Cat Basilio - a bright character in the fairy tale of Tolstoy

Basilio (who is also Vasily, Vaska, but only in the Italian manner) - of course, one of the brightest and most original characters in Tolstoy's fairy tale "The Pinocchio". In Russia at that time, almost half of the cats were called Vaska, so this is quite common, implying not only cunning, a tendency to fraud, stupidity (everyone knows "Vaska listens and eats"), but also the simplicity that makes us often be moved by this hero .

Getting to know Pinocchio

Cat Basilio, Karabas, Duramar, Alice, undoubtedly personify in this fairy tale the so-called "evil forces". And Tolstoy continues to ridicule them throughout his fairy tale. We laugh at the way the frustrated Karabas, with his beard in his pocket, sneezes without stopping. And over how the "blind" cat Basilio is fighting because of the money of Pinocchio with his "partner" Fox Alice, and about how ridiculous these characters sometimes look.

But the actions in the fairy tale are developing so rapidly that sometimes you do not even know which of the heroes should be considered a villain, and who should sympathize. Even negative characters, such as Basilio's prohid, occasionally arouse sympathy and touch us for the living. After all, trying to deceive Pinocchio, Cat Basilio often gets himself into a mess, causing pity and compassion in the reader. This is because Tolstoy's fairy tale "Pinocchio" was originally good. It reads cheerfully and easily, so to speak, "in one go."

Cat Basilio and the fox Alice meet on the way to Pinocchio almost at the very beginning of the work and accompany the main character almost to the very end, somehow participating in unfolding before us events. They are, as it were, secondary heroes, but at the same time this "sweet couple" with the brightness of their characters makes us attract attention. Pinocchio sees two beggars who walk along the dusty road. These are our characters: Cat Basilio, fox Alice. The boy wants to pass by already, but Alice hails him tenderly, calling "the kind-hearted Pinocchio."

Country of Fools and Five Golds

When swindlers (Basilio's cat, Alice's fox) learn about gold coins, they offer the wooden boy to travel to an imaginary Fool Country. There on the Field of Miracles and you will need to dig up the money of Pinocchio. And next morning from these denezhek necessarily grow a Money Tree, and on it gold! Pinocchio agrees. But halfway to the Land of Fools, the boy loses his companions, and at night in the forest he is attacked by disguised robbers, surprisingly similar to a cat and a fox!

Buratino puts the coins in his mouth, and to get the gold, the robbers hang the wooden boy on a tree upside down and leave. Here it is discovered by Malvina, who, along with Artemon, escaped from Karabas. The girl will try to re-educate the boy, but in vain. After all, the stubborn Buratino hardly gives in to any upbringing! And the wooden boy fell into a dark closet, from where the bat releases him . Here, having met again with a fox and a cat, Pinocchio finally arrives at the Field of Miracles ... In general, the plot is spectacular! I advise you to read a fairy tale!

It remains only to add that the role of Basilio in the film "The Adventures of Pinocchio" was brilliantly played by the famous actor Rolan Bykov.