When creating the play " The Cherry Orchard» A. P. Chekhov great attention paid attention to the image of Lopakhin as one of central images comedies. In revealing the author's intention, in resolving the main conflict, it is Lopakhin who plays a very important role.

Lopakhin is unusual and strange; he caused and continues to puzzle many literary critics. In fact, Chekhov's character does not fit into the usual scheme: a rude, uneducated merchant destroys beauty without thinking about what he is doing, caring only about his profits. The situation for that time was typical not only in literature, but also in life. However, if you imagine Lopakhin as such even for a moment, the entire carefully thought-out essay on the topic of Chekhov’s images collapses. Life is more complex than any schemes, and therefore the proposed situation cannot at all be Chekhovian.

Among the Russian merchants, people appeared who clearly did not correspond to the traditional concept of merchants. The duality, inconsistency, and internal instability of these people are vividly conveyed by Chekhov in the image of Lopakhin. Lopakhin's inconsistency is especially acute because the situation is extremely dual.

Ermolai Lopakhin is the son and grandson of a serf. For the rest of his life, probably, the phrase spoken by Ranevskaya to a boy beaten by his father was etched in his memory: “Don’t cry, little man, he’ll heal before the wedding...” He feels like an indelible mark on himself from these words: “Little man... My father, True, he was a man, but here I am in a white vest, yellow shoes... but if you think about it and figure it out, then the man is a man...” Lopakhin suffers deeply from this duality. He destroys the cherry orchard not only for the sake of profit, and not so much for its sake. There was another reason, much more important than the first - revenge for the past. He destroys the garden, fully aware that it is “an estate better than which there is nothing in the world.” And yet Lopakhin hopes to kill the memory, which, against his will, always shows him that he, Ermolai Lopakhin, is a “man”, and the bankrupt owners of the cherry orchard are “gentlemen”.

With all his might, Lopakhin strives to erase the line separating him from the “gentlemen.” He is the only one who appears on stage with a book. Although he later admits that he didn’t understand anything about it.

Lopakhin has his own social utopia. He very seriously views summer residents as a huge force in historical process, designed to erase this very line between “man” and “gentlemen”. It seems to Lopakhin that by destroying the cherry orchard, he is bringing a better future closer.

Lopakhin has the features of a predatory beast. But money and the power acquired with it (“For everything I can

Pat up!”), they crippled not only people like Lopakhin. At the auction, the predator in him awakens, and Lopakhin finds himself at the mercy of the merchant's passion. And it is in excitement that he finds himself the owner of a cherry orchard. And he cuts down this garden even before its previous owners leave, not paying attention to the persistent requests of Anya and Ranevskaya herself.

But Lopakhin’s tragedy is that he is not aware of his own “bestial” nature. Between his thoughts and actual actions lies the deepest abyss. Two people live and fight in it: one - “with a subtle, gentle soul”; another - " beast of prey».

To my greatest regret, the winner is most often the predator. However, there is a lot that attracts people in Lopakhino. His monologue is surprising and deafening: “Lord, you gave us huge forests, vast fields, the deepest horizons, and living here, we ourselves must be truly giants...”

Yes, that's enough! Is this Lopakhin?! It is no coincidence that Ranevskaya is trying to lower Lopakhin’s pathos, to bring him down “from heaven to earth.” Such a “little man” surprises and frightens her. Lopakhin is characterized by ups and downs. His speech can be surprising and emotional. And then there are breakdowns, failures, indicating that there is no need to talk about Lopakhin’s true culture (“Every ugliness has its own decency!”).

Lopakhin has a desire, a real and sincere thirst for spirituality. He cannot live only in the world of profit and cash. But he also doesn’t know how to live differently. Hence his deepest tragedy, his fragility, a strange combination of rudeness and softness, bad manners and intelligence. Lopakhin's tragedy is especially clearly visible in his monologue at the end of the third act. The author's remarks deserve special attention. At first, Lopakhin tells a completely business-like story about the progress of the auction, he is openly happy, even proud of his purchase, then he himself becomes embarrassed... He smiles affectionately after Varya leaves, is gentle with Ranevskaya, bitterly ironic towards himself...

“Oh, if only all this would pass, if only our awkward, unhappy life would somehow change...” And then: “There comes a new landowner, the owner of the cherry orchard! I can pay for everything!”

That's enough, is that all?

Will Lopazsin ever understand all his guilt before Firs, who is boarded up in his house, before the destroyed cherry orchard, before his homeland?

Lopakhin can be neither a “tender soul” nor a “beast of prey.” These two contradictory qualities coexist in him at the same time. The future does not promise him anything good precisely because of its duality and inconsistency.

(The image of Lopakhin in A.P. Chekhov’s play “The Cherry Orchard”)

After all, this is not a merchant in the vulgar sense of the word. We need to understand this.
A. P. Chekhov

When creating the play “The Cherry Orchard,” A.P. Chekhov paid great attention to the image of Lopakhin as one of the central images of the comedy. In revealing the author's intention, in resolving the main conflict, it is Lopakhin who plays a very important role.
Lopakhin is unusual and strange; he caused and continues to puzzle many literary critics. In fact, Chekhov's character does not fit into the usual scheme: a rude, uneducated merchant destroys beauty without thinking about what he is doing, caring only about his profits. The situation for that time was typical not only in literature, but also in life. However, if you imagine Lopakhin as such even for a moment, the entire carefully thought-out system of Chekhov’s images collapses. Life is more complex than any schemes, and therefore the proposed situation cannot at all be Chekhovian.
Among the Russian merchants, people appeared who clearly did not correspond to the traditional concept of merchants. The duality, inconsistency, and internal instability of these people are vividly conveyed by Chekhov in the image of Lopakhin. Lopakhin's inconsistency is especially acute because the situation is extremely dual.
Ermolai Lopakhin is the son and grandson of a serf. For the rest of his life, the phrase Ranevskaya said to a boy beaten by his father was probably etched in his memory: “Don’t cry, little man, he’ll heal before the wedding. . . “He feels like an indelible mark on himself from these words: “Man. . . My father, it’s true, was a man, but here I am in a white vest and yellow shoes. . . but if you think about it and figure it out, the man is a man. . . “Lopakhin suffers deeply from this duality. He destroys the cherry orchard not only for the sake of profit, and not so much for its sake. There was another reason, much more important than the first - revenge for the past. He destroys the garden, fully aware that it is “an estate better than which there is nothing in the world.” And yet Lopakhin hopes to kill the memory, which, against his will, always shows him that he, Ermolai Lopakhin, is a “man”, and the bankrupt owners of the cherry orchard are “gentlemen”.
With all his might, Lopakhin strives to erase the line separating him from the “gentlemen.” He is the only one who appears on stage with a book. Although he later admits that he didn’t understand anything about it.
Lopakhin has his own social utopia. He very seriously views summer residents as a huge force in the historical process, designed to erase this very line between “peasants” and “gentlemen.” It seems to Lopakhin that by destroying the cherry orchard, he is bringing a better future closer.
Lopakhin has the features of a predatory beast. But money and the power acquired with it (“I can pay for everything!”) crippled not only people like Lopakhin. At the auction, the predator in him awakens, and Lopakhin finds himself at the mercy of the merchant's passion. And it is in excitement that he finds himself the owner of a cherry orchard. And he cuts down this garden even before the departure of its former owners, not paying attention to the persistent requests of Anya and Ranevskaya herself.
But Lopakhin’s tragedy is that he is not aware of his own “bestial” nature. Between his thoughts and actual actions lies the deepest abyss. Two people live and fight in it: one - “with a subtle, gentle soul”; the other is a “beast of prey.”

Lopakhin, it is true, is a merchant, but a decent person in every sense.
A. P. Chekhov
“The Cherry Orchard” by A.P. Chekhov - a play about a bankrupt noble nest. The owners of the cherry orchard, Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya and Leonid Andreevich Gaev, are bankrupt landowners, they are forced to sell the estate at auction in order to pay off their debts. By the will of fate, Lopakhin becomes the new owner.
Who is he - Ermolai Alekseevich Lopakhin?
Lopakhin himself says this about himself: “... rich, a lot of money, but if you think about it and figure it out, then he’s a man.”

Lopakhin, who had never studied anywhere, is a gifted person; he managed to get out into the world and become a merchant. Unlike other residents and guests of the house, he works a lot and sees the meaning of his life in this. True, Gaev calls him a “fist,” but for some reason he is not ashamed to ask him for a loan. Lopakhin readily gives money to both Gaev and Ranevskaya and, it seems, amuses his pride with this. It is no coincidence that he repeatedly proudly emphasizes that his grandfather and father were serf “slaves” in a house where “they were not even allowed into the kitchen,” and he is now in this house on equal terms with the owners. At the end of the play, he buys this estate, “there is nothing more beautiful in the world!” Thus, he seemed to take revenge on the former owners of the house and Garden for the humiliation of his childhood, when he, “the beaten, illiterate Ermolai, ran here barefoot in the winter.” His desire to “take an ax to the cherry orchard” is a desire to part with the humiliating past (cut it down at the root) and begin new life.
And Lopakhin is capable of great things, on a large scale. He feels the beauty of the land and believes that “living here, we ourselves should truly be giants.” But instead of heroic scope, Lopakhin has to deal with such not very beautiful things as acquiring a garden from its bankrupt owners. And they are ugly because he twice admitted to Ranevskaya (and seemingly sincerely) that he is grateful to her and loves her “like his own... more than his own”; gave her advice on how to save the house and garden so as not to sell, even offered to loan her fifty thousand, and ultimately he bought the entire estate himself. Of course, it would have been sold anyway, but Lopakhin, a “subtle soul,” himself feels some awkwardness of what happened. I wanted to save, but it was as if I destroyed it. Therefore, he says with tears: “Oh, if only this would all pass, if only our awkward, unhappy life would somehow change.” We see the inconsistency of Lopakhin's character and actions.
“Eternal student“Petya Trofimov gives Lopakhin two mutually exclusive characteristics: “a beast of prey” and “thin, gentle soul" And, it seems to me, it is impossible to put the conjunction “or” between them. Can we say that Lopakhin is a “beast of prey” in relation to Ranevskaya? Don't think. After all, he is trying as best he can so as not to bring the matter to auction. But Ranevskaya and Gaev didn’t lift a finger to help themselves. Lopakhin wanted to be the savior of the cherry orchard, but he did it in accordance with his merchant understanding. This is salvation in a new way. The value of the cherry orchard is different for Ranevskaya and for Lopakhin: for her it is a family nest, with which many dear memories are associated, for him it is property that can generate income.
At the same time, Lopakhin is no stranger to experiences, some sentimentality, which manifested itself in memories of childhood, in sincere gratitude to Ranevskaya for her attention to him in the past. With his advice, reminders, and offer to give part of the money, he tries to soften the inevitable blow that awaits the owners of the estate. And although Lopakhin is triumphant, unable to hide his joy from the purchase, he still sympathizes with the bankrupt bars. Yes, Lopakhin does not have enough tact to not start work in the garden until the former owners leave, but where does tact come from from an illiterate person who has never been taught good manners anywhere?..
The image of Lopakhin is ambiguous, and therefore interesting. The contradictions of Lopakhin's character precisely make up the drama of the image.

Lopakhin - “tender soul” or “beast of prey”

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A gentle soul or a predatory beast? After all, this is not a merchant in the vulgar sense of the word. We need to understand this. A. P. Chekhov When creating the play “The Cherry Orchard,” A.P. Chekhov paid great attention to the image of Lopakhin as one of the central images of the comedy. In revealing the author’s intention, in resolving the main conflict, Lopakhin plays a very important role. Lopakhin is unusual and strange; he caused and continues to cause bewilderment many literary scholars.

In fact, Chekhov's character does not fit into the usual scheme: a rude, uneducated merchant destroys beauty without thinking about what he is doing, caring only about his profits. The situation for that time was typical not only in literature, but also in life. However, if you imagine Lopakhin as such even for a moment, the entire carefully thought-out system of Chekhov’s images collapses. Life is more complex than any schemes, and therefore the proposed situation cannot at all be Chekhovian. Among the Russian merchants, people appeared who clearly did not correspond to the traditional concept of merchants.

The duality, inconsistency, and internal instability of these people are vividly conveyed by Chekhov in the image of Lopakhin. Lopakhin's inconsistency is especially acute because the situation is extremely dual. Ermolai Lopakhin is the son and grandson of a serf. For the rest of his life, the phrase Ranevskaya said to a boy beaten by his father was probably etched in his memory: “Don’t cry, little man, he’ll heal before the wedding...

“He feels like an indelible mark on himself from these words: “A little man... My father, he was a man, and here I am in a white vest, yellow shoes... and if you think about it and figure it out, then a man is a man...” Lopakhin deeply suffers from this duality. He destroys the cherry orchard not only for the sake of profit, and not so much for its sake. There was another reason, much more important than the first - revenge for the past. He destroys the orchard, fully aware that it is “an estate, better than which there is nothing in the world". And yet Lopakhin hopes to kill the memory, which, against his will, always shows him that he, Ermolai Lopakhin, is a “man”, and the bankrupt owners of the cherry orchard are “gentlemen”.

With all his might, Lopakhin strives to erase the line separating him from the “gentlemen.” He is the only one who appears on stage with a book. Although he later admits that he did not understand anything in it. Lopakhin has his own social utopia. He very seriously views summer residents as a huge force in the historical process, designed to erase this very line between the “peasant” and the “gentlemen.” It seems to Lopakhin that by destroying the cherry orchard, he is bringing a better future closer.

Lopakhin has the features of a predatory beast. But money and the power acquired with it (“I can pay for everything!”) crippled not only people like Lopakhin. At the auction, the predator in him awakens, and Lopakhin finds himself at the mercy of the merchant’s passion. And it is in the excitement that he finds himself the owner of a cherry orchard, and he cuts down this orchard even before the departure of its former owners, not paying attention to the persistent requests of Anya and Ranevskaya herself.

But Lopakhin’s tragedy is that he is not aware of his own “bestial” nature. Between his thoughts and actual actions lies the deepest abyss. Two people live and fight in him: one “with a subtle, gentle soul”; the other is a “beast of prey.” To my great regret, the winner is most often the predator. However, there is a lot that attracts people in Lopakhin.

His monologue is surprising and deafening: “Lord, you gave us huge forests, vast fields, the deepest horizons, and living here, we ourselves must be truly giants...” Come on! Is this Lopakhin?! It’s no coincidence that Ranevskaya is trying lower Lopakhin’s pathos, bring him down “from heaven to earth.” Such a “little man” surprises and frightens her. Lopakhin is characterized by ups and downs. His speech can be surprising, emotional. And then there are breakdowns, failures, indicating that there is no need to talk about Lopakhin’s true culture (“Every ugliness has its decency!” "). Lopakhin has a desire, a real and sincere thirst for spirituality. He cannot live only in the world of profit and cash. But he also doesn’t know how to live differently.

Hence his deepest tragedy, his fragility, a strange combination of rudeness and softness, bad manners and intelligence. Lopakhin's tragedy is especially clearly visible in his monologue at the end of the third act. The author's remarks deserve special attention. At first, Lopakhin tells a completely business-like story about the progress of the auction, he is openly happy, even proud of his purchase, then he himself becomes embarrassed... He smiles affectionately after Varya leaves, is gentle with Ranevskaya, bitterly ironic towards himself... “Oh, rather If only all this would pass, our awkward, unhappy life would sooner change somehow...

"And then: “A new landowner is coming, the owner of a cherry orchard! I can pay for everything!” Yes, really, for everything? Will Lopakhin ever understand all his guilt before Firs, who is boarded up in his house, before the destroyed cherry orchard, before his homeland? Lopakhin can be neither a “tender soul” nor a “predatory beast”. these two contradictory qualities.The future does not promise him anything good precisely because of its duality and inconsistency.

The “beast of prey” and a man with a “tender soul” in the play “The Cherry Orchard” is Ermolai Lopakhin. This is exactly how Petya Trofimov characterizes him. But are these words true in relation to Lopakhin?

Lopakhin can be compared to the “Beast of Prey” in the sense that he is fighting for his place in the sun. He is trying to increase his wealth. To do this, he actively buys land from people in difficult situations (this is how he bought the estate with the cherry orchard). He willingly lends money. But debts must be repaid, so he is a “beast of prey.” Another reason why one can give it such a characteristic is the fate of the cherry orchard. Lopakhin proposed cutting down the trees, dividing the garden into plots and renting them out.

Lopakhin also has a “tender soul”. He sincerely rejoices at the return of Ranevskaya. He remembers all the kindness he received from her as a child. He considers her his second mother, who is closer to him than the first. He has sincere feelings for Varya. Her refusal hurts him. He also worries about the fate of the cherry orchard, or more precisely about how Ranevskaya will feel after its sale.

After Lopakhin bought the estate, he showed himself more like a predator. He had already forgotten about his gentle soul; a thirst for entrepreneurship awoke in him.