Probably, every person makes mistakes in his life, and by making mistakes, he gains experience. But what is experience? Experience is the knowledge that we acquire throughout life. And since a person is constantly learning something, trying to comprehend something new, ups and downs, victories and defeats will await him along the way. Eat good proverb that the smart learn from the mistakes of others, and the stupid learn from their own. But in life it often happens differently: a person more often gains life experience when he learns from his mistakes. Is it possible to gain experience without making a single mistake? I think not. There are no perfect people, and everything in life is learned through trial and error. Life is so multifaceted, sometimes unpredictable, that various trials will lie in wait for a person on its way.
That is why the topic of experience and mistakes has always interested writers and they very often turned to it.
L.N. did not remain aloof from this topic either. Tolstoy. In the epic novel "War and Peace" all his favorite characters: Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, Nikolai Rostov, Princess Marya, Natasha Rostova - make mistakes in their lives. Talking about the fate of his characters, the author makes the reader think about the relationship between experience and mistakes. When I read the novel, it was as if I was living the life of my beloved heroine Natasha Rostova. For the first time we see her trusting, childlike, naive, in love with everyone. And her first crush on Boris Drubetskoy? Her feelings are so sincere, so pure, Natasha Rostova is so happy... And then? Boris turned out to be not at all the person with whom she could be happy: he is a careerist, the main thing for him is money.
This first disappointment of the heroine will be a lesson for her. But I think Natasha Rostova made a serious mistake when she got carried away by Anatole Kuragin. How could Natasha Rostova, so kind, so sensitive to people, fall in love with an immoral, empty, vulgar person? I think that the reason lies in the lack of life experience - before meeting with Anatole Kuragin, she was surrounded by kind and good people, and she was completely unprepared for a meeting with the other side of life: where lies, hypocrisy, betrayal reign. And the heroine makes a mistake that nearly cost her her life. She indirectly blames herself for what happened to her loved ones: breaking off the engagement with Bolkonsky, death younger brother, mother's illness, Andrey's death. Natasha Rostova had to pay too much for her mistake. She experienced a lot, suffered a lot, quickly matured, became responsible not only for herself, but also for others. For this mistake, she not only paid too high a price, but also gained the necessary life experience. She began to be even more attentive to close people, to take care of them, she learned to understand people, she became more careful in relationships even with those whom she knew well. Without these mistakes, could she see in Pierre Bezukhov that person who has long, sincerely and hopelessly been in love with her? It seems to me that the happiness of Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova is quite natural: after all, he also made many mistakes in his life, from which, fortunately, he managed to extract for himself important lessons. My favorite heroes did not make irreparable, tragic mistakes, they managed to correct them and therefore found happiness.
Thus, experience and mistakes go hand in hand with each other. The main thing is that, making a mistake, a person can then correct it, so that it does not become a tragedy in his life, but simply a life experience, another step in his knowledge of life.
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Pierre Bezukhov
In the monumental epic novel "War and Peace" L.N. Tolstoy reflected many big and small problems from the life of Russian society early XIX century. The search for the meaning of life, true and false heroism, love and hate, life and death are just the most important of the problems facing the main characters of the novel. And everyone solves them in their own way. We treat the characters in the novel differently. But at the climax of the work of the war of 1812, almost everyone inspires us with deep respect, since the entire Russian people rose in a single patriotic impulse. The war affected the fate of all the characters in the book.
One of my favorite characters is Pierre Bezukhov. He appears on the very first pages of "War and Peace" in the salon of Anna Pavlovna Scherer. A young man, absurd and unattractive, "fat, taller than usual, broad, with huge red hands." Big and clumsy, he does not fit in with the elegant interior of the cabin, confuses and shocks others. But he also inspires fear. Anna Pavlovna is frightened by the look of a young man: smart, timid, observant, natural. Such is Pierre, the illegitimate son of a Russian nobleman. In the Scherer salon, he is accepted only just in case, and suddenly Count Kirill officially recognizes his son. Much at first seems strange to us in Pierre: he was brought up in Paris and does not know how to behave in society. And only later we will understand that spontaneity, sincerity, ardor are the essential features of Pierre. Nothing will ever force him to change himself, to live according to a general, average form, to conduct meaningless conversations. The image of Pierre is central throughout figurative system novel. And, above all, because he was at the center of the plot original intention books about a Decembrist who returned from exile. The novel "War and Peace" is built in the form of a family chronicle. The history of the people is perceived through the prism family history. Pierre is unique in this background. There is no one behind him alone, officially recognized and loved by his father, he will never recognize his parent, he will not be able to learn anything from him. Pierre is initially deprived of a family, he begins with himself. This is the essence of the personality of this hero, reflects the features not of his kind, but common features his character.
Like other heroes of Tolstoy, Pierre will go his way "from Napoleon to Kutuzov." This path is marked by no less mistakes and delusions than the path of Prince Andrei.
First tragic mistake Pierre was married to Helen. The author tells in detail how the depraved Helen and Prince Vasily lured the naive Pierre, how they ran in time with the icon to bless them. And having described all this, Tolstoy peers intently at the unfortunate Pierre. Who does he blame for his ridiculous marriage? And Pierre wins his first victory, he blames himself. Pierre's spiritual attitude is initially based on the principle of true morality: first of all, judge yourself.
Second serious test will be an unexpected duel for Pierre. Insulted by Dolokhov, he challenges and finds himself again involved in someone else's and alien game. It would seem that the outcome of the duel is the triumph of justice: for the first time, picking up a gun, Pierre falls into his offender. But after all this, his whole life seems meaningless to the count. Pierre is going through a deep mental crisis. This crisis and strong dissatisfaction with yourself, and the desire to change your life.
Torzhok became for Pierre his Austerlitz. At this post station, he renounced his early moral Bonapartism and chose a new path. This path was shown to him by the freemason Bazdeev, who becomes his mentor. Pierre's appeal to the Freemasons is understandable. Bazdeev invites him to start life from scratch, to be reborn in a new, purified state. But it is also historically justified. It is known that almost all the Decembrists went through Freemasonry, and they were looking for the same thing in Freemasonry as Pierre did for moral purification. Leo Tolstoy builds the fate of Pierre with a chain of illogical regularities, historical regularities. Not being a military man, he goes to the Borodino field, because historically victory requires the participation of all those who value the fatherland. And Tolstoy made us see this battle through the eyes of Pierre, since it is he who sees moral basis this event. Pierre will stay in Moscow to kill Napoleon and save the girl. And, finally, in captivity, he will find the way to inner freedom, join people's truth and to folk morality. Meeting with Platon Karataev, the bearer of the people's truth, an era in the life of Pierre. Like Bazdeev, Karataev will enter his life as a spiritual teacher. But all internal energy Pierre's personalities, the whole structure of his soul are such that, happily accepting the offered experience of his teachers, he does not submit to them, but, enriched, goes further on his own path. And this path, according to Tolstoy, is the only one possible for a truly moral person.
Pierre's life is a path of discovery and disappointment, a path of crisis and in many ways dramatic. Pierre is an emotional person. He is distinguished by a mind prone to dreamy philosophizing, distraction, weakness of will, lack of initiative, and exceptional kindness. Main feature hero - the search for peace, harmony with oneself, the search for a life that would be in harmony with the needs of the heart and would bring moral satisfaction.
At the beginning of the novel, Pierre is a fat, massive young man with an intelligent, timid and observant look that distinguishes him from the rest of the visitors to the living room. Having recently arrived from abroad, this illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov stands out in the high society salon for his naturalness, sincerity and simplicity. He is soft, supple, easily amenable to other people's influence. For example, he leads a disorderly, wild life, participating in revelry and atrocities of secular youth, although he perfectly understands the emptiness and worthlessness of such a pastime.
Big and clumsy, he does not fit in with the elegant interior of the cabin, confuses and shocks others. But he also inspires fear. Anna Pavlovna is frightened by the look of a young man: smart, timid, observant, natural. Such is Pierre, the illegitimate son of a Russian nobleman. In the Scherer salon, he is accepted only just in case, and suddenly Count Kirill officially recognizes his son. Much at first seems strange to us in Pierre: he was brought up in Paris - and does not know how to behave in society. And only later we will understand that spontaneity, sincerity, ardor are the essential features of Pierre. Nothing will ever force him to change himself, to live according to a general, average form, to conduct meaningless conversations.
Already here it is noticeable that Pierre does not fit into the false society of flatterers and careerists, the defining feature of which is an all-pervading lie. For this reason, the appearance of Pierre in the majority of those present causes fear, and his sincerity and straightforwardness - outright fear. Let us recall how Pierre left his useless aunt, spoke with the French abbot and was carried away by the conversation so that he began to clearly threaten to violate the system of secular relationships familiar to the Scherer house, which revived the dead, false atmosphere.
With one of his smart and timid glances, Pierre seriously frightened the hostess of the salon and her guests with their false norms of behavior. Pierre has the same kind and sincere smile, his special harmless softness is striking. But Tolstoy himself does not consider his hero weak and weak-willed, as it might seem at first glance: “Pierre was one of those people who, despite their outward, so-called weakness of character, do not look for an attorney for their grief.”
In Pierre, there is a constant struggle between the spiritual and the sensual, the inner, moral essence of the hero contradicts the way of his life. On the one hand, it is full of noble, freedom-loving thoughts, the origins of which date back to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Pierre is an admirer of Rousseau, Montesquieu, who fascinated him with the ideas of universal equality and the re-education of man. On the other hand, Pierre participates in revelry in the company of Anatole Kuragin, and here he manifests that reckless-lordly beginning, the embodiment of which was once his father, Ekaterininsky nobleman, Count Bezukhov.
Pierre's naivete and gullibility, inability to understand people make him make a number of life mistakes, of which the most serious is marrying the stupid and cynical beauty Helen Kuragina. By this thoughtless act, Pierre deprives himself of all hope for possible personal happiness.
This is one of the important milestones in the life of the hero. But Pierre is becoming more and more aware that real family he does not have that his wife is an immoral woman. Dissatisfaction grows in him, but not with others, but with himself. This is exactly what happens to truly moral people. For their disorder, they consider it possible to execute only themselves. The explosion occurs at a dinner in honor of Bagration. Pierre challenges Dolokhov, who insulted him, to a duel. After everything that happened to him, especially after the duel, Pierre seems meaningless to his whole life. He is going through a mental crisis: this is a strong dissatisfaction with himself and the desire to change his life, to build it on new, good principles, associated with this.
Bezukhov breaks with Helen abruptly after learning how strong her love for his money was. Bezukhov himself is indifferent to money and luxury, therefore he calmly agrees with the demands of his cunning wife to give her most of his fortune. Pierre is disinterested and ready to do anything to get rid of the lies that the insidious beauty surrounded him as soon as possible. Despite his carelessness and youth, Pierre keenly feels the boundary between innocent jokes and dangerous games, which can cripple someone's life, so he is frankly indignant in a conversation with the villain Anatole after the failed kidnapping of Natasha.
Having broken with his wife, Pierre, on the way to Petersburg, in Torzhok, waiting for horses at the station, asks himself difficult (eternal) questions: What is bad? What well? What should you love, what should you hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what is death? What power controls everything? Here he meets the freemason Bazdeev. At the moment of spiritual discord that Pierre was experiencing, Bazdeev appears to him just the person he needs, Pierre is offered the path of moral improvement, and he accepts this path, because most of all he now needs to improve his life and himself.
Tolstoy makes the hero go through a difficult path of losses, mistakes, delusions and searches. Having become close to the Freemasons, Pierre tries to find the meaning of life in religious truth. Freemasonry gave the hero the belief that there should be a kingdom of goodness and truth in the world, and the highest happiness of a person is to strive to achieve them. He passionately desires "to regenerate the vicious human race." In the teachings of the Freemasons, Pierre is attracted by the ideas of "equality, brotherhood and love," therefore, first of all, he decides to alleviate the fate of the serfs. In moral purification for Pierre, as for Tolstoy at a certain period, was the truth of Freemasonry, and, carried away by it, at first he did not notice what was a lie. It seems to him that he has finally found the purpose and meaning of life: "And only now, when I ... try ... to live for others, only now I understand all the happiness of life." This conclusion helps Pierre to find real way in his further searches.
Pierre shares his new ideas about life with Andrei Bolkonsky. Pierre is trying to transform the order of Freemasons, draws up a project in which he calls for activity, practical help to his neighbor, for the spread moral ideas in the name of the good of mankind all over the world ... However, the Masons resolutely reject Pierre's project, and he is finally convinced of the solidity of his suspicions that many of them were looking for a means of expanding their secular ties in Freemasonry, that the Masons - these insignificant people - were not interested in problems of goodness, love, truth, the good of mankind, and the uniforms and crosses that they sought in life. Pierre cannot be satisfied with mysterious, mystical rites and sublime conversations about good and evil. Disappointment soon sets in in Freemasonry, since Pierre's republican ideas were not shared by his "brothers", and besides, Pierre sees that hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and careerism exist among the Freemasons. All this leads Pierre to break with the Masons.
In a fit of passion, he tends to succumb to such instant hobbies, taking them for true and correct. And when it appears true essence things, when hopes collapse, Pierre also actively falls into despair, disbelief, like a small child who has been offended. He wants to find a field of action in order to translate fair and humane ideas into a concrete useful thing. Therefore, Bezukhov, like Andrei, begins to improve his serfs. All measures taken by him are imbued with sympathy for the oppressed peasantry. Pierre makes sure that only persuasive and not corporal punishments are applied, so that the peasants are not burdened with overwork, and hospitals, shelters and schools are established in each estate. But all the good intentions of Pierre remained only intentions. Why, wanting to help the peasants, he could not do this? The answer is simple. It was his naivete, lack of practical experience, ignorance of reality. The stupid but cunning chief executive easily fooled the smart and intelligent gentleman around the finger, creating the appearance of the exact execution of his orders.
Feeling a strong need for high noble activity, feeling rich forces in himself, Pierre nevertheless does not see the purpose and meaning of life. The Patriotic War of 1812, the general patriotism of which captured him, helps the hero to find a way out of this state of discord with himself and the world around him. His life only seemed calm and serene from the outside. "Why? Why? What is going on in the world?" - these questions did not cease to disturb Bezukhov. This incessant inner work prepared his spiritual revival in the days Patriotic War 1812.
Of great importance for Pierre was contact with the people on the Borodino field. The landscape of the Borodino field before the start of the battle (bright sun, fog, distant forests, golden fields and copses, smoke of shots) correlates with Pierre's mood and thoughts, causing him some kind of elation, a sense of the beauty of the spectacle, the grandeur of what is happening. Through his eyes Tolstoy conveys his understanding of the decisive in folk, historical life events. Shocked by the behavior of the soldiers, Pierre himself shows courage and readiness for self-sacrifice. At the same time, one cannot fail to note the naivety of the hero: his decision to kill Napoleon.
“To be a soldier, just a soldier!.. To enter this common life with all my being, to be imbued with what makes them so,” - this is the desire that seized Pierre after the Battle of Borodino. Not being a military officer, like Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre expressed his love for the fatherland in his own way: he formed a regiment at his own expense and took it to support, while he himself remained in Moscow to kill Napoleon as the main culprit of national disasters. It was here, in the capital occupied by the French, that Pierre's selfless kindness was fully revealed.
With regard to Pierre ordinary people and the author's criterion of beauty in man is once again manifested in nature. Seeing helpless people at the mercy of the rampant French soldiers, he cannot remain just a witness to the numerous human dramas that unfold before his eyes. Not thinking about his own safety, Pierre protects a woman, stands up for a lunatic, saves a child from a burning house. Before his eyes, representatives of the most cultured and civilized nation are outrageous, violence and arbitrariness are happening, people are being executed, accused of arson, which they did not commit. These terrible and painful impressions are aggravated by the conditions of captivity.
But the most terrible thing for the hero is not hunger and lack of freedom, but the collapse of faith in the just structure of the world, in man and God. Decisive for Pierre is his meeting with a soldier, a former peasant Platon Karataev, who, according to Tolstoy, personifies the masses. This meeting meant for the hero familiarization with the people, folk wisdom, even closer rapprochement with ordinary people. The round gentle soldier performs a real miracle, forcing Pierre to look at the world brightly and joyfully again, to believe in goodness, love, justice. Communication with Karataev causes a feeling of peace and comfort in the hero. His suffering soul warms up under the influence of the cordiality and participation of a simple Russian person. Platon Karataev has some special gift of love, a sense of blood connection with all people. His wisdom, which struck Pierre, lies in the fact that he lives in complete harmony with everything earthly, as if dissolving in it.
In captivity, Pierre finds that calmness and contentment with himself, to which he had vainly sought before. Here he learned not with his mind, but with his whole being, with his life, that man was created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of natural human needs ... Initiation to the people's truth, to the people's ability to live helps Pierre's inner liberation, always looking for solutions the question of the meaning of life: he sought this in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dispersion of secular life, in wine, in the heroic feat of self-sacrifice, in romantic love for Natasha; he sought it by way of thought, and all these searches and attempts all deceived him. And finally, with the help of Karataev, this issue is resolved. The most essential thing in Karataev is loyalty and immutability. Loyalty to yourself, your only and constant spiritual truth. Pierre follows this for a while.
In characterizing the state of mind of the hero at this time, Tolstoy develops his ideas about the inner happiness of a person, which consists in complete spiritual freedom, peace and tranquility, independent of external circumstances. However, having experienced the influence of Karataev's philosophy, Pierre, having returned from captivity, did not become a Karataev, non-resistance. By the very nature of his character, he was incapable of accepting life without seeking.
A turning point occurs in Bezukhov's soul, which means the adoption of a life-loving view of the world by Platon Karataev. Having learned the truth of Karataev, Pierre in the epilogue of the novel is already going his own way. His dispute with Nikolai Rostov proves that Bezukhov faces the problem of the moral renewal of society. Active virtue, according to Pierre, can lead the country out of the crisis. It is necessary to unite honest people. Happy family life(married to Natasha Rostova) does not take Pierre away from public interests.
The feeling of complete harmony for such an intelligent and inquisitive person as Pierre is impossible without participation in specific useful activities aimed at achieving a lofty goal - the very harmony that cannot exist in a country where the people are in the position of a slave. Therefore, Pierre naturally comes to Decembristism, joining a secret society in order to fight everything that interferes with life, humiliates the honor and dignity of a person. This struggle becomes the meaning of his life, but does not make him a fanatic who, for the sake of an idea, consciously renounces the joys of being. Pierre speaks with indignation about the reaction that has come in Russia, about Arakcheevism, theft. At the same time, he understands the strength of the people and believes in them. With all this, the hero strongly opposes violence. In other words, for Pierre, the path of moral self-improvement remains decisive in the reorganization of society.
Intense intellectual search, the ability to selfless deeds, high spiritual impulses, nobility and devotion in love (relationship with Natasha), true patriotism, the desire to make society more fair and humane, truthfulness and naturalness, the desire for self-improvement make Pierre one of the best people his time.
We see at the end of the novel happy person who has a good family, a faithful and devoted wife who loves and is loved. Thus, it is Pierre Bezukhov who achieves spiritual harmony with the world and himself in War and Peace. He goes through the difficult path of searching for the meaning of life to the end and finds it, becoming an advanced, progressive person of his era.
I would like to once again note Tolstoy's ability to portray his hero as he is, without embellishment, a natural person who tends to constantly change. The internal changes taking place in the soul of Pierre Bezukhov are deep, and this is reflected in his appearance. At the first meeting, Pierre is “a massive, fat young man, with a vague observant look.” Pierre looks completely different after his marriage, in the company of the Kuragins: “He was silent ... and, with a completely absent-minded look, he picked his nose with his finger. His face was sad and gloomy. And when it seemed to Pierre that he had found the meaning of activity aimed at improving the life of the peasants, he "spoke with animation of joy."
And only after freeing himself from the oppressive lies of the secular farce, finding himself in difficult military conditions and finding himself among ordinary Russian peasants, Pierre feels the taste of life, gains peace of mind, which again changes his appearance. Despite his bare feet, his dirty, tattered clothes, his matted, lice-infested hair, his expression was firm, calm, and animated, and he had never had such a look before.
In the image of Pierre Bezukhov, Tolstoy shows that, no matter how different ways neither the best of the representatives high society in search of the meaning of life, they come to the same result: the meaning of life is in unity with their native people, in love for this people.
It is in captivity that Bezukhov comes to the conclusion: "Man was created for happiness." But people around Pierre are suffering, and in the epilogue Tolstoy shows Pierre thinking hard how to protect the good and the truth.
So, having gone through a difficult path, full of mistakes, delusions in the reality of Russian history, Pierre finds himself, retains his natural essence, and does not succumb to the influence of society. Throughout the novel, Tolstoy's hero is in constant search, emotional experiences and doubts, which ultimately lead him to his true calling.
And if at first Bezukhov's feelings constantly fight with each other, he thinks contradictoryly, then he finally frees himself from everything superficial and artificial, finds his true face and vocation, clearly knows what he needs from life. We see how beautiful Pierre's real, genuine love for Natasha is, he becomes a wonderful father of a family, is actively involved in social activities, benefits people and is not afraid of new things.
Conclusion
The novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy introduced us to many heroes, each of which is a bright personality, has individual features. One of the most attractive characters in the novel is Pierre Bezukhov. His image is at the center of "War and Peace", because the figure of Pierre is significant for the author himself and plays a huge role in his work. It is known that the fate of this hero was the basis of the idea of the whole novel.
After reading the novel, we understand that Pierre Bezukhov is one of Tolstoy's favorite characters. During the course of the story, the image of this hero undergoes significant changes, his development, which is a consequence of his spiritual quest, the search for the meaning of life, some of his highest, enduring ideals. Leo Tolstoy emphasizes the sincerity, childish gullibility, kindness and purity of his hero's thoughts. And we cannot but notice these qualities, not appreciate them, despite the fact that at first Pierre is presented to us as a lost, weak-willed, unremarkable young man.
Fifteen years of Pierre's life are passing before our eyes. Many temptations, mistakes, defeats were on his way, but many accomplishments, victories, overcomings. life path Pierre is an ongoing search for a worthy place in life, an opportunity to benefit people. Not external circumstances, but an internal need to improve oneself, to become better - this is Pierre's guiding star.
The problems raised by Tolstoy in the novel "War and Peace" are of universal significance. His novel, according to Gorky, is "a documentary presentation of all the searches that a strong personality undertook in the 19th century in order to find a place and a deed in the history of Russia" ...
Do I need to analyze my mistakes? In order to reveal the set topic, it is necessary to define the definitions of the main concepts. What is experience? And what are errors? Experience - the knowledge and skills that a person has received in each of the life situations. Errors - incorrectness in actions, deeds, statements, thoughts. These two concepts, which cannot exist without each other, are tightly connected. The more experience, the less mistakes you make - this is a common truth. But you can't gain experience without making mistakes - that's the harsh reality. Every person in his life stumbles, makes mistakes, does stupid things. You can’t do without it, it’s the ups and downs that teach us to live. Only by making mistakes and learning from problematic life situations can we develop. That is, it is possible and even necessary to be mistaken and go astray, but the main thing is to analyze mistakes and correct them.
Very often in world fiction, writers touch on the topic of mistakes and experience. So, for example, in the epic novel “War and Peace” by L.N. Tolstoy, one of the main characters, Pierre Bezukhov, spent all his time in the company of Kuragin and Dolokhov, leading an idle lifestyle, not burdened by worries, sorrows and thoughts. But, gradually realizing that panache and secular promenade are empty and aimless pursuits, he realizes that this is not for him. But he was too young and ignorant: to draw such conclusions, one must rely on experience. The hero can not immediately understand the surrounding people, and very often makes mistakes in them. This is clearly manifested in the relationship with Helen Kuragina. Later, he realizes that their marriage was a mistake, he was deceived by "marble shoulders". Some time after the divorce, he enters into Masonic Lodge and, apparently, finds himself. Bezukhov is engaged social activities, meets with interesting people In a word, his personality acquires integrity. Beloved and devoted wife, healthy children, close friends, interesting job are the components of a happy and fulfilling life. Pierre Bezukhov is exactly the person who, through trial and error, finds his meaning of existence.
Another example can be found in the story "The Enchanted Wanderer" by N.S. Leskov. The main character Ivan Severyanych Flyagin had to drink the bitter cup of trial and error. It all started with an accident in his youth: the mischief of a young postilion cost the life of an old monk. Ivan was born the “promised son” and from birth was destined to serve God. His life leads from one trouble to another, from test to test, until his soul is cleansed and brings the hero to the monastery. For a long time he will die and not die. Many he had to pay for his mistakes: love, freedom (he was a prisoner in the Kirghiz-Kaisak steppes), health (he was recruited). But this bitter experience, better than any persuasion and demands, taught him that one cannot escape fate. The vocation of the hero from the very beginning was religion, but a young man with ambitions, hopes and passions could not consciously accept the rank, which is required by the specifics of the church service. Faith in a priest must be unshakable, otherwise how will he help his parishioners find it? It was a careful analysis of his own mistakes that could lead him to the path of true service to God.
Thinking about fate different heroes, we understand that it was the mistakes made and their correction that helped them find themselves. Without them, they would not have received invaluable life experience that taught them to better understand people, events and, most importantly, allowed them to know their individuality and understand themselves. Thus, I can conclude that you should always analyze your mistakes, applying the knowledge gained in practice.
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Pierre, like Prince Andrei, we first meet in the salon of Anna Pavlovna Scherer. He has just returned from abroad and now he hopes to meet something unexpected, interesting, smart in Russian aristocratic society. It is this expectation, and even the "smart, natural look" that distinguishes Pierre from all those gathered. Pierre has not yet decided who he will be, “a cavalry guard or a diplomat”, he is not yet acting, but philosophizing and thinking instead of choosing, as everyone expects from him, a career. Unpredictability, a wealth of potentialities, inner freedom - this is Pierre on the pages of the novel. Participation in the company of Dolokhov and Kuragin, an absurd case with a bear, marriage to Helen - all this, oddly enough, reveals these qualities of Pierre.
The moral feeling, originally inherent in Pierre, opposed marriage to Helen, a woman spiritually alien to him. Pierre felt that there was “something nasty, something forbidden” in this, very soon realized that he had connected his life with a low woman, and managed to take full responsibility for this, without blaming anyone for this: “But what am I to blame? he asked himself. “In the fact that you married without loving her, in the fact that you deceived both yourself and her.” The duel with Dolokhov shocked Pierre not so much by his closeness possible death how much ease of taking another person's life.
Why live*? What is the meaning of life7 Pierre painfully tries to find at least something meaningful not only in his life, but also in the life of mankind in general - and does not find it. “as if in his head that main screw was curled up, on which his whole life rested.” "Everything in him and around him seemed to him confused, meaningless and disgusting."
It is in this state of mental discord that Pierre meets the freemason Bazdeev at the station in Torzhok and is fond of Freemasonry. In Freemasonry, Pierre was inspired by the idea of personal self-improvement, the opportunity to "become quite good", and also to help people - peasants first of all. However, nothing came of his transformations on the estate, the idea of actively helping people was rejected by the Masonic brothers, many of whom joined the lodge only to acquire the necessary connections in society. Freemasonry turned out to be just an illusion of finding the meaning of life, that general truth that Pierre spoke to Prince Andrei in Bogucharovo.
One of the most milestones in the life of Pierre becomes the war of 1812. From the very beginning of the war, Pierre is full of a sense of a formidable and at the same time saving catastrophe, which should end his existence as a “retired, good-natured chamberlain living out his life in Moscow.” Pierre is waiting for a catastrophe as a change in this whole life, in which he has come to hopeless loss. The impending terrible event must cut the vital knot in which his personal existence is entangled.
On the eve of Borodin, on the descent from the Mozhaisk mountain, Pierre is met at the same time by carts with the wounded and a cavalry regiment marching towards them with songs. Pierre thinks about the cavalrymen: "They may die tomorrow, why do they think about something other than death." What do they know and what does Pierre not know? This riddle is resolved in a conversation with Prince Andrei on the eve of the Battle of Borodino. Prince Andrei is convinced that the success of the battle will depend "on the feeling that is in me, in him," he pointed to Timokhin, "in every soldier." Pierre now understands the full significance of this war and the upcoming battle: "they want to pile on with the whole world." Pierre understands that people are united by the "hidden warmth of patriotism." The joy of merging with common life» Soldiers and all defenders of the Fatherland will be fully felt by Pierre at Raevsky's battery. However, Pierre will also have to make sure that "war is not a courtesy, but the most disgusting thing in life." The battle of Borodino ends with the mass destruction of people. "No, now they will leave it, now they will be horrified by what they have done!" thought Pierre, aimlessly following the crowds of stretchers moving from the battlefield. Shocked by everything he saw, Pierre, in burning Moscow, is obsessed with the idea of killing Napoleon, which ends in captivity.
The meeting in captivity with Platon Karataev is a new stage in Pierre's spiritual quest. Platon Karataev lives in harmony with everything that exists, graciously accepting everything that falls to his lot, loving everyone without exception who surrounds him. In the description of Platon Karataev, the definition “round” is most often encountered. The circle in world art is a symbol of harmony, so the world of Karataev is also harmonious. Karataev lives with what he has and does not want another. Now, after meeting with Karataev, Pierre believes that direct, natural life itself, existence itself as a process, is the answer to all his questions: “the terrible question that previously destroyed all his mental structures: why? now didn't exist for him.
However, this is a "Karataev" worldview, equal goodwill towards everyone. With remoteness, however, from everyone, it breaks after meeting with Natasha. Love for a particular person displaces benign, but not effective love for everyone. Pierre of the epilogue is Pierre, standing at a new stage in his life, far from the last. The novel has an open ending. Pierre's fate does not end with his participation in secret society just as the path of spiritual quest cannot end while a person is alive.
