Introduction
Olga Ilyinskaya in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" is the most striking and complex female character. Getting to know her as a young, just developing girl, the reader sees her gradual maturation and disclosure as a woman, mother, and independent person. At the same time, a complete characterization of the image of Olga in the novel "Oblomov" is possible only when working with quotations from the novel that most capably convey the appearance and personality of the heroine:
“If she were turned into a statue, she would be a statue of grace and harmony. The size of the head strictly corresponded to a somewhat high growth, the oval and dimensions of the face corresponded to the size of the head; all this, in turn, was in harmony with the shoulders, the shoulders - with the camp ... ".
When meeting with Olga, people always stopped for a moment "before this so strictly and deliberately, artistically created creature."
Olga received a good upbringing and education, understands the sciences and art, reads a lot and is in constant development, knowledge, achievement of new and new goals. These features of hers were reflected in the appearance of the girl: “The lips are thin and mostly compressed: a sign of a thought constantly directed at something. The same presence of a speaking thought shone in the keen, always cheerful, piercing look of dark, gray-blue eyes, "and unevenly located thin eyebrows created a small crease on the forehead" in which something seemed to say, as if a thought rested there.
Everything in her spoke of her own dignity, inner strength and beauty: “Olga walked with her head tilted slightly forward, so gracefully, nobly resting on a thin, proud neck; moved smoothly with her whole body, stepping lightly, almost imperceptibly.Love for Oblomov
The image of Olga Ilyinskaya in Oblomov appears at the beginning of the novel as a still very young, little-knowing girl, looking at the world around her with wide open eyes and trying to cognize it in all its manifestations. The turning point, which became for Olga the transition from childish shyness and some embarrassment (as was the case when communicating with Stolz), was love for Oblomov. A wonderful, strong, inspiring feeling that flashed with lightning speed between lovers was doomed to parting, since Olga and Oblomov did not want to accept each other as they really are, cultivating a feeling for semi-ideal prototypes of real heroes.
For Ilyinskaya, love for Oblomov was not associated with the feminine tenderness, gentleness, acceptance and care that Oblomov expected from her, but with duty, the need to change the inner world of her lover, to make him a completely different person:
“She dreamed of how“ she would order him to read the books ”that Stoltz had left, then read the newspapers every day and tell her the news, write letters to the village, finish the plan for arranging the estate, get ready to go abroad - in a word, he would not doze off with her; she will show him the goal, make him fall in love again with everything that he stopped loving.
“And all this miracle will be done by her, so timid, silent, whom no one has obeyed until now, who has not yet begun to live!”
Olga's love for Oblomov was based on the selfishness and ambitions of the heroine. Moreover, her feelings for Ilya Ilyich can hardly be called true love - it was a fleeting love, a state of inspiration and rise in front of a new peak that she wanted to reach. For Ilyinskaya, in fact, Oblomov’s feelings were not important, she wanted to make her ideal out of him, so that she could then be proud of the fruits of her labors and, perhaps, remind him later that everything he had was due to Olga.
Olga and Stolz
The relationship between Olga and Stolz developed from a tender, reverent friendship, when Andrei Ivanovich was a teacher, mentor, an inspiring figure for the girl, in his own way distant and inaccessible: “When a question, bewilderment was born in her mind, she did not suddenly decide to believe him: he was too far ahead of her, too taller than her, so that her pride sometimes suffered from this immaturity, from the distance in their minds and years.
Marriage with Stolz, who helped her recover after parting with Ilya Ilyich, was logical, since the characters are very similar in character, life orientations and goals. Quiet, calm, endless happiness was seen by Olga in her life together with Stolz:
“She experienced happiness and could not determine where the boundaries were, what it was.”
“She also walked alone, along an inconspicuous path, he also met her at the crossroads, gave her his hand and led her not into the brilliance of dazzling rays, but as if to the flood of a wide river, to spacious fields and friendly smiling hills”
Having lived together for several years in cloudless, endless happiness, seeing in each other those ideals that they always dreamed about and those people who appeared to them in their dreams, the heroes began to seem to move away from each other. It became difficult for Stolz to reach out for the inquisitive, continuously striving forward Olga, and the woman “began to strictly notice herself and caught that she was embarrassed by this silence of life, her stop at moments of happiness,” asking questions: “Is it really necessary and possible to wish for something ? Where to go? Nowhere! There is no further road ... Really not, have you already completed the circle of life? Is it really all ... everything ... ". The heroine begins to be disappointed in family life, in women's destiny and in the fate that was prepared for her from birth, but continues to believe in her doubting husband and that their love will keep them together even in the most difficult hour:
“That unfading and indestructible love lay mightily, like the force of life, on their faces - in the time of friendly sorrow it shone in the slowly and silently exchanged look of cumulative suffering, was heard in endless mutual patience against life's torture, in restrained tears and muffled sobs.
And although Goncharov does not describe in the novel how the further relationship between Olga and Stolz developed, it can be briefly assumed that after some time the woman either left her husband or lived the rest of her life unhappy, more and more plunging into disappointment from the unattainability of those lofty goals, oh whom I dreamed of in my youth.
Conclusion
The image of Olga Ilyinskaya in the novel Oblomov by Goncharov is a new, to some extent feminist type of Russian woman who does not want to close herself off from the world, limiting herself to housekeeping and family. A brief description of Olga in the novel is a woman-seeker, a woman-innovator, for whom “routine” family happiness and “Oblomovism” were really the most terrifying and frightening things that could lead to degradation and stagnation of her forward-looking, learning personality. For the heroine, love was something secondary, stemming from friendship or inspiration, but not an original, leading feeling, and even more so not the meaning of life, like Agafya Pshenitsyna.
The tragedy of Olga's image lies in the fact that the society of the 19th century was not yet ready for the emergence of strong female personalities capable of changing the world on an equal footing with men, so she would still have expected the very soporific, monotonous family happiness that the girl was so afraid of.
Artwork test
Olga Ilyinskaya is a secular young lady, she, like Nadenka Lyubetskaya, knows life from its bright side; she is well-to-do and does not particularly care where her funds come from. Her life, however, is much more meaningful than the life of Nadenka or the wife of Aduev Sr.; she makes music and does it not out of fashion, but because she is able to enjoy the beauty of art; she reads a lot, follows literature, science. Her mind is constantly working; questions and bewilderments arise in it one after another, and Stolz and Oblomov barely have time to read everything necessary to explain the questions of interest to her.
In general, the head over the heart prevails in it, and in this respect it is very suitable for Stolz; in her love for Oblomov, the main role is played by reason and a sense of pride. The last feeling is generally one of its main engines. In many cases, she expresses this feeling of pride: she “would have cried and would not have fallen asleep at night if Oblomov had not praised her singing”; pride prevents her from asking Oblomov directly about subjects that she does not quite understand; when Oblomov, after an involuntarily broken declaration of love, tells her that this is not true, he greatly affects her pride; she is afraid to seem "petty, insignificant" to Stolz, telling him about her former love for Oblomov. She meets with Oblomov and takes up his revival; she likes the role of the savior, so beloved by women in general. She is fond of her role and is fond, at the same time, of Oblomov. This passion continues as long as the latter shows signs of activity and life, as if really about to renounce his laziness, stagnation; soon, however, Olga becomes convinced that Oblomov is hopeless, that all her efforts cannot be crowned with success, and bitterly must admit that she turned out to be insolvent, not strong enough in his revival.
Here she herself sees that her love was not a direct affection of the heart, but rather a rational, head love; she loved in Oblomov her creation, the future Oblomov. Here is what she says to him at the moment of parting: “It hurts so much, it hurts so much ... But I do not repent. I am punished for my pride. I relied too much on my own strength. I thought that I would revive you, that you could still live for me, but you have already died a long time ago. I didn't foresee this mistake. I kept waiting, hoping ... I only recently found out that I loved in you what I wanted ... what Stoltz pointed out to me, what we invented with him ... I loved the future Oblomov.
After breaking up with Oblomov, she becomes Stolz's wife. The latter is taken for her "additional education", which consists in suppressing her young impulses and educating in her "a strict understanding of life." He finally succeeds, and they seem to be happy; but Olga is still not completely calm, she lacks something, she strives for something indefinite. She cannot drown out this feeling in herself either by entertainments or pleasures; her husband explains it with nerves, a world ailment common to all mankind, splashed on her with one drop. In this desire for something indefinite, a peculiarity of Olga's nature, her inability to remain on the same level, the desire for further activity, improvement, affected.
The image of Olga is one of the original images in our literature; it is a woman striving for activity, unable to remain a passive member of society.
N. Dyunkin, A. Novikov
Sources:
- We write essays based on the novel by I. A. Goncharov "Oblomov". - M.: Literate, 2005.
Roman I.A. Goncharov "Oblomov" reveals the problem of the social society of those times. In this work, the main characters could not deal with their own feelings, depriving themselves of the right to happiness. One of these heroines with an unfortunate fate will be discussed.
The image and characterization of Olga Ilyinskaya with quotes in the novel Oblomov will help to fully reveal her difficult character and better understand this woman.
Olga's appearance
It is difficult to call a young creature a beauty. The appearance of the girl is far from ideals and generally accepted standards.
"Olga in the strict sense was not a beauty ... But if she were turned into a statue, she would be a statue of grace and harmony."
Being small in stature, she managed to walk like a queen, with her head held high. The girl felt the breed, to become. She wasn't pretending to be better. She didn't flirt, she didn't fawn. It was as natural as possible in the manifestation of emotions and feelings. Everything in her was real, without a drop of falsehood and lies.
“In a rare girl you will meet such simplicity and natural freedom of sight, word, deed ... no lies, no tinsel, no intent!”.
Family
Olga was raised not by her parents, but by an aunt who replaced her father and mother. The girl remembered her mother from a portrait that hung in the living room. About her father, since he took her away from the estate at the age of five, she had no information. Becoming an orphan, the child was left to himself. The baby lacked support, care, warm words. The aunt was not up to her. She was too immersed in secular life, and she did not care about the suffering of her niece.
Education
Despite the eternal employment, the aunt was able to set aside time for the education of the growing niece. Olga was not one of those who are forced to sit down for lessons with a whip. She has always strived to gain new knowledge, constantly developing and moving forward in this direction. Books were an outlet, and music served as a source of inspiration. In addition to playing the piano, she sang beautifully. Her voice, though soft, was strong.
“From this pure, strong girlish voice, my heart beat, my nerves trembled, my eyes sparkled and swam with tears ...”
Character
Oddly enough, she loved solitude. Noisy companies, fun gatherings with friends are not about Olga. She did not seek to acquire new acquaintances, revealing her soul to strangers. Someone considered her too smart, others, on the contrary, narrow-minded.
“Some considered her close-minded, because wise maxims did not break from her tongue ...”
Not distinguished by talkativeness, she preferred to live in her shell. In that invented little world where it was good and calm. External calmness was strikingly different from the internal state of the soul. The girl always clearly knew what she wanted from life and tried to implement her plans.
“If she has any intention, then the matter will boil ..”
First love or acquaintance with Oblomov
First love came at the age of 20. The meeting was planned. Stolz brought Oblomov to Olga's aunt's house. Hearing the angelic voice of Oblomov, he realized that he was gone. The feeling turned out to be mutual. Since then, the meetings have become regular. Young people became interested in each other and began to think about living together.
How love changes a person
Love can change any person. Olga was no exception. She seemed to have wings behind her back from the overwhelming feelings. Everything in her seethed and seethed with the desire to turn the world upside down, changing it, making it better, cleaner. Olga's chosen one was a different field. Understanding the emotions and ambitions of a lover is too difficult a task. It was difficult for him to resist this volcano of passions, sweeping away everything in its path. He wanted to see in her a quiet, calm woman who devoted herself completely to home and family. Olga, on the contrary, wanted to shake up Ilya, change his inner world and his usual way of life.
“She dreamed of how“ she would order him to read the books ”that Stoltz had left, then read the newspapers every day and tell her the news, write letters to the village, finish the plan for arranging the estate, get ready to go abroad - in a word, he would not doze off with her; she will show him the goal, make him fall in love again with everything that he stopped loving.
First disappointment
Time passed, nothing changed. Everything remained in place. Olga knew perfectly well what she was doing, allowing the relationship to go too far. It was not in her nature to retreat. She continued to hope, sincerely believing that she could remake Oblomov, adjusting the ideal man in all respects to her model, but sooner or later any patience comes to an end.
Gap
She is tired of fighting. The girl was gnawed by doubts whether she had made a mistake by deciding to link her life with a weak-willed, weak person incapable of action. Sacrificing yourself all your life for love, why? She had already been treading water for too long, which was unusual for her. It's time to move on, but apparently alone.
"I thought that I would revive you, that you could still live for me - and you died a very long time ago."
This phrase became decisive before Olga put an end to her relationship with her beloved, as it seemed to her, ended so early.
Stolz: life jacket or attempt number two
He was always for her, first of all, a close friend, a mentor. She shared everything that was going on in her soul. Stolz always found time to support, lend a shoulder, making it clear that she was always there, and she could rely on him in any situation. They had common interests. Similar positions. They could well become one, which Andrey counted on. Licking emotional wounds after parting with Oblomov, Olga decided in Paris. In the city of love, where there is a place for hope, faith in the best. It was here that she met with Stolz.
Marriage. Trying to be happy.
Andrei surrounded with attention and care. She enjoyed courtship.
"Continuous, intelligent and passionate worship of a man like Stolz"
Restored injured, offended self-esteem. She was grateful to him. Gradually, the heart began to thaw. The woman felt that she was ready for a new relationship, that she was ripe for the family.
“She experienced happiness and could not determine where the boundaries were, what it was.”
Becoming a wife, for the first time she was able to understand what it means to be loved and to love.
A few years later
For several years the couple lived in a happy marriage. It seemed to Olga that it was in Stolz:
"Not blindly, but with consciousness, and her ideal of male perfection was embodied in him."
But life stuck. The woman is bored. The uniform rhythm of gray everyday life was stifling, not giving way to the accumulated energy. Olga lacked the hectic activities that she led with Ilya. She tried to attribute her state of mind to fatigue, depression, but the situation did not improve, heating up more and more. Andrei intuitively felt changes in mood, not understanding the true cause of his wife's depressed state. Did they make a mistake, and the attempt to become happy failed, but why?
Conclusion
Who is to blame for what happens to us at a particular stage of life. For the most part, we are ourselves. In the modern world, Olga would not be bored and not obsessed with problems. At that time, there were only a few women with a masculine character. They were not understood and not accepted in society. She alone would not have been able to change anything, but she herself was not ready to change, being selfish in her soul. Family life was not for her. She had to accept the situation or let go.
Roman I.A. Goncharov "Oblomov" is devoted to the description of the detrimental consequences of the serfdom, and the consequences not for the peasants, but for the nobles. The protagonist of this novel is Ilya Ilchich Oblomov. He is a simple, kind, but very lazy and spoiled person.
For him, lying on his favorite sofa around the clock replaces all sorts of life and activities. Oblomov lives with dreams of how he will move to his estate and live there wonderfully.
Partly in the image of Oblomov, the theme of “an extra person” continues, but Oblomov himself wants to be superfluous, it is convenient and comfortable for him, no one will interfere with his measured lifestyle.
The meaning of Oblomov's dream
His belief in his own exclusivity, brought up from childhood, was called "Oblomovism". Oblomov recalls his childhood in a dream: one of the most striking episodes of the novel, Oblomov's dream, was written back in 1848.
On the example of this picture from childhood, it is shown how serfdom cripples a person when the master does not need to do anything. Oblomov is used to the fact that the faithful servant Zakhar and someone else will do everything for him, and he is a gentleman, he is above this, so he will in no case fuss. Goncharov criticizes such nobility.
The image of Andrei Stolz
Oblomov's best friend Andrei Ivanovich Stolz, the son of a Russian noblewoman and a German; the exact opposite of Oblomov. Stolz is a “sample of all strength”, from childhood he was used to working for material pay, and he lives like that all his life.
He reproaches Oblomov for eternal laziness, tries to get him off the couch, but to no avail. According to A.P. Chekhov, the image of Stolz is the creative failure of Goncharov. He was conceived as an image of an ideal person, but in the end it turned out to be "a blowing beast, very pleased with himself."
It is not known what Stoltz lives for, he has no purpose in life. In some ways, he is similar to Oblomov, in the end he realizes his idea of \u200b\u200ba peaceful life on the estate.
The image of Olga Ilyinskaya
At the end of the novel, Stolz marries Olga Sergeevna Ilnskaya, who was originally Oblomov's lover. Olga is similar to Turgenev's girls, who are morally superior to men, her image is a synthesis of reason and feeling.
For the sake of Olga, Oblomov gets up from the couch and is ready to give up some of his principles and laziness. However, she herself only convinces herself that she is in love: Olga is still too young, does not know life, therefore she takes a slight infatuation for love.
Oblomov writes her a letter in which he explains that this is not love, but a real feeling will come to her later. Olga does not believe, but over time she becomes convinced that this is indeed the case. After a marriage proposal, they are prevented from reuniting by all sorts of household trifles, but in fact, the lack of love. The break is inevitable.
A few months later, Olga begins an affair with Stolz, in which there is no longer any jealousy or rivalry. Oblomov sincerely wishes his beloved woman happiness, albeit with another, but here he will not be. Olga is smart and sublime, she wants to find the meaning of life, and Stolz is too mundane for her.
The image of Agafya Pshenitsyna
Oblomov himself eventually marries Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna, a simple narrow-minded woman who is used to doing everything in life herself. She does not think about the meaning of being, she is much more concerned about everyday issues.
She accepts Oblomov for who he is, sincerely loves him. Even somewhat bows before him, as before his master (and later before his son). Oblomov continues to love Olga ...
Olga Sergeevna Ilyinskaya - from a series of female portraits of Goncharov, nature is bright and memorable. Bringing Olga closer to Oblomov, Goncharov set himself two tasks, each of which is important in itself. Firstly, the author in his work sought to show the sensations that the presence of a young, pretty woman awakens. Secondly, he wanted to present in a possibly complete essay the female personality itself, capable of the moral re-creation of a man.
Fallen, exhausted, but still retaining many human feelings.
The beneficial influence of Olga soon affected Oblomov: on the very first day of their acquaintance, Oblomov hated both the terrible mess that reigned in his room and the sleepy lying on the sofa on which he clothed himself. Little by little, going into the new life indicated by Olga, Oblomov submitted to the completely beloved woman, who guessed in him a pure heart, a clear, albeit inactive mind and sought to awaken his spiritual strength. He began not only to re-read books that had previously been lying around without any attention, but also to briefly convey their contents to the inquisitive Olga.
How did Olga manage to make such a revolution in Oblomov? To answer this question, it is necessary to refer to the characteristics of Olga.
What kind of person was Olga Ilyinskaya? First of all, it is necessary to note the independence of her nature and the originality of her mind, which were the result of the fact that she lost her parents early, she went her own way. On this basis, Olga's inquisitiveness also developed, striking those people with whom her fate confronted. Seized by a burning need to know as much as possible, Olga realizes the superficiality of her education and bitterly speaks about the fact that women are not given an education. In these words, one can already feel a woman of the new time, striving to catch up with men in terms of education.
The ideological nature makes Olga related to Turgenev's female characters. Life for Olga is a duty and a duty. On the basis of such an attitude to life, her love for Oblomov also grew, whom, not without the influence of Stolz, she set out to save from the prospect of mentally sinking and plunging into the mire of a near existence. Her break with Oblomov is also ideological, which she decided only when she was convinced that Oblomov would never be revived. In the same way, the dissatisfaction that at times covers Olga’s soul after her marriage stems from the same bright source: this is nothing more than a longing for an ideological cause, which the prudent and judicious Stolz could not give her.
But disappointment will never lead Olga to laziness and apathy. To do this, she has a strong enough will. Olga is characterized by determination, which allows her not to reckon with any obstacles in order to revive her loved one to a new life. And the same willpower came to her aid when she saw that she could not revive Oblomov. She decided to break with Oblomov and coped with her heart, no matter how much it cost her, no matter how difficult it was to tear love out of her heart.
As mentioned earlier, Olga is a woman of the new time. Goncharov quite clearly expressed the need for such a type of women that existed at that time.
Plan of the article "Characteristics of Olga Ilyinskaya"
Main part. Olga's character
a) Mind:
- independence,
- thoughtfulness
- curiosity
- ideological
- an uplifting outlook on life.
b) Heart:
- love for Oblomov,
- breaking up with him
- dissatisfaction
- disappointment.
c) Will:
- decisiveness
- hardness.
Conclusion. Olga, as a type of new woman.
