Works on the Russian language and literature. The image and characteristics of Mitrofanushka in Fonvizin's "The Minor": the description of Mitrofan Prostakov

... "Lax youth", the son of Messrs. Prostakovs. In the time of Fonvizin, a young man of the nobility who did not have a written certificate of education issued by a teacher was called "undersized" at the time of Fonvizin. Such a young man could neither marry nor enter the service.

Before starting to work on "Minor", Fonvizin spent a year and a half in France, where he became closely acquainted with the life of this country, studied the advanced doctrines of the enlighteners, jurisprudence and philosophy.

The idea of ​​the play came to the writer after returning to Russia, which took place in 1778. Fonvizin finished work on the play in 1782, spending about three years on it.

Biography

Mitrofanushka is the son of an unpleasant couple named Prostakovs. The hero's mother, a provincial noblewoman by birth, is an evil woman. He does what he wants, allows himself all sorts of atrocities in relation to serfs and servants. At the same time, he loves his son and tries to arrange that in life by marrying Sophia, a girl with a decent inheritance.

Sophia herself is in love with a young officer named Milon. This is a kind and well-behaved girl who was educated, she has a guardian - an uncle who owns a large fortune. Prostakova has a brother named Taras Skotinin (this character is Mitrofanushka's uncle). Skotinin, a pig lover, also wants to marry Sophia because of the inheritance.

Mitrofanushka's father is a weak and weak-willed person, not educated, cannot even read letters. He is under the heel of his wife and thinks only about how to please that one. An authoritarian wife can easily beat Prostakov's dad.

Mitrofanushka, just like his parents, did not want to study, but tried to get a job in life through marriage. The hero has a teacher, including one former seminarian who teaches the hero to read and write the Psalter, a retired sergeant who teaches arithmetic, and a former coachman, German by birth and a noble smoker, posing as a scientist.

This rogue was hired to teach the hero the French language and some "sciences", but he does not fulfill his duties and only interferes with the work of other teachers. The mother, in fact, is not at all concerned with the upbringing and education of the hero, but only follows the fashion trends in the society of that time. Mitrofanushka also has a nurse, who is called "Eremeevna".

Sophia is a distant relative of the Prostakov family. The girl grew up in Moscow and received a good upbringing, but after the death of her mother (her father died even earlier) falls into the clutches of the Prostakovs. Those "look after" the estate belonging to Sophia, at the same time robbing the heroine. The idea of ​​marrying a girl for Mitrofanushka is born in Prostakova's head after a rich uncle appears on the horizon, who was considered dead, and at the same time a potential inheritance.

On the basis of the impending marriage, Mitrofanushka has a conflict with his uncle, Taras Skotinin, who is also thinking of marrying Sophia in order to get his hands on pigs in the girl's villages.

Sophia, meanwhile, is meeting with her old lover, a young officer Milon, and a rich uncle comes to pick up his niece from the Prostakovs. Prostakova is trying to flatter Uncle Sophia so that he would agree to marry Mitrofanushka to a girl. Uncle, however, is determined to take Sophia to Moscow the next morning.

The uncle gives the girl the opportunity to choose the groom herself, and she gives her hand to Milo, with whom she knew even in her mother's house. Upon learning of this, Mitrofanushka's mother conspires. People of the Prostakovs are trying to steal Sophia in order to marry the girl with Mitrofanushka by force. Milo catches this scene and prevents the assassination attempt, after which the estate and villages of the Prostakovs are confiscated from them by government decree. In the finale, the slacker Mitrofanushka is sent to the service.

A similar way of life and a lack of sensible education were widespread among the children of the provincial nobility in those years, therefore Mitrofanushka is depicted in the play not as a special case of unsuccessful upbringing, but as an image of the era. The appearance of the hero is not directly described in the play, but it can be assumed that Mitrofanushka looked like a typical representative of the provincial noble youth of that time.

The hero is not inclined to constructive activity, study, work and any meaningful pursuits. To chase pigeons, to shake things up, to overeat beyond measure, in a word, to somehow kill time in simple entertainments - these are the life goals of Mitrofanushka, and the mother strongly encourages such behavior of the hero.

The characterization of the hero looks unpleasant - Mitrofanushka is greedy and stingy, rude, prone to intrigue, deception and fraud, like his mother. Prostakova loves her son, despite her inherent cruelty to other people, Mitrofanushka betrayed her mother, pushed her away when her mother tried to find support from the hero.

Mitrofanushka is essentially an egoist, thinking exclusively about her own comfort, not being interested in her relatives. The hero's attitude to learning is quite unambiguous - Mitrofanushka calls one of the teachers a "garrison rat", any attempts to give the young man at least some knowledge run up against a complete reluctance to learn.

• Fonvizin wrote the play "The Minor" in the village of Strelino near Moscow.
• After the play became popular, the word "ignoramus" became widespread in colloquial speech, and the name Mitrofanushka became associated with the image of an ignorant person and an ignoramus.
• On the pages of the magazine "Friend of honest people, or Starodum" a kind of literary game related to the play unfolded. The magazine published a letter allegedly written by Sophia, the heroine of the play, where she complained about her beloved Milon, a young officer who in the play prevented the abduction of the heroine. He allegedly married her, and then cheated on a certain "contemptuous woman." In a response letter, Starodum, the heroine's uncle, consoles her. In such a funny way, the play received a plot continuation.

• In the play, Sophia reads a book by an actually existing author - a French teacher and theologian of the 18th century Francois Fenelon, who wrote a treatise "On the Education of Maidens." Starodum, Sophia's uncle, mentions the famous in those days novel by this author "The Adventures of Telemachus".
• Fonvizin had to spend several months to achieve the production. They did not want to stage the play either in Moscow or in St. Petersburg, the censors were frightened by the boldness of the lines that the author allowed himself through the lips of the characters. The first to stage the play was the Free Russian Theater in St. Petersburg. The success of the very first production was deafening - "the audience applauded the play by throwing wallets." After that, the play was staged many times, including in Moscow. The popularity of the comedy "The Minor" is evidenced by the appearance of a large number of amateur and student performances.

• The role of Mrs. Prostakova was played by the writer, performing in student performances while studying at the Nizhyn gymnasium.
• The image of Mitrofanushka is compared to that of a young officer and nobleman from Pushkin's story "The Captain's Daughter". Both heroes indulged in laziness and idleness in their youth, both got bad teachers who did not teach the heroes anything, but Grinev, unlike Mitrofanushka, is shown to be an honest and good-natured person.

Quotes

“And I, uncle, hardly dined at all. There are three corned beef slices, but hearth, I don't remember, five, I don't remember, six. "

“The night all such rubbish crawled into my eyes.<...>then you, mother, then father. "

“I don’t want to study, I want to get married.”

“I myself, mother, am not a hunter for clever girls. Your brother is always better. "

“The door, which door? This? Adjective. Because it is attached to its place. Over there, the door has not been hung for a week at the closet of the pole: so that is still a noun. "

"As soon as I begin to fall asleep, then I see that you, mother, deign to beat the priest."

Mitrofan Terentyevich Prostakov (Mitrofanushka) - an undersized son of the landowners Prostakovs, 15 years old. The name "Mitrofan" means in Greek "manifested by the mother", "like his mother." It has become a household name for a stupid and arrogant mama's son, an ignoramus. The Yaroslavl old-timers believed that the prototype of the image of M. was a certain barchuk who lived in the vicinity of Yaroslavl, as reported by L. N. Trefolev.

Fonvizin's comedy is a play about an undersized man, about his monstrous upbringing, which turns a teenager into a cruel and lazy creature. Before Fonvizin's comedy, the word "ignoramus" did not carry negative semantics. Minors were called adolescents under the age of fifteen, that is, the age determined by Peter I for entering the service. In 1736, the term of stay in the "ignoramus" was extended to twenty years. The decree on the liberty of the nobility abolished the compulsory urgency of service and gave the nobles the right to serve or not to serve, but confirmed the compulsory education introduced under Peter I. Pro-stakova follows the law, although she does not approve of it. She also knows that many, including those from her family, bypass the law. M. has been studying for four years, but Prostakova wants to keep him with her for ten years.

The plot of the comedy is based on the fact that Prostakova wants to give the poor pupil Sophia to her brother Skotinin, but then, having learned about 10,000 rubles, which Starodum made Sophia heir, decides not to let the rich heiress go. Scoti-nin doesn't want to give in. On this basis, between M. and Skotinin, between Prostakova and Skotinin, enmity arises, turning into ugly quarrels. M., disposed by his mother, demands an agreement, declaring: “The hour of my will has come. I don't want to study, I want to get married. " But Prostakova understands that first you need to get Starodum's consent. And for this it is necessary that M. appears in a favorable light: "While he is resting, my friend, at least for the sake of appearance, learn so that it will come to his ears how you work, Mitrofanushka." For her part, Prostakova praises M.'s diligence, success and her parental care for him in every possible way, and although she knows for sure that M. has not learned anything, she nevertheless arranges an "exam" and encourages Starodum to evaluate her son's successes (file 4, yavl. VIII). The lack of motivation for this scene (it is hardly appropriate to tempt fate and present the son in a bad light; it is also unclear how the illiterate Prostakova could appreciate the knowledge of M. and the pedagogical efforts of his teachers) is obvious; but it is important for Fonvizin to show that the ignorant landowner herself becomes a victim of her own deception and sets a trap for her son. After this farcical comedy scene, Prostakov, confident that she would push her brother away by force, and realizing that M. could not stand the test and comparison with Milon, decided to force M. to marry Sophia; instructs him to get up at six o'clock, put "three servants in Sophia's dormitory, and two in the hallway to help" (d. 4, app. IX). To this M. replies: "Everything will be done." When Prostakova's “conspiracy” fails, M., at first ready to follow his mother “for people” (d. 5, manifest. III), then humbly asks for forgiveness, and then rudely pushes his mother away: “Let go, mother, how imposed ”(file 5, the last manifestation). Completely confused and having lost power over people, he now has to go through a new school of upbringing ("Come to serve," Pravdin tells him), which he accepts with slavish obedience: "For me, where are they?" These last words of M. become a kind of illustration to the words of Starodum: “Well, what can come out of Mitrofanushka for the fatherland, for which ignorant parents also pay money to ignorant teachers? How many noble fathers who entrust the moral education of their son to their serf slave! Fifteen years later, instead of one slave, two leave, an old uncle and a young master "(d. 5, yavl. I).

The fight for Sophia's hand, making up the plot of the comedy, pushes M. into the center of the action. As one of the "imaginary" suitors, M. with his figure connects two worlds - ignorant nobles, tyrants, the world of "evil" and the enlightened nobles, the world of good behavior. These "camps" are extremely alienated from each other. Prostakov, Skotinin cannot understand Starodum, Pravdin and Milon (Prostakova says to Starodum in complete bewilderment: "God knows you, how you judge now" - d. 4, manifest. VIII; M. cannot understand , which the same characters require of him), while Sophia, Pravdin, Milon and Starodum perceive M. and his relatives with open contempt. The reason for this is the different upbringing. The natural nature of M. is distorted by upbringing, and therefore he is in severe contradiction with the norms of behavior of a nobleman and with ethical ideas about a well-behaved and enlightened person.
The author's attitude to M., as well as to other negative characters, is expressed in the form of a "monologic" self-exposure of the hero and in the replicas of the positive characters. The rudeness of his vocabulary betrays hard-heartedness and evil will; lack of enlightenment of the soul leads to laziness, empty pursuits (chasing pigeons), gluttony. M. is the same tyrant of the household as Prostakova. Like Prostakova, she does not reckon with her father, seeing in him an empty space, she does everything she can to bully teachers. At the same time, he holds Pro-stakova in his hands and threatens to commit suicide if she does not protect him from Skotinin (“Vit here and the river is near. M. knows neither love, nor pity, nor simple gratitude; in this respect he surpassed his mother. Prostakova lives for her son, M. - for herself. Ignorance can progress from generation to generation; the coarseness of feelings is reduced to purely animal instincts. Prostakov remarks with surprise: “It's a strange thing, brother, how relatives can resemble relatives. Our Mitrofanushka is all uncle. And he is a hunter just like you before the pigs are old. As he was still three years old, it happened, when he saw a mumps, tremble with joy ”(d. 1, app. V). In the scene of the fight Skotinin calls M. "damned pig." With all his behavior and speeches, M. justifies the words of Starodum: "An ignoramus without a soul is a beast" (d. 3, yavl. I).

According to Starodum, there are three types of people: enlightened clever; unenlightened, but possessing a soul; unenlightened and soulless. M., Prostakova and Skotinin belong to the latter variety. They seem to grow claws (see the scene of the quarrel between Skotinin and M. and the words of Eremeevna, as well as the fight between Prostakova and Skotinin, in which M.'s mother "pierced" Skotinin's scruff), bear power appears (Skotinin says to Prostakova: “It will come to breaking , I will bend, so you will crackle "- d. 3, manifest. III). Comparisons are taken from the animal world: "Have you ever heard of a bitch giving out her puppies?" Worse, M. stopped in his development and then is only capable of regression. Sophia says to Milo: “Although he is sixteen years old, he has already reached the last degree of his perfection and will not go far” (d. 2, app. II). The lack of family and cultural traditions turned into a triumph of "evil", and M. tears even those "animal" ties that united him with his kindred circle.

In the person of M. Fonvizin, he brought out a kind of tyrant slave: he is a slave to low passions, which turned him into a tyrant. M.'s "slave" upbringing in the narrow sense is associated with the "mother" Eremeevna, in the broad sense - with the world of the Prostakovs and Skotinins. In both cases, M. is implanted with dishonest concepts: in the first, because Eremeevna is a serf, in the second, because the concepts of honor are perverted.

The image of M. (and the very notion of a "undergrowth") have become a household word. However, the educational idea of ​​the mechanistic dependence of human behavior on his upbringing was subsequently overcome. In Pushkin's Captain's Daughter, Petrusha Grinev receives an education similar to M., but develops independently and behaves like an honest nobleman. Pushkin sees in M. something radical, Russian, charming, and with the help of an epigraph ("Mitrofan for me") he elevates the storyteller - and partly the characters - of "Belkin's Tales" to the hero of "The Minor". The name "Mitrofan" is found in Lermontov ("Tambov treasury"). The satirical development of the image is given in the novel by ME Saltykov-Shchedrin "The Lord of Tashkent".
Prostakova is the wife of Terenty Prostakov, mother of Mitrofan and sister of Taras Skotinin. The surname indicates both the simplicity, ignorance, ignorance of the heroine, and the fact that she is in a mess.

Writer and playwright D.I. Fonvizin, whose comedy "Brigadier" did not leave the stage, was compared to Moliere. That is why the play "The Minor", staged on the stage of the Moscow theater "Medox" on May 14, 1783, was also a huge success.

One of the main characters of this comedy was Prostakov Mitrofan Terentyevich, the son of the Prostakovs, simply Mitrofanushka.

As soon as the name of the comedy "Minor" is pronounced, the image of a mama's son, a bummer and a stupid ignoramus, immediately arises in the imagination. Before this comedy, the word "ignoramus" did not carry an ironic meaning. At the time of Peter I, this was the name of the noble teenagers who did not reach the age of 15. After the appearance of the play, this word became a household word.

The main character himself, Mitrofanushka, is deprived of any purpose in life. The main activities in life, which are a joy to him: eating, lounging and driving pigeons. His doing nothing is encouraged by his mother. “Go and frolic, Mitrofanushka,” - this is how she answers her son when he is going to go chasing pigeons.

A sixteen-year-old boy at that time was supposed to go to the service at this age, but his mother did not want to let him go. She wanted to keep him with her until she was 26 years old.

Prostakova did not cherish a soul in her son, she loved him with a blind maternal love, which only harmed him: Mitrofanushka gorged himself until colic in his stomach, and Prostakova persuaded him to eat more. The nanny said to this that he had already eaten five pieces of pies. And Prostakova answered: "So you feel sorry for the sixth."

When Mitrofanushka was offended, she stood up for him, and he was her only consolation. Everything was done only for the sake of her son, even to provide him with a carefree future, she decided to marry him to a rich bride.

She tried not to bother him with anything, even with her studies. In noble families, it was customary to hire teachers. And Prostakova hired teachers for him, but not so that he could learn the mind, but it was just the way it was supposed to be. The names of the teachers spoke for themselves: the German coachman Vralman, the retired soldier Tsyfirkin, the half-educated seminarian Kuteikin. Mitrofan did not want to study and told his mother: “Listen, mother. I'll amuse those. I will study; just to be the last time. The hour of my will has come. I don't want to study - I want to get married. " And Prostakova agreed with him, because she herself was illiterate, stupid. “Only you are tormented, and everything, I see, is emptiness. Don't study this stupid science! "

All relatives annoyed Mitrofanushka, he did not love anyone - neither his father nor his uncle. The nanny, who did not receive money for raising Mitrofan and always protected him from his uncle, tried to teach him something. She persuaded him: "Yes, teach at least a little." Mitrofan replied to her: “Well, say another word, old chrychovka! I’ll finish those, I’ll complain to my mother again, so she will deign to give you a task like yesterday. ” Nobody's worries touched him. This hero combined the most evil qualities of the young noblemen of that time.

All the worries of the mother for her son did not find an answer. Mitrofanushka treated his mother with disdain. He did not respect her at all and played on her feelings: His words: “Vit here and the river is close. I dive, and remember what you called me "or" All such rubbish all night climbed into my eyes. -What kind of rubbish, Mitrofanushka? - Yes, then you, mother, then father, "- they prove it.

Even at a difficult moment for the mother, the son refuses her. “You are the only one left with me, my dear friend,” - with these words Prostakova rushes to her son. She seems to be looking for support in the only person close to her. Mitrofan, on the other hand, indifferently throws: "Yes, get off the hook, mother, how imposed."

Maternal upbringing and the environment in which Mitrofan Prostakov lived made him a heartless, stupid animal, which knows only what to eat and to have fun. The thoughts instilled in Mitrofan by his mother that lying on your side you can get both ranks and money, fell on fertile soil. It can be concluded that Mitrofan, if his fate had been the way his mother intended, would not have put his "surname" to shame.

It seems to me that the meaning of this comedy is in the playwright's protest against the Prostakovs and Skotinins. There should be as few as possible such inhuman, rude, stupid people. They don't have to make up the majority of society. I share the writer's point of view.

I have read DI Fonvizin's comedy "The Minor" and I want to characterize Mitrofan Prostakov.

Prostakov Mitrofan Terentyevich is one of the main characters of the comedy. He lives in a family of noble landowners. Mitrofan in the work of Fonvizin is 16 years old. He does not like to do anything, to study, but only loves to run on the dovecote. Mrs. Prostakova - the mother of Mitrofan - approves everything that her "child" wants.

I see Mitrofan fat, dirty and shaggy - in one word, untidy, as he eats at night and does not take care of himself. “There are three corned beef slices, but hearth, I don’t remember five, I don’t remember six,” said the servant about Mitrofan, who had eaten at night. The name "Mitrofan" is translated from ancient Greek as "like a mother", which is just one of the main characteristics of the hero, as well as his greed, cunning and cruelty towards servants. He can also be called a mama's boy.

The hero of the "Minor" is used to doing everything for him. He imitates his mother in everything, and as his parents brought up, this will be education. Yes, there is no education, and Mitrofanushka also says the famous phrase: “I don’t want to study, I want to get married,” which once again proves that he is lazy. The Prostakov family is not like a family that loves each other. The son uses his mother's love to satisfy his whims, but he has completely forgotten about his father, he does not notice him.

Fonvizin's hero is cruel and rude. Even in his own mother, he loses interest, as soon as she is deprived of power and money. Thanks to such a hero, the word "Minor" has become a household name for a bum, a bummer, a lazy person. Fonvizin shows the negative attitude of this character towards education, a consumerist attitude towards parents, Mitrofan does not reckon with feelings, acts out of selfish interests (marriage to Sophia). The reader sees all this in Mitrofan Prostakov. The author of the comedy wanted to say that you don't have to be like this bummer.

The boy's bad attitude towards the nanny and servants, towards the mother and teachers, towards study and education causes a feeling of disgust. I believe that this character can only arouse antipathy in the reader.

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Denis Fonvizin wrote the comedy "The Minor" in the 18th century. At that time, a decree of Peter I was in force in Russia, prescribing that young men under 21 years of age without education were forbidden to enter military and government service, as well as to marry. Young people up to this age in this document were called "ignoramuses" - this definition formed the basis of the title of the play. In the work, the main character is Mitrofanushka the ignoramus. Fonvizin portrayed him as a stupid, cruel, greedy and lazy young man of 16, who behaves like a small child, does not want to learn and is capricious. Mitrofan is a negative character and the funniest hero of the comedy - his absurd statements of stupidity and ignorance cause laughter not only among readers and spectators, but also among other heroes of the play. The character plays an important role in the ideological concept of the play, therefore the image of Mitrofan the Ignorant requires a detailed analysis.

Mitrofan and Prostakova

In Fonvizin's work "The Minor", the image of Mitrofanushka is closely related to the theme of education, since in fact it was the wrong upbringing that caused the young man's malice and all its negative features. His mother, Mrs. Prostakova, is an uneducated, cruel, despotic woman, for whom the main values ​​are material wealth and power. She adopted her views on the world from her parents - representatives of the old nobility, the same uneducated and ignorant landowners as herself. The values ​​and views she received through education were passed on to Prostakova and Mitrofan - the young man in the play is portrayed as a "mama's boy" - he cannot do anything on his own, the servants or the mother do everything for him. Having received from Prostakova cruelty towards servants, rudeness and the opinion that education is one of the last places in life, Mitrofan also adopted disrespect for loved ones, a willingness to deceive or betray them for a better offer. Let us recall how Prostakova persuaded Skotinin to marry Sophia in order to essentially get rid of the “extra mouth”.

Whereas the news of the girl's large inheritance made her a "caring teacher", supposedly loving Sophia and wishing her happiness. Prostakova is looking for her own selfishness in everything, and therefore she refused Skotinin, because if the girl and Mitrofan, who listens to his mother in everything, married Sophia's money, Sophia's money would go to her.

The young man is as selfish as Prostakova. He becomes a worthy son of his mother, adopting her "best" features, which explains the final scene of the comedy, when Mitrofan abandons Prostakov, who has lost everything, leaving to serve the new owner of the village, Pravdin. For him, the efforts and love of his mother were insignificant in front of the authority of money and power.

Influence on Mitrofan's father and uncle

Analyzing the upbringing of Mitrofan in the comedy "The Minor", one cannot fail to mention the figure of the father and his influence on the personality of the young man. Prostakov appears before the reader as a weak-willed shadow of his wife. It was passivity and the desire to transfer the initiative to someone stronger that Mitrofan took over from his father. It is paradoxical that Pravdin speaks of Prostakov as a stupid person, but in the action of the play his role is so insignificant that the reader cannot fully understand whether he is really that stupid. Even the fact that Prostakov reproaches his son when Mitrofan leaves his mother at the end of the work does not indicate him as a character with positive traits. The man, like the others, does not try to help Prostakova, remaining on the sidelines, thus again showing an example of weakness and lack of initiative to his son - he does not care, how it did not matter while Prostakova beat his peasants and disposed of his property in her own way.

The second man who influenced the upbringing of Mitrofan is his uncle. Skotinin, in fact, represents a personality that a young man could become in the future. They are even brought together by a common love for pigs, whose company they are much more pleasant than the company of people.

Mitrofan's training

According to the plot, the description of Mitrofan's training is in no way connected with the main events - the struggle for Sophia's heart. However, it is these episodes that reveal many important problems that Fonvizin highlights in the comedy. The author shows that the reason for the stupidity of a young man is not only a bad upbringing, but also a bad education. When Prostakova hired teachers for Mitrofan, she chose not educated smart teachers, but those who would take less. Retired sergeant Tsyfirkin, dropout Kuteikin, former groom Vralman - none of them could give Mitrofan a decent education. They all depended on Prostakova, and therefore could not ask her to leave and not interfere with the lesson. Let us recall how a woman did not even let her son think about solving an arithmetic problem, proposing “her own solution”. The exposure of Mitrofan's useless training is the scene of a conversation with Starodum, when the young man begins to come up with his own grammar rules and does not know that he is studying geography. At the same time, the illiterate Prostakova also does not know the answer, but if the teachers could not laugh at her stupidity, then the educated Starodum openly ridicules the ignorance of the mother and son.

Thus, Fonvizin, introducing into the play scenes of Mitrofan's teaching and exposing his ignorance, raises the acute social problems of education in Russia in that era. Noble children were taught not by authoritative educated personalities, but by slaves who knew the letter, who needed a pittance. Mitrofan is one of the victims of such an old landowner, obsolete and, as the author emphasizes, senseless education.

Why is Mitrofan the central character?

As it becomes clear from the title of the work, the young man is the central image of the comedy "The Minor". In the character system, he is opposed to the positive heroine Sophia, who appears before the reader as an intelligent, educated girl who respects her parents and older people. It would seem why the author made the key figure of the play a weak-willed, stupid, with a completely negative characterization of an ignoramus? Fonvizin in the image of Mitrofan showed a whole generation of young Russian nobles. The author was worried about the mental and moral degradation of society, in particular, young people who adopted outdated values ​​from their parents.

In addition, in "Nedorosl" the characterization of Mitrofan is a composite image of the negative traits of landowners contemporary to Fonvizin. The author sees cruelty, stupidity, ignorance, sycophancy, disrespect for others, greed, civic passivity and infantilism not only in outstanding landowners, but also in officials at court, who also forgot about humanism and high morality. For the modern reader, the image of Mitrofan is, first of all, a reminder of what a person becomes when he stops developing, learning new things and forgets about eternal human values ​​- respect, kindness, love, mercy.

A detailed description of Mitrofan, his character and lifestyle will help students in grades 8-9 when preparing a report or essay on the topic "Characteristics of Mitrofan in the comedy" The Minor "

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