My acquaintance with the hero of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time” became quite a bright event for me as a reader. The hero aroused a storm of conflicting emotions in me.
The character of Grigory Alexandrovich gives food for thought literally from the first lines of the work. Pechorin’s actions seem mysterious and inexplicable to me; throughout the entire novel I want to ask the hero in detail about the reasons that prompted him to these actions - maybe there really is an explanation for them? What's in Gregory's soul? In my opinion, this is
there is one of the most difficult mysteries of the work.
I was also very interested in the main character’s relationships with the girls: does he love at least one of those that we, the readers, managed to meet? Does Pechorin experience warm, friendly love for Maxim Maksimych, Werner? Is he even capable of sincere feelings, emotions? It seems to me that these questions interested not only me, but also 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 what Mikhail Yuryevich intended.
My acquaintance with Pechorin left a lot of reasons for reflection, a lot of impressions - both negative and positive.
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An essay on the theme of the image of Pechorin.
1. Introduction: The novel “Hero of Our Time” is the most mature and major work of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a thoughtful writer-philosopher. Main character novel - Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.
2. Introduction to the character: Pechorin is a young aristocrat who actively intervenes in the life around him. From the very first pages of the novel, we are presented with a hero who is caring, inquisitive, and wants to take as much as possible from life. At first we do not understand the motives of his actions; we are surprised by his unusual eccentric nature young man. Pechorin steals the girl he likes, without 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 can move into a new life for him, full of meaning. Soon Grigory Alexandrovich understands the futility of hopes: “I was wrong again: the love of a savage is for few better than love noble young lady,” he admits.
3. Portrait characteristics: 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, floating with the flow, only the departure of Vera (the woman whom he deeply and sincerely loves) to short time revives in him the desire to radically change his life. We see the hero's despair and tears. We rejoice that the “man” in Pechorin has not died, he is still capable of deeply and sincerely loving. But the impulse ends very quickly. Before us again is a reserved, cold, secretly suffering man. When meeting Pechorin, the narrator is struck by the hero’s eyes: “they didn’t laugh when he laughed!.. This is a sign of either an evil disposition or deep constant sadness... his gaze is short and heavy, leaving behind the unpleasant impression of an indiscreet question and could seem impudent if he were not so indifferently calm.”
4. Character's actions: His fate is tragic. Grigory Pechorin was expelled from St. Petersburg for a certain “story” (obviously, for a duel over a woman) to the Caucasus, several more stories happen to him along the way, 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 influenced the lives of other people in many ways. During his life, Pechorin destroyed many human destinies - Princesses Mary Ligovskaya, Vera, Bela, Grushnitsky.
5. My attitude: I believe that Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is very bright 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 are presented with a caring, inquisitive hero who wants to take as much as possible from life. Pechorin is an adventurer, a man 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 fortune teller predicted his death at the hands of his evil wife, and since then Pechorin has been afraid of marriage like fire. However, this did not save him: in the chapter “Maksim 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 is suitable for the essay, but in some places it needs to be corrected. I wish you all the best.
The novel “A Hero of Our Time” shows a portrait of not one person, but an entire generation, made up of vices. Main role is assigned to Pechorin, but it is the other characters of the novel with whom he had to intersect in life that allow us to better understand the inner world of this person, the depth of his soul.
The relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary is one of the brightest storylines novel. They began casually, ending quickly and tragically. IN once again, showing Pechorin as a man with a callous soul and a cold heart.
Acquaintance
The first meeting of Pechorin and Princess Mary took place in Pyatigorsk, where Grigory was sent after completing another military mission. The princess and her mother underwent treatment mineral waters Pyatigorsk.
The princess and Pechorin constantly revolved 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 was much more interested in watching how she would behave next. He knew women very well and could calculate several steps ahead 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 his next victim, allowing her to get carried away. The girls fell in love with the handsome military man, but quickly got bored and he, pleased with himself, with a feeling of complete self-satisfaction, put another tick on his record of love affairs, happily forgetting about them.
Love
Mary truly fell in love. The girl did not understand that the toy was in his hands. Part of the insidious heartthrob's plan. Pechorin benefited from meeting her. New emotions, sensations, a reason to distract the public from the affair with Vera, married woman. He loved Vera, but they could not be together. Another reason to hit on Mary, to make Grushnitsky jealous. He was truly in love with the girl, but his feelings remained unanswered. Mary did not love him and was unlikely to love him. In the current love triangle he is clearly superfluous. In retaliation for unrequited feelings, Grushnitsky spread dirty rumors about the affair between Pechorin and Mary, ruining her reputation. He soon paid for his vile act. Pechorin challenged him to a duel, where the bullet reached its target, killing the liar outright.
Final
After what happened, Mary began to love Pechorin even more. She believed that his action was noble. After all, he defended her honor, making it clear that she had been 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 and certainly had no intention of marrying her. He achieved his goal by breaking the heart of another victim of his love spells. She hated him. The last phrase heard from her was
“...I hate you...”
Once again, Pechorin acted cruelly towards loved ones, stepping over their feelings and trampling on love.
MY ATTITUDE TO PECHORIN
I believe that Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is a very bright 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 are presented with a caring, inquisitive hero who wants to take as much as possible from life. Pechorin is an adventurer, a man 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 fortune teller predicted his death at the hands of his evil wife, and since then Pechorin has been afraid of marriage like fire. However, this did not save him: in the chapter “Maksim Maksimych” we learn that Grigory Alexandrovich died on the way from Persia.
I cannot express my attitude towards Pechorin in just one phrase. This is a hero who cannot be treated unequivocally. Of course this is smart person, who knows his worth, calculates situations in advance. But he is unfamiliar with such feelings as friendship and love. Grigory Alexandrovich perceives the world as a raging ocean of passions. He is loved by a girl, Vera, who does everything to see her lover. And this despite the fact that she is married. Pechorin also seems to love Vera, respects her and feels sorry for her. But at the same time, this does not prevent him from caring for Princess Mary and having tender feelings for her. Pechorin steals the girl he likes, without 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 can move into a new life for him, full of meaning. But soon Grigory Alexandrovich realizes the futility of hopes: “I was wrong again: the love of a savage is little better than the love of a noble young lady,” he confesses to Maxim Maksimych. It turns out that Pechorin first deceives women, makes them fall in love with him, gains their trust, and then? Then, when the girls begin to hope for a marriage proposal, Grigory Alexandrovich either disappears or makes the woman disappointed in him. In the latter case, this happened to Princess Mary. The first opinion about Pechorin may be wrong: “He’s just an egoist!” Belinsky defended Pechorin from such accusations: “You say that he is an egoist? But doesn’t he despise and hate himself for this? Doesn’t his heart thirst for pure and selfless love?” In fact, the hero of the novel arranges tests for others, he asks himself: “Can we be friends?”
Pechorin is a contradictory, ambiguous person. He combines so many different qualities that it is very difficult for the reader to determine whether Pechorin is a negative character or a positive one. But real person is not exceptionally good.
Target: in the process of reading and analyzing the novel, trace the character properties of the main character, understand the originality of the creation psychological image, see his inconsistency, oddities, set the goal of solving the riddle of Pechorin.
Electronic means: film by A. Kott “Hero of Our Time”
Visual aids: illustrations and other artists for the novel “Hero of Our Time”
LESSON 1 The story "BELA".
Screen recording:
Vl. Nabokov builds chronological events and the order of the stories:
1. “Taman” (c. 1830) Pechorin goes from St. Petersburg to the active army and stops in Taman.
2. “Princess Mary” (May 10 – June 17, 1832). Pechorin comes from the active detachment to water in Pyatigorsk and then to Kislovodsk; After a duel with Grushnitsky, he was transferred to the fortress under the command of Maxim Maksimovich.
3. “Fatalist” (December 1832) Pechorin comes from Maxim Maksimovich’s fortress to the Cossack village for two weeks.
4. “Bela” (spring 1833) Pechorin kidnaps the daughter of “Prince Mirnov”, and after 4 months she dies at the hands of Kazbich.
5. “Maxim Maksimych” (autumn 1837) Pechorin goes to Persia, again finds himself in the Caucasus and meets Maxim Maksimych.
QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: Why didn’t Lermontov build the novel in chronological order, and confused and rebuilt everything?
(Answer options are written on the board)
CONCLUSION: This is explained by the author’s attention to inner world hero. The reader is shown first one side or the other of his character, but the character itself does not change, it was formed earlier, and Pechorin himself sometimes explains his actions as “his unfortunate upbringing.”
2 SCREEN RECORDING:
“And maybe I’ll die tomorrow!.. and there won’t be a single creature left on earth who would understand me completely. Some honor me worse, others better than I really do. Some will say: he was a kind fellow, others – a scoundrel!.. Both will be false.”
WHO IS HE – LERMONTOV’S HERO?
Let's turn to the "Preface" test.
What epithets do we find in explaining the purpose of the essay? (evils of a generation, stupid, much more terrible and uglier fictions, bitter medicines, caustic truths, human vices).
What image of the hero is emerging? (this is not a hero in the romantic sense, but a portrait of a generation with its vices, immoral actions, without embellishment, about which Lermontov wrote bitterly in the Duma (SCREEN RECORDING):
I look sadly at our generation!
His future is either empty or dark,
Meanwhile, under the burden of knowledge and doubt,
It will grow old in inaction...
And we hate and we love by chance,
Without sacrificing anything, neither anger nor love,
And some secret cold reigns in the soul,
When fire boils in the blood.
Conclusion:
This contradictory hero, in whom a scoundrel and a good fellow are intertwined, evokes both sadness and regret in the author, because this is his contemporary, which means there is a piece of Lermontov in him; and his fate and his useless life will be repeated many times in future generations: “the bitter mockery of a deceived son over squandered father."
Let's turn to the story "Bela"
Here is staff captain Maxim Maksimovich, during a journey - climbing Gud Mountain, descending into the Devil's Valley, a forced halt in an Ossetian hut, entertaining his companion with a story about his strange colleague, Pechorin.
What surprises and what is incomprehensible to Maxim Maksimovich in Pechorin?
Working with text (quoting, paraphrasing):
His inconsistency: during the hunt everyone will be tired and cold, but he won’t mind. But there is a smell of wind in the room, assuring me that I have a cold. Either he’ll be silent for hours, or he’ll start talking and you’ll tear your stomach.
He retells Pechorin’s explanations of why he quickly gets bored with everything, but explains that all misfortunes come from drunkenness or spoiling: “whatever you have in mind, give it to me, apparently, I was spoiled by my mother as a child.”
Interested in this strange man, we will turn to his actions.
How does the hero manifest himself in the story with Bela?
- He liked her immediately when she came up and sang a compliment. 16-year-old, thin, eyes black, like a mountain chamois, and look into your soul. He figured out how to steal it, and he stole it.
To win her over, he showered her with gifts, but quickly realized that he had to appeal to her feelings: “Goodbye...
I’m guilty before you... Maybe I won’t be chasing a bullet for long... then remember me and forgive me.”
He calculated the time when Bela would become his, even argued with Maxim Maksimovich - in a week.
They were happy for a while. But this did not last long. Pechorin became bored with Bela, he began to leave the fortress for a long time.
Bela left the fortress to the river, was captured by Kazbich and mortally wounded. So Kazbich took revenge on Pechorin for the horse. Pechorin amazed Maxim Maksimovich with a strange laugh after Bela’s death, then he was sick for a long time and lost weight.
Did these events and the hero’s actions clarify anything in Pechorin’s character?
- He is a charming person, Maxim Maksimovich fell in love with him as own son, fell in love with Bel.
He is a calculating egoist, a talented scoundrel. He is to blame for the death of Bela and her family. He treated Bela selfishly and inhumanly: he traded her for someone else’s horse.
He suffers and suffers. Bela's death left a long mark on his soul.
When he needs, he uses his methods of charm, and no one can resist him, he has a strong-willed nature, he knows how to play on human strings.
General conclusion: So, judging by the actions told by Maxim Maksimovich, Pechorin is a mysterious, strange, contradictory person. said about him: “In “Bel” he is some kind of mysterious person, as if he appears under a fictitious name so as not to be recognized.”
Written assignment: write an essay “First acquaintance with Pechorin”
LESSON 2 .
The story "Maksim Maksimych"
GOAL: To see the hero through the eyes of a psychological narrator, to find confirmation of Maxim Maksimych’s observations and to obtain explanations for some of his contradictions by examining his portrait.
1. Let’s share our thoughts about Pechorin (we read out our homework essays)
3. Working with the text of the chapter.
The meeting with the hero is preceded by a description of the morning. Let’s read it: “The morning was fresh and beautiful. Golden clouds piled up on the mountains, like a new series of aerial mountains...” Against the backdrop of a fresh morning, the long-awaited and impatiently awaited one appears (together with Maxim Maksimych) - He. Perhaps there is some hidden meaning in this?
Yes, he was clearly indifferent to the beauty of the morning: he yawned twice and sat down on the bench on the other side of the gate.
Let's read the portrait of Pechorin and note in it the features of his personality (the ability to endure the difficulties of nomadic life, the habits of a decent person, secrecy of character, nervous weakness, a childish smile, his eyes did not laugh when he laughed - a sign of either an evil disposition or deep constant sadness, look could have seemed impudent if he had not been so indifferently calm).
What immediately catches your eye in Pechorin’s portrait?
Yes, and the portrait emphasizes inconsistency. Let's confirm this with observations: let's make a table of contradictions.
Broad shoulders - Women's hands
Childish smile - Penetrating heavy gaze
Youthful appearance - Wrinkles intersecting one another
Blonde hair - Mustache and eyebrows black
Gait is careless and lazy - Does not swing arms
Strong physique - straight waist bent, as if there was not a single bone, etc.
What in his attitude towards Maxim Maksimych surprised and amazed you?
Indeed, it is so indifferent, cold to meet an old friend, refuse to talk, remember the old life. Belu. Stop! At the name of Bela, Pechorin turned pale and turned away. He didn't forget anything! Can we explain his behavior now?
Yes, he is going to Persia and will never return. Remember, in the fortress he said to Maxim Maksimych: “As soon as possible, I will go... to America, to Arabia, to India, and maybe I’ll die somewhere along the way.” Does he care about talking, does he care about memories? Even the diaries are no longer needed - he is breaking ties with everything that was dear...
What is your opinion about Pechorin now? (Strange, sad, lonely, tired, secretive, devastated, indifferent to both the past and the future, surprisingly cute, arousing sympathy and interest)
Write an essay about this.
(In the remaining time, we watch an episode of Cott’s film “Hero of Our Time” “Bela”)