| dc.description.abstract | The present paper addresses the topic of social typification and the nature
of the so-called Griboedov’s characters. The main conflict in Alexander
Sergeevich Griboedov’s comedy Woe from Wit consists in the clash between
the individual and society. The aim of the research is to rationalize the psychological
absence of the central character in the play – Alexander Andreevich
Chatsky, as an escape from reality as it is in the image of “Famus
Moscow”. He is surrounded by many characters, but is absent from their
spiritless space. Griboyedov's goal is not to ridicule the vices and eccentricities
of a character, but to create a comedy that exposes the secular society as
a whole. This is a new type of public comedy, and its central character is a
representative of a new progressive beginning. The environment with which
the hero struggles is not only incapable of understanding him: it is unable to
take him seriously. | en_US |
