War and Peace · Character
Vlas
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 298
Vlas comes across as a man guided less by grand declarations than by the hard arithmetic of daily life. There is a stubborn, unsentimental practicality about him, and little sign that he cares to play the hero.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 298
- Books
- 1
Vlas is a peasant whose choices after the French evacuation of Moscow reveal a resolutely practical, unheroic temperament. He drives his cart into the city to plunder, while refusing the tempting price offered for his hay and burning it instead. The contrast between opportunity and his own plain judgment makes him a small but vivid figure in the book’s portrait of ordinary people amid upheaval.
Description
Vlas is identified as a peasant man, but the text gives no specific description of his face, complexion, hair, eyes, age, height, or build. No particular garments or accessories are recorded. His characterization suggests a practical, self-possessed presence, but his precise physical appearance remains unspecified.
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BOOK 1War and Peace
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