(322 words) Epic novel L.N. Tolstoy's “War and Peace” is a work containing the broadest possible problems that the author revealed with the help of the characters he created. As planned by the writer, each system of images responds to specific tasks and goals that he needed to display in the book. Let's consider some of the most striking examples confirming the above.
The most actively expressed in the novel is a group of historical persons, which includes Emperor Alexander 1, Speransky, Napoleon, Kutuzov, as well as the freemason Bazdeev. Tolstoy said that historical figures in his novel are “labels giving the name of the event.” Using this group as an example, the writer, acting as a true psychologist, proved that people make history, its course is determined by human actions and words. No matter how hard the great French emperor tried to capture Russia, ordinary Russian peasants repulsed his onslaught. Not the king, or even the commander, but those thousands of ordinary people who fell upon his soldiers in the woods and on the roads. It was they who created the victory.
You should also highlight an important group of images of the Russian nobility. It is difficult for this group to give a unified description, since it includes Moscow, local nobility and high society. The main characters of the novel belong to the first group of the nobility. They are sincere and honest, close to the people, have a sense of patriotism and noble. In their life, the main roles are played by family and middle name. In contrast to them, Tolstoy presented the vicious high society of St. Petersburg: Hippolytus, Anatole, Helen, Drubetskoys. In their images, the author vividly contrasted the external beauty and internal ugliness of man. They think only of themselves and their wealth, they do not care about the fate of Russia.
Also a huge role in the novel is played by a group of images of the people. Having made the center of the entire work “popular thought,” the author took a significant place to such a character as Tikhon Shcherbatov and Platon Karataev. Heroes have gathered the most important features of a Russian person: courage, wisdom and fortitude. It is they who reveal the truth to the main characters. For example, Karataev taught Bezukhov to find the meaning of life in life itself for loved ones.
Thus, we can conclude that Leo Tolstoy created the heroes of the novel “War and Peace” with specific goals, which later connected the characters into a group of separate images.
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