Brief biography of Mitrofan

Such a young man could neither marry, nor go to service. Denis Fonvizin, before starting to work on a “under -road”, spent a year and a half in France, where he met the life of this country closely, studied the advanced doctrines of enlighteners, jurisprudence and philosophy. The idea of ​​the play came to the writer after returning to Russia, which took place in the year.

Fonvizin finished the work on the play, spending about three years on it. The biography of Mitrofanushka is the son of an unpleasant couple by the name of Prostakov. The hero’s mother, a provincial noblewoman by origin, is an evil woman. He does what he wishes, allows himself all kinds of atrocities in relation to the serfs and courtyards. At the same time, he loves his son and tries to arrange him in life, marrying Sophia, a girl with a decent inheritance.

The characters of the comedy "Undergrowth" Sofya herself is in love with a young officer named Milon. This is a kind and well -being, who was educated, she has a guardian - an uncle who owns a great fortune.

Prostakova has a brother named Taras Skotinin Mitrofanushka this character is uncle. Skotinin, a lover of pigs, also wants to marry Sophia because of the inheritance. Mitrofanushka’s father is a weak and limp person, not educated, cannot even read letters. He is under his wife’s heel and thinks only about how to please him. The authoritarian wife can easily disconnect the dad of Prostakov.

Mitrofanushka and his mother Mitrofanushka, just like his parents, did not want to study, but sought to get a job in life at the expense of marriage. The hero has a teacher, including one former seminarist who teaches a hero of literacy on Psalms, a retired sergeant who teaches arithmetic, and a former coachman, a German by origin and a noble smoker who impersons a scientist.

This rogue will be hired to teach the hero the French language and a certain “sciences”, but he does not fulfill his duties and only interferes with the work of other teachers. Mother is actually not at all preoccupied with the upbringing and education of the hero, but only for fashion trends in the company of that time. Mitrofanushka also has a nurse, which is called "Yeremeevna." Mitrofanushka with her parents and teacher Sophia is a family of prostaks a distant relative.

The girl grew up in Moscow and received a good upbringing, but after the death of her mother, the father died even earlier falls into the clutches of Prostakovs. Those “look at” the estate belonging to Sophia, simultaneously robbing the heroine. The idea to pass the girl behind Mitrofanushka is born in Prostakova’s head after a rich uncle appears on the horizon, who was considered dead, and at the same time a potential inheritance.

On the basis of the upcoming marriage, Mitrofanushka has a conflict with an uncle, Taras Skotinin, who also thinks to marry Sophia in order to take pigs in the hands of the villages belonging to the girl. Mitrofanushka and Stotin Sofya, meanwhile, meets her long -standing lover, young officer Milon, and a rich uncle comes to pick up his niece from Prostakovs. Prostakova is trying to subside to his uncle Sophia so that he agrees to the marriage of Mitrofanushka for a girl.

Uncle, however, firmly intends to take Sophia to Moscow the next morning. Uncle gives the girl the opportunity to choose the groom herself, and she gives her hand to Milon, with whom she knew in her mother’s house. Upon learning of this, Mitrofanushka's mother is a conspiracy. The people of the prostakov are trying to steal Sophia to marry a girl with Mitrofanushka by force. Milon finds this scene and prevents the attempt, after which the estate and the villages of Prostakovs are seized from them by government decree.

In the final of the loafer, Mitrofanushka is sent to the service. Milon and Sophia, a similar way of life and the lack of sensible education were widespread among children of the provincial nobility in those years, so Mitrofanushka in the play is not depicted as a special case of unsuccessful education, but as an image of an era. The appearance of the hero is not described in the play directly, but it can be assumed that Mitrofanushka looked like a typical representative of the provincial noble youth of that time.

The hero is not inclined to constructive activity, study, work and any meaningful classes. To drive the pigeons, to gleam, to overeat, in a word, in a word, to somehow kill the time in simple entertainment-these are Mitrofanushka’s life goals, and the mother encourages the hero’s behavior in every possible way. The prostakov family characteristic of the hero looks unpleasant - Mitrofanushka Alchen and stingy, rude, inclined to intrigues, fraud and fraud, like mother.

Prostakova loves his son, despite her inherent cruelty to other people, Mitrofanushka betrayed his mother, pushed away the one when her mother tried to find support from the hero. Mitrofanushka is essentially an egoist, thinks exclusively about his own comfort, not interested in relatives. The hero’s attitude towards study is quite unambiguous-Mitrofanushka calls one of the teachers “garrison rat”, any attempts to give the young man at least some knowledge come across a complete unwillingness to learn.Interesting facts Fonvizin wrote the play “Undergrowth” in the village of Strelino near Moscow.

After the play has become popular, the word “undergrowth” was widespread in colloquial speech, and the name of Mitrofanushka began to be associated with the image of an ignorant person and a bad thing. On the pages of the magazine “Friend of Honest People, or Starodum” a kind of literary game related to the play unfolded. The magazine published a letter written by Sophia, the heroine of the play, where she complained about her lover Milon, a young officer who in the play prevented the abduction of the heroine.

He allegedly married her, and then changed with a certain “contemptuous woman”. In the response letter of Starodum, the uncle of the heroine, comforts her. In such a funny way, the play received a plot continued. Old Duma, Uncle Sophia, mentions the romance of this author of “Telemak's Adventures”, famous in those days. Fonvizin had to spend several months to achieve production.

They did not want to put the play either in Moscow or in St. Petersburg, the censors scared the courage of replicas, which the author allowed himself with the mouth of the characters. The first play decided to put a free Russian theater in St. Petersburg. The success of the first production turned out to be deafening - "the audience applauded the play by throwing wallets." After that, the play was set many times, including in Moscow.

The popularity of the comedy "Undergrowth" is evidenced by the emergence of a large number of amateur and student productions. Mitrofanushka and Pyotr Grinev played the role of Mrs. Prostakova by writer Nikolai Gogol, speaking in student performances while studying at the Nezhinsky gymnasium. The image of Mitrofanushka is compared with Peter Grinev - a young officer and a nobleman from the story of Pushkin "Captain's daughter".

Both heroes in his youth indulged in laziness and idleness, both of them went to bad teachers who did not teach the heroes anything, but Grinev, unlike Mitrofanushka, was shown an honest and good -natured person. Quotes “And I, uncle, almost did not have dinner at all. Solonins are three slobbery, but I don’t remember, five, I don’t remember, I don’t remember six.

” His brother is always better. " Because it is attached to its place. There is a week at the closet of the pole, the door is not yet hung: this is how it is existing for now. ”