Essay on the topic: “Who is Chatsky: winner or loser?”

9th grade student "G"

Sergeev Grigory Konstantinovich

Teacher: Romanova Lyudmila Anisimovna

Rating: good

“Woe from Wit” is one of the brightest works of Russian literature. The comedy was written after Patriotic War 1812, during the period of the rise of the spiritual life of Russia. At this time, a split among the nobility becomes obvious. The influence of the ideas of French enlighteners, European revolutionaries, the growth of national self-awareness after the War of 1812 formed the Decembrist ideology, united many young nobles in the desire to change Russian society. However, most of the Russian nobility remained deaf or hostile to new trends. It was this situation, this conflict that Griboyedov captured in his work.

The young nobility in the comedy is represented in the comedy by only one person - Alexander Andreevich Chatsky. He is opposed by a whole circle of nobles with the most conservative views. This circle is usually called the “Famus society.” This name is not without meaning. Indeed, the central and most detailed figure depicted here is Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov, in whose monologues, remarks and actions the laws by which everyone around him lives, united in their views on life, are most clearly visible. Thus, Chatsky is opposed to a whole way of life, a set of habits and prejudices, the whole society, and not individual individuals.

In the play, which depicts just one day in Famusov’s house, Griboyedov touched on the most important issues of the time: about upbringing and education, about service to the fatherland and civic duty, about serfdom and admiration for everything foreign. He showed the struggle between the “present century” and the “past century” represented by Chatsky and Famus society.

In Famusov's house, relationships between people are built on lies and hypocrisy. The main activities of the inhabitants of this house are “lunch, dinner and dancing.” And into this house, where vices are covered up by ostentatious virtue, Chatsky bursts into a whirlwind. In the image of Chatsky, Griboyedov showed a man of a new mindset and soul, inspired by advanced ideas, ready to go against society for the sake of his ideals.

The play is based on a love drama, under which social and ideological conflicts are hidden. It is in these conflicts that Chatsky’s character is revealed.

Chatsky comes to Famusov’s house to visit a girl named Sophia, whom he loves, but this girl cheated on him. Chatsky suffers because Sophia chose him over the narrow-minded and helpful Molchalin, who has only two talents: “moderation and accuracy.” For all her spiritual inclinations, Sophia belongs entirely to Famusov society. She cannot fall in love with Chatsky, because he is completely opposed to this society by the turn of his mind and soul. Sophia is one of the “tormentors” who insulted Chatsky’s bright mind and fiery feeling. Therefore, Chatsky’s personal drama develops into a public one and determines his fate as a lonely dreamer in Famus’s world.

Chatsky is tormented by social problems, he understands the horror of serfdom, in which every independent thought, every sincere feeling is doomed to persecution, when “rejected children from mothers and fathers” are driven “to the serf ballet” in order to satisfy the desire of the master, when people are changed “ three dogs for greyhounds.” Chatsky sees that people in power are not concerned about the problems of the people and the state, they only:

They found protection from court in friends, in kinship,

Magnificent building chambers,

Where they indulge in feasts and extravagance.

And, of course, in such a society it is not the Chatskys with their intelligence who are blissful, but the Molchalins, who know how to “pat a pug here at the right time, rub in a card there at the right time.” And a person like Chatsky will forever be expelled from such a society.

Chatsky is a man of the new world. He does not accept the laws of old Moscow. He has his own idea of ​​serving the fatherland. In his opinion, one must serve honestly, “without demanding positions or promotions.” Chatsky opposes people who value only wealth and rank, who are afraid of truth and enlightenment. He connects the progress of society with the flourishing of personality, the development of science and education, which is alien to Famus society. A person who has received a good education and has a brilliant mind, Chatsky does not want to accept people like Maxim Petrovich (Famusov’s ideal) as models, because he does not see any moral merits in them. Chatsky questions the moral authority of fathers, speaking about “the meanest features of life” and comparing new century with the past century, not at all in favor of the latter. Chatsky is not only an accuser, he is also a fighter. A fighter for the cause, for the idea, for the truth. During the course of the play, a kind of verbal duel takes place between Chatsky and society, in which each side defends its opinion. In Famusov's society, Chatsky's ideas, speeches and views remain misunderstood. Chatsky wants to express everything that has accumulated in his soul. Therefore, at the ball in Famusov’s house, he turns everyone gathered against himself. Society, sensing this, defeated him and ridiculed him. Those around him are taking revenge on Chatsky for the truth, which “stares in the eyes,” for trying to disrupt the usual way of life. The girl he loves, turning away from him, hurts the hero the most by spreading rumors about his madness. Here is a paradox: the only sane person is declared insane. "So! “I have become completely sober,” Chatsky exclaims at the end of the play. What is this - an admission of defeat or an epiphany? Yes, the end of this comedy is far from cheerful, but Goncharov is right when he said about the ending like this: “Chatsky is broken by the number of old power, dealing her, in turn, a fatal blow with the quality of fresh strength.” The role of all Chatskys is “passive”, but at the same time always victorious. But they do not know about their victory, they only sow and others reap.

But at the same time, if we consider Chatsky from practical point sight, then he is defeated. Why? Yes, because he could not defend his ideals further, although if he firmly believed in them, he should have fought for them to the end. But he couldn’t stand it, he left and thereby gave the Famus society a reason to consider itself defeated. Anyone can leave. But in my opinion, this is the act of a weak person. Strong man must stay, must gather around him progressive people who can resist society. But there are such people, and they are mentioned in the comedy: Skalozub’s cousin, Prince Fyodor and others. Living in society, no matter what, fighting all its vices - this is the act of a winner.

Chatsky winner or loser essay reasoning grade 9

Plan

1. General characteristics of Chatsky.

2.Victories and defeats of Chatsky

3.Conclusion

Main character immortal work"" still remains a mysterious figure. created the image of a person who embodies best qualities: intelligence, honesty and decency. One of Chatsky’s main advantages is his desire to openly express his views, which becomes main reason conflict in comedy.

The main tragedy of the main character is that his ideals suffer visible defeat by the end. The desire for goodness and justice collides with the callousness of an indifferent society. Chatsky’s views do not find any response among those around him. Moreover, the only smart person declared crazy. But this defeat of Chatsky only emphasizes the deceit and depravity of the society into which he found himself.

He does not give up his ideals just because they go against established opinion. Chatsky becomes a prophet who was not accepted “in his fatherland.” Because of this, his “highest truth” does not lose its meaning at all. The main character defeats the “Famusovism” and signs her death warrant. He was ridiculed during his lifetime, but this is quite natural in conditions of the dominance of base interests.

Chatsky’s final phrase “Carriage for me, carriage!” takes on not only spatial (departure from Moscow) but also temporal significance. Chatsky’s beliefs are aimed at future generations, who will be able to give them a fair assessment. Chatsky's obvious defeat is his disappointment in love for Sophia. On a personal level, this is a really hard blow. But the main character's love turned out to be a feeling for ideal image created in the imagination. Chatsky was confident that a kind and modest girl, just like him, would be able to resist the corrupting influence of society. Unfortunately, Sophia surrendered to the power of authority.

In Chatsky’s disinterested frankness, she saw a threat to her well-being and preferred authority and respect to her. high society. The main character lost his beloved girl, but this only strengthened his views. Using the example of Platon Gorich, Chatsky saw how a person can change under the influence of marriage. Therefore, the loss of Sophia can also be regarded as a victory for the protagonist’s way of thinking, which nothing can shake.

Chatsky suffered a crushing defeat as a specific person. He lost love and respect in society, which forced him to leave Moscow. But spiritually he achieved victory. By exposing and scourging lies and vices, Chatsky showed the imperfection reigning in society. Many phrases of the main character of the comedy have become household names and have not lost their meaning in our time.

I.A. Goncharov wrote about Chatsky that he “... is a winner, but an advanced warrior, a skirmisher and always a victim.” It seems to me that these words contain the answer to the question posed: is Chatsky a winner or a loser? After all, it is simply impossible to answer it unequivocally, since both the position of the author and the character of the hero himself are ambiguous.

Chatsky is one against everyone, and the end of the conflict is, in fact, a foregone conclusion. “Chatsky is broken by the amount of old power,” as Goncharov wrote.

Indeed, on the one hand, the love affair of the comedy is completed, and the collapse of the hero in the story of his love for Sophia is absolutely obvious. But, on the other hand, the question of whether Chatsky’s expulsion from Famus society can be called a victory over the hero remains open. It is not for nothing that the author introduces non-stage characters into the comedy - Prince Fyodor, “a chemist and botanist,” and brother Skalozub, who “suddenly left his service” when his “rank followed.” People like Chatsky despise the authorities of the “past century” and try to live in a new way. And we know that then there will be more and more of them, and as a result they will win, because the new always defeats the old. That is why it should be recognized that the dispute between heroes like Chatsky and the old foundations is just beginning. He is “an advanced warrior, a skirmisher,” but that is why he is “always a victim.”

But there are also internal, psychological reasons that Chatsky is doomed to defeat. His enthusiasm and ardor lead not only to the fact that the hero did not understand Sophia’s attitude towards him, underestimated Molchalin, but also could not really imagine the strength of resistance of the conservative Famus society. Sometimes it seems that Chatsky is not going to figure this out: the hero preaches with inspiration and suddenly unexpectedly discovers that the guests are “twirling in a waltz” and are not “listening” to him at all. Maybe that’s why it was so easy to expel Chatsky by labeling him a madman. It turns out that the defeat of the comedy hero is also a warning from the author to those who strive for change, but underestimate the strength of their opponent, just like buying a computer desk for a schoolchild. And the story itself confirmed Griboedov’s fears, which once again emphasizes the realism of his play.

And yet it seems to me that in the comedy there is some kind of foreshadowing of the impending victory of people like Chatsky. The once monolithic Famus society has really given a breach, and even after the expulsion of the person who so disturbed everyone, there will be no rest for the old Moscow “aces” and noble ladies, because they have no confidence in the inviolability of their positions, although they are still strong. That is why Chatsky can be considered both a winner and a loser at the same time.

In the comedy A.S. Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" we met many heroes, one of whom was Alexander Andreevich Chatsky.

Alexander Andreevich Chatsky is very good man, In my opinion. He was well brought up. His behavior and his words emphasized some kind of grace, subtlety and superiority. Chatsky, unlike Famusov, is smart and full of knowledge. Also, Alexander Andreevich always wanted to do something for the benefit of society and honestly serve the Fatherland. And this once again emphasizes his nobility and superiority.

Chatsky always deserved the best. And when he fell in love with Sofia, he, like all young people in love, believed that Sofia loved him as passionately as he loved her. But that was not the case. When Chatsky, having arrived, meets Sofia, he begins to remember the wonderful past, not knowing that Sofia is no longer the same as she was before. Alexander recalls their childhood together:

Where is the time? where is that innocent age,
When it used to be a long evening
You and I will appear, disappear here and there,
We play and make noise on chairs and tables.
And here is yours, father and madam, behind the picket;
We are in a dark corner, and it seems like we are!
Do you remember? we'll be startled by the creaking of the table, the door...

But Sofia is not touched by this past at all; she considers the time spent with him simply childish. Chatsky, who is in love, does not understand this. He is still simple and naive in his blind love. But still, no matter how attached Chatsky was to Sofia, it only took him one day for the scales to fall from his eyes. He learns that he is already absolutely indifferent to Sofia. It happens like this: Chatsky offers Sofia his help at any moment, in any trouble, and she refuses him and says: “What do you need me for?” By this she emphasizes that she simply does not need him. Alexander finally understands this and decides to leave Moscow so as not to see everything vile and hypocritical that is happening in the Famusovs’ house and, in particular, with Sofia.

Chatsky did the right thing that he did not again close his eyes to all the whims and quirks of Sofia. He made her understand once and for all that there were girls in the world nobler and better than her. Chatsky left as a winner, not allowing himself to be deceived further.

In fact, who is Chatsky: the winner or the loser in this endless game pretense, envy, ranks and noisy balls of that hour in Moscow:

Where, show us, are the fathers of the fatherland,
Which ones should we take as models?
Aren't these rich in robbery?
They found protection from court in friends, in kinship,
Magnificent building chambers,
Where they spill out in feasts and extravagance,
And where foreign clients will not be resurrected
The meanest features of the past life.
And who in Moscow didn’t have their mouths covered?
Lunches, dinners and dances?

Such was Moscow at that time, such was that society, and Chatsky emerged victorious from this stupid game, composed of deception and veneration. He is a winner because he did not want to be like Molchalin, who did nothing but suck up to tall people, for which he received all sorts of awards and gifts. Chatsky did not want to become like Famusov, who did not care about everything except money and being respected. Chatsky lived not by rank or money, but by his mind and heart. He sincerely loved Sofia, who was once interesting and sociable, but during the three years of his absence had turned into one of the puppets of Famus’s theater, which was controlled by money and boundless envy and at the same time flattery and respect, so incomparable:

And he responded: “No wonder, Lisa, I’m crying:
Who knows what I will find when I return?
And how much I might lose!”
The poor thing seemed to know that in three years...

Chatsky is the winner, perhaps also because he knew how to laugh at everything. Everything made him laugh, and he perceived everything as a temporary phenomenon. Chatsky was an optimist and sincerely did not believe that the Famusovs would rule the world, but his hope remained only hope. Chatsky is not understood or does not want to understand. If he had found support among people, perhaps they would not have considered him crazy. But it happened anyway. And because of what? Because of the truth! That one open and clear as day, which was hidden from the eyes of other people by clouds of lies and envy. This was Chatsky’s main victory. In the truth, which he knew how to see and understand, but he was alone and therefore had to leave. Even though he was misunderstood and slandered, Chatsky remained himself and became the winner in this game called Life:

You have glorified me as crazy by the whole choir.
You are right: he will come out of the fire unharmed,
Who will have time to spend a day with you,
Will breathe air alone,
And his sanity will survive.
Get out of Moscow! I don't go here anymore.
I’m running, I won’t look back, I’ll go looking around the world,
Where is there a corner for an offended feeling!..
Carriage for me, carriage!

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Essay on the topic: “Who is Chatsky: winner or loser?”

9th grade student "G"

Sergeev Grigory Konstantinovich

Teacher: Romanova Lyudmila Anisimovna

Rating: good

“Woe from Wit” is one of the brightest works of Russian literature. The comedy was written after the Patriotic War of 1812, during the period of the rise of the spiritual life of Russia. At this time, a split among the nobility becomes obvious. The influence of the ideas of French enlighteners, European revolutionaries, and the growth of national self-awareness after the War of 1812 shaped the Decembrist ideology and united many young nobles in their desire to change Russian society. However, most of the Russian nobility remained deaf or hostile to new trends. It was this situation, this conflict that Griboyedov captured in his work.

The young nobility in the comedy is represented in the comedy by only one person - Alexander Andreevich Chatsky. He is opposed by a whole circle of nobles with the most conservative views. This circle is usually called the “Famus society.” This name is not without meaning. Indeed, the central and most detailed figure depicted here is Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov, in whose monologues, remarks and actions the laws by which everyone around him lives, united in their views on life, are most clearly visible. Thus, Chatsky is opposed to a whole way of life, a set of habits and prejudices, the whole society, and not individual individuals.

In the play, which depicts just one day in Famusov’s house, Griboyedov touched on the most important issues of the time: about upbringing and education, about service to the fatherland and civic duty, about serfdom and admiration for everything foreign. He showed the struggle between the “present century” and the “past century” represented by Chatsky and Famus society.

In Famusov's house, relationships between people are built on lies and hypocrisy. The main activities of the inhabitants of this house are “lunch, dinner and dancing.” And into this house, where vices are covered up by ostentatious virtue, Chatsky bursts into a whirlwind. In the image of Chatsky, Griboyedov showed a man of a new mindset and soul, inspired by advanced ideas, ready to go against society for the sake of his ideals.

The play is based on a love drama, under which social and ideological conflicts are hidden. It is in these conflicts that Chatsky’s character is revealed.

Chatsky comes to Famusov’s house to visit a girl named Sophia, whom he loves, but this girl cheated on him. Chatsky suffers because Sophia chose him over the narrow-minded and helpful Molchalin, who has only two talents: “moderation and accuracy.” For all her spiritual inclinations, Sophia belongs entirely to Famus society. She cannot fall in love with Chatsky, because he is completely opposed to this society by the turn of his mind and soul. Sophia is one of the “tormentors” who insulted Chatsky’s bright mind and fiery feeling. Therefore, Chatsky’s personal drama develops into a public one and determines his fate as a lonely dreamer in Famus’s world.

Chatsky is tormented by social problems, he understands the horror of serfdom, in which every independent thought, every sincere feeling is doomed to persecution, when “rejected children from mothers and fathers” are driven “to the serf ballet” in order to satisfy the desire of the master, when people are changed “ three dogs for greyhounds.” Chatsky sees that people in power are not concerned about the problems of the people and the state, they only:

They found protection from court in friends, in kinship,

Magnificent building chambers,

Where they indulge in feasts and extravagance.

And, of course, in such a society it is not the Chatskys with their intelligence who are blissful, but the Molchalins, who know how to “pat a pug here at the right time, rub in a card there at the right time.” And a person like Chatsky will forever be expelled from such a society.

Chatsky is a man of the new world. He does not accept the laws of old Moscow. He has his own idea of ​​serving the fatherland. In his opinion, one must serve honestly, “without demanding positions or promotions.” Chatsky opposes people who value only wealth and rank, who are afraid of truth and enlightenment. He connects the progress of society with the flourishing of personality, the development of science and education, which is alien to Famus society. A person who has received a good education and has a brilliant mind, Chatsky does not want to accept people like Maxim Petrovich (Famusov’s ideal) as models, because he does not see any moral merits in them. Chatsky questions the moral authority of the fathers, speaking about “the meanest features of life” and comparing the new century with the past century, not in favor of the latter. Chatsky is not only an accuser, he is also a fighter. A fighter for the cause, for the idea, for the truth. During the course of the play, a kind of verbal duel takes place between Chatsky and society, in which each side defends its opinion. In Famusov's society, Chatsky's ideas, speeches and views remain misunderstood. Chatsky wants to express everything that has accumulated in his soul. Therefore, at the ball in Famusov’s house, he turns everyone gathered against himself. Society, sensing this, defeated him and ridiculed him. Those around him are taking revenge on Chatsky for the truth, which “stares in the eyes,” for trying to disrupt the usual way of life. The girl he loves, turning away from him, hurts the hero the most by spreading rumors about his madness. Here is a paradox: the only sane person is declared insane. "So! “I have become completely sober,” Chatsky exclaims at the end of the play. What is this—an admission of defeat or an epiphany? Yes, the end of this comedy is far from cheerful, but Goncharov is right when he said about the ending this way: “Chatsky is broken by the amount of old power, having dealt it, in turn, a fatal blow with the quality of fresh power.” The role of all Chatskys is “passive”, but at the same time always victorious. But they do not know about their victory, they only sow and others reap.

But at the same time, if we consider Chatsky from a practical point of view, then he is defeated. Why? Yes, because he could not defend his ideals further, although if he firmly believed in them, he should have fought for them to the end. But he couldn’t stand it, he left and thereby gave the Famus society a reason to consider itself defeated. Anyone can leave. But in my opinion, this is the act of a weak person. A strong person must stay, must gather around him progressive people who can resist society. But there are such people, and they are mentioned in the comedy: Skalozub’s cousin, Prince Fyodor and others. Living in society, no matter what, fighting all its vices is the act of a winner.