Throughout history, many authors have made fate an important motif in various literary works to help present their goals. Take Macbeth for example. In Macbeth, Shakespeare establishes fate as a motive, as Macbeth constantly seeks knowledge of his fate and uses it to establish his goal that humans have free will to choose their actions, unlike Macbeth. In A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov uses the motif of fate to examine the issues facing his society. He first uses fate to explore Pechorin's flawed character, then compares it to the vices of his society. Ultimately, the erroneous characteristics of Pechorin and Lermontov's examination of societal problems, in conjunction with the motif of fate, are used to present his goal. In A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov uses the motif of fate to demonstrate how this 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 its objective in writing. this work.Lermontov depicts various elements of Russian society, such as the absolutist tsarist government and the social structure stratified with destiny. Throughout the novel, Pechorin views fate as a higher power. From the perspective of Russian society, this higher power is the absolutist government. Lermontov may have intended to emphasize absolutist government by describing fate as "an important object in life" (131). Furthermore, the motif of fate represents the highly stratified society of 1840s Russia. After Grushnitsky's death, Pechorin describes himself as being "a sailor born and raised on the deck of a privateer" (147). The word privateer has a strict connotation imp...... middle of paper ......use of the motif of destiny, are similar to the traits of the Russian archetype of the superfluous man. Lermontov then probes the flaws in his society through the motif of destiny. He establishes destiny as a representation of his society. Basically, he mixes Pechorin's flawed traits and his portrayal of Russian society with the motif of fate to present his goal to his audience. He sought to criticize the absolutist government, evident by his analogies with Pechorin's erroneous characteristics in his belief in fate and loyalty to the government, and by the way fate oppresses Pechorin into taking malicious action on the way the tsar exercises absolute power over his people. In essence, Lermontov uses Fate to passively criticize the tsarist government of the time for its absolutist rule and to call on his audience of aristocrats to act by reforming the government..