POWER HIERARCHY IN MIKHAIL LERMONTOV’S POEM "A SONG ABOUT TSAR IVAN VASILIEVICH, THE YOUNG OPRICHNIK AND THE VALOROUS MERCHANT KALASHNIKOV" |
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| 2024 |
| LITERATURE AND HISTORY |
| scientific article | 82 | ||
| 7-21 | М.Ю. Лермонтов, «Песня про царя Ивана Васильевича, молодого опричника и удалого купца Калашникова», иерархия, власть, Mikhail Lermontov, "A Song About Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov", hierarchy, power |
| The article is devoted to the consideration of Mikhail Lermontov’s artistic interpretation of the theme of power: formal, i.e. based on the law, and natural, associated with the "animal" nature of man, the desire of human society to elect a leader and subjugate the weak to the strong. The article analyses the poem 21 by Lermontov "A Song About Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov" from the point of view of the variety of forms of power hierarchy presented in it. The article explores how the power hierarchy prescribed by the Christian worldview takes on a dual nature in the minds of the heroes of the poem. This hierarchy is observed conditionally, since in a tyranny the ruler is not limited to the role of God’s viceroy on earth. Each of the characters recognises the hierarchy prescribed by the Christian faith, but interprets it in their own way and often replaces it with a subjective hierarchy, built on the basis of personal beliefs and aspirations. Religion loses its function as a life guide and becomes a tool for maintaining and strengthening the power of the tyrant. Christian laws are interpreted falsely and thus adjusted to the interests of the monarch and his entourage. |
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