Could Stolz bring Oblomov back to active life? Why did Goncharov say that "Stoltz could be close to Oblomov"? Lesson-study. What unites these people? What do they have in common

Oblomov and Stolz are the main characters of the novel by I.A. Goncharova - people of the same class, society, time, they are friends. It would seem that formed in the same environment, their characters, worldview should be similar. In fact, these characters are antipodes. Who is he, Stolz, who is not satisfied with Oblomov's lifestyle and who is trying to change it?

Andrei's father, a German by birth, was a manager in a rich estate, and his mother, an impoverished Russian noblewoman, once served as a governess in rich houses. Therefore, Stolz, having received a German upbringing, had great practical ingenuity and diligence, and inherited from his mother a love for music, poetry, and literature. All days in the family were spent at work. When Andrei grew up, his father began to take him into the field, to the market. The boy studied well, his father taught him the sciences, German and made him a tutor in his small boarding school, even putting a salary. Quite early, the father began to send his son to the city with assignments, "and it never happened that he forgot something, changed it, overlooked it, made a mistake." His father taught him to rely primarily on himself, explained that the main thing in life is money, rigor and accuracy.

Work for Stolz became not just a part of life, but a pleasure. By the age of thirty, he, an extremely purposeful and strong-willed person, retired, made a house and a fortune. Stolz is constantly busy with something: he works a lot, travels. “He is all made up of bones, muscles and nerves, like a blood English horse". Somewhat perfect hero. But "the dream, the mysterious, the mysterious had no place in his soul." Stolz "did not get sick in his soul, he never got lost in difficult, difficult or new circumstances, but approached them as if they were former acquaintances, as if he lived a second time, passed familiar places." And one more thing - Stolz is calm all the time, he is satisfied with his life.

Any person is usually brightly manifested in love. Stolz was hardly disturbed by love. Here, too, he acts rationally, "falling in love" with Olga. Family life Andrei and Olga, correct and boring, does not evoke any emotions when reading. The writer himself, as it were, got bored with the life of this exemplary bourgeois family. And although both heroes diligently occupy themselves with various practical activities, traveling, reading and discussing books, playing music, their life, it must be admitted, takes on colors only when it comes into contact with Oblomov's life.

Why did Stoltz fail to change the lifestyle of his friend and antipode Oblomov? And who is he who resisted the onslaught of Stolz? Russian gentleman, who at the time of our acquaintance with him was about thirty-two or three years old, "pleasing in appearance, with dark gray eyes, but with the absence of any definite idea, any concentration in facial features." Inertia, apathy, fear of any activity - this is the result of upbringing, when a boy is raised like an "exotic flower in a greenhouse", they do not allow him to take a step on his own, they pamper and pamper beyond measure. Learning makes him longing, and with the approval of his mother, classes are skipped at any opportunity.

The favorite pastime of the grown-up Oblomov is lying on the couch in empty dreams and sweet Dreams. Life for the weak-willed Ilya Ilyich was divided into two halves: one consisted of work and boredom - these were synonyms for him; the other - from peace and peaceful fun. The service was unpleasant for him, and he retired very quickly. He can afford it: in addition to the servant Zakhar, he has at his disposal 350 souls of serfs who work for him. And if things go badly on the estate, it is only because of Oblomov's unwillingness and inability to manage the estate. He is tormented by the realization that he does not have strength and will, but he himself cannot, and does not really strive, to budge and asks his active childhood friend Stolz to help him: “Give me your will and mind and lead me wherever you want".

Having once pulled Oblomov out into the world, Stolz hears from a friend: “Boring, boredom, boredom! .. Where is the man here? Where is his integrity? Where did he hide, how did he exchange for every little thing? These words directly apply to Stolz. His ability to be everywhere is already almost inhuman ability. He "learned Europe as his estate", traveled Russia "up and down". The circle of his acquaintances is motley: there are some barons, princes, bankers, gold miners. All enterprising people who consider "business" the purpose of their lives.

What should Oblomov do in this company? What is he for Stolz: a tribute to childhood friendship, or some kind of outlet, or just an object for listening to his moralizing? And that, and another, and the third. A lazy but intelligent man, Oblomov does not at all want to become like Stolz.

Stolz introduces Oblomov to Olga Ilyinskaya, and when he went abroad, "he bequeathed Oblomov to her, asked her to look after him, to prevent him from sitting at home." So Olga enters the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Not a beauty, "but if she were turned into a statue, she would be a statue of grace and harmony." She has the intelligence and determination to defend the right to her life position. And Oblomov, seeing in her the absence of artificiality, beauty not frozen, but alive, perceived Olga as the embodiment of a dream.

What attracts Olga in Oblomov? She sees in him the absence of cynicism, the ability to doubt and sympathy. She appreciates his intelligence, simplicity, gullibility, the absence of those secular conventions that are alien to her. Olga wants to help this painfully incapable person. She dreams that "she will show him the goal, make him fall in love with everything that he stopped loving ...". She likes to recognize herself in the role of an “enlightener”: after all, she, a woman, leads a man! Love will become her duty. To fall in love in order to re-educate, "from ideological considerations" - this has never happened in Russian literature. Olga's falling in love is a kind of experiment.

Such is Olga Ilyinskaya in her love, but what about Oblomov? The further the relationship of young people develops, the more sincere he becomes. The very way of his life is changing: he visits the Ilyinskys with pleasure, listens to Olga's singing with fascination, walks a lot and for a long time, he does not have dinner and forgot about his afternoon nap. He is ashamed of himself for not reading - he takes up books. Oblomov suddenly realizes the uselessness, aimlessness of his existence.

As with any lover, the image of his beloved is always with him. “And Oblomov, as soon as he wakes up in the morning, the first image in the imagination is the image of Olga, in full growth, with a lilac branch in her hands. He fell asleep with the thought of her, went for a walk, read - she is here, here. He took care of his clothes now. Carelessness left him at the moment when she sang for him for the first time. “He was no longer living his former life ...” He concludes: “Love is a difficult school of life.”

But young people are not destined to be happy, because Olga loves Oblomov not for who he is, but for who she wants to make him. Painful parting of heroes. Why didn't their relationship work out? Because both expect the impossible from each other. So this approach of Stolz to Oblomov turned out to be ineffective.

It is known that Goncharov several times defined the genre of his novel as a fairy tale. If "Oblomov" - big fairy tale, then the core of it should be considered "Oblomov's Dream" - a figurative and semantic key to understanding the character of the hero depicted by Goncharov, a story about the hero's childhood in the fabulously real Oblomovka.

In terms of its degree of closeness, Oblomovka can compete with any enchanted, bewitched kingdom. How many people come and come to it during the long sleep of Ilya Ilyich? We have almost no one to remember, except perhaps a funny episode with a sleeping man, whom children find in a ditch and take for a werewolf. The appearance of this stranger shocked even the adult Oblomovites so much that they do not dare to wake him up to find out where he wandered from and why.

But if it is difficult to come or come to Oblomovka, then to leave its limits is an action even more impossible for its inhabitants. Where? For what? As expected, the ideas of the Oblomovites about the earth are quite fabulous: “they heard that there is Moscow and St. Petersburg, that the French or Germans live beyond St. Petersburg, and then the dark world began for them, as for the ancients, unknown countries inhabited by monsters, people about two heads, giants; darkness followed there - and, finally, everything ended with that fish that holds the earth on itself.

But all this is somewhere far away. And Oblomovka, as she slept, will continue to sleep peacefully. Goncharov describes how sweetly the Oblomovites know how to sleep: they sleep, doze, dreaming in oblivion and unearthly bliss. Even the air sleeps because it "hangs without movement", even the sun is immersed in slumber because it "stands motionless". "It was some kind of all-consuming, invincible dream, a true likeness of death." The magical realm of sleep, of course, is contraindicated in any kind of movement, action. Therefore, Oblomovka is a world of fundamental idleness. The only type of labor consecrated by tradition here is the preparation and absorption of food. It is no coincidence that the writer reproduces the picture of eating a huge pie, which lasts five days.

Such is this “sleepy kingdom”, where almost no one works and dies, where there are no upheavals, where “thunderstorms are not terrible”, and “stars twinkle friendly from heaven”, where no one wants to be awakened to a different, even a wonderful life. .

To emphasize the impression of the fabulousness of the world he created, the writer introduces into Oblomov's Dream the image of a nanny who winter evenings whispers to Ilyusha tales about "sleeping princesses", petrified cities and people, about Emel the Fool and hero Ilya Muromets. This Emelya is a kind of prototype of Oblomov in the novel. In the well-known folk tale a kind sorceress, appearing in the form of a pike, chooses a pet whom everyone offends, a quiet, harmless lazy person, and gives him gifts for no reason at all. And he eats, dresses up in a ready-made dress and marries some beauty.

In the life of Oblomov, a fairy tale and reality seem to be mixed up. He will be fooled and fooled by all and sundry, and in the end, fate will send him Agafya Matveevna as his wife - a new fabulous beauty, ready to do everything for him and for him.

The chapter "Oblomov's Dream" essentially convinces us that the hero's whole life was a dream, ending in an eternal dream. “One morning Lgafya Matveevna brought him, as usual, coffee and found him just as meekly resting on his deathbed as on his bed of sleep ...”

So, just as reality cannot defeat a fairy tale, so Stoltz was unable to change Oblomov's lifestyle. Especially what Stolz, how he came out with Goncharov. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that Stoltz turned out to be an unrealistic image of a noble friend and a successful businessman, whose character was not spelled out to the end, because to write it to the end would mean to expose what was not the intention of the writer. After all, the main theme of the novel is Oblomovism: a way of life characterized by apathy, passivity, isolation from reality, contemplation of life around oneself in the absence of labor and practical activities.

That is why Goncharov's work, contemporaries admitted, showing the typical character of Oblomovism for serfdom, was able to strike at "superfluous people" - people of words, not deeds. The re-education of Oblomov, changing his lifestyle were not included in the writer's plans.

Roman I.A. Goncharov's "Oblomov" permeates the pathos of social criticism. The clash of two heroes (Ilya Oblomov and Andrei Stolz), two opposing lifestyles can be viewed in a broad public context.

Oblomov in this regard symbolizes the inert feudal nobility, which flourished everywhere in the expanses of Russian land. He spends most of his time on the couch. Any work does not attract him: he cannot even finish reading the book he has begun for years. The author constantly emphasizes softness both in the character of the hero and in

Everything that surrounds him.

The image of the sleeping Oblomov symbolizes the ruined mind, inertia and inertia of the Russian nobility. The hero hatches some abstract reform plans, but with his infantilism, these plans are never destined to come true. Oblomov seems to “quietly and gradually fit into the coffin of the rest of his existence, made with his own hands, like desert elders who, turning away from life, dig their own grave.”

Andrey Stolz (this is also evidenced by German origin hero) - an adherent of the active capitalist mentality that came to us from Europe. active, economic

The rationalist breaks into the sluggish life of Oblomovka in order to stir up the existing way of life and revive Ilya Ilyich to a different existence. It is no coincidence that Stolz reminds Oblomov of his youthful dreams of going on a trip.

Andrei introduces Ilya Ilyich to Olga, hoping that love can change a friend. At some point, the heroine was able to awaken sparks of living life in her admirer. However, Oblomov and Olga - different people. And the heroine soon realized this. She exclaims: “I loved the future Oblomov! You are meek, honest, Ilya; you are gentle ... like a dove; you hide your head under your wing - and you want nothing more; you are ready to coo all your life under the roof ... yes, I’m not like that: this is not enough for me, I need something else, but I don’t know what!

As a result, Olga chooses Stolz. This indicates that the future belongs to such active and enterprising people. “He was all made up of bones, muscles and nerves, like a blooded English horse,” writes I.A. Goncharov. Stolz's ideal - material wealth, comfort and well-being, which he achieves with his own work: the hero lives by reason, and his inert friend - by feelings and dreams.

Oblomov sees wonderful dreams, but from this in his real life nothing changes. Looking at this, Stolz derives his own term for the landowner's idleness and inertia, leading to death - "Oblomovism".

Why did A. Stolz fail to change Oblomov's lifestyle? The fact is that Ilya Ilyich is not just afraid of change: he protected himself from the living and diverse world with a special life philosophy to justify their inaction and laziness. Oblomov hovers in the clouds of his own illusions, claiming that he has no empty desires and thoughts. He despises fuss and is proud that he can afford not to engage in trade, not to go to the office with a report or papers - to be above all the base everyday problems. Oblomov is pleased with himself, which is why he does not seek to change. The hero refuses to grow up and understand that no miracle that suddenly descended on him will solve all the urgent problems either in the household or in his personal life.

However, gradually, a belated insight nevertheless comes to Ilya Ilyich. He confesses to Stolz: “From the first minute, when I became aware of myself, I felt that I was already going out ... Either I didn’t understand this life, or it’s no good, but I didn’t know anything better, didn’t see it, no one pointed it out to me ... ". Although Oblomov did not change, he at least belatedly admitted his mistakes. The trouble is that he did not see the ideal of life in front of him, and he could not become like Stolz according to the nature of his soul.

The heroes became friends in childhood, when Ilya's parents were forced to send their son to study at the boarding school of the German Stolz. The teacher's son, Andrey, always took care of his friend and tried to influence his beliefs, his way of life. He helped Oblomov in his studies both at the boarding school and at the university, but after their paths went separately, they rarely met.

Once Andrey came to a friend's apartment in St. Petersburg. They talked about life, about Oblomovka, and Andrei reproached his friend for inaction, told him about the need to change his life, to do business on the estate. Then Stolz suggested that Oblomov "finish the ideal of life ...". Ilya Ilyich dreams aloud, talking about a pleasant pastime, which is an idyll of idleness. He never once mentioned any activity, since labor was not part of his plans. Even a book should be read aloud by the wife when he is resting on the couch.

Lordly habits appear in his dreams in everything: all his desires are served by serfs, about whose work he has unrealistic ideas, drawing an idyll of their work. During the day, Oblomov's routine assigned a large place to eating, six times Ilya Ilyich had a meal: in the house, on the veranda, in the birch grove, in the meadow, and again in the house in the evening. There are no occupations, except for the contemplation of nature, talking on pleasant topics or relaxing with the sounds of music. And then Andrei began to convince Ilya to change the painted picture in order to return to an active life, not to fade away in his younger years.

Until the next meeting, two years later, there have been some changes. Stolz is still very active, he came to St. Petersburg "for two weeks on business, then went to the village, then to Kyiv ..." He stopped by a friend for a name day, on Ilyin's day. Ilya Ilyich at that time was already living in the apartment of the widow Agafya Pshenitsyna. He broke up with Olga, entrusted Zatertom (a friend of the mistress's brother) with the affairs of the estate, and now Tarantyev and a friend are robbing him of fraudulent methods.

Stolz is upset by the affairs of a friend, reminds Oblomov of his words uttered in their last conversation, "Now or never!". Oblomov sadly admits that he did not succeed in reviving life, although there were attempts: "... I do not lie idle, ... I subscribe to two magazines, books ...". However, he broke up with the woman he loved, because his laziness and inaction did not disappear even at the best time of his life, during the period of love. Stolz summarizes: “You will notice that life and labor itself is the goal of life…”. He calls on Ilya Ilyich to act for his own sake, so as not to die completely: to go to the village, equip everything there, “mess with the peasants, enter into their affairs, build, plant ...”. Oblomov complains about his health, but Andrei tells him about the need to change his lifestyle, "so that he does not die at all, is not buried alive ...".

Stolz learns that Oblomov is being robbed by people who call themselves his friends. Andrei forced Oblomov to sign a power of attorney to manage the estate in his name and "announced to him that he was taking Oblomovka for rent" temporarily, and then Oblomov "he would come to the village and get used to the household."

Between friends again there is a conversation about attitude to life. Oblomov complains about life that “touches him, there is no peace!” And Stolz urges him not to extinguish this fire of life, so that it is "constant burning." Ilya Ilyich objects to these words, saying that he does not have such abilities and talents as Stolz, who is endowed with "wings". Andrei has to remind his friend that he “lost his skills as a child”: “It began with the inability to put on stockings and ended with the inability to live.”

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Presentation on the topic: Stolz and Oblomov

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Key questions: - Why didn't the author depict Oblomov's miraculous transformation? - How can one help a person achieve harmony with life, learn not to hide, but to open to the world all his intellectual and spiritual wealth? What needs to be done to help a person overcome apathy and return to a full life again? - What did Stoltz intend to do in order to save his friend? To what end did he come? - Why such noble spiritual impulses of Stolz did not lead to the expected result.

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Was the author right in believing that it was precisely such a person as Stolz who was able to save Oblomov? - Could such a person as Stolz awaken Oblomov's soul? - What features did the author endow Andrei Stolz with? Is it possible to consider that the image of Stolz is strictly opposed to the image of Oblomov? Compare the author's description of the way of life of Oblomov and Stolz. 1. How are Oblomov and Stolz opposed to each other? 2. What brings Oblomov and Stolz together?

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“Oblomov, a nobleman by birth, a collegiate secretary with rank, has been living without a break for the twelfth year in St. Petersburg” (1, V). “Ilya Ilyich’s lying down was neither a necessity, like a sick person or a person who wants to sleep, nor an accident, like someone who is tired, nor a pleasure, like a lazy person: this was his normal state” (1.1 ). “Stolz is the same age as Oblomov: and he is already over thirty years old ... He is constantly on the move ...” (2, II) “Stolz was only half German, according to his father; his mother was Russian; he professed the Orthodox faith; his natural speech was Russian...” (2.1) “He walked firmly, cheerfully; lived on a budget, trying to spend every day, like every ruble, with every minute, never dormant control of wasted time, labor, strength of soul and heart. It seems that he controlled both sorrows and joys like the movement of his hands, like the steps of his feet, or how he dealt with bad and good weather ”(2, II).

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“He kept getting ready and getting ready to start life, kept drawing in his mind the pattern of his future; but with each year that flashed over his head, he had to change and discard something in this pattern. Life in his eyes was divided into two halves: one consisted of work and boredom - these were synonyms for him; the other - from peace and peaceful fun "(1, V). “But he himself walked and walked stubbornly along the chosen path. They did not see him ponder over something painfully and painfully; apparently he was not devoured by the pangs of a weary heart; he did not get sick with his soul, he never got lost in difficult, difficult or new circumstances, but approached them as if he were former acquaintances, as if he lived a second time, passed familiar places ”(2, II). 1. Oblomov has been living in the same city for more than 12 years without a break, and his main occupation is lying down; Stolz is "constantly on the move." Oblomov was just getting ready and preparing to start life, Stolz "was walking and walking stubbornly along the chosen road." Oblomov was just creating in your imagination a picture future life; Stolz did everything deliberately and confidently, "as if he lived a second time." 2. Oblomov and Stolz are peers, belong to the same social stratum.

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Oblomov and Stolz: relationship with parents -Compare the nature of the relationship between Oblomov and Stolz with their parents. 1. How are Oblomov and Stolz opposed to each other? (1, IX, 1, IX, 2,1) 2. What brings Oblomov and Stolz together? 1. Oblomov almost did not know male upbringing; Stolz's father, on the contrary, strove to make a real man out of his son, he was a supporter of harsh methods of education and did not allow his wife to interfere with his communication with Andrei with pity and excessive care. 2. Both Oblomov and Stolz fondly remember their mothers, unable to hold back their tears. Their mothers - an example of tenderness, caring - cherished their sons, sought to protect them from dangers, could not stop looking at their children.

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Oblomov and Stolz: attitude to teaching -Compare the information about the attitude to the teaching of Oblomov and Stolz. How are Oblomov and Stolz opposed to each other? (1, VI ;2,1) 2. What brings Oblomov and Stolz together? 1. Oblomov studied involuntarily, not understanding why this punishment was prepared for him and why he needed this knowledge in life; parents sought to protect their son from hard teaching. Stolz's education was led by his father, gave him responsible assignments and asked him how he would from an adult. Stolz studied well. And soon he began to teach. 2. Both Oblomov and Stolz were provided with the necessary conditions for teaching. They both received a good education, and long years studied together.

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Oblomov and Stolz: attitude towards service and society. -Compare the information about the attitude of Oblomov and Stolz to the service and role in society. 1. How are Oblomov and Stolz opposed to each other? (1, V; 2, II) 2. What brings Oblomov and Stolz together? 1. Oblomov was alien to the lifestyle that the service demanded from him, as well as the hustle and bustle secular life; he successfully isolated himself from them. Stolz felt confident both in the service and in the world, but he never attached much importance to this. Oblomov does not happen in the world; Stolz, despite his busyness, manages to appear in secular society. 2. Neither Oblomov nor Stolz believed that service or secular society was of particular importance in their lives. Both Oblomov and Stolz are retired.

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Oblomov and Stolz: understanding of love - Compare the nature of the experiences of Oblomov and Stolz in love - How are Oblomov and Stolz opposed to each other? (2,X; ,XI; 3,VI; 4,IV; 4,VII). 1. For Oblomov, love is a shock, a disease, it gives him mental and physical suffering. For Stolz, love is the work of the mind and soul. 2. Both Oblomov and Stolz are gifted with the ability to love deeply, sincerely.

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Conclusion. The author characterizes Stolz as a bright, attractive personality; if Oblomov is lazy, inactive, good-natured, harmless, sensitive, capable of spiritual impulse, indecisive, then Stolz is active, active, kind, benevolent, focused on his goal, immersed in thought, prudent, prudent, quickly makes decisions. The images of Oblomov and Stolz are opposed both in terms of upbringing, and in relation to teaching, and in terms of the perception of love ... However, it cannot be said that a strict opposition lies at the basis of the comparison of these images. The author presented the reader with two bright personalities, inner world which are not limited to mutually exclusive characteristics. He draws the reader's attention to the fact that these characters are brought together by their deep attachment to their mother, memories of childhood and youth, the ability to deeply and sincerely love. Obviously, Stolz is exactly the person who could awaken Oblomov's soul.

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Maybe Oblomov was afraid to trust Stolz? - What kind of relationship did Oblomov and Stolz have? Write out the words, phrases of the text that the author characterizes the relationship between Oblomov and Stolz. (I, III; 2, II) Oblomov and Stolz were connected not only general pages biographies. They valued each other, were always glad to meet, knew how to appreciate best qualities and be forgiving of each other's weaknesses. Their relationship is a deep emotional attachment, sincere heartfelt feelings. Oblomov and Stolz needed each other and were grateful to fate for sending them each other. Oblomov trusted Stoltz, believed that he could help him, expected help from him.

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Maybe Stoltz made a mistake in choosing the means to save his friend? - Did Stoltz choose the right means to realize his plan? Stolz, it would seem, calculated everything correctly. Love is a feeling that causes the strongest shocks. If there are still living feelings in the soul of a person, love will not allow them to doze off. Stolz was sure that Olga would charm Oblomov. - Were Stolz's expectations justified? Oblomov and Olga: the awakening of love

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In the novel Oblomov, I. A. Goncharov draws the traditional for Russian literature character of the hero of the Russian patriarchal gentleman Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, who by nature has an honest and faithful heart, but who was unable to resist life and became one of extra people in her. Oblomov is opposed by his friend, Andrei Stolz, a very interesting and deeply conceived hero. If Oblomov is the embodiment of the patriarchal noble way of life in Russian life, then the image of Stolz combines features that are characteristic of both Russia and European bourgeois civilization. Here are expressed the views of I. A. Goncharov on the mutual differences between Russia and the West, and if Oblomov is Russian national character, who is characterized by kindness, honesty, naturalness and depth of feelings, as well as laziness and lack of initiative, then the European mentality embodies Stolz's father, Ivan Bogdanovich. It is characterized by industriousness, pedantry, punctuality, stinginess in the manifestation of emotions, rationalism. His son Andrei, a friend of Oblomov, received just such a rational upbringing from his father: everything was allowed to him, but he was strictly required to fulfill his duties. Oҭtsa was not alarmed that his son disappeared from home for a week, on the contrary, he himself kicked him out when he found out that he, having returned, did not do the task Latin translation. From childhood, the child was taught to work, to practical activities, and after giving him an education, his father sent him away and warned him not to count on his help anymore. The son justified his father's hopes, having achieved prosperity and a solid position in life, but the inferiority of such a German upbringing is shown in the scene of farewell between father and son, when feelings that did not get an outlet when parting with his father break out from the words of an old woman who felt sorry for Andrei in a motherly way. His character came out not European due to the influence of the mother of a Russian noblewoman. She put her soul into her son, the ability to feel, love and understand music, art, poetry. She died early, but in memory of her son puts in his travel bags not only the work cloak she hates, a gift from his father, but also an elegant tailcoat and thin shirts. The mother dreamed of an outstanding role in society, which her son would get, and it was the influence of two tendencies different peoples shaped the character of Andrei Stolz. Oblomovka, with its kind, fat caresses abundantly lavished on the German boy, and the princely estate in Verkhlev, where the father served as a manager, with a wide expanse of lordly life, played their role, and all this, in the author's words, turned the narrow German "track into such a wide a road that Stolz's German ancestors never even dreamed of.Unlike Oblomov, Stolz leads an active lifestyle: he serves in some trading company, often travels abroad, different projects, sometimes in the world, reads a lot, is aware of all the events and succeeds in everything. He did not forget Oblomov: they are firmly connected by childhood and youth, and Stolz always played the role of a strong one. So now he patronizes a friend, trying to stir him up, to convince him to go abroad together, introducing Oblomov to Olga. There is complete trust between them, but in their attitude to life they are antipodes. If Oblomov is inactive and lazy, then, according to Stolz, labor is the image, content, element and purpose of life. And he last time trying to stir up Oblomov, make him change his life and change himself: Now or never. And indeed, having fallen in love with Olga, Oblomov changes internally, he leads an active lifestyle, gets up early, reads a lot. On the face of no sleep, no fatigue, no boredom. But Stolz left, and there is no one to support Oblomov when he gets tired mentally. He cannot but agree with Olga's point of view that life is a duty, but he himself is not capable of such intense constant dedication, his lyricist impulse faded away, disbelief in his own strength was aggravated by financial problems. Having become a victim of the swindlers Tarantiev and Mukhoyarov, Ilya Ilyich refused to fight, from the word, given to Andrey. And although Andrey is trying to help a friend and really helps him figure out the financial situation, he also gave up the fight, from the hope of awakening in Oblomov living soul and lust for life and work.
The image of Stolz is criticized, as a rule, negatively. Starting with N. A. Dobrolyubov, critics reproached him for selfishness, dryness, and rationality. But that's not the point, rather. Stolz is an atypical figure for Russian life. Although the author expresses his hope: How many Stoltsev should appear under Russian names!, but the image of the hero is more declarative than real. Stoltz is looking for balance in his life practical aspects with the subtle needs of the spirit. Oblomov once said to Stolz, criticizing Petersburg society: Either I did not understand this life, or it is worthless. Stolz just embodies the author's ideal, which understood this life, for which the main thing is work, movement and, finally, love, the last happiness of a person, which became possible for Andrey when he received Olga's consent to marry him. But it is precisely this declared happiness of the heroes that is unconvincing. They live in love and harmony, but for some reason Olga is sad, feels dissatisfied, some kind of strange blues. Their house is a full bowl, but life is closed, and it cannot be said that this is the happiness they dreamed of. Even the author himself admits that Stolz is not alive, but just an idea, and the artistic embodiment of this idea is far from perfect. Soft-hearted, inert Ilya Ilyich really did not understand this life, could not achieve meaning in it, which would have been impossible without the manifestation of energy and will. But the strong-willed, resolute Stolz failed to achieve the ideal of happiness for himself and for Olga. This philosophical task is too difficult for ordinary person. The author also understood the utopian nature of the idea of ​​creating an image of a harmonious person and the same love. In one of his letters, he comes to the following sad conclusion: Between reality and the ideal lies ... an abyss across which a bridge has not yet been found, and hardly ever will be built. For Goncharov's contemporary reality, the problem turned out to be insoluble.

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