Composition

The theme of love is the main theme in the work of A. I. Kuprin. It is love that makes it possible to realize the most intimate beginnings. human personality. Especially dear to the writer are strong natures who know how to sacrifice themselves for the sake of feeling. But A. Kuprin sees that a person in the modern world has become trivialized, vulgarized, entangled in everyday problems. The writer dreams of a person who is not subject to pernicious influence Wednesday, and embodies his dream in the image of the Polissya sorceress Olesya, the heroine of the story of the same name.

Olesya does not know what civilization is, time in the thickets of Polesie seems to have stopped. The girl sincerely believes in legends and conspiracies, believes that her family is connected with the devil. The norms of behavior accepted in society are absolutely alien to her, she is natural and romantic. But not only the exotic image of the heroine and the situation described in the story attract the attention of the writer. The work becomes an attempt to analyze the eternal that should underlie any high feeling.

A. I. Kuprin pays special attention to close attention how feeling develops in the characters of the story. The moment of their meeting is wonderful, the growth of sincere affection in their hearts is amazing. A. I. Kuprin admires the purity of their closeness, but does not romantic love serene, leads the heroes to ordeals.

Love for Olesya becomes turning point in the life of Ivan Timofeevich, a city dweller. His original focus exclusively on his world is gradually overcome, the need becomes the fulfillment of the desire to be together with another person. His feeling is probably based on vague attractions, but very soon it is reinforced by spiritual intimacy. Kuprin accurately conveys the inner transformation of the hero's personality, the source of which is nature itself.

One of the most important phenomena of love for Kuprin is that even a premonition of happiness is always overshadowed by the fear of losing it. On the way to the happiness of the heroes are the difference in their social status and upbringing, the weakness of the hero and the tragic prediction of Olesya. The thirst for harmonious union is generated by deep experiences.

At the beginning of the story, Ivan Timofeevich seems soft, sympathetic and sincere. But Olesya immediately catches a weakness in him, saying: Your kindness is not good, not cordial. And the hero of the story really does a lot of harm to his beloved. His whim is the reason that Olesya goes to church, although he understands the destructiveness of this act. The lethargy of the hero's feelings brings trouble to the sincere girl. But Ivan Timofeevich himself quickly calms down. At the moment when he talks about the most seemingly exciting episode of his life, he does not feel guilt and remorse, which speaks of the relative poverty of his inner world.

Olesya is the complete opposite of Ivan Timofeevich. In her image, Kuprin embodies his ideas about the ideal of a woman. She absorbed the laws by which nature lives, her soul is not corrupted by civilization. The writer creates an exceptionally romantic image of the daughter of the forests. Olesya's life passes in isolation from people, and therefore she does not care about what many devote their lives to modern people: fame, wealth, power, rumor. Emotions are the main motives for her actions. Furthermore Olesya is a witch, she knows secrets human subconscious. Her sincerity, the absence of falsehood, are also emphasized in her appearance, and in gestures, movements, a smile.

Olesya's love becomes the greatest gift that can give life to the hero of the story. In this love there is both selflessness and courage, on the one hand, and contradiction, on the other. Olesya initially understands the tragedy of the outcome of their relationship, but is ready to give herself to her lover. Even leaving her native places, beaten and dishonored, Olesya does not curse the one who killed her, but blesses those brief moments of happiness that she experienced.

The writer sees the true meaning of love in the desire to disinterestedly give to his chosen one all the fullness of feelings that he is capable of. loving person. A person is imperfect, but the power of love can, at least for a short time, restore to him the sharpness of sensations and naturalness, which only people like Olesya have preserved in themselves. The strength of the soul of the heroine of the story is able to bring harmony even in such contradictory relationships as those described in the story. Love is contempt for suffering and even death. It's a pity, but only a select few are capable of such a feeling.

Other writings on this work

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a Russian writer. Born on August 26, 1870 in the county town of Narovchat, in the family of an official. Works wonderful writer destined for a long life. His novels and stories continue to excite people different generations. In my opinion, the most touching works Kuprin is his story 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.
A sad and poetic story of a pure and wise "daughter of nature" from the story "Olesya". This amazing character embodied intelligence, beauty, responsiveness, disinterestedness and willpower. The image of the forest sorceress is shrouded in mystery. Her fate is unusual, life away from people in an abandoned forest hut. The nature has a great influence on the girl. Isolation from civilization allows her to preserve the purity of nature. On the one hand, she is naive, because she does not know elementary things, yielding in this to the intelligent and educated Ivan Timofeevich. But on the other hand, Olesya has some higher knowledge which is inaccessible to an ordinary intelligent person. Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, 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 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 "enchanting frame of the old forest."
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak person, “a person with a lazy heart”, which will not bring happiness to anyone. “There will be no great joys in your 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 trouble, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her convictions, despite the fear of the hatred of the local inhabitants. In Oles there is courage and determination, which our hero lacks, she has the ability to act. Petty calculations and fears are alien to her when we are talking about the feeling: "Let it be, what will be, but I will not 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 both selflessness and courage on the one hand, and contradiction on the other. Olesya initially understands the tragedy of the outcome of their relationship, but is ready to give herself to her lover. Even leaving her native places, beaten Olesya does not curse the one who killed her, but blesses those brief 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, primarily with her pure, open soul, the wealth of her 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.

⁠final essay on the topic: "Courage and cowardice »

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Courage is a quality that not everyone has. It can induce people to do different things, but at any moment it can turn into misfortune, grief and even death. Many writers and poets talk about courage in love, but everyone understands this quality and its manifestation in such a complex feeling differently.

We confirm what has been said with examples from fiction. So,

can be called a brave woman. Being given in marriage to an elderly rich merchant at a young age, the heroine never knew what love was, and was not happy. But life brings her to a young worker Sergei. Passion flares up between the characters, and while the husband is on the road, they see each other. The current situation can be seen from different parties: on the one hand, adultery is big sin, but, on the other hand, love is most often above any arguments of reason. And one can understand Katerina, who decided on a bold act and wanted to fight for her happiness. But the courage of the heroine acquired dangerous traits. She decided not to be content with just a secret relationship, but went further: she killed her lawful husband, so that Sergey would later take his place. Having committed a crime, Katerina did not stop there. In order to become a full-fledged mistress and the sole owner of a large fortune, the heroine, together with Sergei, goes to kill her husband's father-in-law and nephew. Thus, we see that for the sake of love, Katerina is ready for a lot: to transcend the laws of morality and humanity. And if we are able to understand and approve of her courage in the desire to love and be loved, then her further actions are impossible to accept.

Willing to do much for love and

A young girl who lives with her grandmother in the wilderness, because they are considered witches, falls in love with a gentleman. This love is mutual. Ivan Petrovich Poroshin is ready to despise for Olesya public opinion, although it is very difficult for him to imagine her outside the setting of the forest, outside of her wild, free life. Olesya herself is constantly tormented by vague forebodings of the tragedy. She wants to believe in a happy ending relations with Poroshin, but cannot. Despite this, the girl is ready to overcome her fear for the sake of love in order to prove to her man that she is able to live among people and communicate with them. To do this, Olesya goes to a church full of people. But people do not accept the girl, in her arrival they see a bad sign and severely beat Olesya. The finale of the work is sad, as the lovers were not destined to be together. Furious villagers accuse the girl of destroying the crops by a thunderstorm, so Olesya and her grandmother are forced to flee. Despite this, we admire the courage of the girl, her desire to go in love to the end. And although love was a tragedy for Olesya, we want to believe that she taught the heroine a lot, discovered in her qualities that may have been dormant until now, including courage. Olesya's act proved the depth of her feelings.

Thus, courage in love can manifest itself in different ways in people. She makes someone fight for their feelings, to prove that you are worthy of love. But sometimes this quality in achieving seemingly “legitimate” happiness makes us abandon moral norms for the sake of a loved one. In any case, there is a limit to everything, and it is very important not to cross the line of what is acceptable in relation to the people around, even for the sake of such an incredible feeling as love.

Composition

A special place in the work of A. I. Kuprin is occupied by the theme of love. The writer gave us three stories, united by this great theme, - "Garnet bracelet", "Olesya" and "Shulamith".
Kuprin showed different facets of this feeling in each of his works, but one thing is invariable: love illuminates the life of his heroes with an extraordinary light, becomes the brightest, unique event in life, a gift of fate. It is in love that they unfold best features his heroes.
Fate threw the hero of the story "Olesya" into a remote village in the Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polissya. Ivan Timofeevich is a writer. He is an educated, intelligent, inquisitive person. He is interested in people, with their customs and traditions, he is interested in legends and songs of the region. He went to Polissya with the intention of enriching his life experience with new observations useful for the writer: “Polesie ... wilderness ... the bosom of nature ... simple manners... primitive natures, he thought, sitting in the carriage.
Life presented Ivan Timofeevich with an unexpected gift: in the wilderness of Polissya, 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 Polissya peasants, understands that Olesya and Manuilikha simply "have access to some instinctive knowledge obtained by random experience."
Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, his circle. Reproaching Olesya for superstition, Ivan Timofeevich himself is no less dominated by 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 "enchanting frame of the old forest."
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak, not free person, “a person with a lazy heart”, which will not bring happiness to anyone. “There will be no great joys in your 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 trouble, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her convictions, despite the fear of the hatred of the local inhabitants.
In Oles there is 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 will not give my joy to anyone.”
Persecuted and persecuted by superstitious peasants, Olesya leaves, leaving a string of "coral" beads as a memento 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" brings 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 the bold determination to defend one's feelings, without the ability to sacrifice in the name of those one loves. Therefore, Kuprin remains the most interesting, intelligent and delicate interlocutor for readers of all time.

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1. The image of Olesya, special features her character.
2. The feeling that arose in Ivan Timofeevich for Olesya.
3. Sacrifice and determination of a girl from Polissya.

... So, the fate of our happiness with you does not want ... And if it were not for this, do you think I would be afraid of something?
A. I. Kuprin

Olesya, a tall twenty-four-year-old girl from Polissya, Volyn province, immediately struck the narrator, Ivan Timofeevich, with her unusualness, irresistibility, innate natural beauty and nature. She was much more beautiful than the local girls, because she did not hide her beauty: “A tall brunette about twenty to twenty-five years old, kept herself light and slender. A spacious white shirt freely and beautifully wrapped around her young, healthy breasts. original beauty her face, once seen, could not be forgotten, but it was difficult, even after getting used to it, to describe it. His charm lay in those large, brilliant, dark eyes, to which thin eyebrows, broken in the middle, gave an elusive shade of slyness, imperiousness and naivety; in a swarthy-pink skin tone, in a masterful curve of the lips, of which the lower, somewhat fuller, protruded forward with a determined and capricious look. The granddaughter of the sorceress Manuilikha lived with her grandmother in a forest hut and was very attentive to the nature around her. Moreover, Olesya was an integral part of this living, almost pristine nature, not spoiled by harmful human activity. Starlings and finches lived in their hut with their grandmother. Olesya hated the very sight of a gun, because she knew that with its help people kill defenseless animals and birds: “Why kill birds or hares too? They do no harm to anyone, but they want to live just like you and me. I love them: they are small, stupid...”. Olesya had self-confidence, independence and a genuine sense of dignity, some nobility and "innate graceful moderation". The girl, who grew up in the forest and rarely went out to the village to buy soap and tea, had a lively, flexible and penetrating mind. Despite some naivety and lack of education, Olesya had excellent innate intuition and some supernatural abilities hereditary healer and witch. And Ivan Timofeevich was especially attracted to Oles by “her whole, original, free nature, her mind, both clear and shrouded in unshakable hereditary superstition, childishly innocent, but not without the sly coquetry of a beautiful woman.”

In the spring when main character works felt "sadness, full of restless expectations and vague forebodings", met Olesya, They began to spend the evening hours together, talking a lot on different topics. Gradually, it all grew into a special affection. For the first time, Ivan feels love feeling to Olesya before her illness, when the girl seemed to have cooled off towards him: “I have not yet thought about love, but I was already experiencing an anxious period preceding love, full of vague, painfully sad sensations. Wherever I was, no matter what I tried to amuse myself with, all my thoughts were occupied with the image of Olesya, my whole being aspired to her, every memory of her sometimes most insignificant words, of her gestures and smiles squeezed my heart with quiet and sweet pain. heart". The half-month separation kindled Ivan Timofeevich's love for the young inhabitant of the forest even more and, fortunately, his feeling turned out to be mutual. And until mid-June, the lovers enjoyed "the naive, charming fairy tale of their love." But what did Ivan do to keep this happiness, to become a defender for his beloved and a reliable support for life? He thought about marrying Olesya, but the strong, educated man still lacked the determination to tell his beloved that he had to leave soon. A young forest dweller has to guess this sad news from Ivan Timofeevich. And he, making an offer to her, expresses his consent to Olesya's proposal to go to church. For some reason, Ivan thinks little about whether this “something very pleasant for him” will also be joyful for the girl herself? Would it be safe for the young witch? Unfortunately, Ivan Timofeevich does not attach special significance your anxiety inner voice, does not save her beloved from a fatal step and, as a result, loses her.

Olesya's inner experiences are not described on the pages of the story, but her love is visible to us through her words, facial expressions, gestures, and actions. The forest girl is stronger, fearless and determined than her lover. After all, from the very beginning, after fortune-telling on the cards, she knew for sure that this love would bring her trouble. I learned that Ivan is “a kind man, but only a weak one.” But she could not give up her happiness, nor the happiness of her beloved Vanya. And, in general, Olesya believed that fate could not be avoided. Her courage and independence are expressed not only in the proud statement to grandmother Manuilikha “My business, mine and the answer”, but also in her other actions. It is she, Olesya, who inclines Ivan Timofeevich to a close relationship, speaking to his fears: "Today is our day, and no one will take it away from us ...". Sometimes there is a feeling that Olesya gave all of herself, all the best that she has to her lover. And Ivan Timofeevich himself feels her high dedication: “... And how much I read in Olesya’s big dark eyes: both the excitement of the meeting, and the reproach for my long absence, and the ardent declaration of love ... I felt that along with this With a glance, Olesya joyfully gives me, without any conditions or hesitation, her whole being. But not everything went smoothly in the conversations of the young forest witch and Ivan: they had contradictions about religion. Vanya was a believing Christian, and Olesya felt that she, and her grandmother, and her mother were always led dark forces, devil. Feeling the bitterness of the impending separation, the girl selflessly decided to please her beloved and go to church for him. She did not hear from her beloved any words of warning or resistance. On the contrary, Ivan supported this intention, so dangerous for the young witch, with the words: “A woman should be pious without reasoning. In that simple and gentle gullibility with which she gives herself under the protection of God, I always feel something touching, feminine and beautiful. Did Olesya know what she was getting into? Most likely yes .. But she, unlike Ivan Timofeevich, knew how to sacrifice herself for the sake of her loved one. And all the blame, all the responsibility for dire consequences She took this step. This means that Olesya is a truly strong, strong-willed and independent woman. The young witch is sorry that she does not have a child from her beloved, but, overcoming physical and mental pain, she herself becomes the initiator of the final separation from Ivan. In the end, Olesya is happy that she managed to deliver the joy of love to Ivan Timofeevich.