The Middle Class In Lermontov's Hero Of Our Time

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In the Novel Hero of Our time Lermontov uses, Pechorin said Byronic character to reveal the irony that back in 1800 Russia the high class isn 't always the strongest and smartest class, but they can be manipulated and and brought down even lower than the lowest class. He also shows through petrorin how every class class but the lowest falls for a byronic character. Most of all how the most to fall is the middle class because they desire and want hope more than any other class. Through this Lermontov gives us a real view of how 1800 Russia should be seen with a different perspective than many authors give about what is truly behind all these classes not just the outside view of them.

The high class in this time period is viewed as strong, …show more content…

Yet through petrorin he shows that even with some experience they will still fall through a Byronic character. Petrorin plays Grushinsky throughout the section of Princess Mary by convincing him that he is his friend and up to meaning allot to Grushinsky, Grushinky has no clue "...and I think, I hope, that she loves me similarly... I have a request of you: that you will be their guest this evening. And promise me that you will observe everything"(104) he is trusting in petrorin to tell him the truth about his love and observe it. He trusts in him his heart and the advice he gives him to help him know what to do with his love. By the end losing his life to petrorin litters, he is the one who suffered the most from Petrorin, his love, his honor and his life. With him also bring the most down from the middle class women as well. With her he took two marriages from her as well as her sanity "...is it fun for you to torture me?...I should really hate you. Ever since we have known each other, you have given me nothing but suffering..."(94) He brought her pain her whole life of knowing him for showing her a true love which she would never be able to receive. Lermontov convoys that the middle class the majority of Russia falls the hardest for a Byronic hero because he can show them hope for a better life. Which them middle …show more content…

All these other classes night, middle and native classes all fall into the mists of a Byronic hero men and women. Yet in the low class which is supposed to be the weak and uneducated are able to trick petrorin and make him feel how he made all the other classes feel. The Taman girl was able to manipulate and play Petrorin which he never saw coming just how the other classes never saw him coming. "her cheek pressed to mine, I felt her burning breath on my face. Suddenly something fell loudly into the water. I grabbed at my belt, but the pistol was gone."(69) See how Pechorin never saw this girl trying to kill him coming she had the upper hand through it all, just like petrorin did with the other classes. The blind boy was able to see through him and his character before even saying a word to him Blind boy "... I looked at him with involuntary pity for a while, when suddenly a barely visible smile scampered across his thin lips, and, I don 't know why, but it produced in me a most unpleasant impression. The suspicion that this blind boy wasn 't as blind as he seemed was born in my mind."(60) The other classes had more time to discover who he really was yet Lermontov uses a blind boy to represent how people view the low class as blind and having defects. Yet that blind boy right away can see through Pechorin and can make him feel out of power can out of

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