Brief description of Mitrofan. The image and character of Mitrofan in Fonfizin's comedy Nedorosol
I read D.I. 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 is 16 years old in Fonvizin’s work. He does not like to do anything, to study, but only likes to run around in the dovecote. Mrs. Prostakova - Mitrofan's mother - approves of everything her “child” wants.
I see Mitrofan fat, dirty and shaggy - in a word, unkempt, since he eats at night and does not take care of himself. “There are three slices of corned beef, and hearth slices, I don’t remember five, I don’t remember six,” the servant said about Mitrofan, who ate at night. The name “Mitrofan” is translated from ancient Greek as “mother-like,” which is precisely one of the main characteristics of the hero, as well as his greed, cunning and cruelty towards the servants. You can also call him a mama's boy.
The hero of “The Minor” is used to having everything done for him. He imitates his mother in everything, and how his parents raised him will be his education. Yes, no education, and Mitrofanushka also says 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 loving friend family friend 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. He even loses interest in his own mother as soon as power and money are taken away from her. Thanks to such a hero, the word “Undergrown” became a common noun for a quitter, a loafer, a lazy person. Fonvizin shows negative attitude this character's attitude towards education, consumerist attitude towards parents, Mitrofan does not take into account 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 lazy person.
The boy’s bad attitude towards his nanny and servants, towards his mother and teachers, towards his studies and education evokes a feeling of disgust. I believe that this character can only evoke antipathy in the reader.
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Share:(One of the main characters of Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor” is Prostakov Mitrofan Terentievich, the noble son of the Prostakovs.
The name Mitrofan means “similar”, similar to his mother. Maybe with this name Mrs. Prostakova wanted to show that her son is a reflection of Prostakova herself.
Mitrofanushka was sixteen years old, but his mother did not want to part with her child and wanted to keep him with her until he was twenty-six, without letting him go to work.
Mrs. Prostakova herself was stupid, arrogant, impolite, and for this reason she did not listen to anyone’s opinion.
“While Mitrofan is still in his infancy, it’s time to get him married; and then in ten years, when he enters, God forbid, into the service, you’ll have to endure everything.”
Mitrofanushka himself has no goal in life, he only loved to eat, laze around and chase pigeons: “I’ll run to the dovecote now, maybe, or...” To which his mother replied: “Go and frolic, Mitrofanushka.”
Mitrofan did not want to study, his mother hired teachers for him only because this was how it was supposed to be in noble families, and not so that her son would learn intelligence. As he told his mother: “Listen, mother. I'll amuse you. I'll study; just let it be the last one. The hour of my will has come. I don’t want to study, I want to get married.” And Mrs. Prostakova always echoed him: “It’s very nice to me that Mitrofanushka doesn’t like to step forward, With his mind, may he sweep you far, and God forbid!” Only you are tormented, but all I see is emptiness. Don’t learn this stupid science!” The worst qualities of character, the most backward views on science characterize such young nobles as Mitrofan. He is also unusually lazy.
Mrs. Prostakova herself doted on Mitrofanushka. Fonvizin understood the unreasonableness of her blind, animal love for her brainchild, Mitrofan, a love that, in essence, destroys her son. Mitrofan ate until his stomach hurt, and his mother kept trying to persuade him to eat more. The nanny said: “He’s already eaten five buns, mother.” To which Prostakova replied: “So you feel sorry for the sixth one, you beast.” These words show concern for his son. She tried to provide him with a carefree future and decided to marry him to a rich wife. If someone offends her son, she immediately goes to the defense. Mitrofanushka was her only consolation.
Mitrofan treated his mother with disdain: “Yes!” Just look at the trouble from the uncle: and then from his fists and for the book of hours” What, what do you want to do? Come to your senses, darling!” “It’s here and the river is close. I’ll dive in, remember your name.” “Killed me!” God killed you!”: these words prove that he doesn’t love at all and doesn’t feel sorry for his my own mother, Mitrofan does not respect her and plays on her feelings. And when Prostakova, who has lost power, rushes to her son with the words: You are the only one left with me, my dear friend, Mitrofanushka! " And in response he hears the heartless: “Let yourself go, mother, you forced yourself on me.” “I had such crap in my eyes all night.” “What kind of rubbish is Mitrofanushka?” “Yes, either you, mother, or father.”
Prostakov was afraid of his wife and in her presence spoke about his son like this: “At least, I love him, as a parent should, a smart child, a reasonable child, a funny man, an entertainer; sometimes I am overjoyed by him, I truly don’t believe that he is my son,” and added, looking at his wife: “Before your eyes, mine see nothing.”
Taras Skotinin, looking at everything that was happening, repeated: “Well, Mitrofanushka, you, I see, mother's boy, not Father! And Mitrofan turned to his uncle: “Why, uncle, have you eaten too much henbane? Get out, uncle, get out."
Mitrofan was always rude to his mother and snapped at her. Although Eremeevna did not receive a penny for raising the undergrowth, she tried to teach him good things, defended him from his uncle: “I’ll die on the spot, but I won’t give up the child. Show up, sir, just kindly show up. I’ll scratch out those thorns.” I tried to make him decent person: “Yes, teach me at least a little.” “Well, say another word, you old bastard!” I’ll finish them off; I’ll complain to my mother again, so she’ll deign to give you a task like yesterday.” Of all the teachers, only the German Adam Adamych Vralman praised Mitrofanushka, and only so that Prostakova would not be angry with him and scold him. The other teachers openly scolded him. For example, Tsyfirkin: “Your honor will always be idle.” And Mitrofan snapped: “Well! Give me the board, garrison rat! "Kick your butts." “All butts, your honor. We’re still behind our backs for centuries.” Mitrofan's dictionary is small and poor. “You shot them with Eremeevna too”: this is how he spoke about his teachers and nanny.
Mitrofan was ill-mannered, rude, a spoiled child, whom everyone around obeyed and obeyed, and he also had freedom of speech in the house. Mitrofan was confident that the people around him should help him and give advice. Mitrofan had high self-esteem.
No matter how smart and hardworking a person is, there is a piece of such Mitrofanushka in him. Every person is lazy sometimes. There are also people who try to live only at the expense of their parents, without doing anything themselves. Of course, much depends on how children are raised by their parents.
I treat people like Mitrofan neither good nor bad. I just try to avoid communicating with such people. And in general, I think that we should try to help such people with their difficulties and problems. We need to reason with him and force him to study. If such a person himself does not want to improve, study and study, but, on the contrary, remains stupid and spoiled, treats his elders with disrespect, then he will remain an underage and ignorant for the rest of his life.
Depiction of the people and images in the work “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” by Radishchev A. Radishchev’s novel “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” is one of the most significant phenomena of Russian literature of the eighteenth century. It was written in the then popular “travel” genre, which was discovered by L. Stern, the founder of sentimentalism. In his assessment of man, Radishchev generally followed the sentimentalist writers and wrote that what distinguishes man from the beast is precisely the ability to sympathize. Sympathy and compassion are the main emotions of the narrator in the novel: “I looked around me - my soul became wounded by the suffering of humanity.”
What does the narrator have compassion for? The situation of the people. The novel gives a broad panorama of the life of the serf peasantry. And Radishchev is outraged not so much by the poverty and hard work of the peasants, but by the fact that they, like serfs, are deprived of free will and legally have no rights. “The peasant is dead in law,” writes Radishchev. Moreover, he is dead only when the protection of the law is required. The head of “Zaitsevo” speaks about this. For many years, the cruel landowner and his family tortured the peasants, and no one ever stood up for the unfortunate people. When the peasants, driven out of patience, killed the monster, the law remembered them, and they were sentenced to death.
The fate of the peasant is terrible: “And the lot of the one riveted in chains, and the lot of the prisoner in a stinking dungeon, and the lot of the ox in the yoke.” But the narrator, brought up on the ideas of enlightenment, asserts the equality of all people. But the peasants for the most part are simply human better than the landowners. Almost all of the landowners in Radishchev’s novel are negative characters, nonhumans. The morals of the peasants are healthy and natural, they are not infected by artificial civilization. This is especially clearly seen when comparing city and village girls: “Look how all the members of my beauties are round, tall, not bent, not spoiled. It's funny to you that they have feet the size of five. vershoks, and maybe even six. Well, my dear niece, with your three-vershok leg, stand next to them and run in a hurry, who will most quickly reach the tall birch tree standing at the end of the meadow?”
Village beauties are healthy and virtuous, but city girls have “rouge on their cheeks, rouge on their hearts, rouge on their conscience, soot on their sincerity.”
Radishchev's main merit and his main difference from the majority of accusatory literature of the eighteenth century is that he does not complain about individual negative examples, but condemns the very order of things, the existence of serfdom: The peace of slavery will not increase under the shadow of golden fruits; Where everything disgusts the mind with aspiration, Greatness will not vegetate there.
The originality of “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” lies in the fact that Radishchev, taking the form of a “journey,” filled it with accusatory content. The sensitive hero of sentimental literature, although capable of compassion, seeks to escape from the evil of this world into himself, and the narrator from “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” is concerned with public issues and strives to serve the public good.
“Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” is the first Russian ideological novel, which poses not so much artistic as political goals. This is its originality and significance for all of our literature. The image of Mitrofan in Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor.” The name Mitrofan is translated as like a mother, like a mother. He was sixteen years old, he should have already entered the service at the age of fifteen, but Mrs. Prostokova did not want to be separated from her son.
He had no goal in life, he did not think about the future or his studies, and all day long Mitrofanushka chased pigeons. He was not hardworking, but was very lazy. He never overworked himself. After all, from a spoiled son, Mitrofani turns into cruel person, traitor. He betrays his mother when he finds out that she is no longer the mistress of the house. He shows his real attitude towards her. It seems to me that there cannot be a worse punishment, even for someone like Prostakova. Mrs. Prostakova says that people live and have lived without science.
Nanny Eremeevna, who raised Mitrofanushka as best she could, endured all the insults, but after all this Mitrofan wanted her to protect him from everyone.
And his mother, to whom he constantly complained about the nanny and his teachers, always cursed and did not pay her, thinking that the nanny was already obliged to her for feeding her and living with them. He treated his teachers, of whom only the arithmetic teacher tried to pass on his knowledge to Mitrofan, with disdain.
Mitrofan doesn’t notice Father at all, because he doesn’t help him in anything.
Mitrofanushka is a very capricious and careless child, he is stupid and impolite, does not think about his future and about people.
I believe that people like Mitrofanushka do not know what happiness is, since they don’t even think about it, so they cannot be happy.
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Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor” is one of the best motivational works. With the help of the image of Mitrofan Prostakov, we can analyze and realize the destructiveness of limitless blindness. parental love and permissiveness.
Description of character
Mitrofan Prostakov is not distinguished by outstanding character qualities. In fact, this is shining example lack of education (in any sense of it) and bad manners.
Excessive parental care and permissiveness became the reason for the formation of a complex character.
At 15 years old, he is still considered a child - his parents forgive him a lot, citing the fact that he is a child and will outgrow it.
Parents spoil their son - they believe that adulthood is full of difficulties, and therefore it is necessary to arrange the period of childhood in such a way that it is the least carefree.
As a result, Mitrofan grows up pampered and spoiled. However, he himself is not capable of good deeds or humanity - the young man constantly quarrels with peasants and teachers, is rude and cruel not only towards them, but also towards his parents.
Receiving neither punishment for his actions nor rebuff, he only becomes more convinced of the correctness of his actions and continues to become more and more bitter.
Mitrofan is not interested in anything other than marriage.
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He does not know how to find beauty and aesthetics in the world around him - nature, art. To some extent, he resembles an animal that is guided solely by basic instincts.
Mitrofan is a very lazy person, he likes the measured life of a parasite and sneak. He doesn't try to achieve anything in life. Although, if desired, he can develop himself. It is worth noting that in general he is a smart person - Mitrofan realizes that he is incredibly stupid, but does not see a problem in this - the world is full of stupid people, so he can find a worthy company for himself.
Attitude towards others
The story of Mitrofan Prostakov is a typical story about what happens when a person is guided by the motive of permissiveness and impunity from childhood. The young man’s parents are overwhelmed by excessive love for their son, which is extremely destructive for him both as an individual and as a unit interpersonal relationships, social communication.
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Mitrofan’s parents did not attach importance to the peculiarities of their son’s interaction with society, did not make adjustments and did not correct their son’s mistakes that arose in communicating with other people, which as a result resulted in an extremely unfavorable picture.
In Mitrofan’s mind, communication with a person begins with determining his position in society - if it is significant, important person(aristocrat), then the young man is trying to meet the minimum etiquette standards, which is true and this is difficult for him. Mitrofan does not stand on ceremony with ordinary people at all.
Mitrofan's disdainful, rude attitude towards teachers is common. The parents, again, do not interfere with their son, and therefore the situation develops into the level of interpersonal relationships in general. Mitrofan is allowed to be rude to other people (mostly these are people lower in social status, or those who are not able to fight back), while teachers and educators are forced to follow the rules of etiquette and treat their pupils courteously.
For example, it is common for young man it seems like an exclamation to the teacher in a similar way: “Give me the board, garrison rat! Ask what to write." As well as insulting addresses towards his nanny: “old bastard.”
As a result, a mother who madly loves her child also becomes the subject of rudeness. From time to time, Mitrofan reproaches his mother for being tired of her, blackmails her - he threatens to commit suicide, and on the whole successfully sums up his mother’s efforts: “You lured me in, blame yourself.”
Attitude to learning
While the bulk of the aristocracy tried to give best education Mitrofan's parents teach their children, in the hope that this will allow their children to become successful in life, because it is impossible not to teach - the decree issued by Peter I obliges all aristocrats to teach their children arithmetic, grammar and God's word.
Image of Mitrofan Prostakov for modern reader does not seem entirely typical - in most cases, history and literature provide images of educated, although not always purposeful, aristocrats. The image of Prostakov seems out of the ordinary, however, if you think about it, you can come to the conclusion that this is not so. This fact is confirmed historical documents(decree of Peter I on the compulsory education of nobles) - if the situation with lack of education were not widespread, then it is unlikely that it would be reflected in official documents.
Mitrofan's parents are not educated people– their knowledge is based on life experience, in general, they do not see the point in education and consider science a necessary measure, a tribute to fashion. This attitude of the parents, in particular the mother, provoked a feeling of unnecessary education in the eyes of Mitrofan.
Prostakov’s parents were unable to convey to him the idea of the need for education and the prospects that open up for an educated person, and in fact they could not do this - Mitrofan’s mother considered education an evil, a necessity that must be experienced. From time to time, she adds fuel to the fire, voicing her true attitude towards studying: “my friend, at least study for show, so that his ears can reach him how hard you work!”
In other words, the mother in no way condemns her son for his negligent behavior in the field of education and training, which further convinces Mitrofan that this whole process is useless and unnecessary, and is carried out solely “for show.”
This attitude led to another problem - a strong negative attitude towards the learning process itself and towards the teachers.
Over several years of study, Mitrofan was unable to advance one iota and therefore he is still a “minor” - due to insufficient knowledge, the young man cannot obtain documents attesting to his education, but his parents are of little concern about this.
After four years of learning to read and write, Mitrofan still reads syllables, reading new texts still seems like an unsolvable task for him, and things won’t be much better with those he already knows – Mitrofan constantly makes mistakes.
With arithmetic, things also do not look optimistic - after several years of study, Mitrofan only mastered counting to three.
The only thing where Mitrofan succeeded was French. His teacher, the German Vralman, speaks rather flatteringly about his student, but in this case the matter is not in Mitrofan’s exceptional predisposition to learning languages, but in Vralman’s ability to deceive - Adam Adamovich not only successfully hides true position level of knowledge of his student, but also deceives the Prostakovs, posing as a teacher - Vralman himself does not know French, but, taking advantage of the Prostakovs’ stupidity, he successfully creates an appearance.
As a result, Mitrofan finds himself hostage to the situation - on the one hand, his parents do not see the point in education, and are gradually instilling this position in their son. On the other hand, stupid, poorly educated teachers, due to their knowledge, cannot teach a young man anything. At a time when the situation with arithmetic and grammar teachers looks at the level of “difficult, but possible” - neither Kuteikin nor Tsyfirkin have exceptional knowledge, but they still have the bulk of knowledge, then the situation with Vralman looks completely catastrophic - man , who does not know French, teaches French.
Thus, Mitrofan Prostakov represents a person with an insignificant soul, petty desires limited to the carnal, animal satisfaction of his needs, who has reached the limit in his moral and spiritual development. Paradoxically, having the opportunity, Mitrofan does not strive to realize his potential, but, on the contrary, wastes his life in vain. He finds a certain charm in laziness and parasitism and does not consider this a flaw.
The image and characteristics of Mitrofanushka in Fonvizin’s “Nedorosl”: a description of Mitrofan Prostakov
5 (100%) 3 votesMitrofanushka (Prostakov Mitrofan) is the son of the landowners Prostakovs. He is considered a minor because he is 16 years old and has not reached the age of majority. Following the tsar's decree, Mitrofanushka studies. But he does this with great reluctance. He is characterized by stupidity, ignorance and laziness (scenes with teachers).
Mitrofan is rude and cruel. He does not value his father at all and mocks teachers and serfs. He takes advantage of the fact that his mother dotes on him and spins her around as she wants.
Mitrofan stopped in his development. Sophia says about him: “Although he is 16 years old, he has already reached the last degree of his perfection and will not go further.”
Mitrofan combines the traits of a tyrant and a slave. When Prostakova's plan to marry her son to a rich pupil, Sophia, fails, the undergrowth behaves like a slave. He humbly asks for forgiveness and humbly accepts “his sentence” from Starodum - to go serve (“For me, wherever they tell you”). Slave upbringing was instilled in the hero, on the one hand, by the serf nanny Eremeevna, and, on the other hand, by the whole world of the Prostakov-Skotinins, whose concepts of honor are distorted.
Through the image of Mitrofan, Fonvizin shows the degradation of the Russian nobility: from generation to generation, ignorance increases, and the coarseness of feelings reaches animal instincts. No wonder Skotinin calls Mitrofan “damned pig.” The reason for such degradation is an incorrect, disfiguring upbringing.
The image of Mitrofanushka and the very concept of “minor” have become a household word. Nowadays they say this about ignorant and stupid people.
The name Mitrofan translates as like a mother, like a mother. He was sixteen years old, he should have already entered the service at the age of fifteen, but Mrs. Prostokova did not want to be separated from her son.
He had no goal in life, he did not think about the future or his studies, and all day long Mitrofanushka chased pigeons. He was not hardworking, but was very lazy. He never overworked himself. After all, from a spoiled son, Mitrofani turns into a cruel person, a traitor. He betrays his mother when he finds out that she is no longer the mistress of the house. He shows his real attitude towards her. It seems to me that there cannot be a worse punishment, even for someone like Prostakova. Mrs. Prostakova says that people live and have lived without science.
Nanny Eremeevna, who raised Mitrofanushka as best she could, endured all the insults, but after all this Mitrofan wanted her to protect him from everyone.
And his mother, to whom he constantly complained about the nanny and his teachers, always cursed and did not pay her, thinking that the nanny was already obliged to her for feeding her and living with them. He treated his teachers, of whom only the arithmetic teacher tried to pass on his knowledge to Mitrofan, with disdain.
Mitrofan doesn’t notice Father at all, because he doesn’t help him in anything.
Mitrofanushka is a very capricious and careless child, he is stupid and impolite, does not think about his future and about people.
I believe that people like Mitrofanushka do not know what happiness is, since they don’t even think about it, so they cannot be happy.
Mitrofanushka
MITROFANUSHKA is the hero of D.I.’s comedy. Fonvizin “Nedorosl” (1781), a sixteen-year-old teenager (minor), the only son of Mrs. Prostakova, his mother’s darling and the favorite of the servants. M. as a literary type was not Fonvizin’s discovery. Russian literature of the late 18th century. knew and portrayed such teenagers, living freely in rich parental homes and barely able to read and write at the age of sixteen. Fonvizin endowed this traditional figure of noble life (especially provincial) with the generic features of the Prostakov-Skotinin “nest”. In his parents’ house, M. is the main “funny man” and “entertainer”, the inventor and witness of all the stories like the one he saw in his dream: how his mother beat his father. It is well known how M. took pity on his mother, who was busy with the difficult task of beating her father. M.'s day is marked by absolute idleness: fun in the dovecote, where M. is saving himself from lessons, is interrupted by Eremeevna, begging the “child” to learn. Having blabbed to his uncle about his desire to get married, M. immediately hides behind Eremeevna - “an old bastard,” in his words, who is ready to lay down his life, but “can’t give it away to the “child.” M.’s boorish arrogance is akin to his mother’s manner of treating household members and servants: “freak” and “weeper” - the husband, “dog’s daughter” and “nasty mug” - Eremeevna, “beast” - the girl Palashka. If the intrigue of the comedy revolves around the marriage of M. to Sophia, desired by the Prostakovs, then the plot is focused on the theme of the upbringing and teaching of a teenage underage. This is a traditional theme for educational literature. M.'s teachers were selected in accordance with the time standard and the parents' level of understanding of their task. Here Fonvizin emphasizes details that speak of the quality of choice characteristic of the simpleton family: M. is taught French by the German Vralman, exact sciences are taught by retired sergeant Tsyfirkin, who “speaks a little of arithmetic,” and grammar by the “educated” seminarian Kuteikin, who was fired from “all teaching” by permission of the consistory. From here to famous scene M.'s exam is an outstanding invention of Mitrofan's ingenuity about the noun and adjective door, hence the intriguingly fabulous ideas about the story recounted by the cowgirl Khavronya. In general, the result was summed up by Mrs. Prostakova, who is convinced that “people live and have lived without science.” Fonvizin's hero is a teenager, almost a youth, whose character is affected by the disease of dishonesty, spreading to every thought and every feeling inherent in him. He is dishonest in his attitude towards his mother, through whose efforts he exists in comfort and idleness and whom he abandons at the moment when she needs his consolation. The comic clothes of the image are funny only at first glance. V.O. Klyuchevsky classified M. as a breed of creatures “related to insects and microbes,” characterizing this type with inexorable “reproduction.” Thanks to the hero Fonvizin, the word “minor” (formerly neutral) became a common noun for a quitter, a loafer and a lazy person.
Mitrofanushka (Prostakov Mitrofan) is the son of the landowners Prostakovs. It is considered an undergrowth because he is 16 years old and has not reached the age of majority. Following the tsar's decree, Mitrofanushka studies. But he does this with great reluctance. He is characterized by stupidity, ignorance and laziness (scenes with teachers).
Mitrofan is rude and cruel. He does not value his father at all and mocks teachers and serfs. He takes advantage of the fact that his mother dotes on him and spins her around as she wants.
Mitrofan stopped in his development. Sophia says about him: “Even though he is 16 years old, he has already reached the last degree of his perfection and will not go further.”
Mitrofan combines the traits of a tyrant and a slave. When Prostakova's plan to marry her son to a rich pupil, Sophia, fails, the undergrowth behaves like a slave. He humbly asks for forgiveness and humbly accepts “his sentence” from Starodum - to go serve (“For me, wherever they tell you”). Slave upbringing was instilled in the hero, on the one hand, by the serf nanny Eremeevna, and, on the other hand, by the whole world of the Prostakov-Skotinins, whose concepts of honor are distorted.
Through the image of Mitrofan, Fonvizin shows the degradation of the Russian nobility: from generation to generation, ignorance increases, and the coarseness of feelings reaches animal instincts. No wonder Skotinin calls Mitrofan “damned pig.” The reason for such degradation is an incorrect, disfiguring upbringing.
The image of Mitrofanushka and the very concept of “minor” have become a household word. Nowadays they say this about ignorant and stupid people.