“Mothers can be told endlessly…”
Mother’s theme is a red thread through many of Gorky’s works. Thus, in the story “The Birth of Man” the mighty truth about a peasant mother is glorified, a great sense of motherhood is glorified. The image of the Mother appears in different ways in three novels (“Tales of Italy”), but they are all imbued with a feeling of profound devotion and unselfish love for a woman.
In the novel “Mother” Gorky tells the story of a simple woman Pelageya Nilovna and shows her gradual spiritual renewal. At the beginning of the novel Nilovna appears before us as a submissive and downtrodden woman, old before her time. The hopeless, joyless life turned her into a man, all afraid, before everyone trembling: “How can I not be afraid! All my life in fear lived, – the whole soul overgrew with fear!” “The broad, oval face, wrinkled, and puffy, was illuminated by dark eyes, anxious-sad, like most women in the village.” She
There are political literature in the villages. So Nilovna becomes a friend and assistant to her son. “When a person,” says Pavel, “can call his mother and in the spirit of his own, is a rare happiness.” In Nilovna’s soul, a painful struggle occurs, but the fear for his son, for his fate, gradually leaves her. After the May Day demonstration, Nilovna boldly appeals to the crowd with a call to support her son: “Our children are coming to the world for joy… Do not abandon them, do not renounce them, do not leave your children on their own way… Pity yourself… believe in sons’ hearts – They gave birth to the truth, for her sake they perish. “Believe them!” The ardent belief in the correctness of the son’s cause, the desire of all to convince himself of the correctness of his chosen path, allow Nilovna to rise to the height of heroism and self-denial. Spreading leaflets at the station with a printed son’s speech, it accepts beating gendarmes. But in the “burns of pain” “her eyes did not fade and they saw many other eyes – they burned with her bold, sharp fire, familiar to her – her heart’s fire.” From the fiery feelings of the mother, the same fiery faith in the achievements of her sons proceeds: “The soul of the resurrected will not be killed,” “They will not be flooded with the blood of reason!”, “The seas of blood will not quench the truth!” So Gorky linked such social concepts as “revolution”, “struggle” with others, ethical: “love,” “faith,” “soul.” It was in their unity that the writer saw the meaning of a new life program. From the fiery feelings of the mother, the same fiery faith in the achievements of her sons proceeds: “The soul of the resurrected will not be killed,” “They will not be flooded with the blood of reason!”, “The seas of blood will not quench the truth!” So Gorky linked such social concepts as “revolution”, “struggle” with others, ethical: “love,” “faith,” “soul.” It was in their unity that the writer saw the meaning of a new life program. From the fiery feelings of the mother, the same fiery faith in the achievements of her sons proceeds: “The soul of the resurrected will not be killed,” “They will not be flooded with the blood of reason!”, “The seas of blood will not quench the truth!” So Gorky linked such social concepts as “revolution”, “struggle” with others, ethical: “love,” “faith,” “soul.” It was in their unity that the writer saw the meaning of a new life program.
It is interesting to follow the changes that occur in Nilovna during the novel. The sense of plugging, submissiveness, indifference to everything disappears, interest in life awakens. Everything that was in it was boarded up, drowned out by heavy experiences, resurrected, stirred up. After all, “the soul of the risen will not be killed!” Nilovna glanced at the world around her with new eyes. She felt the beauty of nature, the richness of various human experiences is fraught with music. The birth of an aesthetic sense significantly enriches Nilovna’s view of the world. She feels a keen interest in the “great, wonderful, unknown,” pities those who are strangers to such discoveries: “People are rushing about – they do not know anything, they can not admire anything, they have no time for it, no hunting.” How many could take joy, if you knew how rich the land is,
In the experiences and reflections of the heroes of the novel “Mother” there is much in tune with our contemporaries. Are not Nilovna’s agitated thoughts close to us: about human indifference to earthly beauty, about the responsibility for the future of children of the next generation, about the need for people to understand each other? The idea of transforming the world, embodied by the writer in the pages of the novel “Mother”, remains relevant in our days.
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