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Pechorin and Vera in M. Yu. Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time"

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PECHORIN AND VERA IN MIKHAIL YURYEVICH LERMONTOV'S NOVEL "HERO OF OUR TIME" Prepared by Violetta Klimova, Grade 9

Summary of the chapter "Princess Mary" The chapter is written in the form of a diary. In terms of vital material, “Princess Mary” is closest to the so-called “secular story” of the 1830s, but Lermontov filled it with a different meaning. The story begins with the arrival of Pechorin in Pyatigorsk to the healing waters, where he meets Princess Ligovskaya and her daughter, called Mary in the English manner. In addition, here he meets his former love Vera and friend Grushnitsky. During his stay in Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk, Pechorin falls in love with Princess Mary and quarrels with Grushnitsky. He kills Grushnitsky in a duel and refuses Princess Mary. On suspicion of a duel, he is again exiled, this time to a fortress.

The image of Vera Vera is a secular lady, an old lover of Pechorin. A description of her appearance is given from the lips of Dr. Werner: "some lady from the newcomers, a relative of the princess by her husband, very pretty, but it seems very sick ... medium height, blonde, with regular features, consumptive complexion, and on the right black mole on her cheek: her face struck me with its expressiveness. Vera, Pechorin's old love, is perhaps the only woman who managed to leave an indelible mark on his soul, the only woman who understood him completely and accepted him for who he is, without trying to remake him.

Quotes characterizing the attitude of Vera to Pechorin “-Vera! I cried out involuntarily. She shuddered and turned pale. "- I'm married! - she said. - Again? However, a few years ago, this reason also existed, but in the meantime ... She pulled her hand out of mine, and her cheeks burned. “... I looked at her and got scared; her face expressed deep despair, tears sparkled in her eyes. “Tell me,” she finally whispered, “is it fun for you to torture me? I should hate you. Since we have known each other, you have given me nothing but suffering... - Her voice trembled, she leaned towards me and lowered her head on my chest.

Quotes characterizing Vera's attitude towards Pechorin “-Now do you believe that I love you? Oh, I hesitated for a long time, I suffered for a long time ... but you make whatever you want out of me. “Her heart was beating fast, her hands were cold as ice. Reproaches of jealousy began, complaints - she demanded that I confess everything to her, saying that she would humbly endure my betrayal, because she only wanted my happiness. I didn’t quite believe it, but I reassured her with oaths, promises, and so on.”

Quotes characterizing Pechorin's attitude to Vera “- Mole! I muttered through my teeth. - Really? The doctor looked at me and said solemnly, putting his hand on my heart: - She is familiar to you! .. - My heart was definitely beating faster than usual. “I haven’t seen her yet, but I’m sure I recognize in your portrait one woman whom I loved in the old days ...” “When he left, a terrible sadness cramped my heart.” “I thought about that young woman with a mole on her cheek that the doctor told me about ... Why is she here? And is she? "- Faith! I cried out involuntarily. She shuddered and turned pale. “I knew you were here,” she said. I sat down next to her and took her hand. A long-forgotten thrill ran through my veins at the sound of that sweet voice…”

Quotes characterizing Pechorin's attitude to Vera "I hugged her tightly, and so we stayed for a long time." “Vera is sick, very sick, although she doesn’t admit it, I’m afraid that she won’t have consumption ...” “... I won’t deceive her; she is the only woman in the world whom I would not be able to deceive. I know that we will soon part again, and perhaps forever: we will both go our separate ways to the grave; but the memory of her will remain inviolable in my soul ... "" Finally, we parted; I followed her with my eyes for a long time, until her hat disappeared behind the bushes and rocks. My heart sank painfully, as after the first parting. Oh, how I rejoiced at this feeling!

Letter from Vera “This letter will be a farewell and a confession…” “…you loved me as a property, as a source of joys, anxieties and sorrows…” “But you were unhappy…” “…but there is something special in your nature, you alone peculiar, something proud and mysterious; in your voice, no matter what you say, there is an invincible power; no one knows how to constantly want to be loved; in no one is evil so attractive, no one's gaze promises so much bliss, no one knows how to use his advantages better, and no one can be so truly unhappy as you, because no one tries so hard to convince himself otherwise. “... my weak heart obeyed the familiar voice again...” “I will not blame you ...” “... I sacrificed myself, hoping that someday you will appreciate my sacrifice, that someday you will understand my deep tenderness, no conditions." "... I penetrated into all the secrets of your soul ..." "But my love grew together with my soul: it darkened, but did not die out." “... I will never love another: my soul has exhausted all its treasures, its tears and hopes on you.” "... I told him that I love you ..." Pechorin Vera (pp. 163-165) Prove. love Feelings Words, character. Pechorin

Pechorin’s behavior after reading a letter from Vera “Like crazy, I jumped out onto the porch, jumped on my Circassian, who was led around the yard, and set off at full speed on the road to Pyatigorsk.” “The thought of not finding her in Pyatigorsk hit my heart like a hammer! - one minute, one more minute to see her, say goodbye, shake her hand ... I prayed, cursed, cried, laughed ... no, nothing will express my anxiety, despair! .. With the opportunity to lose her forever, Vera became dearer to me everything in the world is more precious than life, honor, happiness! “... I was left alone in the steppe, having lost my last hope; I tried to walk - my legs buckled; exhausted by the anxieties of the day and insomnia, I fell on the wet grass and wept like a child.

Conclusion: Only after losing Vera, Pechorin understands how much he needs her. He tries to catch up with the heroine, but only drives the horse. Then the hero falls to the ground and begins to sob uncontrollably. Faith leaves his life forever. If it were not for the romance with Vera developing in parallel with the story of the princess, we would be convinced of the soullessness of Pechorin, of his inability to love. But the relationship with Vera emphasizes that Pechorin, contrary to his conviction, is able to love. Thus, this love story only emphasizes Pechorin's loneliness, his disunity with people. Faith could not give him the happiness he longed for, and the reason here is primarily in Pechorin himself, in his soul. The image of Vera is only a sketch. She is depicted only in her relationship to the main character, she has long loved Pechorin, but this love can bring nothing but suffering. Vera knows about this, but all the same, for the sake of her love, she makes many sacrifices. The image of Vera for Pechorin is ideal, because only she fully understands him and, in spite of everything, still loves him. Pechorin Vera

At the center of Lermontov's novel "The Hero of Our Time" is the problem of the individual, the "hero of the time", who, while absorbing all the contradictions of his era, is at the same time in deep conflict with society and the people around him. This conflict determines the figurative system of the work. All characters are grouped around the main character - Pechorin and, entering into various relationships with him, help to highlight one or another trait of his personality.
By nature, Pechorin is a romantic of the Byronic type. He, a bright, strong and extremely controversial personality, stands out from the background of all other heroes and is himself aware of his originality, despising other people and trying to make them toys in his hands. Interestingly, in the eyes of those around him, he also appears in the halo of a romantic hero, but the attitude towards him is ambiguous.
Women's images acquire special significance in the novel. The idea has long been established that "women's faces are the least depicted," as Belinsky noted. But be that as it may, they play a very important role in the character system. After all, the "history of the human soul" is revealed in the novel in one of its most striking manifestations - in love. And, perhaps, it is here that the contradictions of Pechorin's nature are most noticeable.
Pechorin craves love, he passionately searches for it, "chases furiously" after it around the world. In almost all parts of the novel, the plot is based on another love story by Pechorin, or is somehow connected with a woman. It is in love that Pechorin is trying to find something that could be accepted.
to kill him with life, but each time a new disappointment awaits him. Who is to blame for this?
Obviously, first of all, Pechorin himself. After all, his attitude to a woman and to love is very peculiar. "I only satisfied the strange need of the heart, greedily devouring their feelings, their tenderness, their joys and sufferings and could never get enough." In these words of the hero, undisguised selfishness sounds, and even Pechorin himself suffers from it, but even more so for those women with whom his life has connected him. Almost always, meetings with him end tragically for them - Bela dies, Princess Mary becomes seriously ill, Undine's well-established lifestyle is overturned, Pechorin's love brought Vera suffering and grief.
But there is another reason, which lies in the very women met by Pechorin. Each of them, having their own individuality, still cannot resist the onslaught of Pechorin's personality, becoming, in fact, his slave. “You know that I am your slave: I never knew how to resist you,” Vera tells him.
Pechorin himself notes that he "does not like women with character", he needs to command others, always be above everyone - after all, he is a true romantic. But is it possible at the same time to hope to find true love, one where not one, but both lovers are ready to sacrifice their interests, to give, not to take? Maybe those with whom Pechorin's life turned out to be too submissive and sacrificial natures?
In any case, it was precisely such relations that connected Vera and Pechorin. It is difficult for us to imagine exactly how they developed, because in the description of Vera the author often uses allusions, this image is incompletely outlined and thus remains unclear to the end. Probably, this was partly affected by the fact that one of the prototypes of this heroine was Varvara Lopukhina, in the marriage of Bakhmetev. There are suggestions that she was the only true love of Lermontov, carried by him through his whole life. But fate separated them, and Varenka's jealous husband categorically opposed any communication between her and Lermontov.
In the situation that is drawn in the novel, there are indeed separate features of this story. But the main thing, perhaps, is that Vera is the only woman who is truly dear to Pechorin; she is the only one who managed to understand and understand his complex and contradictory nature. “Why does she love me so, really, I don’t know! Pechorin writes in his diary. “Moreover, this is one woman who understood me completely, with all my petty weaknesses, bad passions.” This is precisely what her farewell letter, received by Pechorin after his return from the duel, testifies to.
First of all, this letter confirms that Pechorin has some kind of special power over women, and Vera, like others, submitted to him. “My weak heart yielded again to the familiar voice,” she writes.
Vera admits that Pechorin's love for her is selfish: "You loved me as property, as a source of joys, anxieties and sorrows that alternated mutually, without which life is boring and monotonous." This is an absolutely correct remark, because it is boredom that makes Pechorin constantly chase after more and more new impressions, look for new love and be disappointed again: “No one knows how to constantly want to be loved.”
Faith is also right in the fact that, despite this, Pechorin is unhappy: "No one can be as truly unhappy as you, because no one tries so hard to convince himself otherwise." But it is in vain to expect that an understanding of sacrificial love is available to him: he takes it for granted, but he himself is not capable of the same reciprocal feeling.
Why does Vera, like other women, love him so much, how did he win her heart forever? Trying to figure it out, she gives an absolutely accurate portrait of the hero. “There is something special in your nature, peculiar to you alone,” she notes. But this does not mean at all that Pechorin is better than others. In this, Vera is very close to the author's characterization of the "hero of time" given in the preface to the novel: "this is a portrait made up of the vices of our entire generation, in their full development."
Vera directly connects the concept of evil with Pechorin: “Evil is not so attractive in anyone,” she says. Pechorin himself literally repeats her words in his reflections on Vera's love for him: “Is evil really so attractive?”.
Thought, at first glance, looking paradoxical: evil is usually not perceived as something attractive. But Lermontov had his own special position in relation to the forces of evil: without them, the development of life, its improvement, it is not only the spirit of destruction, but also the thirst for creation.
It is not for nothing that the image of the Demon occupies such an important place in his poetry, and not so much embittered (“evil bored him”), but lonely and suffering, looking for love, which he was never given to find. Obviously, Pechorin bears the features of this unusual Lermontov's Demon, not to mention the fact that the plot of Bela largely repeats the history of the romantic poem The Demon. The hero of the novel himself sees in himself the one who brings evil to others, and calmly perceives this, but still tries to find goodness and beauty, which perish in a collision with him.
Probably, the special attraction of evil in Pechorin is connected precisely with such a parallel between the heroes of the novel and the poem. The demon is proud and beautiful, and Tamara submits to him, hearing only his voice. And here is how Vera writes about Pechorin, noting that there is “something proud and mysterious” in him: “In your voice, no matter what you say, there is invincible power.”
This power is felt not only by women, before Pechorin all other heroes of the novel are forced to retreat. He, like a Titan among people, rises above everyone, but at the same time remains absolutely alone. Such is the fate of a strong personality, unable to enter into harmonious relations with people.
The end of Vera's letter is a story about a quarrel with her husband and the reason for her urgent departure. But here, too, the main thing is anxiety and excitement for a loved one, who brought so much suffering to her. She, unable to cope with her feelings, when she found out about Pechorin's quarrel with Grushnitsky, betrayed herself to her husband. "I'm lost - but what is the need?" she writes. All her thoughts are only about Pechorin: “You are alive, you cannot die!” What self-denial, what deep love and pain in her parting words: “If I could be sure that you will always remember me, not to mention love, no, just remember ...” She, for him, “lost everything on light”, which brought him so many sacrifices, requires only one thing: remember her and not marry Mary.
How can you not respond to such a feeling? True, Pechorin, having received a letter, at the first moment in despair rushes after Vera, the horse falls under him, and the hero cries, "bitterly, not trying to hold back tears and sobs." But now the impulse has passed, the emotions have subsided, and a sober analysis takes their place: “However, I am pleased that I can cry!” So his thoughts returned to himself again, and it turned out that he did not even need Vera.
Of course, the fate of Vera is sad, but she retained the main thing - love. Pechorin, of course, is a pity, but the tragedy of his position, it seems to me, is largely due precisely to the fact that he knows how to love only himself.

The theme of love in "A Hero of Our Time" is one of the central themes that the author explores. There are a lot of love conflicts in the novel. Even the main character, outwardly cold and selfish Pechorin, is looking for love, he finds it in the hearts of three women of Vera, Mary Ligovskaya and Bela, but the love of these beautiful women does not bring happiness to Pechorin.

In this novel, love generally does not bring joy to anyone, it is a test for each of the characters, and often their love experiences end tragically.

Let's try to consider the main love lines of this work.

Pechorin - Bela - Kazbich

One of the literary critics, analyzing the content of this work, rightly noted that the compositional structure of the novel is based on endless love triangles.
Indeed, there are a lot of love triangles here.

In the first part of the novel "Bela" we learn that Pechorin kidnaps a young Circassian Bela from his own father and makes her his mistress. Proud Bela is smart, beautiful and kind. She fell in love with the Russian officer with all her heart, but she realized that in his soul there was no reciprocal feeling for her. Pechorin kidnapped her for fun and soon lost all interest in his captive.
As a result, Bela is unhappy, her love has brought her nothing but deep sorrow.

In one of the walks near the fortress in which she lives with Pechorin, she is kidnapped by the Circassian Kazbich, who is in love with her. Seeing the chase, Kazbich mortally wounds Bela, and she dies two days later in the fortress in the arms of Pechorin.

As a result, this love triangle does not bring satisfaction and joy to any of the heroes. Kazbich, who has killed his beloved, is tormented by remorse, Pechorin understands that Bela's love could not awaken him to life and realizes that he killed the young girl in vain, driven by a sense of pride and selfishness. In his diary, he later wrote: “I was mistaken again, the love of a savage woman is little better than the love of a noble lady; the ignorance and simple-heartedness of one is just as annoying as the coquetry of another.”

Pechorin - Mary - Grushnitsky

The theme of love in the novel "A Hero of Our Time" is represented by another love triangle, in which Pechorin, Princess Mary Ligovskaya and Grushnitsky, who is in love with her, are in love, whom Pechorin, unwittingly, kills in a duel.

This love triangle is also tragic. It leads all its participants either to endless grief, or to death, or to the realization of their spiritual worthlessness.

We can say that the main character of this triangle is Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin. It is he who constantly laughs at the young man Grushnitsky, who is in love with Mary, which ultimately leads the latter to jealousy and to a fatal challenge for him to a duel. It is Pechorin, who, having become interested in Princess Ligovskaya, brings this proud girl to the point that she herself confesses her love to him. And he rejects her proposal, which causes on her part a feeling of longing and deceived hopes.

Pechorin is dissatisfied with himself, but he, trying to explain the motives of his behavior, only says that freedom is dearer to him than love, he simply does not want to change his life for the sake of another person, even a girl like Princess Mary.

Pechorin - Vera - Vera's husband

Love in Lermontov's work "A Hero of Our Time" finds its expression in yet another passionate love triangle.
It includes Pechorin, a secular married lady Vera and her husband, about whom the novel is only mentioned. He met Vera Pechorin back in St. Petersburg, he was passionately in love with her, but her marriage and fear of the world prevented the further development of their romance.

In Kislovodsk, Vera and Pechorin meet by chance, and the old relationship flares up again with its former strength.

Pechorin shows tenderness to Vera when she suddenly leaves Kislovodsk, he drives his horse to death to keep up with her, which, however, he fails. However, these love relationships do not bring happiness to either Vera or Pechorin. This is confirmed by the words of the heroine: “Since we know each other,” she said, “you have given me nothing but suffering.”

In fact, this love triangle anticipates the love conflict described in the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina". There, too, a secular married lady meets a young officer, falls in love with him and understands that her husband has become unpleasant to her. Unlike Vera, Anna Karenina breaks up with her husband, goes to her lover, but finds only misfortunes, which leads her to suicide.

Pechorin - Ondine - Janko

And, finally, the last love triangle of the novel is the story that happened to Pechorin on Taman. There, he accidentally uncovered a gang of smugglers who almost killed him for this.

This time, the participants in the love triangle were Pechorin, a girl whom he nicknamed "undine", that is, a mermaid, and her beloved smuggler Yanko.

However, this love collision was more of a gamble in which Pechorin decided to distract himself from his experiences. Undine was not in love with him, but lured him only in order to drown him as an unwanted witness. The girl took such a dangerous step, obeying the feeling of falling in love with Yanko.

Pechorin realized the danger of his position and came to the conclusion that he had put himself in vain at such a risk.

As we can see, the love theme in the novel "A Hero of Our Time" is presented quite vividly. At the same time, there are no examples of happy love in the work. And this is not surprising, because love and friendship in the work of Lermontov are always tragic themes. According to the writer and poet, on earth a person will never be able to find true love, because he himself bears the seal of imperfection. Therefore, people will love and suffer because their love cannot bring them happiness, joy, or peace.

It will be useful for students of grade 9 to familiarize themselves with a description of the main love lines of the novel before writing an essay on the topic “The theme of love in the novel“ A Hero of Our Time ””.

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The main character of the novel A Hero of Our Time is Grigory Pechorin, an officer who grew up in a wealthy family. He is young, good-looking, has a sharp mind and a sense of humor - girls cannot help but love such a character. According to the plot of the work, Pechorin has several novels - with Princess Mary Ligovskaya, Bela the Circassian, but Vera is the main woman in his life.

Pechorin's romance with Vera has been going on since youth - either fading away, or flaring up with a new passion. She understands the hero's soul like no other, allowing him to leave every time, tormented by jealousy, but not blaming him. Her attitude towards Pechorin is clearly read in a letter written before leaving.

Vera is married for the second time - she is ready to cheat on both husbands for the sake of her love. Her character is similar to the character of Gregory in its duality: smart, insightful, married to an old man of convenience, Vera is weak in front of Pechorin, becoming careless and enthusiastic. She is either strong and ready for self-sacrifice for the sake of the happiness of her beloved, or she is completely devoid of this strength. The lack of pride and dignity of a woman does not prevent her from loving devotedly and passionately.

The hero himself describes Pechorin’s attitude in his diary: “I never became a slave to my beloved woman; on the contrary, I have always acquired an invincible power over their will and heart, without even trying about it. These words were not written specifically about Vera, but they clearly reflect feelings for her. No matter how hard Vera tries to reveal the soul of her beloved, she cannot understand: no one is capable of this. In the character of Pechorin - a complete rejection of love, reciprocity and self-giving for the sake of another person.

For Pechorin, Vera is not a special woman - but she inexorably follows him for many years; fate brings them together again and again. A failed attempt at an affair with Grigory Alexandrovich does not push the woman away from him; the meeting in Pyatigorsk shows how easily and carelessly Vera again entrusts herself to him.

Upon learning of Pechorin's duel with Grushnitsky, Vera breaks down and tells her husband about her feelings for the officer. He decides to take her away, and before leaving, the woman writes a letter to Grigory Alexandrovich, where her attitude is revealed: “... in your nature there is something special, peculiar to you alone, something proud and mysterious; in your voice, no matter what you say, there is an invincible power; no one knows how to constantly want to be loved; in no one is evil so attractive ... ". Vera's love for Pechorin is more of a painful addiction than blind adoration.

The relationship between Vera and Pechorin is based on mystery, passion and some indifference on the one hand and sacrifice, confusion on the other. Vera romanticizes this situation, but Pechorin realizes his affection for her only when he loses his beloved - probably forever. This emphasizes once again: the hero is not able to accept the existing happiness, he is created for eternal searches and painful, but proud loneliness.

Pechorin's romance with Vera has been going on since youth - either fading away, or flaring up with a new passion. She understands the hero's soul like no other, allowing him to leave every time,

Tormented by jealousy, but not blaming him. Her attitude towards Pechorin is clearly read in a letter written before leaving.

Vera is married for the second time - she is ready to cheat on both husbands for the sake of her love. Her character is similar to the character of Grigory in its duality: smart, insightful, married to an old man of convenience, Vera is weak in front of Pechorin, becoming careless and enthusiastic. She is either strong and ready for self-sacrifice for the sake of the happiness of her beloved, or she is completely devoid of this strength. The lack of pride and dignity of a woman does not prevent her from loving devotedly and passionately.

Pechorin's attitude is described by the hero himself in his diary:

“I have never become a slave to the woman I love; on the contrary, I have always acquired an invincible power over their will and heart, without even trying about it. These words were not written specifically about Vera, but they clearly reflect feelings for her. No matter how hard Vera tries to reveal the soul of her beloved, she cannot understand: no one is capable of this. In the character of Pechorin - a complete rejection of love, reciprocity and self-giving for the sake of another person.

Upon learning of Pechorin's duel with Grushnitsky, Vera breaks down and tells her husband about her feelings for the officer. He decides to take her away, and before leaving, the woman writes a letter to Grigory Alexandrovich, where her attitude is revealed: “. in your nature there is something special, peculiar to you alone, something proud and mysterious; in your voice, no matter what you say, there is an invincible power; no one knows how to constantly want to be loved; in no one is evil so attractive. ". Vera's love for Pechorin is more of a painful addiction than blind adoration.

The relationship between Vera and Pechorin is based on mystery, passion and some indifference on the one hand and sacrifice, confusion on the other. Vera romanticizes this situation, but Pechorin realizes his attachment to her only when he loses his beloved - probably forever. This emphasizes once again: the hero is not able to accept the existing happiness, he is created for eternal searches and painful, but proud loneliness.

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