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Lermontov. Princess Mary. Feature film, 1955
... Our conversation began with slander: I began to sort out our acquaintances present and absent, first showing their funny, and then their bad sides. My bile was agitated. I started out jokingly and ended up being downright angry. At first it amused her, then it frightened her.
You are a dangerous person! she said to me, “I would rather fall under the knife of a murderer in the woods than you on the tongue ... I ask you not jokingly: when you decide to speak ill of me, it’s better to take a knife and slaughter me, - I think it’s it won't be very difficult for you.
“Do I look like a killer?”
You are worse...
I thought for a moment and then said, assuming a deeply moved look:
Yes, that has been my fate since childhood. Everyone read on my face signs of bad feelings, which were not there; but they were supposed - and they were born. I was modest - I was accused of slyness: I became secretive. I deeply felt good and evil; no one caressed me, everyone insulted me: I became vindictive; I was gloomy - other children are cheerful and talkative; I felt superior to them—I was placed inferior. I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world - no one understood me: and I learned to hate. My colorless youth flowed in the struggle with myself and the light; my best feelings, fearing ridicule, I buried in the depths of my heart: they died there. I told the truth - they did not believe me: I began to deceive; knowing well the light and springs of society, I became skilled in the science of life and saw how others without art were happy, enjoying the gift of those benefits that I so tirelessly sought. And then despair was born in my chest - not the despair that is cured at the muzzle of a pistol, but cold, powerless despair, hidden behind courtesy and a good-natured smile. I became a moral cripple: one half of my soul did not exist, it dried up, evaporated, died, I cut it off and threw it away, while the other moved and lived at the service of everyone, and no one noticed this, because no one knew about the existence of the deceased half of it; but now you have awakened in me the memory of her, and I have read her epitaph to you. To many, all epitaphs in general seem ridiculous, but not to me, especially when I remember what lies beneath them. However, I do not ask you to share my opinion: if my trick seems ridiculous to you, please laugh: I warn you that this will not upset me in the least.
At that moment I met her eyes: tears ran in them; her hand, leaning on mine, trembled; cheeks glowed; she felt sorry for me! Compassion, a feeling that all women submit so easily, let its claws into her inexperienced heart. During the whole walk she was absent-minded, did not flirt with anyone - and this is a great sign!
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The chapter “Princess Mary” is the central one in the “Pechorin Journal”, where the hero reveals his soul in diary entries. Their last conversation - Pechorin and Princess Mary - logically completes the storyline of a complex relationship, drawing a line over this intrigue. Pechorin consciously and prudently achieves the love of the princess, having built his behavior with knowledge of the matter. For what? Just so he doesn't get bored. The main thing for Pechorin is to subordinate everything to his will, to show power over people. After a number of calculated actions, he achieved that the girl was the first to confess her love to him, but now she is not interesting to him. After a duel with Grushnitsky, he received an order to go to fortress N and went to the princess to say goodbye. The princess learns that Pechorin defended the honor of Mary and considers him a noble person, she is most concerned about the condition of her daughter, because Mary is sick from experiences, so the princess openly invites Pechorin to marry her daughter. She can be understood: she wants Mary to be happy. But Pechorin cannot answer her anything: he asks permission to explain himself to Mary herself. The princess is forced to yield. Pechorin has already said how afraid he is to part with his freedom, and after a conversation with the princess, he can no longer find in his heart a spark of love for Mary. When he saw Mary, pale, emaciated, he was shocked by the change that had taken place in her. The girl looked in his eyes for at least "something like hope", tried to smile with pale lips, but Pechorin is stern and implacable. He says that he laughed at her and Mary should despise him, making a logical, but such a cruel conclusion: “Consequently, you cannot love me ...” The girl suffers, tears shine in her eyes, and everything she can barely whisper clearly, “Oh my God!” In this scene, Pechorin's reflection is especially clearly revealed - the bifurcation of his consciousness, which he spoke about earlier, that two people live in him - one acts, "the other thinks and judges him." The acting Pechorin is cruel and deprives the girl of any hope for happiness, and the one who analyzes his words and actions admits: “It became unbearable: another minute, and I would have fallen at her feet.” He explains in a "firm voice" that he cannot marry Mary, and hopes that she will change her love for contempt for him - after all, he himself is aware of the baseness of his act. Mary, "pale as marble", with sparkling eyes, says that she hates him.
The consciousness that Pechorin played with her feelings, wounded pride turned Mary's love into hatred. Offended in her first deep and pure feeling, Mary is now unlikely to be able to trust people again and regain her former peace of mind. The cruelty and immorality of Pechorin in this scene are revealed quite clearly, but it also reveals how hard it is for this person to live according to the principles imposed on himself, how hard it is not to succumb to natural human feelings - compassion, mercy, repentance. This is the tragedy of a hero who himself admits that he will not be able to live in a quiet peaceful harbor. He compares himself to a sailor of a robber brig who languishes on the shore and dreams of storms and wrecks, because for him life is a struggle, overcoming dangers, storms and battles, and, unfortunately, Mary becomes a victim of such an understanding of life.
The chapter “Princess Mary” is the central one in the “Pechorin Journal”, where the hero reveals his soul in diary entries. Their last conversation - Pechorin and Princess Mary - logically completes the storyline of a complex relationship, drawing a line over this intrigue. Pechorin consciously and prudently achieves the love of the princess, having built his behavior with knowledge of the matter. For what? Just so he doesn't get bored. The main thing for Pechorin is to subordinate everything to his will, to show power over people. After a number of calculated actions, he achieved that the girl was the first to confess her love to him, but now she is not interesting to him. After a duel with Grushnitsky, he received an order to go to fortress N and went to the princess to say goodbye. The princess learns that Pechorin defended the honor of Mary and considers him a noble person, she is most concerned about the condition of her daughter, because Mary is sick from experiences, so the princess openly invites Pechorin to marry her daughter. She can be understood: she wants Mary to be happy. But Pechorin cannot answer her anything: he asks permission to explain himself to Mary herself. The princess is forced to yield. Pechorin has already said how afraid he is to part with his freedom, and after a conversation with the princess, he can no longer find in his heart a spark of love for Mary. When he saw Mary, pale, emaciated, he was shocked by the change that had taken place in her. The girl looked in his eyes for at least "something like hope", tried to smile with pale lips, but Pechorin is stern and implacable. He says that he laughed at her and Mary should despise him, making a logical, but such a cruel conclusion: “Consequently, you cannot love me ...” The girl suffers, tears shine in her eyes, and everything she can barely whisper clearly, “Oh my God!” In this scene, Pechorin's reflection is especially clearly revealed - the bifurcation of his consciousness, which he spoke about earlier, that two people live in him - one acts, "the other thinks and judges him." The acting Pechorin is cruel and deprives the girl of any hope for happiness, and the one who analyzes his words and actions admits: “It became unbearable: another minute, and I would have fallen at her feet.” He explains in a "firm voice" that he cannot marry Mary, and hopes that she will change her love for contempt for him - after all, he himself is aware of the baseness of his act. Mary, "pale as marble", with sparkling eyes, says that she hates him.
The consciousness that Pechorin played with her feelings, wounded pride turned Mary's love into hatred. Offended in her first deep and pure feeling, Mary is now unlikely to be able to trust people again and regain her former peace of mind. The cruelty and immorality of Pechorin in this scene are revealed quite clearly, but it also reveals how hard it is for this person to live according to the principles imposed on himself, how hard it is not to succumb to natural human feelings - compassion, mercy, repentance. This is the tragedy of a hero who himself admits that he will not be able to live in a quiet peaceful harbor. He compares himself to a sailor of a robber brig who languishes on the shore and dreams of storms and wrecks, because for him life is a struggle, overcoming dangers, storms and battles, and, unfortunately, Mary becomes a victim of such an understanding of life.
Pechorin is an outstanding personality. He is smart, educated, hates indifference, boredom, bourgeois prosperity, he has a rebellious character. The hero of Lermontov is energetic, active, "furiously chasing life."
But his activity and energy are directed to small things. He squanders his mighty nature "over trifles."
Pechorin's nature is complex and contradictory. He criticizes his shortcomings, dissatisfied with himself and others.
But what does he live for? Was there a purpose in his life. No. This is his tragedy. Such a hero was made by the environment in which he lives, secular education killed all the best qualities in him. He is a hero of his time. He, like Onegin, does not find the meaning of life. What is Pechorin in the scene of the last explanation with Mary?
Mary is a secular girl, she was brought up in this society. She has many positive qualities: she is charming, simple, direct, noble in actions and feelings. But proud, proud, sometimes arrogant. She fell in love with Pechorin, but did not understand his rebellious soul.
Pechorin learns from Werner that after his duel with Grushnitsky, Mary fell ill. Her mother and she decide that he shot himself out of love for her.
Before leaving, Pechorin went to say goodbye to the princess, who talks about her daughter's illness and that Pechorin loves the princess and can marry.
Now he has to talk to Mary because he has been misunderstood. "No matter how I searched in my chest for at least a spark of love for dear Mary, but my efforts were in vain." And although Pechorin's heart was beating strongly, "thoughts were calm, his head was cold." He didn't love her. He feels sorry for the princess when he sees how sick and weak she is. Pechorin explains to her, says that he sees ....
Pechorin sought the love of Princess Mary out of boredom, and also because he wanted to annoy Grushnitsky. A kind of game in which Pechorin wanted to achieve his victory just like that, because it's nice to win.
Pecherin got bored on the waters. It was customary to drag after the young ladies, just the way Princess Mary came across all proud and impregnable. Pecherin chose her on principle. All the more he wanted to annoy Grushnitsky.
He fled from boredom and from the emptiness of his life. Even at some point, if I remember correctly, it seemed to him that love could help him feel the fullness of life. But, alas, all in vain. For if the heart and soul are empty, nothing can fill them.
Certainly not because he was not in love. He loved only himself. And, seeking the favor of Princess Mary, he only amused his male pride. He didn't particularly care about her feelings, at least his own feelings and feelings were much more important to him. Competition with Grushnitsky, the breaking of an impregnable beauty - for him it is only entertainment, an attempt to brighten up the monotonous everyday life. And although everyone traditionally pities Mary, it seems to me that Pechorin was a bright event in his life. He gave her what he wanted for himself.
To annoy Grushnitsky, who was in love with the princess.
At the same time, test your strength, whether you can charm, fall in love with a girl who, perhaps, is passionate about another.
Out of purely sporting interest. In his complete indifference to her, he directly admitted during the decisive meeting with the princess, when the final points were placed in these strange relationships. He even admitted that he deserved her contempt. Poor, poor princess. She can only sympathize.
Most likely, Pechorin had one main goal - sports interest. This person is simply not used to giving up something, on the contrary, he is used to achieving his goal. And of course, he wanted to test his strength and amuse his male pride.
He was bored, and besides, he had a reputation for always getting his way. It seemed funny to him to win Mary's love, because she was impregnable, besides, a friend was in love with her. Pechorin was an egoist and respected only his own desires and whims.
Firstly, Pechorin simply had nothing to do, he was bored. Secondly, he wanted to play tricks on Grushnitsky. Well, thirdly, Pechorin was used to getting his way, to win, so for him it was just a game in which he wanted to win, from nothing to do, that's all.
In general, all the works of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov are absolutely amazing and exciting. This affects both youth and some opposition to the current government, as well as the influence of such famous literary figures as, for example, A.S. Pushkin.
By the way, Pechorin Grigory Alexandrovich was a fictional character, which already introduces into the work a certain semblance of imagery, partly inherited from Onegin (A.S. Pushkin), partly the fruit of his own experiences.
The famous novel A Hero of Our Time was written by M.Yu. Lermontov in 1838-1840, and the adaptation of the novel, in our time, was made in the feature film Princess Mary in 1955 by the equally famous director Isidor Annensky.
In the novel, as in many works of the writer, the characters are tormented by contradictions. Sometimes the power of torment reached such intensity that people were ready to go to the end, and even lose everything in this life, which was far from the last members of secular society.
As always, the focus is on the relationship between a man and a woman, between friends, and between participants in the legal field, which is the state. Again dueling and injured and dead people. Everything that was inherent in that time, because then questions and concepts of honor very clearly appeared in the title role of everything that happened.
The dichotomous situation between love, friendship, devotion and rivalry has never led to good.
Why did he strive?
Of course, as in all centuries, the stumbling block or grain of contention was the attention of a noble person, her location. We live and act intuitively sometimes, and if we feel that we need to do just that, although common sense tells us not to do it, we still, in spite of everything, often do sometimes irreversible actions.
So it is here, the chemistry of the brain, as Herzen once said.
Most likely, the bored Pechorin sought Mary's love just for the sake of interest and curiosity - what will come of it? Will he be able to achieve the location of this impregnable beauty? So he had no love for Mary.
