(according to the story of I. Kuprin “ Garnet bracelet»)

Khamidullina K. T.,

Tokushinsky school-gymnasium

Akkayinsky district

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Is love always “selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward”?

For some people love is happiness, for others it is a gift, and for others it is a test. I, like everyone else, dream of meeting love. She, I hope, will be a gift from God for me, which will help me to succeed as a person and a citizen. I agree with the opinion of Kuprin, speaking in words General Anosov that this feeling should not be either frivolous or primitive, and, moreover, based on profit and self-interest: “Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.” Such was Zheltkov's love. Without a doubt, the “little man” is unspeakably happy: thanks to love, life was filled with meaning, connection with the whole world and God: “I am infinitely grateful to you only for the fact that you exist ... I say with delight: “Hallowed be Your name.” Zheltkov does not demand anything, he is happy that the princess walks on the same land, along the same streets; that she breathes the same air.

I feel sorry for the members of the Shein and Bulat-Tuganovsky families, because they will never be able to understand the sincerity and tenderness of love: their destiny is only to mock everyone and live in a soulless little world, where the main thing is money, position in society; where there is no place for a dream; where they cannot understand selflessness. It is in the little world, because the word "world" includes an infinite number of feelings, sounds, colors. This is the world I want to live in.

Unfortunately, in the literature we meet soulless people more than once. This is Helen Kuragina, Molchalin. For them, there is an equal sign between love and wealth. Such people are terrible. In life, I hope there are few of them. But there are plenty of examples of sincere love, for example, eternal true love Margarita and the Master, which is not a hindrance even the devil.

It is surprising that Zheltkov is not afraid of death. A sincere feeling seemed to dissipate in the surrounding world, merging with Beethoven's sonata No. 2 Largo Appasionato. So love stronger than death. This means that love is a feeling that may not require reciprocity; a feeling that will help to be reborn from a dead soul into a real human one.

Comments

this work written in the format of an essay "for and against". Micro topics are highlighted in paragraphs. The expressiveness of thought and speech is achieved by introductory constructions, a question-answer form of presentation, quote material, a variety of syntactic constructions. Feel the author's attitude. Arguing his point of view, the author refers to the story of Kuprin, to the novels "The Warrior and the World" by L. Tolstoy, "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov, the comedy "Woe from Wit" by A. Griboedov, but there are no examples from real life.

There are no ties holier than partnership (N.V. Gogol)

Khamidullina K. T.,

teacher of Russian language and literature

Tokushinsky school-gymnasium

Akkayinsky district of North Kazakhstan region

Without a doubt, the story of N.V. Gogol "Taras Bulba" - one of the best historical works. The author depicts the life of the Cossacks, reveals their way of life, manners and customs; talks about the importance of partnership. Is there really nothing more important than fellowship?

It seems to me that it was in the Zaporizhzhya Sich that people became real warriors, defenders of faith and homeland. That is why Ostap and Andriy were so eager to come here. For young people, Zaporizhzhia Stan is a free republic in which there are laws supported by everyone, and which could not be violated. But some of them, in my opinion, will seem cruel to a contemporary, for example, burying a living person along with a dead one. I have deep respect for the Cossacks, but still the commandments of the Bible and the Koran - I'm sure - must not be violated, but the Cossacks are deeply religious people. Of course, everything best features Cossack partnerships are manifested in the war. For them, "there is no bond more holy than fellowship." In the campaign against the "Polyakhs" Taras Bulba, as expected, says to the Cossacks: "What kind of Cossack is the one who threw a comrade in trouble, threw him like a dog in an abyss in a foreign land?" These words, in my opinion, are the motto not only of the Cossacks, but of every real person. Let's remember the exploits Soviet soldiers who also, risking their lives, freed the prisoners. These are the soldiers of Colonel Mlynsky, the partisans of Kovpak and many others.

Without a doubt, the essence of the Cossack partnership is revealed by Taras Bulba with the words: “There were comrades in other lands, but there were no such comrades as in the Russian land ... to love like the Russian soul - to love not only with the mind or with something else, but everything that God has given, whatever is in you ... No, no one can love like that! ..». Today, these words are united by the capacious concept of "patriotism". Everyone knows that it is impossible to betray the Motherland, that betrayal has no justification and no statute of limitations. This rule is followed by all the Cossacks, except for Andriy. The proof is the rescue of Taras by his colleague Tovkach and the death of the hero: he dies without betraying either his comrades, or his homeland, or faith. That is why Bulba remained a hero for his comrades, a real Zaporozhye Cossack.

From the foregoing, we can conclude that there is nothing more important and stronger than the "bonds of camaraderie."

• Classical works are often devoted to eternal themes: love, death, friendship, war, and others. It is not surprising that such a sensitive and attentive person as Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin wrote one of his most successful works about love. This is the "Duel", and "Olesya", and, of course, the story "Garnet Bracelet", in which the author's view of this great feeling is perfectly visible.
• The theme of love belongs to the category of those that can be clearly or implicitly found in absolutely any work. For each reader, it is revealed in its own way, somehow especially resonates in the soul. When the theme of love is given a central place in the work, as in the story of I.A. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet", the reader not only gets acquainted with the story told by the writer, but feels it.

Each of the ideas can be developed in different ways, confirming it different examples from the text of the story. The first option can also be supplemented with details of the author's biography.

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin lived rich life. Perhaps that is why in his stories he talks about eternal values rather than chasing popular stories and characters. "Garnet Bracelet" can hardly be called lifelike, but Kuprin always claimed that his best, in his opinion, story is a true story. The story is really based on real events, but the plot was based on a funny rather than tragic episode. This is the unique talent of the author - to notice something unusual in everyday routine and create literary masterpieces.

The character, who, by the will of the author, was destined to experience "disinterested, selfless, unrequited" love, is not in the foreground: he is hidden behind letters to Princess Vera, as if he had never existed at all. Even his name is unknown to the reader: at the end of the story, we only learn that the telegraph operator Zheltkov, hidden behind the abbreviation "P.P.Zh." But for Kuprin, neither his status nor his name matters. He conveys all the excitement about this to another hero of the story - Vera's brother. Nikolai Nikolaevich and partly Vera's husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, express public position. The author needs these characters, as her own point of view differs from the generally accepted one.

Kuprin, contrary to his first impression, shows that Zheltkov was the happiest hero of the story. He is the only one who could experience a strong feeling, albeit an unrequited one. And Princess Vera could only come closer to love, which happens only once in a lifetime. Vera Nikolaevna was "cold", "royally calm", "a little condescendingly kind", but still her ability to feel cannot be ruled out. “Leave me, I know that this man will kill himself,” she says to her husband, realizing that she missed what she was subconsciously looking for in conversations with Anosov, in thoughts alone with herself: “You see, such love, for which any a feat, to give one's life, to go to torment - not work at all, but one joy.

Yolkov, over time, no longer needs reciprocity: he is nourished by love itself. At the moment when Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich deprive him of the very opportunity to love, Zheltkov sees no point in living on. The last hope for love with his death also disappears from Vera Nikolaevna: “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of had passed her by.”

Own perception of love in the story "Garnet Bracelet" requires at the same time a deeper analysis of the text.

Each person understands and perceives love differently. It's a matter of choice: to believe in it or to consider it possible only in fiction. The story of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" is not only talentedly written, has an interesting plot, but is also universal in perception. It is difficult to say in whose guise the author's soul is hidden, although Kuprin's sympathy and sympathy for Zheltkov is obvious.

The hero, to whom the author entrusts a great feeling, is small and inconspicuous, hidden from the world. In pretty awkward conversation with her husband Vera Nikolaevna Zheltkov, perhaps the first and last time can talk openly about their experiences. This difficulty is close to each of us, because often we hide our own feelings from the world and others, afraid of being rejected, but hoping for reciprocity.

Zheltkov at first blames himself for the inadmissible feeling, but later he realizes that he is unable to cope with love, and accepts it as the greatest gift: “I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love that God was pleased for anything to reward me." He is not afraid to be funny or ridiculous, he loves - and this is his happiness.

Zheltkov's feelings resonate even in the soul of Prince Shein, although he absolutely justifiably should be offended and seized with jealousy: “The main thing is that I see his face, and I feel that this person is not capable of deceiving and lying knowingly. And really, think, Kolya, is he really to blame for love, and is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter for itself. - Thinking, the prince said: - I feel sorry for this man. And I’m not only sorry, but now I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I can’t play around here. The power of Zheltkov's love repels all possible opposing forces and even after his death is heard with the sounds of a Beethoven sonata and a quiet whisper "Hallowed be thy name."

In the final part of the essay, conclusions can be drawn that correspond to the chosen idea of ​​the essay:

• The story of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" is a reflection of the author's understanding of the feeling of love and a variant of the disclosure of this topic in the writer's work. Many of his works are devoted to the most valuable thing for his characters and, probably, for the author himself - love.
• Vera Nikolaevna, as an object of love, reverently touches her - the greatest miracle in her understanding - and realizes with bitter regret that she realized her loss too late. However, that is why the author called love "disinterested, selfless, not requiring a reward", the princess believes that Zheltkov forgave her.
• The author does not talk about great love- he shows it. By the end of the story, the reader certainly believes in Zheltkov's feelings, imbued with faith in the same way as the heroes of the story.
• The feeling of love described by Kuprin is close to any reader - callous or sensitive, attentive to details or superficial. The author of the story managed to create universal system characters, each of which reflects different views on the issue raised. Kuprin shows that love may not be seen, understood and accepted, but only the happiest and in exceptional cases manage to truly experience the great feeling of love.

Mashkina V., student of the Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University

Essay preparation material on other topics.

Theme: "Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward"

(according to A. Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet").

Objectives: a) to reveal the ideological and artistic originality of the story (singing of love as highest value world); the role of the symbolic sounding of details in the poetics of the story);

b) contribute to the education of nobility, spirituality;

c) development of reasoned speech skills.

Method: conversation; discussion; literary text analysis; expressive reading; protection of creative works.

Equipment: entry " moonlight sonata» Beethoven.

In preparation for the lesson, students received differentiated homework: 1st level (mandatory for all). Read the story "Garnet Bracelet". Think about the question: “Why did M. Gorky call A. Kuprin’s story “Garnet Bracelet” an excellent thing?

2nd level (intellectual). Do comparative analysis Topics " little man» in the work of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky and in A. Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet".

3rd level (creative). Choose an epigraph for the lesson “The theme of love in Kuprin's story “Garnet Bracelet”, justify your choice in writing (miniature essay); prepare an expressive reading of A.S. Pushkin’s poem “I loved you”

introduction teachers.

Love is the leitmotif of all the work of A. Kuprin. Literary, musical works, paintings by artists, because love is the purest and most pristine feeling. Love is life, and every person living on earth writes his page in the book of love, because "not in strength, not in dexterity, not in mind, not in talent, not in creativity, individuality is expressed, but in love." Your page in eternal book love filled and modest official Zheltkov - the hero of Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet". What is it about? How did you understand it? Does your understanding of the story match the author's intent? We will try to answer these questions.

Revealing the perception of the story.

M. Gorky was delighted with the story “Garnet Bracelet”: “What a thing ... Wonderful! And I'm glad it's starting good literature". Do you agree with this assessment of the story?

The opinions of the students who read the story are different. Most of the children liked the story. They note an interesting, exciting plot. They are not left indifferent to the suffering and joy of love of the "little man", his ability to die for the sake of his beloved. They talk about the cleansing effect on the soul of this story of sad, sublime love. It is believed that the high rating of the story is due to the fact that the writer contrasted the boring, vulgar reality with the romantic aspiration of the hero, who, even in humiliating poverty, did not lose the ability to have a bright, all-consuming feeling. The advantage of the story, in their opinion, is that the "Garnet Bracelet" made us think about eternal and transient values, that wealth, position in society do not determine moral value of a person, and the ability to love is not truly given to everyone, it cannot be bought. That is why the ability to love is an invaluable spiritual treasure.

Others do not share this view of the story. In their opinion, at present the story has lost its significance, because it does not correspond to the truth of life. The story is perceived as a fairy tale. It is about what is not in life, and therefore did not arouse keen interest. The hero of the story is accused of weakness, lack of will, that he does not know how to achieve his goal. And in general, he is not interesting as a person. Zheltkov evokes pity, which humiliates a person, but not respect, and even less a desire to imitate. They do not agree with Gorky's assessment of the story.

After everyone has spoken, the teacher says that the story they read, with diametrically opposing opinions about him, did not leave anyone indifferent, everyone read it in their own way. But the initial perception does not give a complete picture of the ideological depth of the work, is not able to give a correct understanding of the author's intention, and therefore suggests turning to the semantic essence of the story.

Protection of epigraphs for the story.

The speaking students argue with reason that the epigraph chosen by them most fully expresses the main idea of ​​the story, followed by a discussion-conversation directed by the teacher, during which the teacher suggests referring to the text of the story so that the statements of the speakers are not unfounded.

First epigraph: “When there is no real life, then they live in mirages. Still better than nothing." (A.P. Chekhov)

Second epigraph: (A. Kuprin) Third epigraph:"... A great love that repeats only once in a thousand years" ( A. Kuprin)

Speech on the 1st presented epigraph.

Mirage, according to Ozhegov's dictionary, is “a deceptive ghost of something; something apparent." Such a “deceptive ghost” was the love of the poor official Zheltkov for Princess Vera Sheina, caused by the pressure on him of a “languidly monotonous” life.

For eight years, a romantically inclined young man blindly bowed before an unfamiliar lady from high society, revered her, not daring to appear in front of her eyes, without saying a single word to her, because at first glance he understood: “there is nothing in the world like her, there is nothing better”, she “embodied all the beauty of the earth”. Faith for Zheltkov from the first to the last moment of his love was not an earthly woman, a man, but was a kind of idea of ​​beauty. He did not love Vera Sheina, because he did not know her at all, but he loved the image created by his imagination, the image of heavenly beauty. He himself writes in a letter to her that every moment of his life is filled with the thought of her, dreams of her - "sweet delirium."

In addition to "sweet delirium" what else connected them? The handkerchief she forgot at the ball, which he stole? The program she dropped art exhibition? One single note asking her not to write to her? These are the only threads connecting his "sweet nonsense" with a living woman. But this is not enough. Will the Program raised by him or her handkerchief replace live communication, open the soul of a beloved woman, give her the opportunity to warm her heart, console her in grief, rejoice for her in joy, protect, save her from hardships of life? Of course not. His attitude towards her cannot be called love. Rather, it is worship, the deification of an earthly woman, in a word - a mirage.

And Princess Vera was ordinary, had, like everyone else, flaws, she was not an angel, not a deity. The story mentions such "earthly" trifles that do not correspond at all with Zheltkov's romantic ideas about her. For example, Vera loved to eat delicious food, was fond of gambling card game, was arrogant, arrogant in relations with the servants. And when Zheltkov addresses her in a letter: “Your Excellency, Dear Princess Vera Nikolaevna!” (each letter in circulation is written with capital letter) or writes in the same letter: “I dare to forward to you my modest loyal offering ...” - with his humiliation, he evokes only a feeling of contemptuous pity. And it is no coincidence that Vera, having read only the beginning of his letter, thought with displeasure: “Ah, this is the one!” The enamored official came up with an image of Vera for himself, which does not at all correspond to the image of a real heroine. Thus, Vera Sheina is also a mirage.

Zheltkov did not love Princess Vera - he dreamed of love, he loved his suffering, his delight, his devotion. The poor young man was happy with his dreams, his "nonsense" because that was his only joy in life. “Man is created for happiness, like a bird for flight,” and if in real life everything is dull, gray, ordinary, then he makes up for the lack of joy with his dreams. The story says little about the life of Zheltkov himself. We only know that he rented a room located under the attic, dark, poorly furnished, which had to be climbed up a dirty, unlit staircase. The portrait of Zheltkov, his behavior, manners give out a typical raznochinets - the urban poor, whose life is a joyless existence, only for a moment illuminated by love-mirage.

The illusiveness of Zheltkov's feelings is emphasized by comparison with the earthly, ordinary love of Vera herself and her husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich. Their relationship is built on mutual trust, understanding and respect. They help each other, give happiness, joy. Their love is love-friendship, love-happiness, love-joy, but not love-mirage.

Discussion - conversation after the defense of the proposed epigraph.

The vast majority did not accept the proposed concept of the story.

In my opinion, this epigraph does not express the main idea of ​​the story at all. It is impossible to call Zheltkov's love a mirage, that is, something apparent. He loved Vera Nikolaevna, sublime, unearthly, ideal, but real love. He even parted with his life in order to save her from anxiety, excitement, fuss around her name. At first glance at her, he saw not only heavenly beauty, but also spiritual beauty, and therefore fell in love with her. And this love brought him happiness, the joy of adoration, admiration for his beloved. He himself wrote in a letter: “I am infinitely grateful to you only for the fact that you exist. I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something.

Such a strong feeling, such love, cannot be called a mirage. On the contrary, the writer shows that this love reborn both Vera Sheina herself, and her husband, and Zheltkov himself, because "true love is stronger than death." Before meeting with the poor official, Prince Vasily Lvovich laughed “at the poor telegrapher P.P.Zh.”, drew caricatures, caricatures of him, did not take the love of the poor official seriously, considering his relationship with Vera “an absurd courtship, a curious flirtation. And only after meeting Zheltkov, Vasily Lvovich realized that the poor young man sincerely loves and suffers. “I do not doubt the sincerity of this man ... I will say that he loved you, but was not crazy at all,” he admits in a conversation with Vera. And Vera herself, a cold aristocrat, at the end of the story realized that true love crossed her life. And already after Zheltkov's death, she experienced deep gratitude to him, understood his suffering, appreciated his selfless, all-consuming love, and maybe even for a moment she fell in love with him. Zheltkov himself has changed over these eight years of unrequited, but selfless love. Recall that the first two years of his writing were vulgar, curiously ardent. But the feeling of great love cleansed and ennobled his soul. He began to write only occasionally: New Year, on Easter and on her name day. And his letters are full of self-denial, nobility, love. Thus, the author's intention is to show that true love works wonders, everything is subject to it, for true love nothing is impossible, it ennobles the soul, gives happiness, but not in showing that Zheltkov's love is a mirage.

The teacher suggests turning to the episode of Vera Nikolaevna's farewell to Zheltkov, which can serve as an illustration of the stated statement. The following questions are proposed for analysis: - For what purpose did Princess Vera Sheina decide to go to the apartment of the late Zheltkov - What did Vera Sheina understand, peering into the face of the one who loved her so devotedly? - What detail emphasizes the greatness of Zheltkov? - What are the other symbolic details present in this episode, what is their role?

The students say that Vera Nikolaevna experienced a feeling of love in front of the tragically deceased Zheltkov and a feeling of gratitude for that big love which he gave her. This love erased all the barriers between her, the princess, and the rootless petty official. This love exalted him in the eyes of the princess. She realized, looking at the dead Zheltkov, that he was great in his love, in his suffering. That is why he reminds Vera Nikolaevna of Pushkin and Napoleon - two great sufferers. And another symbolic detail- a red rose, which the princess brought and put under Zheltkov's head. The red rose is a symbol of love and death. The red rose resembles the red garnets of the bracelet given to her, which in Vera's mind were also associated with love and blood. Death united them on a spiritual level.

After the analysis of the episode, the discussion on the 1st epigraph follows.

Zheltkov did not have a life in the philistine sense: he was poor, occupied a modest place on the career ladder, led working life urban poor. The social position of the hero is guessed through his portrait, and the description of the dwelling, and the words of the hero about himself - all this is in the story, but not in the first place. The hero's poverty and the gray, monotonous life that accompanies it do not appear in the story as the root cause of the official's love, who allegedly sought to escape into the world of dreams from the tediously monotonous life. The author's intention in another is to show that true love elevates even the most humble person, the greatness of a person lies not in titles, not in wealth, not in position in society - but in the ability to love. That is why Zheltkov is opposed to a privileged society.

This is followed by an analysis of the episode of the visit of Zheltkov by her husband and brother Vera Sheina on the following questions: 1. How do Zheltkov and Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky behave in this episode? 2. What is the role of the portrait, the author's characteristic in the description internal state heroes? How is the author's attitude towards the characters expressed?

3. How does this episode show the moral superiority of a modest official over Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky?

The students say that at the beginning of the conversation, Zheltkov is in disarray, he is confused, frightened, feels guilty towards those who came. He is very awkward, causes pity for his insecurity, vulnerability. But already in the portrait one can guess hidden power ability to take decisive action. The guys note in the portrait romantic pallor, tenderness, large Blue eyes coupled with "a stubborn chin and a dimple in the middle". His inner turmoil is conveyed by the author's words: "rubbing his hands in confusion"; "thin nervous fingers" fastened and unbuttoned the buttons of the "jacket"; he bowed awkwardly; “Muttered with dead lips”; looked at Shein with "beseeching eyes", etc. And the brother of Vera Nikolaevna behaves arrogantly, showing contempt for the "rabble", the "plebeian", who dared to consider himself equal to them, the princes of Tuganovsky. He does not notice the hand extended to him, arrogantly and defiantly turned away, continued to stand, despite the invitation of the owner to sit down. In the author's speech that accompanies his remarks, the author's attitude towards the hero is felt as negative. Nikolai Nikolaevich spoke to Zheltkov "with slight insolence"; “he almost screamed” at Zheltkov when he dared to interrupt him. But how the behavior of the poor official changed when he heard from the prince that they could turn to the authorities to protect Vera Nikolaevna from his persecution! Zheltkov "laughed", sitting more comfortably on the sofa, lit a cigarette, having previously addressed exclusively to Vera Nikolaevna's husband with apologies for being sitting. Fear, confusion, awkwardness disappeared. Now he spoke only to Vera Nikolaevna's husband, who looked at him "with serious curiosity". The reason for this metamorphosis is that Prince Tuganovsky showed his mental underdevelopment and Zheltkov understood the inferiority of the prince and felt his human superiority. The distinguished assistant to the prosecutor did not even suspect that it was impossible to force someone to stop loving and falling in love, that even the authorities were not able to do this. Because he didn't know how to love. Never loved. He is not capable of such a feeling as love. Zheltkov himself realized his moral superiority over the prince. The husband of Vera Nikolaevna recognized this superiority and began to speak with respect to Zheltkov, and "impatiently brushed aside" Nikolai Nikolaevich. Vasily Lvovich realized that Zheltkov was not to blame for his love, that it was impossible to control such a feeling as love. He uttered words that speak of his sensitivity, nobility of soul: “I feel sorry for this man. And I feel that I am present at some tragedy of the soul. And I can't play around here." Thus, Prince Vasily Lvovich managed to rise above the contemptuous attitude towards the anonymous admirer of Princess Vera, knowing him personally, and bow before his spiritual tragedy.

The teacher says that Kuprin in this story continues and develops the "theme of the little man", which is one of the main ones in Russian literature. A trained student makes a message “The theme of a little man” in the works of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky, A. Kuprin”

Russian classic literature is distinguished by deep humanism, democracy, and therefore “the theme of the little man is a cross-cutting one in the work of Russian writers. A.S. Pushkin for the first time in Russian literature the main character of his story “ Stationmaster"made a" little man "- an official of the 14th class Samson Vyrin. The writer showed his plight not so much in material terms, but in spiritual terms. He saw the bitterness and humiliation of the “little man”, who is not considered, who is humiliated, from whom the most precious thing can be taken away - his only daughter. And which you can simply throw out of the front, like a disgusting thing. Pushkin, with his story, drew the attention of society to the "human essence of little people", called for pity, compassion for them.

This topic was continued by N.V. Gogol. In his story "The Overcoat" he spoke about the fate of Bashmachkin. This is a timid creature, humiliated, capable of only rewriting papers. There was no more light in his life. And no goals, no joy. And finally, there was a goal - a purchase new overcoat. How long had he been saving pennies to buy an overcoat! How carefully! With what pleasure I chose the cloth, butt! And now the overcoat, new, solid, warmly and comfortably covered his body from the cold and wind. But the robbers took away this only joy from the “little man”, like from Samson Vyrin. As well as Pushkin's hero, poor Bashmachkin is trying to return what was taken away, and his timid attempts also end in another humiliation and then death. Gogol did not go further than Pushkin in revealing the theme of the "little man". He also called only for pity, compassion. And at the end of the 40s, F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Poor People” appeared, where the main characters are the poor seamstress Varenka and the official Makar Devushkin. But this is no longer Samson Vyrin and not Bashmachkin. “In my heart and thoughts I am a man!” - proclaims Makar Devushkin. He is poor in material terms, but spiritually richer than many. And this spiritual richness manifested itself in his ability to love. Loving and caring for a poor, sick girl. In his letters to Varenka one can see big soul, tact, humanity. He is spiritually richer than the nobleman, the landowner Bykov, who sees in poor Varenka only an object of comfort. Dostoevsky's "Little Man" evokes not so much pity as respect. Kuprin in the story "Garnet Bracelet" continues the traditions of F.M. Dostoevsky. He gave the ability to love sublimely, purely, passionately to the poor official Zheltkov. He devoted his whole life to the love of Princess Vera Sheina. But this love is doomed from the start, since this noble young man is not of the same circle as the princess. He is poor, shy, awkward, his life would be painfully monotonous, if not for the great, holy love that illuminated his fate, awakened in him human dignity revealed the enormous powers of his spirit. After the death of the poor official, the princess realized that love, which is born once in a thousand years, passed her by. Kuprin revealed the spiritual limitations of the representatives of the "high society" and exalted the "little man"

Protection next epigraph to the story:"Love must be a tragedy, the greatest mystery in the world" (A. Kuprin).

About the magical power of love, which brings happiness and torment, pushes to reckless actions, incinerates the soul of a person - and purifies, elevates it, philosophers and writers have thought at all times. About such love and the story of A. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet". The main idea of ​​this story is the assertion that love is a mystery, that true love is necessarily associated with tragedy. This idea is revealed in the love story of a modest, poor official Zheltkov for a noble lady from high society - Princess Vera Sheina. "Little Man" turned out to be capable of a huge, all-consuming feeling that contains the whole meaning of life. “It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life lies only in you,” wrote the selflessly in love Zheltkov to his beloved woman.

His love was unrequited, hopeless, secret - the princess never even saw the one who devoted his whole life to love for her. They did not say a single word to each other, but he idolized her, bowed before her, for the sake of her happiness, her peace of mind, he voluntarily parted with his life. This is love from God, sent to him as a reward, as the greatest happiness. It is impossible to understand and explain why he, an inconspicuous, poor young man, fell in love with an unfamiliar woman at first sight. noble lady knowing that this love will be unrequited and bitterly happy. Why is this far from ideal woman elevated in his eyes to a deity? “Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name” - love is mysterious and omnipotent. It is stronger even than death, stronger than the laws of logic. Love and death - this tragic collision is often repeated when it comes to true love. The tragedy of death is also colored by Zheltkov's love. He was unable to fall out of love with Vera, because "is it possible to control such a feeling as love, a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter for itself." And he, too, could not love her anymore, could not for the sake of Vera, because his love began to overshadow the life of the woman he loved. Here is a truly tragic situation, the only way out of which is death. Zheltkov committed suicide. But even when he passed away, he thought about Vera. He did not want his death to tarnish her name, even indirectly, so in suicide note he explained the reason for the tragic departure from life as a waste of state money. Not every voluntary departure from life can be called a tragedy, because the tragic confrontation is based on high moral or social motives. Zheltkov's death was dictated by a lofty, spiritualized feeling of love. You can call it a tragedy. True love is initially tragic, because it brings happiness and great suffering, because in every joy there is a lot of sadness.

Conversation-discussion after the defense of the presented epigraph.

The epigraph expresses the ideological essence of the story: true love is a mystery, a tragedy. Such love rises above earthly passions, earthly vanity; life's conveniences, compromises, and calculations do not concern it. Such love cannot be judged on the basis of ordinary ideas about rationality and morality. True love does not fit into worldly wisdom, and in this regard, it is the greatest mystery in the world. This idea sounds not only in Zheltkov's love story, but in the story there is minor characters with my love-mystery, love-tragedy. For example, a young warrant officer, a clean, ardent young man, fell in love with an unknown reason for an old, ugly, immoral person - the wife of a regiment commander, and threw himself under a train to prove his love to her. And another hero - a captain, a favorite of soldiers, a brave officer - turned into a laughingstock for others, because he loved his wife so much that for her sake he protected her lover during campaigns from dangers and difficulties. Sacrificed his life to save him. True love is a mystery, a tragedy.

The teacher asks if these stories can be called tragic, what role they play in the story. The opinions of the students were divided.

You can, because they love not for something, not for some kind of dignity, but love in spite of something. Yes, the woman who fell in love with a young, pure youth is far from ideal. And therein lies the tragedy. Young ensign, blinded strong feeling, idolized a vile person who could not be otherwise, and therefore, sending to death a lover in her young man, she was natural in her stupidity, narcissism, arrogance. Despite the baseness of this woman, despite this, the young man was ready for anything, even for death, to prove, to show his love. Selfless love and human baseness - isn't this a tragic contradiction in life?

This story is not tragic. Firstly, General Amosov himself calls it stupidity, and old general is in the story the mouthpiece of Kuprin's ideas. He is one of the goodies in the story who can be trusted. Secondly, author's characteristic The heroes of this story proves that there is only one step from the great to the ridiculous. This is not a tragedy, but a farce. The author's speech is deliberately mundane, ironic and satirical. They don’t talk about high with such words: “mug is unnatural”; " old horse»; “some idiot thought of holding him back and pushing him away”; “So both his hands were chopped off.” In comparison with Zheltkov's tragic love, this story proves that "people's love has taken such vulgar forms ... and has reached a little entertainment."

Epigraph protection"... A great love that repeats only once in a thousand years"( A. Kuprin)

In the story "Garnet Bracelet" Kuprin showed love, amazing in beauty and strength of feeling, sublime, ideal love, "which women dream about and which men are no longer capable of."

For eight years, the timid and lonely petty official Zheltkov secretly and hopelessly loved Princess Vera Sheina, who was inaccessible to him. Nothing in life interested him, all his dreams, the best thoughts and aspirations, the most intimate movements of his soul, he devoted to her - his inaccessible Madonna. In the world of vulgarity, cruelty, prudence, the lonely romantic retained spiritual purity, an enthusiastic impulse towards the ideal, the ability to sacrifice himself in the name of love. Even in the face of death, he is grateful to the one that caused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him above the vain world, gave him great happiness. That is why, leaving life, he blesses his beloved: "Hallowed be thy name."

The love of the poor official Zheltkov is ideally romantic, which, according to the old general Anosov, "occurs once in a thousand years." This is proved in the story using the method of comparison. Clean and selfless love Zheltkova is opposed to corrupt love, based on mercantile interests, calculation, and falsehood. This is how the sister of Vera Sheina “loves” her husband, marrying him only because he is fabulously rich. The old man Anosov, who has seen a lot in his life, tells about such marriages of convenience and frivolity. But true love, selfless, disinterested love, not waiting for a reward, in his own words, he did not have to meet.

The sublimely romantic, unearthly nature of the love of the "little man" for the princess is emphasized by the verbal and figurative symbols. Thus, the word “old” is repeatedly repeated in the story, which contributes to the fact that the love story itself is perceived as a legend, passed down from generation to generation, inspired by the dream of an ideal, fabulously beautiful love. Already in the portrait of Princess Vera Sheina, her originality, unlikeness to others, is emphasized: “The eldest, Vera, went to her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman ... with that charming sloping of the shoulders that can be seen on old miniatures.” For her birthday, Vera received a gift from her sister notebook in an old binding from a prayer book with an ornament that makes the shape of a cross, attached to a very ancient real Venetian chain of old gold. Finally, the garnet bracelet itself was “all over covered with small old, poorly polished garnets,” and among the red garnets one green garnet shimmered, which, “according to an old legend, has the property of imparting the gift of foresight to women wearing it.”

And the image of the beloved poor romantic, and the things that surround her - everything breathes deep antiquity, antique value, just like the love of a modest official for his Goddess.

Discussion of the proposed epigraph

The epigraph expresses the idea of ​​exclusivity, romantic elation of the love of a modest official for the princess. The story "Garnet Bracelet" is a realistic work. It reliably, truthfully depicts social, everyday reality, but at the same time, one feels a tendency to romantic elevation above the gray life, the desire to embellish the ordinary. The story combines features of realism and romanticism. Already in the portrait of Zheltkov, the features of the appearance of the hero are emphasized romantic works: pallor, long hair, big Blue eyes. His life is surrounded by a halo of mystery6 we know nothing about him, we can only guess from some signs about him social status in society, but its past and present are all a mystery. Like everyone romantic hero, his love is mysterious, mysterious, even acquires the features of spontaneity, not subject to human will. Love is self-denial, love is a feat. Zheltkov loves passionately, disinterestedly. He is grateful to the one who gave him the happiness of love: "Hallowed be thy name." Selfless, unselfish, pure love is great love.

The teacher asks in what other works of Russian literature love is shown as selflessness, admiration, feat. Among other things, students name the poem by A.S. Pushkin "I loved you"

Reading by heart the poem "I loved you"

Final word from the teacher.

The selected epigraphs express both the reader's perception of the story and the author's position. Kuprin showed love as an eternal bright beginning, capable of elevating the soul of a lover. He showed the eternal mystery of love as " the greatest secret in the world". He contrasted great love with base feelings, combining realism with romanticism. The author's epigraph to the story is the name of the immortal Beethoven sonata, because this music revealed to Vera Nikolaevna the beauty of Zheltkov's feeling as a rare value and helped to understand everything and feel forgiven. Zheltkov's love is as immortal as this sonata. She deserves admiration.

The teacher reads the end of the story to the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata.

Kuprin a. And. - Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward

Love is disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward (according to the story by I.A. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet")
Sometimes we are so far from reality in our dreams that the next return to reality brings us pain and disappointment. And we run from the slightest troubles of life, from its coldness and insensitivity. In our pink dreams we see a bright future, in our daydreams we are again trying to build crystal castles in a cloudless sky. But there is a feeling in our life that is so close to our dreams that it almost comes into contact with them. This is Love. With him, we feel protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Since childhood, the foundations of love and affection are laid in the minds of everyone. And each person will carry them through his whole life, sharing with the outside world, thereby making it wider and brighter. thereby making it wider and lighter. But sometimes it seems that people are more and more grounding their own interests, and even feelings become victims of such a landing. They harden, turn into ice, shrink. Happy and sincere love has to be experienced, alas, not for everyone. And even it has its ups and downs. And some even ask the question: Does it exist in the world. And yet, I so want to believe that this is a magical feeling, in the name of which for the sake of a loved one you can sacrifice the most valuable - even own life. It is about this kind of selfless and all-forgiving love that Kuprin writes in his story "Garnet Bracelet".
The first pages of the story are devoted to the description of nature. As if on their miraculous light background all events take place, come true beautiful fairy tale love. coldish autumn landscape fading nature is similar in essence to the mood of Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. According to him, we predict her calm, impregnable character. Nothing attracts her in this life, perhaps that is why the brightness of her being is enslaved by routine and dullness. Even during a conversation with her sister Anna, in which the latter admires the beauty of the sea, she replies that at first this beauty also worries her, and then “begins to crush her flat emptiness ...”. Vera could not be imbued with a sense of beauty to the world around her. She was not a natural romantic. And, seeing something out of the ordinary, some peculiarity, I tried (albeit involuntarily) to ground it, to compare it with the outside world. Her life flowed slowly, measuredly, quietly, and, it would seem, satisfied life principles without going beyond them. Vera married a prince, yes, but the same exemplary, quiet person as she herself was. The time had just come, although there was no question of hot, passionate love. And now Vera Nikolaevna receives a bracelet from Zheltkov, the brilliance of the garnets of which plunges her into horror, the thought “like blood” immediately pierces her brain, and now a clear feeling of impending misfortune weighs on her, and this time it is not at all empty. From that moment on, her peace is shattered. Together with the bracelet, having received a letter in which Zheltkov confesses his love for her, there is no limit to the growing excitement. Vera considered Zheltkov "unfortunate", she could not understand the tragedy of this love. The expression "happy unhappy person" turned out to be somewhat contradictory. Indeed, in his feeling for Vera, Zheltkov experienced happiness. He ended his life on the orders of Tuganovsky, thereby blessing his beloved woman. Leaving forever, he thought that the path of Faith would become free, that life would improve and go on as before. But there is no way back. Saying goodbye to Zheltkov's body was the climax of her life. At that moment, the power of love reached its maximum value, became equal to death. Eight years of bad, selfless love, demanding nothing in return, eight years of devotion to a sweet ideal, selflessness from one's own principles. In one short moment of happiness, sacrificing everything accumulated over such a long period of time is not for everyone. But Zheltkov's love for Vera did not obey any models, she was above them. And even if her end turned out to be tragic, Zheltkov's forgiveness was rewarded. crystal palace, in which Vera lived, crashed, letting a lot of light, warmth, sincerity into life. Merging in the finale with the music of Beethoven, it merges with both Zheltkov's love and eternal memory about him.
I so wish that this fairy tale about the all-forgiving and strong love, created by I. A. Kuprin. I wish that I never harsh reality could not defeat our sincere feelings, our love. We must multiply it, be proud of it. love, true love, it is necessary to study diligently, as the most painstaking science. However, love does not come if you expect it to appear every minute, and at the same time, it does not flare up from nothing, but it is impossible to put out strong, true love. She, different in all manifestations, is not a model of life traditions, but rather an exception to the rules. And yet, a person needs love for purification, for acquiring the meaning of life. A loving person is capable of sacrifice for the sake of peace and happiness of a loved one. And yet he is happy. We must bring to love all the best that we feel, that we are proud of. And then the bright sun will surely illuminate it, and even the most ordinary love will become sacred, merging into one with eternity. Forever…