Speaking about the characterization of Grigory Pechorin, first of all it should be noted that the author of the work, Mikhail Lermontov, clearly showed his attitude towards the hero Grigory Pechorin. Pechorin does not fit into society, he seems to “fall out” of it, and the point is not at all in his appearance. Indeed, Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is a handsome officer, has a sharp mind, a lively and ebullient nature, and has an explosive character. However, Mikhail Lermontov himself, mentioning the characterization of Grigory Pechorin, notes: “This is a portrait made up of the vices of our entire generation, in their full development.”
Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is, of course, a put together image of the people of that time, namely the 30s of the 19th century.
So, Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is, of course, a put together image of the people of that time, namely the 30s of the 19th century. What interesting things can be said about the characterization of Grigory Pechorin?
He leads a rather boring lifestyle, he is lonely, and it’s hard to keep himself busy. Although at one time Pechorin moved in the best circles of society, he became bored with everything: courting ladies and social amusements.
On the one hand, Grigory is afraid that society will negatively affect him, so internally he shuns its influence, but on the other hand, Pechorin does not worry about the welfare and well-being of others. Not only does he not appreciate true love and friendship, and everything else main character Lermontova does not worry that with his behavior he is ruining the fates of those close to him. This fact, of course, significantly overshadows the characterization of Grigory Pechorin.
Characteristics of Grigory Pechorin in the chapter "Bela"
As you read the book and analyze Lermontov's hero Pechorin, it becomes clear that Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin indulges in recklessness simply because he is bored. But when the passion of adventure takes possession of him, he is calculating and ready to do anything - sacrifice friendship, hurt someone's feelings, break something inside himself. For example, in the chapter “Bela” Pechorin burns with passion for the girl Bela, and does everything possible to achieve her favor. It seems that Grigory Pechorin loves Bela, but how can one explain the fact that he mercilessly destroys her family, forcibly kidnaps the girl, pushes Bela’s brother Azamat to madness, and then puts on a guise and tries to evoke sympathy and pity for himself? It is unlikely that such actions can be explained by true love.
Reflecting on the characterization of Grigory Pechorin after reading this chapter, it is clear that in fact Lermontov’s hero Pechorin did not need Bela, she became a fleeting quenching of boredom and for a time, while he was seeking her, dispersed his melancholy.
True, Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is not devoid of compassion. Realizing that he doesn’t need Bela, but he won her heart, Pechorin continues to deceive her, only now his deception lies in the fact that he supposedly loves her dearly.
Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin indulges in recklessness simply because he is bored. But when the passion for adventure takes hold of him, he is calculating and ready to do anything.
Conclusions about the characteristics of Grigory Pechorin
Speaking in simple language about Lermontov's hero Pechorin, let's say that Pechorin is a bad person who combines the vices of his generation and modern society. But still, from his actions and way of thinking, one can draw important conclusions about the morality of people in general, and look at oneself through the prism of the vicious character of Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin.
“There are two people in me: one lives in full
in the sense of the word, another thinks and judges him;"
"Hero of Our Time" is the first psychological novel in Russian literature, work. The main character of the novel, Pechorin, seemed to me the most interesting, and I would like to dwell on him. As for the other characters in the novel, all of them, it seems to me, only help to more fully reveal the character of the main character
The novel consists of five stories, each of which represents a stage in revealing the image of the main character. The desire to reveal inner world Pechorin was reflected in the composition of the novel. It begins, as it were, in the middle and is consistently brought to the end of Pechorin’s life. Thus, the reader knows in advance that Pechorin’s life is doomed to failure. I think that no one will doubt that it is Pechorin who is the hero of the time.
Pechorin is a typical young man of the 30s of the 19th century, educated, handsome and quite rich, dissatisfied with life and not seeing any possibility for himself to be happy. Pechorin, unlike Pushkin’s Onegin, does not go with the flow, but seeks his own path in life, he “madly chases life” and constantly argues with fate. He gets bored with everything very quickly: new places, friends, women and hobbies are forgotten by him very quickly.
Lermontov gives very detailed description Pechorin’s appearance, which allows us to reveal his character more deeply. This allows the reader to see the hero in front of him, to look into his cold eyes that never laugh. His dark eyebrows and mustache with blond hair speak of originality and unusualness.
Pechorin is constantly on the move: he is going somewhere, looking for something. Lermontov constantly places his hero in different environments: now in the fortress, where he meets Maxim Maksimych and Bela, now in the environment of the “water society,” now in the smugglers’ shack. Even Pechorin dies on the way.
How should Lermontov treat his hero? According to the author, Pechorin is “a portrait made up of the vices of his generation.” The hero evokes my blue-eyed sympathy, despite the fact that I do not like such qualities in him as selfishness, pride and disregard for others.
Pechorin, not finding any other outlet for his thirst for activity, plays with the destinies of people, but this does not bring him either joy or happiness. Wherever Pechorin appears, he brings grief to people. He kills his friend Grushnitsky in a duel, which occurred due to stupidity. When he was exiled to the fortress for a duel, he meets Bela, the daughter of a local prince. Pechorin persuades her brother to kidnap her sister in exchange for a stolen horse. . He sincerely wanted to make Bela happy, but he simply cannot experience lasting feelings. They are replaced by boredom - his eternal enemy.
Having achieved the girl’s love, he grows cold towards her and actually becomes the culprit of her death. The situation is approximately the same with Princess Mary, whom, for the sake of entertainment, he makes her fall in love with him, knowing in advance that he does not need her. Because of him, Vera does not know happiness. He himself says: “How many times have I already played the role of an ax in the hands of fate! Like an instrument of execution, I fell on the heads of the doomed victims... My love did not bring happiness to anyone, because I did not sacrifice anything for those I loved...”
Maxim Maksimych is also offended by him because he was cold when meeting him after a long separation. Maxim Maksimych is very loyal person and he sincerely considered Pechorin his friend.
The hero is drawn to people, but he does not find understanding with them. These people were far away in their spiritual development from him, they were not looking for in life what he was looking for. Pechorin’s trouble is that his independent self-awareness and will turn into something more. He does not listen to anyone’s opinion, he sees and accepts only his own “I”. Pechorin is bored with life, he is constantly looking for the thrill of sensations, does not find it and suffers from it. He is ready to risk everything to fulfill his own whim.
From the very beginning, Pechorin appears before readers as “ a strange man" This is how the good-natured Maxim Maksimych says about him: “He was a nice guy, I dare to assure you; only a little strange... Yes, sir, he was very strange.” The strangeness in Pechorin's external and internal appearance is also emphasized by other characters in the novel. I think this is what attracts women to Pechorin. He is unusual, cheerful, handsome and also rich - the dream of any girl.
To understand the soul of the hero, how deserving of reproach he is or how worthy of sympathy he is, you need to carefully re-read this novel more than once. He has a lot good qualities. Firstly, Pechorin is an intelligent and educated person. . Judging others, he is critical of himself. In his notes, he admits to properties of his soul that no one knows about. Secondly, the fact that he is a poetic nature, sensitive to nature, is also in favor of the hero. “The air is clean and fresh, like a child’s kiss; the sun is bright, the sky is blue - what would seem to be more? Why are there passions, desires, regrets?..”
Secondly, Pechorin is brave and courageous man., which manifested itself during the duel. Despite his selfishness, he knows how to truly love: he has completely sincere feelings for Vera. Contrary to his own statements, Pechorin can love, but his love is very complex and complex. Thus, the feeling for Vera awakens with renewed vigor when there is a danger of forever losing the only woman who understood him. “With the possibility of losing her forever, Faith became dearer to me than anything in the world - more valuable than life, honor, happiness!” - Pechorin admits. Even after losing Faith, he realized that the last ray of light in his life had gone out. But even after this, Pechorin did not break. He continued to consider himself the master of his fate, he wanted to take it into his hands, and this is noticeable in the final part of the novel - “Fatalist”.
Thirdly, nature gave him both a deep, sharp mind and a kind, sympathetic heart. He is capable of noble impulses and humane actions. Who is to blame for the fact that all these qualities of Pechorin perished? It seems to me that the society in which the hero was brought up and lived is to blame.
Pechorin himself has said more than once that in the society in which he lives there is no selfless love, no true friendship, no fair, humane relations between people. That is why Pechorin turned out to be a stranger to Maxim Maksimych.
Pechorin's personality is ambiguous and can be perceived from different points of view, causing hostility or sympathy. I think the main feature of his character is the contradiction between feeling, thought and deed, opposition to circumstances and fate. His energy is poured into empty action, and his actions are most often selfish and cruel. This happened with Bela, whom he became infatuated with, kidnapped, and then became burdened with her. With Maxim Maksimych, with whom he maintained warm relations as long as it was necessary. With Mary, whom he forced to fall in love with him out of pure selfishness. With Grushnitsky, whom he killed as if he had done something ordinary.
Lermontov focuses attention on the psychological disclosure of the image of his hero, raises the question of a person’s moral responsibility for the choice of life path and for his actions. In my opinion, no one before Lermontov in Russian literature gave such a description of the human psyche.
Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin, the main character of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time,” is a controversial figure and very interesting for analysis. A person who destroys other people's destinies, but enjoys respect and love, cannot help but interest people. The hero cannot be called unambiguously positive or negative; it seems that he is literally woven from contradictions.
Grigory Pechorin, a young man of over twenty years old, immediately attracts attention with his appearance - neat, handsome, smart, he makes a very favorable impression on the people around him and almost immediately inspires deep trust. Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin was also famous for his developed physical abilities and could easily spend almost the whole day hunting and practically not get tired, but he often preferred to do it alone, not being dependent on the need to be in human society.
If speak about moral qualities Pechorin and directly about his character, you can see how amazingly both white and black are combined in one person. On the one hand, it is certainly deep and a wise man, rational and reasonable. But on the other hand, it does absolutely nothing to develop the data strong qualities– Grigory Pechorin is biased towards education, believing that it is essentially meaningless. Among other things, Grigory Aleksandrovich is a brave and independent person, capable of making difficult decisions and defending his opinion, but these positive aspects of his personality also have a downside - selfishness and a tendency to narcissism. It seems that Pechorin is not capable of selfless love, of self-sacrifice, he simply strives to get from life what he wants in this moment without thinking about the consequences.
However, Grigory Pechorin is not alone in the specifics of his image. It is not for nothing that they say that his image can be called cumulative, reflecting an entire generation of people with broken destinies. Forced to adapt to conventions and submit to the whims of other people, their personalities seemed to be divided into two parts - natural, given by nature, and artificial, the one created by social foundations. Perhaps this is the reason for Grigory Alexandrovich’s internal contradiction.
I believe that in the work “Hero of Our Time” Lermontov sought to show his readers how terrible it is to become a person crippled morally. In fact, in Pechorin, in a mild form, one can observe what we would now call a split personality, and this is, of course, a serious personality disorder that one cannot cope with on one’s own. Therefore, the life of Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is similar to the life of a certain creature who rushes about in search of a home or shelter, but cannot find it, just as Pechorin cannot find harmony in his own soul. This is the problem with the main character of the work. This is the problem of an entire generation, and if you think about it, not just one.
Option 2
The main character of the novel “A Hero of Our Time” M.Yu. Lermontov - Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin. According to the author himself, Pechorin - collective image representative of the generation of the 30s of the 19th century.
Pechorin is an officer. He is a gifted person, tries to act in order to find an area of application for his talents, but he fails. Pechorin constantly asks himself the question of why he lived, for what purpose he was born.
The portrait of Pechorin, painted by the author himself, plays a major role. How sharp is the contrast between the appearance of the main character and his eyes (and after all, the eyes are the mirror of the soul)! If Pechorin’s whole appearance still retains a childish freshness, then his eyes betray an experienced, sober, but... unhappy person. They don't laugh when their owner laughs; Isn't this a sign of the inner tragedy of loneliness?..
Pechorin’s soulless attitude towards Maxim Maksimych, who became attached to him with all his soul, once again convinces us of the protagonist’s inability to experience real human feelings.
Pechorin's diary is not just a statement of daily events, but a deep psychological analysis. Reading these notes, we, oddly enough, think that Pechorin has the right to be indifferent to others, because he is indifferent...to himself. Indeed, our hero is characterized by a strange split personality: he lives alone normal life, the other judges this first and everyone around him.
Perhaps, fuller image The main character is revealed in the story “Princess Mary”. It is here that Pechorin expresses his views on love, friendship, the meaning of life; here he explains each of his actions, and not biasedly, but objectively. “My soul is spoiled by light,” says Pechorin. This is the explanation of the character of the “hero of our time” as a “superfluous person.” Doctor Werner is not a friend to Pechorin, but a friend - because they have a lot in common; both are burdened by the light, both have non-standard views on life. But Grushnitsky cannot even be a friend to our hero - he is very ordinary. The duel of the heroes is also inevitable - the legitimate finale of the clash between philistine romanticism in the person of Grushnitsky and the extraordinary character of Pechorin. Pechorin states that he “despises women so as not to love them,” but this is a lie. They are playing big role in his life, take at least the fact that he cried from powerlessness and inability to help Vera (after a letter to her), or his confession to Princess Mary: he “let” her into his soul so deeply, as he did not let anyone in, explaining the reason and the essence of your actions. But it was a trick: he aroused compassion in the girl’s soul, and through this, love. What for?! Boredom! He didn't love her. Pechorin brings misfortune to everyone: Bela dies, Grushnitsky is killed, Mary and Vera suffer, smugglers leave their home. But at the same time he himself suffers.
Pechorin is a strong, bright and at the same time tragic personality. The author is completely confident that such a person is too extraordinary to live in a common “grave.” Therefore, Lermontov had no choice but to “kill” Pechorin.
Essay 3
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov - a blinding star in the sky Russian literature. His works raise problems of the meaning of life, loneliness and love. The novel “A Hero of Our Time” is no exception. main character which Pechorin with amazing accuracy reflects the author's philosophical thoughts about life. But what sticks most in the reader’s soul after reading the novel? I will answer this question in my essay.
Pechorin is a character who combines all the vices of society of the Nicholas era. He is ruthless, indifferent, spiteful and sarcastic. But why does the reader develop warm emotional sympathy for Grigory Alexandrovich? Everything, oddly enough, is simple. Each of us sees a piece of ourselves in Pechorin, which is why it is clearly negative character Readers even see him as a hero to some extent. His decisions from an objective point of view are so ridiculous that they evoke approval from the reading public, at least his attitude towards Vera.
Loving her and having the opportunity to be with her, Pechorin loses the only thing he was not indifferent to. Why? This question can be answered in two ways: the motive of eternal loneliness and spiritual emptiness- these are the main motives of Lermontov’s work, but look into the very depths of the work? Pechorin cannot be with Vera for the reason that he is a real egoist. It is an egoist, and with his selfishness and cold attitude towards her, he causes her pain, and his decision not to be with her is a noble act, because he could always call her, and he would come - that’s what Vera herself said.
But at the same time, Pechorin loves faith. How can this happen? This is an obvious contradiction. But the book reflects life, and life is full of duality and contradictions, both internal and external, and since Lermontov was able to reflect this lousy, but at the same time wonderful essence of the world, then he is rightfully considered a classic!
Every page of the novel shocked me, unimaginably deep knowledge human soul is captured on every page of the work, and the closer to the end of the book, the more one can admire the image that Lermontov created.
Essay Image of Pechorin
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov - brightest star Russian poetry of the 19th century, his works are filled with such motifs as loneliness, fate and unrequited love. Lermontov's works reflected the spirit of the times very well. One of these is the novel “A Hero of Our Time,” the key character of which is a collection of the main, prominent people of the Nicholas era.
Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is a young officer traveling around Russian Empire on duty. For the first time, he appears before the reader as the hero of a story by Maxim Maksimovich, and then from his own notes about life path. Lermontov endowed Pechorin with an irresistibly strong indifference to life and coldness to everything that happened around him. One of its main life beliefs is fatalism. This is especially evident in Pechorin’s decision to go to war in Persia and in his agreement to enter into a deliberately dishonest duel with Grushnitsky.
A disregard for one's own fate is one of Pechorin's most striking vices. Pechorin also does not have access to the feeling of love: he not only cannot love someone with strong human love, but also have long-term interest in anything. Having definitely positive feelings for Verochka, Pechorin cannot afford to stay with her for long, although it seems to the reader that Grigory Alexandrovich wants to be with Vera. But why does this happen? The thing is that Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is the undisguised personification of loneliness, it is not fate that makes him lonely, but he prefers to remain alone with his conscious decisions.
Closedness of one's own soul from outside world and there is that very part of himself that Lermontov laid in his main character. This conclusion can be drawn by reading such poems by Lermontov as “I go out alone on the road”, “Sail”, “I look at the future with fear”, “Both boring and sad”.
But who is Pechorin? Why is the novel called “A Hero of Our Time”? Lermontov, seeing the frank, undisguised vices of society, mercilessly plants them in Pechorin. It was in the era of spiritual extinction, the prosperity of selfishness and Nikolaev tyranny that the novel was born. That is why many critics assessed Pechorin positively; they saw in him not only society, but also themselves. Also, every ordinary person in our society sees himself in Pechorin, which indicates that with the growth of technology, changes in the structure of society, human relations and the person himself do not change.
Option 5
In the novel “Hero of Our Time” by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, one of the main characters is Pechorin Grigory Alexandrovich. Studying the text, we learn that he came from St. Petersburg. All that is known about his appearance is that he has brown eyes, blond hair and a dark mustache and eyebrows. A man of average height, broad shoulders. He is attractive and women like him. Pechorin knows them especially well, which is probably already boring. Lermontov allows his hero to meet Bela and Princess Mary. His fate turns out to be quite difficult. In his journal, the character describes events and feelings at the time of his stay in the Caucasus.
Grigory Alexandrovich has both positive traits, and negative. We see that he is educated, but does not really like to read books.
In the chapter “Princess Mary” he meets his old lover. He gives in to feelings, and also, for fun, falls in love with Princess Ligovskaya. At first, he wanted to do this only because of his pride, and also, it would make his “friend” jealous. He hurt innocent Mary. The punishment for this act was Vera's departure from Pyatigorsk. Pechorin was no longer able to catch up with her. On the other hand, during the duel he gave Grushnitsky a chance to retract his words. We see that the hero is aware of the consequences.
After all the events with the Ligovskys and Grushnitsky in the chapter “Bela,” Grigory exchanges the princess for a horse. For him she is like a thing. Not only does he destroy the family, but he also values her life like a horse. A person’s life is priceless, and he takes such a step. The hero loved her, although perhaps it was just love, and he soon became bored with it. He understands that nothing can be fixed and increasingly leaves her alone. The result was the tragic death of Bela. Fortunately, he gave the last glass of water to the dying heroine. This situation greatly shocked him.
Grigory Alexandrovich suffered from the fact that he brought misfortune to the people around him. He was looking for his joy, but could not find it. On the one hand, we scold him for everything that happened, but on the other, he himself understands this and suffers. In his example you can see a person who could not achieve his happiness. He was confused, tormenting himself with thoughts. In some situations his character is weak, in others he is strong. However, Gregory tried by any means to achieve his inner satisfaction. It’s just a pity that innocent girls suffered because of this. The reader can only understand him and, perhaps, forgive him.
Sample 6
The publication of the work “A Hero of Our Time” was different opinions among the reading public.
The image of Pechorin was unusual for them. The author has set himself the main goal of revealing this image. And although the stories are not arranged in a specific order in the novel, they accurately and vividly show all sorts of features of Pechorin’s character. So, in “Maksim Maksimych” Pechorin is shown in his original position, he has tried and exhausted everything. In “Bela” everything is revealed negative traits the character of our hero. By placing the character in different conditions, Lermontov wants to reveal to us Pechorin’s alienation. The young man, a renegade from society, did not obey the moral principles of the circle from which he came. He craves adventure and danger, as he is full of extraordinary energy.
And yet our hero is a richly gifted nature. Evaluating his actions and the actions of others sensibly, he has the mind of an analyst. His diary is a self-exposure. Pechorin has a warm heart that is capable of loving passionately, hiding the truth under a mask of indifference. This is especially evident in the episodes of Bela’s death and meeting with Vera. Our character is still a strong-willed and active person, and he is capable of action. But all his actions are destructive. In all the short stories, Pechorin acts as a destroyer of destinies. He is responsible for the incidents that happened to many people who met on his way. But one cannot blame Pechorin for becoming such an immoral person. The people around him and the world are to blame here, where it was impossible to adequately apply the best qualities.
So, he learned to deceive, began to hide everything, and he buried his feelings in his heart long ago.
It seems to me that if Pechorin had been born in a completely different time, he would have been able to use his capabilities for the benefit of himself and the people around him. That is why this hero occupies the main place among literary characters « extra people" After all, in order for these people not to lose themselves in this world, we must try to understand them and help them.
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To the question The image of Pechorin in the chapter "Bela" from "Hero of Our Time" asked by the author Opportunist the best answer is: In the story "Bela" Pechorin is shown as a typical representative secular society. This is especially clearly expressed through the hero’s opposition to the mountaineers - “children of nature.” Bela, Kazbich, Azamat live in harmony with the environment, which Pechorin really lacks. In the story, the image of the hero looks unattractive, since Maxim Maksimych simply states the facts without giving them any assessment, so the hero appears as a ruthless and callous person. And this is not surprising, because Pechorin kidnaps Bela, without thinking about the consequences for her, about the fact that he is tearing her away from her home. Such an act can only be justified strong love, but Pechorin does not experience it. He says to Maxim Maksimych: “The love of a savage is for a few better than love noble lady... I'm bored with her." The hero is indifferent to the feelings of others; his attitude towards love, shown in the story, serves as proof of this. If we judge Pechorin by the first story, he is a monster, but Lermontov forces the reader to look at the hero from the other side, with his own eyes, and in the short story “Taman” the narrative moves on to Pechorin himself. It is in it that a complete and clear psychological picture hero.
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Pechorin Grigory Alexandrovich is the main character of the novel. It is he who Lermontov calls “the hero of our time.” The author himself notes the following: “The Hero of Our Time... is exactly a portrait, but not of one person: it is a portrait made up of the vices of our entire generation, in their full development.” This character cannot be called positive or negative. He is rather a typical representative of his time.
P. is smart, well educated. He feels in his soul great strength that he wasted. “In this vain struggle, I exhausted both the heat of the soul and the constancy of will necessary for real life; I entered this life, having already experienced it mentally, and I became bored and disgusted, like someone who reads a bad imitation of him long ago famous book". Personal traits The author expresses the hero through his appearance. P.'s aristocracy is shown through the thinness of his pale fingers. When walking, he does not swing his arms - this is how the secrecy of his nature is expressed. P.'s eyes did not laugh when he laughed. This can be called a sign of constant spiritual drama. The hero’s internal turmoil was especially clearly reflected in his attitude towards women. He kidnaps a young Circassian woman, Bela, from her parents’ house, enjoys her love for a while, but then he gets tired of her. Bela dies. He takes a long time and methodically to attract the attention of Princess Mary. He is driven only by the desire to completely possess someone else's soul. When the hero achieves her love, he says that he is not going to marry her. At Mineralnye Vody, P. meets Vera, a woman who has loved him for many years. We learn that he tore out her entire soul. P. is sincerely carried away, but he gets bored extremely quickly, and he abandons people like a flower plucked along the way. This is the deep tragedy of the hero. Having finally realized that no one and nothing can make up the meaning of his life, P. awaits death. He found her on the road, upon returning from Persia.
In the story “Princess Mary” Pechorin says about himself: “My whole life has been only a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to my heart or mind,” “there are two people in me: one lives in the full sense of the word, the other thinks and judges him,” “Some consider me worse, others better than I really am... Some will say: he was a good fellow, others - a scoundrel!.. Both will be false.”
As can be seen from these statements, Pechorin evaluates himself and his actions very objectively. Lermontov endowed his hero with a huge analytical mind. He understands people well, understands their weaknesses and strengths and therefore, apparently, emerges victorious from all clashes with them. He strictly and mercilessly judges himself, scrupulously analyzing his actions; sometimes he is worried not only about his personal fate, but also about the fate of his contemporary generation.
Although Pechorin admits more than once that he lives with his head and not with his heart, nevertheless he is not without heartfelt impulses. He painfully experiences the death of Bela, rejoices at meeting Vera: “My heart sank painfully, as after the first parting,” Pechorin admits. “Oh, how happy I was with this feeling!” Here he is madly galloping on a tortured horse to see Vera again, “to say goodbye, to shake hands...” “Having lost last hope", Pechorin cries bitterly, "not trying to hold back his tears and sobs." Pechorin was shocked by the suffering Mary, he almost “fell at her feet.” He is ready to throw himself on Grushnitsky’s neck. Material from the site
Pechorin subtly senses the greatness and beauty of the nature of the Caucasus, this is especially indicative in the story “Princess Mary” when describing the early morning in the mountains during a duel. I would also like to note his unbending willpower, determination, courage and bravery. Yes, Pechorin is an unusual person. He knows this himself: “... and, truly, I had a high purpose, because I feel immense strength in my soul.” He is smarter and more noble than the people of secular society, to which he belongs by birth and position - all these “brilliant adjutants, pale Muscovites”, aristocrats who came to the waters to have fun...
But the mind can only manifest itself in action. “The one in whose head more ideas were born acts more than others: as a result, a genius chained to an official’s desk must die or go crazy, just like a man with a powerful physique, with a sedentary life and modest behavior, dies of apoplexy,” says Pechorin.
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