Chekhov is a master of the short story. He was an irreconcilable enemy of vulgarity and philistinism, hated and despised ordinary people who live in their own little world, fenced off from everything in the world. Therefore, the main theme of his stories was the theme of the meaning of life.
At the end of the 90s, Chekhov created the so-called “little trilogy”, combining three stories: “The Man in a Case”, “Gooseberry”, “About Love”. These stories are connected only by a common theme, the theme of rejection of the case, whatever it may be. In the first story, Chekhov shows us in a grotesque form a man in a case, the Greek teacher Belikov. This is an ominous figure, she instills fear in those around him, and only death reconciles him with reality. As Chekhov writes, Belikov lay in the coffin almost happy - he had finally found an eternal case. In the second story, Chekhov writes about a man who had one and only dream - to become the owner of an estate and have his own gooseberries. In the third, the landowner Alekhine talks about himself - about how he and his beloved woman did not dare to meet their love halfway and abandoned it. All these are manifestations of case life. The little trilogy therefore appears before us as a single work, internally complete. Chekhov intended to continue this cycle of stories and add new works, but he did not carry out his intentions. There is reason to think that at first the story “Ionych” also belonged to the cycle.
Dmitry Ionych Startsev, the hero of the story "Ionych", was appointed as a doctor at the zemstvo hospital in Dyalizh not far from the provincial town of S. This is a young man with ideals, with a desire for something high. In S. he meets the Turkins family, “the most educated and talented” in the city. Ivan Petrovich Turkin played in amateur performances, showed tricks, and joked. Vera Iosifovna wrote novels and stories for herself and read them to guests. Their daughter Ekaterina Ivanovna, a young pretty girl whose family name is Kotik, played the piano. When Dmitry Ionych visited the Turkins for the first time, he was fascinated. He fell in love with Catherine. This feeling turned out to be “the only joy and... the last” during his entire life in Dyalizh. For the sake of his love, he is ready, it would seem, to do a lot. But when Kotik refused him, imagining herself to be a brilliant pianist, and left the city, he suffered for only three days. And then everything went as before. Remembering his courtship and lofty reasoning (“Oh, how little those who have never loved know!”), he only lazily said: “How much trouble, however!” Physical obesity comes to Startsev unnoticed. He stops walking, suffers from shortness of breath, and likes to snack. Moral obesity is also creeping up. Previously, both with the ardent movements of his soul and the ardor of his feelings, he stood out favorably from the inhabitants of the city. For a long time they irritated him “with their conversations, their views on life and even their appearance.” He knew from experience that you can play cards with ordinary people, have a snack and talk only about the most ordinary things. And if you start talking, for example, “about politics or science,” then the average person becomes confused or “gets into such a philosophy, stupid and evil, that all that remains is to wave your hand and move away.” But gradually Startsev got used to such a life and got involved in it. And if he didn’t want to talk, he remained silent, for which he received the nickname “the pouty Pole.” At the end of the story, we see that he spends every evening in the club, plays vint, has a snack and occasionally intervenes in the conversation: “What are you talking about? Who?" When Kotik became convinced that she had mediocre abilities, she lived in hope of Startsev’s love. But this is no longer the same young man who could come on a date at night to the cemetery. He was too lazy spiritually and morally to love and have a family. He only thinks: “It’s good that I didn’t get married then.”
The doctor’s main pastime, “which he became involved in unnoticed, little by little,” began to take pieces of paper out of his pockets in the evenings, and then, when there was a lot of money, to look at houses intended for auction. Greed overcame him. But he himself could not explain why he alone needs so much money if he is depriving himself of even theaters and concerts.
Startsev himself knows that he is “getting old, getting fat, declining,” but he has neither the desire nor the will to fight the philistine. The doctor's name is now simply Ionych. The journey of life is completed. Why Dmitry
Has Startsev turned from a hot young man into an obese, greedy and loud-mouthed Ionych? Yes, the environment is to blame. Life is monotonous, boring, “passes by dullly, without impressions, without thoughts.” But it seems to me that, first of all, the doctor himself is to blame, who lost all the best that was in him, exchanged living thoughts for a well-fed, self-satisfied existence.
The image of Doctor Startsev reminds us of Gogol's characters from Dead Souls. He is as dead as all these Manilovs, Sobakeviches, Plyushkins. His life is empty and meaningless, just like their lives.
In conclusion, we can recall the words of the hero of the story “Gooseberry” that a person needs “not three arshins of land, but the entire globe.”
Essays on literature: Why did the doctor of the elders become Ionych
Chekhov is a master of the short story. He was an irreconcilable enemy of vulgarity and philistinism, hated and despised ordinary people who live in their own little world, fenced off from everything in the world. Therefore, the main theme of his stories was the theme of the meaning of life.
At the end of the 90s, Chekhov created the so-called “little trilogy”, combining three stories: “The Man in a Case”, “Gooseberry”, “About Love”. These stories are connected only by a common theme, the theme of rejection of the case, whatever it may be. In the first story, Chekhov shows us in a grotesque form a man in a case, the Greek teacher Belikov. This is an ominous figure, she instills fear in those around him, and only death reconciles him with reality. As Chekhov writes, Belikov lay in the coffin almost happy - he had finally found an eternal case. In the second story, Chekhov writes about a man who had one and only dream - to become the owner of an estate and have his own gooseberries. In the third, the landowner Alekhine talks about himself - about how he and his beloved woman did not dare to meet their love halfway and abandoned it. All these are manifestations of case life. The little trilogy therefore appears before us as a single work, internally complete. Chekhov intended to continue this cycle of stories and add new works, but he did not carry out his intentions. There is reason to think that at first the story “Ionych” also belonged to the cycle.
Dmitry Startsev, the hero of the story "Ionych", was appointed as a doctor to the zemstvo hospital in Dyalizh not far from the provincial town of S. This is a young man with ideals, with a desire for something high. In S. he meets the Turkins family, “the most educated and talented” in the city. Ivan Petrovich Turkin played in amateur performances, showed tricks, and joked. Vera Iosifovna wrote novels and stories for herself and read them to guests. Their daughter Ekaterina Ivanovna, a young pretty girl whose family name is Kotik, played the piano. When Dmitry Ionych visited the Turkins for the first time, he was fascinated. He fell in love with Catherine. This feeling turned out to be “the only joy and... the last” during his entire life in Dyalizh. For the sake of his love, he is ready, it would seem, to do a lot. But when Kotik refused him, imagining herself to be a brilliant pianist, and left the city, he suffered for only three days. And then everything went as before. Remembering his courtship and lofty reasoning (“Oh, how little those who have never loved know!”), he only lazily said: “How much trouble, however!” Physical obesity comes to Startsev unnoticed. He stops walking, suffers from shortness of breath, and likes to snack. Moral obesity is also creeping up. Previously, both with the ardent movements of his soul and the ardor of his feelings, he stood out favorably from the inhabitants of the city. For a long time they irritated him “with their conversations, their views on life and even their appearance.” He knew from experience that you can play cards with ordinary people, have a snack and talk only about the most ordinary things. And if you start talking, for example, “about politics or science,” then the average person becomes confused or “gets into such a philosophy, stupid and evil, that all that remains is to wave your hand and move away.” But gradually Startsev got used to such a life and got involved in it. And if he didn’t want to talk, he remained silent, for which he received the nickname “the pouty Pole.” At the end of the story, we see that he spends every evening in the club, plays vint, has a snack and occasionally intervenes in the conversation: “What are you talking about? Who?" When Kotik became convinced that she had mediocre abilities, she lived in hope of Startsev’s love. But this is no longer the same young man who could come on a date at night to the cemetery. He was too lazy spiritually and morally to love and have a family. He only thinks: “It’s good that I didn’t get married then.”
The doctor’s main pastime, “which he became involved in unnoticed, little by little,” began to take pieces of paper out of his pockets in the evenings, and then, when there was a lot of money, to look at houses intended for auction. Greed overcame him. But he himself could not explain why he alone needs so much money if he is depriving himself of even theaters and concerts.
Startsev himself knows that he is “getting old, getting fat, declining,” but he has neither the desire nor the will to fight the philistine. The doctor's name is now simply Ionych. The journey of life is completed. Why Dmitry
Has Startsev turned from a hot young man into an obese, greedy and loud-mouthed Ionych? Yes, the environment is to blame. Life is monotonous, boring, “passes by dullly, without impressions, without thoughts.” But it seems to me that, first of all, the doctor himself is to blame, who lost all the best that was in him, exchanged living thoughts for a well-fed, self-satisfied existence.
The image of Doctor Startsev reminds us of Gogol's characters from Dead Souls. He is as dead as all these Manilovs, Sobakeviches, Plyushkins. His life is empty and meaningless, just like their lives.
In conclusion, we can recall the words of the hero of the story “Gooseberry” that a person needs “not three arshins of land, but the entire globe.”
Why does Doctor Startsev become the philistine Ionych?
An essay based on the story “Ionych” by A.P. Chekhov.
The theme of vulgarity and the meaninglessness of the life of the average person can be called one of the leading ones in the work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a remarkable Russian writer of the late 19th century. Chekhov exposes the stupid, sleepy Russian man in the street, shows his dull life, speaks of his ignorance, savagery, and cruelty. This theme is developed by the writer in such stories as “The Man in a Case”, “House with a Mezzanine”, “Lady with a Dog”, “Ionych” and others.
In the story “Ionych” we see how the vulgarity of the bourgeois environment literally sucks in a person, turning him into a soulless, soft-bodied philistine. The beginning of this story introduces us to the boring and monotonous setting of the provincial town of S. The pride of this city was the Turkin family, considered the most educated and cultured. The basis for this was the numerous talents of the Turkin family. So, Ivan Petrovich is known as a famous joker. One of his “jokes” - “hello please” - is well known to each of us, because it has become a kind of aphorism. His wife Vera Iosifovna is also an outstanding person: she writes novels that arouse undoubted interest among her guests. Their daughter Katerina Ivanovna firmly decides to study at the conservatory because, according to others, she is an outstanding pianist.
When a young zemstvo doctor, Dmitry Startsev, appears in the city, we have the opportunity to look at this outstanding family through the eyes of a fresh person. The well-worn jokes of the father of the family, the novels of his wife, which are good to fall asleep to, and the strumming of their daughter on the piano, who hit the keys with such force as if she wanted to drive them inside - that’s what their talents really were. The reader can immediately imagine how mediocre the inhabitants of the city were, if the Turkin family was the most cultured in it.
Finding himself in this city, a young doctor, who compares favorably with its inhabitants with his honesty, hard work, and desire to engage in noble work, cannot help but notice the inferiority of the people around him. For a long time they irritated him with their empty conversations and meaningless activities. Dmitry Startsev comes to the conclusion that with these people you can only play cards, have a snack and talk about the most ordinary things. And at the same time, he, like most residents of the provincial town, admires the talents of the Turkin family...
The worst thing is that this man, who at first resisted the vulgarity surrounding him with all his being, began to gradually succumb to the influence of the environment in which he found himself. For the first time in his life, he falls in love. And the object of his adoration becomes the daughter of a family already known to us, Katerina Ivanovna. The hero's ardent feeling obscures everything in front of him. He idealizes Katerina Ivanovna, fulfills all her whims. And when he proposes marriage to her, he is almost sure that she will become his wife. A thought slips into his head: they will probably give a lot of dowry, and he will have to move from Dyalizh to the city and start private practice.
But Katerina Ivanovna refuses Startsev. And what? We see that this man suffers for no more than three days... His life returns to its previous rut, and, remembering the girl he loves, he thinks: “How much trouble, however.” Having said goodbye to his dreams of love and noble service to people, the hero of the story finds pleasure only in playing vint and counting the daily fee. In fact, his life is filled with the same meaning as that of the rest of the town's inhabitants. “Frantic card playing, gluttony, drunkenness, constant conversations all about the same thing” - all this turns out to be stronger than Doctor Startsev, and he turns into a flabby Ionych.
“How are we doing here?” he answers Katerina Ivanovna’s question when he meets her a few years later. “No way. We’re getting old, getting fatter, getting worse. Day and night - a day away, life passes dullly, without impressions, without thoughts.. "In the daytime it's profit, and in the evening it's a club, a society of gamblers, alcoholics, wheezing people, whom I can't stand. What's good?" From these words it is clear that Startsev understands perfectly well that he is degrading, but he does not have the strength to break out of this vicious circle. Therefore, answering the question of the essay, it must be said that not only the philistine environment turned Startsev into Ionych, but he himself was to blame for this.
The hero's lack of will and unwillingness to change anything in his life became the main reason that he turned into a plump, red, shortness of breath man. And then we see that Ionych intends to buy himself another house to add to the two he already owns. This tells us that the meaning of Ionych’s life became more personal well-being than the desire to benefit people, as was the case in the beginning, when he received people in the hospital even on weekends and holidays. It seems to me that Chekhov wanted to say with this story how strongly the philistine environment influences a person: it changes not only a person’s appearance, his way of life, but can also completely turn the scale of his moral values upside down.
Composition
(based on the story “Ionych” by A.P. Chekhov)
“When visitors to the provincial town of S complained about the boredom and monotony of life, the local residents, as if making excuses, said that, on the contrary, it was very good in S...”
A.P.’s story begins with this phrase. Chekhov “Ionych”. The main character of the story is Doctor Startsev, a poor zemstvo doctor who is just starting his career. He is a very interesting, sociable, dreamy, kind person,
who meets the Turkins family, reputed to be the most “talented family” in the city of S.
But gradually, as we get to know family members, we realize how, in essence, mediocre and boring they are.
The talent of Ivan Petrovich, the father of the family, lies in the fact that he speaks in his extraordinary language, developed by long exercises in wit and, obviously, long ago become a habit: “not bad,” “I humbly thank you.”
Ivan Petrovich's wife, Vera Iosifovna, writes novels that depict what does not and cannot exist in reality.
The Turkins' daughter, Ekaterina Ivanovna (her parents call her Kotik), is going to become a pianist. This is how Chekhov portrays her game: “she hit with all her might,” “she stubbornly hit everything in one place.” As if we are not talking about art, but about some kind of hard work, the goal of which is “to drive the keys inside the piano.”
Startsev falls in love with Ekaterina, who has only one goal in life - to graduate from the conservatory. She is a young, beautiful, but flighty girl who does not think about her future and therefore easily oversteps Startsev’s feelings. This marked the beginning of the degradation of Startsev’s personality.
The cat is leaving. Four years pass. During this time, Startsev changes a lot. From a poor doctor, he turned into a rich man, owning real estate, having money and position in society.
He is overweight and suffers from shortness of breath. Now this is not the Startsev we see in the first chapters of the story. He rarely goes out in society and has become withdrawn, unfriendly, and rude. In city C he is already known as Ionych.
“He has a lot of trouble, but still he does not give up his zemstvo position; greed has overcome, I want to keep up both here and there.”
“Probably because his throat was swollen with fat, his voice changed, becoming thin and harsh. His character also changed: he became heavy and irritable.”
And now Startsev meets Ekaterina Ivanovna again. The environment, life and way of life of the Turkin family remained unchanged, but the main characters of the story changed. Startsev sank completely, almost died spiritually, she became bolder, more serious, she understood the main thing: “I am a pianist, just like my mother is a writer...” Ekaterina Ivanovna has only one illusion left, which she also has to part with - this is Startsev’s love .
It’s dark in Ionych’s soul too. Only for a moment did the light “glow”, he felt sorry for love, lost happiness, and, in the light of this light, all the vulgarity of his life was suddenly revealed. But he is not sorry for this life, youth, love, unfulfilled hopes. “It’s good that I didn’t get married then,” he thinks.
Chekhov's story depicts the transformation of a person with good inclinations into an egoist. The death of the human soul and its creative principles is shown. There was degradation, the transformation of Doctor Startsev into Ionych - a man “without impressions, without thoughts,” without dreams.
The works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov teach a lot, exposing vulgarity, hypocrisy, lies, and meanness. They cultivate the ability to see the beauty of life and feel it. They teach that you can't live a small life.
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In the story “Ionych,” Chekhov depicted the drama of the collapse of the human personality, clearly showed the deadly danger of reconciliation with the existing system, submission to the prevailing mores and accepted morality.
Chekhov begins his acquaintance with the life of the city of S., where the events take place, by introducing us to “the most educated and talented family,” the Turkins. The head of the family, Ivan Petrovich, loved to stage performances in which he himself acted, his wife Vera Iosifovna wrote novels, and his daughter Ekaterina Ivanovna, or Kotik, as she was called in the family, played the piano. Life in the city is generally boring and monotonous, and even the representatives of this “talented” family ultimately turn out to be rather mediocre, equally boring and rather narrow-minded. And Startsev’s perception of them on the first evening of their acquaintance was a kind of mirror of himself, a young, benevolent, still naive zemstvo doctor, who pretty much missed good company in his wilderness. Therefore, the doctor perceived the whole evening as a holiday, and everything seemed “so pleasant, so new” to him.
Extremely pleased with his new acquaintance, Doctor Startsev returns to his work. He does what he loves and is full of desire to work for the good of society. But the fact is that this society has rather petty interests, and leads an idle, frivolous, empty life. It’s good to play cards or have lunch with such people, but under no circumstances should you talk about science, art, politics (which always interested the doctor) - they simply won’t understand you or will be offended.
And we see that very gradually, but steadily, Startseva began to be sucked into this quagmire. After a long time, he again ends up with the Turkins, and love for the young Ekaterina Ivanovna awakens in his heart. But along with dreams of the future, he is constantly tormented by the question: “Is it becoming for him, a zemstvo doctor, an intelligent, respectable person... to do something stupid? Where will this novel lead? What will your comrades say when they find out? And this cautious glance, and later unexpectedly calculating thoughts (“And they must give a lot of dowry...”) noticeably interrupt the lyrical mood of the lover.
Despite his dreams and hopes, the doctor was refused by the girl herself. Oh, how he worried and suffered - for three whole days!
Gradually, Startsev sinks more and more into the quagmire of philistine existence. When he thinks about his former love, he already feels relieved that everything ended so “happily”, and then he completely forgets.
If at first Startsev worked with inspiration, carefully, “with love,” then later, with the advent of large practice, he began to see patients hastily. In the end, the famous doctor acquired a simply huge practice, he “already has two estates and two houses in the city, and he takes a fancy to a third, more profitable one...”
The line that separates the doctor from the thoughtless philistine society is gradually dissolving. He becomes “one of their own” to these people, and they increasingly call him simply, without due respect, Ionych. Everyone in the city becomes familiar with his habits and whims, which they treat with understanding, and Ionych, in turn, willingly plays cards in the evenings, and no art or science no longer excites or interests him. The doctor has a new hobby - counting money received from patients and hiding it in the bank.
Several years have passed, he again ends up with the Turkins. “It’s good that I didn’t marry her,” Ionych thinks about Ekaterina Ivanovna. He notices significant changes in the girl, she has matured, independent life in an unfamiliar city has taught her a lot. But the doctors can no longer touch anyone’s feelings, he can only grumble and get irritated. Even that spark, the “warm flame” that the girl managed to kindle in his soul, quickly goes out with the memory of “the pieces of paper that he took out of his pockets in the evenings with such pleasure.” Material from the site
Everything that was passionate, alive, capable of love and self-forgetfulness in him has faded away, now everything is indifferent to him. He remained lonely, “his life is boring, nothing interests him.” All he had to do was play vint in the evenings, and then dine alone at a large table. His heart is hardened, he is rude and callous with his patients. “Plump, red” Ionych now looks little like a man, he looks more like a pagan god.
With irresistible persuasiveness, Chekhov was able to show us the process of degradation of a person who succumbed to the despiritizing influence of a monstrous environment, his spiritual impoverishment. The worst thing about this is that the person himself does not notice the tragedy, the drama that is playing out inside him, since the desire for peace and satiety very slowly but inexorably kills his dreams and hopes, dries up his mind and dulls his heart. And the very sad thing is that no one and nothing can wake up Doctor Startsev in Ionych...
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