The theme “predestination” in the variations of Lermontov’s “Fatalist”

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of predestination in the last part of the Lermontov’s novel in chapter “Fatalist”. The problem is taken not in the traditional dualism of the belief in fate or negation of it, but as a spectrum of different ideas about fate: Moslem, Christian, traditional people’s beliefs, blind fate of old mythology, modern critical point of view,life experience. All these variants are organized in the composition round the struggle of two types of relations with the fate – in the experiments of Vulich and Pechorin.