Who truly loved Olesya. Courage and cowardice in love

Do you need courage in love?

Courage is a person’s ability to overcome fears. It is human nature to be afraid, this is natural. But the ability to overcome fears, leave your comfort zone, and act when you are unsure of yourself is very important. Especially in love. A person who falls in love initially feels insecure and fears appear. But without daring to act, nothing will work out in terms of relationships. You need decisive actions to just get people to pay attention to you.

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin tried to answer the question in the story. The author introduces us to many heroes. The story begins with a description of the weather, first in mid-August and then in early September.

It’s Vera Nikolaevna’s name day and guests come to her for the occasion. As a gift, she discovers a letter and a garnet bracelet. Soon Nikolai and Vasily Lvovich recognize the sender. He turns out to be a middle-aged man, G. S. Zheltkov. He admits that he fell in love with Vera even before her marriage. Why did Zheltkov remain inactive? At the very least he could meet Vera. I think it played a role financial position. Zheltkov was a poor man and did not want to darken Vera’s life. But before marriage, Zheltkov is obliged to act. As we see, inaction does not lead to anything good.

Thus, based on the above, I want to draw a conclusion. A person needs to overcome fears and act decisively towards his loved one.

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Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a Russian writer. Born on August 26, 1870 in the district town of Narovchat, in the family of an official. Works wonderful writer destined for a long life. His stories and stories continue to excite people different generations. In my opinion, the most touching works Kuprin - these are his stories about love" Garnet bracelet" and "Olesya". It is love that inspires the heroes, gives them self-confidence. Love is revealed by the writer as a strong, passionate feeling. It allows the heroes to reveal the best qualities of the soul. But love in Kuprin’s works often ends in tragedy.
The sad and poetic story of the pure and wise “daughter of nature” from the story “Olesya”. This amazing character embodied intelligence, beauty, responsiveness, selflessness and willpower. The image of the forest witch is shrouded in mystery. Her fate is unusual, life away from people in an abandoned forest hut. The girl is greatly influenced by nature. Isolation from civilization allows her to preserve the purity of nature. On the one hand, she is naive because she does not know basic things, inferior in this to the intelligent and educated Ivan Timofeevich. But on the other hand, Olesya has some kind of highest knowledge, which is inaccessible to an ordinary smart person. Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, of his circle. Reproaching Olesya for superstition, Ivan Timofeevich himself is no less at the mercy of the rules by which the people of his circle lived. He didn’t even dare to imagine what Olesya would look like, dressed in a fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of his colleagues. Olesya, torn from the “charming frame of the old forest.”
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak man, “a man with a lazy heart” who will not bring happiness to anyone. “You will not have great joys in life, but there will be a lot of boredom and hardship,” Olesya predicts to him from the cards. Ivan Timofeevich could not save Olesya from harm, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her beliefs, despite the fear of the hatred of local inhabitants. Oles has courage and determination, which our hero lacks; she has the ability to act. She is alien to petty calculations and fears when we're talking about about the feeling: “Let it be what will be, but I won’t give my joy to anyone.”
Olesya's love becomes the greatest gift that can give life to the hero of the story. In this love there is dedication and courage on the one hand, and contradiction on the other. Olesya initially understands the tragic outcome of their relationship, but is ready to give herself to her lover. Even leaving her native place, the beaten Olesya does not curse the one who destroyed her, but blesses those short moments of happiness that she experienced.The tragedy of love between Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich is the tragedy of people who “broke out” from their social environment. The fate of Olesya herself is tragic, because she differed sharply from modern peasants, first of all, with her pure, open soul, wealth inner world. This is what became the hatred for Olesya. As you know, people always strive to destroy someone they do not understand, someone who is different from them. Therefore, Olesya is forced to part with her beloved and flee from her native forest.

In the touching story “Olesya” by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, the main characters are Ivan Timofeevich and Olesya. Minor characters- Yarmola, Manuilikha, Evpsikhy Afrikanovich and others, less significant. This mystical story O pure love and cruel human ignorance, capable of destroying a bright feeling.

Olesya

A young girl, about twenty-four, stately, tall and beautiful. She was raised by her grandmother and grew up in the forest. But, despite the fact that she is not taught to read and write, she does not know how to write or read, she has the natural wisdom of centuries, deep knowledge of human nature and curiosity. She calls herself a witch, has supernatural powers and predicts his imminent death by the person’s face.

Olesya realizes her destiny and is ashamed of it. She does not go to church in the belief that all her powers are from the unclean. She bizarrely combines modesty and timidity with independence and self-sufficiency. But behind the witch’s bravado, you can guess a gentle, dreamy girl who is afraid of people and, at the same time, dreams of love.

Ivan Timofeevich

An aspiring writer, in search of inspiration, came from the city to the village on official business. He is young, educated and smart. In the village he has fun hunting and getting to know local residents, who soon bored him with their serf ways. Panych is from a good family, but, despite his origins, he behaves simply and without pathos. Ivan is a kind and sympathetic young man, noble and soft-spoken.

Getting lost in the forest, he meets Olesya, which greatly enlivens his dull stay in the village of Perebrod. A man of a dreamy nature, he quickly becomes attached and then falls in love with a girl who predicted a joyless and dull life for him. He is honest and sincere, loves and has the courage to confess his feelings to Olesya. But with all his love, it is difficult for him to accept his beloved for who she is.

How can I tell you, Olesya? - I began hesitantly. - Well, yes, perhaps I would be pleased. I’ve told you many times that a man can not believe, doubt, even laugh at last. But a woman... a woman should be pious without reasoning. In the simple and tender trust with which she places herself under the protection of God, I always feel something touching, feminine and beautiful.

Manuilikha

Olesya’s grandmother, an elderly woman who is embittered with people, is forced to live and raise her granddaughter in the forest. Manuilikha has the same abilities as her granddaughter, for which she paid with a quiet life. Rude, unrestrained in language, but sincerely loving and protecting her granddaughter.

Grandmother is old, strict and grumpy. He doesn’t trust people, he’s always waiting for a trick and he curses his difficult fate. When she sees that Olesya has seriously fallen in love, she tries with all her might to prevent the union, foreseeing how it will all end. But at the end of the story she still shows her soft, suffering nature.

Yarmola

A narrow-minded, uneducated simple man, Ivan's servant. Yarmola is reputed to be the laziest drinker in the village. But at the same time he is an excellent hunter who knows the area and has deep knowledge in the field of nature, forests and its inhabitants.

He becomes very attached to Ivan, although he is taciturn and gloomy. Yarmola insists on spelling lessons with the gentleman, thereby showing his contradictory nature. On the one hand, he is a lazy person and a drunkard, on the other, he is an experienced and inquisitive person.

Evpsikhy Afrikanovich

Local police officer, guardian of order and the threat of all Polesie. A typical "boss", impudent and important. Not averse to bribes, but a cowardly person. He insists on evicting Manuilikha and her granddaughter from their house, but when Ivan tries to convince him to wait, he agrees only through expensive gifts.

Inflated with awareness of his own importance, a rude and arrogant nobleman. And at the same time, caring husband. Which clearly shows the gap in his consciousness between him, and people like him, and commoners.

Composition

The theme of love occupies a special place in the work of A. I. Kuprin. The writer gave us three stories, united by this great topic, - “Garnet Bracelet”, “Olesya” and “Shulamith”.
Kuprin showed different facets of this feeling in each of his works, but one thing remains unchanged: love illuminates the lives of his heroes with extraordinary light, becomes the brightest, unique event of life, a gift of fate. It is in love that they reveal themselves best features his heroes.
Fate threw the hero of the story “Olesya” into a remote village in the Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polesie. Ivan Timofeevich - writer. He is an educated, intelligent, inquisitive person. He is interested in people, with their customs and traditions, and in the legends and songs of the region. He traveled to Polesie with the intention of enriching his life experience with new observations useful for the writer: “Polesie... wilderness... bosom of nature... simple morals...primitive natures,” he thought, sitting in the carriage.
Life presented Ivan Timofeevich with an unexpected gift: in the Polesie wilderness he met a wonderful girl and his true love.
Olesya and her grandmother Manuilikha live in the forest, away from the people who once expelled them from the village, suspecting them of witchcraft. Ivan Timofeevich is an enlightened person and, unlike the dark Polesie peasants, he understands that Olesya and Manuilikha simply “have access to some instinctive knowledge obtained by chance experience.”
Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, of his circle. Reproaching Olesya for superstition, Ivan Timofeevich himself is no less at the mercy of the prejudices and rules by which the people of his circle lived. He did not even dare to imagine what Olesya would look like, dressed in a fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of his colleagues, Olesya, torn from the “charming frame of the old forest.”
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak, unfree man, “a man with a lazy heart” who will not bring happiness to anyone. “You will not have great joys in life, but there will be a lot of boredom and hardship,” Olesya predicts to him from the cards. Ivan Timofeevich could not save Olesya from harm, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her beliefs, despite the fear of the hatred of local inhabitants.
Oles has courage and determination, which our hero lacks; she has the ability to act. Petty calculations and fears are alien to her when it comes to the feeling: “Let it be what will be, but I won’t give my joy to anyone.”
Pursued and persecuted by superstitious peasants, Olesya leaves, leaving a string of “coral” beads as a souvenir for Ivan Timofeevich. She knows that for him soon “everything will pass, everything will be erased,” and he will remember her love without grief, easily and joyfully.
The story “Olesya” adds new touches to the endless theme of love. Here, Kuprin’s love is not only the greatest gift, which it is a sin to refuse. Reading the story, we understand that this feeling is unthinkable without naturalness and freedom, without bold determination to defend your feeling, without the ability to sacrifice in the name of those you love. Therefore, Kuprin remains the most interesting, intelligent and sensitive interlocutor for readers of all times.

Other works on this work

Courage. What it is? I think that courage is decisiveness in thoughts and actions, the ability to stand up for yourself and for other people who need your help, overcoming all sorts of fears: for example, fear of the dark, of someone else's brute force, of life's obstacles and difficulties. Is it easy to be brave? Not easy. Probably, this quality should be cultivated from childhood. Overcoming your fears, moving forward despite difficulties, developing willpower, not being afraid to defend your opinion - all this will help cultivate in yourself such a quality as courage. Synonyms for the word “courage” are “courage”, “determination”, “courage”. The antonym is “cowardice.” Cowardice is one of the human vices. We are afraid of many things in life, but fear and cowardice are not the same thing. I think that out of cowardice comes meanness. A coward will always hide in the shadows, remain on the sidelines, fearing for his own own life, will betray to save himself.

People can be brave and cowardly both in war and in Everyday life, and even in love people show their best and worst qualities. Let's look at examples from fiction.

The heroine of the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" Tatyana Larina - a girl from noble family, who grew up on her parents' estate. There are many of them, but we know that Tatyana differs from others in her intelligence, integrity of nature and even courage. After all, she was the first to confess her love to Onegin, wrote him a letter in which she told him about her feelings. This is a brave move. It was not customary in the society in which Tatyana lived and was raised to talk about her love or take the first step. But we do not despise the heroine of the novel, but admire her, because she does not know how to pretend or flirt, she behaves simply and naturally, and is capable of decisive actions. I think that Tatyana Larina is one of those women who will not be scared life difficulties who, if necessary, will follow his loved one to any test. And this requires a brave and strong soul.

Such qualities as courage and cowardice in love are discussed in the wonderful story by A.I. Kuprin "Olesya". The heroine of the work, the “Polesie witch,” as ordinary people call her, is an integral and courageous person. For the sake of love, she is ready to do anything. Olesya does not give up on her beloved, even knowing that she has no future with him, that her happiness is short-lived. On the advice of Ivan Timofeevich, she goes to church, from where she is driven away and then beaten by evil and cowardly people. I think that Olesya’s bright and pure feeling is worthy of respect. But Ivan Timofeevich is different. Yes, he probably loves her, but he cannot imagine a girl who grew up in the middle of the forest, not even knowing how to read, in her living room, in a fashionable dress, among the wives of her colleagues. His indecision can also be associated with cowardice in love. It was she who became the reason that the hero of the story lost Olesya forever. All that was left of her as a souvenir was a string of red beads. Talking about the love of Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich, the author wants to say that indecision and cowardice often prevent people from finding their happiness.

In conclusion, I would like to say that this topic essay made me think about what role courage and cowardice play in our lives, how to cultivate the best in ourselves human qualities, become brave and strong, don't be a coward.