalyuzin, because he became the owner of his fortune. A young family bathes in luxury, and the father is bankrupt at this time. It is very bitter for him to realize that his own only daughter is cruel and selfish.

Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolaevich in the play “Our people - we will get along” denounces selfishness and greed. The classic of the second half of the 19th century seeks to show the reader that children are a mirror of their parents. Therefore, it is important to pay attention, first of all, to ourselves when we have our own children. A well-known saying comes to mind: "There is nothing to blame on the mirror if the face is crooked."