Chatsky's attitude to education. Sayings of Chatsky

Comedy "Woe from Wit" soon 200 years as an adornment of the repertoire of many theaters. Everyone remembers Chatsky's quotations. And everyone knows who wrote it. Diplomat and poet Griboyedov, State Councilor. For a more complete description of this personality, it should be recalled that this man, highly erudite and competent, was a hussar by temperament. He knew what it was to uphold the laws of honor, and could defend her in a duel.

Griboedov - in the three most educated people of Russia in the early XIX century

And Alexander Sergeyevich was the most educated person of his time, who knew most of the languages of Europe and Asia. It's amazing - to communicate freely, except for the native, in German, French, Italian, English, Greek, Turkish, Arabic. In addition, he served the great service of Russia as a diplomat-virtuoso. His peace treaty with Persia gave Russia 2 khanates. And in this sense, as his contemporaries claimed, Griboyedov alone cost a 20,000-strong army. Despite the disgrace, even Emperor Alexander I could not help but pay attention to the reward of the diplomat's efforts. That's what power was his education and clear mind!

Is it surprising that the topic of education was sounded in the main work of Alexander Griboyedov's life? Chatsky's attitude towards education is in fact the same as that of the playwright diplomat himself. However, first we need to imagine what kind of Russia Griboyedov was.

Small-cultural, uneducated Russia at the beginning of the XIX century

According to the famous philosopher Berdyaev, the country was "a huge, boundless peasant kingdom", led by local nobility, "low-cultured and lazy", and a powerful bureaucratic bureaucratic apparatus. However, with all the layer of people educated and cultured was insignificant. That's the answer, why the expressed attitude of Chatsky to education causes such a negative of Famusov's society.

After all, even Emperor Alexander I, who came to power as a liberal pro-Western, at the time of writing the immortal comedy of Griboyedov led anti-European opposition, approached religious mysticism.

Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov is a patriot and citizen

What to do when the FAMUSOV words "books collect everything and burn" become the essence of the reactionary position of the bureaucracy and landowners, secretly supported by the tsar? They are not just afraid of remixing the French revolution in their homeland, they are afraid that they will be pressured on the Olympus of Russian power.

That's why Chatsky's attitude toward education scares them: after all, literacy in the long run will cause the country's course to change its course to an anti-serf, liberal one.

Alexander Griboyedov, in his "seditious" comedy, raises a truly acute question for Russia, which in fact influences its future. And his interpretation of the proper level of the education system deserves close attention.

What Griboyedov said through the mouth of the main character of the comedy about learning

In 1816, in Russia, among the military educated nobles, the Decembrist movement emerged. These are the people who, during the war with Napoleon, saw the liberal life of Europe, noticed the dynamics of the development of Western democracies. They expected from the Emperor Alexander I the adoption of the constitution, the abolition of serfdom.

The attitude of Chatsky to education actually coincides with the position of the Decembrists. We propose to your attention the relevant phrases of the main character of the comedy.

Ostriches and laconic quotes of Chatsky are concise and concise! What did Alexander Sergeevich want to express these phrases? He shows the inconsistency of the then-existing system of Russian noble education. First, his ostentatious character. Often unrecognized were pseudo-governors. Hiring them, without control, left something that they really can teach. Chatsky's attitude towards education and enlightenment, despite his recent visit abroad, is a pro-Russian one. He does not consider it reasonable, for example, blindly following the experience of the Germans. Moreover, the young man is sure that the "intelligent and vigorous" believing Russian people, possessing the instinct of truth, solve many internal problems more effectively than the Western advisers.

Who opposes Chatsky on the issue of education

The local nobility enjoyed unlimited power over their serf slaves, regularly earning their income. A wise gentleman was either stupid, educated or not-there was no difference. He was rich and completely commanded his subordinates. Did the incentive for the local gentry to seriously study this status? By no means.

Unlike the classical landowners, noblemen who were on civil service were forced to have a certain education, although its criteria were, to put it mildly, low. The official is the same Famusov. The question arises: does the mind need much to work with documents, following the principle of "signed, so out of sight"? A high military rank is Skalozub. That's it, his education and his mental abilities cause only regret ...

The views of Famusov are opposite to that of Chatsky

Chatsky's zealous attitude to education and enlightenment, in which a pro-state position is felt, is confronted with the inert, primitive position of Famusov. It seems that he was personally taught in his time (as Pushkin aptly said) "somehow". However, this Moscow nobleman with an average condition, not bothering himself with reading books, does not spare time for empty secular formalities. And that is characteristic, his near circle of familiar noblemen and officials is in solidarity with him.

Education Chatsky, in contrast to Famusov and Molchalin, meets the standards of the "present century". The author does not go into details, but mentions that the cordon Alexander Andreevich went somewhere to "get mad".

Instead of concluding

However, Alexander Andreevich in his quivering attitude towards education is not alone, as shown by the analysis of Chatsky's analysis, which the viewpoints of the comedies shared by the characters. This, for example, mentioned by Skalozub, his cousin, Prince Fedor, botanist and chemist, as well as "practicing split and bezvere" professor of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

Therefore, the departure of Chatsky from Famusov's home, we do not perceive as a complete ignoring of society's views on education.