Does the novel follow or reject the conventions of Romanticism. A Hero of Our Time follows the conventions of romanticism. The book sees each main character as naturally good, it evokes a pleasant kind of melancholy life in the main characters, and it has very natural romantic settings. A Hero of Our Time is a good literary example of the romantic style.
First, In the first novella entitled Bela, where we meet Captain Maksim Maksimych who introduces us to the main character Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin. Junior Captain Maksimych seems very fond of Grigory when he describes him to our first narrator a Russian officer coming to the caucasus. The captain said, “ A charming fellow he was, I can assure you, but a little odd. He might spend, for instance, the whole day hunting in the rain, in the cold; everybody would get chilled …show more content…
Pechorin is seen as a very romantic character especially when he first meets Bela at the wedding of the prince’s eldest daughter. Junior Captain Maksimych then described Pechorin taking Bela away from the horrible man she was with. The revolutions that were happening at in Europe at the time that this novel is set were not necessarily on the minds of the characters. In “The Springtime of Peoples”, it describes, “Revolution triumphed throughout the general core of the European continent, though not at its periphery. This in eluded countries too remote or too isolated in their history to be directly or immediately affected to an extent, (e.g. the Iberian peninsula, Sweden and Greece), too backward to possess the politically explosive social strata of the revolutionary zone (e.g. Russia and the
First, In the first novella entitled Bela, where we meet Captain Maksim Maksimych who introduces us to the main character Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin. Junior Captain Maksimych seems very fond of Grigory when he describes him to our first narrator a Russian officer coming to the caucasus. The captain said, “ A charming fellow he was, I can assure you, but a little odd. He might spend, for instance, the whole day hunting in the rain, in the cold; everybody would get chilled …show more content…
Pechorin is seen as a very romantic character especially when he first meets Bela at the wedding of the prince’s eldest daughter. Junior Captain Maksimych then described Pechorin taking Bela away from the horrible man she was with. The revolutions that were happening at in Europe at the time that this novel is set were not necessarily on the minds of the characters. In “The Springtime of Peoples”, it describes, “Revolution triumphed throughout the general core of the European continent, though not at its periphery. This in eluded countries too remote or too isolated in their history to be directly or immediately affected to an extent, (e.g. the Iberian peninsula, Sweden and Greece), too backward to possess the politically explosive social strata of the revolutionary zone (e.g. Russia and the