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What does it mean to be happy according to stories. Composition on the topic "What does it mean to be happy?" According to the stories: Chekhov "About Love", Bunin "Caucasus", Kuprin "Lilac Bush"

What does it mean to be happy according to stories. Composition on the topic "What does it mean to be happy?" According to the stories: Chekhov "About Love", Bunin "Caucasus", Kuprin "Lilac Bush"

22.03.2019

Valentina Moskalyuk

Valentina Grigorievna MOSKALYUK - teacher of Russian language and literature, MOU "Rodnodolinskaya secondary school" of the Moskalensky municipality of the Omsk region.

What does it mean to be happy?

Dispute on the works of A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunina, A.I. Kuprin

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About the formation of the class, the microclimate should be conducive to a dispute. Chairs and tables can be placed in pairs. The lesson uses technical means: a personal computer and a multimedia projector (for presentation in Microsoft Power Point.)

Teacher. Please read the rules of fair dispute. (Go to slide 2; slide 1 is the topic of the lesson.)

1. I criticize ideas, not people.

2. My goal is not to win, but to come up with the best solution.

3. I listen to everyone's ideas, even if I don't agree with them.

4. I am retelling a phrase that I do not quite understand.

5. I strive to comprehend and understand both views of the problem.

6. I will first find out all the ideas and facts relating to both positions, and then I will try to combine them so that this combination will give a new understanding of the problem.

7. I change my point of view when the facts give a clear basis for this.

I note that these rules should be perceived not as a requirement from the outside, but as internal guidelines: this facilitates their perception and acceptance.

There is no more popular topic on television, in cinema, literature than love. Every year, millions of couples with shining eyes come to the registry office and the church and solemnly swear to love each other for the rest of their lives. For some, marriage really becomes an invaluable asset. For others, he is simply tolerant. After a short period of time, they begin to realize that they absolutely cannot stand living together.

What's the matter? Under what condition can love last a lifetime? (The teacher should conduct a dialogue, sharpening contradictions or asking questions of a reproductive type: “What will happen if? ..”, etc. Students express their point of view.)

Teacher. The difference is that some married couples build their union on love, while others on passion. Such marriages do not last long. We have read wonderful stories, which provide a subject for dispute. (Work in groups. I suggest that you form a circle of friends if you wish.)

Questions for discussion (go to slide 3)

What is happiness?
How many times in a life can a person love?
What associations does the word “family” evoke in you?
Should you listen to the opinions of others, such as parents, when you love?
What makes people kind?
Is it true that they love some and marry others?
How much truth is there in the folk wisdom “To endure - fall in love”?
What to do if you have a strong feeling for a person who is already married?
Is it possible to maintain love and respect for the person with whom he broke up?
Free love - a sign of progress or decline of society?
When is a person truly happy?

Work in groups for ten minutes, then everyone in a dispute asserts his point of view.

Teacher. It is often said that love must be confirmed by actions. Let's test this statement by looking at the story I. Bunin "Caucasus" .

What is the happiness and misfortune of the heroes of the story?

What does it leave in the mind of the reader?

Is any of the heroes to blame for the tragedy that has unfolded?

Can cheating be forgiven?

Can a person voluntarily die?

Can we forgive? Justify your opinions.

(Combining ideas, one can try to give a new understanding of the problem of forgiveness.)

Teacher. In the Bible there are words belonging to the wise Solomon: “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their work. For if one falls, the other will lift up his companion. But woe to one when he falls, and there is no other to lift him up. Also, if two people lie down, then they are warm, but how can one be warm alone? (Eccl. 4:9-11). I want to remember these words when reading the story A. Kuprin "Lilac Bush".

What mood arises after reading the story "The Lilac Bush"?

What touched you about this work?

Is Vera Almazova happy?

Name the works about love, selflessness that you have read before.

What unites them, and what separates them?

Teacher. The family is the simplest form of human unity. In the family, a person learns folk traditions and morality. The family limits the woman's sphere of activity. Do you agree with this statement?

(Students give alternative ideas.)

Let's remember the story A. Chekhov "About love" .

What is the essence of the story?

Your assumptions about the development of events. By what signs did you draw such conclusions?

How do you understand Alekhin’s words: “I understood that when you love, then in your reasoning about this love you need to proceed from something higher, from something more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their current sense, or you don’t need to reason at all.”

Teacher. You are still very young, but you are also members of a family. You have your own observations and thoughts about how a family should be built. Try writing down your tips. Now look at the next slide. Do you agree with such statements? (Go to slide 4.)

Never saw each other, know how to forgive;
do not try to re-educate each other;
do not criticize each other, especially in the presence of strangers;
learn to appreciate each other;
give each other signs of attention;
be polite, sociable;
remember only the good;
Take care of your health and those of your family.

And now let's turn to the letters of great people addressed to their beloved women. (Skip to slide show 5-7.) Let's look for wisdom in aphorisms about love (slide 8).

Love in letters of prominent people of the 19th century

“My only Josephine - away from you the whole world seems to me a desert in which I am alone ... You have mastered more than my whole soul. You are my only thought; when I get sick of annoying creatures called people, when I'm ready to curse life - then I put my hand on my heart: your image rests there, I look at it, love is absolute happiness for me.

My priceless friend, I feel sorry for you, I feel sad without you as much as possible. Now I truly feel what it means to love. Previously, he parted with many, to whom he was also firmly attached, but a day, two, a week - and longing disappeared, now the farther from you, the worse. Be patient a little longer, my angel, and we will pray to God that we will never be separated again after that.

The more I think, the more I become convinced that my existence cannot be separated from yours: I was created to love you and follow you; all my other concerns are one delusion and madness.

A.S. Pushkin - N.N. Goncharova, March 1830

Love and marriage in sayings and aphorisms

To love is to do good.

L.N. Tolstoy

True love is like a ghost: everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. Constancy in love is an eternal inconsistency that encourages us to be carried away in turn by all the qualities of a loved one, giving preference to one of them, then another.

F. La Rochefoucauld

The blessing of love is not only that it inspires us with faith in another person, but also that we gain faith in ourselves.

R. Rolland

To marry means to halve your rights and double your responsibilities.

A. Schopenhauer

A good marriage rests on a talent for friendship.

F. Nietzsche

The fact that we see so few successful marriages just shows the value of marriage.

M. Montaigne

The one who has why live, endure any how.

F. Nietzsche

Sometimes you have to be quiet to be heard.

Stanislav Lem

What thought did you like the most? Write it down in your notebook with your comments.

Generalization

Has your idea of happiness and love changed since the class discussion?

What new things did you understand?

Notes

Morozova M. Dialogue technologies in the educational process // Education of schoolchildren. 2006. No. 7.

Abozina G.A. Let's talk again about love // Class teacher. 2007. No. 1.

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“We always only remember about happiness. And happiness is everywhere ... ”- Ivan Bunin once said, who was not only a poet, but also a wonderful prose writer. In his collection there are many stories and novellas, the motives of which were borrowed a little later by Kuprin and Chekhov. This is the eternal problem of happiness, which is reflected in the work of these three writers.

All three writers presented their interpretation of happiness to the reader. So what is it - wealth, love or just kindness? The choice is up to each of us.

Consideration of the question "What is happiness and what does it mean to be happy?" based on the analysis of literary works: the stories "The Caucasus" by I. Bunin, "The Lilac Bush" by I. Kuprin and the story "About Love" by A. Chekhov. The importance for every person to love and be loved.

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What is happiness and what does it mean to be happy? Example - my little sister once tried to get an apple from the table, and when she finally got it, she was happy, her eyes shone with joy, and a smile played on her lips. Happiness is moments. And to be happy means to have many such moments.

But now I want to talk not about happiness in general, but about happiness in certain cases. At the lessons of literature, we got acquainted with three works: "The Caucasus" by I. Bunin, "The Lilac Bush" by I. Kuprin and the story "About Love" by A. Chekhov. The happiness experienced by the main characters of these works, I want to explain. What did this happiness mean to them?

In Kuprin's story "The Lilac Bush", the main characters are Vera and Nikolai Almazov. Nikolai often had failures in his life, but his wife "... learned to meet his every failure with a clear, almost cheerful face." Vera really truly loved her husband, she was his support and support, she was part of Nikolai Evgrafovich himself. And when they overcame all the hardships together again and again, Vera was happy. Therefore, according to this work, we can say that happiness for a person is to be with a loved one no matter what and fight together for a life without adversity.

Or, let's take the story "About Love" by A.P. Chekhov. In this work, the main characters are Anna Alekseevna, the young wife of a judge and Alekhin, an office person. Their happiness was not exactly happiness. After all, happiness should be sweet, but for Alekhin and Anna Alekseevna it was bitter. They loved each other, but could not be together, that's why they were unhappy. At least they could at least see each other, that wasn't enough. Love should bring sweet happiness, only then will love be true love. Consequently, in Chekhov's story we are talking about the fact that love does not always bring happiness, and happiness does not always bring us joy, sometimes happiness from love brings pain and grief.

And finally, Bunin's story "The Caucasus". Ivan Alekseevich Bunin in his work also showed the love of two people, but unlike Chekhov's story, these people could be together. They rested in the Caucasus, but this love cannot be called exactly the love about which legends are composed. This is not the kind of love that permeates people to the tips of their fingers, this is not the kind of love that everyone is waiting for. The main characters cannot be together, because the girl is already married, but still young people secretly meet and even rest in the Caucasus. In this work, the main character's husband shoots himself because he cannot live with the thought that his wife is cheating on him. In this story, we see that for the sake of love you need to take action, you need to sacrifice something, and sometimes even yourself. In this work, sacrificial love appears before us.

And yet, what does it mean to be happy? Judging by these works, to be happy means to love, to be loved and to be able to be close to your loved one, to overcome all obstacles together with your soulmate. That's what it means to be happy. But from myself I can say that happiness is absolutely everything that surrounds us every day. Even the fact that we exist in this world is already happiness.

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