The Minor: A Summary
4 min.
Description
A lively retelling. “The Minor” is a brief summary of the comedy by Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin.
In a shortened version!
The characters of the comedy are representatives of different social strata of 18th-century Russia: statesmen, nobles, serf-owners, servants, and self-appointed fashionable teachers. The main characters are the minor Mitrofan himself and his mother, Madame Prostakova, a 18th-century noblewoman who is a serf-owner—she controls everything and everyone—along with her estate and the household servants she doesn’t consider people, and her own husband, whom she can beat without any embarrassment. And as for her son Mitrofan’s upbringing—actually, she does not burden herself with educating or teaching him; she simply diligently follows the fashionable conventions of society and of her own position: “First I scold him, then I fight him—this is what keeps the house going.”
In a shortened version!
The characters of the comedy are representatives of different social strata of 18th-century Russia: statesmen, nobles, serf-owners, servants, and self-appointed fashionable teachers. The main characters are the minor Mitrofan himself and his mother, Madame Prostakova, a 18th-century noblewoman who is a serf-owner—she controls everything and everyone—along with her estate and the household servants she doesn’t consider people, and her own husband, whom she can beat without any embarrassment. And as for her son Mitrofan’s upbringing—actually, she does not burden herself with educating or teaching him; she simply diligently follows the fashionable conventions of society and of her own position: “First I scold him, then I fight him—this is what keeps the house going.”
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