Author's attitude to Mtsyri. freedom or death

In 25 years M. Yu. Lermontov is in St. Petersburg in the circle of the best poets. He finally got into the upper light, which had not been accepted before. At this time he was very highly appreciated as a poet, but his prose works do not find a response among contemporaries. It was at this time that M. Yu. Lermontov wrote full of bitter romance to the poem "Mtsyri." To understand the author's attitude to Mtsyri, the young hero of the poem, we must analyze its content.

Life in a monastery

The case, fate, evil fate deprived the child of childhood. This topic is close to Lermontov, and in many works he returns to it in one way or another. But here it is revealed in full force. Artificially torn from his native environment, a boy of six years old is a man already capable of little analysis and capable of remembering his past, he suffers among the old hermits who voluntarily chose this path. The author's attitude towards Mtsyri is full of sympathy for the child, forced to spend the days not playing in the streets or listening to the stories of elderly mountaineers about the glory of their ancestors, but in the closed walls of the monastery, where everything is subject to strict ceremonialism and prayer.

The escape

And now the grown up young man decides to break out of captivity. On an autumn night, he escapes from the monastery, where he is forced to take tonsure and renounce forever from life. His unruly freestyle nature protests violently against the fetters of the prison, in which he happened to be. As he himself says, although he is ready to exchange two such quiet lives in captivity for one, but filled with anxieties and battles. Where people are like free eagles. Such a passion for freedom is clear and close to Lermontov, and his author's attitude toward Mtsyri is autobiographical to some extent - the poet is forced to live not free life, he serves, obeys orders, spends part of his life in exile, in isolation from people close to him.

Young man's longing

He is an unhappy child, and destiny destined him to be a monk, when by nature he is a warrior, a fighter. He feels himself in the walls of the monastery leaf, which broke away from the branch and which the wind brought here, under the gloomy close walls. He flees to his homeland, of which he has vague memories - aul, proud father, sisters' tunes. He yearns to return to his natural life, and the author's attitude towards Mtsyri shows how this impulse is mercilessly stopped, although the young man is endowed with the fullness of spiritual possibilities.

Death

That's why the hero's death is so natural. It does not matter that these wounds caused a leopard in a wild fight. The young man would simply be extinguished by monastic silence and silence. Either a successful escape, or death - there is no other way for the hero.

Instinct calls him to act actively. He is all - the embodiment of unrealized forces. And they have nowhere to put in the monastery. These are the above mentioned author's relations to the character of Mtsyri.