Each composition of Krylov carries a certain worldly wisdom and teaches “good and bright” or, at least, shows how you should not behave. Krylov’s fable “The Siskin and the Dove” is no exception, but we will analyze below exactly what it exposes.
Plot
Chizh fell into a trap, and seeing this, the dove ridiculed him in every way and said that he would never have gotten so stupidly into the snares. And you know what happened after a while? He himself did not notice the trap and ended up in a cage. Here is such an unpretentious Krylov’s fable “Siskin and Pigeon”.
Morality
A person should not gloat over the grief or serious troubles of another. Perhaps tomorrow goggle may fall into the same situation. Krylov’s fable “The Siskin and the Pigeon” is not too complicated for analysis. With this, it seems, the schoolboy will cope. Further, a few more considerations that were provoked by the work of Ivan Andreevich.
Compare yourself with others - in the nature of man. And no matter how many eastern spiritual practices tell us that we should compete only with ourselves, people still stubbornly look in the direction of a neighbor, work colleagues or just a passerby. And if envy is ineradicable, then gloating also cannot be defeated just like that. So our pigeon (Krylov’s fable “The Siskin and the Dove” narrates about him) only saw the siskin in difficulty, and immediately began to try on his situation on himself.
Can a person do better?
Answering this important question, we will take Michel Montaigne and Don Corleone as allies. The first one said: "Let's reason sensibly." First, let's look at a person with an open mind, and then turn to the authority of Don Vito Corleone.
Of course, we would like to believe in the best - this is also part of the nature of man, but practice shows that man has not changed too much over the past two thousand years.
Bulgakovsky Woland speaks well of this, as well as the not abating popularity of Greek tragedies. If a person had changed very abruptly, then Sophocles and Euripides would be left behind the culture, but this did not happen.
We are also concerned about the tragedies and comedies of Shakespeare, and there is enough treachery, gloating and treachery, but they do not bother us. Each new generation comes to this source of not only inspiration, but also philosophical wisdom.
In other words, be that as it may, the man is still with his virtues and vices. The only thing that has changed is their image: art (and literature as well) has become more sophisticated and detailed in this sense. “The Siskin and the Pigeon” is Krylov’s fable, made in the old style: the characters are simple and understandable, and their purpose is clear as God's day.
Now it's time to come for advice to Don Corleone. He told his children the following: “Never tell anyone other than family members what you think.” On our own, we add: if you are not lucky with relatives, then do not tell them your thoughts.
If it is impossible to defeat the gloating in a person completely and irrevocably, and we came to the conclusion that this is impossible, then we should at least hide it from strangers, and even more so from the victim of the vicissitudes of fate. Unfortunately, the pigeon from the work under consideration (in the focus of attention is “The Siskin and the Pigeon”, Krylov’s fable) simply lacked intelligence and quick wit.