In the name of love.
The novel "The Captain's Daughter" tells about the dramatic events of the 70s of the 18th century, when the discontent of the peasants and residents of the outskirts of Russia resulted in a war led by Emelyan Pugachev. Initially, Pushkin wanted to write a novel dedicated only to the Pugachev movement, but the censorship would hardly have let him through. Therefore, the main storyline is the love of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev for the daughter of the captain of the Belogorsk fortress, Masha Mironova.
In The Captain's Daughter, several storylines develop simultaneously. One of them is the love story of Peter Grinev and Masha Mironova. This love line continues throughout the novel. At first, Peter reacted negatively to Masha due to the fact that Shvabrin described her as "a complete fool." But then Peter gets to know her better and discovers that she is "noble and sensitive." He falls in love with her and she loves him back too.
Grinev loves Masha very much and is ready for a lot for her sake. He proves this more than once. When Shvabrin humiliates Masha, Grinev quarrels with him and even shoots himself. When Peter is faced with a choice: to obey the general’s decision and stay in the besieged city, or to respond to Masha’s desperate cry “you are my only patron, intercede for me, poor!”, Grinev leaves Orenburg to save her. During the trial, risking his life, he does not consider it possible to name Masha, fearing that she will be subjected to humiliating interrogation - "it occurred to me that if I name her, the commission will demand her to account; and the thought of entangling her between vile tales villains and bring her herself to a confrontation ... ".
But Masha's love for Grinev is deep and devoid of any selfish motives. She does not want to marry him without parental consent, thinking that otherwise Peter "will not have happiness." From a timid "coward" she, by the will of circumstances, is reborn into a decisive and staunch heroine who managed to achieve the triumph of justice. She goes to the court of the Empress to save her beloved, to defend her right to happiness. Masha was able to prove Grinev's innocence, loyalty to his given oath. When Shvabrin wounds Grinev, Masha nurses him - "Maria Ivanovna did not leave me." Thus, Masha will save Grinev from shame, death and exile just as he saved her from shame and death.
For Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova, everything ends happily, and we see that no vicissitudes of fate can ever break a person if he is determined to fight for his principles, ideals, love. An unprincipled and dishonest person who does not know a sense of duty often expects the fate of being left alone with his vile deeds, baseness, meanness, without friends, loved ones and just close people.
The love story of Masha Mironova and Peter Grinev
The story of A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" is considered the pinnacle of the writer's work. In it, the author touched on many important issues - duty and honor, the meaning of human life, love.
Despite the fact that the image of Pyotr Grinev is in the center of the story, Masha Mironova plays a big role in the work. I think it is the daughter of Captain Mironov who embodies the ideal of A.S. Pushkin is the ideal of a man full of self-esteem, with an innate sense of honor, capable of feats for the sake of love. It seems to me that it was thanks to the mutual love for Masha that Peter Grinev became a real man - a man, a nobleman, a warrior.
For the first time we get acquainted with this heroine when Grinev arrives at the Belogorsk fortress. At first, the modest and quiet girl did not make a big impression on the hero: "... a girl of about eighteen, chubby, ruddy, with light blond hair, combed smoothly behind her ears, which she was on fire."
Grinev was sure that the daughter of Captain Mironov was a “fool”, because his friend Shvabrin had told him about this more than once. Yes, and Masha’s mother “added fuel to the fire” - she told Peter that her daughter was a “coward”: “... Ivan Kuzmich invented to shoot from our cannon on my name day, so she, my dear, almost went to the next world out of fear " .
However, the hero soon realizes that Masha is "a prudent and sensitive girl." Somehow imperceptibly, true love is born between the heroes, which has withstood all the trials that have met on its way.
Probably the first time Masha showed her character when she refused to marry Grinev without the blessing of his parents. According to this pure and bright girl, "without their blessing, you will not be happy." Masha, first of all, thinks about the happiness of her beloved, and for his sake she is ready to sacrifice her own. She even admits the idea that Grinev can find another wife for himself - one that his parents will accept.
During the bloody events of the capture of the Belogorsk fortress, Masha loses both parents and remains an orphan. However, she passes this test with honor. Once in the fortress alone, surrounded by enemies, Masha does not succumb to Shvabrin's pressure - she remains faithful to Pyotr Grinev to the end. Nothing can force a girl to betray her love, to become the wife of a man whom she despises: “He is not my husband. I will never be his wife! I made up my mind to die, and I will if I am not delivered.”
Masha finds an opportunity to give Grinev a letter in which she talks about her misfortune. And Peter saves Masha. Now it becomes clear to everyone that these heroes will be together, that they are the fate of each other. Therefore, Grinev sends Masha to his parents, who accept her as a daughter. And soon they begin to love for her human dignity, because it is this girl who saves her lover from slander and trial.
After the arrest of Peter, when there was no hope of his release, Masha decides on an unheard of act. She goes alone to the Empress herself and tells her about all the events, asking Catherine for mercy. And she, imbued with sympathy for a sincere and courageous girl, helps her: “Your business is over. I am convinced of your fiancé's innocence."
Thus, Masha saves Grinev, as he, a little earlier, saves his bride. The relationship of these heroes, it seems to me, is the author's ideal of a relationship between a man and a woman, where the main things are love, respect, selfless devotion to each other.
The relationship between Grinev and Masha
Recently I read the work of A. S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter". Pushkin worked on this story in 1834-1836. It is based on pictures of a popular peasant uprising caused by the difficult, powerless position of a enslaved people. The story is written in the first person - Peter Grinev, who is also the main character. No less interesting person in this work is Masha Mironova. When Peter arrived at the Belogorsk fortress, at first Masha, according to Shvabrin’s prejudice, seemed to him very modest and quiet - “a complete fool”, but then, when they got to know each other better, he found in her a “prudent and sensitive girl”
Masha loved her parents very much and treated them with respect. Her parents were uneducated and narrow-minded people. But at the same time, they were extremely simple and good-natured people, devoted to their duty, ready to fearlessly die for what they considered "the shrine of their conscience."
Marya Ivanovna did not like Shvabrin. “He is very disgusting to me,” Masha said so. Shvabrin is the exact opposite of Grinev. He is educated, intelligent, observant, an interesting conversationalist, but in order to achieve his goals, he could commit any dishonorable act.
Savelich's attitude towards Masha can be seen from his letter to Grinev-father: "And that such an opportunity happened to him, it was not a reproach to the young man: the horse has four legs, but stumbles." Savelich believed that the love between Grinev and Masha was a natural development.
Grinev's parents at first, having received Shvabrin's false denunciation, treated Masha with distrust, but after Masha settled with them, they changed their attitude towards her.
All the best qualities are revealed in Masha during her trip to Tsarskoe Selo. Masha, confident that she is to blame for her fiancé's troubles, goes to see the Empress. A timid, weak, modest girl, who never left the fortress alone, suddenly decides to go to the empress in order to prove the innocence of her fiancé at any cost.
Nature portends good luck in this matter. “The morning was beautiful, the sun illuminated the tops of the lindens… The wide lake shone motionlessly…”. Masha's meeting with the queen happened unexpectedly. Masha, trusting an unfamiliar lady, told her everything why she had come to the queen. She speaks simply, openly, frankly, convinces the stranger that her fiancé is not a traitor. For Masha, this was a kind of rehearsal before visiting the Empress, so she speaks boldly and convincingly. It is this chapter that explains the title of the story: a simple Russian girl turns out to be the winner in a difficult situation, a real captain's daughter.
Love between Grinev and Masha did not flare up immediately, because the young man did not like the girl at first. We can say that everything happened very casually. Young people saw each other every day, gradually got used to each other and opened up to meet their feelings.
Almost at the beginning of the story, the love of Masha and Grinev comes to a standstill because of Grinev's father, who categorically refused to consent to the marriage, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, Masha's decisive refusal to marry Grinev "without the blessing" of his parents. Grinev "fell into gloomy thought", "lost the desire for reading and literature", and only "unexpected incidents" associated with the Pugachev uprising brought their romance with Masha to a new level of serious trials.
These tests young people passed with honor. Grinev boldly came to Pugachev, the leader of the peasant uprising, to save his bride and achieved this. Masha goes to the Empress and in turn saves her fiancé.
It seems to me that A.S. Pushkin ended this story on an optimistic note with great pleasure. Grinev was released, Masha was treated kindly by the Empress. Young people got married. Grinev's father, Andrey Petrovich, received a letter of acquittal from Catherine II against his son. I liked this story precisely because it ended happily, that Masha and Peter, despite the most difficult trials, preserved and did not betray their love.
Reading the story of A. S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter", we become witnesses of how true and tender love is born against the backdrop of historical events.The young officer Pyotr Grinev, having arrived at the Belogorsk fortress by order of his superiors, was fascinated by the daughter of the commandant Masha Mironova. Despite the reviews of Shvabrin, who tried to denigrate her in the eyes of the visitor, he quickly realized that Masha was a “prudent and sensitive” girl, sincere and sweet, and by no means a “perfect fool”.
Pyotr Grinev also won Masha's heart, managed to evoke a response in her with his courage, valor, straightforwardness, the way he fiercely defended her good name in a duel with Shvabrin. Forced to be separated from her beloved, a helpless and defenseless girl is captured by a hated admirer. Angry at his failures, Shvabrin tries to force her into marriage by force and threats. However, love helps Masha to go through this test with honor, not to lose her dignity. Freed by Grinev, she admits that she was ready to die, if only not to belong to the hypocritical and vicious Shvabrin.
However, this noble act in relation to his beloved does not go in vain for Grinev. Upon learning of his connections with the rebel Pugachev, the young man is arrested. But even in court, he is more concerned not about justifying himself, but about not tarnishing the good name of Marya Ivanovna. For this, Grinev agrees to exile and the unenviable stigma of a traitor.
Masha is no less decisive. Knowing about Grinev's innocence, she goes to St. Petersburg to petition the Empress. We see that fate finally smiled at young people: “by personal order” Pyotr Grinev “was released from prison”, and his bride was treated kindly by Ekaterina P.
Using the example of Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev, the author shows what great power true love has - true and devoted. It is she who gives meaning to life and helps to maintain honor and dignity in any, the most difficult situations.
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In the name of love.
The novel "The Captain's Daughter" tells about the dramatic events of the 70s of the 18th century, when the discontent of the peasants and residents of the outskirts of Russia resulted in a war led by Emelyan Pugachev. Initially, Pushkin wanted to write a novel dedicated only to the Pugachev movement, but the censorship would hardly have let him through. Therefore, the main storyline is the love of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev for the daughter of the captain of the Belogorsk fortress, Masha Mironova.
In The Captain's Daughter, several storylines develop simultaneously. One of them is the love story of Peter Grinev and Masha Mironova. This love line continues throughout the novel. At first, Peter reacted negatively to Masha due to the fact that Shvabrin described her as "a complete fool." But then Peter gets to know her better and discovers that she is "noble and sensitive." He falls in love with her and she loves him back too.
Grinev loves Masha very much and is ready for a lot for her sake. He proves this more than once. When Shvabrin humiliates Masha, Grinev quarrels with him and even shoots himself. When Peter is faced with a choice: to obey the general’s decision and stay in the besieged city, or to respond to Masha’s desperate cry “you are my only patron, intercede for me, poor!”, Grinev leaves Orenburg to save her. During the trial, risking his life, he does not consider it possible to name Masha, fearing that she will be subjected to humiliating interrogation - "it occurred to me that if I name her, the commission will demand her to account; and the thought of entangling her between vile tales villains and bring her herself to a confrontation ... ".
But Masha's love for Grinev is deep and devoid of any selfish motives. She does not want to marry him without parental consent, thinking that otherwise Peter "will not have happiness." From a timid "coward" she, by the will of circumstances, is reborn into a decisive and staunch heroine who managed to achieve the triumph of justice. She goes to the court of the Empress to save her beloved, to defend her right to happiness. Masha was able to prove Grinev's innocence, loyalty to his given oath. When Shvabrin wounds Grinev, Masha nurses him - "Maria Ivanovna did not leave me." Thus, Masha will save Grinev from shame, death and exile just as he saved her from shame and death.
For Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova, everything ends happily, and we see that no vicissitudes of fate can ever break a person if he is determined to fight for his principles, ideals, love. An unprincipled and dishonest person who does not know a sense of duty often expects the fate of being left alone with his vile deeds, baseness, meanness, without friends, loved ones and just close people.
The story of A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" reveals many topics. One of the most important is the theme of love. In the center of the story are the mutual feelings of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev and the captain's daughter Masha Mironova.
The first meeting of Peter and Masha
Masha Mironova is the ideal of A.S. Pushkin, expressing fortitude, honor and dignity, the ability to defend one's love, to sacrifice a lot for the sake of feelings. It is thanks to her that Peter acquires true courage, his character is tempered, the qualities of a real man are brought up.
At the first meeting in the Belogorsk fortress, the girl did not make a big impression on Grinev, she seemed to the young man a simpleton, especially since his friend Shvabrin spoke of her very unflatteringly.
The inner world of the captain's daughter
But very soon Peter realizes that Masha is a deep, well-read, sensitive girl. A feeling is born between young people, which imperceptibly develops into real, all-conquering love, capable of overcoming all the difficulties that come its way.
Trials on the path of heroes
For the first time, Masha shows stamina and prudence of character when she does not agree to marry Petya without the blessing of her lover's parents, because without this simple human happiness will be impossible. For the sake of Grinev's happiness, she is even ready to refuse the wedding.
The second ordeal falls to the lot of the girl during the capture of the fortress by the rebels of Pugachev. She loses both parents, remains surrounded by enemies alone. Alone, she withstands Shvabrin's blackmail and pressure, preferring to be faithful to her lover. Nothing - neither hunger, nor threats, nor a serious illness - can force her to marry another person, despised by her.
happy ending
Peter Grinev finds an opportunity to save the girl. It becomes obvious that they will be together forever, that they are destined for each other by fate. Then the young man's parents accept her as their own, recognizing the depths of her soul, her inner dignity. After all, it is she who saves him from slander and reprisals before the court.
This is how they save each other. In my opinion, they fulfill the role of a guardian angel for one another. I think for Pushkin the relationship between Masha and Grinev is the ideal relationship between a man and a woman, headed by love, mutual respect and absolute devotion.
Like this it often happens that history makes its way through the fates of simple, ordinary people. And these destinies become a bright "color of time". Who is the main character in "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin? The representative of the people's thought and people's cause Pugachev? Independent, free in his relationship to Pugachev? Honest captain Mironov and his wife? Their daughter Masha? Or maybe the people themselves?
In "The Captain's Daughter" innermost thought is much deeper and more significant. Yes, as if hiding behind the image of the narrator, a Russian officer, a contemporary of the Pugachev uprising, not only a witness, but also a participant in historical events. But it seems to me that, behind the historical canvas, one should by no means forget about human relations, about the strength and depth of people's feelings. Everything in the story is full of mercy. Pugachev had to pardon Grinev, because once Grinev saw a man in Pugachev and can no longer forget this Pugachev. Grinev loves and tearfully regrets Marya Ivanovna, an orphan who has no one close to her in the whole world. Marya Ivanovna loves and saves her knight from the terrible fate of dishonor.
Great is the power of love! How accurately and briefly the author describes the state of Captain Grinev when he, worrying about the fate of Marya Ivanovna, entered the commandant's house. With a quick glance, Grinev captured the terrible picture of the rout: “Everything was empty; chairs, tables, chests were broken; the dishes are broken, everything is torn apart. In Marya Ivanovna's room everything is dug up; Grinev imagined her in the hands of the Pugachevites: "My heart broke ... I loudly pronounced the name of my beloved." In a short scene, a few words convey the complex feelings that gripped the young hero. We see the fear for the beloved, and the readiness to save Masha at all costs, and the impatience to learn about the fate of the girl, and the transition from despair to sober calmness.
We know, that both Captain Grinev and Masha are fictitious persons, but without them we could not imagine our knowledge of the life of the 18th century would be poor. And then we would not have had those thoughts about honor, human dignity, love, self-sacrifice, which appear when reading The Captain's Daughter. Grinev did not leave the girl at a difficult moment and went to the Belogorsk fortress, occupied by Pugachev. Masha had a conversation with Pugachev, from which he learned that she was not her husband. She said, “He is not my husband. I will never be his wife! I made up my mind to die, and I will if I am not delivered.” After these words, Pugachev understood everything: “Come out, fair maiden; I give you freedom." Masha saw in front of her a man who was the murderer of her parents, but at the same time her deliverer. From an excess of conflicting feelings, she lost consciousness.
Pugachev released Grinev with Masha, saying at the same time:
- “Take your beauty; take her wherever you want, and God give you love and advice!” Grinev's parents received Masha well: “They saw the grace of God in the fact that they had the opportunity to shelter and caress the poor orphan. Soon they became sincerely attached to her, because it was impossible to know her and not fall in love.
Love Grineva to Masha no longer seemed to his parents an "empty whim", they only wanted their son to marry the captain's daughter. Marya Ivanovna, the daughter of the Mironovs, turned out to be worthy of her parents. She took from them the best: honesty and nobility. It is impossible not to compare her with other Pushkin heroines: Masha Troekurova and. They have a lot in common: they all grew up in solitude in the bosom of nature, once falling in love, each of them remained forever true to his feelings. She just didn’t accept what fate had in store for her, but began to fight for her happiness. Innate dedication and nobility forced the girl to overcome shyness and go to seek intercession from the empress herself. As we know, she achieved the justification and release of a loved one.
Truly, the power of love is enormous. So over the course of the novel, the character of this girl gradually changed. From a timid, wordless "coward" she became a brave and determined heroine, able to defend her right to happiness. That is why the novel is called "
