Composition in the direction: Reason and feeling. Graduation essay 2016-2017

Reason and feeling: can they possess a person at the same time, or are they mutually exclusive concepts? Is it true that in a fit of feelings a person commits both vile deeds and great discoveries that drive evolution and progress? What is a dispassionate mind capable of, a cold calculation? The search for answers to these questions has occupied the best minds of mankind since life appeared. And this dispute, which is more important - reason or feeling - has been going on since antiquity, and everyone has their own answer. “People live by feelings,” says Erich Maria Remarque, but immediately adds that in order to realize this, reason is needed.

On the pages of world fiction, the problem of the influence of feelings and the mind of a person is raised very often. So, for example, in Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace" two types of heroes appear: on the one hand, this is the impulsive Natasha Rostova, the sensitive Pierre Bezukhov, the fearless Nikolai Rostov, on the other hand, the arrogant and prudent Helen Kuragina and her brother, callous Anatole. Many conflicts in the novel come precisely from the excess of feelings of the characters, whose ups and downs are very interesting to watch. A vivid example of how a burst of feelings, thoughtlessness, ardor of character, impatient youth influenced the fate of the heroes is the case of Natasha's betrayal, because for her, funny and young, it was incredibly long to wait for her wedding with Andrei Bolkonsky, could she subdue her unexpectedly flashed feelings for Anatole the voice of reason? Here we have a real drama of mind and feelings in the soul of the heroine, she faces a difficult choice: to leave her fiancé and leave with Anatole, or not to succumb to a momentary impulse and wait for Andrei. It was in favor of feelings that this difficult choice was made, only chance prevented Natasha. We cannot condemn the girl, knowing her impatient nature and thirst for love. It was feelings that dictated Natasha's impulse, after which she regretted her act when she analyzed it.

It was the feeling of boundless, all-consuming love that helped Margarita reunite with her lover in Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. The heroine, without a second's hesitation, gives her soul to the devil and goes with him to the ball, where the killers and hangmen kiss her knee. Having abandoned a secure, measured life in a luxurious mansion with a loving husband, she rushes into an adventurous adventure with evil spirits. Here is a vivid example of how a person, having chosen a feeling, created his happiness.
Thus, the statement of Erich Maria Remarque is absolutely true: guided only by reason, a person can live, but it will be a colorless, dull and joyless life, only feelings give life indescribably bright colors, leaving emotionally filled memories. As the great classic Leo Tolstoy wrote: “If we assume that human life can be controlled by reason, then the very possibility of life will be destroyed.”

Many fundamental questions that arise again and again in every generation among the majority of thinking people do not and cannot have a specific answer, and all arguments and disputes on this issue are nothing but empty polemics. What is a sense of life? What is more important: to love or to be loved? What are feelings, God and man on the scale of the universe? This kind of reasoning also includes the question of in whose hands is the dominance over the world - in the cold fingers of the mind or in the strong and passionate embrace of feelings?

It seems to me that in our world everything is a priori organic, and the mind can have some value only in conjunction with feelings - and vice versa. A world in which everything is subject only to reason is utopian, and the complete primacy of human feelings and passions leads to excessive eccentricity, impulsiveness and tragedies, which are described in romantic works. However, if we approach the question directly, omitting all sorts of “buts”, then we can come to the conclusion that, of course, in the world of people, vulnerable beings who need support and emotions, it is feelings that take on the managerial role. It is on love, on friendship, on spiritual connection that the true happiness of a person is built, even if he himself actively denies it.

In Russian literature, there are many contradictory personalities who unsuccessfully deny the need for feelings and emotions in their lives and proclaim reason as the only true category of existence. Such, for example, is the hero of the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time". Pechorin made his choice towards a cynical and cold attitude towards people as a child, faced with misunderstanding and rejection from the people around him. It was after his feelings were rejected that the hero decided that the “salvation” from such emotional experiences would be the complete denial of love, tenderness, care and friendship. Grigory Alexandrovich chose mental development as the only right way out, a defensive reaction: he read books, talked with interesting people, analyzed society and "played" with people's feelings, thereby compensating for his own lack of emotions, but this still did not help replace him with simple human happiness. In pursuit of mental activity, the hero completely forgot how to be friends, and the moment when sparks of a warm and tender feeling of love still lit up in his heart, he forcibly suppressed them, forbidding himself to be happy, tried to replace it with travel and beautiful landscapes, but in the end he lost every desire and aspiration to live. It turns out that without feelings and emotions, any activity of Pechorin was reflected in his fate in black and white and did not bring him any satisfaction.

The hero of the novel, I.S., found himself in a similar situation. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The difference between Bazarov and Pechorin is that he defended his position in relation to feelings, creativity, faith in a dispute, formed his own philosophy, built on denial and destruction, and even had a follower. Eugene stubbornly and not in vain was engaged in scientific activities and devoted all his free time to self-development, but the fanatical desire to destroy everything that is not subject to reason turned against him in the toga. The whole nihilistic theory of the hero was shattered by unexpected feelings for a woman, and this love not only cast a shadow of doubt and confusion on all of Yevgeny's activities, but also very much shook his worldview position. It turns out that any, even the most desperate attempts to destroy feelings and emotions in oneself are nothing compared to the seemingly insignificant, but such a strong feeling of love. Probably, the resistance of the mind and feelings has always been and will be in our lives - such is the essence of a person, a creature that is "amazingly vain, truly incomprehensible and eternally hesitant." But it seems to me that in this totality, in this confrontation, in this uncertainty lies the whole charm of human life, all its excitement and interest.

Possible formulations of essay topics

1. Why is it always difficult to make a choice between heart and mind?

3. How do the mind and feelings manifest themselves in extreme situations?

5. When "the mind and heart are not in harmony"? (Griboyedov A.S. "Woe from Wit")

6. Is it possible to achieve a certain balance (harmony) between reason and feeling?

7. "Reason and feelings are two forces that equally need each other" (VG Belinsky).

UNIVERSAL THESES

Guys, I remind you that you can use the quotes below as epigraphs for an essay or abstracts for a specific topic.

Ferdowsi, Persian poet and philosopher: “Let your mind guide things. He will not let your soul go to evil."

W. Shakespeare, English poet and playwright of the Renaissance: “To see and feel is to be, to think is to live.

N. Chamfort, French writer: "Our mind sometimes brings us no less grief than our passions."

G. Flaubert, French writer: "You can be the master of your actions, but in feelings we are not free."

L. Feuerbach, German philosopher: “What are the hallmarks of the truly human in man? Mind, will and heart. The perfect man has the power of thought, the power of will and the power of feeling. The power of thinking is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of feeling is love.

A.S. Pushkin, Russian poet and writer : “I want to live in order to think and suffer.”

N.V. Gogol, Russian writer: "Reason is, undoubtedly, the highest ability, but it is acquired only by victory over passions."

Universal intro

Life often puts a person before a choice. We must make our decision with our “head” or “heart”. Reason is the ability to think logically, understand the laws of the development of the world, comprehending the meaning and connection of phenomena. Therefore, the mind as a rational component of human consciousness gives us the opportunity to think and act based on logic and facts. Feelings are irrational in nature, since they are based on emotions. The famous psychologist N.I. Kozlov compared the mind with a coachman who sees where a wagon drawn by desire horses should go. If the horses are running on the beaten path, then the reins can be loosened. And if there is a crossroads ahead, then you need a strong hand of the coachman. Need a will.

Of course, this is an allegory. But its meaning is clear: reason and feeling are the most important components of a person's inner world, influencing his aspirations and actions. In my opinion, a person should always strive for harmony between reason and feelings. This is the secret of true happiness. To prove my point of view, I will turn to the works of Russian literature ...

SELECTION OF ESSAYS No. 1 on the block "Reason and Feeling"

René Descartes, French philosopher, said: “I think, therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”). Does it follow from this that reason is superior to feeling? Probably, on the contrary, the mental activity of a person exists only thanks to his consciousness, the ability to think. It only seems to us that a person is divided into parts and eternally struggles inside with himself: the mind calls for prudent actions, and the heart resists and acts on a whim. But our thinking is an attribute of the soul, because the soul forms our thought. Is there any confirmation of this assumption in Russian literature?

In Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's story "Student" we see a rather dreary landscape of a spring evening, gradually turning into a depressing picture of thick night darkness. A student of the Theological Academy, Ivan Velikopolsky, goes home with a thrust. Weather, night, cold, stiff fingers, hunger - everything makes Ivan sad, his thoughts are bleak. He imagines that people were just as unhappy under Rurik, and under Ivan the Terrible, and under Peter: poverty, illness, ignorance, longing, darkness and oppression. Having met two simple, village women in the widow's gardens, he suddenly begins to tell (on the eve of Easter) the story of the Apostle Peter. The textbook narration gives rise to an amazing response in the souls of women. Vasilisa, continuing to smile, suddenly burst into tears: tears “... abundant, flowed down her cheeks, and she shielded her face from the fire with her sleeve, as if ashamed of her tears, and Lukerya, looking motionlessly at the student, blushed, and her expression became heavy, tense, like a man who is holding back a lot of pain." Such a reaction to his story made Ivan think again: what caused Vasilisa's tears? Just his ability to tell or indifference to the fate of the Apostle Peter? “And joy suddenly stirred in his soul, and he even stopped for a minute to take a breath.” So suddenly thoughts turned into feelings, the rest of the way Ivan walked in a state of inexpressibly sweet expectation of happiness, unknown, mysterious, "and life seemed to him delightful, wonderful and full of high meaning."

But this is not always the case. Sometimes a feeling gives birth to a thought, and a thought gives rise to an action. In Ivan Alekseevich Bunin's story "Light Breath", the main character Olya Meshcherskaya committed a misdemeanor: she succumbed to an unknown feeling of attraction. Whether mischief, or a thirst for adventure, or the adoring glances of a friend of her father, Alexei Mikhailovich, led the girl to a wrong, stupid act, and caused thoughts about her sinfulness, crime. “I don’t understand how this could happen, I went crazy, I never thought that I was like that! Now I have one way out ... I feel such disgust for him that I can’t survive this! .. ”Olya writes in her diary. How and when did she come up with a plan of self-destruction? The power of feeling led the heroine of the story to a terrible ending. Death took away the very femininity, beauty and that light breath, which is so lacking in the world...

Reason and feeling... What comes first... It seems to me that this is a question for specialists. The literature provides reading options, describes the possible development of the relationship between mind and emotion. Everyone chooses for himself what to be guided by, what to subordinate his behavior to: run on the occasion of feeling to the edge of the abyss or calmly, balancedly determine the plan of action and act not for the sake of feeling, but reasonably, without destroying your correct life ...

WHAT RULES THE WORLD: MIND OR FEELINGS? #2

Many fundamental questions that arise again and again in every generation among the majority of thinking people do not and cannot have a specific answer, and all arguments and disputes on this issue are nothing but empty polemics. What is a sense of life? What is more important: to love or to be loved? What are feelings, God and man on the scale of the universe? This kind of reasoning also includes the question of in whose hands is the dominance over the world - in the cold fingers of the mind or in the strong and passionate embrace of feelings? It seems to me that in our world everything is a priori organic, and the mind can have some value only in conjunction with feelings - and vice versa. A world in which everything is subject only to reason is utopian, and the complete primacy of human feelings and passions leads to excessive eccentricity, impulsiveness and tragedies, which are described in romantic works. However, if we approach the question directly, omitting all sorts of “buts”, then we can come to the conclusion that, of course, in the world of people, vulnerable beings who need support and emotions, it is feelings that take on the managerial role. It is on love, on friendship, on spiritual connection that the true happiness of a person is built, even if he himself actively denies it.

In Russian literature, there are many contradictory personalities who unsuccessfully deny the need for feelings and emotions in their lives and proclaim reason as the only true category of existence. Such, for example, is the hero of the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time". Pechorin made his choice towards a cynical and cold attitude towards people as a child, faced with misunderstanding and rejection from the people around him. It was after his feelings were rejected that the hero decided that the “salvation” from such emotional experiences would be the complete denial of love, tenderness, care and friendship. Grigory Alexandrovich chose mental development as the only right way out, a defensive reaction: he read books, talked with interesting people, analyzed society and "played" with people's feelings, thereby compensating for his own lack of emotions, but this still did not help replace him with simple human happiness. In pursuit of mental activity, the hero completely forgot how to be friends, and the moment when sparks of a warm and tender feeling of love still lit up in his heart, he forcibly suppressed them, forbidding himself to be happy, tried to replace it with travel and beautiful landscapes, but in the end he lost every desire and aspiration to live. It turns out that without feelings and emotions, any activity of Pechorin was reflected in his fate in black and white and did not bring him any satisfaction.

The hero of the novel, I.S., found himself in a similar situation. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The difference between Bazarov and Pechorin is that he defended his position in relation to feelings, creativity, faith in a dispute, formed his own philosophy, built on denial and destruction, and even had a follower. Eugene stubbornly and not in vain was engaged in scientific activities and devoted all his free time to self-development, but the fanatical desire to destroy everything that is not subject to reason turned against him in the toga. The whole nihilistic theory of the hero was shattered by unexpected feelings for a woman, and this love not only cast a shadow of doubt and confusion on all of Yevgeny's activities, but also very much shook his worldview position. It turns out that any, even the most desperate attempts to destroy feelings and emotions in oneself are nothing compared to the seemingly insignificant, but such a strong feeling of love.

Probably, the resistance of the mind and feelings has always been and will be in our lives - such is the essence of a person, a creature that is "amazingly vain, truly incomprehensible and eternally hesitant." But it seems to me that in this totality, in this confrontation, in this uncertainty lies the whole charm of human life, all its excitement and interest.

ESSAY No. 3 on the block "Mind and Feeling"

Mind and feeling ... What is it? These are the two most important forces

components of the inner world of each person. Both of these forces

they equally need each other. The mental organization of a person is very complex. The situations that happen and happen to us are very different. One of them is when our feelings prevail over reason. Another situation is characterized by the predominance of reason over feelings. There is also a third, when a person has harmony, which means that the mind and feelings have exactly the same effect on the mental organization of a person.

The theme of reason and feeling is interesting for many writers. Reading works of world fiction, including Russian, we come across many such examples that tell us about the manifestation of different situations in the life of heroes of fiction.

works when an internal conflict occurs: feelings oppose reason. Literary heroes very often face a choice between the command of feeling and the prompting of reason.

So, in Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin's story "Poor Liza", we see how the nobleman Erast falls in love with a poor peasant girl Lisa. Lisa is madly in love with Erast. The author observes the change of Liza's feelings. Embarrassment, sadness, crazy joy, anxiety, despair, shock - these are the feelings that overwhelmed the girl's heart. Erast, weak and windy, has cooled off towards Liza, he does not think about anything, a reckless person. There comes satiety and a desire to get rid of the bored relationship. A moment of love is beautiful, but reason gives long life and strength to feelings. Lisa hopes to regain her lost happiness, but all in vain. Deceived in her best hopes and feelings, she forgets her soul and throws herself into a pond near the Simonov Monastery. The girl trusts the movements of her heart, lives only with “gentle passions”. For Lisa, the loss of Erast is tantamount to the loss of life. Fervor and ardor bring her. to death. Reading the story of N. M. Karamzin, we are convinced that "mind and feelings are two forces that equally need each other."

In the novel by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, one can find several scenes and

episodes related to the topic. The beloved heroine of Leo Tolstoy, Natasha Rostova, met and fell in love with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. After Prince Andrei's departure abroad, Natasha was very sad for a long time without leaving her room. She is very lonely without a loved one. In these difficult days, Anatole Kuragin meets in her life. He looked at Natasha "with an admiring, affectionate look." The girl was recklessly carried away by Anatole. The love of Natasha and Andrey was put to the test. Not keeping this promise to wait for her beloved, she betrayed him. The young girl is too young and inexperienced in matters of the heart. But a pure soul tells her that she is not doing well. Why did Rostova fall in love with Kuragin? She saw in him someone close to her. This love story ended very sadly.

Graduation (final) essay-reasoning on the topic: Reason and feelings.

Mind and feeling ... What is it? These are the two most important forces of the inner world of man, which need each other. The human soul is very complex. There are situations when feelings prevail over the mind, and sometimes the mind takes over the feelings. No wonder Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues said: "The mind cannot comprehend the needs of the heart." Indeed, a person, with all his desire, is not able to control real feelings that overshadow the mind that contradicts them.

We can observe such a plot in Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons", where the main character Evgeny Vasilyevich Bazarov, being a nihilist, denied literally everything up to love. His inner principle was against all romance, feelings. He considered it "rubbish, unforgivable nonsense ...". The decisive feature, which became contrary to his views, was a meeting with Anna Odintsova, a woman who was not like everyone else. The hero sincerely falls in love with her, but these feelings were unacceptable and terrible for Eugene. Anna, on the other hand, did not have such hearty inclinations as Bazarov had. He tried in every possible way to hide it, because previously only reason could manage his life. The hero could not control everything that happened, because the struggle of the mind and heart was doing its job. But finally confessing his love to Odintsova, he gets rejected. This leads Bazarov to the original principles, where spiritual impulses are just nonsense compared to reason. But it does not happen that love simply goes out, even before death, but in Eugene it still flares up and stands up against his mind, eventually winning. He again recalls his love for Anna, since reason will never comprehend the heart.

Another striking example of the confrontation between reason and feeling is the work of N.M. Karamzin "Poor Lisa". The main character of the story is the sentimental poor peasant woman Lisa, who falls in love with the rich nobleman Erast. It seemed that their love would never end. And now the sensitive girl completely surrenders to her lover, her heart takes up over her mind. But, unfortunately, the feelings of the young nobleman gradually cool, and soon he leaves for a military campaign, where he loses his entire fortune and is forced to marry a rich widow. At this, Lisa's patience fails, and she jumps into the pond. Indeed, for the girl, the act of her beloved was a strong blow, bringing mental pain, which she wanted to get rid of only by suicide. Her mind contradicted such a course of events, but he failed to master the ardent feeling.

Thus, the struggle of the two most important forces of the inner world of a person is one of the most complex processes in the soul of everyone. Or feeling transcends reason or reason of feeling. Such contradictions are an endless duel. But still, the mind will never comprehend sincere feelings.

arguments for writing

Final essays on the topic "Sense and Sensibility" on our website:

- Do you agree with the statement of M. Prishvin: “There are feelings that replenish and obscure the mind, but there is a mind that cools the movement of feelings”?

- Do you agree with Firdousi's statement, “Let your mind guide things. He will not allow your soul to do evil"?

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The problem of reason and feeling is devoted to a huge number of literary works.
the main characters belong to two warring clans - the Montagues and the Capulets. Everything is against the feelings of young people, and the voice of reason advises everyone not to succumb to the outbreak of love. But emotions are stronger, and even in death, Romeo and Juliet did not want to leave.
the feelings of the main character take precedence over her mind. Having fallen in love with the young nobleman Erast and trusting him, Liza forgets about her girlish honor. Karamzin writes about this fact with bitterness and reproaches the heroine, although he feels sorry for the kind, sincere girl with all his heart. But Karamzin also accuses Erast of recklessness, he directly says that the mind (especially in a man!) Should guide emotions. So, in response to the thoughts of a young man that he will not use the girl’s trust for evil and will always remain only her brother, the author exclaims:

Indeed, the girl’s feelings were deceived: Erast, having lost at cards in order to somehow improve his financial situation, marries a rich widow, and Liza commits suicide by drowning herself in the lake.
In a tragic discord, the mind and feelings of the protagonist

His heart burns with love for Sofya Famusova, it is for her sake that he returns to Moscow, but does not find reciprocal feelings in the girl. When the hero finds out that Sophia's chosen one is Molchalin, her father's secretary, he is unable to believe it.

exclaims Chatsky. The hero perfectly sees what Molchalin really is, sees what his true goals are. And this is career advancement and material well-being. For the sake of this, Molchalin does not shun hypocrisy, or subservience to his superiors, or meanness. It is such meanness on his part that courting the daughter of the boss becomes. Chatsky's mind refuses to believe in Sophia's love for Molchalin, because he remembers her as a teenager, when love broke out between them, he thinks that Sophia could not change over the years. But the reality turned out to be harsher than the dream. And now Chatsky, with all his mind, well versed in people, realizing that Famusov and his guests will not understand and share neither his ideas, nor opinions, nor actions, does not hold back and speaks out in front of them, so to speak, “casts pearls in front of pigs." The hero's mind cannot contain his overwhelming emotions. All Chatsky's behavior is so strange to the "famus society" that it is relieved to receive the news of the hero's madness.
we also see a clash between reason and feeling. Pyotr Grinev, having learned that his beloved Masha Mironova is forcibly held by Shvabrin, who wants to force the girl to marry him, contrary to the voice of reason, turns to Pugachev for help. The hero knows that this can threaten him with death, because the connection with a state criminal was severely punished, but he does not back down from his plan and eventually saves his own life and honor and gets Masha as his legal wife.
In another work

the theme of reason and feeling is also given an important place. After seven years of separation, Eugene, seeing the transformed Tatyana, falls in love with her. And although the hero knows that she is married, he cannot help himself. Onegin realizes that many years ago he could not fully discern in the young Tanya all the strength of her character and inner beauty. Now, the feelings of love for the heroine obscure all reasonable evidence in Eugene, he longs for mutual confessions. But in Tatyana, the voice of reason, speaking about the duty and honor of a married woman, takes precedence over emotions. Unlike Onegin, she finds the strength to resist the surging feelings and confesses:

also repeatedly subjected to a test of reason and feelings. But his mind is always above emotions. So, we see how the hero struggled with sympathy for Princess Mary and admitted to himself that another minute and he was ready to fall at her feet and ask to become his wife. But ... Pechorin does not give in to impulse, he knows that he is not intended for family life and does not want to make the girl unhappy. We see the same struggle when Pechorin, having read Vera's farewell letter, rushes in pursuit of her. But here, too, the cold mind cools the ardor of the hero, and, no matter how painful it was, he leaves the thought of reuniting with Vera.
the youngest son of Taras, Andriy, having fallen in love with a Polish girl, betrays the Cossacks and goes to fight against them. He says to his beloved:

Andriy's mind did not resist his feelings for long: all his thoughts about honor, duty, and relatives were burned by the fire of love, he even dies with the name of his beloved.
With another hero

Reason always takes precedence over emotions. Even having met a mysterious young stranger at the station (and here Gogol mentions a twenty-year-old youth who would forget everything in the world at the sight of such a young and charming creature), Chichikov does not succumb to romantic thoughts. On the contrary, his reasoning is quite practical (as Gogol says about him, he is a man of a prudently chilled character): the hero thinks about who the girl’s father can be and what his income is, and that if you give a girl two hundred thousand dowries, then from her it will be a very tasty morsel.
Feelings often take precedence over reason. She is natural, sincere, does nothing on purpose, trying to find her own benefit in this or that business. Yes, she is the “heroine of the heart”, but this, according to Tolstoy, is exactly what a real woman should be, that is why he loves her, and after him we do. In this she is opposite to her mother, and Sonya, and the little princess, and Helen Kuragina. We forgive her that she betrays Andrei Bolkonsky, turned by the courtship of Anatole Kuragin. After all, we see how sincerely she later repents, realizing that it was an impulse, a momentary hobby. But it is this incident that changes Natasha, makes her think about eternal values. Another time, the heroine, without hesitation, forces her mother to give carts to the wounded soldiers, on which things were to be taken out of their house in Moscow, awaiting Napoleon's invasion. In this "irrationality" of the heroine lies, according to Tolstoy, the main meaning of her being - kind, compassionate, loving.
Dmitry Gurov, a middle-aged man, married, while relaxing in Yalta, meets a young woman, Anna Sergeevna, whom he unexpectedly falls in love with. Falling in love for the first time in my life! He is discouraged by this, but this feeling changes the hero. He suddenly begins to notice how petty and petty life around him is, how petty and selfish people are. Gurov's external life (family, work in a bank, dinners with friends in restaurants, playing cards in a club) turns out to be fake, and real life is secret meetings with Anna Sergeevna in a hotel, their love. These two lives are very difficult to reconcile, but the heroes are not yet able to find a reasonable solution to the problem, although it seems to them that it is about to come and a new, wonderful time will begin.
Main character's heart

also at odds with his mind. He loves two women - his legal wife Tonya and Larisa Antipova. He loves differently, but equally strongly. He experiences his condition as a huge tragedy: torn between two families, the hero cannot find a solution until fate itself divorces him from his wife Tonya.