The comedy "Undergrowth" is perhaps the most famous work of the remarkable 18th-century playwright Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin. But two centuries have passed since its writing, and over time, speech undergoes significant changes. To make it easier for the student to understand the drama, the Literaguru team provides the shortest content for the readers diary, which briefly and accurately describes the main events. Well, to write great reviews, take a look at analysis of the book of Fonvizin.
(313 words) At the beginning of the play, we see the young son of the landowner Mitrofanushka and his mother, Mrs. Prostakova. She falls with anger and cruelty to everyone who dares not to please her son with anything. Tailor Trishka, nanny Yeremeyevna, teachers Kuteikin and Tsyfirkin fall under the landowner's hot hand. At the same time, the sixteen-year-old undergrowth Mitrofan is extremely indifferent to everything that happens.
Skotinin appears - the brother of Mrs. Prostakova. He intends to marry Sophia, their distant relative. Unfortunately, the girl was left an orphan with a good inheritance, and this is what Skotinin needs.
Suddenly, Sophia receives a letter from Uncle Starodum, whom everyone thought was long dead. He makes Sophia the heiress of all his estates. Mrs. Prostakova is furious again, but she is not going to miss such a game for her son.
A soldier’s regiment is walking through the village of the Prostakovs. Among them is Milon, who has long been in love with Sophia, and the girl reciprocates him. At this time, Skotinin and Mitrofanushka shared Sophia, or rather her inheritance, among themselves.
Finally, Starodum arrives. He talks with the guest of the Prostakovs, Pravdin, who turns out to be a common acquaintance of Starodum and Milon. Pravdin has long been watching the family and sees their bad temper.
Uncle promises Sophia that he will take her to Moscow and marry her to a "young man of great virtues." He, they say, is the nephew of a friend of Starodum, Count Chestan. By a happy coincidence, this nephew is Milon. Starodum blesses the young.
The remaining applicants for the hand (inheritance) of Sophia do not know anything yet. Mrs. Prostakova climbs out of her way, showing Starodum how good and smart Mitrofanushka is. Here only in one of his teachers Vralmane does the hero recognize his former coachman.
Taking advantage of the free minute, Prostakova tells her servants to drag Sophia into a carriage and marry Mitrofan. Starodum, Milon and the guest of Pravdin come running to the noise. He announces the receipt of a government document with the order to take custody of the property of negligent landowners.
Mrs. Prostakova is trying to repent, all that remains of her now is her son Mitrofan. But he also repels the mother. Skotinin soon leaves for his villages. Looking at a desperate relative, Starodum says: “Here are the evil deeds worthy of!”
Brief review: In the 18th century, untrained young noblemen, usually illiterate and ill-bred, were called aliens. They were not hired or even given permission to marry. This definition is fully consistent with the hero of Fonvizin. Lazy and stupid, growing up under the wing of a caring, but just as stupid, mother, Mitrofanushka is not capable of independent life.
