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dark kingdom

Ostrovsky A.N.

Phraseologism: Dark kingdom.

Meaning: Wild and inert social environment (disapproved).

Origin: The title of the article (1859) by the critic and publicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), devoted to the analysis of the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm". Taking advantage of the pictures of merchant tyranny depicted by the playwright as an excuse, N. A. Dobrolyubov likens the whole of feudal Russia with its ignorance and rude morals to the "dark kingdom", "stinking dungeon", "the world of dull aching pain, the world of prison, deathly silence." The critic writes: “There is nothing sacred, nothing pure, nothing right in this dark world: the tyranny that dominates it, wild, crazy, wrong, drove away any consciousness of honor and right ... And they cannot be where they are thrown into dust and brazenly human dignity, freedom of the individual, faith in love and happiness, and the sacredness of honest labor have been trampled on by tyrants." A. N. Ostrovsky himself gives such a definition to the "dark kingdom" through the lips of Dosuzhev, one of the heroes of his other play - "Hard Days" (act. 1, phenom. 2): "... I live in the direction where the days are divided into light and heavy, where people are firmly convinced that the earth stands on three fish and that, according to the latest information, it seems that one begins to move: it means that it’s a bad thing where they get sick from the evil eye, but are treated with sympathy, where there are their own astronomers who observe behind comets and consider two people on the moon, where their own politics, and they also receive dispatches, but more and more from White Arapia and the countries adjacent to it.

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I take my good where I find it.

Meaning:

About a man prone to stealing.

Origin:

According to the French writer J. Grimaret in his book "The Life of Moliere" (1705), these words were spoken by the French playwright Jean Baptiste Moliere (pseudonym of J. B. Poquelin, 1622-1673) in response to accusations of plagiarism. The reason for this was the phrase from the comedy of another author, sounded in Molière's comedy "The Tricks of Scapin" (1671), from the play "The Ridiculed Pedant" (act. 2, yavl. 4) by Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1665). But if this author left her unnoticed by the public, then thanks to Moliere's play she became winged, and not only in French. This phrase is now known in the form: "What the hell brought me to this galley!" J. Grimare claims that the author is Moliere, who at one time uttered this phrase in the presence of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the latter, having abused the trust of his fellow writer, used it in his play. Therefore, according to J. Grimare, Molière had every right to a replica invented by him, and he had every reason to comment: "I take my good where I find it."

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