How the relationship between Pechorin and Mary develops. Lesson “Mary and Pechorin. Relationship history. Love triangle and Pechorin's duel with Grushnitsky

Many writers use the technique of opposition in their works in order to most fully reveal the characters of the main characters.

Features of the image of Grushnitsky

Grigory Pechorin - the main thing actor novel "A Hero of Our Time". M. Yu. Lermontov introduces Grushnitsky to use literary device oppositions. The characters meet at a water resort in the city of Pyatigorsk. They do not experience special friendly feelings, but this does not prevent them from spending quite a lot of time together.

Grushnitsky tirelessly plays the role romantic hero. He tries to start a love relationship, trying to exalt imaginary feelings. The pretense of his behavior borders on caricature.

In reality, Grushnitsky was never truly happy, the feelings of true joy and love are also completely unknown to him, this is the reason for his attempts to portray them. Even the way he portrays resentment, disappointment or deep suffering looks completely false and ridiculous.

The development of relations between Pechorin, Grushnitsky and Princess Mary

Unlike a friend, Pechorin actually experienced true disappointment in his life. He is fed up with adventures and victories on the love front. Grigory is well aware that the character of Grushnitsky is deceitful, and his actions are stupid and ridiculous. He sees in his friend both falsehood and inner emptiness. These character traits of Grushnitsky irritate Pechorin.

Despite this, the two characters communicate a lot, the range of topics for conversation is very wide, they spend their free time together. At the same time, they are carried away by Princess Mary. Grushnitsky liked the young beauty, and Pechorin decided to pass the time and win the heart of the young coquette. Grushnitsky completely goes into romantic relationship with a girl, and then looks helplessly at how Grigory Alexandrovich entices the windy princess with enviable perseverance and spontaneity. Moreover, main character takes pleasure in the failure of a friend, he tried to test his strength.

Flirting with Princess Mary is Pechorin's next game, the prize in which is the delight of a beautiful and young soul of a girl. He easily captured the attention of the princess, showing mystery and wit. Grushnitsky against the background of the main character is just a dummy with ornate, but completely empty words. Therefore, how quickly the girl became interested in the personality of Grigory Alexandrovich is absolutely not surprising. Moreover, she is the first to talk about her feelings.

Duel as the denouement of a love story

The pride of Comrade Pechorin suffers a crushing blow. Drawing up an insidious conspiracy against Grigory Alexandrovich shows his cowardice, meanness and baseness, which were not too noticeable before. Junker Grushnitsky challenges the protagonist to a duel and tries to leave him to defend his honor with an unloaded pistol.

Pechorin becomes aware of this plan, he gives his former friend the opportunity to apologize, but to no avail. Anger, hatred and the desire to disgrace the protagonist filled the whole being of Grushnitsky. Self-esteem and resentment inflated to incredible proportions are most important.

Pechorin receives only a small abrasion in a duel, and Grushnitsky loses his life. This becomes the final chord of the relationship between Mary and Gregory. But the duel does not cause a break, just the game started by Pechorin ended, albeit not in the way he expected. The protagonist did not love Mary, she became a victim of his little hobby.

The plot of the story "Princess Mary", based on a love triangle, deeply reveals the personality of Pechorin, his inner world. Therefore, the images of Junker Grushnitsky and Princess Mary are extremely important, as they set off and show significant character traits of Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.

The novel "A Hero of Our Time" by M.Yu. Lermontov is considered one of the the best works classical Russian literature. You can talk about it for a very long time - interesting topics more than enough to discuss. Today we will focus on one of them - we will try to understand what Pechorin's attitude towards Mary was.

The character of Pechorin

First you need to understand the character of the main character. It is impossible not to admit that this is a man, in his development higher than the society surrounding him. However, he failed to find application for his talents and abilities. 1830s - a difficult period in Russian history. The future of young people of that time was either "empty or dark." Lermontov in Pechorin captured the features of the younger generation of those years. The portrait of his hero is made up of the vices of all time. It looks like there are two people in it. The first of them acts, and the second observes his actions and discusses them, or rather condemns them.

Negative character traits of Pechorin

In Pechorin, you can notice many negative traits, including selfishness. Although Belinsky could not agree with this. He said that egoism "does not blame itself", "does not suffer." Indeed, Pechorin suffers because he is bored among people belonging to the "water society". The desire to break out of it lies in the fact that the hero wastes himself on various petty things. Pechorin risks his life, seeking oblivion in love, substituting Chechen bullets for himself. He suffers greatly from boredom and realizes that it is wrong to live the way he lives. The hero is ambitious and vindictive. Wherever he appears, misfortunes happen everywhere.

Why did the hero deceive Mary?

This hero inflicted a deep spiritual wound on Princess Mary. He deceived this girl, betrayed her love for him. What was his goal? Exceptional satisfaction. In this, Pechorin and Princess Mary were completely different. The relationship between the characters is characterized by the fact that the princess seeks to make her lover happy, and he thinks only of himself. However, Pechorin is well aware of the ungrateful role he played in the life of this girl.

The development of relations between Pechorin and Mary

In order to understand what Pechorin's true attitude towards Mary was, let us briefly trace the history of the development of their very unusual novel. Mary is the young and beautiful daughter of Princess Ligovskaya. However, she is too naive, and also overly trusting of other people, including Pechorin. At first, the girl did not pay attention to the main character, but he did everything to interest her. He lured Mary's fans over to him by telling them funny stories. After Pechorin won her attention, he tried to make a good impression on the princess with stories and stories from his life. His goal was for the girl to begin to see him as an extraordinary person, and he achieved his goal. Pechorin gradually conquered the girl. During the ball, he "saved" the princess from a drunken impudent molester who molested her. Pechorin's caring attitude towards Princess Mary did not go unnoticed by the girl. She believed that the hero is sincere in his actions. However, the girl was cruelly mistaken. He just wanted to conquer her, she was just another toy for him. One evening, Pechorin and Mary went for a walk. Their relationship by that time had already developed enough for what happened during it. The princess felt ill as she crossed the river. Pechorin hugged her, the girl leaned on him, and then he kissed her.

Was Pechorin in love with Mary?

Pechorin argued and tried to convince himself that Mary's passion for him did not mean anything to him, that he was seeking the love of this girl only for his own pleasure. However, in reality, Pechorin's attitude towards Mary was somewhat different. The soul of the hero longed for true love. Pechorin begins to doubt: "Have I really fallen in love?" However, he immediately catches himself thinking that attachment to this girl is "a miserable habit of the heart." Pechorin's love for Mary died in the bud, because the hero did not allow her to develop. It's a pity - perhaps he would have found happiness by falling in love.

Thus, Pechorin's attitude towards Mary is contradictory. The hero assures himself that he does not love her. Before the duel, he tells Werner that he took out only a few ideas from the storm of life, but did not take out a single feeling. He admits that he has long lived with his head, and not with his heart. He weighs his own actions and passions, analyzes them "with strict curiosity", but "without participation". At first glance, the way Pechorin treats Mary confirms this idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe main character about himself, which testifies to the cruelty, ruthless coldness of his game. However, the main character is not as impassive as he tries to appear. Several times he feels carried away, even becomes agitated. The protagonist reproaches himself for his ability to feel: after all, he assured himself that for him happiness lies not in love, but in "saturated pride." His nature is distorted by the inability to find a high goal in life and eternal discord with others. However, Pechorin vainly believes that this "saturated pride" will bring him happiness. Both Mary and Vera love him, but this does not bring him satisfaction. And relations with these heroines develop not only at the behest of Pechorin.

While the hero sees in the princess spoiled by worship secular young lady, he takes pleasure in insulting the girl's pride. However, after the soul emerges in it, the ability to sincerely suffer, and not just play love, comes to light, the main character changes his mind. However, the author does not end the story with a happy ending - Pechorin and Princess Mary remain lonely. The relationship between these two characters did not lead to anything. It is fear, not indifference, that makes him reject Mary's feelings.

How should one treat Pechorin?

Probably Pechorin ruined the life of this girl forever. He disappointed her in love. Now Mary will not trust anyone. Pechorin can be treated differently. Of course, he is a scoundrel, unworthy of the love of another person and even respect for himself. However, he is justified by the fact that he is a product of society. He was brought up in an environment where it was customary to hide true feelings under the guise of indifference.

Did Mary deserve her fate?

And what about Mary? It can also be treated differently. The girl saw the perseverance of the protagonist. And from this she concluded that he loves her. Mary heard what strange speeches this hero made, and realized that it was extraordinary person. And she fell in love with him, ignoring the laws of society. After all, Mary was the first to dare to speak about her love. This means that she believed that the hero would reciprocate her feelings. However, he was silent.

What was Mary's fault?

We can assume that Mary herself is to blame for everything, since she was both naive and arrogant, self-confident and blind. There is no reckless devotion inherent in the Faith in it, there is no sincerity and passionate power of Bela's love. But the main thing is that she does not understand Pechorin. The girl did not fall in love with him at all, but with a fashionable hero. Her feeling for him can be compared with the feeling for Grushnitsky - Mary sees in such different people the same thing: the tragedy of Pechorin's disappointment does not differ for her from the mask of Grushnitsky's disappointment. If the main character had not come to the waters, most likely, the girl would have fallen in love with Grushnitsky, married him, despite the resistance of her mother, and would have been happy with him.

What justifies Mary

However, is it possible to blame the heroine so unconditionally? After all, it is not her fault that she is young, that she is looking for a hero and is ready to find him in the first person she meets. Like any woman, Mary dreams of being loved by a lonely and the strong man for whom she is ready to become the whole world, to warm him and console him, to bring him peace and joy. In this sense, Pechorin and Princess Mary were products of their environment and time. The relationship between them is characterized by the fact that each played a role. And if the hero invented her himself, then the heroine played the natural role of a woman whose destiny is to love.

Perhaps if Pechorin had not appeared in her life, she would have found her happiness. The girl would live her whole life with the illusion that Grushnitsky is a special being, that she saved him from loneliness and misfortune with her love.

The complexity of human relationships

The complexity of human relationships lies in the fact that even in love, which is the greatest spiritual intimacy, people are often unable to fully understand each other. In order to maintain calm and confidence, illusions are needed. Mary and Grushnitsky could have retained the illusion of the need for a loved one, and that would have been enough for a quiet home, love and devotion of the princess. Something similar might have happened if Pechorin and Mary had not parted. The relationship between them, of course, would hardly have lasted for a long time due to the nature of the protagonist, but misunderstanding in this pair, of course, would also have taken place.

Lesson on chapter 2 "Princess Mary" from "Pechorin's Journal".

Subject: Mary and Pechorin. Relationship history.

Introduction by the teacher.

The story "Princess Mary" is perceived as main story in the novel.

Why do you think?

(here the character of Pechorin is revealed to the maximum)

In relations with what heroes can we trace the character of Pechorin?

Introduction to the topic.

Let's see how relations develop between Princess Mary and Pechorin

Where do these characters first meet?

(Pechorin and Princess Mary meet for the first time in Pyatigorsk, where Pechorin arrives after a military assignment. Princess Mary and her mother are treated on the waters in Pyatigorsk).

Who tells Pechorin about Princess Mary? (Grushnitsky)

What interests Pechorin in Mary's appearance? (her teeth)

What attitude does this interest show? (Pechorin treats a woman like a horse)

In what chapter have we already noticed such an attitude? (In the chapter "Bela", when Pechorin exchanged a horse for a girl.)

Why does Pechorin become interested in Mary? (a feeling of envy and excitement make him get carried away by the princess)

How Pechorin perceives the relationship between Grushnitsky and Mary, confirm with words from the text. (For Pechorin, their relationship is a game, he does not take them seriously)

“There is a connection! I shouted in admiration, “we will work on the denouement of this comedy. Clearly, fate takes care that I should not be bored.

Work with text

How is Pechorin going to win over Mary? (find confirmation in the text)

"If you want, I'll introduce you...

- Have mercy! I said, clasping my hands, “do they represent heroes? They do not get acquainted otherwise than by saving their beloved from certain death ... "

(Pechorin is going to become a hero for Mary, he will save her at the first opportunity)

How is Mary's attitude towards Pechorin changing?

Hatred

“her gaze, falling on me, expressed annoyance, trying to express indifference ...”

"The princess absolutely hates me"

“Yesterday I met her in the Chelakhov store; she was selling a wonderful Persian carpet. The princess begged her mother not to be stingy: this carpet would decorate her study so much! .. I gave forty extra rubles and bought it; for this I was rewarded with a look where the most delightful fury shone.

Irritability

“she says that you have an impudent look, that you must have the highest opinion of yourself.”

“Who is this gentleman who has such an unpleasant heavy look? he was with you then…”

“I immediately approached the princess, inviting her to waltz, taking advantage of the freedom of local customs, which allow dancing with unfamiliar ladies.

“She could hardly force herself not to smile and hide her triumph”

“I saw that she was ready to faint from fear and indignation.

I went up to the drunken gentleman, took him quite firmly by the hand, and, looking intently into his eyes, asked him to leave—because, I added, the princess had long promised to dance the mazurka with me.

- Well, there is nothing to do! .. another time! he said, laughing, and withdrew to his ashamed comrades, who immediately took him into another room.

I was rewarded with a deep, wonderful look."

Now Pechorin for Mary is the noble hero of the novel, Pechorin's goal has been achieved.

“her face blossomed; she joked very nicely; her conversation was sharp, without any pretense of wit, lively and free; her remarks are sometimes profound... I made her feel, with a very confused phrase, that I had liked her for a long time. She tilted her head and blushed slightly.

Love

“All these days I have never deviated from my system. The princess begins to like my conversation; I told her some of the strange cases of my life, and she begins to see me as an extraordinary person.

In order to finally win a woman's heart, Pechorin reveals the secrets of his spoiled character. So he evokes a feeling of pity and compassion from the princess.

Let's make a table for the episode of June 3rd. Mary and Pechorin find themselves on a narrow path leading to Mount Mashuk.

“Yes, this has been my fate since childhood. Everyone read on my face signs of bad feelings, which were not there; but they were supposed - and they were born. I was modest - I was accused of slyness: I became secretive. I deeply felt good and evil; no one caressed me, everyone insulted me: I became vindictive; I was gloomy - other children are cheerful and talkative; I felt superior to them—I was placed inferior. I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world - no one understood me: and I learned to hate. My colorless youth flowed in the struggle with myself and the light; my best feelings, fearing ridicule, I buried in the depths of my heart: they died there. I told the truth - they did not believe me: I began to deceive;

Negative Traits character.

Compassion

“At that moment I met her eyes: tears were running in them; her hand, leaning on mine, trembled; cheeks glowed; she felt sorry for me! Compassion, a feeling that all women submit so easily, let its claws into her inexperienced heart. During the whole walk she was absent-minded, did not flirt with anyone - and this is a great sign!

How does Pechorin's attitude towards Mary change?

(At first he is passionate, passionate, for him the desire to win Mary's heart is a game)

How do you understand the phrase: “She is dissatisfied with herself: she accuses herself of coldness ... oh, this is the first, main triumph! Tomorrow she will want to reward me. I already know all this by heart - that's what's boring!

Summarizing

Pechorin deftly and cunningly goes to his goal, he is confident in himself, and while he strives to win the heart of Princess Mary, his passion fills life with meaning. But as soon as he achieves the love of a young princess, he becomes bored again.

Homework: analyze Pechorin's monologue

“What am I fussing about? Out of envy for Grushnitsky? Poor thing, he doesn't deserve it at all. Or is it the result of that bad but invincible feeling that makes us destroy the sweet delusions of our neighbor in order to have the petty pleasure of telling him, when he is in despair asking what he should believe: “My friend, the same thing happened to me, and you you see, however, I have lunch, supper and sleep very peacefully and, I hope, I will be able to die without screaming and tears!

But there is an immense pleasure in the possession of a young, barely blossoming soul! She is like a flower whose best fragrance evaporates towards the first ray of the sun; it must be torn off at that moment and, after breathing it to its fullest, throw it on the road: maybe someone will pick it up! I feel this insatiable greed in me, consuming everything that comes in the way; I look at the sufferings and joys of others only in relation to myself, as food that supports my spiritual strength. I myself am no longer capable of madness under the influence of passion; my ambition is suppressed by circumstances, but it manifested itself in a different form, for ambition is nothing but a thirst for power, and my first pleasure is to subordinate everything that surrounds me to my will; to arouse feelings of love, devotion and fear for oneself - is this not the first sign and the greatest triumph of power? To be the cause of suffering and joy for someone, without having any positive right to do so - is this not the sweetest food of our pride? And what is happiness? Intense pride. If I considered myself better, more powerful than anyone in the world, I would be happy; if everyone loved me, I would find endless sources of love in myself.

Answer the questions:

Why does Pechorin seek the love of Princess Mary?

What supports Pechorin's mental strength?

What is Pechorin's first pleasure?

Why is Pechorin happy?

Pechorin and Princess Mary are key figures remarkable novel by M. Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time". The relationship between the officer and the young beauty of the girl is, perhaps, one of the most striking storylines of this unique work. They are interesting in every respect: having started at ease, they quickly end as a result of the duel between Pechorin and Grushnitsky and the death of the latter.

The young rake, having met the young princess in Pyatigorsk, decides to win her heart without fail. This was not difficult to do, for these two characters came from the strata of high society and were almost always in the same places. He unobtrusively gets acquainted with her, thanks to the disgusting trick of the dragoon captain, who sent a drunken gentleman to the girl; and then continues the acquaintance, following the freedom of resort customs - to invite unfamiliar ladies to dance.

Pechorin decided not to take his hobby seriously, intending to drag Mary for fun and for the sake of "legalizing" his meetings with Vera. Pechorin, being a man with rich life experience in seducing women, easily charms a young lady.

At the same time, it should be noted that Pechorin only makes the girl fall in love with herself, she does not just sympathize with the officer, but falls in love with him to the point of madness.

And what about Pechorin himself? He has absolutely no sincere feelings towards the poor princess, he simply plays on her feelings, doing it so skillfully that none of the people around them suspect lies. Although he has a momentary assumption that his feelings are sincere than he himself would like.

The young girl is not only an object of torment for Pechorin. He, caring for the princess, is chasing new spiritual emotions, which he lacks. Mary is also a kind of screen that covers the main character and his real feelings from gossip. His former lover was a married woman named Vera, and Pechorin decides to hide the renewed relationship from society, showing that the romance is over and he has a new passion.

However, a fellow officer, the stupid and pompous Junker Grushnitsky, who is in love with Mary, burst into the relationship between Pechorin and Mary, full of flirting and rivalry, with a swift whirlwind.

The princess, who was carried away by a romantically inclined young man, soon realizes that Grushnitsky does not suit her at all, he very quickly annoys the girl with his obsessive behavior. Grushnitsky is rejected, Mary does not reciprocate.

But not having achieved a positive result with his actions, Grushnitsky decides to take extreme measures: he compromises Mary and Pechorin in the eyes of society. Pechorin could not stand this, so he challenges his former friend to a duel and kills him, towering even more in the eyes of the princess and her mother.

The princess hurries to wrap her lover in her arms, and he honestly admits to her that he played with her feelings and simply laughed at her, hastening to bow and leave.

After such a deception, Mary is left alone, her feelings are torn to pieces, deep sadness has settled in her heart. From now on, she can only suffer and hate.

The story of the relationship between Pechorin and Mary, full of deception, meanness and play of vanity, helps us understand the main character, his cold and contradictory nature, capable of both baseness and lofty deeds - but not true love!

The novel "A Hero of Our Time" shows a portrait of not one person, but a whole generation, made up of vices. the main role assigned to Pechorin, but it is the other characters of the novel, with whom he had to intersect in life, that make it possible to better understand the inner world of this person, the depth of the soul.

The relationship between Pechorin and Princess Mary is one of the brightest plot lines of the novel. They began at ease, ending swiftly and tragically. Once again, showing Pechorin as a man with a callous soul and a cold heart.

Acquaintance

The first meeting between Pechorin and Princess Mary took place in Pyatigorsk, where Grigory was sent after completing another military assignment. The princess, together with her mother, underwent a course of treatment with the mineral waters of Pyatigorsk.

Princess and Pechorin constantly rotated in secular society. A common circle of friends brought them together at one of the meetings. Grigory stirred up interest in his person, deliberately teasing the girl, ignoring her presence. He saw that she paid attention to him, but Pechorin is much more interested in watching how she behaves further. He knew women very well and could calculate a few steps ahead of how the acquaintance would end.

He took the first step. Pechorin invited Mary to dance, and then everything had to go according to the scenario he had developed. It gave him unprecedented pleasure to lure another victim, allowing her to get carried away. The girls fell in love with a handsome military man, but quickly got bored and he, pleased with himself, with a feeling of complete self-satisfaction, put another tick in the track record of love affairs, safely forgetting about them.

Love

Mary fell in love for real. The girl did not understand that the toy was in his hands. Part of the insidious heartthrob's plan. It was beneficial for Pechorin to get to know her. New emotions, sensations, a reason to distract the public from the affair with Vera, married woman. He loved faith, but they could not be together. Another reason to hit on Mary, to make Grushnitsky jealous. He was in love with the girl for real, but the feelings remained unanswered. Mary did not love him and could hardly love him. In the current love triangle, he is clearly superfluous. In retaliation for unrequited feelings, Grushnitsky spread dirty rumors about the affair of Pechorin and Mary, ruining her reputation. He soon paid the price for his wicked deed. Pechorin challenged him to a duel, where the bullet reached its target, killing the liar on the spot.

The final

After what happened, Mary began to love Pechorin even more. She believed that his act was noble. After all, he defended her honor, making it clear that she was slandered. The girl was waiting for confessions from Gregory, tormented by love and the feelings that gripped her. Instead, he hears the bitter truth that he never loved her, much less intended to marry her. He achieved his goal by breaking the heart of another victim of his love charms. She hated him. The last thing I heard from her was

"…I hate you…".

Once again, Pechorin acted cruelly towards loved ones, stepping over their feelings and trampling on love.