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Composition on the theme of the image of Pechorin.
1. Introduction: The novel "A Hero of Our Time" is the most mature and major work of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a thoughtful writer-philosopher. The protagonist of the novel is Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.
2. Acquaintance with the character: Pechorin is a young aristocrat who actively intervenes in the life around him. From the very first pages of the novel, a hero appears before us, not indifferent, inquisitive, who wants to take as much as possible from life. At first, we do not understand the motives of his actions, we are surprised by the unusual eccentric nature of the young man. Pechorin steals the girl he likes, not thinking about the actions that may follow this act. He sincerely believes that he is in love with the “maiden of the mountains”, that this love will become a saving bridge along which the hero will be able to move into a new life for him, full of meaning. soon Grigory Alexandrovich understands the futility of hopes: “I was mistaken again: the love of a savage is a little better than the love of a noble young lady,” he admits.
3. Portrait characteristic: Gradually, in the fight against society, Pechorin loses his activity, becomes an indifferent, cold contemplator. If in the chapter “Taman” Grigory Alexandrovich is active, even curious, then the chapter “Mary” shows us an already infantile person, going with the flow, only the departure of Vera (the woman whom he deeply and sincerely loves) for a short time revives in him the desire to radically change own life. We see the despair and tears of the hero. We rejoice that the “man” in Pechorin has not died, he is still able to love deeply and sincerely. But the impulse ends very quickly. Before us is again a restrained, cold, secretly suffering person. When meeting with Pechorin, the narrator is struck by the eyes of the hero: “they did not laugh when he laughed! .. This is a sign - either of an evil temper, or deep constant sadness ... his look is short and heavy, left after an unpleasant impression of an immodest question and could seem impudent if he were not so indifferently calm.
4. Actions of the character: His fate is tragic. Grigory Pechorin was expelled from St. Petersburg for some “story” (obviously, for a duel over a woman) to the Caucasus, on the way a few more stories happen to him, he is demoted, goes to the Caucasus again, then travels for some time and, returning home from Persia , dies. During all this time, he experienced a lot himself and in many ways influenced the lives of other people. During his life, Pechorin destroyed many human destinies - Princess Mary Ligovskaya, Vera, Bela, Grushnitsky.
5. My attitude: I believe that Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin is a very vivid image created by M.Yu. Lermontov. He is a young aristocrat who actively intervenes in the life around him. From the very first pages of the novel, we see a caring, inquisitive hero who wants to take as much as possible from life. Pechorin is an adventurer, a person who constantly tests his fate. At first it seems that he is fearless - he rushes into various adventures, plays with death. However, Pechorin has a secret, but very strong fear - he is afraid of marriage. Once a fortuneteller predicted his death at the hands of an evil wife, and since then Pechorin has been afraid of marriage like fire. However, this did not save him: in the chapter "Maxim Maksimych" we learn that Grigory Alexandrovich died on the way from Persia. I cannot express my attitude towards Pechorin in just one phrase.
I hope so much for the essay is suitable, in some places it needs to be corrected. I wish all the best.
The novel "A Hero of Our Time" shows a portrait of not one person, but a whole generation, made up of vices. The main role is assigned to Pechorin, but it is the other characters of the novel, with whom he had to intersect in life, that make it possible to better understand the inner world of this person, the depth of the soul.
The relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary is one of the brightest plot lines of the novel. They began at ease, ending swiftly and tragically. Once again, showing Pechorin as a man with a callous soul and a cold heart.
Acquaintance
The first meeting between Pechorin and Princess Mary took place in Pyatigorsk, where Grigory was sent after completing another military assignment. The princess, together with her mother, underwent a course of treatment with the mineral waters of Pyatigorsk.
Princess and Pechorin constantly rotated in secular society. A common circle of friends brought them together at one of the meetings. Grigory stirred up interest in his person, deliberately teasing the girl, ignoring her presence. He saw that she paid attention to him, but Pechorin is much more interested in watching how she behaves further. He knew women very well and could calculate a few steps ahead of how the acquaintance would end.
He took the first step. Pechorin invited Mary to dance, and then everything had to go according to the scenario he had developed. It gave him unprecedented pleasure to lure another victim, allowing her to get carried away. The girls fell in love with a handsome military man, but quickly got bored and he, pleased with himself, with a feeling of complete self-satisfaction, put one more tick in the track record of love affairs, safely forgetting about them.
Love
Mary fell in love for real. The girl did not understand that the toy was in his hands. Part of an insidious heartthrob's plan. It was beneficial for Pechorin to get to know her. New emotions, sensations, a reason to distract the public from an affair with Vera, a married woman. He loved faith, but they could not be together. Another reason to hit Mary, to make Grushnitsky jealous. He was in love with the girl for real, but the feelings remained unanswered. Mary did not love him and could hardly love him. In the current love triangle, he is clearly superfluous. In retaliation for unrequited feelings, Grushnitsky spread dirty rumors about the affair of Pechorin and Mary, ruining her reputation. He soon paid the price for his wicked deed. Pechorin challenged him to a duel, where the bullet hit the target, killing the liar on the spot.
The final
After what happened, Mary began to love Pechorin even more. She believed that his act was noble. After all, he defended her honor, making it clear that she was slandered. The girl was waiting for confessions from Gregory, tormented by love and the feelings that gripped her. Instead, he hears the bitter truth that he never loved her, much less intended to marry her. He achieved his goal by breaking the heart of another victim of his love charms. She hated him. The last thing I heard from her was
"…I hate you…".
Once again, Pechorin acted cruelly towards loved ones, stepping over their feelings and trampling on love.
downloadAudio novel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov "Bela", part 1, in which the author introduces the main characters of the story: Maxim Maksimych, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, Azamat, Bela.
“I rode on the bed-chamber from Tiflis, ... drove into the Koishaur valley ... I had to hire bulls to pull my cart up this accursed mountain, because it was already autumn and sleet ... I hired six bulls and several Ossetians. .. Behind my cart, four bulls dragged another as if nothing had happened, despite the fact that it was overlaid to the top ... Her owner followed her, smoking from a small Kabardian pipe, trimmed in silver.He was wearing an officer's frock coat without an epaulette and a shaggy Circassian hat. He seemed about fifty years old, his swarthy complexion showed that he had long been familiar with the Transcaucasian sun, and his prematurely gray mustache did not correspond to his firm gait and cheerful look.
Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin - an officer, a young man of about 25. "... He was so thin, white, his uniform was so new. on the hunt; everyone is chilly, tired - but he has nothing to do. And another time he sits in his room, the wind smells, assures that he has caught a cold; if the shutters knock, he will shudder and turn pale; you won’t get a word for whole hours, but sometimes, as soon as he starts talking, you’ll break your bellies with laughter ... and, it must be a rich man: how many different expensive little things he had! .. There are, really, such people who have a family it is written that various extraordinary things must happen to them! ..
About six versts from the fortress lived one peaceful prince. His son, a boy of about 15, got into the habit of coming to us ... And what a cutthroat he was, agile for whatever you want: whether to raise his hat at full gallop, whether to shoot from a gun. One thing was not good in him: he was terribly greedy for money ... And it happened that we would take it into his head to tease him, so his eyes would bleed, now for a dagger ... "
Once the old prince invited Maxim Maksimych and Pechorin to the wedding of his eldest daughter. Lermontov describes a Circassian wedding. There he saw Pechorin Bela, the youngest daughter of the prince and sister of Azamat. She was sixteen years old.
My acquaintance with the hero of the novel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time" was a rather striking event for me, as a reader. The hero stirred up a storm of conflicting emotions in me.
The character of Grigory Alexandrovich gives food for thought even literally from the first lines of the work. Pechorin's actions seem mysterious, inexplicable to me, throughout the whole novel I want to ask the hero in detail about the reasons that prompted him to these actions - maybe they really have an explanation? What is on the mind of Gregory? In my opinion, this is one of the most difficult riddles of the work.
I was also very interested in the relationship of the main character with the girls: does he love at least one of those with whom we, the readers, managed to get acquainted? Does Pechorin feel warm friendly love for Maxim Maksimych, Werner? Is he capable of sincere feelings, emotions at all? It seems to me that these questions are of interest not only to me, but also to any attentive reader.
Probably, each of us will have a different opinion about Pechorin's actions, each of us will answer the above questions differently, but still we cannot find a true answer to them - this is how Mikhail Yuryevich conceived.
My acquaintance with Pechorin left a lot of reasons for reflection, a lot of impressions - both negative and positive.
Updated: 2017-02-04
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B. Eikhenbaum considered the story "Bela", along with "Taman", an exposition of the image of Pechorin. This story tells about the circumstances of Pechorin's life, about his upbringing, education. Here is the first portrait of the hero.
For the first time we learn about Grigory Alexandrovich from the story of Maxim Maksimych. The staff captain describes the character of Pechorin, his "strangeness", his dissimilarity to those around him. And already here the motive of the hero's internal inconsistency sounds. “He was a nice fellow, I dare to assure you; just a little weird. After all, for example, in the rain, in the cold, hunting all day; everyone will be cold, tired - but nothing to him. And another time he sits in his room, the wind smells, he assures that he has caught a cold; the shutter will knock, he will shudder and turn pale ... "
The story "Bela" is devoid of psychological analysis. Maxim Maksimych here simply conveys the facts of Pechorin's biography, without analyzing and practically not evaluating them. In a certain sense, the staff captain is objective.
At the same time, sincerely pitying Bela, whom he loved like his own daughter, Maxim Maksimych considers Pechorin wrong. Seeing how Grigory Alexandrovich changed towards her, how Bela suffers from his coldness, the staff captain tries to talk to him. And Pechorin is trying to explain his behavior. He says that he fell out of love with Bela, that she was unable to cure him of boredom. “I am a fool or a villain, I do not know; but it is true that I am also very worthy of pity, perhaps more than she: in me the soul is corrupted by light, the imagination is restless, the heart is insatiable; everything is not enough for me: I get used to sadness just as easily as to pleasure, and my life becomes emptier day by day ... ”, says Pechorin.
Maxim Maksimych does not understand anything from Pechorin's monologue. He only asks a passing officer about what kind of fashion it is to “be bored” and whether all the youth of the capital are like that. For the staff captain, Pechorin is an ordinary metropolitan dandy, it is wild and strange for Maxim Maksimych to hear complaints about life from a twenty-five-year-old man whose life is quite prosperous.
The reasons for this misunderstanding are in the difference in the worldview of the characters, their spiritual needs, cultural level, and character. As Belinsky notes, Maxim Maksimych's mental outlook is very limited, "to live" for him means "to serve", and to serve in the Caucasus. The manners of the staff captain are rude and rustic, he is unassuming in his choice of acquaintance. However, Maxim Maksimych has "a wonderful soul, a heart of gold", "by some kind of instinct" he understands "everything human and takes an ardent part in it." So, the staff captain immediately fell in love with Bela, became attached to Pechorin. Learning about a possible meeting with him, Maxim Maksimych rejoices like a child.
Thus, Pechorin's "strangeness" does not prevent Maxim Maksimych from loving him. And this is very important. The staff captain is intuitively humane, humane, "a warm, noble, even tender heart" beats in his chest. It seems that Lermontov does not accidentally focus the attention of readers on the fact that Maxim Maksimych is sincerely attached to Pechorin. Indeed, in the story with Bela, Grigory Alexandrovich does not look very worthy. However, in spite of everything, the staff captain, this "heart of gold", still loves him. Thus, the writer, as it were, already here hints that there is something genuine, sincere in Pechorin.
After the death of the Circassian woman, the staff captain tries to console Grigory Alexandrovich, but Pechorin remains calm. Maxim Maksimych is annoyed: “If I were in his place, I would die of grief,” he says. And Pechorin’s laughter, from which “frost ran through the skin,” is completely incomprehensible to the staff captain.
Of course, Pechorin suffers after losing Bela. He is not accustomed to the open manifestation of his feelings, his laughter in the scene with Maxim Maksimych is nothing but hysteria. However, the story of this love could not end happily: Pechorin's feelings are devoid of integrity and unity, the love of a "savage" for him is "little better than the love of a noble lady."
Belinsky explains the behavior of Pechorin with Bela by the difference in their intellects, cultural level. What could he be talking to her about? what was left unrevealed for him in her? Love needs a reasonable content, like oil to sustain a fire; love is the harmonious fusion of two kindred natures into a feeling of the infinite. There was strength in Bela's love, but there could not be infinity ... ”, the critic wrote.
However, it seems that the motives for Pechorin's behavior are deeper. Rather, he is simply incapable of love. That is why he does not appreciate the feelings of other people - Vera, Princess Mary. In fact, he ruined Bela for the sake of his own whim, a momentary whim, a desire to get rid of boredom. Therefore, happiness is impossible for Pechorin.
In the story "Bela" there are many elements of the romantic style. The plot of the story is based on the traditional romantic scheme - the hero's flight from the world of civilization to the world of nature, the civilized hero has a love relationship with a Circassian woman. There are all the plot attributes of romantic stories: abduction, love, revenge, death. However, Lermontov retains the realism of his motivations. The gap between the heroes was determined not by external, “fatal circumstances”, but by the features of Pechorin’s inner world, his character.
Thus, the story "Bela" is the first acquaintance with Pechorin. Here we learn about his upbringing, education, social status, some episodes from life in the Caucasus. It is characteristic that the first narrator in the novel treats Pechorin well, Maxim Maksimych. sincerely attached to his young friend. At the same time, the staff captain does not understand the motives of his behavior, character traits. This misunderstanding to some extent alienates him from Grigory Alexandrovich. Sympathy and at the same time a certain alienation - these two moments in the perception of Maxim Maksimych Pechorin emphasize the impartiality of the first narrator and create a certain objectivity of the narrative. The author in this story invites readers to draw their own conclusions about the hero.
