Image of Repetilov
In the comedy "Woe from Wit"
The comedy was completed by Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov in 1824. It was banned by censorship, but began to circulate in hundreds of manuscripts. For the Decembrists, comedy was a reflection of their own views. The comedy was topical. It shows the clash of two public camps: the camp of feudal reaction and on behalf of the progressive nobles younger generation, under the leadership of Chatsky. The characters in the work grew out of real Moscow life at the beginning of the 19th century.
Repetilov appears in the fourth act. We see it in six of the fourteen phenomena. The worthless loudmouth Repetilov is typical of Famous society. Image of Repetilov helps to understand the political situation in early XIX century. At that time, many expressed sympathy for the liberal movement, because there was a fashion for liberalism, emanating from the promises of Alexander I. Both reactionaries and real liberals turned away from liberal idle talk.
How does Repetilov appear? Rising after falling at the entrance, he confesses his love for Chatsky. After the fall, this recognition does not make much of an impression. Chatsky replies with annoyance: “That’s a lot of nonsense.” Chatsky understood Repetilov well. In Repetilov’s bragging and lies one can notice serious things.
Repetilov:
From a noisy meeting.
Please be silent
I gave my word to remain silent;
We have a society
And secret meetings
On Thursdays.
The most secret alliance...
We speak out loud, no one can understand.
I myself, as soon as they are caught, about the cameras, the jury,
About Beiron, well, about important mothers.
Chambers - chambers of deputies. Jurors are jurors in court who are sworn in, which in Russian court did not have. Beyron is the romantic poet George Byron, a participant in the struggle of the Greek people against the Turkish yoke and the Carbonari movement.
Why does Chatsky tell Repetilov that it is necessary to drive away both you and your secrets? Chatsky knows stupidity Repetilova. Repetilov himself makes no secret of this: “I often listen without opening my lips. I can’t do it, brother, and I feel like I’m stupid.”
Repetilov is being trivialized by the great revolutionary cause. He doesn't understand its essence. Repetilov is a travel companion of big things and big personalities. And he is potentially dangerous for them. Repetilov wears the mask of a progressive person, although he is not one. Repetilov is a parody of Chatsky. Chatsky “writes and translates nicely.” Repetilov “sculpts” a vaudeville act with six people. Chatsky was “in touch with the minister.” Repetilov is “the minister’s son-in-law.”
Repetilov criticizes the authorities, but for his failures in the service. Similar to Image of Repetilov Lakhmotiev, Levan and Borinka, the Anglomaniac Prince Grigory, the “genius” Udushev Ippolit Markelych, who wrote the work “A Look and Something.”
Repetilovpshnaya - ostentatious liberalism. Repetilov himself says: “We’re making noise, brother, we’re making noise.” Chatsky agrees: “Are you making noise? But only?"
Pushkin didn't count Image of Repetilov disgusting. Saltykov-Shchedrin attributed ImageRepetilova to the frivolous, annoying and unpleasant people. In the novel "Smoke" Turgenev portrays Bambaev, a former Muscovite, as very similar to Image of Repetilov, “a good man, from among the emptiest.” In Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" Image of Repetilov The image of Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov, who was “seconded” to progress, is similar.
Concluding the essay, it should be noted that in the comedy Griboyedov managed to make bright not only the images of the main characters, but also the other characters, which includes Repetilov.
The image of Repetilov in the comedy “Woe from Wit”
/ / / Comparative characteristics Chatsky and Repetilov
In Griboedov's comedy the image is presented modern man in the face. The man is young, smart and with good education. Unlike Famus’s circle, he has his own views on the world. He is not ready to put up with the sycophancy and hypocrisy that has taken over the consciousness of many people. For his own benefit, a man does not refuse to “curry favor” with anyone. He not only condemns this kind of action, but practically declares war on it.
But the fight against low moral principles turns out to be lost. Pavel Famusov and all the guests invited to dance with the piano considered Chatsky crazy after several of his harsh statements. This news is discouraging and insulting to the man. He no longer wants to be in the company of masked actors.
Griboyedov also shows the image of Repetilov. The man appears almost at the very end of the comedy, when the meeting at the Famusovs’ house is almost completed and the guests are waiting for their carriage.
At first glance produces an opinion educated person, just like Chatsky personifies modernity. He tells Alexander that he has just returned from the English Club. However, he cannot explain the purpose of this community. Repetilov doesn’t understand what they’re talking about or what problems they’re solving. From his “report”, it becomes clear that he is there solely because it is in this moment very fashionable place.
He is very different from Chatsky in that, despite his aspirations, he also belongs to a society with low moral qualities. The man easily believes the rumors about his “comrade’s” madness. After all, these are the opinions of the majority, and people cannot be wrong!
Griboedov in Chatsky shows exactly what the future of humanity should be. Without hypocrisy, greed, cold calculation and pursuit of positions. However, Russia will not be able to come to this right away, because it is so massively “ingrained” into the culture of the country that it will definitely not be possible to get rid of it hourly. Perhaps Repetilov is the next link in the path of “evolution” of society towards raising culture and morality. Interest in another life is just emerging in him, however, due to lies and absurd reasoning, he, like main character As a result, he becomes an outcast. His interlocutors quietly disappear from sight, even before Repetilov has time to finish his thought.
Griboedov, with the image of Repetilov, seems to complete the picture of what is happening. The author does not endow perfection on either this or any other character. There is honor and valor in Chatsky, but the low moral structure of society leads to young man out of balance. A man speaks harshly about other people. By this he shows that he is also not perfect. After all, insulting others is also not a sign of great intelligence.
The author shows with his work that there are no ideal people with absolutely correct actions and worldviews. And what some consider unacceptable becomes completely normal for others. There are so many people, so many opinions, you should never forget about this. Every person has a choice, and no matter what, it will be the most correct for him. Everyone has the right to act as they see fit, because the opinion of others is just an outside view. The main thing is to respect other people's choices and try not to judge. After all, as they say in the great book, “... do not judge, lest you be judged.”
Repetilov appears last in the play: he arrives at Famusov’s ball just when all the guests are already going home. Having entered the stage, he speaks almost incessantly and in twenty minutes manages to tell the story of his life, describe his current activities, his friends. As soon as he saw Chatsky, Repetilov rushed to him with the words: “Dear friend! Dear friend!” (IV, 4). However, he just as joyfully greets Skalozub and other guests who take turns appearing in the front entrance of Famusov’s house.
Very soon it becomes clear that Repetilov is an empty talker and cannot be a true friend of Chatsky, Repetilov, in his lifestyle and views, is one of the representatives Famusov society. Satirically portraying this hero, Griboyedov uses the same techniques that he used when describing other characters in the play. Repetilov gives a vivid description of himself: “I’m pathetic, I’m ridiculous, I’m ignorant, I’m a fool” (IV, 4). Next, he opens up, talking about his life, and thereby exposes himself: he, like everyone around him, dreamed of a career, but instead of serving honestly, he chose an easier path - he decided to become related to big man, almost a minister. Here he succeeded - he married the daughter of an important official, but his father-in-law, fearing reproaches and nepotism, did not help Repetilov in career growth. Repetilov himself describes this turn in his life as follows: And I would have climbed into the ranks, but I met failures, Like perhaps no one ever has. (IV, 5) And after retirement, Repetilov lives as freely as Famusov, giving himself over to entertainment (dinners, balls, cards) with greater passion, which corresponds to the age and irrepressible energy of this hero: He himself raved about a dinner or a ball for a whole century!
I forgot about the children! He deceived his wife! Played! lost! taken into custody by decree. He held the dancer! and not just one: Three at once!
Drank dead! I haven’t slept for nine nights! (IV, 4) So, the first function of Repetilov’s image is clear: he is an integral part of Famus society. However, the play has already shown the most diverse representatives of Famusov’s Moscow, so the appearance on stage of the empty playmaker Repetilov does not add anything new to the portrait of Famusov’s society. In order not to become a simple repetition of other heroes, Repetilov must demonstrate not only the typical traits of a representative of Famus society, but also individual ones: ostentatious free-thinking and empty phrase-mongering. This is how the second function of Repetilov’s image arises - to prove that the loud speeches of representatives of Famus society against modern orders are nothing more than a game of liberalism. Famous phrase Repetilova: “We’re making noise, brother, we’re making noise” (IV, 4) - completely echoes Famusov’s words about the Moscow old people who like to criticize the government for show, that is, so that nothing changes: And our old people??
How they will be taken with enthusiasm, They will judge about deeds, that the word is a sentence, - After all, the pillars are all, they don’t blow anyone’s nose; And sometimes they talk about the government in such a way that if someone overheard them... trouble! It’s not that new things were introduced - never, God save us! No. And they’ll find fault with this and that, and more often than not, with nothing, They’ll argue, they’ll make some noise and...
will disperse. (II.5) If Famusov talks about meetings of Moscow liberals in general outline, then Repetilov, being precisely this same Moscow chatterbox - a liberal, describes in detail the meetings in which he himself takes part. The “Most Secret Union” organizes “secret meetings” on Thursdays at the English Club (!), known throughout Moscow. The members of the “union” are a match for Repetilov: the Anglomaniac Prince Grigory amuses his comrades with jokes, Evdokim Vorkulov sings, the Lev brothers do nothing, Udushev writes articles “Excerpt”, “Something” for magazines, and the leader of this entire company (a famous card sharper in Moscow and duelist) speaks with inspiration about honesty (!). All these worthy gentlemen like to discuss other “important matters”, for example: the activities of the chamber people's deputies, advantages and disadvantages of trial by jury (both of these government agency are in principle impossible under absolutism), the freedom-loving creativity of J.G.
Byron, and in the intervals between such debates, when inspiration strikes them, they compose vaudevilles: Repetilov “accidentally gives birth to a pun,” others will pick up And together, lo and behold, they put together a vaudeville act, The other six set it to music, Others clap when they give it. (IV, 3) It would be difficult to draw a more poisonous caricature of official liberals! The third, probably the most important, function of Repetilov’s image is that he is a kind of “distorting mirror” of the main character of the comedy, Chatsky. The man who looks false mirror, sees a caricature of himself: the features of his face and figure in the crooked reflection are distorted, reduced, and distorted. This effect is also used in fiction: next to the main character a secondary one is placed, which highlights some of the character traits of the main one. in comparison with Repetilov he looks like a serious person, his convictions are deep and thoughtful.
But Repetilov does not have his own convictions and easily repeats other people's thoughts. Like other characters in the play, he receives a “speaking” surname, derived from the Latin verb repetere, which means “to repeat.” Repetilov chatters, mindlessly jumping from one topic to another. For example, he mercilessly scolds himself: Scold me, I myself curse my birth, When I think about how I killed time! (IV, 4) “Killing time” is a stable phrase, which means “doing some useless, random thing.” Repetilov’s thought clings to the word “time”, and in the next phrase he asks Chatsky about a specific time: “Tell me, what time is it?
". He needed the exact time because he suddenly (since he was late for the ball) came up with the idea of going with Chatsky to the club for a meeting of the “most secret union.” But before offering Chatsky this trip, he casually mentioned some book , remembered his former riotous lifestyle and in the end described his current life - activities in the “secret union”. However, the image of Repetilov emphasizes not only the strong, but also the weak traits of Chatsky’s character: after all, Griboyedov in the comedy ridicules both representatives of Famus society and so on. and the main character, bringing him closer to the idle Repetilov. Both appear on the stage in a similar way, Chatsky runs to Sophia with the words: It’s barely light and he’s already on his feet!
And I'm at your feet. (I, 7), And Repetilov, apparently a little tipsy, literally falls “as fast as he can” in the entryway of Famusov’s house (IV, 4). Famusov says to Skalozub, recommending Chatsky: ... he writes and translates well.
(II.5) True, no one else will remember about these intellectual pursuits of the protagonist: either representatives of Famus society do not know about them, or do not consider them serious. Repetilov also writes and composes together with his friends from the English Club... vaudeville (IV, 4). Both characters are extremely talkative. Chatsky’s active desire to be sure to speak out on all important and unimportant issues in front of Famusov or in front of the guests at the ball (in front of deaf old men, stupid princesses, hypocritical Molchalin, etc.) is unforgivable, according to Pushkin, and ridiculous. It seems that it is no coincidence that the playwright brings together the statements of Chatsky and Repetilov. For example, they both scold balls as a waste of time. “What new will Moscow show me? Yesterday there was a ball, and tomorrow there will be two” (1.7), says Chatsky dismissively. And Repetilov repeats almost the same thought: What’s the ball? brother, where we are all night until broad daylight, shackled in decency, we will not break out of the yoke... (IV, 4) At the same time, both go to balls. Another example of rapprochement - both look condescendingly at their own failures in the service. “Ranks are given by people, And people can be deceived” (III, 3), declares Chatsky, and Repetilov echoes him: “Ugh! service and ranks, crosses are the souls of ordeal” (IV, 5). Finally, both leave Famusov’s house, uttering very similar phrases. None of the guests that Repetilov encountered in the entryway wanted to chat with him, so he orders the footman: Where to direct the path now? And it’s already approaching dawn. Go, put me in the carriage, take me somewhere. (IV, 9) Chatsky, offended by the slander of the Famus society and Sophia’s behavior, also remembers the carriage in order to leave without looking back somewhere from Moscow. To summarize, two things should be emphasized important points concerning the image of Repetilov. Firstly, this image, together with others actors creates comedies bright portrait Famus society, opposing the freethinker Chatsky. The character of Repetilov is quite realistic, since it combines many different traits inherent in a person: Repetilov is at the same time stupid, flighty, trusting, lazy, good-natured, talkative, etc.. The fact that Griboedov managed to create such a complex character for an episodic person says about the high skill of the playwright. Pushkin also noted this in his review of “Woe from Wit.” Secondly, in comparison with Repetilov, Chatsky is more fully characterized. Repetilov becomes like a “distorting mirror”, which at the end of the play the playwright saved for the main character and through this technique revealed his attitude towards him, in other words, the playwright uses a parodic reduction of the image of Chatsky. Repetilov's chatter emphasizes Chatsky's seriousness, but at the same time, these two comedy characters are similar: Repetilov chatters incessantly about everything in the world, and Chatsky expresses his progressive beliefs to Famusov, Skalozub, etc. It is clear that the intelligent sermon of the protagonist in the house No one will hear Famusov. Then why all these inspired monologues?
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In a letter to A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (Decembrist writer), Pushkin wrote: “By the way, what is Repetilov? It has 2, 3, 10 characters.” Pushkin notes in him stupidity, humility, frivolity, and simplicity. To this we can add extraordinary sociability and a passion for everything fashionable. His surname, which comes from French word“repete”, meaning “to repeat”, indicates its distinctive feature - the need to repeat what he heard from others, the absence own views and opinions.
Repetilov, according to him own definition, "chatter". He strives to be known as a progressive person, but everything he says is not his belief; he understands nothing about the issues that worried him then advanced people. People like Repetilov “make noise, that’s all.”
Repetilov’s speech in its lexical (vocabulary) composition is the speech of a Muscovite in the 20s of the 19th century. Words such as otkudova, by chance, especially instead of especially, mediocre instead of ordinary - typical of Moscow at that time, fly off his tongue.
His passion for theater introduces into his speech such words as farce, vaudeville, preludes and others. Repetilov likes to insert French words into his speech, and reinterpret Russian names into French - Levoy instead of Lev. But next to this, in Repetilov’s speeches there are many Russian expressions: “he drank dead,” “we, fortunately, are on the move,” etc.
Talkativeness and quick transitions from one topic to another expressively characterize Repetilov’s inner emptiness.
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The historical basis of the comedy "Woe from Wit"
A.S. Griboedov portrayed the morals of the Moscow nobility of the early 19th century in the comedy “Woe from Wit.” At that time, a split emerged in aristocratic society between nobles holding conservative views and those who accepted the ideas of Decembrism and preached the ideals of true citizenship and patriotism. In the comedy, this split is called the struggle of the “present century” with the “past century.” Many features of the historical reality of that time were reflected in the play “Woe from Wit.” It is known that the main character of the comedy, Alexander Andreevich Chatsky, like the author himself, expresses the ideas of the Decembrists, namely the desire for justice, respect for the people, for freedom human personality. However, in the society depicted by Griboedov there were also those for whom these ideas were a tribute to fashion, and not a conscious desire of the heart. In this regard, it is necessary to consider the characterization of Repetilov in the comedy “Woe from Wit”.
How does the image of Repetilov help in revealing the image of Chatsky?
It is impossible to truly understand the meaning of Repetilov’s image in the comedy “Woe from Wit” without turning to the image of Chatsky.
In the play, Chatsky speaks out against the “past century” and its ideas: against the permissiveness of the feudal landowners, who can, at their whim, separate the children of peasants from their parents, exchange serfs for greyhounds; against the immorality of the Moscow nobility, which was accustomed to evaluate people by rank and money. Moreover, Chatsky stands alone against this numerous camp. He is convinced that money and position in society cannot be measures of human personality. Chatsky believes that honor and dignity should be the main values in a noble society. He expresses his views fearlessly, but is forced out of this environment, slandered, called crazy. The Chatskys' time has not yet come. But he found himself alone only in Famusov’s house. Outside of it, Chatsky has like-minded people, and the victory of the “present century” will come later, but certainly.
To more fully and from all sides reflect the features historical period, presented in the comedy, Griboedov introduces Repetilov into the play “Woe from Wit”. This hero appears on stage in the last act, but he significantly expands the reader’s already existing understanding of political situation in Russia at that time. Repetilov is a caricatured double of Chatsky, who is only able to repeat his words, but cannot comprehend them. Repetilov’s task is to gain weight in aristocratic society. Chatsky’s task is to expose and correct this society.
The meaning of Repetilov’s image in the comedy “Woe from Wit”
As is customary in the tradition of classicism, Griboedov gave the heroes of the comedy “Woe from Wit” speaking names. Repetilov is no exception. His last name is derived from the French word repeto, which means “I repeat.” Repetilov is only able to repeat the ideas of the Decembrists, without delving into them.
Appearing at Famusov’s ball at the moment when the guests are already leaving, Repetilov does not know that a rumor about Chatsky’s madness has already been spread in society. At first it may even seem that Repetilov will become Chatsky’s only ally in Famusov’s house, because he doesn’t believe anyone that Chatsky is mad. Repetilov invites Chatsky to a meeting secret society. According to him, many political issues related to the ideas of Decembrism are discussed there. It becomes clear that Repetilov is a member of a revolutionary circle. But is the image of Repetilov in the comedy “Woe from Wit” the image of a true Decembrist?
Repetilov is portrayed by Griboyedov as an empty person, uttering empty words that mean nothing to him. It is no coincidence that Repetilov first offers Chatsky to go with him, and after his refusal, Skalozub. This hero doesn’t care which side he’s on: “the present century” or the “past century.” He doesn’t care where to spend his time: at a ball or at a secret meeting. The main thing for him is to be one of his own. secular society. In addition, Repetilov himself says that he does not understand everything that is discussed at the meetings of this circle.
Repetilov is not a Decembrist. This is a caricature of the Decembrist, a caricature of Chatsky. In the play “Woe from Wit,” Repetilov’s characterization is significant only in comparison with Chatsky. Repetilov is a reflection of Chatsky and his ideas in a distorting mirror.
There is a huge gap between Repetilov and people like Chatsky. The Repetilovs express liberal ideas only because it is fashionable in noble society. This could help him in his career, and a successful career is the highest value in Famus society.
Thus, Repetilov is a hero who mindlessly repeats the words of others, the words of Chatsky and the words that he hears at meetings of the secret society in which he is a member, without understanding their meaning and significance. The empty Repetilov is contrasted in the comedy with the ideologist Chatsky.
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