Throughout history, many authors have established destiny as a prominent motif in various literary works to help present their purposes. Let's take Macbeth for example. In Macbeth, Shakespeare establishes fate as a motif as Macbeth constantly seeks to know his destiny and uses it to establish his purpose that humans have free will to choose their own actions, unlike Macbeth. In A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov uses the motif of fate to examine the problems of his society. First he uses fate to explore Pechorin's imperfect character, then compares it to the vices of his society. In the end, the imperfect features of Pechorin and Lermontov's analysis of society's problems, together with the motive of fate, are used to present its purpose. In A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov uses the fate motif to demonstrate how the motif represents the stratified Russian society and how it accentuates Pechorin's flawed characteristics, such as self-centeredness and irresponsibility, in order to help convey his purpose in writing. this work.Lermontov represents various elements within Russian society, such as the absolutist tsarist government and the social structure stratified with destiny. Throughout the novel, Pechorin sees fate as a higher power. From the perspective of Russian society, this higher power is the absolutist government. Lermontov perhaps intended to emphasize absolutist rule by describing destiny as "a high goal in life" (131). Furthermore, the fate motif represents the highly stratified society of Russia in the 1840s. After Grushnitsky's death, Pechorin describes himself as "a sailor born and raised on the deck of a privateer" (147). The word corsair has a strict connotation... middle of paper......use of the motif of destiny, they are similar to the characteristics of the Russian archetype of the superfluous man. Lermontov then probes the flaws of his society through the motif of fate. He establishes destiny as a representation of his society. Basically, it mixes Pechorin's flawed traits and his portrayal of Russian society with the motif of fate to present his purpose to the audience. He sought to criticize absolutist rule, evident from his analogies to Pechorin's flawed characteristics of his belief in fate and loyalty to the government, and how fate oppresses Pechorin into taking harmful actions with the way the Tsar exercises absolute rule on his people. In essence, Lermontov uses fate to passively criticize the tsarist government of the time due to its absolutist regime and to call on his audience of aristocrats to take action by reforming the government..