The people are liberated, but are the people happy? " based on Nekrasov's poem "Who Lives Well in Rus'" But are the people happy?

Nekrasov’s poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'” was, as it were, a departure from the general idea of many works of that time - the revolution. In addition, in almost all works the main characters were representatives of the upper classes - the nobility, merchants, and philistines. In the poem, the main characters are former serfs who became free after the decree of 1861. And the main idea of the novel was to search for happy people in Russia. The seven men, the main characters of the poem, put forward different hypotheses about the happiest person in Russia, and these were, as a rule, rich people who were obliged to be happy - merchants, nobles, landowners, boyars, the tsar. But the men went to the people to look for happiness. And the people are those same newly liberated peasants. Peasants are the poorest and most powerless class, and it is more than strange to look for a happy one among them. But there is happiness among the peasants, but at the same time they have much more misfortunes. The peasants are happy, of course, with their freedom, which they received for the first time in hundreds of years. Happy for various reasons: some are happy with an unusually large harvest, others with their great physical strength, others with a successful, non-drinking family. But nevertheless, it is difficult to call the peasants happy, even a little bit. Because with their release they had a lot of their own problems. And the happiness of peasants is usually very local and temporary.

And now, in order... The peasants are freed. This is a happiness that they have not seen for hundreds of years, and perhaps that they have never seen at all. Happiness itself came quite unexpectedly; many were not ready for it and, once released, they were birds raised in a cage and then released into the wild. As a result, the new class of temporarily obliged, freed peasants became the poorest. The landowners did not want to inflate their land, and almost all peasant land belonged either to the landowners or to the community. The peasants did not become free, they only acquired a new kind of dependence on themselves. Of course, this dependence is not the same as serfdom, but it was dependence on the landowner, on the community, on the state. It is very difficult to call this complete freedom or happiness. But the Russian people, accustomed to everything, could find happy moments here too. For a Russian man, the greatest happiness is vodka. If there is a lot of it, then the man becomes very happy. For Russian women, happiness is a good harvest, a clean house, a fed family. This happened quite rarely, so women were less happy than men. The peasant children were also not very happy. They were forced to work for an adult, but at the same time eat for a child, run for vodka, they constantly received from drunken parents and, growing up, became one. But there were individuals who considered themselves happy - people who rejoiced at what an ordinary person might find disgusting or incomprehensible. One rejoiced that his landowner had a “favorite slave.” He and his retinue drank the best overseas wines, ate the best dishes and suffered from the “royal” disease - gout. He was happy in his own way and his happiness should be respected, but ordinary men didn’t like it very much. Others were happy about at least some kind of harvest that could feed them. And this was truly happiness for those peasants who were not at all happy, they were so poor. But this was not the kind of happiness the seven wanderers were looking for. They were looking for true, complete happiness, and therefore one in which nothing else was needed. But such happiness cannot be found. This doesn’t even talk about peasants; the upper classes always have their own problems too. The landowners cannot possibly be happy because their time has passed. Serfdom was abolished and the landowners at the same time lost the enormous influence of their class, which means that Nkha did not have any happiness in her life. But these are landowners, and we were talking about peasants...

The people are liberated, but are the people happy?

Nekrasov’s poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'” was, as it were, a departure from the general idea of many works of that time - revolution. In addition, in almost all works the main characters were representatives of the upper classes - the nobility, merchants, and philistines. In the poem, the main characters are former serfs who became free after the decree of 1861. And the main idea of the novel was to search for happy people in Russia. The seven men, the main characters of the poem, put forward different hypotheses about the happiest person in Russia, and these were, as a rule, rich people who were obliged to be happy - merchants, nobles, landowners, boyars, the tsar. But the men went to the people to look for happiness. And the people are those same newly liberated peasants. The peasants are the poorest and most powerless class, and it is more than strange to look for a happy one among them. But there is happiness among the peasants, but at the same time they have much more misfortunes. The peasants are happy, of course, with their freedom, which they received for the first time in hundreds of years. Happy for various reasons: some are happy with an unusually large harvest, others with their great physical strength, others with a successful, non-drinking family. But, nevertheless, it is difficult to call the peasants happy, even a little bit. Because with their release they had a lot of their own problems. And the happiness of peasants is usually very local and temporary.

And now, in order... The peasants are freed. This is a happiness that they have not seen for hundreds of years, and perhaps that they have never seen at all. Happiness itself came quite unexpectedly; many were not ready for it and, once released, they were birds raised in a cage and then released into the wild. As a result, the new class - temporarily obliged, freed peasants - became the poorest. The landowners did not want to give away their land, and almost all peasant land belonged either to the landowners or to the community. The peasants did not become free, they only acquired a new type of dependence on themselves. Of course, this dependence is not the same as serfdom, but it was dependence on the landowner, on the community, on the state. It is very difficult to call this complete freedom or happiness. But the Russian people, accustomed to everything, could find happy moments here too. For a Russian peasant, the greatest happiness is vodka. If there is a lot of it, then the man becomes very happy. For Russian women, happiness is a good harvest, a clean house, a fed family. This happened quite rarely, so women were less happy than men. The peasant children were also not very happy. They were forced to work for an adult, but at the same time eat for a child, run for vodka, they constantly received from drunken parents and, growing up, became one themselves. But there were individuals who considered themselves happy, people who rejoiced in the fact that an ordinary person might be disgusted or incomprehensible. One rejoiced that his landowner had him as a “favorite slave.” He and his retinue drank the best overseas wines, ate the best dishes and suffered from the “royal” disease - gout. He was happy in his own way and his happiness should be respected, but ordinary men didn’t like it very much. Others were happy to have at least some harvest that could feed them. And this was truly happiness for those peasants who were not at all happy, they were so poor. But this was not the kind of happiness that the seven wanderers were looking for. They were looking for true, complete happiness, and therefore one in which nothing else was needed. But such happiness cannot be found. This doesn’t even talk about peasants; the upper classes always have their own problems too. The landowners cannot possibly be happy because their time has passed. Serfdom was abolished and the landowners at the same time lost the enormous influence of their class, which means they had no happiness in their lives. But these are landowners, and we were talking about peasants...

The people are liberated, but are the people happy? Poem

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Nekrasov’s poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'” was, as it were, a departure from the general idea of many works of that time - the revolution. In addition, in almost all works the main characters were representatives of the upper classes - the nobility, merchants, and philistines. In the poem, the main characters are former serfs who became free after the decree of 1861. And the main idea of the novel was to search for happy people in Russia. The seven men, the main characters of the poem, put forward different hypotheses about the happiest person in Russia, and these were, as a rule, rich people who were obliged to be happy - merchants, nobles, landowners, boyars, the tsar. But the men went to the people to look for happiness. And the people are those same newly liberated peasants. Peasants are the poorest and most powerless class, and it is more than strange to look for a happy one among them. But there is happiness among the peasants, but at the same time they have much more misfortunes. The peasants are happy, of course, with their freedom, which they received for the first time in hundreds of years. Happy for various reasons: some are happy with an unusually large harvest, others with their great physical strength, others with a successful, non-drinking family. But, nevertheless, it is difficult to call the peasants happy, even a little bit. Because with their release they had a lot of their own problems. And the happiness of peasants is usually very local and temporary.

And now, in order... The peasants are freed. This is a happiness that they have not seen for hundreds of years, and perhaps that they have never seen at all. Happiness itself came quite unexpectedly; many were not ready for it and, once released, they were birds raised in a cage and then released into the wild. As a result, the new class - temporarily obliged, freed peasants - became the poorest. The landowners did not want to give away their land, and almost all peasant land belonged either to the landowners or to the community. The peasants did not become free, they only acquired a new type of dependence on themselves. Of course, this dependence is not the same as serfdom, but it was dependence on the landowner, on the community, on the state. It is very difficult to call this complete freedom or happiness. But the Russian people, accustomed to everything, could find happy moments here too. For a Russian man, the greatest happiness is vodka. If there is a lot of it, then the man becomes very happy. For Russian women, happiness is a good harvest, a clean house, a fed family. This happened quite rarely, so women were less happy than men. The peasant children were also not very happy. They were forced to work for an adult, but at the same time eat for a child, run for vodka, they constantly received from drunken parents and, growing up, became one themselves. But there were individuals who considered themselves happy, people who rejoiced in the fact that an ordinary person might be disgusted or incomprehensible. One rejoiced that his landowner had him as a “favorite slave.” He and his retinue drank the best overseas wines, ate the best dishes and suffered from the “royal” disease - gout. He was happy in his own way and his happiness should be respected, but ordinary men didn’t like it very much. Others were happy to have at least some harvest that could feed them. And this was truly happiness for those peasants who were not at all happy, they were so poor. But this was not the kind of happiness that the seven wanderers were looking for. They were looking for true, complete happiness, and therefore one in which nothing else was needed. But such happiness cannot be found. This doesn’t even talk about peasants; the upper classes always have their own problems too. The landowners cannot possibly be happy because their time has passed. Serfdom was abolished and the landowners at the same time lost the enormous influence of their class, which means they had no happiness in their lives. But these are landowners, and we were talking about peasants...

“The people are liberated, but are the people happy?”

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