ABSTRACT

Let us take another example from Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit. If Chatski’s supertask is defined as ‘I want to strive for liberty’, then the whole of the character’s inner life and all of his actions must be directed at achieving it. This gives rise to his merciless condemnation of everything and everyone who stands in the way of his striving for liberty, his striving to unmask and battle the likes of Famusov, Molchalin, Skalozub.