We read the novel and consider its problems: "The Hero of Our Time", M.Yu., Lermontov

Grigory Pechorin is the real "hero of our time" (and any other), because the questions raised by the author are beyond all epochs. They were, are and will always arise while the human race is alive. What are they - the problems of the work "The Hero of Our Time"? Read and understand.

Moral problems

Any work and fiction in general are designed not only to deliver an aesthetic experience, pleasure to the reader, but also to raise questions that are present for every person to whom we either do not have an unambiguous answer, or which we never thought about at all. M.Yu. Lermontov is, you might say, an innovator of his era. He is the creator of the first novel in Russian literature with a deep philosophical content. "Why did I live, for what purpose was I born?" - this is the main question that the author himself and all of us ask the author of the mouth of the main character - Pechorin. It not only hears questions "why", "why", "for what", but also other problems. "The hero of our time" tries to understand who he is, what he consists of, from what virtues and vices, whether love and friendship can save him from imminent darkness ...

Philosophical Reflections

We continue to talk on the topic "Hero of Our Time". Problems romance raises really serious. What is Pechorin? Before us is a young man of twenty-five years old, an officer, an aristocrat, standing out against his contemporaries with his extraordinary, sharp mind, subtle intuition, courage, endurance, immense willpower. It would seem that all the components of a happy future. Such people are loved, they are adored and idolized. Before them all doors are open. So it was, but it did not happen. Why?

Each person has advantages and disadvantages. In each there is an irreconcilable struggle between good and evil. And this is natural. This is inherent in nature and God. But apart from all this, there is also emptiness. It must be filled with either light or darkness, depending on which road we choose. Or, it begins to grow and fill every liberated corner of the soul with itself. This is what happened with Pechorin. Whatever he undertook, no matter where he went, no matter whom his fate took him, everything in this place was followed by this yawning emptiness, stiff senselessness, futility and aimlessness of existence.

M.Yu. Lermontov, "The Hero of Our Time": Problems of Love and Friendship

His active soul throughout the novel is looking for dangers, heroic deeds, sincere love and friendship. "Who seeks will always find". She finds it, too, but destroys, in an incomprehensible way, the creative principle contained in these things. His love for none of the women brought happiness. He could not give himself to this feeling, he was not able to give, only to take, and then superficially. In his soul, as if in a bottomless abyss, bright feelings and sufferings vanished without a trace. He did not saturate them, and did not try to get enough. He did not care. The tragic stories with Bela and Mary are a perfect confirmation of this.

The same thing happens in Pechorin's friendship with Dr. Werner. Believing that the relationship between two comrades should be reduced to only one: one - a slave, and the other - his master, he did not want to be neither a slave nor one who rules and rules. Both are boring and stupid. But it's impossible to let another into your world without any "but". Vicious circle.

Is fatalism the cause of the problem?

"Hero of Our Time" is a novel not only about the meaning of life directly posed by the author. In the last novel - "Fataliste" - another theme emerges, which does not give rest to either the protagonist or the whole of mankind. Is the destiny of man predetermined, or is every new step along the road of life a personal choice? Pechorin is bold and prefers to solve this issue, like other problems. "The hero of our time," Pechorin, independently, on his own experience, verifies the truth of this or that proposition. And suddenly the fatalist turns to the reader with the other side of his essence. He disarms a drunken Cossack who has already killed Vulich and is dangerous to others. He goes to a known risk, but for the first time it's not fictitious, not for "empty passions" and not to dispel boredom. And here the author does not give an unambiguous answer. He, like his hero, believes that predestination, if it exists in reality, creates miracles with a man, it makes him more active, bolder. And on the other hand, it turns a person - a higher creation, into a toy in the hands of fate, and this can neither insult nor humiliate.

In this article we have considered the main problems. "The hero of our time" is a book that is out of the question, after reading it, each one for himself will necessarily find answers to his questions, which may not have been considered today.