Question: An Analysis of Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Answer: The portrait of the Hero of Our Time, as defined by Mikhail Lermontov, is actually that of a villain. Though, to be accurate, not of a single person but rather “of the vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development.” And even the most conventional of villains, as François Truffaut once put it, “always has a reason.” Pechorin, as a “superfluous man” disenchanted from a mediocre society represents the “darkly heroic” characters that pervade Russian literature...(short extract)
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- Subject: World Literature
- Course: World Literature
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 70%
- Words: 997
- Date submitted: January 27, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2345
