Mother (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxim Gorki
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: First decade of the twentieth century
- Setting: Russia
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Trials, Lower classes, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants, Proletariat, Russian Revolution, Propaganda
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Pelagueya Vlasova (peh-luh- GEH-yuh VLAH-so-vuh), a revolutionary heroine. Fearing that her son, Pavel Vlasov, will be forced into the brutal, dehumanized life of the factory, she begins to notice with joy that, unlike the other workers, he is given to reading. When she meets Pavel’s close friends, dedicated socialists, her love for him and for them leads her into the revolutionary movement, to which she becomes passionately devoted. Her life takes on new meaning as she gives herself to the cause for which Pavel and his friends are willing to sacrifice so...
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