Analysis of the "Poor Lisa" Karamzin NM.

In 1792 in the "Moscow Journal" first saw the story of Nikolai Karamzin "Poor Liza." This work caused a lot of positive emotions in the writer's contemporaries, the youth enthusiastically took it. People specifically looked for the places described in the book, and found them, loving couples strolled near the Simonov Monastery, and the pond mentioned by the author, in which the main heroine drowned, was renamed "Lizin pond".

Inconsistency of the story of reality

A lot of new introduced in the Russian literature of the XVIII century Karamzin. "Poor Liza" (the analysis of the work showed that the story is an example of sentimentalism) shocked contemporaries with the sincerity of the feelings of the main characters. The love story between a nobleman and a simple peasant woman, the development of their relations - all this was new for the end of the XVIII century, therefore not all readers paid attention to some contradictions that Karamzin admitted.

"Poor Liza" (the analysis of the story was done in the era of realism) is striking because all the characters speak the same language. In real life it could not be so, because the author and nobleman Erast belong to a society with secular upbringing and talk accordingly, but Lisa and her mother belong to commoners who do not understand sublime phrases. But the writer set himself the goal not to show real life, but beautiful describe the tragic love story of two people, to achieve compassion from the readers.

The refutation of the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau

An analysis of Karamzin's Poor Lisa shows that the writer sought to refute the statements of the French sentimentalist and thinker Rousseau, who sincerely believed that renouncing a person from civilization would make him happier. The thoughts of the main character Erasta fully correspond to the ideas of Jean Jacques. The nobleman has a vivid imagination, is well-read, loves romantic and idealistic stories, often mentally transferred to the past, when people were free from conventions, obligations, and only did that they walked, loved and idly spent their days.

After meeting with Lisa Erast decides to succumb to pure joys and forget about conventions. According to Rousseau's ideas, a nobleman should have found happiness in the arms of a simple peasant woman, but in life everything is much more complicated than in novels. An analysis of Karamzin's "Poor Lisa" shows that Erast never managed to destroy the wall of the estate. The love of two socially unequal people no longer seems clean, with time the feelings of the young man grow cold.

Sympathy for the heroes

Analysis of "Poor Lisa" Karamzin shows that the author sympathizes with the main characters. He can not warn them against mistakes, because the story was told by Erast himself 30 years after the tragic events. Suicide was severely condemned by the church, but Karamzin is only sad that a beautiful body and soul died. He does not see anything blasphemous in suicide, and drowning in a pond and in general casts thoughts on pre-romantic literature.

An analysis of Karamzin's Poor Lisa suggests that the author completely disputed Rousseau's judgments, that closeness to nature did not help the main heroine to survive the trials that fell to her lot and did not re-educate the protagonist.