Petya's cherry orchard characteristics. Petya Trofimov (The Cherry Orchard of Chekhov). Peter and Anna Ranevskaya
The future of Russia is represented by the images of Anya and Petya Trofimov.
Anya is 17 years old, she breaks with her past and convinces the crying Ranevskaya that there is a whole life ahead: “We will plant a new garden, more luxurious than this, you will see it, you will understand, and joy, quiet, deep joy will descend on your soul.” The future in the play is unclear, but it captivates and beckons purely emotionally, as youth is always attractive and promising. The image of a poetic cherry orchard, a young girl welcoming a new life - these are the dreams and hopes of the author himself for the transformation of Russia, for turning it into a blooming garden in the future. The garden is a symbol of the eternal renewal of life: “A new life begins,” Anya exclaims enthusiastically in the fourth act. Anya’s image is festive and joyful in the spring. "My sun! My spring,” Petya says about her. Anya condemns her mother for her lordly habit of wasting money, but she understands her mother’s tragedy better than others and sternly reprimands Gaev for saying bad things about his mother. Where does a seventeen-year-old girl get this wisdom and tact in life, which is not available to her far from young uncle?! Her determination and enthusiasm are attractive, but they threaten to turn into disappointment judging by how recklessly she believes Trofimov and his optimistic monologues.
At the end of the second act, Anya turns to Trofimov: “What have you done to me, Petya, why I no longer love the cherry orchard as before. I loved him so tenderly, it seemed to me that there was no better place on earth than our garden.”
Trofimov answers her: “All of Russia is our garden.”
Petya Trofimov, like Anya, represents young Russia. He is the former teacher of Ranevskaya’s drowned seven-year-old son. His father was a pharmacist. He is 26 or 27 years old, he is an eternal student who has not completed his course, wears glasses and argues that he should stop admiring himself and “just work.” True, Chekhov clarified in his letters that Petya Trofimov did not graduate from the university not of his own free will: “After all, Trofimov is constantly in exile, he is constantly expelled from the university, but how can you portray these things.”
Petya most often speaks not on his own behalf - on behalf of the new generation of Russia. Today for him is “...dirt, vulgarity, Asianism,” the past is “serf owners who owned living souls.” “We are at least two hundred years behind, we still have absolutely nothing, no definite attitude towards the past, we only philosophize, complain about melancholy or drink vodka. It’s so clear, in order to begin to live in the present, we must first redeem our past, put an end to it, and we can redeem it only through suffering, only through extraordinary, continuous labor.”
Petya Trofimov is one of Chekhov's intellectuals for whom things, tithes of land, jewelry, and money do not represent the highest value. Refusing Lopakhin's money, Petya Trofimov says that they do not have the slightest power over him, like fluff that floats in the air. He is “strong and proud” in that he is free from the power of everyday, material, materialized things. Where Trofimov talks about the unsettledness of the old life and calls for a new life, the author sympathizes with him.
Despite all the “positiveness” of Petya Trofimov’s image, he is questionable precisely as a positive, “author’s” hero: he is too literary, his phrases about the future are too beautiful, his calls to “work” are too general, etc. Chekhov's distrust of loud phrases and any exaggerated manifestation of feelings is known: he “could not stand phrase-mongers, scribes and Pharisees” (I.A. Bunin). Petya Trofimov is characterized by something that Chekhov himself avoided and which is manifested, for example, in the following monologue of the hero: “Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness that is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront!”; “To get around those small and illusory things that prevent you from being free and happy - this is the goal and meaning of our life. Forward! We are moving uncontrollably towards the bright star that burns there in the distance!
Chekhov's “New People” - Anya and Petya Trofimov - are also polemical in relation to the tradition of Russian literature, like Chekhov’s images of “little” people: the author refuses to recognize as unconditionally positive, to idealize “new” people only for being “new”, for that they act as denouncers of the old world. Time requires decisions and actions, but Petya Trofimov is not capable of them, and this brings him closer to Ranevskaya and Gaev. Moreover, on the path to the future, human qualities are lost: “We are above love,” he joyfully and naively assures Anya.
Ranevskaya rightly reproaches Trofimov for not knowing life: “You boldly solve all the important issues, but tell me, my dear, is it because you are young, that you have not had time to suffer through any of your questions?..” But this is what makes them attractive. young heroes: hope and faith in a happy future. They are young, which means that everything is possible, there is a whole life ahead... Petya Trofimov and Anya are not exponents of a certain specific program for the reconstruction of the future Russia, they symbolize the hope for the revival of Garden Russia...
Pyotr Trofimov occupies a special place among the characters in the comedy “The Cherry Orchard.” He is the former teacher of Ranevskaya’s drowned seven-year-old son, a commoner. His father was a pharmacist. Trofimov is twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, he is an eternal student, wears glasses and argues that one should stop admiring oneself and “just work.”
The hero beautifully preaches faith in the inevitable onset of a better future and personal freedom, because “humanity moves forward, improving its strengths. Everything that is inaccessible to it now will someday become close and understandable, only now we must work, help with all our might those who seeks the truth."
Trofimov denounces “dirt, vulgarity, Asianism”, criticizes the Russian intelligentsia, who for the most part do not seek anything and are not capable of work. Like Gaev, he is prone to declamation, without thinking that in the categoricalness of some of his judgments he is simply ridiculous. About his relationship with Anya, Petya says that they are higher than love: “To bypass those small and illusory things that prevent us from being free and happy - this is the goal and meaning of our life. Forward! We are moving uncontrollably towards the bright star that burns there in the distance!”
Again, like Gaev, Trofimov encourages Anya to believe him, because he has a presentiment of happiness. Ranevskaya, not without reason, reproaches the hero for spiritual myopia when he, comforting her, says that it makes no difference whether the estate is sold or not. She accurately notices that Petya only talks and does nothing, he hasn’t even finished the course.
Repeating Firs’ favorite word, Ranevskaya calls Trofimov a klutz and a second-grade high school student. To Lopakhin’s ironic question whether he will reach the “highest truth,” Trofimov confidently replies: “I will get there or I will show others the way to get there.”
In the finale, the hero is looking for forgotten galoshes, which become a symbol of his unsuccessful life, despite the beautiful words and inspiring pathos.
Student Petya Trofimov helps Anya in her spiritual growth, in determining her attitude towards the past, present and future of her Motherland. He opens her eyes to the dark, terrible thing that lurked behind the poetry of noble culture.
To begin to live in the present, you must first atone for the past, put an end to it. This is the pathos of the play. Trofimov calls Anya to the beauty of the future: “I have a presentiment of happiness, Anya, I already see it... Here it is, happiness, here it comes. It’s coming closer and closer, I can already hear its steps. And if we don’t see, we won’t know him, then what’s the harm? Others will see him!”
Petya Trofimov himself, by all indications, does not belong to the number of advanced, skillful, strong fighters for future happiness. In his entire appearance, we feel a certain contradiction between the strength, depth, scope of the dream and the weakness of the dreamer. “The shabby gentleman,” Petya Trofimov is sweet, pure, but eccentric, intellectually absent-minded, insufficiently vital and not very capable of a great, persistent struggle. He has traits of “clumsiness” inherent in almost all the characters in this play. But still, Petya Trofimov is a qualitatively unique image. Trofimov is involved in the revolutionary struggle - that is why he is an “eternal student.”
Chekhov endowed Trofimov with some “funny” features of a “shabby gentleman” with clearly accusatory intentions, while Anya was presented in pale tones, as the most ordinary, “average” girl. “Anya and Trofimov... seem to be floating on some kind of ice floe, barely holding on to the shore, towards the waves... without a clear program of life,” F. Batyushkov said about Chekhov’s heroes. They are average people. It is not such people who create the movement, but the movement that creates them. This circumstance is very important, since it indicates the presence of a truly strong movement capable of capturing even such average individuals into its ranks.
Trofimov's idealism, just like Anya's dreams, is somewhat vague: Lyubov Andreevna rightfully throws into his eyes the notorious word of Firs - “klutz”. This expression is becoming a classic. It applies to almost all the characters in Chekhov’s comedy and symbolizes the main idea of the work: that Russia needs people, not simple people, but active ones.
The figure of Trofimov is an indicator that the revolutionary movement was capturing ever wider strata; even representatives of the Trofimov-type intelligentsia joined it. Just two or three years ago, Petya Trofimov was just a half-educated philosopher, a supporter of abstract dreams of a wonderful future, divorced from the struggle. Now, on the threshold of the revolution, Petya Trofimov is already participating in the cause, the struggle, in one way or another.
But Petya Trofimov, as we found him in the play, is still “unfinished,” “half-baked.” Chekhov felt this, as well as the limitations of his own ideas about the people of the new Russia, the revolutionaries. Hence his peculiar shyness in relation to Petya, the desire to reduce him, to deprive him of his claims to be a figure of heroic proportions. But everything that Petya told Anya about the past and future, about work, struggle - all this is near and dear to the author.
The image and characteristics of Petya Trofimov in the play “The Cherry Orchard” The full name of the hero is Pyotr Sergeevich Trofimov: “...Trofimov Pyotr Sergeevich, student...” Petya Trofimov - student: “...Trofimov Pyotr Sergeevich, student...” Petya Trofimov is the former teacher of Grisha, Ranevskaya's son: "...And Petya Trofimov was Grisha's teacher, he can remind..." "...Petya Trofimov, your former teacher Grisha... Have I really changed that much?.." Petya Trofimov's age - 26-27 years old: "...Are you twenty-six years old or twenty-seven..." "...I'm not yet thirty, I'm young?.." Appearance of Petya Trofimov: "...Trofimov enters in a worn student uniform, with glasses..." "...Well, Petya? Why have you grown so ugly?.." "...How ugly you have become, Petya, how old you have become!.." "...You were then. just a boy, a cute student, and now the hair is not thick, glasses..." "...And you need to do something with the beard so that it grows somehow..." "...Petya, here they are, your galoshes , near the suitcase. (With tears.) And how dirty and old they are..." Petya is called a “shabby gentleman" because of his poverty: “...One woman in the carriage called me this: a shabby gentleman...” ...Shabby gentleman!..” Petya Trofimov is an eternal student. He just can’t finish his studies: “...and you’re still a second-grade high school student!..” “...Are you really still a student?..” “...I must be an eternal student...” “...Our eternal student always goes out with young ladies...” “... He will soon be fifty years old, and he is still a student...” Petya has already been expelled from the university 2 times: “... An eternal student! Already twice fired from the university once..." Petya Trofimov is not involved in any serious business: "...only, my dear, you have to study, you have to finish the course. You don’t do anything, only fate throws you from place to place, it’s so strange... “Petya Trofimov makes a living by translating from foreign languages: “...Yes. Thank you for the translation. Here they are, in my pocket...” Petya Trofimov is a smart person: “...How smart you are, Petya. !..” Petya Trofimov is a good, kind man: “...Have pity on me, good, kind man...” Petya Trofimov has a pure soul: “... Well, Petya... well, a pure soul... I ask for forgiveness... "Petya Trofimov is a modest person. He is afraid to embarrass those around him: "...They sleep in the bathhouse, that's where they live. I'm afraid, they say, to embarrass..." Petya Trofimov is a funny man, an eccentric: "...You're funny!.." "...a funny eccentric , freak..." "...Petya, wait! Funny man, I was joking!.." "...What an eccentric this Petya..." Petya Trofimov is a philosopher at heart: "...Trofimov Who knows? what does it mean to die? Perhaps a person has a hundred senses and with death only five known to us perish, while the remaining ninety-five remain alive. Petya Trofimov knows how to speak beautifully: “...How well you speak!..” Petya Trofimov is an optimist despite the fact that he has already experienced a lot in life: “...I’m not yet thirty, I’m young, I’m still a student, but I have already endured so much! Like winter, I am hungry, sick, anxious, poor, like a beggar, and - wherever fate has driven me, wherever I have been! and at night, was full of inexplicable premonitions. I foresee happiness, Anya, I already see it...” After the story with the cherry orchard, Petya returns to Moscow to study: “... Yes, I’ll take them to the city, and tomorrow to Moscow... “Petya Trofimov is a proud man: “...Leave me, leave me... Give me even two hundred thousand, I won’t take it. And everything that you all value so highly and dearly, rich and poor, has not the slightest power over me. power, that’s like fluff that floats through the air. I can do without you, I can pass by you, I am strong and proud...” Petya is proud that he is poor: “...Yes, I am a shabby gentleman and I am proud. with this!.." Petya strives for the "highest happiness": "...Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness that is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront!.." Petya strives for freedom and calls on everyone " be free": "...If you have the keys to the farm, then throw them into the well and leave. Be free like the wind..." Petya Trofimov is friends with Anya Ranevskaya. He propagates to her his views on freedom, happiness, etc.: "... All summer she haunted neither me nor Anya, she was afraid, as if Our romance didn't work out. What does she care? And besides, I didn’t show it, I’m so far from vulgarity. We are above love!..”
Characteristics of the literary hero Trofimov Petya is the former teacher of Ranevskaya’s deceased son, a commoner of 26 or 27 years old.
T. is an eternal student who never finishes the course. Fate throws him from place to place. This hero preaches faith in a better future. To do this, in his opinion, “we must work and help with all our might those who are seeking the truth.”
T. scolds everything that hinders the development of Russia - “dirt, vulgarity, Asianism”, criticizes the Russian intelligentsia, which does not look for anything and does not work. But the hero does not notice that he himself is a bright representative of such an intelligentsia: he only speaks beautifully, without doing anything. A characteristic phrase for T.: “I will reach or show others the way to reach” (to the “highest truth”). T. denies love, considering it something “petty and illusory.” He only urges Anya to believe him, as he anticipates happiness. Ranevskaya reproaches T. for his coldness when he says that it makes no difference whether the estate is sold or not. In general, Ranevskaya does not like the hero, calling him a klutz and a second-grade high school student. At the end of the play, T. is looking for forgotten galoshes, which become a symbol of his worthless, albeit illuminated by beautiful words, life.
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“The eternal student” is exactly what one of the heroes of the play “The Cherry Orchard,” the pharmacist’s son Petya Trofimov, calls himself. His image was initially conceived as positive, he is not attached to anything and is not burdened with worries about the estate. It is its author who gives the unique opportunity to look at all events from the outside and have an unbiased point of view on everything.
Petya is about thirty years old, but he cannot graduate from Moscow University, from which he finds himself expelled for his activities directed against the government. Chekhov portrays this hero as a truthful, selfless person, not striving for any profit, who refuses to accept the lifestyle of wealthy nobles. Petya considers himself a free person, based on this theory, he refuses the money offered to him by Lopakhin and also refuses love, “we are above love.” He believes that all this can only have power over people with old concepts.
For Petya, the cherry orchard bears the imprint of slavery, in which each individual growing tree reminds him of a tormented human being. The wealthy part of the population, according to Trofimov, is obliged to atone for their servants only through exhausting labor. Petya condemns the views of the enterprising businessman Lopakhin for his consumerist attitude towards natural resources.
Trofimov is concerned about the future fate of the intelligentsia, since the part with which he is familiar, in his opinion, does not try to search and is not adapted to anything. Petya wants to go in the first row of those who are looking for the highest truth. His role is to awaken the consciousness of the younger generation, such as Anya, who absorbs all Petit’s ideas. However, despite all the purity and depth of his thoughts, the author continually interrupts Petya either with the sounds of Epikhodov’s guitar or with the knock of an ax, thereby showing that such judgments are still far from being realized.
Still, such a positive hero also has the negative trait of seeing only dirt in everything. Even the businessman Lopakhin admires the vastness of the fields of Russia and its horizons, while Petya speaks only about impurity, including moral, and while dreaming about the future, does not notice the present.
Trofimov, as the hero of the play, plays a rather comic role. Although he strives to achieve the highest happiness, he understands that he is not created for it. However, it is on Petya that the author pins his hopes on showing others the path to this very happiness, and this makes such a hero irreplaceable - both in the work and in life.
Essay 2
The image of Petya Trofimov is one of the main ones in the play “The Cherry Orchard”. He is the son of a pharmacist, who is not burdened with any worries and is not attached to anything - a bird of free flight.
But unlike other characters, such as Ranevskaya and Lopakhin, Petya is able to look at what is happening from the outside, and soberly, impartially assess the situation. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov initially conceived Trofimov as a positive character, but far from unique.
Petya, a former teacher of Ranevskaya’s son, a commoner of twenty-six years old. Many in the play call him the “Eternal Student”, since he has been studying for a long time, but still does not complete a single course. He has a rather interesting appearance and demeanor. He wears glasses and has a habit of philosophizing and teaching everyone around him about life. I firmly believe that the nobles were very lazy and now the time has come for the youth to take everything into their own hands. He considers himself to be part of the “new” working generation.
As for his life, he wanders a lot. Doesn't stay in one place. In the action of the play, he lives on Ranevskaya’s estate, namely in the bathhouse, so as not to disturb anyone. Ranevskaya doesn’t like him, saying that at his age it’s time to stop studying and it’s time to get married. Ranevskaya’s daughter Anna, madly in love with Petya, also lives on the estate. He believes every word he says, and he loves to say things without doing anything.
It is difficult not to notice the ironic attitude of the author and the characters of the play themselves towards Trofimov. Whatever they call him: “Klutz”, “funny freak”, “clean”, “shabby gentleman”. Petya is ugly, unkempt and awkward. He has sparse hair and is absent-minded. His image contrasts greatly with the opinion about him after his romantic speeches. Although even they have little to do with reality, and speak of an absolute lack of understanding of the life situation.
But nevertheless, it is he who is entrusted with an important role! He is able to show others how to reach their goal. This makes him a unique, irreplaceable character. Although he himself understands that he is not created for happiness and will never achieve it.
At the end of the play, he is looking for his forgotten galoshes, betraying the absolute worthlessness of his life, which is only decorated with beautiful words coming from his own lips.
Essay by Petya Trofimov
Those who have read Chekhov’s work “The Cherry Orchard” should probably remember that one of the characters called himself an “eternal student.” And this main character was Petya. It refers to a positive image of a hero. In addition, he never thinks about thinking or caring about anything and always lives only for his own pleasure. He looks at everything that happens in the world from the outside and has his own point of view and opinion on everything.
Although the main character is only thirty years old, he is still studying at Moscow University and cannot graduate. And all because he once went against the authorities and now they do not give him peace. He is constantly plotting something against the authorities and does not allow them to finish their business. Many times he was offered money, but not a single person had yet managed to bribe him. He also believes that if he lives by the old concepts, he will be able to cope with the government. In addition, not a single problem or misfortune passes him by, and he always finds himself in different situations.
Many describe him as a poor man who has only one piece of clothing, which he wears all the time, and he simply does not have another and cannot buy new ones. It’s just that he doesn’t have any complexes about it at all, but considers it a completely normal thing. It often happens that the hero blames other people for his mistakes, but at the same time he does not feel guilty of anything.
All he can do is translate different texts from different languages. And for this he has to travel from one city to another or even to another country.
The cherry orchard means nothing to him, and he would be very glad to get rid of it as soon as possible. After all, it reminds him of slavery.
It’s just his attitude towards his beloved girl that makes him a negative hero. After all, he loves no one else but himself. He has a huge number of ideas that he could bring to life, but he cannot for various reasons, and most often these reasons are simply his reluctance to change something in his life. But, despite this, he believes that everything will soon pass and better times will come. But no one knows when they will come.