Composition based on the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time" Grade 9

"What is Pechorin's Tragedy"

 In the novel "A Hero of Our Time" we meet with the officer Grigory Pechorin, whose image is tragic.

 Pechorin is a typical "superfluous" person in his era. We understand this from the first pages of the novel. He is very smart, has various talents, is outwardly attractive and charming. He is quite young, and it seems that all roads are open to him, but life for him is already boring and uninteresting. He gets bored of all the lessons very quickly, he is looking for new vivid impressions. It was for them that he went to the Caucasus, where he met the Circassian woman Bela. The desire to make her your wife is, again, the pursuit of new, unexplored sensations. Pechorin wants to fall in love with a rebellious beauty, but when this happens, she becomes uninteresting to him. A lot of grief brought Bela's abduction to the heroes of the novel: the girl suffered, her father, brother Azamat, Kazbich, Maxim Maksimych was upset, who was worried next to her. Pechorin himself suffers and suffers from this, but he is unable to change anything.

 The hero, in search of adventure, goes on. He continues to interfere in other people's destinies, gradually destroying them. This happens with Comrade Grushnitsky, with the young Princess Mary, with Vera, whom he truly loved. Even Maxim Maksimych, he again brings suffering when, after a long separation, he shows his indifference and indifference to him.

 His life ended early enough, we learn that he died while returning from Persia. Probably, this is a natural and logical end of his wanderings. The hero constantly changed places, actions, his surroundings, finding something valuable, he could not stop and hold on to it. He is not given such abilities. He could not understand what his life purpose was, until the end of his life suffering from boredom and routine and bringing great suffering to the people around him.

 Grigory Pechorin is an egoist who does not know how to “feel” life. He fed himself with the emotions of people who loved him. He is a typical hero of his time, a product of that noble era. This is the tragedy of his image.