Oblomov's dream detailed summary. Analysis of the fragment “Oblomov’s Dream” from Goncharov’s novel
Oblomov's dream consists of several parts, which tell about his past, his childhood, when he was seven years old.
First part.
In a dream, Oblomov sees his native village, in which he was born - Oblomovka. This village is very quiet, practically no different from others. Residents lead a quiet life, repeating itself every day. The Oblomov family is presented as sweet and kind people, but, unfortunately, they do not like to work and do not understand why work is needed at all. That is why they always have fun, and sadness can rarely be seen on their faces. They have no worries - they don't notice that the porch needs to be touched up or the roof patched.
Second part.
Next, Oblomov sees himself at seven years old. When Ilya was little, he had the following qualities: cheerful, curious and inquisitive. He wanted to learn a lot, to see the world, but his nanny and mother did not allow him to do this. Parents were lazy and did not work, sat by the window and drank tea. Lunch was followed by a nap that lasted about three hours. At this time, no one is watching Ilyusha, so he tries to explore the area behind the fence, and when someone starts to wake up, he returns to the house. If the nanny sees that little Ilyusha has gone beyond the fence or is walking on the way to the ravine, screams and yelling begin, everyone runs to save the poor boy.
Part three.
In this part, Oblomov is about thirteen years old.
He studies at a boarding school with his friend Stolz, the boy is inquisitive, but often does not go to school because his mother does not let him in - you never know, he will catch a cold and get sick. Frequent holidays also interfere with school attendance. Therefore, Oblomov often did not come to school for weeks. True friend helps him with his homework, teaches him some rules.
At the age of fourteen, the boy did not lose his desire to learn a lot, but again the prohibitions of his parents ruin this idea, so after that any desire for Oblomov to develop further disappears. All relatives come to Ilya’s aid at the first call; Zakhar, a servant in the house, often dresses Ilya himself, which then leads Oblomov to become a dependent person.
This dream teaches that the influence of parents is very important for the child. They are the role models and all their habits and rules are passed on to the younger generation. Oblomov’s parents taught the boy to always be careful, not to go outside the gates of the house, not to respect work and to be lazy, so after a few years Oblomov grew up the same as his parents - he did not strive for anything, did not want or do anything. Their lack of education was also passed on to their son; in childhood he at least tried to learn some sciences, but after that he began to imitate his mother and father - just drink tea and look out the window.
The dream also teaches that without work, a person’s life loses all meaning. The person becomes a burden and is not ready for real life. He does not notice the problems, neglects not only himself, but also his estate, his home. Afterwards, he transfers the neglected estate to his children, who are not much different from themselves.
Oblomovka village - shining example how people live without work. All this leads to spiritual death.
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"Oblomov's Dream" The origins of one person and the whole country. By the end of the first part, Oblomov is ready to change his old life. The hero is forced by external circumstances (the need to move, a decrease in the profitability of the estate). However, internal motivations are more important. But before we see the results of Ilya Ilyich’s efforts to get up from the couch, Goncharov introduces a specially titled short story about the hero’s childhood - “Oblomov’s Dream.” The author seeks to find an answer to the question tormenting Oblomov, why “a heavy stone was thrown on<…>path of his existence" who "stole<…>treasures brought to him as a gift of peace and life.”
Literary heroes often dream... A dream helps us understand the character of a character, predict the future fate, or reveal the philosophical thoughts of the author. So Oblomov is not just dozing. The dream draws us ideal hero. But the ideal is not abstract: it was once embodied in parental home, in Oblomovka. Therefore the dream is at the same time memory happy childhood, it is seen through the prism of excited tenderness (especially the image of the late mother). However, both this ideal and this memory are more real for Oblomov than the present. Falling asleep sad dream, “troubled” by the worries of life in St. Petersburg, which was foreign to him, Ilya Ilyich woke up as a seven-year-old boy - “it’s easy and fun for him.” Goncharov's hero is physically present in the capital, but his soul here curls up and dies. Spiritually the character is still lives in his native Oblomovka.
In Oblomovka, as in Hrach, people live with a patriarchal consciousness. “The norm of life was taught to them ready-made by their parents, and they accepted it, also ready-made, from their grandfather, and grandfather from their great-grandfather... Just as what was done under their fathers and grandfathers, so it was done under Ilya Ilyich’s father, so, perhaps, is still being done now in Oblomovka.” That is why any manifestation of personal will and interests, even the most innocent, like a letter, fills the souls of Oblomovites with horror.
Even time flows differently in Oblomovka. “They kept track of time by holidays, by seasons<...>, never referring to months or numbers. Perhaps this was due to the fact that<…>everyone confused the names of the months and the order of the numbers.” To the linear flow of events - from number to number, from event to event - they preferred circular, or cyclical, time according to the seasons of the year, according to repeating church holidays. And this is the guarantee of universal stability.
Nature itself seems to support them: “Neither terrible storms nor destruction can be heard in that region,”<…>there are no poisonous reptiles there, locusts do not fly there; there are no roaring lions or roaring tigers...” The relatively mild climate makes it unnecessary to resist nature, to be ready to repel its attacks (as we would say, “cataclysms”). Nature helps to live in Peace, “at random”: “Like one hut ended up on the cliff of a ravine, it has been hanging there since time immemorial, standing with one foot in the air and propped up by three poles. Three or four generations lived quietly and happily in it. It seems that the chicken was afraid to enter it, and there lives with his wife Onisim Suslov, a respectable man who does not stare at his full height in his home.” But maybe the peasant Onisim simply does not have the money to repair his home? The author introduces a paired episode: the same thing happens in the manor’s courtyard, where a dilapidated gallery “suddenly collapsed and buried a hen with her chickens under its ruins...”. “Everyone was amazed that the gallery had collapsed, and the day before they wondered how it had held up for so long!” And here this “maybe” psychology manifests itself: “Old Man Oblomov< …>will be preoccupied with the thought of an amendment: he will call a carpenter,” and that’s the end of it.
Goncharov also includes fairy tales, epics, and scary stories about the dead, werewolves, etc. The writer sees in Russian folklore not just “legends of deep antiquity.” This is evidence of a certain stage of development human society: “The life of the man of that time was terrible and wrong; It was dangerous for him to go beyond the threshold of the house: he would be whipped by an animal, a robber would kill him, an evil Tatar would take everything away from him, or the man would disappear without a trace, without any trace.” A person had a primary task: to survive physically, to feed himself. That is why a cult reigns in Oblomovka Food, the ideal of a well-fed, plump child - “you just have to look at what pink and weighty cupids the local mothers wear and lead around with them.” Of primary importance for people are not individual events (love, career), but those that contribute to the continuation of the Family - births, funerals, weddings. In this case, what was meant was not the personal happiness of the newlyweds, but the opportunity through the eternal ritual to confirm the eternity of the Family: “They ( Oblomovites) with hearts beating with excitement, they awaited the ritual, the ceremony, and then,<...>got married<...>people, they forgot about the man himself and his fate..."
Misunderstanding of the laws of the surrounding world leads to the flourishing of fantasy: “Our poor ancestors lived gropingly; they did not inspire or restrain their will, and then they naively marveled or were horrified by the inconvenience, evil and interrogated the reasons from the silent, unclear hieroglyphs of nature.” Frightening themselves with real and imaginary dangers, people perceived the distant world as initially hostile, and tried in every possible way to hide from it in their Home. Goncharov was sure that all countries of the world had passed through the “Oblomov” period. The writer discovered signs of Oblomov’s timid isolation on the Japanese Islands. But how did Oblomovka preserve its old way of life through centuries and decades? In its own way, it was also located on distant islands - “peasants<...>transported bread to the nearest pier to the Volga, which was their Colchis and the Pillars of Hercules<…>and had no further relations with anyone.” “Oblomov’s Dream” tells about the impenetrable Russian wilderness. Just two centuries ago, the Volga, Trans-Volga lands were the last outpost of civilization (almost like the frontier in America). Further on stretched the spaces inhabited by semi-wild uncivilized tribes - Kazakhs, Kirghiz.
The reluctance to look beyond Oblomovka was a kind of commandment: “ Happy people lived, thinking that it should not and cannot be otherwise, confident that<…>to live otherwise is a sin.” But the Oblomovites not only did not want, they did not feel the need to go beyond the boundaries of their self-sufficient little world. “They knew that eighty miles from them there was a “province,” that is, a provincial city<…>, then they knew that further away, there, Saratov or Nizhny; we heard that there are Moscow and St. Petersburg, that the French or Germans live beyond St. Petersburg, and then it began<…>a dark world, unknown countries inhabited by monsters...” Something alien, unfamiliar, can be hostile, but anyone born within small world Oblomovki are provided with love and affection. There is no internal conflicts and tragedies. Even death, surrounded by many ancient rituals, appears as a sad, but not dramatic episode in the endless flow of generations. The features of an earthly paradise and fairy tales in reality are preserved here. According to the laws of the fairy tale, all important philosophical questions about the meaning of existence are either not raised or are resolved satisfactorily by fathers and grandfathers (in Oblomovka there is an undeniable cult of Home, Family, Peace). But all ordinary objects and phenomena acquire truly fabulous, grandiose proportions: “imperturbable calm,” gigantic meals, heroic sleep, terrible thefts (“one day, two pigs and a chicken suddenly disappeared”). And here’s what’s interesting: another modern researcher V.A. Niedzvetsky suggested that the idea to describe the life and customs of the patriarchal people of hobbits came to Tolkien after reading the book of the Russian writer. For now, this is a hypothesis and, therefore, does not claim to be absolutely certain. But we also cannot discount the fact that everyone’s favorite foreign writers took lessons from Russian literature.
By the time Goncharov wrote these lines, Oblomovka had not yet disappeared from the map of Russia. The flesh disappeared, but the spirit remained. Oblomovka’s rules of life are too adapted to the way of Russian life, the worldview of the Russian person. Druzhinin believed that “Oblomov’s Dream”<…>“connected him with a thousand invisible bonds to the heart of every Russian reader.” Old world was the custodian of eternal values, carefully separating good from evil. Love reigns here, everyone is provided with warmth and affection. In addition, the “Oblomov” world is an inexhaustible source of poetry, from which Goncharov generously drew color throughout his entire career. The writer often resorts to fairy-tale comparisons, contrasts, formulas (to enter the hut to Onesimus, you must ask stand with your back to the forest and your front towards it; frightened Ilyusha " neither alive nor dead rushes" to the nanny; when the gallery collapsed “they began to reproach each other for how it had not occurred to them for a long time: one - to remind, another - to tell to correct, to the third - to correct"). Researcher Yu. Loschits called creative method writer with fabulous realism.
Only one thing worries the Russian writer in this primordial moral structure of Oblomovka. This is disgust, an organic rejection of all kinds of work; everything that requires a little effort. “They endured labor as a punishment imposed on our forefathers, but they could not love, and where there was a chance, they always got rid of it, finding it possible and proper.” It may seem that the writer had in mind lordly Russia. Indeed, if the old Oblomovs can concentrate their worries on thinking about and devouring dinner, the peasants have to work, and the plowman is “throwing around in a black field, sweating profusely.” But the ideal of happiness as laziness and doing nothing is common to them. This is evidenced by symbolic images of a house threatening to collapse, a universal sleep, or a “gigantic” holiday cake. Everyone devoured the pie as evidence of participation in the lordly way of life. That is why fairy tales about heroes like Emelya, who were able to “at the behest of a pike, achieve everything without working,” are so popular among all the residents of the corner.
In the midst of this "blessed" peace grows small man. Mother’s chores, father’s “business” conversations with the servants, the daily routine of the manor’s house, weekdays and holidays, summer and winter - everything flashes before the child’s eyes like frames from a film. Everyday episodes are interspersed with remarks: “And the child listened,” “the child sees...”, “and the child watched and observed everything.” Once again, as in “Ordinary History,” Goncharov appears in the guise of a teacher. He comes to a conclusion that was bold for its time. Raising a child begins not with targeted efforts, but with an early, almost unconscious assimilation of the impressions of the environment. Goncharov depicts his hero as a living, active child, eager to explore a gallery, ravine, grove, earning the nickname “yula” from his nanny. But the influence scary tales, loving despotism of parents led to the fact that vitality boy "nikli, fading." In light of such a sad conclusion, the episodes of Ilyusha’s interrupted pranks literally sound like “laughter through tears”: “At home they already despaired of seeing him, considering him dead;<…>the parents' joy was indescribable<…>. They gave him mint, then elderberry, and in the evening, raspberries.<…>, and one thing could be useful for him: playing snowballs again.” And, of course, let’s not forget about the famous stockings that Oblomov Jr. is pulled on first by the nanny, then by Zakhar. Once again his elders instill in him the norm of idleness; As soon as the boy forgets himself before doing something himself, a parental voice reminds him: “What about Vanka, and Vaska, and Zakharka?”
Studying, which also requires mental effort and limitations, also falls into the category of hated work. What modern schoolchild does not understand such lines, for example: “As soon as he ( Ilyusha) wakes up on Monday, he is already overwhelmed by melancholy. He hears Vaska’s sharp voice shouting from the porch:
Antipka! Lay down the pinto: take the little baron to the German!
His heart will tremble.<…>Otherwise, his mother will look at him intently on Monday morning and say:
Somehow your eyes are not fresh today. Are you healthy? - and shakes his head.
The crafty boy is healthy, but silent.
“Just sit at home this week,” she will say, “and see what God gives.”
Since the time of Mitrofanushka, enlightenment has taken a step forward: “The old people understood the benefits of enlightenment, but only its external benefits...” The need to work, at least in order to make a career, stumbled over a truly fabulous dream of achieving everything “at the behest of a pike.” An “Oblomov” decision comes to try to cleverly bypass the established rules, “the stones and obstacles scattered along the path of enlightenment and honor, without bothering to jump over them<…>. Study lightly<…>, just to comply with the prescribed form and somehow get a certificate that would say that Ilyusha passed all sciences and arts" In the fabulous Oblomovka, even this dream partially came true. "Son of Stolz ( teachers) spoiled Oblomov, either suggesting lessons to him or doing translations for him.” The German boy was not immune to Oblomovka’s charm and was captivated by the “pure, bright and kind beginning” of Ilya’s character. What more could you want? But such relationships also provide advantages to Andrey. This is the “role of the strong” that Stolz occupied under Oblomov “both physically and morally.” Nobility and slavery, according to Dobrolyubov’s observation, are two sides of the same coin. Not knowing how to work, you have to give up your independence to the will of another (like Zakhar later). Stolz himself sums up Oblomovka’s educational methods with his famous formulation: “It started with the inability to put on stockings, and ended with the inability to live.”
Reading this chapter, we gradually find the answer to the question of how the curious and playful boy Ilyusha Oblomov became a man who does not want to do anything, who has his own servant and office - a comfort zone that he does not leave. Despite this, Oblomov is a spiritually rich person; he is not only smart, but also has an “honest, faithful heart.”
“Oblomov’s Dream” is one of the key and most interesting, magnificent episodes of the entire novel, which explains a lot about the personality of the main character. In this passage, the image of Ilya Ilyich is incredibly idealized, which probably makes the episode more poetic. This part of the novel can be considered a separate work, since Goncharov depicted “The Dream” according to all literary rules.
In the novel, the composition is divided into four most important parts, reflecting different stages the hero's life corresponding to the seasons. That is why the theme of nature in the novel occupies one of the central places - all events seem to be complemented by landscapes, weather or images of nature.
So, at the very beginning of “Dream” we are presented with dazzling landscapes that are so dear to Ilya Ilyich’s heart: Suslov’s house on the very cliff, a gallery with its collapsed part, a dog that everyone considers mad.
Oblomovka, with its incredible atmosphere and limitations, is forever preserved in Oblomov’s memory; it is there that he wants to return all his life. But it was precisely his stay in this place that ruined his whole life. Who knows, perhaps, living far from Oblomovka at the stage of formation of his personality, he could raise a normal, ordinary person.
His entire dream reflects the two life stages of the hero. At the beginning of his dream, Ilya Ilyich sees himself as a small child, open to everything new, full of strength and different ideas. At this age, Ilyusha is just beginning to develop his personality, but the distance from everything, the many nannies and servants are already shaping him into a lazy person who loves everything ready-made. After all, even the nurses, who knew that the child would certainly run into the ravine (which his mother strictly forbade), turned a blind eye to this, allowing his soul to do whatever it wanted.
From the early age Ilyusha, isolated from literally everything, saw the world as ideal and infinitely kind, perceived it with his soul, and not with his mind, and all these fairy tales about countries with complete freedom, which his nanny read to him, already laid in him things that would accompany him in the future all life. Further, Oblomov appears to us already in adolescence, with all the hardships of learning. Although, what difficulties it was, even if Andrei, the teacher’s son, did his homework for him, and not Ilya himself. It was because he was pampered as a child that in the future he became a lazy person who only wanted to sleep.
Even if this episode has an idyllic character, but, as the critic A. Druzhinin wrote: “Oblomov’s dream was the first, powerful step towards understanding Oblomov with his Oblomovism.” I. Goncharov, having endowed his main character with the phrase that Oblomovism ruined him, was not mistaken, exposing to the readers the whole moral problem novel. Despite the fact that more than a century has passed since the release of the novel, the themes touched upon in Oblomov are still relevant today, because we see in it the work of the entire Russian life. It is possible that such an Ilya Ilyich lives in each of us, but what to do with him in the process of our development is up to us to decide.
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is a work by Goncharov, where the author reflects the problems that concern him, explaining their reasons, and trying to express his beliefs and hopes. He wrote his novel for about ten years, and he introduces us to the life of the main character Ilya Oblomov, who became a prominent representative of the nobility of the 19th century. At that time there were many such Oblomovs. Getting acquainted with the work, we see a lazy person, full of apathy towards life, a person who would like to lie on the sofa, but doesn’t need anything else. Why is the hero like this? Oblomov himself asked this question in Goncharov’s work, and here we need to turn to the origins, that is, to childhood, in order to understand the character of a person. This is where the head of Son Oblomov comes to the rescue. To get acquainted with the plot of this chapter, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with its summary.
Oblomov's dream summary
Studying the work, in chapter 9, entitled Oblomov’s Dream, we are transported to Oblomovka, at a time when our hero was little. In his dream we get acquainted with the description of Oblomovka. For Ilya, this is like heaven on earth, where life flows smoothly, where everything flows monotonously and monotonously, where few people care about problems and questions about the meaning of life.
Further in the episode Oblomov's Dream, the hero sees himself as a seven-year-old boy, cheerful, inquisitive, and energetic. He is ready to study everything and experiment. He should be able to run, frolic and explore the world, but not in Oblomovka, where they watched every step of the child, made sure that Ilya did not overexert himself, where at any moment they would do everything for him, after all, there are serfs for this. The author introduces us to Oblomov’s parents, lazy, but at the same time kind people. Because of his laziness, the farm is abandoned, it is easy to rob them, because Oblomov’s father does not even know what his income is. Oblomov’s mother only cares about drawing up the menu, because in Oblomovka it is very important to eat well and then sleep. It was during lunchtime that Ilya acquired complete freedom, when he could do everything that was forbidden to him.
In the next episode, Ilya sees himself as a fourteen-year-old boy. He studies at Stolts' boarding house, where Andrei Stolts does his homework for him. At the same time, Ilya’s parents are looking for various reasons for their child not to go to classes, and in general they believe that studying is not necessary and knowledge will not be useful in life. We see that Ilya wants to develop, wants to explore the world, but his parents suppress these impulses and as a result, the playful boy turns into a lazy nobleman.
Oblomov's dream analysis
Making chapters of Oblomov's Dream, we can say that the role of Oblomov's dream, like the meaning of the dream itself, is great. This chapter is a full-fledged work that complements Goncharov’s novel and makes it possible to understand why Ilya lives such a lazy life, where he cannot even dress himself. In it we understand that Oblomov’s laziness is an acquired quality and there is proof of this - the chapter of Oblomov’s Dream. We understand that if Ilya had grown up in a different atmosphere, his parents had not initially interfered with his development and exploration of the world, then the hero’s life would have turned out differently. It could be bright, rich. And so, why should he do anything when all he has to do is blink and several servants will fulfill any order, any desire. At the same time, he now solves all his life questions with a simple answer: not now. This is our Oblomov, who became like this under the influence of the environment in which he grew up and developed. This is not an anomaly, but a habit from childhood of getting what you want at the expense of others, and it was this habit that developed the apathy and immobility of the hero, plunged him into a lazy state and a miserable existence.
"Oblomov's Dream" (Analysis of an episode from I.A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”.)
Plan.
I. Place of the episode “Oblomov’s Dream” in the work.
II. Oblomov's dream as a step towards understanding Oblomovism.
1. Idyllic landscape of Oblomovka.
2. Harmony and regularity of life in the “god-blessed corner”:
3. Time and space of Oblomovka:
a) limited space;
b) the immutability of Oblomov’s life.
4. Customs and rituals of Oblomovites:
a) the mythical consciousness of people;
b) a special attitude towards signs.
5. Mythical nature of sleep.
III. Oblomov's dream is the key to understanding the character of the hero.
In I. A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov,” the episode “Oblomov’s Dream” occupies a key place. It helps more fully and deeply
reveal the image of the main character. Consider his dreams, ideas about life on a subconscious level, that is, with the help
sleep.
Oblomov's dream takes us to Oblomovka. A person can live comfortably there, he does not have a feeling of unsettled life,
vulnerability to the vast world. Nature and man are fused, united, and, it seems, the sky, which is able to protect
Oblomovites from everyone external manifestations, “there it is closer to the earth,” and this sky spreads over the earth, like the roof of a house.
There is neither the sea that excites human consciousness, nor mountains and abysses that look like the teeth and claws of a wild beast,
and the entire area around is “a series of picturesque sketches, cheerful, smiling landscapes.” Such an atmosphere of peace
Oblomovki conveys complete agreement, harmony in this world, and “the heart just asks to hide in this forgotten by all
corner and live with happiness unknown to anyone.”
“Neither terrible storms nor destruction can be heard in that region.” You can't read anything scary about it in the newspapers
"God's blessed corner." There were no “strange heavenly signs” there; there are no poisonous reptiles there; "locusts"
does not fly there; there are no lions, no tigers, not even wolves and bears, because there are no forests. Everything in Oblomovka is calm,
nothing distracts or depresses. There is nothing unusual in it, even “a poet or a dreamer would not be satisfied with the general
view of this modest and unpretentious area.” A complete idyll reigns in Oblomovka.
An idyllic landscape is inseparable from a specific spatial corner where fathers and grandfathers lived, children and grandchildren will live.
The space of Oblomovka is limited, it is not connected with another world. Of course, the Oblomovites knew that in eighty
miles from them there is a provincial town, but they rarely went there, they knew about Saratov, and about Moscow, St. Petersburg, “what’s beyond St. Petersburg
the French or Germans live, and then a dark world began for them, as for the ancients, unknown countries inhabited
monsters, people with two heads, giants; there followed darkness - and, finally, everything ended with that fish that
holds the earth on itself.”
None of the residents of Oblomovka strive to leave this world, because there is something alien, hostile there, and they are quite happy with it.
a happy “life-being”, and their world is independent, holistic and complete.
Life in Oblomovka proceeds as if according to a previously planned pattern, calmly and measuredly. Nothing worries her
residents. Even “the annual circle is completed there correctly and calmly.”
A strictly limited space lives according to its age-old traditions and rituals. Love, birth, marriage, work, death -
Oblomovka’s whole life boils down to this circle and is as unchangeable as the change of seasons.
Love in Oblomovka has a completely different character than in real world, it cannot become some kind of revolution in the soul
human life, it is not opposed to other aspects of life. Love-passion is contraindicated in the world of Oblomovites, they are “bad
they believed... spiritual anxieties, did not accept the cycle of eternal aspirations somewhere, for something as life; feared like fire
hobbies of passions.” An even, calm experience of love is natural for Oblomovites.
Rituals and rituals occupy a significant place in the life of Oblomovites. “And so the imagination of the sleeping Ilya Ilyich began...
to open first the three main acts of life that played out both in his family and among relatives and acquaintances: homeland,
wedding, funeral. Then a motley procession of cheerful and sad divisions stretched out: christenings, name days, family
holidays, fasting, breaking the fast, noisy dinners, family gatherings, greetings, congratulations, official tears and
smiles.”
It seems that the whole life of the Oblomovites consists only of rites and ritual holidays. All this indicates
special consciousness of people - mythical consciousness. What is considered quite natural for an ordinary person is here
elevated to the rank of mystical existence - Oblomovites look at the world as a sacrament, holiness. Hence the special attitude towards
time of day: evening time especially dangerous, the afternoon sleep time has a powerful force that controls
people's lives. There are also mysterious places here - a ravine, for example. When letting Ilyusha go for a walk with the nanny, his mother severely punished
“don’t let him into the ravine, as the most terrible place in the area, which had a bad reputation.”
Oblomovites have a special attitude towards signs: in them the world gives signs to a person, warns him, dictates his will. If in
On a winter evening the candle goes out, then in response “everyone will perk up: “Unexpected guest!” - someone will certainly say,” and further
the most interested discussion of this issue will begin, who could it be, but no one will know that there will be a guest
no doubt. The world of Oblomovites is absolutely free from any cause-and-effect relationships that are obvious to
analytical mind. The question “why?” - this is not Oblomov’s question. “Will they tell them that a haystack was walking across the field,
- they will not think and believe; will anyone let a rumor pass that this is not a ram, but something else, or that such and such
Marfa or Stepanida are a witch, they will be afraid of both the ram and Martha: it will not even occur to them to ask why the ram became
not a ram, but Martha became a witch, and they will even attack anyone who would think to doubt this.”
The mystical perception of the world leads Oblomovites away from its true knowledge, and therefore from the fight against it, thereby
provides the world with some kind of reliability and immutability.
4. The mythical nature of the dream.
The scale of the dream allows one to discern in it the features of the ancient world. Ancient reminiscences are constantly present in the text
sleep. Already at the very beginning we read: “The sky there seems... to be squeezing closer to the ground, but not in order to throw it harder
arrows, but perhaps only to hug her tightly, with love... to protect, it seems, the chosen corner from all sorts of
adversity." This description exactly rhymes with the myth of the marriage of Earth with Heaven - Gaia with Uranus. This is where the image of the world comes from,
who is completely enclosed in a loving embrace; it carries within itself the utopia of the “golden age”.
Let's return to the initial fragments of the dream. Why does the author reject the elements, the “wildness and grandeur” of the sea? All this
does not correspond to the tranquility of life of the Oblomovites, the romantic landscape is not in their spirit, it disturbs the heart, it may be
dangerous. This element is not from the “golden age”, where everything speaks of an idyllic perception of the world.
The childhood of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Which internal forces Oblomov faded, which ones developed through his upbringing and education?
Curiosity, Active participation in any manifestations of life, a conscious attitude towards life, hard work - all this
lost under the influence of excessive care of the mother, nanny, servant.
At the same time, the traits of daydreaming, imagination, poetic perception of life, breadth of soul, good nature,
softness, refinement. All these features are the result of the influence of fairy tales, the mysterious perception of life, its mythologization.
Oblomov's dream is in the spirit of an idyll. He does not prophesy, does not warn, he is a kind of key to understanding character
hero. “Oblomov’s dream - this most magnificent episode that will remain in our literature for eternity - was
the first, powerful step towards understanding Oblomov with his Oblomovism,” wrote critic Alexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin.
