Oblomov: why is it bad to lie under a blanket all your life? Why Olga fell in love with Oblomov, and married Stolz.
- seemed the natural ending of Goncharov's novel. But everything turned out differently. Therefore, not all readers understand why Olga fell in love with Oblomov, but married another person?
Olga's characteristic
Possessing an inner core and a constant thirst for self-development, the girl occupied her. Her inner beauty - tenderness, openness, ingenuousness, prudence, nobility - was in harmony with her external data. She was by nature carried away, so she gave herself up to this feeling with her head.
She amazed those around her with her brilliant mind, female grace and ability to keep herself in society. With her lively, real character, she was so different from the flirtatious girls of that time.
Oblomov's personality
Ilya Ilyich was a small landowner who could not adapt to life in big city, and all dreamed of returning to his family estate - the village of Oblomovka. Homemade warm pies from the oven, raspberry jam and pickles from the barrel - this was his model of happiness. Therefore, Oblomov spent almost all his time in daydreams and dreams of a future quiet life in his village. He was not interested in anything else.
Their acquaintance was organized by Stolz in order to pull his old childhood friend out of eternal slumber. He believed that the young, confident and purposeful Olga would captivate the dreamy master, encourage him to think, do things, develop, in a word, get off the couch in the literal and figurative sense.
Girls sometimes tend to sculpt men for themselves, and Olga was no exception. But all this looked more like a creative experiment, and not love in true sense this word.
“I love the future Oblomov,” she said, meaning that she expects an internal revolution from him. She longed for her chosen one to become taller than her, as if she expected to see Ilya Ilyich on a pedestal and only then give herself to him as a well-deserved reward.
As far as Oblomov was lazy and passive, Olga was also active. Young people were complete opposites of each other. Therefore, it is all the more difficult to understand why Olga Ilyinskaya fell in love with Oblomov. She was attracted, most likely, by his purity of soul, naivety and sensuality. Twenty-year-old girls love romantics, and Ilya Ilyich was such. She really prompted him to life, and for a while he almost lived up to her ideal.
Parting of Ilyinskaya and Oblomov
They even planned to get married. But here Ilya Ilyich's indecision and inertness affected: he kept postponing the wedding. She soon realized that they still have radically different views on life, and therefore deliberately left him.
He preferred not to be the leader, but the follower. In their relationship, almost everything suited him, he would gladly put the reins of government in Olga's hands. Perhaps another woman would take it as a gift of fate, but not her. Why did Olga fall in love with Oblomov not entirely and completely, but only some of his character traits? Because for her, who was in such a hurry to live, it was unacceptable to put up with eternal lying on the sofa. She wanted to see a man next to her who surpassed her in almost everything. At the same time, Ilyinskaya realized that Oblomov would never be like that.
Love or something else?
Their connection was more similar to that of a teacher and a student. It was the sculptor's love for his creation. Only Galatea in this case was Ilya Ilyich. Ilyinskaya admired the results she achieved in re-educating his personality, and she mistakenly perceived this feeling as something more than compassion or pity.
Andrei was a practical and proactive person, he knew how to adapt to life, in contrast to her previous lover. A marriage to Stolz would guarantee stability for her. Although Olga cannot be accused of selfishness in relation to Andrei. No, she would never allow guile or insincerity.
Arises logical question: why Olga Ilyinskaya fell in love with Oblomov, but did not become his wife? Was it blasphemous or hypocritical on her part? Not at all. Her feelings were long gone. A year has passed since parting with Ilya Ilyich. She realized that she was looking for a reliable life companion, and not a dreamer hovering in the clouds. This was very sensible of her. Andrei strove to support his beloved in everything and could give her everything she wanted. He was head and shoulders above her at the beginning of their relationship, so he played the role of mentor and teacher of life. True, over time, his wife grew into spiritual development and by the strength of feelings, and by the depth of reflection.
It would seem that the union of two people with very similar values and attitudes should be just perfect.
Family life with Andrey
Was she happily married? It seems that rather yes than no.At least, all the components of happiness were in place: children, cozy family nest, intelligent husband, confidence in tomorrow... But sometimes there were difficult moments. The fact is that her marriage with Andrei was influenced by a cold mind rather than warm feelings. And she expected a little more from this union: Olga was very eager to develop as a person, to grow, to realize herself. But, unfortunately, marriage for a woman in the century before last was the last step and the ultimate dream. Therefore, sometimes Olga had periods of depression.
Family life of the Stolz family was deprived of the stormy passion, sensuality to which the soul of Ilyinskaya so yearned. Andrey was a cold-blooded and calculating person. He inherited these qualities from his German father. Their mutual decision to unite their fates was dictated by a cold mind, not fiery feelings. Sometimes she recalled with quiet sadness Ilya Ilyich, who had a "heart of gold." That is why Olga fell in love with Oblomov, and not Stolz from the very beginning.
Oddly enough, but their quiet, stable family life with Andrei increasingly began to remind the woman of that "Oblomovism" that she and her current husband wanted to eradicate from Ilya Ilyich. Stolz himself did not see a problem in this, on the contrary, he believed that this was such a temporary stage in their life, a side effect of creating a cozy nest, and Olga's apathy should go away by itself. True, at times he was frightened by the dark abyss of her restless soul. After living with Stolz for three years, she sometimes began to feel that marriage was limiting her.
So, why did Olga fall in love with Oblomov? In the novel Oblomov, Goncharov explains this by her belief that best qualities Ilya Ilyich will take the mountain over his laziness and he will become an active and active person. But, unfortunately, she had to be disappointed.
Introduction
Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" is iconic work Russian literature of the 19th century, describing the characteristic Russian society the phenomenon of "Oblomovism". A bright representative in the book of this social trend is Ilya Oblomov - a native of a family of landowners, whose family life was a reflection of the rules and regulations of Domostroy. Developing in such an atmosphere, the hero gradually absorbed the values and priorities of his parents, which greatly influenced the formation of his personality. a brief description of Oblomov in the novel "Oblomov" is given by the author at the beginning of the work - this is an apathetic, introverted, dreamy man who prefers to live his life in dreams and illusions, presenting and experiencing fictional pictures so vividly that he can sometimes sincerely rejoice or cry from those scenes that are born in his mind. Oblomov's internal softness and sensuality seemed to be reflected in his appearance: all his movements, even in moments of anxiety, were restrained by external softness, grace and delicacy, excessive for a man. The hero was flabby beyond his years, had soft shoulders and small plump hands, and a sedentary and inactive lifestyle was read in his sleepy look, in which there was no concentration or some basic idea.
Oblomov's life
As if a continuation of the soft, apathetic, lazy Oblomov, the novel describes the life of the hero. At first glance, his room was beautifully decorated: “There was a mahogany bureau, two sofas upholstered with silk fabric, beautiful screens with embroidered birds and fruits unprecedented in nature. There were silk curtains, carpets, several paintings, bronze, porcelain and many beautiful little things. " However, if you look closer, you can see cobwebs, dusty mirrors and long-opened and forgotten books, stains on carpets, uncleaned household items, bread crumbs and even a forgotten plate with a gnawed bone. All this made the hero's room unkempt, abandoned, gave the impression that no one had lived here for a long time: the owners had long since left their homes, not having had time to clean up. To some extent, this was true: Oblomov had not lived in the real world for a long time, replacing it with an illusory world. This is especially clearly seen in the episode when his acquaintances come to the hero, but Ilya Ilyich does not even bother to stretch out his hand to greet them, and, moreover, get out of bed to meet the visitors. The bed in this case (like the dressing gown) is the borderline between the world of dreams and reality, that is, getting out of bed, Oblomov to some extent would agree to live in the real dimension, but the hero did not want this.
The influence of "Oblomovism" on Oblomov's personality
The origins of Oblomov's all-encompassing escapism, his irresistible desire to escape from reality, lie in the "Oblomov" upbringing of the hero, about which the reader learns from the description of Ilya Ilyich's dream. The character's native estate, Oblomovka, was located far from the central part of Russia, located in a picturesque, peaceful area, where there have never been strong storms or hurricanes, and the climate was calm and mild. Life in the village was measured, and time was measured not by seconds and minutes, but by holidays and ceremonies - births, weddings or funerals. The monotonous quiet nature also reflected on the character of Oblomovka residents - the most important value for them was rest, laziness and the opportunity to eat well. Labor was viewed as a punishment and people tried in every possible way to avoid it, to delay the moment of work, or to force someone else to do it.
It is noteworthy that the characterization of Oblomov's hero in childhood differs significantly from the image that appears to readers at the beginning of the novel. Little Ilya was an active child with a wonderful imagination, interested in many people and open to the world. He liked to walk and explore the surrounding nature, but the rules of Oblomov's life did not imply his freedom, so his parents gradually re-educated him in their own image and likeness, growing him as a “greenhouse plant”, protecting him from the hardships of the outside world, the need to work and learn new things. Even the fact that they gave Ilya to study was more a tribute to fashion than a real necessity, because for any slightest reason they themselves left their son at home. As a result, the hero grew up, as if closed from society, not wanting to work and relying in everything on the fact that with the emergence of any difficulties it would be possible to shout "Zakhar" and the servant would come and do everything for him.
The reasons for Oblomov's desire to get away from reality
The description of Oblomov, the hero of Goncharov's novel, gives a vivid idea of Ilya Ilyich, as a person who was firmly fenced off from the real world and internally unwilling to change. The reasons for this lie in Oblomov's childhood. Little Ilya was very fond of listening to tales and legends about great heroes and heroes that the nanny told him, and then imagine himself as one of such characters - a person in whose life a miracle will happen at one moment, which will change the current state of affairs and make the hero a cut above others. However, fairy tales are significantly different from life, where miracles do not happen by themselves, and in order to achieve success in society and a career, you must constantly work, step over the falls and persistently move forward.
Greenhouse education, where Oblomov was taught that someone else would do all the work for him, combined with the dreamy, sensual nature of the hero, led to the inability of Ilya Ilyich to deal with difficulties. This feature of Oblomov manifested itself even at the moment of the first failure in the service - the hero, fearing punishment (although, perhaps, no one would have punished him, and the matter would have been decided by a banal warning), he quits his job and does not want to face a world where everyone for himself. An alternative to harsh reality for the hero is the world of his dreams, where he imagines a wonderful future in Oblomovka, his wife and children, a pacifying calmness that reminds him of his own childhood. However, all these dreams remain only dreams, in reality Ilya Ilyich puts off the issues of arrangement in every possible way home village, which, without the participation of a reasonable owner, is gradually destroyed.
Why didn't Oblomov find himself in real life?
The only person who could get Oblomov out of his constant half-asleep idleness was the hero's childhood friend, Andrei Ivanovich Stolts. He represented complete opposite Ilya Ilyich external description, and in character. Always active, striving forward, able to achieve any goals, Andrei Ivanovich still treasured his friendship with Oblomov, since in communication with him he found that warmth and understanding that he really lacked in his environment.
Stolz was most fully aware of the destructive influence of "Oblomovism" on Ilya Ilyich, therefore, before last moment, with all his might tried to pull it out in real life... Once Andrei Ivanovich almost succeeded when he introduced Oblomov to Ilyinskaya. But Olga, in her desire to change the personality of Ilya Ilyich, was driven exclusively by her own egoism, and not by an altruistic desire to help a loved one. At the moment of parting, the girl tells Oblomov that she could not bring him back to life, because he was already dead. On the one hand, this is so, the hero was too deeply immersed in "Oblomovism", and in order to change his attitude towards life, it took inhuman efforts and patience. On the other hand, active, purposeful by nature, Ilyinskaya did not understand that Ilya Ilyich needed time to transform, and he could not change himself and his life with one jerk. The break with Olga became for Oblomov an even greater failure than a mistake in the service, so he finally plunges into the networks of “Oblomovism”, leaves the real world, not wanting to experience mental pain anymore.
Conclusion
The author's characteristic of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, despite the fact that the hero is central character, is ambiguous. Goncharov exposes both his positive traits (kindness, tenderness, sensuality, the ability to experience and sympathize) and negative (laziness, apathy, unwillingness to decide anything on his own, refusal of self-development), depicting a multifaceted personality in front of the reader, which can cause both sympathy and disgust. At the same time, Ilya Ilyich is undoubtedly one of the most accurate depictions of a truly Russian person, his nature and character traits. This particular ambiguity and versatility of Oblomov's image allows even modern readers to discover something important for themselves in the novel, posing those eternal questions that Goncharov raised in the novel.
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Lying down with Ilya Ilyich was neither a necessity, like a patient's or like a person who wants to sleep, nor an accident, like someone who is tired, nor pleasure, like a lazy one: this was his normal state.
I. A. Goncharov. Oblomov
The novel by I. A. Goncharov "Oblomov" was written in the pre-reform period. In it, the author, with objective accuracy and completeness, depicted the Russian life of the first half of the XIX century. The plot of the novel is life path Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, from childhood until his death. The main theme of the novel is Oblomovism - a way of life, a life ideology; it is apathy, passivity, isolation from reality, contemplation of life around him; but the main thing is lack of labor, practical inactivity.
The concept of "Oblomovism" is by no means applicable to Oblomovka alone with its inhabitants; it is a "reflection of Russian life", a key to unraveling many of its phenomena. In the 19th century, the life of many Russian landowners was analogous to the life of the Oblomovites, and therefore Oblomovism can be called the "dominant disease" of that time. The essence of Oblomovism is revealed by Goncharov through the depiction of Oblomov's life, most which the hero spends lying on the couch, dreaming and making all kinds of plans. What prevents him from getting off this couch?
In my opinion, the main reason for Oblomov's inaction is his social status... He is a landowner, and this frees him from many activities. He is a master, he doesn't have to do anything - the servants will do everything for him. Ilya Ilyich never even had the desire to do something on his own, although one should not blame him for this, since this is a consequence of his upbringing. And the upbringing, the atmosphere in which little Oblomov grew up, played a huge role in the formation of his character and worldview.
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov was born in Oblomovka - this "blessed corner of the earth" where "there is nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy", there are "no terrible storms, no destruction", where deep silence, peace and imperturbable calm prevail. Life in Oblomovka was monotonous, here they were terribly afraid of any changes. In the Oblomov estate, the noon "all-consuming, unconquerable sleep, a true semblance of death" was traditional. And little Ilyusha grew up in this atmosphere, he was surrounded by care and attention from all sides: his mother, nanny and all the numerous retinue of the Oblomov house showered the boy with affection and praise. The slightest attempt by Ilyusha to do anything on his own was immediately suppressed: he was often forbidden to run anywhere, at the age of fourteen he was not even able to dress himself. And Ilyusha's teachings from Stolz can hardly be called such. The parents found the most varied reasons for the boy not to go to school, even ridiculous and ridiculous.
Thus, living in such a house and in such an environment, Ilya Ilyich became more and more “saturated” with Oblomovism, and the ideal of life was gradually formed in his consciousness. Already an adult Oblomov was inherent, in my opinion, somewhat childish daydreaming. Life in dreams seemed to him calm, measured, stable, and the beloved woman - in her qualities more like a mother - loving, caring, sympathetic. Oblomov was so immersed in the world of his dreams that he completely broke away from reality, which he was unable to accept. ("Where is the man here? Where is his wholeness? Where did he hide, how did he exchange for every little thing?")
So, Oblomov does not accept the reality, it scares him. Does Ilya Ilyich have a specific goal in life, if not counting that Oblomov idyll? No. Does he have any business to which he would completely devote himself? Also no. This means that there is no need to get up from the couch.
Oblomovshchina completely absorbed Ilya Ilyich, who surrounded him in childhood, she did not leave him until his death. But Oblomov is a man with a "pure, faithful heart", with a harmonious, whole, sublime, poetic soul in which "it will always be clean, bright, honest", there are few such people; these are "pearls in the crowd". But Oblomov did not find an application for his enormous moral, spiritual potential, he turned out to be a "superfluous person", he was corrupted by the very possibility of doing nothing. It seems to me that if it were not for the upbringing that gave rise to Oblomov's inability to work, this person could have become a poet or writer, maybe a teacher or a revolutionary. But, in any case, he would benefit others, he would not have lived his life in vain. But, as Ilya Ilyich himself says, Oblomovism ruined him, it was she who did not allow him to get up from the couch, start a new, full-fledged life.
Introduction
Goncharov's novel Oblomov is a landmark work of Russian literature of the 19th century, describing the phenomenon of Oblomovism, characteristic of Russian society. A striking representative of this social trend in the book is Ilya Oblomov, who comes from a family of landowners, whose family way was a reflection of the rules and regulations of Domostroi. Developing in such an atmosphere, the hero gradually absorbed the values and priorities of his parents, which greatly influenced the formation of his personality. A brief description of Oblomov in the novel "Oblomov" is given by the author at the beginning of the work - this is an apathetic, introverted, dreamy man who prefers to live his life in dreams and illusions, presenting and experiencing fictional pictures so vividly that he can sometimes sincerely rejoice or cry from those scenes that are born in his mind. Oblomov's internal softness and sensuality seemed to be reflected in his appearance: all his movements, even in moments of anxiety, were restrained by external softness, grace and delicacy, excessive for a man. The hero was flabby beyond his years, had soft shoulders and small plump hands, and a sedentary and inactive lifestyle was read in his sleepy gaze, which lacked any concentration or some basic idea.
Oblomov's life
As if a continuation of the soft, apathetic, lazy Oblomov, the novel describes the life of the hero. At first glance, his room was beautifully decorated: “There was a mahogany bureau, two sofas upholstered with silk fabric, beautiful screens with embroidered birds and fruits unprecedented in nature. There were silk curtains, carpets, several paintings, bronze, porcelain and many beautiful little things. " However, if you look closer, you can see cobwebs, dusty mirrors and long-opened and forgotten books, stains on carpets, uncleaned household items, bread crumbs and even a forgotten plate with a gnawed bone. All this made the hero's room unkempt, abandoned, gave the impression that no one had lived here for a long time: the owners had long since left their homes, not having had time to clean up. To some extent, this was true: Oblomov had not lived in the real world for a long time, replacing it with an illusory world. This is especially clearly seen in the episode when his acquaintances come to the hero, but Ilya Ilyich does not even bother to stretch out his hand to greet them, and, moreover, get out of bed to meet the visitors. The bed in this case (like the dressing gown) is the borderline between the world of dreams and reality, that is, getting out of bed, Oblomov to some extent would agree to live in the real dimension, but the hero did not want this.
The influence of "Oblomovism" on Oblomov's personality
The origins of Oblomov's all-encompassing escapism, his irresistible desire to escape from reality, lie in the "Oblomov" upbringing of the hero, about which the reader learns from the description of Ilya Ilyich's dream. The character's native estate, Oblomovka, was located far from the central part of Russia, located in a picturesque, peaceful area, where there have never been strong storms or hurricanes, and the climate was calm and mild. Life in the village was measured, and time was measured not by seconds and minutes, but by holidays and ceremonies - births, weddings or funerals. The monotonous quiet nature also reflected on the character of Oblomovka residents - the most important value for them was rest, laziness and the opportunity to eat well. Labor was viewed as a punishment and people tried in every possible way to avoid it, to delay the moment of work, or to force someone else to do it.
It is noteworthy that the characterization of Oblomov's hero in childhood differs significantly from the image that appears to readers at the beginning of the novel. Little Ilya was an active child with a wonderful imagination, interested in many people and open to the world. He liked to walk and explore the surrounding nature, but the rules of Oblomov's life did not imply his freedom, so his parents gradually re-educated him in their own image and likeness, growing him as a “greenhouse plant”, protecting him from the hardships of the outside world, the need to work and learn new things. Even the fact that they gave Ilya to study was more a tribute to fashion than a real necessity, because for any slightest reason they themselves left their son at home. As a result, the hero grew up, as if closed from society, not wanting to work and relying in everything on the fact that with the emergence of any difficulties it would be possible to shout "Zakhar" and the servant would come and do everything for him.
The reasons for Oblomov's desire to get away from reality
The description of Oblomov, the hero of Goncharov's novel, gives a vivid idea of Ilya Ilyich as a person who is firmly fenced off from the real world and does not internally want to change. The reasons for this lie in Oblomov's childhood. Little Ilya was very fond of listening to tales and legends about great heroes and heroes that the nanny told him, and then imagine himself as one of such characters - a person in whose life a miracle will happen at one moment, which will change the current state of affairs and make the hero a cut above others. However, fairy tales are significantly different from life, where miracles do not happen by themselves, and in order to achieve success in society and a career, you must constantly work, step over the falls and persistently move forward.
Greenhouse education, where Oblomov was taught that someone else would do all the work for him, combined with the dreamy, sensual nature of the hero, led to the inability of Ilya Ilyich to deal with difficulties. This feature of Oblomov manifested itself even at the moment of the first failure in the service - the hero, fearing punishment (although, perhaps, no one would have punished him, and the matter would have been decided by a banal warning), he quits his job and does not want to face a world where everyone for himself. An alternative to harsh reality for the hero is the world of his dreams, where he imagines a wonderful future in Oblomovka, his wife and children, a pacifying calmness that reminds him of his own childhood. However, all these dreams remain only dreams; in reality, Ilya Ilyich in every possible way postpones the issues of arranging his native village, which, without the participation of a reasonable owner, is gradually being destroyed.
Why didn't Oblomov find himself in real life?
The only person who could get Oblomov out of his constant half-asleep idleness was the hero's childhood friend, Andrei Ivanovich Stolts. He was the complete opposite of Ilya Ilyich, both in external description and in character. Always active, striving forward, able to achieve any goals, Andrei Ivanovich still treasured his friendship with Oblomov, since in communication with him he found that warmth and understanding that he really lacked in his environment.
Stolz was most fully aware of the destructive influence of "Oblomovism" on Ilya Ilyich, therefore, until the last moment, he tried with all his might to pull him out into real life. Once Andrei Ivanovich almost succeeded when he introduced Oblomov to Ilyinskaya. But Olga, in her desire to change the personality of Ilya Ilyich, was driven exclusively by her own egoism, and not by an altruistic desire to help a loved one. At the moment of parting, the girl tells Oblomov that she could not bring him back to life, because he was already dead. On the one hand, this is so, the hero was too deeply immersed in "Oblomovism", and in order to change his attitude towards life, it took inhuman efforts and patience. On the other hand, active, purposeful by nature, Ilyinskaya did not understand that Ilya Ilyich needed time to transform, and he could not change himself and his life with one jerk. The break with Olga became for Oblomov an even greater failure than a mistake in the service, so he finally plunges into the networks of “Oblomovism”, leaves the real world, not wanting to experience mental pain anymore.
Conclusion
The author's description of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, despite the fact that the hero is the central character, is ambiguous. Goncharov exposes both his positive traits (kindness, tenderness, sensuality, the ability to experience and sympathize) and negative (laziness, apathy, unwillingness to decide anything on his own, refusal of self-development), depicting a multifaceted personality in front of the reader, which can cause both sympathy and disgust. At the same time, Ilya Ilyich is undoubtedly one of the most accurate depictions of a truly Russian person, his nature and character traits. This particular ambiguity and versatility of Oblomov's image allows even modern readers to discover something important for themselves in the novel, posing those eternal questions that Goncharov raised in the novel.
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Oblomov and Stolz are the main characters of the novel by I.A. Goncharova - people of the same class, society, time, they are friends. It would seem that formed in the same environment, their characters, worldview should be similar. In fact, these heroes are antipodes. Who is he, Stolz, who is not satisfied with Oblomov's lifestyle and who is trying to change him?
Andrei's father, a German by birth, was the manager of a wealthy estate, and his mother, an impoverished Russian noblewoman, once served as a governess in wealthy houses. Therefore, Stolz, having received a German upbringing, possessed great practical ingenuity and industriousness, and from his mother he inherited a love for music, poetry, and literature. All days in the family were spent at work. When Andrei grew up, his father began to take him to the field, to the market. The boy studied well, his father taught him sciences, German and made him a tutor in his little boarding house, even laying down his salary. Quite early, the father began to send his son to the city with errands, "and it never happened that he forgot something, altered, overlooked, or made a mistake." His father taught him to rely primarily on himself, explained that the main thing in life is money, rigor and accuracy.
For Stolz, work has become not just a part of life, but a pleasure. By the age of thirty, he, an extremely purposeful and strong-willed person, retired, made a house and a fortune. Stolz is constantly busy with something: he works a lot, travels. "It is all composed of bones, muscles and nerves, like a blood English horse." In a way, the perfect hero. Here are just "a dream, mysterious, mysterious had no place in his soul." Stolz "did not get sick of the soul, never got lost in difficult, difficult or new circumstances, but approached them as if they were former acquaintances, as if he lived a second time, passed familiar places." And one more thing - Stolz is calm all the time, he is happy with his life.
Any person usually manifests itself vividly in love. Stolz was hardly disturbed by love. Here, too, he acts rationally, "falling in love" with Olga. The family life of Andrey and Olga, correct and boring, does not evoke any emotions when reading. The writer himself seemed to be bored of the life of this exemplary bourgeois family. And although both heroes diligently engage themselves in various practical activities, traveling, reading and discussing books, playing music, their life, it must be admitted, takes on colors only when it comes into contact with Oblomov's life.
Why didn't Stolz manage to change the lifestyle of his friend and antipode Oblomov? And who is he who withstood the pressure of Stolz? A Russian gentleman, who at the time of our acquaintance was about thirty-two or three years old, "of a pleasant appearance, with dark-gray eyes, but with the absence of any definite idea, any concentration in the features of his face." Inertia, apathy, fear of any activity - this is the result of upbringing, when a boy is raised like an "exotic flower in a greenhouse", is not allowed to take a step on his own, pamper and pamper beyond measure. Learning makes him yearning, and with the approval of his mother, classes are skipped at every opportunity.
The grown-up Oblomov's favorite pastime is lying on the couch in empty dreams and a sweet dream. For the weak-willed Ilya Ilyich, life was divided into two halves: one consisted of labor and boredom - these were his synonyms; the other is out of peace and peaceful fun. The service was unpleasant to him, and he retired very quickly. He can afford it: in addition to the servant Zakhar, he has 350 serf souls at his disposal, who work for him. And if things are going badly on the estate, it is only because of Oblomov's unwillingness and inability to manage the estate. He suffers from the knowledge that he does not have the strength and will, but he himself cannot, and does not really strive, to budge and asks his active childhood friend Stolz to help him: “Give me your will and mind and lead me wherever you want".
Having once pulled Oblomov into the light, Stolz hears from a friend: “Boredom, boredom, boredom! .. Where is the man here? Where is his wholeness? Where did he hide, how did he exchange for every little thing? " These words directly apply to Stolz as well. His ability to be everywhere is already an almost inhuman ability. He "learned Europe as his own estate", traveled across Russia "far and wide." The circle of his acquaintances is motley: there are some barons, princes, bankers, gold miners. Everything enterprising people who consider "work" to be the goal of their lives.
What should Oblomov do in this company? What is he for Stolz: a tribute to childhood friendship, or some kind of outlet, or just an object for listening to his moral teachings? And then, and another, and the third. A lazy man, but smart, Oblomov does not at all want to become like Stolz.
Stolz introduces Oblomov to Olga Ilyinskaya, and when leaving abroad, "he bequeathed Oblomov to her, asked to look after him, to prevent him from staying at home." So Olga enters the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Not a beauty, "but if she were turned into a statue, she would be a statue of grace and harmony." She has intelligence and determination to defend the right to her life position... And Oblomov, seeing in her the absence of artificiality, beauty not frozen, but alive, took Olga as a dream come true.
What attracts Olga to Oblomov? She sees in him the absence of cynicism, the ability to doubt and sympathy. She appreciates his intelligence, simplicity, gullibility, the absence of those secular conventions that are alien to her. Olga wants to help this painfully incapable of action person. She dreams that "will show him the goal, make him fall in love with everything that he has stopped loving ...". She likes to be aware of herself in the role of an "educator": after all, she, a woman, leads a man! Love will become her duty. To fall in love in order to re-educate, "for ideological reasons" - this has never happened in Russian literature. Olga's love is a kind of experiment.
Such is Olga Ilyinskaya in her love, but what about Oblomov? The further the relations of young people develop, the more sincere he becomes. The very way of his life is changing: he goes to visit the Ilyinsky with pleasure, listens to Olga's singing spellbound, walks a lot and for a long time, he does not eat dinner and has forgotten about the afternoon nap. He is ashamed in front of himself for not reading - he takes up books. Oblomov suddenly realizes the uselessness, purposelessness of his existence.
As with any lover, with him is always the image of the beloved. “And Oblomov, as soon as he wakes up in the morning, the first image in the imagination is the image of Olga, full-length, with a branch of lilac in his hands. He fell asleep thinking about her, went for a walk, read - she is here, here. " He was watching his clothes now. The carelessness left him the moment she sang for him for the first time. "He already lived not the same life ..." He concludes: "Love is a pre-difficult school of life."
But young people are not destined to be happy, because Olga loves Oblomov not as he is, but as she wants to make him. The parting of the heroes is agonizing. Why didn't their relationship work out? Because both expect the impossible from each other. So this approach of Stolz to Oblomov turned out to be ineffective.
It is known that Goncharov several times defined the genre of his novel as a fairy tale. If Oblomov is a big fairy tale, then Oblomov's Dream should be considered its core - a figurative and semantic key to understanding the character of the hero portrayed by Goncharov, a story about the hero's childhood in the fabulously real Oblomovka.
By the degree of its closeness, Oblomovka can compete with any enchanted, enchanted kingdom. How many people come and come to it during Ilya Ilyich's long sleep? We have almost no one to remember, except that a funny episode with a sleeping man, whom children find in a ditch and mistake for a werewolf. The appearance of this stranger shocked even the grown-up Oblomovites so much that they did not dare to wake him up to find out where he came from and why.
But if it is difficult to come or come to Oblomovka, then leaving its limits is an action even more impossible for its inhabitants. Where? What for? As you might expect, the Oblomovites' ideas about the land are quite fabulous: “they heard that there is Moscow and St. Petersburg, that the French or Germans live behind St. the dark world, unknown countries, inhabited by monsters, people with two heads, giants; there followed darkness - and, finally, everything ended with the fish that holds the earth on it. "
But all this is somewhere far away. And Oblomovka slept, and will continue to sleep peacefully. Goncharov describes how sweetly Oblomov people know how to sleep: they sleep, doze, dreamers are dying in oblivion and unearthly bliss. Even the air is asleep, because it "hangs without movement," even the sun is immersed in slumber, because it "stands motionless." "It was some kind of all-consuming, invincible dream, a true semblance of death." The magic kingdom of sleep, of course, is contraindicated in any kind of movement, action. Therefore Oblomovka is a world of fundamental idleness. The only traditionally sanctified type of labor here is the preparation and absorption of food. It is no coincidence that the writer reproduces the picture of eating a huge pie, which lasts five days.
Such is this "sleepy kingdom", where almost no one works or dies, where there are no shocks, where "thunderstorms are not terrible", and "the stars blink in a friendly way from heaven", where no one wants to be awakened for another, even a wonderful life ...
To emphasize the impression of the fabulousness of the world he created, the writer introduces into "Oblomov's Dream" the image of a nanny who winter evenings whispers to Ilya fairy tales about "sleeping princesses", petrified cities and people, about Emele the fool and the hero Ilya Muromets. This Emelya is a kind of prototype for Oblomov in the novel. In the famous folk tale a kind sorceress, who appears in the form of a pike, chooses a favorite, whom everyone offends, a quiet, harmless lazy person, and presents him for no reason. And he eats, dresses up in a ready-made dress and marries some beauty.
In Oblomov's life, fairy tale and reality seem to mix. He will be fooled and fooled by all and sundry, and in the end, fate will send him Agafya Matveyevna as his wife - a new fabulous beauty, ready to do everything for him and for him.
The chapter "Oblomov's Dream" in essence convinces us that the hero's whole life was a dream, which ended in an eternal dream. "One morning Lgafya Matveyevna brought him, as usual, coffee and - found him as meekly resting on the deathbed as on the bed of sleep ..."
So, just as reality cannot defeat a fairy tale, Stolz was unable to change Oblomov's lifestyle. All the more so for Stolz, as he came out with Goncharov. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that Stolz turned out from the author of the novel in an unrealistic way of a noble friend and a successful businessman, whose character turned out to be not fully spelled out, because to write it to the end would mean to expose, which was not part of the writer's intentions. After all, the main theme of the novel is Oblomovism: a way of life characterized by apathy, passivity, isolation from reality, contemplation of life around oneself in the absence of labor and practical activity.
That is why the work of Goncharov, contemporaries admitted, showing the character of Oblomovism typical of serfdom, was able to strike a blow at “ superfluous people"- words to people, not deeds. The re-education of Oblomov, a change in his lifestyle were not included in the writer's plans.