At the beginning of his own confession, Mtsyri asks the question: “Do you want to know what I saw in freedom?”
Since childhood, the child was locked in a monastery. He spent his entire adult life there, unable to observe big world, feel real life. However, the moment before his tonsure, the young man decided to run away, thereby discovering a new world for himself.
During those three days while Mtsyri was free, he tries to get to know the big world, what he missed. He managed to learn many more things than other people do in a lifetime.
Mtsyri's feelings of freedom
What did Mtsyri see when he was free? He admired and rejoiced at the nature around him. For a young man she is amazingly beautiful. And indeed, incredible landscapes of the Caucasus opened up before him, and here there are places that you can admire. Mtsyri captures everything that surrounds him - bird-clouds, mountain ridges, crowds of trees, large fields. My heart felt light, memories awakened inside that were missing in prison. The hero’s inner gaze observes acquaintances, close people, and the picture of childhood. You can feel Mtsyri’s nature here, which is very poetic and sensitive. He responds with all sincerity to nature and its call. He is ready to open up to her completely. Mtsyri is a person who prefers communication with nature, rather than a society that can spoil any soul.
Unity with nature
(Mtsyri alone with nature)
The young man goes further and observes other pictures. Nature reveals its formidable power - the noise of the stream, which resembles many evil voices, rainfall, menacing lightning. The fugitive does not feel fear. This kind of nature is closer to his spirit. Mtsyri considers himself her brother and is ready to embrace the storm. This is rewarded - the hero begins to understand the voices of all living things around. He communicates with wildlife under clear skies. The young man is ready to relive these moments again and again. After all, his life is filled with joy.
Mtsyri soon meets his love. This young Georgian woman, whose beauty contains shades of nature: the gold of the day combined with the amazing blackness of the night. Mtsyri, while living inside the monastery, always dreamed of his homeland. Therefore, he does not allow himself to succumb to love. The young man continues to move forward and soon nature shows him its second face.
The second appearance of nature and the battle of Mtsyri
(Mtsyri’s battle with the leopard)
Night has fallen in the Caucasus, it is cold and unapproachable. Mtsyri comes to a feeling of loneliness and hunger. And the forest around stands like a wall. The young man realizes that he is lost. During the daytime nature was his friend, but at night it becomes worst enemy who wants to laugh at him. Nature takes on the appearance of a leopard and Mtsyri must fight with one like himself. If he wins, he can continue on his way. These moments allow the young man to realize what fair competition is and the happiness of a victory.
Mtsyri admires nature, but is no longer her child. Nature rejects young man just like sick animals. Near Mtsyri a snake moves, which symbolizes death and sin. It resembles a blade. And the young man just watches how she jumps and rushes about...
Mtsyri was free for only a short time and paid for it with his own life. But it was worth it. The hero saw how beautiful the world was, he learned the joy of the battle, he felt love. These 3 days were much more valuable to him than his entire existence. He said that in the absence of these blissful days, his life would be sad and gloomy.
“Do you want to know what I saw / When I was free?” - this is how Mtsyri, the hero of M. Lermontov’s poem of the same name, begins his confession. While still a very small child, he was locked in a monastery, where he spent all his adult years of life, never seeing big world And real life. But before his tonsure, the young man decides to escape, and a huge world opens up before him. For three days in freedom, Mtsyri gets to know this world, trying to make up for everything previously missed, and the truth is that he learns more during this time than others do in their entire lives.
What does Mtsyri see in freedom? The first thing he feels is joy and admiration from the nature he sees, which seems incredibly beautiful to the young man. Indeed, he has something to admire, because in front of him are magnificent Caucasian landscapes. “Lush fields”, a “fresh crowd” of trees, “bizarre, dream-like” mountain ranges, a “white caravan” of cloud birds - everything attracts Mtsyri’s curious gaze. His heart becomes “light, I don’t know why,” and the most precious memories awaken in him, which he was deprived of in captivity. Pictures of childhood and native village, close and familiar people pass before the hero’s inner gaze. Here the sensitive and poetic nature of Mtsyri is revealed, who sincerely responds to the call of nature and opens up to meet it. It becomes clear to the reader watching the hero that he belongs to those natural people who prefer communication with nature to rotation in society, and their soul has not yet been spoiled by the falsehood of this society. The portrayal of Mtsyri in this way was especially important for Lermontov for two reasons. First of all, classic romantic hero It was precisely he who should have been characterized in this way, as a person close to wild nature. And, secondly, the poet contrasts his hero with his environment, the so-called generation of the 1830s, most of whom were empty and unprincipled young people. For Mtsyri, three days of freedom became a whole life, full of events and internal experiences, while Lermontov’s acquaintances complained of boredom and wasted their lives in salons and at balls.
Mtsyri continues on his way, and other pictures open up before him. Nature reveals itself in all its formidable power: lightning, rain, the “threatening abyss” of the gorge and the noise of the stream, similar to “angry hundreds of voices.” But there is no fear in the fugitive’s heart; such nature is even closer to Mtsyri: “I, like a brother, would be glad to embrace the storm!” For this, a reward awaits him: the voices of heaven and earth, “shy birds,” grass and stones - everything surrounding the hero becomes clear to him. Mtsyri is ready to experience amazing moments of communication with living nature, dreams and hopes in the midday heat under an unspeakably clear - such that one could even see an angel - sky. So he again feels life and its joy in himself.
Against the backdrop of beautiful mountain landscapes His love, a young Georgian girl, also appears before Mtsyri. Its beauty is harmonious and combines all the best natural colors: the mysterious blackness of the nights and the gold of the day. Mtsyri, living in a monastery, dreamed of his homeland, and that is why he does not succumb to the temptation of love. The hero goes forward, and then nature turns to him with its second face.
Night is coming, the cold and impenetrable night of the Caucasus. Only the light of a lonely saklya glows faintly somewhere in the distance. Mtsyri recognizes hunger and feels loneliness, the same one that tormented him in the monastery. And the forest stretches on and on, surrounds Mtsyri with an “impenetrable wall,” and he realizes that he is lost. Nature, so friendly to him during the day, suddenly turns into a terrible enemy, ready to lead the fugitive astray and laugh cruelly at him. Moreover, she, in the guise of a leopard, directly stands in Mtsyri’s path, and he has to fight with an equal creature for the right to continue his journey. But thanks to this, the hero learns a hitherto unknown joy, the joy of honest competition and the happiness of a worthy victory.
It is not difficult to guess why such metamorphoses occur, and Lermontov puts the explanation into the mouth of Mtsyri himself. “That heat is powerless and empty, / A game of dreams, a disease of the mind” - this is how the hero responds about his dream of returning home to the Caucasus. Yes, for Mtsyri his homeland means everything, but he, who grew up in prison, will no longer be able to find his way to it. Even a horse that has thrown its rider returns home,” Mtsyri exclaims bitterly. But he himself, grown in captivity, like a weak flower, lost that natural instinct that unmistakably suggested the path, and got lost. Mtsyri is delighted with nature, but he is no longer her child, and she rejects him, like a flock of weak and sick animals rejects him. The heat scorches the dying Mtsyri, a snake rustles past him, a symbol of sin and death, it rushes and jumps “like a blade,” and the hero can only watch this game...
Mtsyri was free for only a few days, and he had to pay for them with death. And yet they were not fruitless, the hero learned the beauty of the world, love, and the joy of battle. That’s why these three days are more valuable for Mtsyri than the rest of his existence:
You want to know what I did
Free? Lived - and my life
Without these three blissful days
It would be sadder and gloomier...
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Remembering his wanderings in the mountains, the young man does not stop polemics with his ideological opponent: a thunderstorm is not a sign of “the wrath of God,” but boundless happiness, a native element for a soul engulfed in a storm of emotions (Chapter 8). Female beauty is not the embodiment of the evil principle, sinfulness, but the highest harmony, rejected by the young man only because he devoted his life to other goals. The episode of the meeting with the leopard (chapters 15-19) becomes a hymn to strength, courage, and resistance to hostile circumstances:
– ...a triumphant enemy
-He faced death
To the face
- As a fighter should do in battle!
Of course, this is about a dead leopard. But in the chased lines that sound like an aphorism, - life credo hero. And, isn’t it, proudly, “having gathered the rest of his strength,” boldly looking death in the face, Mtsyri himself dies? Yes, it’s hard for a young man to say goodbye to life. He bitterly (and unfairly!) blames himself for his inability to achieve the desired freedom. The final mournful lines of the poem resonate with pain in the hearts of readers. But, physically broken (“The prison has left its mark on me...”), the hero discovers enormous power spirit; until the last moments he remains faithful to his ideal. Any thought of heavenly harmony is alien to him;
- Alas! - in a few minutes
– Between steep and dark rocks,
- Where I played as a child,
- I would trade heaven and eternity...
Dying, but not conquered, he forever remains in our minds as a symbol of courage and will. So, the main part of the poem is a dialogue-argument, a clash of opposing views on life, a clash of worldviews. On the one hand, humility, passivity, fear of shocks and storms, rejection of earthly joys and pitiful hopes for heavenly paradise. On the other hand, there is a thirst for storms, anxiety, battle, struggle, a passion for freedom, a deeply poetic perception of nature and beauty, a desire for the joys and sufferings of earthly life, a protest against church and any other slavery, a rebellion against orders sanctified by the name of God. The reader draws our attention to the power and richness of the pictures of Caucasian nature drawn by the poet, enhancing the impression of the extraordinary figure of the hero, shedding light on his attitude to the world (for example, chapter 6) and helping to understand him psychological state in various circumstances (for example, chapters 11 and 22, question 7).
Mtsyri's story is not a narrative about events unfolding now, but memories of what has been experienced. These memories are naturally colored by the feelings that the hero experiences at the time of the story. Mtsyri, as it were, reconsiders, reevaluates what he has seen and experienced and chooses the most impressive colors to recreate pictures of Caucasian nature and express his feelings. Readers know that the young man was faced not only with the beauty of the world around him, but also with the terrible and ugly in it; nature was not only favorable, but also merciless to him. Why, when speaking generally about what he saw (“Do you want to know what I saw in freedom?”), Mtsyri paints a picture of Caucasian nature in joyful colors? Why is the valley, which appears before us at the end of his story as a scorched desert (chapter 22), in chapter 6, at the beginning of the story, when the hero conveys only the most general and main impressions of what he saw, depicted completely differently:
-...Lush fields,
– Hills covered with a crown
- Trees growing all around,
- Noisy with a fresh crowd... etc.?
We come to the conclusion that this was precisely his main impression from what he experienced, that, despite all the sorrows he experienced, Mtsyri became firmly convinced that the world is beautiful. The power and grandeur of Caucasian nature corresponded to the spiritual strength of the hero, his love of freedom and fiery feeling. And the experiences of the three-day wanderings seemed to smooth out, faded in the rays of freedom, which Mtsyri felt, at least for a short moment.
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What did Mtsyri see and learn during his three days of freedom?
Wow, I never thought that anyone would remember Mtsyri!
Do you want to know what I did when I was free?
Lived And my life without these three blissful days,
Your old age would be sadder and gloomier!
This is what Mtsyri said to the old monk who came to him
to find out what Mtsyri was doing all these three days when he ran away.
Do you want to know what I saw in freedom? - Lush fields,
hills covered with a crown of trees growing all around...
I saw piles of dark rocks as the stream separated them.
And I guessed their thoughts... I saw mountain ranges,
bizarre, like dreams... In the distance I saw through the fog,
In the snow, burning like a diamond,
The gray, unshakable Caucasus;
Lord, what a poem! What words!
He saw mountains, sky, mountain wild river, a Georgian girl.
He fought with a leopard. He wanted freedom
wanted to return to my relatives, from whom
it was torn off as a child. For three days he wandered around
mountains, and then found himself back where he had fled from.
They found him unconscious in the steppe and returned to the monastery
brought.
We are talking about Lermontov's poem. Main character In three days of life in freedom, Mtsyri feels all the beauty of freedom and lives his whole life. While in captivity, he always wanted to know:
As a result, he became convinced that the world was very beautiful and interesting. I saw nature, felt myself, remembered my childhood and parents, love and freedom.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned, in fact, what freedom is. What is life without shackles and responsibilities? He saw the world outside the monastery in which he lived. These were mainly the beauties of nature, since it took place in the mountains and steppes of the Caucasus.
He also saw very beautiful girl, and experienced feelings for her that a normal young man should experience when he sees a beautiful girl.
As a foolish child, Mtsyri was left in a monastery, where he grew up, turning into a young man who had not seen the big world. However, when he was being prepared to become a monk, the young man decided to escape to freedom.
opened before him amazing world nature. He learns a lot more in 3 days than some people learn in their entire lives.
The first thing Mtsyri feels is admiration for the beautiful nature of the Caucasus, she seems incredibly beautiful. Against the backdrop of the luxurious landscapes of the Caucasus, the young man remembered his native village, pictures of his childhood, and close people.
His sensitive nature speaks of Mtsyri’s belonging to people who communicate with wildlife prefer to a society spoiled by falsehood.
One feels that Lermontov contrasts the hero of the poem with his environment, which, for the most part, was empty; young people often complained of boredom, wasting their lives every day at balls and salons.
Against the backdrop of mountain landscapes, Mtsyri will experience the breath of first love in the image of a young slender Georgian woman. However, passionately dreaming of seeing his homeland, he will not succumb to the temptation of love, continuing on his way.
And here, hitherto so beautiful nature, turns to him with a different face, overtaking him in a cold and impenetrable night. The young man again feels the loneliness that tormented him in the monastery, and nature, instead of a friend, suddenly becomes an enemy. In the guise of a leopard, she stood in the way of Mtsyri, inviting him to win the right to continue the path he had begun. Battle with a leopard took away from him last strength During his stay in the monastery, he lost his connection with nature, that special instinct that helps him find the way to his native village, therefore, having made a circle, he involuntarily returns to the places from which he fled, and here he loses consciousness.
As a result, Mtsyri again finds himself in the monastery, among the people who left him, but they represent a completely different culture. Now he himself is approaching his death, he is only saddened by the thought that he will die as a slave, without ever seeing his homeland and loved ones.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned and felt much more for himself than during his entire sluggish life within the walls of the monastery. His escape and these three days in freedom became real happiness. During these three days he breathed in freedom deeply. He saw the whole world from a different side, which was previously completely unknown to him. He simply enjoyed the splendor of the surrounding nature, the Caucasian mountains, the splendor of mountain air, a rushing river, and waterfalls. This wandering through the mountains was something incredibly beautiful for him. He also had the opportunity to meet with a dangerous opponent, the leopard, where he showed all his best good qualities- he was brave and courageous.
And even though his fate was to die, it was no longer so hard for him to die after three days of real dizzying happiness.
The desire to get to his homeland, to gain freedom, pushed Mtsyri to escape from the monastery. Not for long, just for three short days, he found the long-awaited freedom, and how eventful those days turned out to be. Mtsyri experienced the splendor of free nature, he enjoyed the view of wild waterfalls and mountains, he breathed free air and I think he was infinitely happy these days. This is the main thing that he learned during his escape - what happiness is. With such knowledge, it probably wouldn’t have hurt him so much to die. He felt the taste of life, he could have known love, because he was fascinated by the singing of a young Georgian woman, but the craving for home was stronger and he continued on his way. He had a chance to feel a sense of danger, an adrenaline rush from a fight with a leopard, in which he managed to win and become a Knight, that is, a warrior, a free man. Mtsyri's life flared up for three days like a bright torch and he burned in its fire.
Three days of freedom for Mtsyri turned his whole life upside down, because he learned the diversity and beauty of the World. He was amazed by the splendor of nature and absorbed the smallest part of it with interest. Mtsyri breathed deeply, contemplating the beauty and feeling a hitherto unknown freedom. The young man even managed to fall in love, although this feeling did not lead to reciprocity. It is a pity that Mtsyri again found himself in the monastery, and the World again turned out to be closed to him.
What can you do in three days? It always seemed to me that this was a very short period of time. But after reading M. Yu. Lermontov’s poem “Mtsyri”, I changed my mind.
The main character escapes from the monastery where he lived his entire life. A new, frightening, but alluring world opens up before the young novice. He is amazed by the beauty of the surrounding nature and inspired by it. Mountains, fields, birds soaring in the sky, evoke memories of Mtsyri native land, which he left in deep childhood.
The fugitive moves on in search of his homeland. For the first time in his life, he comes face to face with the storm. Terrible pictures appear before him, but there is no fear in his heart. On the contrary, he would be happy even to “embrace the storm” because he feels happy just by contemplating.
The Georgian girl whom the hero meets on his way delights him with her harmony. Many images arise in the imagination of the young novice when meeting her. He imagines how he would live among people close to him by blood, what benefit he could bring to the village.
However, Mtsyri feels that he has his own path, which he must relentlessly follow. His freedom-loving nature wants to see and learn as much as possible. To absorb all the life that he missed behind the thick walls of the monastery.
The most dramatic moment in this work is the fight with the leopard. On an impenetrable, cold night, feeling growing hunger and loneliness, the fugitive frantically tries to make his way through all the thickening trees. The realization comes suddenly - he is lost. No matter how friendly you may seem the world around us, it also has a downside.
Kill or die - these are the laws of the animal world. The hero decides to test his destiny and enters into battle with the leopard. A creature superior to the novice in strength and life experience, was defeated. Although the winner himself was wounded, this fight allowed him to feel the joy of fair competition, the joy of victory.
It was not only the wounds inflicted by the leopard that caused the novice’s death. Having seen the world around him and felt it, he could no longer live in the stuffy walls of the monastery.
Even in three days you can accomplish a lot. And for Mtsyri this short period of time turned out to be more valuable than the rest of his life. And despite everything, he dies happy.
3 days Mtsyri is free
M. Yu. Lermontov gave readers many wonderful works. His poem “Mtsyri” occupies a worthy place among them.
This is a poetic story about the fate of the young man, after whom Lermontov’s creation is named.
Mtsyri is a romantic hero. This is an exceptional person who finds himself in unusual conditions. His fate is very sad. As a child, he ends up in a monastery, where he is destined to spend the rest of his life. Mtsyri cannot come to terms with the lot of a monk. Life in a monastery for a young man is equivalent to death. This place became a real prison for him.
The rebellious spirit pushes the hero to escape. This event became a turning point in the young man’s consciousness.
The fugitive managed to spend only three days at large. But these were better days in his life. It is impossible to read the lines describing state of mind the hero at the moment when he is released. Nature reveals its true beauty and wealth. Everything that Mtsyri sees is perceived by him as something unusual. He admires fields, wooded hills, mountain ranges, high blue sky in the clouds...
The snowy peak of the Caucasus evokes a special feeling in the young man, awakening in the hero’s memory thoughts about his native land. Mtsyri fondly remembers his native gorge, his father, sisters, and the nature of his native places.
Three days spent in freedom become for him the personification of life. The first thing that delights the fugitive's heart is the storm. Frightening everyone with her formidable strength, she becomes a messenger of freedom for Mtsyri. Accompanied by her, he runs, inhaling the fresh smell of the forests.
Mtsyri's path was full of dangers, but this does not frighten him.
The most exciting thing is the hero's meeting with a young Georgian woman. She made the young man's heart stir and experience feelings unfamiliar to him before. With bated breath, the embarrassed young man watches the beautiful mountain woman who instilled an ardent feeling of love in his soul. The fugitive realizes even more clearly that the monastery is not his destiny.
The culmination of Mtsyri's short-term freedom is his fight with the leopard, which fully demonstrated the desire for freedom and life. If earlier, fenced off from outside world walls of the monastery, Mtsyri does not value his life, but now he is full of desire to live. The hero is ready to fight until his last breath. The victory over the leopard was not easy. Traces of the beast remained forever in the form of deep scars on the chest of the fearless young man.
However, he can no longer live here. Three days that shook his imagination turned the hero’s consciousness upside down. Mtsyri, having lost hope of freedom, has a presentiment of his death. However, it is not she who frightens him. He speaks with sadness about the fact that his corpse will not be buried in his homeland.
Mtsyri is a symbol of the struggle for the freedom of the human person.
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