The main characters of the tale
Main characters:
- Three Fat Men are the greedy and cruel rulers of a fictional country.
- Heir Tutti is a twelve-year-old boy, the only heir of the Three Fat Men.
- Suok is a circus performer, dancer, 12-year-old girl.
- Gaspar Arneri is a famous scientist, doctor, who stands on the side of the common people.
Other characters:
- Tibul – gymnast, circus performer, leader of the uprising against the power of the Three Fat Men.
- Prospero is a gunsmith, one of the leaders of the revolutionaries.
- August is an old clown from the circus troupe "Uncle Brizak's Showroom".
- Aunt Ganymede is Dr. Arnery's housekeeper.
- Razdvatris is a dance teacher.
- Tub is the scientist who created the doll of the heir Tuttia.
"Three Fat Men" very brief summary
Y. Olesha “Three Fat Men” summary for the reader’s diary:
The country is ruled by Fat Men - tyrants who oppress the people. Tibulus and his friends want to rouse people to revolution, but he is imprisoned. Tutti's doll breaks. The fat people forbid him to communicate with children so that he grows up callous, and the doll is his only interlocutor.
They order Arnery to fix the doll, he loses it, but finds Souk, a girl very similar to the doll, and brings it to the palace. Sook befriends Tutti and softens his heart. Together they free Tuba, the creator of the doll, learn that Souk is Tutti’s sister, from whom he was separated as a child, and help Tibulus overthrow the cruel rulers and bring justice to the reign.
Conclusion:
Having power, you cannot treat those who support you poorly, because they are no different from you by nature - all people are equal. Cruelty and injustice breed discontent and will sooner or later cause resistance and overthrow. Evil always returns to the person who committed it. And kindness, like water like a stone, softens even a very hard heart. You need to value your loved ones and hold on tightly to each other; loved ones are the main support and support in life.
Main characters
Three fat men
The rulers of the country are narcissistic, greedy and selfish individuals. The fat men are raising a boy to whom their power should pass. The fat people would like their heir to have an iron heart; they do not allow Tutti to communicate with other children. The fat men fulfill all of Tutti’s whims and do not allow the boy to be upset about anything.
Tutti
A boy of about twelve, raised by fat men. He is not allowed to play and communicate with his peers; he is taught next to animals. His only entertainment is a mechanical toy in the form of a living doll, which was made especially for him.
Suok
A little showroom artist, a brave, cheerful, fearless girl. Looks a lot like a mechanical Tutti doll. She is an assistant to the tightrope walker Tibulus and the gunsmith Prospero. Helps free Tutti from the power of the fat men. Kind and sympathetic Suok is happy that she has found her brother again.
Rope walker Tibulus
Poor Tibulus is one of the instigators of the uprising, the leader of the working class rebelling against government oppression. Brave and courageous, courageous and determined gymnast, who found his craft very useful.
Armourer Prospero
The leader of the rebels who rebelled against the fat men. Leads an active struggle against oppressors. He is arrested and imprisoned in a cage, chained. Friends find an opportunity and help him escape. A brave and fair fighter against the snickering government.
A short retelling of “Three Fat Men” by Olesha
Laconically and succinctly conveys the meaning of the work “Three Fat Men” by Olesha, a summary:
In one city there once lived a doctor. His name was Gaspar Arneri. He was a scientist, and there was no one in the country wiser than him. The country where Gaspar Arneri lived was ruled by Three Fat Men, gluttonous and cruel.
One summer, in June, on a clear, sunny day, the doctor goes for a walk. In the square, he unexpectedly finds pandemonium, hears shots and, climbing the tower, sees artisans running from the Palace of the Three Fat Men, pursued by the guards. It turns out that the people, led by the gunsmith Prospero and the gymnast Tibulus, rebelled against the power of the Three Fat Men, but the uprising was defeated, and the gunsmith Prospero was captured. The bomb hits the tower from which Gaspar Arneri is watching what is happening, it collapses and the doctor loses consciousness.
He woke up when evening came. The corpses of the dead are lying around. Returning home through Zvezda Square, the doctor sees how another leader of the uprising, gymnast Tibul, who remained free, fleeing from the guards pursuing him, deftly walks along a narrow wire directly above the square, and then escapes through a hatch in the dome. At home, the tired doctor is about to go to bed, when suddenly a man in a green cloak crawls out of the fireplace. This is the gymnast Tibul.
The next day, ten scaffolds are prepared in Court Square for the captured rebels. Then an extraordinary incident happens: the wind carries away the balloon seller along with the balloons and he falls straight into the open window of the palace confectionery and falls straight into a huge cake. To avoid punishment, the confectioners decide to leave the seller in the cake, smearing it with cream and covering it with candied fruits, and serve it in the hall where the ceremonial breakfast is being held.
Thus, the balloon seller, trembling with fear that he will be eaten, witnesses what is happening in the hall. Cake tasting is temporarily postponed. The Three Fat Men want to see the captive gunsmith Prospero, and then, when, having enjoyed this spectacle, they are about to continue the feast, a twelve-year-old boy, Tutti’s heir, bursts into the hall screaming and crying.
The Fat Men have no children, and they plan to transfer all their wealth and control of the country to Tutti, who is raised in the Palace as a little prince. Fat men pamper him in every possible way and indulge his whims. In addition, they want the boy to have a heart of iron, they do not allow him to play with other children, and his classes take place in a menagerie.
Instead of a friend, an amazing doll was created for him, which is endowed with the ability to grow and develop along with Tutti. The heir is extremely attached to her. And now the beloved doll is broken: the rebel guards, who went over to the side of Prospero and the rebel people, stabbed it with bayonets.
The fat people don't want Tutti's heir to be upset. The doll urgently needs to be repaired, but no one is able to do this except the most learned doctor Gaspar Arneri. Therefore, it was decided to send him the doll, so that by the next morning, repaired, Tutti would have it again. Otherwise, the doctor will face serious trouble.
Since the Fatties' mood is ruined, the cake with the balloon seller is taken back to the kitchen. The cooks, in exchange for balloons, help the seller get out of the Palace and show him a secret passage that starts from a giant saucepan.
Meanwhile, at the Fourteenth Market, the Three Fat Men organize festivities for the people: performances, entertainment, performances, during which the artists must campaign for the Three Fat Men and distract the people’s attention from the scaffolds that are being erected for execution. At one such performance, Dr. Arneri and the gymnast Tibul, who was turned by the doctor into a black man for conspiracy, are present.
During the performance of the strongman Lapitup, Tibul cannot stand it and drives him off the stage, revealing to the people that he is not a black man at all, but the real Tibul. A fight breaks out between him and the bribed circus performers. Tibulus defends himself with cabbage heads, picking them straight from the garden and throwing them at the enemy. Grabbing another head of cabbage, he suddenly discovers that it is a human head, and none other than the balloon seller. This is how Tibul learns about the existence of a secret underground passage to the Palace of Fat Men.
While Tibulus fights, Dr. Gaspar Arneri is found by the Fat Men's messengers and gives him the order and the broken doll. Doctor Gaspar Arneri is trying to fix the doll, but by morning he clearly cannot keep up. It takes at least two more days, and the doctor, along with the doll, goes to the Fat Men. On the way, he is stopped by the guards guarding the Palace and is not allowed to go further.
They do not believe that he is really Gaspar Arneri, and when the doctor wants to show them the doll, he discovers that it is not there: having dozed off, he dropped it on the way. The upset doctor is forced to turn back. Hungry, he stops by Uncle Brizak's booth. Imagine his surprise when he discovers here a doll of the heir Tutti, which turns out to be not a doll at all, but a living girl named Suok, who looks like two peas in a pod to the doll. And then Tibulus, who soon appeared here, comes up with a plan to free Prospero.
In the morning, Doctor Arneri comes to the Palace. The doll was not only corrected by him, but looked even more like a living girl than before. Suok is a good artist and looks great as a doll. The heir is delighted. And then the doctor asks as a reward to cancel the execution of ten rebels. The indignant Fatties have no choice but to agree, otherwise the doll may be damaged again.
At night, when everyone is sleeping, Suok enters the menagerie. She is looking for Prospero, but in one of the cells she discovers a monster overgrown with fur, with long yellow claws, who hands her some kind of tablet and dies. This is the great scientist Tub, the creator of the doll for Tutti: he was imprisoned in the menagerie because he did not agree to make an iron heart for the heir.
Here he spent eight years and almost lost his human appearance. Suok then finds Prospero's cage and frees him. With the help of a terrible panther released from a cage, Prospero and Suok break through to the very pan from where the underground passage begins, but Suok does not follow Prospero in time and is captured by the guards.
Suok's trial will take place the next day. So that the heir Tutti does not accidentally interfere and upset their plans, by order of the Fat Men he is temporarily put to sleep. Suok does not answer questions and does not react at all to what is happening. The angry Fat Men decide to give her to the tigers.
Tigers released from the cage, seeing the prey, first rush towards it, but then unexpectedly turn away indifferently. It turns out that this is not Suok at all, but the same damaged doll that the rebel guards took away from the dance teacher Razdvatris who found it. The real Suok was hidden in a closet, replaced with a doll.
Meanwhile, shots are already heard and shells are exploding; the rebel people, led by the gunsmith Prospero and the gymnast Tibulus, storm the Palace.
The power of the Fat Men is coming to an end. And on that tablet, which the dying creator of the doll handed to the brave Suok, he revealed to her an important secret: she is Tutti’s sister, who was kidnapped with him at the age of four on the orders of the Fat Men and then separated from her brother. Tutti was left in the Palace, and the girl was given to a traveling circus in exchange for a rare breed of parrot with a long red beard.
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The plot of “Three Fat Men” in parts and chapters
Summary of “Three Fat Men” by Olesha with a description of each chapter:
Part one. Rope walker Tibulus
Chapter 1. Dr. Arnery's Restless Day
One day the famous doctor Arnery decided to take a walk outside the city “to collect some types of herbs and beetles.” It was there that the Palace of the Three Fat Men was located, surrounded by deep canals and reliably guarded by guards.
Near the palace park, the doctor noticed a crowd of people. He learned that “the guards are not letting people out of the city” so that they cannot help the rebels who dare to resist the power of the Three Fat Men.
Hearing the shots, Dr. Arnery climbed a high tower. He could clearly see how the uprising was suppressed, and one of its leaders, the gunsmith Prospero, was captured by the guards.
Chapter 2. Ten chopping blocks
The Doctor was lucky to survive when a bomb hit the tower during a shootout. Having climbed out from under the rubble, he noticed that corpses were lying everywhere.
Tired Dr. Arneri barely made it to the busy part of the city, where he witnessed the conversations of local residents. Wealthy citizens rejoiced that the uprising was quickly suppressed, while the poor had no doubt that another leader of the rebels, the gymnast Tibulus, remained free and would soon make himself known.
All conversations fell silent when the carpenters appeared, who by morning were supposed to build ten scaffolds for the rebels.
Chapter 3. Star Square
Near the “main city square, which was called Star Square,” pedestrians, horsemen, carriages and carriages crowded together. All attention was focused on the high glass dome, under which the gymnast Tibul deftly moved along a narrow wire. Thanks to his skill, he managed to escape from pursuit by the guards.
Part two. Heir Tutti doll
Chapter 4. The amazing adventure of the balloon seller
The next day a strong wind blew, and to the great joy of the children, “the seller of children’s balloons was carried away by the balloons into the air.” Unfortunately, the wind carried him straight to the Palace of Three Fat Men - flying through an open window, the seller ended up in a spacious confectionery shop and landed in the very center of a huge cake. To avoid punishment, the confectioners coated it with cream and decorated it with candied fruits, after which they took it to the hall where the ceremonial breakfast was held. So the seller of the balls learned that the gunsmith Prospero was put in a cage, and the heir Tutti’s favorite doll was hopelessly damaged.
Chapter 5. To Mr. Doctor Gaspar Arneri
Heir Tutti was reassured by the promise that his doll would be repaired by tomorrow morning. The “State Council of the Three Fat Men Government” ordered Dr. Arnery to urgently correct the doll, otherwise he will be punished to the fullest extent.
Meanwhile, the balloon seller managed to escape from the palace. The cook advised him to jump into a large saucepan, under which there was a secret passage.
Chapter 5. The Negro and the Cabbage Head
Doctor Arnery helped Tibulus “turn” into a black man, which greatly frightened Aunt Ganymede. They went to the Court Square, where the execution of the rebels was to take place. To distract the common people, visiting circus performers were invited. Having started a fight with them, Tibul began to fight back with heads of cabbage. One such “head of cabbage” turned out to be the head of a ball dealer. This is how Tibulus learned the secret of the underground passage in the Palace of the Three Fat Men.
Chapter 6. Unforeseen circumstance
A broken doll was brought to Dr. Arnery, which he initially mistook for a living girl - the master’s work was so skillful. He was informed that the grief of the heir Tutti was too great, and “the doll should be resurrected by tomorrow morning.” Gaspar Arneri got to work and realized what the cause of the breakdown was. However, in such a short time he could not fix it. Then the doctor decided to go with the doll to the Palace of the Three Fat Men and entrust his fate into their hands.
Chapter 7. Night of the Strange Doll
On the way to the palace, the doctor lost a priceless doll. Realizing that he was doomed to certain death, he wandered home. In Uncle Brizak's booth, the doctor accidentally saw a twelve-year-old girl who looked exactly like a doll. She turned out to be a little dancer named Suok.
Part three. Suok
Chapter 8. The difficult role of a little actress
The gymnast Tibul, who belonged to this small circus family, appeared in the booth. Having heard the doctor's story about the missing doll, Tibul decided to send it to the Suok palace, where she would have to “play the role of the doll of the heir Tutti” and save the gunsmith Prospero.
Chapter 9. A doll with a good appetite
No one in the palace, including Tutti, noticed the substitution - little Suok coped well with her difficult role. As payment for the corrected “doll,” Gaspard Arneri demanded that the Three Fat Men “give life to all the workers sentenced to death,” and they were forced to agree. Left alone with Tutti, Suok could not stand it and ate the cake, which made her little master very happy.
Chapter 10. Menagerie
The Three Fat Men deliberately raised Tutti away from children - they dreamed that he would grow up with a cold, cruel heart. Acquaintance with Suok opened up a new world for the boy, which he did not even suspect about. Suok knew that “the cage with the armorer Prospero is in the menagerie of the heir Tutti.” After waiting for darkness, she went in search of him. In the menagerie, the girl saw a dying prisoner who, before his death, gave her his notes.
Part four. Armourer Prospero
Chapter 11. The death of the confectionery shop
Suok managed to free Prospero. She took him to the pastry shop, where the underground passage was located. The gunsmith managed to jump into the pan, while Suok was grabbed by the guards who arrived in time.
Chapter 12. Dance teacher Razdvatris
The dance teacher Razdvatris was urgently summoned to the palace to the Three Fat Men, who decided to take dance lessons. On the way, he was detained by guards who took the side of the people. In Razdvatris's cardboard box they found a broken doll of the heir to Tutti and went with it to the palace.
Chapter 13. Victory
To prevent Tutti from learning about the massacre of Suok, he was euthanized with a strong sleeping pill. When the guards took the girl to trial before the Three Fat Men, someone attacked them and freed the little dancer. It was not the little rebel who was presented before the court, but a broken doll that the guards brought to the palace. Not noticing the substitution, the Three Fat Men sentenced her to death.
At that moment, “the park was filled with noise, screams, and shots.” It was Tibulus and Prospero who raised the people to revolt and captured the palace of the hated Three Fat Men. The power of the rich was overthrown.
Epilogue
It turned out that the strange prisoner who gave his notes to Suok was a scientist named Tub. He was “showed little Suok and Tutti” and had to create an exact copy of the girl. After this, Tutti became the heir of the Three Fat Men, and “Suok was given to a traveling circus.” Tuba was ordered to forge an iron heart for Tutti, but the scientist refused. He was put in a cage where he spent eight years.
Thus, the victory of the people over the Three Fat Men united brother and sister, Tutti and Suok, after a long separation.
Conclusion
In his book, Yuri Olesha tried to convey the idea that power and wealth cannot make a person truly happy, and that not everything in this world is measured by money. Love, kindness, justice - these are the true values of life, on the side of which there will always be truth.
A very brief summary for a reader's diary
A revolutionary situation has arisen in the country of Three Fat Men, as poor people are tired of the oppression of the rich. Every now and then there are clashes between rebels and guardsmen. The rebellious people chose leaders - the gunsmith Prospero and the tightrope walker Tibulus. Dr. Gaspar Arneri is a fairly wealthy man, but he sympathized with the people.
Prospero was arrested and put in a cage at the Three Fat Men menagerie. The doctor hid Tibul in his place and repainted him to disguise himself as a black man.
The next day, Tibulus learned about an underground passage leading to the Palace of the Three Fat Men. The balloon seller, who accidentally flew on balloons into the kitchen of the palace and got out of it through this passage, told the tightrope walker about it.
Meanwhile, the guards, who rebelled, damaged the mechanism of the doll of the heir Tutti. When she was healthy, she was no different from a real girl and even grew up, just like Tutti. Doctor Gaspard was given the order to repair it in one day. He could not do this and took the doll to the palace, but lost it on the way. Having gone in search of the doll, the doctor ended up in a van of traveling circus performers. There he saw a girl, Suok, who looked like a broken doll. On the initiative of her partner, Tibulus, the young circus performer agreed to replace the doll with herself in order to help Prospero escape from the palace menagerie.
Dr. Gaspard and Suok demonstrated to the Fat Men that the doll was very sensitive. The doctor said that she would certainly die if the execution of the captured rebels was not cancelled. The execution was canceled so that Tutti would not be upset by the death of the doll.
Suok was able to help Prospero: she removed the key to the cage from the neck of the sleeping Tutti. The Fat Men hung this key around the neck of their heir. They thought that this way he would be in the best possible condition.
Freeing Prospero from the menagerie, Suok noticed in one of the cells a creature that resembled a humanoid wolf. It was Tub, a scientist who made a doll for Tutti, borrowing the image of Suok for her. Dying, Tub told the girl that she and Tutti were twins.
Prospero managed to escape from the palace, and Suok was arrested and sentenced to death.
To prevent Tutti from interfering with the execution, he was put to sleep with sleeping pills for several days.
Before the execution, the guards who went over to the side of the people replaced Suok with a found doll.
The people overthrew the Three Fat Men, and Tutti and Suok became inseparable and gave circus performances together.
