How Oblomov’s dream helps to understand his character. The meaning of the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream” in the novel

“Oblomov’s Dream” is a kind of semantic and compositional key to the entire novel. The dream of the inhabitants of Oblomovka, a heroic, powerful dream, is what largely determined Oblomov’s inability to carry out real activities, what prevented the potential of his crystalline, “dove” soul from being realized.
The ninth part of Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” begins in a very unique way. The author describes that “blessed corner of the earth” to which Oblomov’s dream takes us. It is said about this corner that “there is nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy” there, that is, there is no sea, mountains, rocks, abysses and dense forests. All this could cause some kind of trouble and inconvenience to the inhabitants of the region.
In this corner of paradise, everything is imbued with love, tenderness, and care. I.A. Goncharov claims that if, for example, there was a sea there, peace would be impossible, not like in Oblomovka. There is silence, tranquility, there is no mental anguish that could arise due to the presence of any element. Everything is silent, as if frozen in time, in its development. Everything is created for the convenience of man, so that he does not bother himself with anything. Nature there seems to have made a schedule for itself and strictly follows it.
Of course, this chapter is of great importance, it helps to penetrate into Oblomov’s inner world, to get to know him better, to understand his condition. After all, a lot depends on a person’s upbringing, on the environment in which he lived as a child. Here we clearly see that in Oblomovka, parents and in general everyone around them suppressed all of Ilyusha’s aspirations and impulses to do something on his own. At first the boy didn’t like it, but then he got used to being so carefully looked after, surrounded by unlimited love and care, protected from the slightest danger, from work and from worries.
Around him, Oblomov sees only “peace and silence,” complete calm and serenity - both in the residents of Oblomovka and in nature itself.
In “Oblomov’s Dream,” Oblomovka’s isolation from the outside world is clearly visible. A clear example of this is the case of the man in the ditch, whom the residents of Oblomovka refused to help only because he was not from here. There is a contrast between how people treat each other in this village, with what tenderness and compassion they care for each other, and how indifferent they are to people who live outside their world. The principle by which they act sounds something like this - excessive isolation and fear of everything new.
This to a certain extent shaped Oblomov’s position: “Life is enough.” He believes that life “touches” him everywhere, does not allow him to exist peacefully in his little world, the hero cannot understand why this is happening, because in Oblomovka everything is different. This habit, which consists in the fact that life is possible in a state isolated from the outside world, remains with him from childhood for the rest of his life. Throughout his entire existence, he tries to isolate himself from the outside world, from any of its manifestations. It is not for nothing that I.A. Goncharov describes his main character in such a way that one gets the impression that external life does not exist for Oblomov, as if physically he had already died: “If it weren’t for this plate, and not for the just smoked pipe leaning against the bed, or not the owner himself lying on it, then one would think that no one lives here - everything was so dusty, faded and generally devoid of traces of human presence.” It was obvious that Oblomov was trying to create the same atmosphere as in Oblomovka, since the furniture in the room was placed solely in order to “maintain the appearance of inevitable decency,” and the rest was all created for convenience, take at least a robe and slippers, which were detailed are described by Goncharov in order to show how much easier everything makes life for the owner. In the end, Oblomov still finds his piece of paradise, achieves the long-awaited peace, living with Pshenitsyna, who, as it were, fences him off from external life, just like Oblomov’s parents in childhood, she surrounds him with care, attention, affection, perhaps without realizing it at first. She intuitively understands what he is striving for and provides him with everything necessary for life. Oblomov realized that he had nothing else to strive for: “Looking, reflecting on his life and becoming more and more accustomed to it, he finally decided that he had nowhere else to go, there was nothing to look for, that the ideal of his life had come true.”
Thanks to Pshenitsyna, that unconscious fear of life that Oblomov had, again, since childhood, disappeared. A clear confirmation of this can be considered the case described in the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream,” when a letter from an old acquaintance arrives in Oblomovka.
The inhabitants of the house did not dare to open it for several days, trying to overcome the feeling of fear. This feeling of fear appeared due to the habit of isolation: people were afraid that their peace and serenity would be disturbed, because the news is not only good...
As a result of all these fears in childhood, Oblomov was afraid to live. Even when Ilya Ilyich fell in love with Olga and was about to get married, unconscious fear and fear of change made themselves felt. In addition, the constant feeling of being chosen, instilled in Oblomov at home, prevented him from participating in the kind of “competition” that is any life... He was unable to work, because in the service he would have to prove his superiority, but in relations with Zakhar Oblomov had no difficulty He pleased his vanity by the fact that he was a “first-born nobleman” and had never once put stockings on his feet himself.
From all of the above, it follows that because of fear of life, because of all the restrictions set for him in childhood, Oblomov could not live a full external life. He was also greatly disappointed in his service. He thought that he would live like in a second family, that in the service there would be the same small, cozy world as in Oblomovka.
Ilya Ilyich was, as it were, pulled out of hothouse conditions, from the kingdom of sweet sleep and placed in conditions that were acceptable
for people of Stolz's type. And when, finally, thanks to Pshenitsyna, he finds himself in familiar conditions, there is, as it were, a connection of times, a connection between his childhood and the current time of his thirty-three-year-old life.
The role of “Oblomov’s Dream” in understanding the meaning of the novel is enormous, since the entire conflict of external and internal life, the root of all events lies in Oblomov’s childhood, in the village of Oblomovka.

Ticket number 14.

It is “The Dream” that is felt as the “focus” of the novel, concentrating its main motives. This is generally the purpose of inserted elements (inserted episodes, flashbacks, short stories, parables, plot letters or stories, memoirs, and so on) in fiction since ancient times. These inserted elements sometimes contain a special code for reading the whole, as well as a hint of the genre originality of the entire structure. Such are the “fairy tale” about the eagle and the raven in “The Captain’s Daughter”, the “poem” about Captain Kopeikin in “Dead Souls”, the story told by Karataev in “War and Peace” and so on.

Speaking about Goncharov’s novel, we can consider the dream both as a motive and also as an element of the frame composition, since before Oblomov’s last meeting with Stolz, Oblomov again “dreams” that he is a little boy in Oblomovka listening to his nanny’s fairy tales. The awakening, as in the first part of the novel, is associated with the arrival of Stoltz, which symbolizes the role of Stoltz in Oblomov’s life.

Let us recall the functions of oneirotopics (images of dreams in works of art - from the Greek oneiros - dream and topos - place). A dream reveals the hero’s past or predicts the future (Grinev’s dream), is a means of psychological characterization and even creates a special image of the world: “it is at this point that the narrative finds itself, as it were, on the verge of two worlds... the author here tells the reader a certain mystical event plan... (remember “The Dream” “Lermontov)” (G.Lesskis). All these functions intersect in Oblomov’s dream, and they need to be considered. Let us also add that the motif of sleep in Goncharov’s novel is combined with the motif of dreams, daydreams; Goncharov understood sleep in the English spirit as “dream” (this word means both sleep and dream). Oblomov, like Don Quixote, lives a dream and his own noble imagination. There is one more function of “Oblomov’s Dream” that cannot be ignored, but first let’s think about the second topic associated with this fragment and indicated by the quote from the article by A.V. Druzhinin “Oblomov, without his “Dream” ...”.



Fortunately, with all the shortcomings of quotation formulations, this topic does not offer a vague “analysis”, but a search for an answer to a specific question: why does Goncharov’s hero become closer and more understandable to the reader when the reader learns the content of the dream? The task is narrowed, the direction of the search is given, but the formulation of the topic presupposes familiarity (and by no means superficial!) with Druzhinin’s excellent article. This somewhat contradicts the “Standards,” which indicate that familiarity with Druzhinin’s article (and even then limited to “fragments”) is mandatory only for “profile level” graduates. However, the “List of Topics” does not say anything about special topics for specialized classes.

Why is the druzhina article important for understanding Oblomov’s dream? First of all, because it suggests paying attention to the “Flemish” everyday life of the “Dream”; according to the author of the article, “all the little details of the situation are necessary, all are legal and beautiful.” “Or, for idle fun, did all sorts of artists... pile up a lot of small details on their canvases?” - asks Druzhinin, remembering the Flemings. The answer to this question contains the key to solving “The Dream”: it is the “little things”, the details that clarify the “higher tasks” (Druzhinin) of the novel.

Having thought about these “little things,” we cannot help but look for an answer to the question of why in “Oblomov’s Dream” there is such a large concentration of mythological, biblical, fairy-tale and epic images. To reveal their meaning, you need to have extraordinary erudition (this is also the complexity of the topic!), but it’s worth a try. And most importantly, these images form mythological models of the world, between which Goncharov establishes certain connections. Thus, Ilya Muromets, as you know, lay on the stove for thirty-three years before taking up his exploits (which serves as a model for Ilyusha Oblomov). Another hero from whom Oblomov “makes life” is the famous Emelya, blessed by the good sorceress Pike. Elijah’s day will also be mentioned, because the life of Ilya Oblomov will resemble the life of the prophet Elijah. Prophet Elijah was sent by God to distant Sarepta of Sidon (just as Oblomov will be thrown from the center of St. Petersburg to the distant Vyborg side). “I commanded a widow woman there to feed you,” God told the prophet Elijah. The widow of Pshenitsyn will turn out to be that good Pike or the Sidonian widow, or maybe Militrisa Kirbitievna (V. Zvinyatskovsky). “No prophet is accepted in his own country,” as the Gospel says. So Ilya Oblomov in his homeland, in the St. Petersburg noble circle, even from Olga and Stolz, did not receive even a tenth of the adoration with which Agafya surrounded him.

Oblomov" met with unanimous recognition, but opinions about the meaning of the novel were sharply divided. N. A. Dobrolyubov, in the article "What is Oblomovism?" saw in "Oblomov" the crisis and collapse of the old feudal Rus'. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is "our indigenous folk type," symbolizing laziness, inaction and stagnation of the entire feudal system of relations. He is the last in the line of “superfluous people” - the Onegins, Pechorins, Beltovs and Rudins, like his older predecessors, Oblomov is infected with a fundamental contradiction between word and deed, dreaminess and practical worthlessness. In Oblomov, the typical complex of the “superfluous man” is brought to a paradox, to its logical end, beyond which is the disintegration and death of man, according to Dobrolyubov, reveals the roots of Oblomov’s inaction more deeply than all his predecessors.

The novel reveals the complex relationship between slavery and lordship. “It is clear that Oblomov is not a stupid, apathetic nature,” writes Dobrolyubov.

When I am in a circle of educated people who ardently sympathize with the needs of humanity and for many years, with undiminished fervor, tell the same (and sometimes new) anecdotes about bribe-takers, about oppression, about lawlessness of all kinds, I involuntarily feel that I moved to old Oblomovka,” writes Dobrolyubov.

This is how one point of view on Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”, on the origins of the protagonist’s character, emerged and became stronger. But already among the first critical responses, a different, opposite assessment of the novel appeared. It belongs to the liberal critic A.V. Druzhinin, who wrote the article “Oblomov,” a novel by Goncharov.”

Druzhinin also believes that the character of Ilya Ilyich reflects the essential aspects of Russian life, that “Oblomov” was studied and recognized by a whole people, predominantly rich in Oblomovism.” But, according to Druzhinin, “in vain many people with overly practical aspirations are trying to despise Oblomov and even call his snail: this whole strict trial of the hero shows one superficial and fleeting pickiness. Oblomov is kind to all of us and deserves boundless love."


“Oblomov’s Dream” is a kind of semantic and compositional key to the entire novel. The dream of the inhabitants of Oblomovka, a heroic, powerful (mistake: poor choice of word, since the definitions used are appropriate to describe any positive phenomenon) dream is what largely determined Oblomov’s inability to carry out real activities, what prevented it from coming true the potential of his crystalline, “dove soul”.
The ninth part of Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” begins in a very unique way. The author describes that “blessed corner of the earth” to which Oblomov’s dream takes us. It is said about this corner that “there is nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy” there, that is, there is no sea, mountains, rocks, abysses and dense forests. All this could cause some inconvenience to the inhabitants of the estate.
In this corner of paradise, everything is imbued with love, tenderness, and care. I. A. Goncharov claims that if, for example, there was a sea there, peace would be impossible, not like in Oblomovka. There is silence, tranquility, there are no mental torments that could arise due to the presence of any element (an error is either verbal or factual: the elements can create physical inconvenience, but cannot “torment” the soul). Everything is silent, as if frozen in time, in its development. Everything is created for the convenience of man, so that he does not bother himself with anything.
Of course, this chapter is of great importance, it helps to penetrate into Oblomov’s inner world, to get to know him better, to understand his condition. After all, a lot depends on a person’s upbringing, on the environment in which he lived as a child. Here we clearly see that in Oblomov, parents and in general everyone around them suppressed all of Ilyusha’s aspirations and impulses to do something on his own. At first the boy didn’t like it, but then he got used to being so carefully looked after, surrounded by unlimited love and care, protected from the slightest danger, from work and from worries.
Around him, Oblomov sees only “peace and silence,” complete calm and serenity - both in the residents of Oblomovka and in nature itself. In “Oblomov’s Dream,” Oblomovka’s isolation from the outside world is clearly visible. A clear example of this is the case of the man in the ditch, whom the residents of Oblomovka refused to help only because he was not from here. There is a contrast between how people treat each other in this village, with what tenderness and participation they care for each other and how indifferent they are to people who live outside their world. The principle by which they act (speech error - lexical inconsistency: the principle can be followed, it can be, but you can act according to the rules, and not according to the principles)? - this is excessive isolation and fear of everything new.
This to a certain extent shaped Oblomov’s position: “Life is enough.” He believes that life “touches” him everywhere, does not allow him to exist calmly in his own little world, and the hero cannot understand why this is happening: after all, in Oblomovka everything is different. This habit, which consists in the fact that life is possible in a state isolated from the outside world, remains with him from childhood for the rest of his life. Throughout his entire existence, he tries to isolate himself from the outside world, from any of its manifestations. It’s not for nothing that I. A. Goncharov describes his main character in such a way that it creates the impression that external life does not exist for Oblomov, as if physically he had already died: “If it weren’t for this plate, and not the just smoked pipe leaning against the bed, or not the owner himself lying on it, then one would think that no one lives here - everything was so dusty, faded and generally devoid of traces of human presence.” It was obvious that Oblomov was trying to create the same atmosphere as in Oblomovka, since the furniture in the room was placed solely in order to “maintain the appearance of inevitable decency,” and the rest was all created for convenience, to take at least a robe and slippers (wrong choice words), which are described in detail by Goncharov in order to show how much easier everything makes life for the owner. In the end, Oblomov still finds his piece of paradise, achieves the long-awaited peace, living with Pshenitsyna, who, as it were, fences him off from external life, just like his parents in childhood, she surrounds him with care, attention, affection, perhaps herself without realizing it at first. She intuitively understands what he is striving for and provides him with everything necessary for life. Oblomov realized that he had nothing else to strive for: “Looking, reflecting on his life and becoming more and more accustomed to it, he finally decided that he had nowhere else to go, there was nothing to look for, that the ideal of his life had come true.”
Thanks to Pshenitsyna, that unconscious fear of life that Oblomov had developed since childhood disappeared. A clear confirmation of this (a grammatical error is the incorrect use of a demonstrative pronoun, which in this context indicates that the case confirms that thanks to Pshenitsyna Oblomov’s fear of life disappeared) can be considered the case described in the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream”, when a letter arrives in Oblomovka from an old friend.
The inhabitants of the house did not dare to open it for several days, trying to overcome the feeling of fear. This feeling appeared due to the habit of isolation: people were afraid that their peace and serenity would be disturbed, because the news is not only good...
As a result of all these fears in childhood, Oblomov was afraid to live. Even when Ilya Ilyich fell in love with Olga and was about to get married, unconscious fear and fear of change made themselves felt. At the same time, the constant feeling of being chosen, instilled in Oblomov at home, prevented him from participating in the kind of “competition” that is any life... He was unable to work, because in the service he would have to prove his superiority, and in his relationship with Zakhar Oblomov easily amused his pride in that he is a “first-born nobleman” and has never once put stockings on his feet himself.
From all of the above (speech error - clericalism) it follows that because of fear of life, because of all the restrictions set for him in childhood, Oblomov could not live a full external life. He was also greatly disappointed in his service. He thought that he would live like in a second family, that in the service there would be the same small, cozy world as in Oblomovka.
It was as if Ilya Ilyich was pulled out of hothouse conditions, from the kingdom of sweet sleep and placed in conditions acceptable only for people of Stolz’s type. And when, finally, thanks to Pshenitsyna, he finds himself in familiar conditions, then a “connection of times” occurs (a speech error is a lexical incompatibility: a connection of times can exist or arise, but does not occur), a connection between his childhood and the current time of his thirty-three-year-old life.

The role of “Oblomov’s Dream” in understanding the meaning of the novel is enormous, since the entire conflict of external and internal life, the root of all events lies in Oblomov’s childhood, in the village of Oblomovka.

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The topic of the essay has been revealed. The author fully demonstrated the role of Oblomov's dream in understanding the meaning of the novel. The work is consistent and logical. The student remembers the text of the novel and makes appropriate references to it. Speech errors are few. Rating: “excellent”.



“Oblomov’s Dream” is a special chapter of the novel. “Oblomov’s Dream” tells the story of Ilya Ilyich’s childhood and his influence on Oblomov’s character. “Oblomov’s Dream” shows his native village of Oblomovka, his family, and the way of life according to which they lived on Oblomov’s estate. Oblomovka is the name of two villages owned by the Oblomovs. The people in these villages lived the same way as their great-grandfathers lived. They tried to live in seclusion, to isolate themselves from the whole world, and were afraid of people from other villages. The people of Oblomovka believed in fairy tales, legends and omens. In Oblomovka there were no thieves, there was no destruction and storms, everything was sleepy and quiet. The whole life of these people was monotonous. The Oblomovites believed that it was a sin to live otherwise. The landowners Oblomovs lived the same way.

Oblomov's father was lazy and apathetic; he sat by the window or walked around the house all day.

Oblomov’s mother was more active than her husband, she watched the servants, walked around the garden with her retinue, asked various works dvorne. All this was reflected in the character of Ilya Ilyich. Since childhood, he was raised like an exotic flower, so he grew slowly and got used to being lazy. His attempts to do something on his own were constantly thwarted. The only time when Oblomov was free and could do whatever he wanted was the time of general sleep. At this time, Oblomov was running around the yard, climbing into the dovecote and gallery, observing and studying various phenomena, and exploring the world around him. If this initial activity had begun to develop, then perhaps Oblomov would have become an active person. But his parents’ prohibitions on doing anything on his own led to the fact that Oblomov later became lazy and apathetic; he could not go to Oblomovka, change apartments, lived in a dusty, unwashed room and was completely dependent on the servant Zakhar.

In Oblomovka, the nanny told Ilya Ilyich fairy tales that he believed in throughout his life. Fairy tales shaped the poetic character of Russian people. This character manifested itself in his relationship with Olga. For some time he was able to drown out Oblomov’s laziness and apathy, and return Oblomov to an active life. But after a while, due to everyday trifles, the poetic spirit began to weaken again and gave way to Oblomov’s laziness.

The Oblomovs did not like books and believed that reading was not a necessity, but a luxury and entertainment. The Oblomovs also did not like teaching. And so Ilya Ilyich attended school somehow. The Oblomovs found all sorts of excuses not to take Ilya Ilyich to school and because of this they quarreled with teacher Stolz. His son Andrei Stolts became friends with Oblomov, who became his friend for life. At school, Andrei helped Oblomov do his homework, but this developed laziness in Oblomov. Subsequently, Stolz fought long and hard against this laziness, but to no avail.
I believe that the role of this episode is to show how Oblomov’s Russian poetic character is formed, the reasons for the appearance of Oblomov’s laziness and apathy, the environment in which Ilya Ilyich was brought up, the emergence of Oblomov’s multifaceted image. Oblomov could not be “lifted from the couch” because Oblomov had money and prosperity from birth and he did not need Stolz’s activities. Oblomov needed a poetic ideal, which Olga Ilyinskaya gave him for a while. But after Oblomov broke off relations with her, he returned to his usual apathy and laziness. With whom he died a few years later.


“Oblomov’s Dream” is a kind of semantic and compositional key to the entire novel. The dream of the inhabitants of Oblomovka, a heroic, powerful (mistake: poor choice of word, since the definitions used are appropriate to describe any positive phenomenon) dream is what largely determined Oblomov’s inability to carry out real activities, what prevented it from coming true the potential of his crystalline, “dove soul”.
The ninth part of Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” begins in a very unique way. The author describes that “blessed corner of the earth” to which Oblomov’s dream takes us. It is said about this corner that “there is nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy” there, that is, there is no sea, mountains, rocks, abysses and dense forests. All this could cause some inconvenience to the inhabitants of the estate.
In this corner of paradise, everything is imbued with love, tenderness, and care. I. A. Goncharov claims that if, for example, there was a sea there, peace would be impossible, not like in Oblomovka. There is silence, tranquility, there are no mental torments that could arise due to the presence of any element (an error is either verbal or factual: the elements can create physical inconvenience, but cannot “torment” the soul). Everything is silent, as if frozen in time, in its development. Everything is created for the convenience of man, so that he does not bother himself with anything.
Of course, this chapter is of great importance, it helps to penetrate into Oblomov’s inner world, to get to know him better, to understand his condition. After all, a lot depends on a person’s upbringing, on the environment in which he lived as a child. Here we clearly see that in Oblomov, parents and in general everyone around them suppressed all of Ilyusha’s aspirations and impulses to do something on his own. At first the boy didn’t like it, but then he got used to being so carefully looked after, surrounded by unlimited love and care, protected from the slightest danger, from work and from worries.
Around him, Oblomov sees only “peace and silence,” complete calm and serenity - both in the residents of Oblomovka and in nature itself. In “Oblomov’s Dream,” Oblomovka’s isolation from the outside world is clearly visible. A clear example of this is the case of the man in the ditch, whom the residents of Oblomovka refused to help only because he was not from here. There is a contrast between how people treat each other in this village, with what tenderness and participation they care for each other and how indifferent they are to people who live outside their world. The principle by which they act (speech error - lexical inconsistency: the principle can be followed, it can be, but you can act according to the rules, and not according to the principles)? - this is excessive isolation and fear of everything new.
This to a certain extent shaped Oblomov’s position: “Life is enough.” He believes that life “touches” him everywhere, does not allow him to exist calmly in his own little world, and the hero cannot understand why this is happening: after all, in Oblomovka everything is different. This habit, which consists in the fact that life is possible in a state isolated from the outside world, remains with him from childhood for the rest of his life. Throughout his entire existence, he tries to isolate himself from the outside world, from any of its manifestations. It’s not for nothing that I. A. Goncharov describes his main character in such a way that it creates the impression that external life does not exist for Oblomov, as if physically he had already died: “If it weren’t for this plate, and not the just smoked pipe leaning against the bed, or not the owner himself lying on it, then one would think that no one lives here - everything was so dusty, faded and generally devoid of traces of human presence.” It was obvious that Oblomov was trying to create the same atmosphere as in Oblomovka, since the furniture in the room was placed solely in order to “maintain the appearance of inevitable decency,” and the rest was all created for convenience, to take at least a robe and slippers (wrong choice words), which are described in detail by Goncharov in order to show how much easier everything makes life for the owner. In the end, Oblomov still finds his piece of paradise, achieves the long-awaited peace, living with Pshenitsyna, who, as it were, fences him off from external life, just like his parents in childhood, she surrounds him with care, attention, affection, perhaps herself without realizing it at first. She intuitively understands what he is striving for and provides him with everything necessary for life. Oblomov realized that he had nothing else to strive for: “Looking, reflecting on his life and becoming more and more accustomed to it, he finally decided that he had nowhere else to go, there was nothing to look for, that the ideal of his life had come true.”
Thanks to Pshenitsyna, that unconscious fear of life that Oblomov had developed since childhood disappeared. A clear confirmation of this (a grammatical error is the incorrect use of a demonstrative pronoun, which in this context indicates that the case confirms that thanks to Pshenitsyna Oblomov’s fear of life disappeared) can be considered the case described in the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream”, when a letter arrives in Oblomovka from an old friend.
The inhabitants of the house did not dare to open it for several days, trying to overcome the feeling of fear. This feeling appeared due to the habit of isolation: people were afraid that their peace and serenity would be disturbed, because the news is not only good...
As a result of all these fears in childhood, Oblomov was afraid to live. Even when Ilya Ilyich fell in love with Olga and was about to get married, unconscious fear and fear of change made themselves felt. At the same time, the constant feeling of being chosen, instilled in Oblomov at home, prevented him from participating in the kind of “competition” that is any life... He was unable to work, because in the service he would have to prove his superiority, and in his relationship with Zakhar Oblomov easily amused his pride in that he is a “first-born nobleman” and has never once put stockings on his feet himself.
From all of the above (speech error - clericalism) it follows that because of fear of life, because of all the restrictions set for him in childhood, Oblomov could not live a full external life. He was also greatly disappointed in his service. He thought that he would live like in a second family, that in the service there would be the same small, cozy world as in Oblomovka.
It was as if Ilya Ilyich was pulled out of hothouse conditions, from the kingdom of sweet sleep and placed in conditions acceptable only for people of Stolz’s type. And when, finally, thanks to Pshenitsyna, he finds himself in familiar conditions, then a “connection of times” occurs (a speech error is a lexical incompatibility: a connection of times can exist or arise, but does not occur), a connection between his childhood and the current time of his thirty-three-year-old life.

The role of “Oblomov’s Dream” in understanding the meaning of the novel is enormous, since the entire conflict of external and internal life, the root of all events lies in Oblomov’s childhood, in the village of Oblomovka.

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The topic of the essay has been revealed. The author fully demonstrated the role of Oblomov's dream in understanding the meaning of the novel. The work is consistent and logical. The student remembers the text of the novel and makes appropriate references to it. Speech errors are few. Rating: “excellent”.

"Oblomov's Dream" The originality of the episode and its role in the novel"

“Oblomov’s Dream” is a special chapter of the novel. “Oblomov’s Dream” tells the story of Ilya Ilyich’s childhood and his influence on Oblomov’s character. “Oblomov’s Dream” shows his native village of Oblomovka, his family, and the way of life according to which they lived on Oblomov’s estate. Oblomovka is the name of two villages owned by the Oblomovs. The people in these villages lived the same way as their great-grandfathers lived. They tried to live in isolation, to isolate themselves from the whole world, and were afraid of people from other villages. The people of Oblomovka believed in fairy tales, legends and omens. In Oblomovka there were no thieves, there was no destruction and storms, everything was sleepy and quiet. The whole life of these people was monotonous. The Oblomovites believed that it was a sin to live otherwise. The landowners Oblomovs lived the same way.

Oblomov's father was lazy and apathetic; he sat by the window or walked around the house all day.

Oblomov’s mother was more active than her husband, she watched the servants, walked around the garden with her retinue, and assigned various tasks to the servants. All this was reflected in the character of Ilya Ilyich. Since childhood, he was raised like an exotic flower, so he grew slowly and got used to being lazy. His attempts to do something on his own were constantly thwarted. The only time when Oblomov was free and could do whatever he wanted was the time of general sleep. At this time, Oblomov was running around the yard, climbing into the dovecote and gallery, observing various phenomena and studying them, exploring the world around us. If this initial activity had begun to develop, then perhaps Oblomov would have become an active person. But his parents’ prohibitions on doing anything on his own led to the fact that Oblomov later became lazy and apathetic; he could not go to Oblomovka, change apartments, lived in a dusty, unwashed room and was completely dependent on the servant Zakhar.

In Oblomovka, the nanny told Ilya Ilyich fairy tales that he believed in throughout his life. Fairy tales shaped the poetic character of Russian people. This character manifested itself in his relationship with Olga. For some time he was able to drown out Oblomov’s laziness and apathy, and return Oblomov to an active life. But after a while, due to everyday trifles, the poetic spirit began to weaken again and gave way to Oblomov’s laziness.

The Oblomovs did not like books and believed that reading was not a necessity, but a luxury and entertainment. The Oblomovs also did not like teaching. And so Ilya Ilyich attended school somehow. The Oblomovs found all sorts of excuses not to take Ilya Ilyich to school and because of this they quarreled with teacher Stolz. His son Andrei Stolts became friends with Oblomov, who became his friend for life. At school, Andrei helped Oblomov do his homework, but this developed laziness in Oblomov. Subsequently, Stolz fought long and hard against this laziness, but to no avail.

I believe that the role of this episode is to show how Oblomov’s Russian poetic character is formed, the reasons for the appearance of Oblomov’s laziness and apathy, the environment in which Ilya Ilyich was brought up, the emergence of Oblomov’s multifaceted image. Oblomov could not be “lifted from the couch” because Oblomov had money and prosperity from birth and he did not need Stolz’s activities. Oblomov needed a poetic ideal, which Olga Ilyinskaya gave him for a while. But after Oblomov broke off relations with her, he returned to his usual apathy and laziness. With whom he died a few years later.

Date 10/26/2016

Class 10 B

Literature lesson

Lesson topic: “Oblomov’s Dream”

Objective of the lesson: analyze “Oblomov’s Dream”, identifying those aspects of the life of Oblomov’s followers that influenced the formation of the hero’s dual nature (on the one hand, poetic consciousness, on the other – inactivity, apathy); work on the development of coherent speech of students, expressive reading, education in children of an active life position, a sense of responsibility for their future.

Students' goal:

Equipment : portrait of I.A. Goncharov, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, fragment of the film “Oblomov’s Dream”, exhibition of books by I.A. Goncharov

I. Introductory stage:

Teacher's word:Hello! Sit down! We continue to study the work of Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov “Oblomov”. Today we have to get acquainted with a very significant chapter in the context of the novel, which is called “Oblomov’s Dream.” What goals do you think you should achieve in today's lesson?(students' answer). In addition, we will find out the compositional features of its use, identify the features of the life of Oblomovites that influenced the formation of the character of Ilya Ilyich.

II. Analysis of the work:

Teacher: Let's remember what the title of the work says?

Student: The name of the main character, included in the title, emphasizes the peculiarity of his place in the poetic world of the work, emphasizing the interest that his life position represents for the author.

Teacher: Where is this position, the essence of the hero’s relationship to the world, most fully revealed?

Student: In the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream”.

Teacher: Let's remember which works we studied earlier contained a dream?

Student: at A.S. Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" - Tatyana's dream; A.S. Pushkin’s “The Captain’s Daughter” is a dream of Petrusha Grinev; in “Ballads” by V. Zhukovsky.

Teacher: What do you think is the function of sleep in these works, why do the authors use them?

Students: 1. Dream - as revealing the spiritual state of the hero, a means of psychological analysis.

2. A dream is like an idyll, a dream.

3. Dream - as a prediction of the future.

Teacher: Which of the following functions does a dream perform in the work of I.A. Goncharova?

Students: 1. A dream is a revelation of the hero’s spiritual state, while it acquires a special symbolic meaning: a dream is a symbol of the hero’s entire life position, his spiritual sleep.

2. Dream - shows the hero’s dream, but its paradox is that it is directed not to the future, but to the past. The hero dreams of Oblomovka, in his dream a distinctly idyllic image of her is created.

I. Analysis of the work:

Teacher's word: Now let's move on to the consideration of "Dream". Now we will hear a description of Oblomovka, with which “The Dream” opens. Let's try to find in it significant words, epithets (definitions that give the expression figurativeness and emotionality) with which the author conveys his attitude towards this place.

Artistic reading of a passage by a student:

“Where are we? To what blessed corner of the earth did Oblomov’s dream take us? What a wonderful land! No, really, there are seas there, no high mountains, rocks and abysses, no dense forests - there is nothing grandiose, wild and gloomy...

The sky there, it seems, is pressing closer to the earth, but not in order to throw more arrows, but perhaps only to hug it tighter, with love: it spreads out so low above your head, like a parent’s reliable roof, to protect, it seems, the chosen one a corner from all adversity.

The sun shines brightly and hotly there for about six months and then does not suddenly leave there, as if reluctantly, as if it were turning back to look once or twice at its favorite place and give it a clear, warm day in the fall, amidst bad weather.

The mountains there seem to be just models of those terrible mountains erected somewhere that terrify the imagination. This is a series of gentle hills, from which it is customary to ride, frolicking, on your back or, sitting on them, look thoughtfully at the setting sun.

The river runs merrily, frolicking and playing; It either spills into a wide pond, then rushes in a quick thread, or becomes quiet, as if lost in thought, and crawls slightly over the pebbles, releasing playful streams on the sides, under the murmur of which it sweetly dozes.

The entire corner of fifteen or twenty miles around was a series of picturesque sketches, cheerful, smiling landscapes. The sandy and sloping banks of a bright river, small bushes creeping up from a hill to the water, a curved ravine with a stream at the bottom and a birch grove - everything seemed to have been deliberately tidied up one by one and masterfully drawn.

A heart exhausted by worries or not at all familiar with them asks to hide in this forgotten corner and live a happiness unknown to anyone. Everything there promises a calm, long-term life until the hair turns yellow and an unnoticeable, sleep-like death.”

(Students highlight epithets and meaningful words: blessed corner; wonderful land; favorite place; picturesque sketches; cheerful, smiling landscapes, everything is quiet and sleepy).

Teacher: Draw a conclusion about what this place was like in Oblomov’s life.

Students: This is an ideal place, a paradise for Oblomov.

Teacher's word: And now let's turn to you real life in Oblomovka. And let's see if everything in it is really as perfect as presented in the description.

In order to remember the key aspects of the life of the Oblomovites, we will watch fragments from N. Mikhalkov’s film “Six Days in the Life of Oblomov.” During the viewing process, you will need to find positive and negative moments in Oblomov’s life. To make this task easier, I suggest you pay attention to the following aspects:

    Picture of the world.

    Philosophy of life.

    Raising a child.

Answer the question: “Can we really call Oblomovka paradise and why?”

View episodes from the film: Ilyusha's curiosity. Mismanagement of Oblomovites.

Physical education minute

Teacher: What is the composition of this chapter? How many parts does it consist of (relatively speaking)? How did you determine this?

Students: “Oblomov’s Dream” consists of 4 parts:

    “Blessed Corner of the Earth” (exhibition).

    Seven-year-old Oblomov in his parents' house. Daily routine. Raising a boy. Perception of the surrounding world.

    Wonderful country. Nanny's Tales.

    Oblomov is 13-14 years old. Oblomov's education. Oblomovites' views on life).

1. To what blessed corner of the earth did Oblomov’s dream take us? 2. Read the description of the morning Oblomov dreamed about? 3. What is it like at noon, Oblomov’s evening? 4.For what purpose does the author use the landscape? 5. How does the boy Ilyusha appear to us? 6. How do Oblomovka and its inhabitants appear? 7. What characters does the author introduce us to?

Teacher: How does this arrangement of parts of the novel's chapter help to understand the character of the hero?

Students: Each part is a series of vivid episodes from Oblomov’s childhood, completely different in theme, but connected by a common idea, the task of the writer: to show the origins of the hero’s character; how nature, family lifestyle, outlook on life and education influenced the formation of the protagonist’s character. Before we move on to the aspects of the work, let’s listen to Gismatullin Ramazan’s speech about the daily routine of the Oblomovites.

Teacher: Please name the “Motto” of the Oblomovites?

Students: “The day has passed and thank God.”

Teacher: Now let’s move on to the aspects of the work, to the positive and negative sides of Oblomov’s life:

Positive moments of Oblomov’s life

Negative aspects of Oblomov’s life

Picture of the world

1. The unity of people with nature, nature is human-like, man has no fear of it.

2. The unity of people with each other, the love of parents for Ilya.

1. Fencing off Oblomovka from the outside world, even the fear of Oblomovka before it (the story with the ravine, the gallery; there is no calendar in Oblomovka; fear of writing).

Philosophy of life.

1. Measured, calm life, where, as in nature, there are no disasters. Death, which comes unnoticed, is also perceived as a natural process.

2. There is no place for evil in Oblomovka; the greatest evil is “theft of peas from vegetable gardens.”

1. Student report “The daily routine of an Oblomovets.” It shows that life is a mechanical repetition of eating and sleeping (equal to death), empty evenings and fruitless conversations.

2. Details that disrupt the regularity of life of the Oblomovites (shaky porch, Onisim Suslov’s hut, collapsed gallery). All this shows the inability of the Oblomovites to work, their attitude towards work as a punishment, their hope in everything “maybe”.

Raising a child

1. Mother's love.

2. Formation of a poetic spirituality in a child with the help of fairy tales and folklore.

1. Excessive love leading to protection from own activities.

2. Fairy tales give rise to fruitless dreams that a miracle can happen in life without difficulty, and this leads to the complete passivity of the hero.

3. Oblomov’s upbringing “in Oblomov’s way”

    Teacher's word:So, you and I have reflected in our table the opposite sides of Oblomovka’s life. And more often than not, the hero of the novel was assessed only taking into account one side that influenced his life.

Here are two statements from critics, which side did they take in Oblomov?

Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov : “In Goncharov’s book we see a living modern Russian type, minted with merciless rigor and correctness. What are the features of Oblomov’s character? In complete inertia, resulting from apathy towards everything that is happening in the world...”

Alexander Vasilievich Druzhinin: “The sleepy Oblomov, a native of the sleepy and yet poetic Oblomovka, is free from moral diseases... He is not infected with everyday depravity. A child by nature and according to the conditions of his development, Ilya Ilyich largely left behind him the purity and simplicity of a child, which place the dreamy eccentric above the prejudices of his age.”

Which of these researchers do you think is right?

Teacher: What is the clue to the character of the hero proposed by the author? Human traits are formed in childhood. Oblomov’s pure, gentle soul, his “dovelike” meekness have their origins in Oblomovka. But laziness and helplessness also come from there. That's why this key chapter of the novel is so important to us.

Reflection. What did you learn new in this lesson? What conclusions can you draw for yourself?

IV . Homework. The image of Stolz in the novel: family, upbringing, education, portrait features, lifestyle, value guidelines (part 2, chapters 1 – 4)

Teacher: I thank everyone for their active work, today everyone gets a “5”. The lesson is over. Goodbye!

Students' goal: 1. Develop skill analytical work with the text of the work of art.

2. Learn to analyze the image of a literary hero.

3. Foster a compassionate understanding of the powerful and weaknesses personality.

4. Enrich vocabulary and improve speech culture skills

A person is shaped in many ways by childhood. Hence the meaning of “Oblomov’s Dream” in the novel. It is no coincidence that Goncharov called it “the overture of the entire novel.” Yes, this is the key to the whole work, the solution to all its secrets.

The entire life of Ilya Ilyich passes before the reader, from early childhood to death. It is the episode dedicated to Ilyusha’s childhood that is one of the central chapters in ideological terms.

The first chapter of the novel is dedicated to one single day of Ilya Ilyich. Observing his behavior and his habits, speeches and gestures, we form a certain impression about the hero. Oblomov is a gentleman who is ready to lie on the sofa all day long. He does not know how to work and even despises all work, capable only of useless dreams. “Life in his eyes was divided into two halves: one consisted of work and boredom - these were synonyms for him; the other - of peace and peaceful fun.” Oblomov is simply afraid of any activity. Even the dream of great love will not be able to bring him out of the state of apathy and peace. And those “two misfortunes” that initially worried Oblomov so much eventually became part of a series of troubled memories. This is how his whole life passed, day after day. Nothing changed in her measured movement.

Ilya Ilyich constantly dreamed. His main dream was presented in the form of a plan, and an unfinished plan. And for your cherished dream to come true, it is necessary not only to stop time, but even to turn it back.

Ilya Ilyich’s acquaintances also fail to stir up the main character. Oblomov has a ready answer for all occasions, for example, this: “Am I going to go through the dampness? And what didn’t I see there?” The habit of living at the expense of others, getting satisfaction of one’s desires through effort strangers and led to apathetic immobility and indifference.

“Meanwhile, he painfully felt that some good, bright beginning was buried in him, as in a grave, perhaps now dead... But the treasure was deeply and heavily buried with rubbish, alluvial debris.” So, entertaining himself with his usual thoughts and dreams, Oblomov slowly moves into the kingdom of sleep, “to another era, to other people, to another place.”

It is this dream that largely explains the polysemantic image of the hero. From Ilya Ilyich’s room we find ourselves in the kingdom of light and sun. The sensation of light is perhaps central to this episode. We observe the sun in all its manifestations: daytime, evening, winter, summer. Sunny spaces, morning shadows, a river reflecting the sun. After the dim lighting of the previous chapters, we enter a world of light. But first, we must pass 3 obstacles that Goncharov set before us. This is an endless sea with its “mad rolls of waves”, in which one can hear the groans and complaints of an animal doomed to torment. Behind it are mountains and abysses. And the sky above these formidable rocks seems distant and inaccessible. And finally, a crimson glow. “All nature - the forest, the water, the walls of the huts, and the sandy hills - everything burns as if with a crimson glow.”

After these exciting landscapes, Goncharov takes us to a small corner where “happy people lived, thinking that it should not and cannot be otherwise.” This is the land in which you want to live forever, be born there and die. Goncharov introduces us to the surroundings of the village and its inhabitants. In one phrase we can find a rather remarkable characteristic: “Everything in the village is quiet and sleepy: silent huts are wide open; not a soul is visible; only flies fly in clouds and buzz in the stuffiness.” There we meet young Oblomov.

Goncharov in this episode reflected the child’s worldview. This is evidenced by constant reminders: “And the child watched everything and observed everything with his childish ... mind.” The inquisitiveness of the child is emphasized several times by the author. But all his inquisitiveness was shattered by the endless concern for little Oblomov, with which Ilyusha was literally swaddled. “And the whole day and all the days and nights of the nanny were filled with turmoil, running around: now torture, now living joy for the child, now the fear that he would fall and break his nose...” Oblomovka is a corner where calm and imperturbable silence reigns. It's a dream within a dream. Everything around seems to have frozen, and nothing can wake up these people who live uselessly in a distant village without any connection with the rest of the world.

Having read the chapter to the end, we realize the only reason for the meaninglessness of Oblomov’s life, his passivity and apathy. Ilya’s childhood is his ideal. There in Oblomovka, Ilyusha felt warm, reliable and very protected, and how much love... This ideal doomed him to a further aimless existence. And the way there has already been blocked for him. Oblomovism is the embodiment of a dream, unrealizable aspirations, stagnation.

When Ilya Ilyich grew up, very little changed in his life. Instead of a nanny, Zakhar runs after him. And since in childhood, any desires of Ilyusha to run out into the street and play with the guys were immediately suppressed, it is not surprising that the measured lifestyle that Oblomov leads in his more mature years. “Ilya Ilyich did not know how to get up, or go to bed, or be combed and put on shoes...” Oblomov is of little interest in the current estate with its chaos and destruction. If he wanted, he would have been there a long time ago. In the meantime, he lives on Gorokhovaya Street, depends on the owner of the house and is afraid of his stingy neighbors.

Living together with Pshenitsyna is a continuation of life in Oblomovka. Time is cyclical and goes against the idea of ​​progress. “Oblomov’s Dream” is the author’s attempt to understand the essence of Oblomov. It was this episode that created the poetic appearance of the hero and helped the hero enter the hearts of people. This episode is like a poem. You won't find a single superfluous word in it. “In the type of Oblomov and in all this Oblomovism,” Dobrolyubov wrote, “we see something more than just the successful creation of a strong talent; we find in him a work of Russian life, a sign of the times.”

What role does Oblomov’s dream play in revealing the hero’s character?

The character of the hero of the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov, Ilya Oblomov, was dual, therefore the work itself is divided into two parts, which are connected by “Oblomov’s Dream”.
“Oblomov’s Dream” is a kind of answer to many questions, in particular, why Oblomov himself is such a person. He not only gives explanations, but also helps to reveal the hero himself, and also says that Oblomov’s essence comes from his homeland, full of maternal care. Oblomovka instilled in the main character many different qualities and had a great influence on both himself and his life. The main punishment for the Oblomovites was work, so Ilya Ilyich also perceived him that way. And although he still inherited a lot of things from the Oblomovites, he was still different from them. Oblomov was interested in many things, he refused the general afternoon nap. However, with age, everything changed not in his favor. Perhaps he would not have been so lazy, but, reading the work, we cannot help but notice that this man is not at will did nothing, he was forbidden to do anything on his own, starting with adolescence. Therefore, over time, he became even more like a typical person of his region. The author of the novel shows us how the hero evolves. He says goodbye to the service, then to the world around him. He has no joys in life except his robe and the sofa. It would seem that there is nothing left to do, if not to read, but this activity tires him and he becomes bored. The reader begins to understand this apathetic state of the main character thanks to the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream.” She reveals Oblomov’s character as widely as possible, showing that he personifies the characteristics of the era. Ilya Ilyich is a hereditary slacker, since he inherited this quality from his parents. His sofa reflects patriarchy; he does not want to decide anything, because to do this he needs to get off the sofa. The hero refuses to move; he is a continuation of Oblomovka.

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