Matronya's Home
Zhami Mustafina
Critical Issue in the Humanities
21.02.2015, midnight Matronya’s Home
“Matronya’s Home” is a very complex fiction of Solzhenitsyn, which is dedicated to illustrate consequences of industrialization and its influence on civilization, particularly on simply people in a Russian village. He essentially underlines enormous changes in minds and behavior of the dwellers of that village and symbolizes Matronya as a soul of true non-materialistic idea. Solzhenitsyn suggests own allegory of the whole nation with a small village and one woman with that kind of people who have absolute values and sustain the rest of people.
A narrator from the beginning of the text attempts to find such a place, where he can reach a tranquility and the nature is still untouched by the modernity: “I want to lose myself in deepest Russia, where the trains don’t run” (423). In fact, it seems very unusual here, since after the war most of the people aim to engage into the developed world and employ all resources that a progress brought. He reaches a place called “Vysokoe Pole” which sounds like a very beautiful Russian name and where a protagonist could even “live and die”. Contradictory, a small industrial village “Torfoprodukt” nearby described as an unpleasant smoky place with drunk and noisy people; with recklessly running trains through the village. A narrator essentially emphasizes such a huge difference between these two places that represent a diversity between the natural culture and modernization.
Ignatich decides to stay in Matronya’s home. Even though it was a very old and needed repair house, he is persistent to live with her as they both treated each other equally. From first descriptions, we can notice that he sympathizes to her and finds her as being a very benevolent and altruistic person. She always helps to others without charging money, but just for being useful. She sacrifices herself for the sake of people as even when she got married, she did not
Critical Issue in the Humanities
21.02.2015, midnight Matronya’s Home
“Matronya’s Home” is a very complex fiction of Solzhenitsyn, which is dedicated to illustrate consequences of industrialization and its influence on civilization, particularly on simply people in a Russian village. He essentially underlines enormous changes in minds and behavior of the dwellers of that village and symbolizes Matronya as a soul of true non-materialistic idea. Solzhenitsyn suggests own allegory of the whole nation with a small village and one woman with that kind of people who have absolute values and sustain the rest of people.
A narrator from the beginning of the text attempts to find such a place, where he can reach a tranquility and the nature is still untouched by the modernity: “I want to lose myself in deepest Russia, where the trains don’t run” (423). In fact, it seems very unusual here, since after the war most of the people aim to engage into the developed world and employ all resources that a progress brought. He reaches a place called “Vysokoe Pole” which sounds like a very beautiful Russian name and where a protagonist could even “live and die”. Contradictory, a small industrial village “Torfoprodukt” nearby described as an unpleasant smoky place with drunk and noisy people; with recklessly running trains through the village. A narrator essentially emphasizes such a huge difference between these two places that represent a diversity between the natural culture and modernization.
Ignatich decides to stay in Matronya’s home. Even though it was a very old and needed repair house, he is persistent to live with her as they both treated each other equally. From first descriptions, we can notice that he sympathizes to her and finds her as being a very benevolent and altruistic person. She always helps to others without charging money, but just for being useful. She sacrifices herself for the sake of people as even when she got married, she did not