About Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and his work "War and Peace" /part 2/
Tolstoy painted unexpected and unseen forces in the bosom of peasantry, especially during the war. He rethinks the notions of greatness, heroism, patriotism. The majesty of the feat is not in the theatrical gestures, but in the moral rigidity of man by the people, in his simple faith in the righteousness of the great work - the liberation of his homeland from a foreign conquest. The great thing is to look for the ordinary, very small things that make sense of life. The Tolstoy Majesty seeks and reveals in everyday life, man's daily life. In ordinary people, an exceedingly great philosophical depth of thought is shown. Heroism is also not inherent in "heavenly" people. A hero is the one who, at a certain moment in time, manages to obey the inexorable requirement of events, to forget himself and to do everything for others.
For example, with Captain Tushin and Tichon Shcherbatov. The heroic Tolstoy always associates with the natural sense of human and patriotic duty. Under this sign, the writer puts the image of the Austerlitz and Boroden battle, as well as the partisan movement at the back of the Napoleonic army. Hero is the whole soldier's mass in the battles. Hero is the whole guerrilla table, the rabble chased the robbers. The heroine is the villager - guerrilla leader Tikhon Shcherbatov, the grocer Smolensk Ferapontov, who kindles his grocery store, the peasant Karp and Vlas from Podmošvoie, who burn their hay without being tempted by the promises of the French to pay them dearly. The folk idea of the writer in his own way is in the form of Plato Karatayev. In the novel "War and Peace," Tolstoy paid little attention to class contradictions and struggles between villagers and villagers because he did not consider them a major factor, and because this was not his primary artistic task. His task here is to show the spirit of the philosophy of the people at a time of the most difficult trials, to develop the idea of the great bond between the person and the collective without which not only the social progress but also the life itself would be impossible. The problem of courtesy occupies a lot of space in "War and Peace" and is one of the main issues that the writer excites. The palace was in decline not only in the 1960s when Tolstoy created, but at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its material status was shaken, it lacked spiritual integrity, purpose, and ideal. The widespread pictures and numerous images in the novel reveal the overall state of the spiritual and material life of the yoke of that time. In general, Tolstoy shows two categories of courtiers.
One, the multiple, is depicted in a negative light. Here are the Kuraghini family (Prince Vassilius and his sons Hippolytus and Anatol and his daughter Helene), the family (Anna Mihaylovna and her son Boris), the maid of honor Anna Scherer and her surroundings, Rostopchin, Berg and many others. These are people who have lost touch with the earth and their people. They are detached from the manor, they have no contact with the peasants. They move to court, higher diplomatic and military circles or try to get there. They are deprived of ideals, of patriotism, of personal honor. Tolstoy shows through numerous episodes how they, both peacefully and at wartime, pursue their personal goals firmly and unyielding, and for a moment they can not come out of their narrow, selfish shell. The wicked struggle surrounding the legacy of the old Count of Bezuhov, the various moves of Basil Curaghin on the marriage of his sons and daughters, the struggles for ranks and positions in the army as long as the people are dying on the battlefield - this is the content of the life of this urban, part of courtesy. Typical of it is the lack of knowledge of native Russian. When some people attempt fake patriotic reasons during the war not to speak in French, this is not possible. There is no respect for the history and culture of the country. This is a parasitic layer glued to the body of the real, living mass, which with labor, sweat and blood creates and protects life.
Though, I don't know the hero you are talking about before. But, through your can sense that the person is remarkable.
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