The legacy of the genius of Russian poetry includesyourself five fairy tales, studied in elementary school. The final lesson is held in the form of a quiz, where students are asked questions about the knowledge of the material. One of them - "Who competed with Balda in Pushkin's fairy tale?" The answer is given in this article.
The Tale of Balda, written by the poet in Mikhailovskyaccording to the nurse Arina Rodionovna, has deep Russian roots. In Boldino in September 1830 Pushkin put it on poetry, and a few months later read to N. Gogol, who came in full rapture. Nevertheless, the poet did not manage to publish it during his lifetime. To find out who was competed with Balda, the readers were able for the first time in 1840. This year the work was published by V. Zhukovsky, though under a different name. The teacher of the genius did not dare to argue with the church, instead of the priest he presented the merchant Kuzma Ostolop to the court of poetry lovers.
Only in 1882 the author's version waswas published in the collection of works, for the manuscripts of the poet were taken as a basis. The whole country laughed at the greedy and stupid priest, who, having deservedly received three clicks in their forehead forehead.
The plot unfolds in the bazaar, where the pop camefor the goods and met with Balda. It was the one who came from nowhere Balda first addresses to the church clergyman with the question of what affairs made him so early rise. Having learned that he is looking for that skilled worker - a cook, carpenter and groom in one person, and for a small fee, offers his services. And for a year the service does not ask for money, but only three clicks on the forehead. The pop was doubtful, but greed won and the Russian "maybe". What happened next, who competed with Balda?
In the Pushkin's fairy tale, Balda fulfills the conditionscompletely: it works properly, working for seven. She is happy with a priest, looks at a young worker, thinks of his young girl as a young woman, and does not boast of a priest. But the hour of reckoning is coming, and the wife gives the priest that advice - to come up with such a service that the employee could not fulfill it. So he sends the owner of Baldu to the devil, so that he tries to get a loan from them in three years. The worker did not lose his head, coped with his resourcefulness and this task.
With whom did Balda compete?On the sea, he creates a strange ritual: water is rubbed with a rope, so much so that he scared the older demon. Having learned about the quitrent, which no one has heard of before, expels the latter to deal with the grandson-a devil sent by a man. The grandson proposes to compete, who will sweep the sea faster. But the winner is not the one who is faster, but who is trickier. Having pretended that the task is too easy, sends for himself a Balda little brother - a little rabbit, and he himself in a sack hides. No matter how fast the beggar ran, and the second hare already at the finish. The wit also helps the employee in the second contest.
Who competed with Balda for the second time?Yes, all the same is an infant, but there was no competition. He suggested that the pupil abandon the stick, who farther, and even gave up the man's response. I promised to throw this thing over a cloud. And already in the third competition and at all Baldy's humor causes laughter of the reader. The employee offers to drag a mare to himself. The baby already fell down two steps later, and the person complicates the task - promises to carry between the legs, and galloped a whole mile, riding the animal. There's nothing to worry about, how to give Balde a bag of money.
In literary quizzes the question of whocompeted with Balda in Pushkin's fairy tale, implies a response of 7 or 8 letters. In the first case - it's an infant, in the second - a devil, which, in fact, the same thing. But is it all just in the work itself? In fact, Balda competed with and the priest, whose "mind is ingenious, on the cunning of povadliv." It was she who advised her husband to start a service so that the worker could not cope.
But the whole fairy tale is a confrontation between the priest and a simple Russian peasant, culminating in the victory of the latter. From the third click the owner lost his mind. This is a payment for the fact that he was chasing the "cheap".
But is Bald a simple peasant?Why does the author give him a name meaning a stupid person? In no situation does the employee manifest himself as such. Moreover, he possesses superhuman strength, since he is able to "eat for four", "work for seven", cope with demons and deprive the priest of reason. With whom did Balda really compete? Not with the priest? And why exactly does the priest put Pushkin in a stingy and stupid way?
In a simple Russian fairy tale questions turn out to bemore answers. We can assume that the author focuses on the difference between God and his representatives, who do not want to live by God's laws. And Balda is the one in whose power to arrange a heavenly punishment on earth.
