Grigory Pechorin and others, the analysis of heroes. "The Hero of Our Time", the novel by M.Yu.Lermontov

Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, a poet and prose writer, is often compared to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Is this a coincidence by chance? Not at all, these two candles marked the golden age of Russian poetry with their work. They were both worried by the question: "Who are they: the heroes of our time?" A short analysis, you will agree, will not be able to give an answer to this conceptual question, in which the classics attempted to thoroughly understand.

Unfortunately, the life of these talented people ended shortly from the bullet. Fate? Both of them were representatives of their time, divided into two parts: before and after the uprising in the Senate Square. In addition, as is known, critics compare Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pechorin, presenting the readers with a comparative analysis of the heroes. "Hero of our time", however, was written after the death of Pushkin.

The image of Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin

Analysis of the novel "The Hero of Our Time" clearly defines his main character, which forms the entire composition of the book. Mikhail Yurievich reflected in him an educated young nobleman of the post-December period-a personality stricken with unbelief-who does not carry good in himself, does not believe in anything, his eyes do not burn with happiness. Fate bears Pechorin, like a water autumn leaf, along a disastrous trajectory. He persistently "chases ... for life", seeks it "everywhere." However, the noble concept of honor is more likely to be associated with selfishness, but not with decency.

Pechorin would be happy to find faith by going to the Caucasus - to fight. It has a natural spiritual strength. Belinsky, describing this hero, writes that he is no longer young, but has not yet acquired a mature attitude toward life. He rushes from one adventure to another, painfully wanting to find an "inner core", but he does not succeed. Invariably around him are dramas, people are dying. And he rushes farther, like the Eternal Jew, Agasfer. If for the Pushkin image of Onegin the key word is "boredom", then the word "suffering" is the key to understanding the image of Lermontov's Pecorin.

Composition of the novel

In the beginning, the plot of the novel reduces the author, the officer sent to serve in the Caucasus, with the veteran who passed the Caucasian War, and now the quartermaster Maxim Maksimovich. Wise with life, scorched in battle, this man, worthy of all respect, the first, according to Lermontov's plan, begins an analysis of the heroes. The hero of our time is his friend. The author of the novel (on whose behalf the story is narrated) Maksim Maksimovich narrates about the "glorious minor" twenty-five-year-old ensign Grigory Alekseevich Pechorin, a former storyteller's colleague. The first is the narrative of Bela.

Pechorin, resorting to the help of the brother of the mountain princess Azamat, steals this girl from her father. Then she got bored with him, experienced in women. With Azamat, he is calculated by the hot horse of the dzhigit Kazbich, who, after beating, kills the poor girl. The scam turns into tragedy.

Maksim Maksimovich, remembering the past, became agitated and gave the interviewee Pechoryn a marching diary. The following chapters of the novel are separate episodes of Pechorin's life.

Novel "Taman" reduces Pechorin with smugglers: flexible, like a cat, a girl, a pseudo-blind boy and a "smuggler" by the seaman Yanko. Lermontov presented here a romantic and artistically completed analysis of the characters. "Hero of Our Time" introduces us to a simple contraband fishery: Yanko crosses with the cargo of the sea, and the girl trades with beads, brocade, ribbons. Fearing that Grigory would disclose them to the police, the girl first tries to drown him, dropping her from the boat. But when she fails, she and Yanko sail away. The boy is still begging without means of subsistence.

The next fragment of the diary is the story "Princess Mary". Bored Pechorin is treated after being injured in Pyatigorsk. Here he is friends with the cadet Grushnitsky, Dr. Werner. Bored, Grigory finds an object of sympathy - Princess Mary. She is resting here with her mother, Princess Ligovskaya. But there is an unforeseen - in Pyatigorsk comes the old sympathy of Pechorin, the married lady Vera, along with her aging spouse. Vera and Gregory decide to meet on a date. They succeed, because, fortunately, the whole city is represented by a visiting magician.

But the Junker Grushnitsky, wishing to discredit both Pechorin and Princess Mary, believing that she would be on a date, watched the main character of the novel, enlisting the company of a dragoon officer. Not catching no one, the cadet and dragoon dissolve gossip. Pechorin "on noble concepts" calls Grushnitsky to a duel, where he kills him, shooting second.

With pseudo-orderliness in the officer's environment, Lermontov's analysis of heroes introduces us. The hero of our time upsets Grushnitsky's sneaky plan. Initially, the pistol handed to Pechorin was uncharged. In addition, having chosen the condition - to shoot at six steps, the Junker was sure that he would shoot Grigory Alexandrovich. But the excitement prevented him. By the way, Pechorin suggested that his opponent save his life, but he began to demand a shot.

Verin's husband guesses what's wrong, and leaves with his wife Pyatigorsk. And Princess Ligovskaya blesses his marriage to Mary, but Pechorin does not even think about pondiness.

The action-packed novel "Fatalist" reduces Pechorin and lieutenant Vulich in the company of other officers. He is confident in his fart and on a dispute heated by a philosophical dispute and wine, he plays in the "hussar roulette". And the gun does not produce a shot. However, Pechorin claims that he already noticed the "sign of death" on the lieutenant's face. That and really makes no sense, going back to bed.

Conclusion

Where did the "Pechorins" come from in Russia in the 19th century? Where did the idealism of youth disappear?

The answer is simple. The 1930s marked the era of fear, the era of the suppression of the entire progressive third (political) gendarme police department. Born of the fear of Nicholas I before the possibility of a remake of the Decembrist uprising, it "reported on all affairs", was engaged in censorship, perusal, had the widest powers.

Hopes for the development of the political system of society have become sedition. Dreamers were called "troublemakers". Active people aroused suspicion, meetings - repression. It's time for denunciations and arrests. People began to be afraid of having friends, trusting their thoughts, dreams. They became individualists and tried to gain faith in themselves in a peacockish way.