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The ninth episode of the first part of the novel by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov is the chapter "Oblomov's Dream". In it, a young landowner, who has recently crossed the age of thirty, falls asleep in his untidy, rented four-room Petersburg apartment, and scenes from his own childhood come to him in a dream. Nothing fancy or contrived. Agree, in a dream it is rare when we see documentary in its purest form. Of course, this is the author. Oblomov's dream is a kind of journey at a time when Ilya Ilyich was still a child, surrounded by blind parental love.
Why did Goncharov choose such an unusual form of narration? The need for her presence in the novel is obvious. A young man who is in the prime of his life, at the age at which his peers have achieved significant success in life, spends whole days lying on the couch. Moreover, he does not feel any inner need to get up and do something. It was not by chance and not suddenly that Oblomov came to such an empty inner world and a crippled personality. Oblomov's dream is an analysis of those primary impressions and sensations of the boy Ilyusha, which later formed into convictions, formed the very basis, the foundation of his personality. Goncharov's appeal to his hero's childhood is not accidental. It is children's impressions, as you know, that bring into a person's life either a creative or a destructive beginning.
Oblomovka - a serf preserve of laziness
Oblomov's dream begins with his seven-year-old stay in his parental estate, the village of Oblomovka. This little world is on the outskirts. News does not reach here, there are practically no visitors here with their troubles. Oblomov's parents come from an old noble family. A generation ago, their home was one of the finest in the area. Life was in full swing here. However, the blood in the veins of these landowners gradually cooled. There was no need to work, they decided, three hundred and fifty serfs would still bring income. Why strain if life will still be well-fed and comfortable. This tribal laziness, when the only concern of the whole family before dinner was its preparation, and after it the whole manor's house fell into a slumber, like a disease, was transmitted to Ilyusha. Surrounded by a host of nannies, in a hurry to fulfill any wish of the child, not even letting him get up from the sofa, a lively and active child absorbed an aversion to work and even fun with peers. He gradually became lethargic and lethargic.
A mindless flight on the wings of fantasy
Then Oblomov's dream took him to the moment when the nanny was reading fairy tales to him. The child's deep-seated creative potential found an outlet here. However, this exit was peculiar: from the perception of Pushkin's fabulous images to their further transfer into their dreams. Oblomov's dream indicates to us the fact that Ilyusha perceived the stories differently than other children who, having heard a fairy tale, begin to actively play with their peers. He played differently: when he heard a fairy tale, he immersed its heroes in his dream in order to accomplish deeds and noble deeds virtually with them. He did not need peers, did not need to participate in anything. Gradually, the world of dreams replaced the real desires and aspirations of the boy. He weakened, any work began to seem boring to him, unworthy of his attention. Work, Oblomov believed, is for the serfs Vanek and Zakharok.
School that hasn't changed its attitude
Oblomov's dream plunged him into his school years, where, together with his peer Andryusha Stolz, the latter's father taught him an elementary school course. The study took place in the neighboring village, Verkhlev. Ilyusha Oblomov at that time was a boy of fourteen, overweight and passive. It would seem that next to him he saw the father and son of the Stolts, active, active. It was a chance for Oblomov to change his outlook on life. However, this did not happen, unfortunately. Crushed by serfdom, one village turned out to be similar to another. In the same way as in Oblomovka, laziness flourished here. People were in a passive, drowsy state. “The world does not live like the Stoltsy,” Ilyusha decided and remained in the grip of laziness.
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“The sky there, it seems ... clings closer to the earth, but not in order to throw stronger arrows, but only to hug her tighter, with love: it spreads so low above your head, like a parent’s reliable roof, to protect, seems to be a chosen corner from all sorts of adversities.
The sun shines brightly and hotly there for about half a year and then leaves from there not suddenly, as if reluctantly, as if turning back to look once or twice at a favorite place and give it in the fall, in the midst of bad weather, a clear, warm day.
Instead of mountains, there are a series of gentle hills from which it is pleasant to ride. The river runs merrily there, frolicking and playing. It either spills into a wide pond, or aspires with a quick thread, or subsides, as if in thought, and crawls a little over the pebbles.
Correctly and imperturbably, the yearly cycle takes place there. Each season begins at its own time, and each is beautiful in its own way. Neither terrible storms nor destruction can be heard in that land.
“The Lord did not punish that side either with Egyptian or simple plagues. None of the inhabitants has seen and does not remember any terrible heavenly signs, no balls of fire, no sudden darkness, no poisonous reptiles are found there, locusts do not fly there, there are no roaring lions, no roaring tigers, not even bears and wolves, because there are no forests. The fields and the countryside are roamed only in abundance by chewing cows, bleating sheep and clucking chickens.
Everything is quiet and sleepy in the three or four villages that make up this corner! Silence and imperturbable calm reign in the customs of the local people.
“Neither robberies, nor murders, no terrible accidents happened there, neither strong passions, nor courageous enterprises did not excite them.”
The nearest villages and the county town are twenty-five and thirty versts away. The inhabitants of this side did not even have anything to compare their life with: whether they live well, whether they are not, whether they are rich or poor.
“Happy people lived, thinking that it should not and cannot be otherwise, confident that all others live in exactly the same way and that it is a sin to live differently ... They never embarrassed themselves with any vague intellectual or moral questions, therefore they always and bloomed with health and joy, that’s why they lived there for a long time, men at forty looked like young men, old people did not struggle with a difficult, painful death, but, having lived to the point of impossibility, they died as if furtively, quietly freezing and imperceptibly breathing their last breath. That is why they say that before the people were stronger.
They believed that “nothing was needed: life, like a calm river, flowed past them, they only had to sit on the banks of this river and observe the inevitable phenomena that, in turn, without a call, appeared before each of them.”
Of the three or four villages scattered there, there was one Sosnovka, the other Vavilovka, one verst from each other. Both of them were the hereditary father of the Oblomov family and therefore were called by the common name of Oblomovka.
Oblomov now sees in a dream how he, a seven-year-old pretty, red, fat boy, wakes up in his bed. The nanny dresses him, laughing at the childish pranks. She carries him to her mother, who showers Ilyushechka with passionate kisses and carefully examines him. This is followed by morning tea with a few elderly relatives who live with them. Then Ilyusha goes for a walk under the nanny's supervision. The nanny makes sure that he does not go into the ravine - the only place that is considered dangerous in the village.
Ilyusha hears the sound of knives chopping cutlets and greens from the kitchen. Dinner is the main concern in their home. About what to cook for dinner, relatives confer for a long time in the morning. Everyone offers his dish: some soup with offal, some noodles or stomach, some tripes, some red, some white gravy to the sauce. In Oblomovka, delicious honeys, kvass, pies are prepared.
After dinner, the whole manor house falls into a dream. Both the bar and the courtyards are sleeping - everyone except the restless Ilyusha, who runs around the rooms alone. The nanny falls asleep too. Having seized the moment, little Oblomov runs towards the “terrible” ravine, but, having reached almost to its edge, turns back in fear, remembering the words of his mother that goblin, robbers and terrible animals live there.
But the heat of the day begins to subside, and the inhabitants of the manor house wake up one by one. A sluggish conversation ensues. They drink tea again. Mommy puts Ilyusha on her knees and strokes his head, dreaming with her aunts about the boy's brilliant future.
Evening comes. It's getting dark outside. The birds are silent. The distant birch trees now seem like fabulous monsters. “The day has passed, and thank God! - say the Oblomovites. “We lived happily, God forbid, and tomorrow like that!”
Evenings are especially long in winter, and then the nanny tells Ilyushechka tales about unknown countries, about good fellows whom the sorceress-pike endows with all earthly blessings for nothing, for nothing. With special kindness, she "narrated the tale of Emel the Fool, this evil and insidious satire on our great-grandfathers, and perhaps also on ourselves." With bated breath, the boy listens to a story about the prowess of Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich, about Polkan the hero, about the Kolechishche passerby, about the dead rising from their graves at midnight, or about victims languishing in captivity by a monster, or about a bear with a wooden foot, which goes through the villages and villages to look for the natural leg cut off from him. “In Oblomovka, they believed everything: both werewolves and the dead. If they tell them that a haystack was walking around the field, they will not hesitate and believe.
“The boy's imagination was inhabited by strange ghosts, fear and longing settled for a long time, maybe forever, in the soul. He sadly looks around and sees everything in life harm, misfortune, everything dreams of that magical side, where there is no evil, trouble, sorrow, where Militrisa Kirbityevna lives, where they feed so well and dress for nothing ...
Ilya Ilyich will see afterwards that the world is simply arranged, that the dead do not rise from their graves, that the giants, as soon as they start up, are immediately put in a booth, and the robbers in prison, but if the very belief in ghosts disappears, then some kind of sediment of fear and unaccountable longing.
Ilya Ilyich found out that there are no troubles from monsters, and he barely knows what they are, and at every step everyone is waiting for something terrible and is afraid ... "
Ilya Ilyich sees himself in a dream and grown up - a boy of 13-14 years old. Then he was already sent to study in the neighboring village of Verkhlevo. The landowner who owned it never lived there, instructing the German Stolz to manage the estate, and he started a small boarding school in Verkhlev for the children of the surrounding nobles. His son lived with Stolz in Verkhlev, Andrey, the same age as Ilyusha. The Oblomov boy did not want to go to a boarding school, but his parents persuaded him, knowing about the benefits of education for a future career.
And in Oblomovka, the former serene life continued. A number of family and church holidays took place, each with its own special rites, which the Oblomovites always performed exactly. Life flowed in an uninterrupted monotonous fabric, imperceptibly breaking off at the very grave. In the evenings, after dinner, my father walked silently around the room, with his hands behind his back, and the women, sitting around him, sewed. The room was dim: only one tallow candle burned, for the Oblomovites, who never regretted slaughtering an excellent turkey they had grown themselves or a dozen chickens for the arrival of a guest, were always stingy to buy things in the city with money. Such spending was considered almost a sin among them. Once heard,
“... that one of the surrounding young landowners went to Moscow and paid three hundred rubles for a dozen shirts, twenty-five rubles for boots and forty rubles for a waistcoat for the wedding, old Oblomov crossed himself and said with an expression of horror, patter that “such a fine fellow should be put in jail."
The same conversations went on in the living room in the evenings. About the fact that with the onset of cold weather the day has decreased, about the recent arrival of a relative, about which of the neighbors had children, whom and when they are thinking of marrying and marrying, about how old Luka Savich, having thought to ride a sleigh down a hill, hurt an eyebrow for yourself, about what, according to you, the tip of the nose itches.
“Nothing broke the monotony of this life, and the Oblomovites themselves were not burdened by it, because they could not imagine another life, and if they could imagine, they would turn away from it with horror.
They did not want and would not love another life. They would be sorry if circumstances brought changes to their life, whatever they were. They will be bitten by longing if tomorrow does not look like today, and the day after tomorrow does not look like tomorrow.
Why do they need variety, change, accidents that others ask for? Let others disentangle this cup, but they, the Oblomovites, have nothing to do with it. Let others live as they wish."
Sometimes only some Natalya Faddeevna will come to visit for a week, for two.
Once a peasant from Oblomov returned from the city, he brought a letter to the master, which was handed over to him from the post office. “First of all, I hid when the letter was brought in the city,” he justified himself, “but they suddenly came in a row and ordered to give it to your lordly grace.” Old Oblomov took the letter in his hands with apprehension and doubt and opened it after some hesitation. It turned out that it was from a relative of Philip Matveyevich. He asked for a recipe for beer, which was deliciously brewed in Oblomovka. Relatives were delighted and marveled that Philip Matveyevich was still alive. The lady began to look for a recipe, but when they found out that a return letter would cost 40 kopecks, the search slowed down, and it is still unknown whether the recipe was sent to the one who asked.
Poor Ilyusha, meanwhile, continued to go to study with Stolz, coming home every week for the weekend. He did not want to leave his home, and his mother often canceled his trips under the pretext that he had become pale or that there would be church holidays in the week. Stolz scolded the Oblomovs for this. Constantly skipping classes, Oblomov could learn little. It’s good that Stolz’s son Andrei often did the assignments for him ...
BackIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a hero who suffers from apathy towards life in general. The chapter of the novel, in which Goncharov describes Oblomov's dream, vividly characterizes this.
Writers usually use the genre of sleep to reveal the character of the hero. Goncharov used it to make the reader understand that “Oblomovism” is an acquired character trait; in childhood, the hero was energetic, full of hopes and desires. He clearly imagined his happy family, caring wife and happy kids.
In his dream, Oblomov appears before us as a seven-year-old boy, carefree and cheerfully running around on the lawn and dreaming of his bright future. Only the excessive care of the mother limits his freedom. The nanny constantly makes sure that the child is fed, is in the shade or is warmly dressed, etc. In the continuation of the dream, we see a thirteen-year-old teenager who does not really want to study, he likes his carefree existence, leaving his native nest does not please him. After all, instead of a nanny, he now always has a caring servant at hand, you just have to want something, the desire is immediately fulfilled, you should not make extra movements. While still a boy, he firmly understood why he should do something himself, when there are always nannies, aunts, and servants at hand. We can say that his initiative, to any action was ruined in early childhood. From a frisky, thinking child, a lazy, apathetic nobleman grows up.
From dreams, we understand that he inherited the features of his worthless, narrow-minded parents. The father did not delve into soybean business affairs, as a result of which he was easily robbed. Mother, apart from the menu, was not interested in anything, the farm was abandoned and was in severe decline and dilapidation.
Goncharov shows us life in the village of Oblomovka as if in a fairy tale. The huts are built in a special way, the sky is pressed low against the earth, as if carefully hugging it, the river runs effortlessly, even the sun does not leave immediately, but seems to return several times before leaving. Oblomovka appears before us as if an animated character. The main task of every Oblomov member is to eat well and sleep after eating. The sea is considered useless for a person, leading him to sadness. Mountains are solid abysses created for the death of man. The inhabitants of Oblomovka knew about Moscow and St. Petersburg, about the French and the Germans, and then everything was dark, dark and two-headed people. Everything that happens outside the village inspires pain and fear. Indicative is the picture in which the man brought the letter. They scold him terribly: “Why did you bring it. Then there's bad news." To which he strongly justifies himself: “Yes, I said, we are not ordered to take letters. What the soldier promised to complain to the authorities. I took it."
Oblomov's dream continues in reality. For every request of others for something, for every thought or desire, Ilya Ilyich has one excuse: "Not now." The attitude of the author to the protagonist of the novel is strictly contradictory. Then he shows him as sweet and good-natured in an ironic way, which causes a kind smile on the face of the reader. But sometimes his nature is shown as strictly contradictory, complex, tragic.
Option 2
The image of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov will remain in the reader's memory as an example of complete apathy and laziness.
The writer Goncharov very often portrays Oblomov in an ironic manner, but there are moments in the novel when Ilya Ilyich appears to the reader as a tragic and controversial figure. The character and habits of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov were formed under the influence of the environment. There is an episode in the work that perfectly proves this statement - this is the chapter "Oblomov's Dream".
Many writers very often appeal to the dream genre, as it reveals the character's inner world well. However, Goncharov uses this genre to show the origins of the character's character. The chapter "Oblomov's Dream" describes Oblomov's childhood in detail. The writer Goncharov shows that Oblomov's qualities such as apathy and indifference to the world, laziness, are acquired, not innate.
The chapter we are considering, "Oblomov's Dream," is an inserted episode, an extra-plot element. This chapter, although it has independence and completeness, does not affect the further development of the storyline. The chapter aims only to display in detail the character of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov.
In a dream, Ilya Oblomov initially sees himself as a seven-year-old boy. He frolics and plays, he is overcome by curiosity, he is drawn to everything that surrounds him, there is still no apathy that will overtake him later. Despite all this, the constant control of his mother with the nanny prevents him from fulfilling his desires. Only at a time when everyone fell asleep during the day, Ilya Oblomov gained freedom. His independent life began.
In the dream, Oblomov also appears as a boy of twelve or thirteen. He is no longer able to resist, the thought that he needs to live the way his parents live has firmly settled in his head. Ilya Oblomov does not want to study, because for this he has to leave his home. He cannot understand the value of studying. His mother was only worried about her child being always cheerful, fat and healthy. And other things were unimportant and absolutely did not affect the mother of Ilya Oblomov.
The writer Goncharov managed to write the chapter in such a way that the reader could fully experience the old, rural life. In any line of the chapter there is the sound of a folk dialect, a mournful song, everything in the chapter is like a fairy tale. In the native village of Ilya Oblomov, everything appears somehow alive and spiritual.
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In the first part of Goncharov's novel "" we get acquainted with the main character of the work. Oblomov was a prominent representative of the nobility of the mid-19th century. The writer shows us his main character as a person who has no meaning in life. Oblomov was very lazy, and his main occupation was lying on the couch. Ilya Ilyich spends his life in dreams, imagining himself a great man whom everyone loves and reveres. Less often, he dreams of a quiet life with a loving wife and children. One day Oblovom, reflecting on his existence, asked himself the question: “Why am I like this?”. But not finding an answer to the question posed, Ilya Ilyich plunges into a sweet dream. He dreams of his native Oblomovka.
Oblomov's dream can be divided into three parts. In the first part, we see the main character as a little boy of about seven years old. It is worth noting that little Ilyusha was a very lively, inquisitive and agile child. The boy grew up surrounded by care and supervision of nannies, who did not allow him to set foot and step on his own. Ilyusha was a very observant boy, he noticed every little thing. It was this observation of a measured and unhurried life that determined the character of the protagonist. It must be said that such an order of life was to Oblomov's liking, but such a life was full of shortcomings. Monotony and boredom cannot be an example to follow.
One of the most important occupations of the Oblomov family was eating. Food for them has become an integral ritual, repeated every day. As a rule, serfs prepared food, and Ilyusha's parents were engaged in the selection of products.
Goncharov ironically shows us the boy's parents. They, too, were not busy with anything, lived at the expense of their serfs and enjoyed every day they lived.
After dinner, the entire Oblomov estate fell into a dream, and then little Ilyusha had the opportunity to be independent.
The second part of the dream takes us to one of the winter evenings, when Oblomov's nanny told him fairy tales. Ilyusha was very fond of listening to the nurse's stories. Life in Oblomovka is measured, it seemed to him the continuation of a fairy tale. Over time, the fairy tale mixed up with the life of the already adult Ilya Ilyich, who remained a child who did not know how to live a real life.
The third part of Oblomov's dream shows us Ilya as a teenage boy. At that moment he was thirteen or fourteen years old. Not far from Oblomovka was the village of Verkhlevo. There he studied with a German named Stoltz. Together with Ilya, Stolz's son Andrey, who later became Oblomov's best friend, studied. Perhaps Stolz would have taught Ilyusha something, brought up a strong personality in him, but Verkhlevo was part of Oblomovka, and a slow and measured life also reigned there. Carefree pictures of the surrounding life gave a false idea of real life. All this, in the end, showed Ilyusha how to “correctly” live.
In addition, attention is drawn to the author's attitude to the events. On the one hand, he has a negative attitude towards the way of life of the Oblomov family, he condemns the behavior of Ilyusha's parents, who did not allow the boy to be independent. Ilyusha studied only for the sake of a certificate, and not for knowledge.
On the other hand, Goncharov also grew up in such a family. He describes with trepidation the childhood of the protagonist, because it reminded him of his childhood. But Goncharov managed to “escape” from such a “sleepy” life, he brought up strong character traits in himself and became a real person. And the small and inquisitive Ilyusha became a hostage to the environment, in which it was impossible to develop in a different direction.
The character Oblomov and the author Goncharov, who created this classic type, are fully conscious of what killed this hero, a man with a “pigeon soul”. The answer is “Oblomovism,” as Ilya Ilyich Oblomov explains to Olga who asked this question. But what is "Oblomovism"? Goncharov figured this out long before the end of his novel.
In 1849, that is, almost ten years before the appearance of the novel "Oblomov" in print, he published a large excerpt from it, entitled "Oblomov's Dream", in which he connected the phenomenon of Russian life under consideration with the social order prevailing in it, with nature and climate of the country, with the customs of its population. Let's deal with each of these factors separately.
The nature of that blessed corner of the earth where Oblomov spent his childhood knows "nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy." Peaceful nature corresponds to the climate. The annual circle is completed here correctly and calmly: winter, not interrupted by thaws, lasts just as long as it needs; spring comes amicably, and during it you can not be afraid of sudden blizzards; in the summer there are almost three months of clear days, the rays of the sun only slightly burn, but do not scorch with unbearable heat. About terrible storms and do not hear at all. An enthusiastic dreamer and poet, perhaps, will yearn for this area. Meanwhile, in a quiet life, Oblomov's ideal lies precisely.
The silence and peace that reigned in nature extended to the mores of the population. The interests of the inhabitants were entirely focused on themselves, since there were no relations with the population of other areas. The disappearance of a piglet or chicken was treated as an event of national importance. Comparative material security, which guaranteed a piece of daily bread, developed a striking carelessness. The living embodiment of such carelessness is the peasant Onisim Suslov, whose hut has been hanging over the ravine since time immemorial, threatening to fall every minute. It would seem that the chicken is afraid to enter it, but Onesimus does not think about the danger.
The customs of the surrounding population were also transferred to the inhabitants of the Oblomov estate, which created the good-natured and apathetic Ilya Ilyich. Food and sleep with complete idleness - such is the life of Oblomov's parents and all his household members. The whole house consulted about dinner: everyone offered his own menu, even an elderly aunt was invited to the council. After dinner came a dream, during which there was not a single waking soul in the house. The predominance of physical needs, such as food and sleep, led to the fact that the mental demands faded and, finally, completely disappeared. The underdevelopment of the "Oblomovites" reached colossal limits: for example, except for the old man Oblomov, everyone confused both the names of the months and the order of numbers; but they knew a great many signs of all sorts and slavishly believed in them. There was absolutely nothing for the Oblomovites to talk to each other about, since, according to the author's ironic conclusion, their mental treasures were mutually exhausted, and they received little news. No matter how miserable and miserable such a life is, they did not want another, because another life would be associated with diversity, change and accidents, and the inhabitants of the Oblomov estate were afraid of this, like fire. How great was their fear of any news, shows the episode with the receipt of the letter, an extraordinary event in Oblomov's life.
The picture of their life will be quite complete if we add that among the Oblomovites there was not even a serious interest in the economy. They took up the repair of a building that had fallen into disrepair no sooner than it was caused by extreme necessity. The bridge, for example, was fixed only when Antip fell off it into a ditch along with his horse and barrel. There is no need to prove that such a well-fed and idle life was possible only during serfdom, when everything was paid for and paid for by the work of “three hundred Zakharovs”.
This is the environment in which the childhood years of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov passed. The author strongly emphasizes that this environment should have had a huge impact on the formation of the mental and moral being of the hero. Suffice it to recall the upbringing of little Ilyusha in his parents' house. From birth, an old devoted nanny was assigned to him, whose duties included “looking after” the child. Watching this consisted in a tireless struggle with manifestations of liveliness and independence in the character of the boy. The nanny could not influence the mental development of the child. And she fed his imagination only with her tales of good fellows who were very similar to Ilya Ilyich, which soften their pride.
In most fairy tales, a kind sorceress appeared who patronized her pet and, in the end, married him to an unheard-of beauty, Militrisa Kirbityevna. Little Ilyusha, under the impression of such fairy tales, began to be drawn to a wonderful land where he did not have to work and where his own Militris was waiting for him. The influence of the parents not only was not a counterbalance to the influence of the nanny, but, on the contrary, strengthened it. Ilyusha's mother gave the child to the old woman only in part: she, in her free time from household worries, made sure that the sun did not bake her son's head, so that he would not run away into a ravine and the like. Even more than the nanny, the mother pampered the child's pride: not embarrassed by the presence of her son, she loved to talk with the household about his future, and she made him the hero of some brilliant epic she created.
When Ilya Ilyich became a youth from a child, the basis of his upbringing changed little, despite the fact that instead of a nanny, the serf boy Zakharka was now always with him. Ilyusha has just woken up, Zakharka is already standing by the bed and, as a nanny used to, pulls on his stockings, puts on his shoes, and Ilyusha, already a boy of fourteen, only knows that he is offering him one or the other leg. And not only Zakharka is at his disposal, he has only to blink - already three or four servants rush to fulfill his desire. It is not surprising that Ilyusha, like a greenhouse plant, grew slowly and sluggishly. The only thing that could overcome the influence of such an upbringing was the teaching at the boarding school of the efficient and energetic German Stolz, who managed the neighboring estate.
Stolz immediately entered into a stubborn struggle with the education system of the Oblomovites, who, having agreed to subject Ilyusha to school only because without him it was impossible to achieve the embroidered uniform of an official, in every possible way opposed Stolz in his attempts to subject the boy to the strict regime of his boarding school. German perseverance, perhaps, would have overcome the influence of the Oblomovites on Ilyusha, if the latter had not found an ally in the person of Stolz's son, Andrei, who became so attached to Ilyusha that he did translations for him and suggested lessons to him. This relieved Ilyusha of the need to work, and labor was the only means of combating the "Oblomovism".
The influence of the latter was intensified by the fact that Ilya Ilyich, who had observed serfdom since childhood, in which such a sharp line was drawn between “people” and “masters” that a yard boy for complaining about Ilyusha’s ill-treatment received mallets instead of fair satisfaction, felt himself a baron. In this regard, his quarrel with Zakhar, who dared to say that since "others are changing apartments, why not Ilya Ilyich, too, is extremely characteristic." Oblomov came into the greatest indignation and smashed Zakhar:
“The other one works tirelessly,” he says, “runs around, fusses, he won’t work, he won’t eat, the other bows, the other asks, humiliates himself. And I? Well, decide, what do you think, the other one is me, huh?.. Do I rush around, do I work? I don't eat much, do I? Skinny or pathetic looking? Am I missing something? It seems to file, do there is anyone? I have never pulled a stocking over my legs, as I live, thank God. Will I worry? From what to me? And to whom am I saying this? Haven't you followed me since childhood? You know all this, you saw that I was brought up tenderly, that I did not endure cold or hunger, did not know the need, did not earn bread for myself, and in general did not do dirty work.
Oblomov's consciousness darkened so much that pride appeared from the advantage of doing nothing. Oblomov is indignant at the mere comparison of him with others.
Serfdom was the foundation of such a life. Zahars and hundreds of Zahars made it unnecessary to display their own initiative, their own activity. There was no need for a life struggle. Hence - complete helplessness, fear of life.
Output:
Goncharov is a great master of the episode, revealing the true essence of the hero's character. Oblomov's dream is the writer's desire to penetrate the secret of the soul, fully reveal the image, analyze the actions of the hero, show his worldview. Sleep is a special state of man. The feelings experienced during a dream-vision are of particular significance: they exactly translate the feelings that a person experiences in real life. The comprehensive picture of the dream shows the collective image of Oblomovka, this society in which there is no place for everything active, progressive, thinking. Oblomov's dream is a key event, an example of an episode, this is the line beyond which a true understanding of the novel begins.
Article outline
I. Introduction
The time of the appearance of the excerpt "Oblomov's Dream".
Its place in the novel
II. Main part
Oblomov as the cause of "Oblomovism".
a) Nature:
- the absence of "grand, wild and gloomy",
- lack of struggle with nature,
- lack of poetic impressions.
b) climate.
c) The morals of the population:
- pettiness
- limited interests
- carelessness
- no accidents.
d) Homestead:
- the predominance of physical needs,
- underdevelopment
- fear of change
- attitude to the economy,
- its reasons.
e) The influence of Oblomovka on Oblomov.
- childhood,
- adolescence.
III. Conclusion. Oblomov and others.
