The composition “How could I come to slavery Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Stylistic differentiation of paronyms Olga Ilyinskaya and Agafya Pshenitsyna

The novel "Oblomov" is the most striking work of I. A. Goncharov. The author has been working on it for over 10 years. The main plot line of the work "Oblomov" is the love story of Ilya Ilyich for Olga Ilyinsky. Such people are often said to be made from different dough. However, it often happens that life pits completely opposite people together. Let's try to understand what these two characters are, and analyze why the relationship between Oblomov and Olga developed this way.

Ilya Ilyich

Oblomov's life would most likely be called inactive. He is not very interested in anything, does not go anywhere, does not read books. The hero's favorite pastime is lying in a robe on the sofa. He simply does not see the point in activities, Oblomov loves to dream.

A friend who came to visit him, Andrei Ivanovich Stolz, is the opposite of the protagonist. He is trying to make a difference in his life. The relationship between Oblomov and Olga began thanks to him.

Acquaintance with Olga

So, Stolz is trying to stir Oblomov up. They go to visit together, Stolz makes him read, introduces him to an interesting girl, who turned out to be Olga Ilyinskaya.

This acquaintance awakens strong feelings in the protagonist. He declares his love to the girl. Oblomov and Olga, whose relationship, it would seem, could not begin at all, nevertheless began to meet. The girl considers love for Ilya Ilyich her duty. She wants to change him, make him live differently.

Changes in Oblomov's life

The main character's life has really changed. He begins to be quite active. Ilya Ilyich now rises at seven in the morning, reads. Colors appear on the face, fatigue disappears completely.

Love for Olga makes Oblomov show the best qualities. As Goncharov notes, Ilya Ilyich to some extent "caught up with life."

However, the solution of practical issues still weighs on him. He is not interested in building a house in Oblomovka, navigating the road to the village. Moreover, the relationship between Oblomov and Olga generates in him uncertainty in his strengths, in himself. Then he comes to understand that Olga does not love him. She is demanding, persistent, strict, exacting. The celebration of love has become a duty, even a duty.

The relationship between Oblomov and Olga ends, he puts on a robe again and leads the same way of life.

Olga Ilyinskaya and Agafya Pshenitsyna

In his novel, Goncharov writes about two women who loved Oblomov. The first, Olga Ilyinskaya, is active and educated. She sings well, is interested in art, literature and science. Possessing high spiritual qualities, she was able to understand the nobility of Oblomov's soul. However, Olga sees flaws in the nature of Ilya Ilyich. She does not like his passivity, inactivity, laziness. Rather, she loves her noble mission, thanks to which the spiritual rebirth of the protagonist should happen. The girl is not devoid of vanity. She likes the thought that she will be the cause of his "awakening."

It was due to the fact that in this love there was a lot of desire to remake another that Oblomov and Olga parted. A relationship based on demands and claims to another person is doomed to failure.

The complete opposite of Olga was Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna - the second woman who loved Oblomov. She, of course, did not possess Ilyinsky's education and did not understand his mind, did not see spiritual wealth. Agafya Matveyevna fed him tasty food and simply made Ilya Ilyich's life convenient.

Oblomov's female ideal

The girl's inconsistency with the ideals of Ilya Ilyich is another reason why Olga Ilyinskaya and Oblomov could not be together. The relationship of these heroes was based on admiration for beauty and an ambitious desire to remake a loved one.

It's no secret that in love, we often look for those ideals that we learned in childhood. Demanding Olga prompts Oblomov to act, reflect, and he is looking for harmony and peace that his beloved woman can provide.

Olga Ilyinskaya and Oblomov, whose relationship did not last long, get to know each other, as we remember, through a mutual friend of Andrei Stolts. This girl bursts into his life and for a while pulls him out of the world of inaction and dreams.

Agafya Matveevna, the owner of the apartment rented by Oblomov, appears in his life somehow quite usually, almost imperceptibly. The main character likes to talk to her a little, he notes her thrift, even disposition. However, she does not cause any excitement in his soul.

Unlike Olga, Agafya Matveyevna does not try to raise Oblomov to her ideal, she considers his breed than she herself. As you know, it is important for a man to be loved the way he is, without trying to remake. Agafya Matveyevna becomes for Oblomov the personification of female virtue.

Ilyinskaya were based on her ideas about happiness. Agafya Matveyevna thought only of the comfort and convenience of Ilya Ilyich. Olga constantly forced Oblomov to act, for her sake he had to step over himself. Agafya Matveevna, on the contrary, tries to save the main character from unnecessary trouble. She even mortgages her property so that Oblomov does not give up his favorite habits.

The relationship between Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya was not possible due to the discrepancy between these two characters. Goncharov brings us to the understanding that it was Agafya Matveyevna who embodied the ideal of the female protagonist. He married this kind, hardworking woman. Life with Olga would not bring happiness to him or her, because their goals are completely different.

Life with Agafya Matveyevna became for Oblomov the embodiment of calmness, satiety, comfort. With her, Ilya Ilyich seemed to return to the happy days of his childhood, filled with the love and care of his mother.

O. V. Kondratyuk FL-LN-41.

Ideal and idyll

in the novel by I.A. Goncharova "Oblomov".

You're a poet, Ilya!

Yes, a poet in life, because life is

poetry...

This is not life!

What do you think it is?

Some kind of ... Oblomovism ...

I.A. Goncharov “Oblomov ”.
Objectives:1. Learn to work in groups, develop the skill of episode analysis and the ability to work in a group using the example of this text. 2. Develop skills in text commenting. 3. To encourage students to be active in life.
Lesson Objectives :
1. Show the historical and social limitations of the idyll as a goal and way of life.
2. Continue to work on developing the skill of episode analysis and the ability to work in a group.

3. To understand whether Stolz is right, who called the idyll of Ilya Ilyich “Oblomovism”?

Methods: reproductive - productive activity, commenting on episodes of the work with the help of text materials.
Receptions : student word, group work.

Equipment: texts of works, cards with questions for groups, video materials.
Homework: 1. Prepare to write an essay.
2. Come up with themes for the essay.
3. Make a plan for an invented topic.

I. Teacher's word.

The leading theme of the work of many writers and poets, Russian and European, is the victory over the imperfection of the world by creating an aesthetic utopia.

Friendship, love, art - these are the few patrons of the poet in his solitude, but they fully provide him with happiness, joy and harmony.

Idyll - in antiquity, this is a small poetic work describing the peaceful life of shepherds, their simple life, tender love, flute songs. This life unfolds against the backdrop of a perfect landscape with a gentle breeze bringing pleasant smells; cool stream; flowers covering the ground with a wide carpet; trees giving shade; birds singing on the branches.

The main features of the idyllic world:

• perfect landscape
• unity of man and nature
• closed space
• indefinite time
• inaction
• conflict-free

Episode analysis algorithm:1. Retelling the episode or watching video material on it, its main idea, assessment of facts, events.
2. How are the characters of the heroes revealed in this episode? What new do we learn about them?
H. The place of this episode in the composition of the work.

Preliminary assignments for students -know the episodes from the novel close to the text:

"Oblomov's dream" (part I, chapter 9)

"Dreams of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov" (part II, ch. 4)

"Vyborg Side" (Part IV, Ch. 9)

“The life of Andrey and Olga Shtoltsev in the Crimea” (part IV, ch. 8).

Group work:

Group 1. Analysis of the episode "Oblomov's Dream" (Part I, Ch. 9) (after the analysis, watching video material)

Questions and tasks:

1. Idyllic landscape in Oblomov's dream. What function does it perform?
2. Time and space in Oblomovka.
3. Customs, rituals of Oblomovka. For what purpose did the author tell about them in such detail?
4. Folklore motives of sleep. Analyze Oblomov's introduction to sleep. Why are paintings of the sea and mountains not attractive to the author? What is the character of the description of the sea, mountains?

In Oblomovka, a person is comfortable to live, he does not have a feeling of unsettled life, insecurity in front of the vast world. Nature and man are fused, united, and it seems that the sky, which is able to protect the Oblomovites from all external manifestations, is “closer to the earth” there, and this sky spread over the earth like a roof. Such an atmosphere of Oblomovka's world conveys complete harmony, harmony in this world.

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 the provincial town was located eighty miles away from them, but they rarely went there, they knew about Saratov, Moscow, St. Petersburg, “that there are Frenchmen or Germans living behind St. Petersburg, and then it already began for them, how for the ancients, a dark world, unknown countries inhabited by monsters, people with two heads, giants; there followed darkness - and, finally, everything ended with the fish that holds the earth on it. "

None of the inhabitants of Oblomovka strives to get out of this world, because there is someone else's, hostile, they are quite satisfied with a happy “life and being”, and their world is independent, integral and complete.

A strictly limited space lives according to its age-old traditions and rituals. Love, birth, marriage, work, death - Oblomovka's whole life comes down to this circle and is just as unchanging as the change of seasons.

Love in Oblomovka is of a completely different nature than in the real world, it cannot become some kind of revolution in the mental life of a person, it does not oppose other aspects of life. Love-passion is contraindicated in the world of Oblomovites, they “didn’t believe ... mental anxieties, did not take for life the cycle of eternal striving for something, for something; they feared, like fire, the passion of passion ”. An even, calm experience of love is natural for Oblomovites.

Ceremonies and rituals take an essential place in the life of Oblomovites. “And so the imagination of the sleeping Ilya Ilyich began ... first to open up three main acts of life, played out both in his family and among relatives and friends: homeland, wedding, funeral. Then a motley procession of its merry and sad divisions stretched out: christenings, name days, family holidays, catching up, breaking the fast, noisy dinners, kindred gatherings, greetings, congratulations, official tears and smiles ”.

It seems that the whole life of the Oblomovites consists only of ceremonies and ritual holidays. All this testifies to a special consciousness of people - a mythical consciousness. What is considered quite natural for an ordinary person is here elevated to the rank of mystical being - Oblomov's people look at the world as a sacrament, holiness. Hence the special attitude to the time of day: the evening is especially dangerous, the afternoon sleep has a powerful force that controls the life of people. There are also mysterious places - a ravine, for example. Letting Ilya go for a walk with the nanny, his mother severely punished "not to let him into the ravine, as the most terrible place in the neighborhood, which enjoyed a bad reputation."

Oblomovites have a special attitude to signs: in them the world gives signs to a person, warns him, dictates its will. If a candle goes out on a winter evening, then in response “everyone will start up:“ Unexpected guest! ” - someone will certainly say ”, and then the most interested discussion of this issue will begin, who could it be, but that there will be a guest, no one doubts it. The world of the Oblomovites is absolutely free from any causal relationships that are obvious to the analytical mind. The question "why?" - this is not Oblomov's question. “Will they tell them that the hay hay was walking across the field, they will not hesitate and believe; Will anyone miss the rumor that this is not a ram, but something else, or that such and such Martha or Stepanida is a witch, they will be afraid of both the ram and Martha: it would never even occur to them to ask why the ram became not a ram, but Martha became a witch, and moreover they will attack anyone who would have thought of doubting it. "

The mystical perception of the world leads the Oblomovites away from its true knowledge, and therefore from the struggle with it, thereby providing the world with some kind of reliability, immutability.

The scale of the dream allows you to see the features of the ancient world in it. Ancient reminiscences are constantly present in the text of the dream. Already at the very beginning we read: “The sky is there, it seems ... it presses closer to the ground, but not in order to throw more arrows, but perhaps only to hug her tighter, with love ... to protect, it seems, the chosen one a corner from all sorts of adversity. " This description rhymes exactly with the myth of the marriage of Earth to Heaven - Gaia to Uranus. Hence arises the image of the world, which is all enclosed in a loving embrace; it carries the utopia of the “golden age”.

Let's go back to the initial fragments of the dream. Why does the element, “wildness and grandeur” of the sea cause rejection in the author? All this does not correspond to the serenity of Oblomov's life, a romantic landscape is not in their spirit, it worries the heart, it can 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. What internal forces Oblomov withered, which developed by his upbringing, education?

Curiosity, active participation in any manifestation of life, a conscientious attitude to life, hard work - all this was lost under the influence of excessive care of the mother, nanny, servant.

At the same time, the traits of dreaminess, imagination, poetic perception of life, breadth of soul, good nature, gentleness, sophistication developed. All these features are the result of the influence of fairy tales, the mysterious perception of life.

So:Oblomov's dream is kept in the spirit of idyll. He does not prophesy, he does not warn, he is peculiar key to understanding the character of the hero.

Group 2. Analysis of the episode "Dreams of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov" (part II, ch. 4)

Questions and tasks:

Read carefully the episode about Oblomov's dreams (part II, ch. 4). Correlate with Oblomov's dream: what is common and different?

1. At what period of our life do we meet with Oblomov on Gorokhovaya Street in St. Petersburg? Has he preserved the features of Oblomov's perception of the world?

It is said about the Petersburg Oblomov that he “was no longer a father or grandfather. He studied, lived in the light: all this led him to various considerations alien to them<...> The pleasures of lofty thoughts were available to him; he was no stranger to universal human sorrows. " Ilya Ilyich appears before the reader at the moment when all his attempts at activity have failed, when his role in society has finally failed, and when his life has been reduced to lying on the sofa. At the same time, lying on the sofa was accompanied by "the inner volcanic work of an ardent head and a humane heart." "Oblomov loved to withdraw into himself and live in the world he created."

2. How could the rebirth of Oblomov, receptive to life, take place? What does the hero dream about?

Almost everything that makes up an idyll has entered the world of dreams. A cozy corner where the poet retires. Solitude does not imply loneliness, the participation of friends is an indispensable attribute of life. "He thought of a small colony of friends who would settle in villages and farms, fifteen or twenty miles around his village, how they would alternately come to visit each other every day, have lunch, dinner, and dance." The ideal of a wifeon the one hand, it is projected onto Olga (“there is music here, Casta diva!”), on the other - on Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna (“Five knives are knocking in the kitchen; a frying pan of mushrooms, cutlets, berries”).

“The weather is beautiful, the sky is bluer, bluer, not a single cloud ... While waiting for my wife to wake up, I would put on a dressing gown and walk around the garden to breathe the morning fumes; there I would have found a gardener, watering flowers together, cutting bushes and trees. I am making a bouquet for my wife. Then I go to the bath or swim in the river, return - the balcony is already open; a wife in a blouse, in a light cap ... She is waiting for me ... Then, putting on a spacious frock coat or some kind of jacket, hugging his wife around the waist, go deep with her into the endless, dark alley; walk quietly, thoughtfully, silently or think aloud, dream, count the minutes of happiness as the beating of a pulse: listen to how the heart beats and stops; look for sympathy in nature ... Look at peaches, grapes ... And then a note to his wife from some Marya Petrovna, with a book, with notes, then they sent a pineapple as a gift, or a monstrous watermelon ripened in the greenhouse itself ... you hear: notes, books, piano, elegant furniture ... ”- these are Oblomov's dreams.

So:Oblomov's created ideal of life is built according to the laws of art and is oriented to idyll , when, like Faust - the hero of Goethe, you want to exclaim: "Stop, moment, you are wonderful!"

Can Ilya Ilyich bring his ideal to life? Why?

Group 3. Analysis of the episode "Vyborg Side" (Part IV, Ch. 9).

However, the return to Oblomovka, quite different, “nastier”, according to Stolz, did happen. This is the house of the widow Pshenitsyna on the Vyborg side.

Questions and tasks:

Oblomov's life with Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna: what is common and different with life in Oblomovka?

It is not difficult to discern in Pshenitsyna's house features of similarity with the world of childhood, dreams. But at the same time it feels tightness of this world: "lean gardens", "courtyard", "unpaved streets", "a yard the size of a room." There, in Oblomovka, there is a huge world, where heaven and earth joined under the parental roof, here is a world the size of a room. The Vyborg side is the kingdom of everyday life, there is no poetry in it, he is devoid of spirituality. Ilya Ilyich left for the Vyborg side from the sufferings of the big world, but thus in the end he left life itself.

“Peering, pondering into his life and more and more settling in it, he finally decided that he had nowhere else to go, nothing to look for, that the ideal of his life had come true, although without poetry, without those rays that once imagined him lordly, wide and carefree course of life ... "

In almost every novel by Russian writers of the 19th century, heroes are in search of their ideal beloved. Each of them, following Alexander Pushkin, would like to exclaim:

My wishes came true. Creator

He sent you to me, you, my Madonna,

The purest charm, the purest specimen.

The main character of the novel by I.A.Goncharov, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, also has his own ideal of woman. “In his dreams, the image of a tall, slender woman, with her hands folded on her chest, with a quiet but proud look, hovered in front of him. with a swinging waist, with a graceful

on his shoulders with his head, with a thoughtful expression. " Such was Olga Ilyinskaya, alas, who did not become Oblomov's wife. He found his family happiness on the Vyborg side, in the house of the bourgeois woman Pshenitsyna.

Agafya Matveyevna does not at all look like the aristocrat Olga, but how many charms the gentleman managed to find in her, corresponding to his female ideal. She “was very white and full in her face, so the blush, it seemed, could not break through her cheeks,” “her closed bust, when she was without a headscarf, could serve as a painter or sculptor as a model of a strong, healthy breast”, “shoulders shone contentment, fullness, meekness shone in my eyes ”. Oblomov needed such a personal wife: calm and modest, caring and sensitive, economic and hardworking. But most importantly, Agafya Matveyevna did not demand anything from Ilya Ilyich: neither visiting exhibitions and concerts, nor reading books and newspapers. She was the woman thanks to whom Oblomov put on his favorite robe again, settled down on a cozy sofa and found his family happiness and peace. In those happy days, he had one desire: "to sit on the sofa and keep my eyes on her elbows."

Agafya Pshenitsyna accepted the master as he is, her selfless and sacrificial love gave Ilya Ilyich Oblomovka in a house on the Vyborg side. A bathrobe, a sofa, elbows, delicious food - that's all Oblomov needs for complete family happiness.

Thus, Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsyna became the ideal hero of I. A. Goncharov, the embodiment of "a whole life full of bliss and solemn peace."

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In life, each of the people at least sometime has experienced happiness. The reason for this could be anything: it is the achievement of the goals to which he has been striving for a long time, and the realization of cherished desires. But, in my opinion, happiness can be realized only after this moment has already been left behind. We often remember the happy moments of our life and forget all our pressing problems.

We often say: "How little a person needs to be happy." We speak, it seems to me, often without understanding the full justice of this phrase. After all, a person who is always not enough of everything will never be happy with what he has, since he cannot get everything in the world.

But there are people who do not demand anything special from life and spend it uselessly and boringly. This is how Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is presented in Goncharov's novel. What is he doing? He lies on the sofa or on the bed under a blanket, receives guests, argues with Zakhar and admires the view from the window of the neighboring house from morning till night. He is also happy in his own way. Some people need movement, love, passion, something new in life in order to feel happy. But Ilya Ilyich does not need anything of this, he does not want anything, except that nothing should change in his life. At first, he does not want to move to a new apartment, then he does not even want to think about improving the estate in the village - all this would violate his happiness.

But Oblomov cannot be considered an ordinary lazy person - he simply cannot exist according to the laws of his time, his “robe” is a kind of protest against the emptiness and meaninglessness of active actions that society can offer him: “Light, society! You are right, on purpose, Andrey, you are sending me into this world and society to discourage me from being there! there is nothing deep, touching the quick. You will enter the hall and not admire how the guests are seated symmetrically, how calmly and thoughtfully they sit - at the cards. They are all dead. Why am I more to blame than them, lying at home and not infecting the head with threes and jacks? "

From this monologue of Oblomov, you can understand a lot, in particular, that he is right in his own way: to each his own - one "thoughtfully and quietly" to sit and play cards, others to do business, the third to steal, and someone does not want, and completely rightly, to do all this and therefore lies on the couch.

But in Oblomov's life, Olga Ilyinskaya appears, the one who was called upon by Stolz to "stir up" Ilya Ilyich, to show him a different life. In a sense, she did it, and it cannot be said that Oblomov was not happy with Olga, walking with her in the Summer Garden, making her laugh.

But he cannot love the way it is necessary and accepted, and Olga could not completely love Oblomov as he is, and not as Stolz wanted to make him. Possible happiness with Olga frightened Oblomov with too strong changes in his lifestyle, everyday life and household. And in the end Olga found her happiness with Stoltz, and Oblomov with Mrs. Pshenitsyna.

Here it is - Oblomovism in its purest form: Ilya Ilyich did not have to be active, he just moved to a new apartment, where he found himself a wife, they had a child, and Oblomov in the end died happy.

The vile habit of obtaining satisfaction of his desires not from his own efforts, but from others, developed in him an apathetic immobility and plunged him into a miserable state of moral slavery. This slavery is so intertwined with the lordship of Oblomov, so they mutually penetrate each other and are conditioned by one another, that it seems that there is not the slightest possibility of drawing any border between them. This moral slavery of Oblomov is perhaps the most curious side of his personality and his entire history ... But how could a person with such an independent position as Ilya Ilyich come to slavery? It seems who would enjoy freedom if not him? Does not serve, is not associated with society, has a secured state. He himself boasts that he does not feel the need to bow, beg, humiliate himself, that he is not like “others” who work tirelessly, run, fuss, and do not work, and will not eat ...

He inspires a reverent love for the good widow Pshenitsyna precisely because he is a gentleman, that he shines and shines, that he walks and speaks so freely and independently that he “does not constantly write papers, does not shake with fear that he will be late for office , does not look at everyone as if asking them to saddle him and go, but looks at everyone and everything so boldly and freely, as if demanding obedience to himself. "

And, nevertheless, the whole life of this master is killed by the fact that he constantly remains a slave to someone else's will and never rises to show any originality. He is the slave of every woman, everyone he meets, the slave of every swindler who wants to take his will over him. He is the slave of his serf Zakhar, and it is difficult to decide which of them is more subject to the power of the other. At least what Zakhar does not want, that Ilya Ilyich cannot force him to do, and what Zakhar wants, he will do against the will of the master, and the master will submit ... It should be so! Zakhar still knows how to do at least something, but Oblomov can and cannot do anything at all. Needless to say about Tarantyev and Ivan Matveich, who do whatever they want with Oblomov, despite the fact that they themselves are much lower in mental development and moral qualities ...

Why is this? Yes, all because Oblomov, as a master, does not want and does not know how to work and does not understand his real relationship to everything around him. He is not averse from activity as long as it looks like a ghost and is far from real implementation; so, he creates a plan for the arrangement of the estate and is very diligently engaged in it, only "details, estimates and figures" scare him and are constantly thrown aside by him, because where can he bother with them! .. He is a master, as he explains to Ivan Matveich: “Who am I, what am I? you ask ... Go, ask Zakhar, and he will tell you: "master!" Yes, I’m a master and I don’t know how to do anything! Do you, if you know, and help if you can, and for your work, take whatever you want: for that is science! "

And do you think that he only wants to get rid of work by this, tries to cover up his laziness with ignorance? No, he really does not know and does not know how to do anything, really is not in a position to take on any worthwhile business. Regarding his estate (for the transformation of which he had already drawn up a plan), he thus admits his ignorance to Ivan Matveich: “I do not know what corvée is, what rural labor is, what does a poor peasant mean, what is rich; I do not know what a quarter of rye or oats means, what it costs, in what month, and what is sown and reaped, how and when it is sold; I don’t know whether I’m rich or poor, whether I’ll be full in a year or whether I’m a beggar, I don’t know anything! ..

Therefore, speak and advise me as a child ... "In other words, be a master of me, dispose of my goods as you like, give me as much of it as you find convenient ... So in fact it happened: Ivan Matveich was completely the hands of Oblomov's estate, but Stolz interfered, unfortunately. And after all, Oblomov not only does not know his rural order, not only does he not understand the state of affairs: it would still be all right! .. But here's the main problem: he did not know how to comprehend life for himself. In Oblomovka, no one asked himself the question: why is life, what is it, what is its meaning and purpose? The Oblomovites understood it very simply, “as the ideal of peace and inaction, disturbed at times by various unpleasant accidents, such as diseases, losses, quarrels and, among other things, labor.

They endured labor as a punishment imposed on our forefathers, but they could not love, and where there was an opportunity, they always got rid of it, finding it possible and necessary. " Ilya Ilyich had the same attitude to life. The ideal of happiness, which he drew to Stolz, was nothing more than a hearty life, with greenhouses, hotbeds, trips to the grove with a samovar, etc., in a dressing gown, in sound sleep, and for an intermediate rest in idyllic walks with a meek , but a stout wife and in contemplation of how the peasants work. Oblomov's reasoning had so much time since childhood that even in the most abstract reasoning, in the most utopian theory, he had the ability to stop at a given moment and then not leave this status quo, regardless of any beliefs.

While drawing the ideal of his bliss, Ilya Ilyich did not think to ask himself about its inner meaning, did not think to confirm its legitimacy and truth, did not ask himself the question: where will these greenhouses and hotbeds come from, who will support them and why on earth will he use them? .. Without asking himself such questions, without clarifying his relationship to the world and to society, Oblomov, of course, could not comprehend his life and therefore he was burdened and bored from everything he had to do. He served and could not understand why the papers were being written; Without understanding, I could find nothing better than to retire and not write anything.

He studied and did not know what science could serve him for; not knowing this, he decided to put the books in a corner and watch indifferently as the dust covered them. He went out to society and did not know how to explain to himself why people visit; Without explaining, he gave up all his acquaintances and began to lie on his sofa for whole days. He got along with the women, but thought: however, what to expect and achieve from them? on reflection, he did not resolve the issue and began to avoid women ...

He was bored and disgusted with everything, and he lay on his side, with complete, conscious contempt for the "ant work of people", killing and fussing about God only knows what ... The previous considerations led us to the conclusion that Oblomov is not a creature, by nature completely devoid of the ability to move freely. His laziness and apathy are the creation of upbringing and surrounding circumstances.

The main thing here is not Oblomov, but Oblomovism. He might even have begun to work if he had found a job on his own: but for this, of course, he had to develop somewhat under different conditions. rather than under which he developed. In his present position, he could not find anything to his liking anywhere, because he did not understand the meaning of life at all and could not reach a reasonable view of his relationship to others.