According to the tradition that has developed in Russian literature, love becomes a test for heroes and reveals new facets of characters. This tradition was followed by Pushkin (Onegin and Tatyana), Lermontov (Pechorin and Vera), Turgenev (Bazarov and Odintsova), Tolstoy (Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova). This topic is also touched upon in Goncharov's novel Oblomov. On the example of the love of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya, the author showed how a person's personality is revealed through this feeling.
Olga Ilyinskaya is in a positive way novel. This is a smart girl with sincere, devoid of affectation, manners. She did not enjoy much success in the world, only Stoltz managed to appreciate her. Andrey singled out Olga among other women, because “although unconsciously, she followed a simple, natural path of life ... and did not deviate from the natural manifestation of thought, feeling, will ...”
Oblomov, having met Olga, first of all drew attention to her beauty: "Whoever met her, even absent-minded, stopped for a moment in front of this so strictly and deliberately, artistically created creature." When Oblomov heard her singing, love awakened in his heart: “From words, from sounds, from this pure, strong girlish voice, the heart beat, nerves trembled, eyes sparkled and swam with tears ...” The thirst for life and love that sounded in Olga’s voice, echoed in the soul of Ilya Ilyich. Behind the harmonious appearance, he felt a beautiful soul, capable of deep feelings.
Reflecting on his future life, Oblomov dreamed of a tall, slender woman, with a quiet, proud look. Seeing Olga, he realized that his ideal and she are one person. For Oblomov, the highest harmony is peace, and Olga would be a statue of harmony, "if she were turned into a statue." But she could not become a statue, and, presenting her in her " heaven on earth”, Oblomov began to understand that he would not succeed in an idyll.
The love of the heroes from the very beginning was doomed. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya understood the meaning of life, love, family happiness in different ways. If for Oblomov love is a disease, a passion, then for Olga it is a duty. Ilya Ilyich fell in love with Olga deeply and sincerely, idolized her, gave her all his “I”: “He gets up at seven o’clock, reads, carries books somewhere. On the face of no sleep, no fatigue, no boredom. Even colors appeared on him, a gleam in his eyes, something like courage, or at least self-confidence. You can't see a robe on him."
In Olga's feelings, a consistent calculation was visible. Having agreed with Stolz, she took the life of Ilya Ilyich into her own hands. Despite her youth, she was able to see in him open heart, kind soul, "pigeon tenderness." At the same time, she liked the very idea that it was she, a young and inexperienced girl, who would revive such a person as Oblomov. “She will show him the goal, make him fall in love again with everything that he fell out of love with, and Stolz will not recognize him when he returns. 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! She is the culprit of such a transformation!
Olga tried to change Ilya Ilyich, he also needed feelings that would bring him closer to his native Oblomovka, a blessed corner of the earth where he grew up, where the meaning of life fits into thoughts about food, sleep, in idle conversations: care and warmth, demanding nothing in return. He found all this in Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna, and therefore became attached to her as to a dream come true about returning.
Realizing how different their views on life are, Oblomov decides to write a letter to Olga, which becomes real. poetic work. This letter reads a deep feeling and desire for happiness for the beloved girl. Knowing himself, Olga’s inexperience, in a letter he opens her eyes to a mistake, asks her not to make it: “Your real love is not real love, but the future one. This is only an unconscious need to love ... ”But Olga understood Oblomov’s act differently - as fear of misfortune. She understands that anyone can fall out of love or fall in love with another person, but she says that she cannot follow a person if there is a risk in this. And it is Olga who decides to end their relationship. In the last conversation, she tells Ilya Ilyich that she loved the future Oblomov. Assessing the relationship between Oblomov and Olga, Dobrolyubov wrote: “Olga left Oblomov when she stopped believing in him; she will also leave Stolz if she stops believing in him.”
Having written a letter, Oblomov refused happiness in the name of his beloved. Olga and Ilya broke up, but their relationship had a profound effect on their future life. Oblomov found happiness in the house of Agafya Matveevna, which became for him the second Oblomovka. He is ashamed of such a life, he understands that he lived it in vain, but it is too late to change anything.
The love of Olga and Oblomov enriched the spiritual world of both. But the greatest merit is that Ilya Ilyich contributed to the formation spiritual world Olga. A few years after breaking up with Ilya, she confesses to Stolz: “I love him not as before, but there is something that I love in him, to which I seem to have remained faithful and will not change like others ...” And in this shows the depth of her nature. Unlike Stolz, life goals which have boundaries, people like Oblomov and Olga all their lives do not stop thinking about the appointment of a person and asking themselves the question: “What next?”
Materials about the work of the writer and the novel "Oblomov".
Introduction
Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" can rightly be called a work about love, which reveals different facets of this wonderful feeling. It is not surprising that the leading storyline of the book is the novel by Olga and Oblomov - an example of a bright, all-encompassing, romantic, but notoriously tragic love. Literary researchers assess the role of these relations in the fate of Ilya Ilyich in different ways: some believe that Olga was a bright angel for the hero, able to pull him out of the abyss of Oblomovism, while others point to the selfishness of a girl for whom duty was higher than feelings. To understand the role of Olga in Oblomov's life, consider the story of their love from the very beginning to parting.
The beginning of the relationship between Oblomov and Olga
The love story of Oblomov and Olga begins in the spring, during the flowering of lilacs, the rebirth of nature and the emergence of new wonderful feelings. Ilya Ilyich met a girl at a party, where Stoltz introduced them. At first glance, Oblomov saw in Olga the embodiment of his ideal, harmony and femininity, which he dreamed of seeing in his future wife. Perhaps, the sprouts of a future feeling were born in the soul of Ilya Ilyich already at the moment of meeting the girl: “From that moment, Olga’s persistent gaze did not leave Oblomov’s head. In vain did he lie down on his back to his full height, in vain did he take the most lazy and calm poses - he could not sleep, and that was all. And the dressing gown seemed disgusting to him, and Zakhar was stupid and unbearable, and the dust with cobwebs was unbearable.
Their next meeting took place at the dacha at the Ilyinskys, when Ilya Ilyich accidentally escaped “Ah!”, Revealing the hero’s admiration for the girl, and his accidental movement, which embarrassed the heroine, made Olga herself think about Oblomov’s attitude towards her. And a few days later a conversation took place between them, which became the beginning of the love of Oblomov and Ilyinskaya. Their dialogue ended with a timid confession of the hero: “No, I feel ... not music ... but ... love! Oblomov said quietly. She instantly left his hand and changed her face. Her gaze met his gaze fixed on her: this gaze was motionless, almost insane, it was not Oblomov who looked at it, but passion. These words disturbed the peace in Olga's soul, but the young, inexperienced girl could not immediately understand that a strong wonderful feeling began to emerge in her heart.
The development of the novel by Olga and Oblomov
The relationship between Oblomov and Olga developed as something independent of the heroes, but dictated by the will higher powers. The first confirmation of this was their chance meeting in the park, when both were glad to see each other, but still could not believe their happiness. A fragile, fragrant branch of lilac, a delicate, quivering flower of spring and birth, has become a symbol of their love. Further development The relationship between the characters was swift and ambiguous - from bright flashes of vision in a partner of their ideal (Olga for Oblomov) and a person who can become such an ideal (Oblomov for Olga) to moments of disappointment.
In moments of crisis, Ilya Ilyich despairs, afraid to become a burden for a young girl, fearing the publicity of their relationship, their manifestation is not according to the scenario that the hero dreamed of long years. The reflective, sensitive Oblomov, far from the final parting, understands that Olgino “I love the present is not true love, but the future ...”, feeling that the girl sees in him not real person, but that distant lover that he could become under her sensitive guidance. Gradually, the understanding of this becomes unbearable for the hero, he again becomes apathetic, not believing in the future and not wanting to fight for his happiness. The gap between Oblomov and Olga does not occur because the characters fell out of love with each other, but because, having freed themselves from the veil of their first love, they saw in each other not at all the people they dreamed about.
Why was the love story of Olga and Oblomov obviously tragic?
To understand why the relationship between Oblomov and Olga was doomed to parting, it is enough to compare the characters. The reader gets acquainted with Ilya Ilyich at the beginning of the work. This is already an accomplished man of thirty years, brought up " indoor flower”, from an early age accustomed to idleness, calm and measured life. And if in his youth Oblomov tried to act on a par with the active, purposeful Stolz, then his “hothouse” upbringing and introverted, dreamy character after the first failure in his career led to alienation from the outside world. At the time of meeting Olga, Ilya Ilyich was completely mired in Oblomovism, he was too lazy to even get out of bed or write a letter, he gradually degraded as a person, plunging into a world of unrealizable dreams.
Unlike Oblomov, Olga appears as a bright, purposeful person, constantly developing and striving to discover more and more facets of the world around her. Her friendship with Stolz is not surprising either, who, like a teacher, helps her develop, offers new books and quenches her thirst for immense knowledge. The heroine is beautiful not so much externally as internally, which attracted Ilya Ilyich to her.
The love of Oblomov and Olga is a combination of two opposites that were not destined to be together. Ilya Ilyich's feelings were rather admiration than true love to the girl. He continued to see in her an ephemeral image of his dream, a distant and beautiful muse that would inspire him without forcing him to completely change. Whereas Olga's love in Goncharov's novel Oblomov was aimed precisely at this transformation, the change of her lover. The girl did not try to love Oblomov, the way he is - she loved another person in him, the one she could make of him. Olga herself considered herself practically an angel who would illuminate the life of Ilya Ilyich, only now an adult man wanted a simple, “Oblomov” family happiness and was not ready for drastic changes.
Conclusion
The story of Oblomov and Olga is closely connected with nature - starting in spring, it ends in late autumn, covering the lonely hero with the first snow. Their love did not go away and was not forgotten, forever changing inner world both heroes. Even many years after the breakup, already married to Stolz, Olga tells her husband: “I love him not as before, but there is something that I love in him, to which I seem to have remained faithful and will not change, like others ... ". Perhaps if Oblomov was younger, the girl could change his essence and make her ideal out of him, but true elemental love came into the hero’s life too late, and therefore was doomed to a tragic end - the separation of her beloved.
Using the example of Olga and Ilya Ilyich, Goncharov showed how important it is to love his individuality in another person, and not try to change him in accordance with the distorted, illusory image of the ideal that is close to us.
It will be useful for students of grade 10 to read the chronology of the relationship between the two heroes of Goncharov’s novel before writing an essay on the topic “Lyubov Oblomov and Olga in the novel Oblomov”.
Artwork test
The novel "Oblomov" is the most bright work I. A. Goncharova. The author has been working on it for over 10 years. Main story line Oblomov's works are the love story of Ilya Ilyich for Olga Ilyinskaya. Such people are often said to be made of different test. However, it often happens that life brings together completely opposite people. Let's try to understand what these two characters are, and analyze why the relationship between Oblomov and Olga developed in this way.
Ilya Ilyich
Oblomov's life would most likely be called inactive. He has little interest in anything, does not go out anywhere, does not read books. The hero's favorite pastime is lying in a bathrobe on the couch. He simply does not see the point in activities, Oblomov loves to dream.
A friend who came to visit him, Andrei Ivanovich Stolz, is the opposite of the protagonist. He is trying to make a difference in his life. The relationship between Oblomov and Olga began precisely thanks to him.
Acquaintance with Olga
So, Stolz is trying to stir up Oblomov. They go to visit together, Stolz makes him read, introduces him to interesting girl, which turned out to be Olga Ilyinskaya.
This acquaintance awakens in the main character strong feelings. He declares to the girl in love. Oblomov and Olga, whose relationship, it would seem, could not begin at all, nevertheless began to meet. The girl considers love for Ilya Ilyich her duty. She wants to change him, make him live differently.
Changes in Oblomov's life
The main character's life has really changed. He starts to lead enough vigorous activity. Ilya Ilyich now gets up at seven in the morning and reads. Colors appear on the face, fatigue disappears completely.
Love for Olga makes Oblomov show best qualities. As Goncharov notes, Ilya Ilyich, to some extent, "caught up with life."
However, the solution of practical issues still burdens him. He is not interested in building a house in Oblomovka, leading the way to the village. Moreover, the relationship between Oblomov and Olga gives rise to in him a lack of confidence in his abilities, in himself. Then he comes to the realization that Olga does not love him. She is demanding, persistent, strict, exacting. The holiday of love has become a duty, even a duty.
The relationship between Oblomov and Olga ends, he again puts on a dressing gown and leads his former way of life.
Olga Ilyinskaya and Agafya Pshenitsyna
In his novel, Goncharov writes about two women who loved Oblomov. The first, Olga Ilyinskaya, is active and educated. She sings well, is interested in art, literature and science. Possessing high spiritual qualities, she was able to understand the nobility of Oblomov's soul. However, Olga sees flaws in the nature of Ilya Ilyich. She does not like his passivity, inactivity, laziness. Rather, she loves her noble mission, thanks to which the spiritual revival of the protagonist should happen. The girl is not devoid of vanity. She is pleased with the thought that she will be the cause of his "awakening".
It was precisely because there was a lot of desire to remake the other in this love that Oblomov and Olga parted. Relationships based on demands and claims to another person are doomed to failure.
The complete opposite of Olga was Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna - the second woman who loved Oblomov. She, of course, did not have the education of Ilinskaya and did not understand his mind, did not see spiritual wealth. Agafya Matveevna fed him tasty food and simply made Ilya Ilyich's life comfortable.
Oblomov's female ideal
The girl’s inconsistency with the ideals of Ilya Ilyich is another reason why Olga Ilyinskaya and Oblomov could not be together. The relationship of these heroes was based on admiration for beauty and an ambitious desire to remake a loved one.
It's no secret that in love we often look for those ideals that we learned in childhood. Demanding Olga encourages Oblomov to act, to think, and he is looking for harmony and peace that his beloved woman can provide.
Olga Ilyinskaya and Oblomov, whose relationship did not last long, get acquainted, as we remember, through a mutual friend Andrei Stolz. This girl breaks into his life and for some time pulls him out of the world of inaction and dreams.
Agafya Matveevna, the landlady of the apartment rented by Oblomov, appears in his life somehow quite normally, almost imperceptibly. The main character likes to talk a little with her, he notes her housekeeping, even disposition. However, she does not cause any excitement in his soul.
Unlike Olga, Agafya Matveevna does not try to elevate Oblomov to her ideal, she considers his breed than herself. As you know, it is important for a man to be loved for who he is, without trying to remake him. Agafya Matveevna becomes for Oblomov the personification of female virtue.
Ilyinskaya were based on her ideas about happiness. Agafya Matveevna thought only of the comfort and convenience of Ilya Ilyich. Olga constantly forced Oblomov to act, for her sake he had to step over himself. Agafya Matveevna, on the contrary, tries to save the main character from unnecessary trouble. She even mortgages her property so that Oblomov does not give up his favorite habits.
The relationship between Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya was not possible due to the discrepancy between these two characters. Goncharov brings us to the understanding that it was Agafya Matveevna who embodied the ideal of the protagonist's woman. He married this kind, hard-working woman. Life with Olga would not bring happiness to either him or her, because their goals are completely different.
Life with Agafya Matveevna became for Oblomov the embodiment of calmness, satiety, comfort. With her, Ilya Ilyich seemed to have returned to happy Days of their childhood, filled with the love and cares of their mother.
In the work "Oblomov" Ivan Goncharov quite reverently describes the romantic aspects of the life of the main characters. He will try to figure out if he can sincere feelings completely change the way people live.
The love and relationship of Ilya Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya with quotes will prove that positive changes are possible only when a person confidently goes through life without fear of difficulties.
First meeting
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Olga Ilinskaya introduced them mutual friend Andrey Ivanovich Stolz. The men visited the young lady's estate in order to listen to her singing. musical talent girls made an unforgettable impression on Ilya. He did not take his eyes off her, listened, and looked with rapture.Ilyinskaya also constantly considered a new acquaintance.
“As soon as Oblomov turned timidly in her direction, hoping that she was not looking, he met her gaze, filled with curiosity, but so kind. The songs in her performance touched a nerve.
He wanted to stay at the manor longer, but due to excessive confusion, he decided to leave early. From that moment on, all his thoughts are occupied by Olya.
Love changes people
"Olga's persistent gaze did not leave Oblomov's head."
He wanted to visit her more often. Positive changes began to occur with the man. He began to follow appearance, for order in the house. Oblomov continues to visit the Ilinsky estate. Soon he confesses his love to Olga. Confused by the words she heard, she runs away from him. From embarrassment, Ilya does not appear in her house for a long time.
Oblomov constantly thinks about his beloved. The young lady dreams of knocking out all laziness from him, weaning him from the habit of sleeping before dinner.
“She won’t doze off, she will show the goal, make her fall in love with what she fell out of love with.”
Gradually, she began to achieve her goals. Elijah was unrecognizable.
Development of the novel
“Their sympathy grew and developed. Olga blossomed along with feelings. There was more light in the eyes, and grace in the movements.
Lovers spend a lot of time together. “With her, he reads from morning to evening, sends flowers, walks on the lake, in the mountains.” Sometimes, he does not sleep at night, his imagination draws a portrait of Ilyinskaya.
Sometimes it seems to Oblomov that people condemn them, especially the girl. Ilya's uncertainty about his own appearance leads to writing a letter to Olga, with a proposal to stop meeting. Such a turn of events will upset her so much that Oblomov will understand how strong her feelings are. “I love otherwise. I'm bored without you, parting for a long time - it hurts. I found out, saw and believe that you love me. The sincerity of his beloved makes him think about marriage.
"Oblomovism" wins love
With the advent of autumn, Ilya Ilyich is increasingly visited by sad thoughts. He rarely saw Olga. Gradually, Oblomov began to show himself real. Indulging the girl, carrying out her instructions, it seemed that he was doing it only for her. Dislike for books and sciences returned. He often began to postpone trips to the Ilyinskys' house. When Olga herself visited him, he came up with all sorts of reasons for postponing trips. Despite the cooled ardor of Ilya, the relationship of the young continued.Oblomov periodically told Olga that he did not trust her love. And when he said that the wedding date should be postponed, due to financial instability in the estate, she decided to end the affair. She in Once again makes sure that this man will not become her reliable support. “I loved what I wanted to be in you, I loved the future Oblomov!
The protagonist of the novel, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, has been leading an absolutely inactive life for a number of years, constantly lying at home on the couch, actually not going anywhere and devoting time only to dreams. Oblomov does not stop dreaming about life in his possessions, in Oblomovka, together with his future family He is going to get married and have children in the future. However, year after year passes, and Ilya Ilyich does not even try to find any real bride he dreams of some perfect woman but does nothing to meet her.
But thanks to his active and energetic friend Andrei Stolz, Oblomov makes an acquaintance with the young Olga Ilyinskaya during his stay in the country in the summer. Olga sings beautifully, and Ilya Ilyich is greatly impressed by her performance of the aria, he cannot help crying. Oblomov does not hide his sincere admiration for Olga, she seems to him the ideal that he always aspired to, after a few meetings, Ilya Ilyich is sure that he is in love with this girl and has always been waiting for her.
As for Olga herself, she heard a lot about Oblomov from Stolz even before they met. Andrei said that Ilya should definitely be helped to overcome his apathy and make him live differently, because he has many virtues, such as kindness, honesty, breadth of soul, decency, tenderness. When a girl really meets this man, she is carried away by the idea of his transformation and the desire to resurrect him for real life. Olga, who has virtually no life experience yet, believes that love for her will really be able to change Oblomov and make him completely different.
Ilya Ilyich actually becomes much more active, it also seems to him that Olga and her love gave him new life, he is ready to act and move on for the sake of his beloved. Oblomov makes an official proposal to the girl, she accepts it without hesitation, at this moment both believe that they will be happy together in the future.
But as soon as the infinitely lazy, timid and indecisive Ilya Ilyich is required to perform at least some specific actions as a groom, he is completely lost and begins to doubt whether he should change his fate so drastically. Even filing an application for marriage to the ward becomes a problem for him, he is still unable to get there, no matter how much he intends to. Further, Oblomov thinks about how to ask Olga's hand from her aunt, who is the guardian of the girl, since she no longer has parents.
He understands that the aunt will ask about his financial situation, about money matters, about the state of the estate, while Ilya Ilyich is absolutely not ready for this, he has not visited his possessions for many years and has no idea how things are going there and what income he can count on. He constantly puts off this most important conversation, referring to Olga for some reasons invented by himself.
The girl more and more clearly sees Ilya's weakness, his complete lack of confidence in himself and in the future, she begins to understand that she made a mistake in her choice. In addition, Olga is also convinced that Oblomov is returning to his former way of life again, that he again sleeps for a long time after dinner, from which she tried to wean him. The girl with bitterness and pain feels that all her efforts were in vain and she will not be able to do anything with this person.
During last conversation Olga frankly announces to Ilya Ilyich that she hoped that he would still be able to live at least for her sake, but he had already died spiritually a long time ago, so they should part, they have no future together. Oblomov is in despair, but he also understands that there is no need to continue the relationship further, they will bring nothing but pain and disappointment to both of them. When reading the novel, there is no doubt that the separation of these two was indeed natural, they would never have been able to build a full-fledged, harmonious family, as Olga subsequently developed with best friend Ilya Ilyich Andrey Stolz.
