1. Speech by students of group I: selective retelling of “Bela”.

– Why did the author put the story about Pechorin’s love story into the mouth of Maxim Maksimych?

– Which pages of the story puzzled you and caused you bewilderment? Remember, for example, the contrasting episodes: Pechorin’s unforgettable hunt - and his fear, confusion, barely “knocking the shutter.”

– How were Bela’s kidnapping and Pechorin’s “romance” received in the fortress? And his creepy laughter when Maxim Maksimych remembered the death of “unfortunate Bela”? What words of Pechorin, perhaps, will explain the story with Bela, shed light on this mysterious page of his life?

2. Speech by students of group II on the narrative “Maksim Maksimych”. Artistic retelling: portrait of Pechorin.

– Which of the heroes gives a portrait of Pechorin? Why?

– Why does the scene of Pechorin’s meeting with Maxim Maksimych make you sympathize with Pechorin too?

– In the novel there is a confession by Pechorin, which, it would seem, could explain his character, would help to understand the hero, who was so unlucky in the opinions of others: “I was ready to love the whole world...” What pages, however, can sow doubt in this? Why, for example, is he so cold and indifferent to Maxim Maksimych in front of them? last meeting?

– What are the secrets of the artistic expressiveness of Pechorin’s portrait?

III. Lesson summary.

Homework: prepare for a commented reading of the story “Princess Mary”; select episodes characterizing the “age of Lermontov”.

Lesson 45

Lermontov's century in the novel

Goals: teach to compare the actions and characters of the heroes of the story with the character of Pechorin; teach monologue speech; analyze the story “Princess Mary”.

During the classes

I. Work on the topic of the lesson.

1. introduction teachers.

The story "Princess Mary" is perceived as main story in the novel. Why do you think? Probably because this story is characterized by plot self-sufficiency; it is the culmination of Pechorin's diary; it contains most discussions about the soul and fate; In this story, the philosophical content of the novel receives the most detailed development.

But before we start working on this story, we will try to find the “key” to Lermontov’s novel and the image of Pechorin. This is probably the hero’s confession, which contains his entire life: “My colorless youth passed in a struggle with myself and the light.” Pechorin, however, speaks only about youth, considering it “colorless.” Do you accept this self-esteem? By the way, we know little about Pechorin’s youth. And yet: can it be imagined, “conjectured”? Pechorin constantly falls into self-deprecation: “I did not guess my purpose... I chased the lures of empty and ungrateful passions...” What is your opinion about these confessions of Pechorin?

– But what does this mean – “struggle with yourself and the light”? Who won in this fight?

– Are there changes in art world novel - and in Pechorin?

Let's turn to Taman. By the way, what is the genre of “Tamani”? Is it by chance that Lermontov writes not a story, not a novella, but a novella? Does the genre of this part of the novel correspond to the character of Pechorin?

2. A condensed analytical retelling of “Tamani” (by a trained student). Conversation on the story "Taman".

– Who acts as the narrator? Why?

– What are the secrets of the poetry of “Tamani”? (Did you know that Chekhov was in love with these pages?)

– Is Pechorin changing at Taman? Why, despite the dangers, does he feel so good and at ease in this “bad town”?

– Which confessions of Pechorin seemed especially significant, downright discoveries of Lermontov?

Here is one of them: “I memorized this song word by word.”

3. Work in groups.

Compare the adjacent pages of the novel: “Taman” and “Princess Mary”. Where is it more difficult for Pechorin? And yet: does Taman continue in its own way for Pechorin here, among the “water society”?

– Which pages of the story “guide” the style of “Tamani”, its images? Why does she so stubbornly remind herself of herself, although Pechorin finds himself in a completely different world - among the “light”, the “struggle” with which became his life? But let’s not forget: and with ourselves.

– Does the chapter “Princess Mary” resemble the poems of M. Yu. Lermontov? Compare: “How often surrounded by a motley crowd...” and “Princess Mary.” Why is there the same contrast in the chapter of the novel: “the creation of one’s dreams...” and “an iron verse, drenched in bitterness and anger...”?

– Which pages of “Princess Mary” are especially lyrical and reverent?

Group assignments:

Group I. Pechorin and Vera... How did you see and feel Lermontov’s hero in this “romantic” story?

How and why does the relationship between Pechorin and Vera develop?

What does the tragic scene of the pursuit of Vera indicate? Compare it with the chase scene in the story “Bela”, paying attention to the symbolic meaning of the image of the horse in both cases.

Group II. What about Mary's story? What entry in Pechorin’s diary perhaps surprised you? (“Why am I so stubbornly pursuing the love of a young girl whom I don’t want to seduce and whom I will never marry?”) Is Pechorin mysterious to himself? And yet, perhaps it is possible to explain his actions?

Analyze the history of the relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary. For comparison: in “Fatalist,” pay attention to the episode with the policeman’s daughter Nastya as an example of Pechorin’s usual indifference to women.

III group. and finally, the story of Grushnitsky.

The initial impetus for all events comes from the relationship of these two young people.

Analyze the history of their friendship and enmity. Compare it with the situation “Onegin - Lensky” and with Pushkin’s reasoning about friendship in Chapter II of the novel “Eugene Onegin”.

Why is Pechorin completely different in relation to Grushnitsky: he continually “interferes” with him in his courtship of the princess. What does this remind you of? Another analogy: the same “triangle” as in “Woe from Wit”. Compare the similar pages of Griboedov’s comedy and Lermontov’s novel and the outcome of the “love” fights: Chatsky - Molchalin, Pechorin - Grushnitsky.

Is Pechorin fair in his dealings with people? To Grushnitsky, for example? And isn’t Pechorin cruel towards Princess Mary? Why does Pechorin need this imaginary “romance”?

– What plot twist especially captivated you? Of course, a duel with Grushnitsky!

Again - Pechorin's strangeness. How did you understand it in the intricacies of events around the duel? How did they react to his shot and the death of Grushnitsky? Compare the duel in “Onegin” and in “Hero of Our Time,” which means Onegin and Pechorin are in their most terrible test.

IV group. Is there a contrasting hero in his relationship with Pechorin in the novel? Is Dr. Werner necessary in the novel?

Analyze Pechorin’s relationship with Dr. Werner.

How did Pechorin’s relationship with the “water society” develop? Why?

4. Comparison of the endings of “Princess Mary” and “Taman”. Expressive reading fragments.

Given the generality of the topic - seascape– there is a significant difference: in “Taman” this is a real landscape, and in “Princess Mary” it is an imaginary, romantic emblem inner world Pechorina.

– How does Pechorin’s personality manifest itself in the manner of keeping a diary?

5. Dispute on the topic “Pechorin – a hero of his time?”

– Why is Pechorin a kind of foreign element wherever he appears?

– How is the century characterized through the main character of the novel? Pechorin - a hero of his time?

6. A condensed retelling and discussion of the story “Fatalist”.

– Does the fatal “experiment” that Pechorin undertakes in his duel with Grushnitsky continue in the story “Fatalist”?

Yes, here we can see an even more desperate game of the hero with fate.

What is the genre of these pages? Again - a novella! Why? Unravel the mysterious plot of The Fatalist. Why does Lermontov complete the novel with these pages, having apparently exhausted the secrets of Pechorin’s “I”?

– And yet: is this rebellious note the secret thing in Pechorin? Let us remember him at the most alarming moment of his life - the morning before the duel. It could have been his last morning. Let us remember Lermontov’s lines, close to these pages of the novel, sounding like poetry: “I don’t remember a morning more blue and fresh!..”

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The purpose of the lesson

Analysis of the chapter “Princess Mary” Comparison of the actions and characters of the heroes of this story with the character of Pechorin Teaching monologue speech and elements of analysis of the writer’s style

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Vocabulary work

Plot self-sufficiency Climax Philosophical issues Symbolic meaning of the image

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Questions for the conversation

The story “Princess Mary” is perceived as the main story in the novel. Why do you think? Conclusion: the story is characterized by plot self-sufficiency (how do you understand this expression?); this is the culmination of Pechorin's diary; it contains most discussions about the soul and fate; In the chapter, the philosophical content of the novel receives the most detailed development.

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Group work

1. The initial impetus for all events is given by the relationship between Pechorin and Grushnitsky. Analyze the history of their friendship and enmity. Compare this with the situation “Onegin - Lensky” and with Pushkin’s discussion of friendship in the second chapter of the novel “Eugene Onegin”.

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2. Analyze the history of the relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary. For comparison, in “Fatalist,” pay attention to the episode with the policeman’s daughter Nastya as an example of Pechorin’s usual indifference to women.

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3. How and why does the relationship between Pechorin and Vera develop? What does the tragic scene of the chase for Vera indicate (compare it with the chase scene in the story “Bela”, paying attention to symbolic meaning image of a horse in both cases).

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4. Analyze the relationship between Pechorin and Dr. Werner. How did Pechorin’s relationship with the “water society” develop? Why?

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5. Compare the endings of “Princess Mary” and “Taman” (read the fragments of the endings expressively). Conclusion: despite the common theme - “seascape” - there is a significant difference: in “Taman” it is a real landscape, and in “Princess Mary” it is an imaginary, romantic emblem of Pechorin’s inner world.

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Lesson 45 Lermontov's century in the novel

Goals: teach to compare the actions and characters of the heroes of the story with the character of Pechorin; teach monologue speech; analyze the story “Princess Mary”.

During the classes

I. Work on the topic of the lesson.

1.Teacher's opening speech.

The story “Princess Mary” is perceived as the main story in the novel. Why do you think? Probably because this story is characterized by plot self-sufficiency; it is the culmination of Pechorin's diary; it contains most discussions about the soul and fate; In this story, the philosophical content of the novel receives the most detailed development.

But before we start working on this story, we will try to find the “key” to Lermontov’s novel and the image of Pechorin. This is probably the hero’s confession, which contains his entire life: “My colorless youth passed in a struggle with myself and the light.” Pechorin, however, speaks only about youth, considering it “colorless.” Do you accept this self-esteem? By the way, we know little about Pechorin’s youth. And yet: can it be imagined, “conjectured”? Pechorin constantly falls into self-deprecation: “I did not guess my purpose... I chased the lures of empty and ungrateful passions...” What is your opinion about these confessions of Pechorin?

– But what does this mean – “struggle with yourself and the light”? Who won in this fight?

– Are there changes taking place in the artistic world of the novel – and in Pechorin?

Let's turn to Taman. By the way, what is the genre of “Tamani”? Is it by chance that Lermontov writes not a story, not a novella, but a novella? Does the genre of this part of the novel correspond to the character of Pechorin?

2.Concise analytical retelling of “Tamani”(by a trained student). Conversation on the story "Taman".

– Who acts as the narrator? Why?

– What are the secrets of the poetry of “Tamani”? (Did you know that Chekhov was in love with these pages?)

– Is Pechorin changing at Taman? Why, despite the dangers, does he feel so good and at ease in this “bad town”?

– Which confessions of Pechorin seemed especially significant, downright discoveries of Lermontov?

Here is one of them: “I memorized this song word by word.”

3.Work in groups.

Compare the adjacent pages of the novel: “Taman” and “Princess Mary”. Where is it more difficult for Pechorin? And yet: does Taman continue in its own way for Pechorin here, among the “water society”?

– Which pages of the story “guide” the style of “Tamani”, its images? Why does she so stubbornly remind herself of herself, although Pechorin finds himself in a completely different world - among the “light”, the “struggle” with which became his life? But let’s not forget: and with ourselves.

– Does the chapter “Princess Mary” resemble the poems of M. Yu. Lermontov? Compare: “How often surrounded by a motley crowd...” and “Princess Mary.” Why is there the same contrast in the chapter of the novel: “the creation of one’s dreams...” and “an iron verse, drenched in bitterness and anger...”?

– Which pages of “Princess Mary” are especially lyrical and reverent?

Group assignments:

Group I.

Pechorin and Vera... How did you see and feel Lermontov’s hero in this “romantic” story?

How and why does the relationship between Pechorin and Vera develop?

What does the tragic scene of the pursuit of Vera indicate? Compare it with the chase scene in the story “Bela”, paying attention to the symbolic meaning of the image of the horse in both cases. Group II. What about Mary's story? What entry in Pechorin’s diary perhaps surprised you?

(“Why am I so stubbornly pursuing the love of a young girl whom I don’t want to seduce and whom I will never marry?”)

Is Pechorin mysterious to himself? And yet, perhaps it is possible to explain his actions?

Analyze the history of the relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary. For comparison: in “Fatalist,” pay attention to the episode with the policeman’s daughter Nastya as an example of Pechorin’s usual indifference to women.

III group.

and finally, the story of Grushnitsky.

The initial impetus for all events comes from the relationship of these two young people.

Analyze the history of their friendship and enmity. Compare it with the situation “Onegin - Lensky” and with Pushkin’s reasoning about friendship in Chapter II of the novel “Eugene Onegin”.

Again - Pechorin's strangeness. How did you understand it in the intricacies of events around the duel? How did they react to his shot and the death of Grushnitsky? Compare the duel in “Onegin” and in “Hero of Our Time,” which means Onegin and Pechorin are in their most terrible test.

IV group.

Is there a contrasting hero in his relationship with Pechorin in the novel? Is Dr. Werner necessary in the novel?

Analyze Pechorin’s relationship with Dr. Werner.

4.How did Pechorin’s relationship with the “water society” develop? Why?

Comparison of the endings of “Princess Mary” and “Tamani”. Expressive reading of passages.

Despite the common theme - the seascape - there is a significant difference: in “Taman” it is a real landscape, and in “Princess Mary” it is an imaginary one, a romantic emblem of Pechorin’s inner world.

– How does Pechorin’s personality manifest itself in the manner of keeping a diary?

5. Dispute on the topic “Pechorin – a hero of his time?”

– Why is Pechorin a kind of foreign element wherever he appears?

6.– How is the century characterized through the main character of the novel? Pechorin - a hero of his time?

A condensed retelling and discussion of the story “Fatalist”.

– Does the fatal “experiment” that Pechorin undertakes in his duel with Grushnitsky continue in the story “Fatalist”?

Yes, here we can see an even more desperate game of the hero with fate.

What is the genre of these pages? Again - a novella! Why? Unravel the mysterious plot of The Fatalist. Why does Lermontov complete the novel with these pages, having apparently exhausted the secrets of Pechorin’s “I”?

– And yet: is this rebellious note the secret thing in Pechorin? Let us remember him at the most alarming moment of his life - the morning before the duel. It could have been his last morning. let us remember Lermontov’s lines, close to these pages of the novel, sounding like poetry: “I don’t remember a morning more blue and fresh!..”

II. Lesson summary.

Homework:

1) compose tests for the chapter “Taman”;

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The Age of Lermontov in the novel “A Hero of Our Time.”

Who is he?

How often, surrounded by a motley crowd,

When in front of me, as if through a dream,

With the noise of music and dancing,

With the wild whisper of confirmed speeches,

Images of soulless people flash by,

Decorously pulled masks...

"Princess Mary"

Plot

Pyatigorsk

“Yesterday I arrived in Pyatigorsk, rented an apartment on the edge of the city, on the highest place, near the

doshvy Mashuka: during a thunderstorm there will be clouds

“The air is clean and fresh, like a child’s kiss; the sun is bright, the sky is blue - what would seem to be more? Why are there passions, desires, regrets?..”

His name was... Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.

• He was of average height; his slender, thin frame and broad shoulders proved his strong build, capable

able to endure all the difficulties of nomadic life, not defeated by the depravity of metropolitan life or spiritual storms...

Princess

“...the other one is young, slender. She was wearing a dress of gray-pearl color, a light silk scarf curled around her flexible neck. The reddish-brown boots pulled her lean leg so nicely at the ankle that even someone uninitiated in the mysteries of beauty would certainly gasp, albeit in surprise. Her light but noble gait had something virginal in it, eluding definition, but clear to the eye. When she passed us, she smelled that inexplicable aroma that a note from a sweet woman sometimes breathes.”

Grushnitsky

He is quite sharp: his epigrams are often funny, but they are never pointed or evil: he will not kill anyone with one word; he does not know people and their weak strings, because his whole life he has been focused on himself. His goal is to become the hero of a novel. He tried so often to convince others that he was a being not created for the world, doomed to some kind of secret suffering, that he was almost convinced of it himself...

I don’t like him either: I feel that someday we will collide with him on a narrow road, and one of us will be in trouble ... "

“For a long time, in the light of the moon, a white sail flashed between the dark waves; The blind man kept sitting on the shore, and then I heard something similar to sobbing: the blind boy seemed to be crying, and for a long, long time... I felt sad. And why did fate throw me into the peaceful circle of honest smugglers? Like a stone thrown into a smooth spring, I disturbed their calm and, like a stone, I almost sank to the bottom myself!

“I am like a sailor, born and raised on the deck of a robber brig: his soul has become accustomed to storms and battles, and, thrown ashore, he is bored and languishing, no matter how the shady grove beckons him, no matter how the peaceful sun shines on him; he walks all day long along the coastal sand, listens to the monotonous murmur of the oncoming waves and peers into the foggy distance: will the desired sail, at first like the wing of a sea gull, but little by little, separate from the foam of boulders and at a steady run approaching the deserted pier..."

Check yourself.

The theme of the work of art is:

Check yourself:

Define the idea of ​​the novel “A Hero of Our Time”:

Check yourself.

What is the tragedy of Pechorin:

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The psychological nature of the landscape in the novel precedes the state of the characters, events, and their outcome. What event precedes this landscape: “...All around, lost in the golden fog of the morning, the peaks of the mountains crowded together like countless herds, and Elbrus in the south stood up as a white mass, closing the chain of icy peaks, between which the fibrous clouds that had rushed in from the east were already wandering. I walked up to the edge of the platform and looked down, my head almost began to spin: it seemed dark and cold down there, like in a coffin; the mossy teeth of rocks, thrown down by thunder and time, awaited their prey.”

check yourself

M. Yu. Lermontov's novel “A Hero of Our Time” was a highly unexpected and interesting phenomenon. The first who paid attention to him was I. S. Turgenev. He wrote: “What a delight! There was nothing like this in our literature. Of course, this is an imitation of the French, but it’s still wonderful!” Over the course of a number of years (40-90s of the 19th century), the work has attracted writers, readers, and critics in various aspects.

Before us is a novel with a very well-thought-out composition, a familiar plot and an chronological narrative. Acquaintance with Pechorin is unexpected and varied for the reader. Either he is an officer in the service of Maxim Maksimych, his good colleague, neighbor and comrade; then he is an aristocrat who has lost interest in an old, unofficial friend; then he is a man who plays with the fate of others: everyone is bored, and so is he. But all this is event material on which the main content of the novel grows - what Pechorin talks about in his thoughts. Why was he born? What is it created for? After all, there was some big idea, a destiny that fell to his lot? Was he not destined to achieve it? Or did it not fall to him?

Reality is the secular circle in which Pechorin is placed, where his life, upbringing, living conditions flow through the force of circumstances - this is the whole image of the aristocratic world. The doctor, as a rule, is a foreigner, heavily Russified, who has become a Russian without noble relatives or capital; This smart Stolz is present in many Russian novels as a constant character in Russian life: smart, honest, noble by nature, but financially dependent. “Water Society” is a mixture of aristocracy and the Russian province; illnesses and ailments do not depend on belonging to the class, which is why everyone is drawn to this blessed land - earthly paradise. This is the society in which Pechorin finds himself and where he takes pleasure in dominating. And in vain he flirts when he asks why they, those around him, don’t like him so much. The answer to this is simple: he always makes people feel the difference between himself and them - in interests, in life needs, in clothing. And here for Pechorin there is a huge field of activity: there are a lot of objects and phenomena worthy of satire and parody. His malice can be satisfied. Here the whole simple intrigue of the novel is revealed.

The most remarkable thing is that Lermontov managed to put a lot of human content into a simple story. The external holiday novel turned out to be the first Russian psychological novel, in which the entire gamut of human feelings is described with unusual subtlety and detail, where the author forces Pechorin to expose himself and encourages the reader to show sympathy for him, not only to call him an egoist, but to feel sorry for him. Feel sorry as a human being.

Pechorin understands well that his love did not bring happiness to anyone, including him. But he loved because it was a need of the body that he satisfied. Pechorin, consciously or unconsciously, is an adept of egoism (he “only wants freedom for himself”). Hence his judgment, full of indifferent cynicism, about the immense pleasure “in the possession of a young, barely blossoming soul”: “She is like a flower” that “must be picked”<...>and, having breathed your fill, throw it on the road: maybe someone will pick it up!” This is almost his entire morality, philosophy of happiness.

And this is said by a military officer, a noble man, a philosopher! Knight! But the story just leads to the idea that he has no happiness. Flirting with Princess Mary - to annoy Grushnitsky. Grushnitsky wants Pechorin to be his friend - it’s so impressive! But this makes Pechorin laugh, and he, in essence, mocks Grushnitsky, who takes everything seriously. Grushnitsky does not notice Mary’s condescension to his courtship, persistent and therefore annoying, but Pechorin noticed long ago and, as they now say, drew conclusions... Why all this? What's the goal? You can answer with vulgarity: to spend time without boredom.

But the author gives a difficult psychological picture of the hero with such care that the reader involuntarily asks: is his behavior a characteristic of the character of an aristocrat who does not understand life, or is it a consequence of the barracks of Nicholas despotism, or is it an innate human trait? The author must answer this question.

We gave Pechorin credit for his disdain for aristocracy, almost disgust. And this is quite natural: he is a military officer, although the author never shows him in military affairs. But his behavior, bold, self-confident, almost to the point of despair, testifies to the yeast of war (“hussar bone”). The contrast between Pechorin and the environment is very characteristic: he does not conflict with the environment, but he himself is part of it, but an independent part.

The despotism of the barracks did not make a slave out of him. Willpower overcomes any prejudice or wariness. The fight with a drunken Cossack indicates the unbridled courage of our hero (“The officers congratulated me - and definitely, there was something!”).

What is common between this man, who risks his life for pleasure, and the man who thinks that he should pick a flower, inhale it and quit? And here before us is at the same time an image that is heroic, beautiful in spirit and vulgar, insignificant. Just think, what a victory over a girl just starting out in life! And Lermontov wants to present this vulgarity, not romanticism, not the “attractiveness of evil” (because there is no evil here) as a spring of activity, and this is precisely vulgarity, no matter what it is put into. Therefore, this part of the story evokes sarcasm in the reader towards the hero.

At the very beginning, it was no coincidence that I mentioned the name of I. S. Turgenev, an author who can be called a monopolist in the depiction of first love. In “A Hero of Our Time” there is an anticipation of what will happen in many of his works. Lermontov describes Princess Mary’s first love with all the nuances, filling this feeling with the beauty of sensation and the beauty of hope. The girl with “velvet eyes” turns into a woman who understands her power, her strength, and does not allow the thought that she might not be liked. And in this situation, Pechorin is almost pathetic when he says that he was joking and laughing at the princess. The girl’s offended feeling says: “I hate you,” but, in fact, Mary turned out to be the winner here, and not Pechorin, who only played his role poorly. And Lermontov showed this with great skill.

Next to this unnecessary romance of Pechorin with a girl whom he did not want to insult or humiliate, but just to flirt, a great feeling arises - the love of Vera. How often we do not understand the artist's intention! Even such a thoughtful and subtle critic as Belinsky, and the talented Vl. Nabokov could not understand the significance of the image of Vera for revealing the character of Pechorin and for the entire novel. Nabokov wrote that this is an “unnecessary” image. What does “unnecessary” mean when through it we see the whole of Pechorin, the real, deep revelation of his character? Nabokov lists the stylistic flaws, blunders, repetitions and patterns that he carefully found in the novel. But he did not see the psychology of the hero of the time. Behind all the formalistic mistakes he saw the “harmony of particulars.” Nabokov understood everything like a formalist. But at the same time, he likes the novel, as a Russian who grew up reading stories about Russia.

Special mention must be made about the image of Vera. After all, in essence, the entire love-romantic part of the story unfolds against the background of the history of the relationship between Vera and Pechorin. Surrendering completely to this love, being its victim, Vera at the same time owns Pechorin himself, his soul, his past, which never passes for him, his present. And who knows the future? Everything is broken in this world: Pechorin does not marry Vera, because he is terribly afraid of the word “marriage”; marriage bonds for him are worse than prison chains. But he, narcissistic, smart, allows one of the biggest abominations: sharing love with another.

He who does not tolerate opponents at all and has no rivals. And when, it would seem, he got rid of this contradiction, physically moved away, moved to another city, he did not get rid of love, he still loves Vera, and, what’s even worse, she still loves him. And there is no force that could stop their passion. This passion is so great and captivating that it almost occupies a dominant place in the narrative. High pathos seems to be crossed out by vulgarity love relationship Faith with her husband, and no explanations by the conventions of the time or environment provide justification for this behavior. And Pechorin himself understands perfectly well that this is a feeling from which he is running and cannot escape. And the vulgarity of his position only teases and irritates the pride of Pechorin, who is not used to having rivals. This constant duality of Vera not only does not oppress her, but gives birth in her to the strength of love for Pechorin. In this feeling, the strength of Vera’s physical endurance burns out. And all that remains is the desire to adapt to life before all women’s credit has been exhausted, that is, to get married. This entire novel, as if standing “behind the scenes,” is the main thing in revealing the character of the hero and the composition of the work as a whole.

The description of this great feeling is interspersed with the everyday life, the pettiness that surrounds people. And Pechorin is terribly unfair when he complains about boredom, because he has no time to be bored. He is completely absorbed in his relationship with Vera, where the past turns out to be stronger than the present, and life requires a response to the everyday, ordinary, current. And so everyday is the officer environment in the novel, which is opposed to Pechorin: Grushnitsky, the dragoon captain, etc. Grushnitsky sees that “combat happiness” is entirely on Pechorin’s side. The princess's sympathies are on his side. Grushnitsky is very upset by this, but the others, especially the dragoon captain, are very amused. It is clear that everyone is bored, and pitting two rivals against each other is very entertaining. What can be the measure of the highest virtue of an officer? Of course, courage. And to say about Pechorin that he is a coward is in itself courage, because it is not true. And this greatly humiliates Pechorin, who always opposed himself to others. And then - a detailed description of the conspiracy, a story about the duel, a description of the place, the site; finally, the story of the unloaded pistol and Pechorin’s revelation of the conspiracy at the last moment. Pechorin’s opponents want to turn the tragic act of a duel into a farce when he aims an unloaded pistol. But Pechorin exposes the criminal vaudeville act invented by the dragoon captain. The boy Grushnitsky understands how far the dragoon captain's plan has gone, and tells him that Pechorin and Werner are right. But his boyish pride and the opinion of the dragoon captain do not allow him to abandon the slander.

“Shoot!<...>There is no place for the two of us on earth...” - the pathos of speech does not leave poor Grushnitsky even at this moment. As an intelligent person, Pechorin understands that this boy, who is 21 years old, is driven by pride. Why didn't he shoot in the air? Because the resentment that he could become the inevitable victim of this conspiracy is too strong. And here, when it comes to life and death, Pechorin could not rise above Grushnitsky. And our respect for the hero fades, just as it faded with Werner (“You can sleep peacefully... if you can...”). Thus, an insignificant satisfaction of pride turned into a human tragedy. They will tell us: such was the order, honor. But everything was different. And the novel is remarkable because Lermontov brilliantly captured precisely these features of human weakness. Where it came from - from the general character of the time or from the personal qualities of a person - is already the writer’s secret, but he revealed it and showed it to us.

But the “end of comedy” is not yet in sight. Pechorin received two letters after the duel: Vera’s letter Pechorin is afraid to read and first reads Werner’s letter containing a reproach. That’s how they all are: at first they sympathize and help, and when something has happened, they don’t approve and retreat... Vera’s letter reported on a difficult explanation with her husband and expressed feelings that Pechorin knows to the last drop, but still reads greedily. .. Only one thought - to say goodbye. For what? After all, the last kiss and handshake will not save anything. Why this crazy run? But he will still be there, and Pechorin drives his horse along the Kislovodsk road. He flies like a whirlwind. The horse stumbled, made several jerks and fell dead. Then Pechorin realized that he was left alone in the steppe. And here before us is the revelation of Pechorin, his suffering, helplessness... He was pitiful, like a powerless creature that had lost everything: “... all my firmness, all my composure - disappeared like smoke. The soul became weak, the mind fell silent...”

It was here that all of Pechorin revealed himself, revealed himself tragically, truly. He realized how deep and hopeless human suffering is. How he, a strong-willed man, a brave officer, does not value own life and flirts with himself, supposedly he doesn’t need life? But when it's real big life he is captivated - not by a masquerade existence, but by a life that touches the soul, an infinitely dear life, the only one and therefore necessary and beautiful, addressed to a dear being with whom he, perhaps, is parting forever - then he appears before us in all human nakedness weakness and human nobility. Now he won’t say: pick a flower, inhale and throw it away, maybe someone will pick it up - you yourself pick up this flower that you inhaled! This is where the whole tragedy of Pechorin’s character was revealed. The hopeless pain that gripped him, everything human that came out. With what aching pain he realized that he was the same as everyone else, and only in vain tried to resist everyone, posing as something greater, standing above a person, and himself believing in it. Only now did he understand it. Just as well as the reader understood that he is a hero of the time. Reproaches: how can such a bad person be a hero of the time - have now been removed for the reader. Pechorin is a hero of the times because he is just like everyone else.

But this awakening is only for a few hours. After this, Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin will again put on the “uniform” of a cynic, a skeptic, a person who is confident that evil is attractive, a person indifferent to everything. So the tragedy of a man of the lost generation of the 40s of the 19th century stood before us in full force, where, along with noble impulses, the author, with extraordinary cruelty, showed the other side of the hero’s behavior. Eavesdropping, spying, tracking - all the everyday espionage that Pechorin resorts to cannot be noble by its nature. This life practice is the tragedy of a generation. In essence, Pechorin is not who he claims to be - he constantly mocks those who take him seriously: “There are two people in me”; “Some will say: he was a kind fellow, others - a scoundrel. Both will be false.” In his imagination he considers himself great, or at least believes in his great destiny. In reality, he perfectly understands the limitations of his spiritual (inner) existence. Hence the hero “on stilts”. His reality lies in the fact that he shows his inconsistency, the contradictions that constantly tear him apart. The reality is that big man I couldn’t realize myself. But besides this, we saw Pechorin in his true light and did not dare not feel sorry for him, for nothing human is alien to him.

Lermontov's romanticism is interesting because the writer combines styles, widely using realism, even naturalism, even sentimentalism (“Hero of Our Time,” chapter “Princess Mary”). First Russian psychological novel written at a time when romanticism as such was already losing its charming popularity. For Lermontov, romanticism was never a transitional stage from one style to another. Both at the beginning of his work and later, throughout all the years, he remained a consistent romantic. Without placing this direction below realistic art, Lermontov brilliantly showed in his perfect works that every style in its complete completion objectively depicts reality.