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Close Reading 4: A Hero of Our Time
In this summer, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation came out, one of the most impressive hero in the movie was Ethan Hunt, portrayed by Tom Cruise. He is a typical hero that audiences are expecting. He was intelligent when he tried to complete the mission. Also, he was brave to accept the task to dive into the whirlpool to change an identification card in a short time in risk of his live. The most important thing was that he was fighting with an evil organization, Syndicate, and finally, defeated it. Ethan Hunt was an example of a hero in audiences’ heart. However, Pechorin was a totally different type of hero. He was a hero of “our time,” which meant to be 19th century in Russia. Through …show more content…
At the beginning of the story, he was a stranger to Pechorin. He got to know Maksim Maksimich in a long journey. Maksim, as a military man who was not a good story teller, almost made the narrator falling asleep. The most attracting story Maksim told the narrator was about Pechorin, “a charming, rich but odd, young officer,” who he had “a memorable year” with (10). Pechorin was attracted by the youth and beauty of Bela, the daughter of a Tatar prince. To have Bela, he assisted Bela’s brother Azamat in the conspiracy to rob Kazbich of his fiery steed. However, after four months’ happy and satisfied life with Bela, he became bored with her. Frequently, he “felt an uncontrollable urge” to leave her side (35). Bela became sorrowful for her sensitivity of his changes. She lost her father and died painfully from the revenge of Kazbich. In this story, I held no doubt in the wealth of Pechorin, the intelligence he used to get Bela, and his charm that Bela was drawn into. Nevertheless, he also revealed his other personalities. In his confession, his life was empty and soul impaired by the fashionable world (41). In my opinion, Bela was a pathetic girl he used to fill up with the blank in his heart. However, she was not enough to fill it up forever. The blank was his confusion and boredom about his …show more content…
Maksim was irritated by the neglect of Pechorin. As long as Pechorin did not care about his journals and the narrator was very interested in it, Maksim decided to give them to the narrator, which led to the publication of these journals after Pechorin’s death. This was exactly how Pechorin’s Journal came to readers, which gave them a glance of the world of Pechorin. In the seaside town Taman, Pechorin followed a blind boy to the seashore on a stormy night. He witnessed some smugglers and among them, there was a girl acute, sharp, alive and vivid, having a romantically magnetic power like “a regular water nymph” (71). She was singing ethereally with her bright eyes shining in the dark and stormy night (71). Pechorin noticed the danger of the girl, but he still boated with her far away from the shore. The girl knew that Pechorin saw their deal and tried to kill him. Pechorin survived and left with this mysterious adventure. This story in Taman actually should be the first story in chronologic order. In a late night at a strange town, he had a very shallow sleep. Clearly, there were problems he pondered deeply over in his mind. As I mentioned above, it was his empty feeling and his confusion about the life, as a feature of a Byronic hero.
Close Reading 4: A Hero of Our Time
In this summer, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation came out, one of the most impressive hero in the movie was Ethan Hunt, portrayed by Tom Cruise. He is a typical hero that audiences are expecting. He was intelligent when he tried to complete the mission. Also, he was brave to accept the task to dive into the whirlpool to change an identification card in a short time in risk of his live. The most important thing was that he was fighting with an evil organization, Syndicate, and finally, defeated it. Ethan Hunt was an example of a hero in audiences’ heart. However, Pechorin was a totally different type of hero. He was a hero of “our time,” which meant to be 19th century in Russia. Through …show more content…
At the beginning of the story, he was a stranger to Pechorin. He got to know Maksim Maksimich in a long journey. Maksim, as a military man who was not a good story teller, almost made the narrator falling asleep. The most attracting story Maksim told the narrator was about Pechorin, “a charming, rich but odd, young officer,” who he had “a memorable year” with (10). Pechorin was attracted by the youth and beauty of Bela, the daughter of a Tatar prince. To have Bela, he assisted Bela’s brother Azamat in the conspiracy to rob Kazbich of his fiery steed. However, after four months’ happy and satisfied life with Bela, he became bored with her. Frequently, he “felt an uncontrollable urge” to leave her side (35). Bela became sorrowful for her sensitivity of his changes. She lost her father and died painfully from the revenge of Kazbich. In this story, I held no doubt in the wealth of Pechorin, the intelligence he used to get Bela, and his charm that Bela was drawn into. Nevertheless, he also revealed his other personalities. In his confession, his life was empty and soul impaired by the fashionable world (41). In my opinion, Bela was a pathetic girl he used to fill up with the blank in his heart. However, she was not enough to fill it up forever. The blank was his confusion and boredom about his …show more content…
Maksim was irritated by the neglect of Pechorin. As long as Pechorin did not care about his journals and the narrator was very interested in it, Maksim decided to give them to the narrator, which led to the publication of these journals after Pechorin’s death. This was exactly how Pechorin’s Journal came to readers, which gave them a glance of the world of Pechorin. In the seaside town Taman, Pechorin followed a blind boy to the seashore on a stormy night. He witnessed some smugglers and among them, there was a girl acute, sharp, alive and vivid, having a romantically magnetic power like “a regular water nymph” (71). She was singing ethereally with her bright eyes shining in the dark and stormy night (71). Pechorin noticed the danger of the girl, but he still boated with her far away from the shore. The girl knew that Pechorin saw their deal and tried to kill him. Pechorin survived and left with this mysterious adventure. This story in Taman actually should be the first story in chronologic order. In a late night at a strange town, he had a very shallow sleep. Clearly, there were problems he pondered deeply over in his mind. As I mentioned above, it was his empty feeling and his confusion about the life, as a feature of a Byronic hero.