Composition on the theme "Pierre Bezukhov and Helen Kuragina". 5.00 /5 (100.00%) 2 votes
The relationship between the characters in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" developed in completely different ways. Many pairs formed only after a long time, when the characters were already well acquainted, or met for the first time.
The relationship between Helen Kuragina and Pierre Bezukhov was unexpected for me, as for the reader and for the rest, I think, too. From the very first meeting, Pierre Bezukhov fell in love with the beautiful, stately, proud Helen. She, in turn, treated him with contempt. When this happened, Pierre did not yet have a large fortune and was completely inconspicuous among all the men of this society.
Helen, from the very beginning, was prudent, cunning and self-serving. Her father
Vasily Kuragin raised his children: Helen and Anatole Kuragin in such a way that they would look for profit in everything.
As a result, it turned out that despising and completely disrespecting Pierre, Helen married him. This relationship was doomed from the start. After all, Helen needed only a fortune, and happy Pierre was blind from his love for the girl.
We see that this marriage "of convenience" did not lead to anything good. Relations did not work out. Pierre understood how Helen really feels about him, almost died in a duel. It becomes clear to us that true feelings cannot be faked, they cannot be bought. True love nothing can be replaced.
We never tire of repeating that there is no equal in literature to Tolstoy. Why? A huge gift and artistic originality allowed Tolstoy to show the life of an entire people, an entire nation, whole country whose name is Russia. The heroes of his epic novel “War and Peace”, both positive and negative, belong primarily to the environment of the higher, ruling nobility. Tolstoy painted a broad picture of life noble society, depicted him with all his inherent advantages and disadvantages.
As a rule, Tolstoy has positive female images possess features of exclusivity, and their fates in the novel develop in a collision with the "big world", which Tolstoy paints negatively. Anna Pavlovna Sherer, Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, Julie Karagina, Helen Bezukhova bear the vicious traits of their class. Each hero is a creature of the environment, and everyone feels at home in this environment like a fish in water. If we compare the negative and positive female images in the novel, then best representatives of these groups will respectively be Helen and Natasha.
Both Natasha and Helen are women of the same circle, secular ladies, but how different they are in character and upbringing. Helen is the embodiment of external beauty and at the same time a strange immobility, a fossil. Her beauty is cold and dead. The author describes her "whiteness of the shoulders", "gloss of hair and diamonds", "unchanging smile", "very open chest and back" - "antique beauty of the body". She resembles a beautiful but soulless statue. Tolstoy does not mention her eyes at all, but “the eyes are the mirror of the soul.” Helen is the personification of depravity and immorality. There is always a smile on her beautiful face, but it means nothing. At its core, this is a mask that hides the emptiness of the soul and the lack of intelligence of a secular lady. If the story of one of the guests of the salon Scherer made any impression, Helen turned to the hostess of the salon and assumed the same expression that was on the face of the maid of honor. Then she went back to the "bright smile."
Natasha Rostova is beautiful in a completely different way. No special attraction appearance we don't notice. She has a too big mouth and thin shoulders, but she is attractive for her sincerity and spontaneity. Appearing for the first time at the ball, Natasha looks so little like society ladies, the contrast between her and the "light" is so clear. Natasha is a generously gifted person with a poetic attitude, she is not at all like Helen, Julie, Scherer.
The Rostov family is similar to those families from which the wives of the Decembrists came out. The way of life of the Rostovs, customs, traditions - all this is Russian, national. They absorbed the spirit of the people with its cheerfulness, the ability to suffer steadfastly, to easily make sacrifices, not for show, but with all the spiritual breadth. They are drawn to the Rostovs and to the universal favorite Natasha the best people People: Andrey Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, Vasily Denisov. Constantly changeable, responding violently to everything that happens around, Natasha can "cry like a child", that is, be natural and not be shy about it. She is not able to play a role, does not depend on prying eyes, can violate etiquette. She can grow old and unrecognizably change from grief after Andrey's death. It is this vital variability and artlessness in Natasha that Tolstoy likes because her appearance is a reflection of richest world her feelings.
Society sees in Helen a beautiful, gentle, secular lady. Natasha does not look beautiful, but just a simple and happy girl. Thanks to this cheerfulness, Andrey realizes the beauty around and understands that life is worth living. He wants to act, to do good to people. The opposite, heavy feeling causes Helene in Pierre. Even before his marriage, he felt some kind of deception, the unnaturalness of their relationship. Unfortunately, only after the wedding he understands all the insignificance and meanness of this woman. Natasha, on the contrary, like others goodies novel, a true, active patriot. She will never act like Bergi and will sacrifice everything for the people. She loves her homeland, her people, in whom she believes and is proud of. There is something uniquely Russian in her soul. She subtly feels the beauty of nature.
It's hard to imagine Helen in Natasha's place. In Helen there is no feeling, no poetry, no patriotism. She does not sing, does not understand music, does not notice nature. Natasha sings soulfully, with soul, forgetting about everything. Everywhere you can see her gentle, natural soul. Here she is crying with Sonya, only because her friend is crying; here she is sincerely happy when she sees that Sonya and Nikolai are happy; here she, almost crying with pity, refuses Denisov, who is asking for help. Natasha lives honestly, with her soul. Although she is inexperienced, she is constantly changing. Helen has everything thought out in advance and is done as it should be according to unwritten laws. high society. Therefore, Helen's life is monotonous and boring. And in Tolstoy, "calmness is spiritual meanness." We never see Natasha calm, she worries, worries about her loved ones, and most importantly, she wants to help everyone.
Helen is not able to become a mother, because she has exchanged herself for the fun of a high-society life. For her, marriage is just a means of well-being. The marriage of Helen, who chose the wealthy Pierre as her husband, is a clear confirmation of this. Family and children do not play any role in her life. Excessive emancipation, according to Tolstoy, leads a woman to a misunderstanding of her own purpose. Here is Natasha - a woman in literally words. Daughter, sister, wife, mother - these are the main life positions of a woman. The world of the family is the foundation human society, and the mistress in it is a woman. It is better to be a "prolific female" than a "large socialite”.
Tasks and tests on the topic "The scene of Pierre's explanation with Helen (Analysis of an episode from L. N. Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, Chapter II, Part Three, Volume One)"
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This week in Britain, the screening of the sensational television version of Leo Tolstoy's novel ends. "Komsomolskaya Pravda" compared English version with a classic film adaptation by Sergei Bondarchuk
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The BBC TV series started showing us this week. But most British "War and Peace" everyone has already looked. And, in general, they were satisfied: at least the budget is solid, the actors are not bad, there are very few frank cranberries, Prince Andrei was not forced to dance "Kalinka-Malinka", although the bear is present ...
But it is clear that screenwriter Andrew Davies, a veteran British television writer, at 79 has remained true to himself. Recent decades he actively adapted for TV classic novels(Dickens, George Eliot, William Thackeray), and his most famous project was and remains "Pride and Prejudice" - a 1995 series that almost ousted the original Jane Austen novel from the minds of the British and British. (Among his most passionate fans was, as you know, Bridget Jones, who watched dozens of times the scene in which Mr. Darcy, played by Colin Firth, emerges from the water in a wet shirt).
That's from "War and Peace" Davis made English novel XIX centuries, at some points - almost the same Jane Austen with wet shirts. The world of love, intrigue, the crunch of a French roll - relationships in general interesting people in luxurious interiors, both Davis and director Tom Harper are sweeter than war. Even at the stage of commercials, "War and Peace" was presented almost as a youth series - some kind of shots, skulls, kisses and so on. Of course, in the end everything turned out to be much more decorous. But it is striking that the actors are surprisingly young - especially when compared with Bondarchuk's film ...
Of course, in early XIX centuries treated age differently - one very famous producer likes to remember that at that time in the books they wrote "A 48-year-old man entered the room." Of course, we all remember from school: when looking at the notorious green oak, Andrei Bolkonsky thinks that "at 31, life is not over yet." And then how to look, my dear, sir! A little time will pass, and the father of the 33-year-old prince will mercilessly inform him that he is “not the first youth” and is generally too weak in health to marry sixteen-year-old Natasha Rostova. Considering the terrifying level of medicine at that time, and even dangerous military career heroes, they had to think about the meaning of life earlier - then they might not have time - and this put its seals on the forehead. Today's 30-year-olds are often still boys and girls.
And yet it is curious to compare the appearance and age of the actors who played in the Soviet and British versions.
Athlete Yuri Vlasov could become Bezukhov, and the role of Helen left Viya Artmane
"War and Peace" was filmed several times - the very first film was made in 1915 by director Vladimir Gardin, he himself and the ballerina Vera Karalli played the main roles. Very often, Tolstoy was taken on television: for example, the same BBC company in 1972 released the longest, 20-episode adaptation of the novel, in which young Anthony Hopkins played Pierre Bezukhov. And in 2007, Russian, French and Italian television showed a dubious four-episode Franco-Italian series in all respects.
But the Russians, of course, know first of all "War and Peace" by Sergei Bondarchuk (1965-1967) - the canonical adaptation of the novel, made a splash not only in the USSR, but also in the West. There it was promoted as "the first ever film to cost $100 million" - in fact it cost $9.2 million, which would be $67 million in today's prices. "War and Peace" became the first Soviet feature film who received an Oscar in the category "Best foreign language film". The four-episode picture lasts more than seven hours, and is filmed with great solemnity: Bondarchuk filmed "War and Peace" as Holy Bible, with all due seriousness.
However, the story of Bondarchuk's film began with the previous, Hollywood adaptation. In America, the picture of King Vidor came out in 1956 and perfectly fit into a number of large-scale expensive historical paintings(it doesn't matter - from the history ancient rome, Biblical times or Viking life) that were wildly popular in the 50s and 60s. It was released to Soviet rentals in 1959. It was two times shorter than Bondarchuk's film, and the only thing that hardly aroused doubts among Soviet film critics was the young Audrey Hepburn in the role of Natasha Rostova. Praise was also given to Henry Fonda as Pierre. But in general, everything ended with the fact that a letter from cultural figures appeared in the Soviet press with a call to create their own “War and Peace”: the American film “did not convey either artistic or national characteristics epic L. N. Tolstoy, nor the great liberating spirit of the struggle of the Russian people. Bondarchuk was recommended for the position of director - a solid and positive person, even if by that time he had staged only one picture, “The Fate of a Man” according to Sholokhov.
Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva knew perfectly well that this letter would appear (it was published at her suggestion), and she was already estimating the scale of the upcoming work. And there was a lot to be done. Bondarchuk had problems at all stages: it was difficult to find cavalry, it was difficult to shoot in Moscow studded with television antennas ... Later, Nikita Mikhalkov will say that the whole Soviet Union- This pure truth, dozens of factories made costumes, decorations, furniture, weapons.
Of course, it was unthinkable to entrust the responsible roles of Pierre, Andrey, Helen and other characters in such a film to some anemones. Most importantly, Bondarchuk wanted to play Pierre Bezukhov himself, and he was over 40 (but Henry Fonda on the set American film, which was periodically looked back at, was generally 50, and few people were embarrassed by this). Another candidate for the role of Pierre was weightlifter Yuri Vlasov, quite young (he was 27 at the time of filming). But this choice seemed too strange to everyone - including coach Vlasov, according to Bondarchuk, "who advised him not to change his profession." One must think that Bondarchuk did not persuade Vlasov for a long time.
By the way, Helen Kuragina was supposed to play Viya Artmane. But Bondarchuk decided to shoot his wife Irina Skobtseva. They say that he told Artmana at the last second that she was not suitable, and Skobtseva - that there were simply no other candidates!
In Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" the main "thought of the people." But, along with this, the author is concerned about the role of the family in society, relations between spouses and the rights of a woman, who is intended by nature to be a wife and mother. The writer embodies his thoughts about the secrets of happiness and harmony of people in the images of Pierre Bezukhov and Helen.
Count Pyotr Kirillovich first appears in high Petersburg society in the fashionable living room of Anna Pavlovna Scherer. This is a clumsy, fat young man with huge red hands, who constantly breaks etiquette, does not want to listen to empty talk, does not follow the ritual adopted in the salon, does not know how to say something pleasant. But he is tolerated because he is a wealthy heir and therefore an advantageous suitor.
Here, Pierre first meets Helen Kuragina, a socialite "lioness", a beauty. However, her beauty is cold, marble, dead, and on her body “it’s like a varnish from all the thousands of looks that glided” over it. On her beautiful face there is always an “unchanging smile”, the same always and for everyone. In fact, this is a mask that hides the emptiness of the soul and the stupidity of Helen, who, without having own opinion, during the conversation, "looked back at Anna Pavlovna and immediately assumed the same expression that was on the face of the maid of honor."
Brought up in a family where the main criteria were not honor, dignity and nobility, but the desire for wealth, career and honors by any means, Princess Kuragina is vicious, cunning, immoral and frivolous in her essence. Shamelessness in achieving their selfish goals, depravity, mental limitations, lies, falsehood and hypocrisy are inherent in the entire Kuragin "vile, heartless breed."
Prince Vasily Kuragin, Helen's father, who failed to steal the will of the dying Count Bezukhov (Pierre's father), decides to take possession of his wealth in a different way - to marry a naive, gullible and inexperienced heir in worldly affairs to his daughter. “Pierre was at hand in Moscow, and Prince Vasily arranged for him an appointment to the chamber junkers ... and insisted that the young man go with him to Petersburg and stay at his house,” where to the newly-minted rich man and the count was all "affectionately disposed" and convinced of his "high merits." "Even people who were previously evil and obviously hostile became gentle and loving with him."
Believing in the kindness and sincerity of human relations, Pierre falls into the cleverly placed "nets" of Prince Vasily, meeting this daughter almost daily, marveling at her amazing beauty, her ability to keep herself in the light. “She was terribly close to him. She already had power over him. And between him and her there were no longer any barriers, except for the barriers of his own will.
L. N. Tolstoy emphasizes that in family life the main thing is not the beauty of the wife, the ability to dress fashionably, emphasizing the shape of her body favorably, to conduct a casual secular conversation, to make visits and receive guests, but the spiritual unity of two people who are destined to live together all their lives. Therefore, Pierre, realizing that he must propose to Helen, ponders this step for a long time; there is a complex emotional struggle going on in him: moral consciousness conflicts with sensuality. He simultaneously dreams of Helen as a wife and suspects that "this is not good for some reason." “But she is stupid, I myself said she was stupid,” he thought. - It's not love. On the contrary, there is something nasty in the feeling that she aroused in me, something forbidden. "and again he told himself ... that something ... unnatural ... dishonest would be in this marriage." The mind tells Count Bezukhov that they are being lured into marriage by deceit, that Helen will not be happy, because she is selfish, unspiritual, busy only with her beauty.
She doesn't care about feelings. Realizing the profitability of her marriage to Count Bezukhov (rich, absent-minded, impractical, will not interfere in her affairs), she does not resist her father’s desire to marry Pierre and plays the role of a girl in love in front of society, on whose face “a radiant smile was restrained”. And the clever intriguer Prince Vasily does everything possible to emphasize her closeness with the count on his daughter's name day. And Pierre feels it. “Now I know that not for her alone, not for myself alone, but for everyone, this must inevitably happen.” “He couldn’t decide on ... the last step” - to declare his love, because he didn’t have a true, real feeling for Helen. “I must inevitably step over, but I can’t, I can’t,” thought Pierre. It took the intervention of Prince Vasily Kuragin for Pierre to say the colorless words "I love you!"
Not loving Pierre, Helen soon becomes Dolokhov's mistress and unfaithful wife. Accustomed to trusting everyone, Count Bezukhov does not believe in this. “Yes, if it were true; but I don’t believe, I don’t have the right and I can’t believe,” Pierre thinks at a dinner where Dolokhov was also present, who cynically admitted his connection with Helen. He “with a serious expression, but with a smiling mouth in the corners, with a glass turned to Pierre. - For health beautiful women, Petrushka, and their lovers, - he said.
Family happiness for Pierre collapsed. As a man of great conscience, he first of all blames himself for betraying Helen, that he married a woman who does not love him, depraved, fed up with the attention of men, indifferent, not striving to become a mother. "... he remembered the clarity and rudeness of thoughts and the vulgarity of expressions characteristic of her, despite her upbringing in the highest aristocratic circle."
Helen shows her rudeness and vulgarity in a quarrel with her husband, looking at him with a contemptuous smile. She insults Pierre with her laughter, calling him a "fool", impudently denying her connection with Dolokhov, accusing her husband of stupidity, inability to behave in society. With Helen, everything is thought out in advance and is done as it should be according to the unwritten laws of the higher “light”, that is, you can do any meanness, but in such a way that you don’t talk about it out loud. Prudently and calmly, she agrees to part with Pierre, demanding a "state" from him. Finally, Count Bezukhov saw his wife in her true form, "he was physically suffering at that moment: his chest was tight, and he could not breathe." Pierre's honest nature cannot withstand Helen's lies and shamelessness, anger and hatred boils in his soul. “I will kill you! - he shouted and, grabbing a marble board from the table with a force unknown to him, took a step towards it and swung at it.
The writer pays special attention to the "inner voice" of his characters, subconsciously leading them to the right path of life. Pierre did not listen to his conscience, could not subordinate his behavior to "consciousness", surrendering to sensual inclinations and spiritual blindness, which leads him to dramatic experiences and tragic consequences. As a result, he “gave his wife a power of attorney to manage all the Great Russian estates, which accounted for more than half of his fortune,” and returned to St. Petersburg to a lonely lifestyle.
A secular society, corrupt and hypocritical, which once accepted Pierre with open arms when he was the illegitimate son of a nobleman and "the best groom Russian Empire", rejected "a stupid jealous man, subject to the same fits of rabies as his father." On the other hand, the doors of all St. Petersburg drawing rooms were open to Helen, and acquaintances treated her respectfully and cordially. “Helen took on a dignified expression, which she ... learned for herself. This expression said that she decided, without complaining, to endure her misfortune and that her husband is a cross sent to her from God ”and led a dissolute life, having a new lover - Boris Drubetskoy.
Confused in his searches, disillusioned with Freemasonry, Pierre decides to reconcile with his wife, explaining his decision by the fact that "he must not refuse the one who asks and must give a helping hand to anyone, especially a person so connected with me, and must bear his cross."
Somewhat mockingly, the author of "War and Peace" narrates about future fate Helene, who became the legislator of the French circle, the Napoleonic Union, acquiring a reputation as a woman who is as smart as she is beautiful. Nothing else connected the Bezukhov spouses - only common Home. Pierre, resigned to deceit, “learned for himself in the society of his wife that he was not interested in that tone of indifference, negligence and favor to everyone,” which was expected from him.
For Leo Tolstoy, the main thing in a person is simplicity, kindness and truth. This was not the case in Helen, mired in debauchery and hypocrisy. When the Russian people stood up for the Motherland, sacrificing their lives for its good and dreaming of "cleansing their land from invasion", Countess Bezukhova chose a new husband for herself. Helen's immoral life also gives rise to her immoral death, which struck Pierre very much: "... such a death ... without friends, without consolation."
The main thing for the writer in the image human destinies- This moral laws according to which the family, husband, wife, children should live. Ellen has no moral standards, the only law of her life is the arbitrariness of animal desires and prudence; for her, marriage is just a path to enrichment; she constantly cheats on her husband, who is amazed at the rudeness of her inner world. Ellen is heartless. "I'm not such a fool as to have children," she utters blasphemous words. Such a woman, according to Leo Tolstoy, has no right to have a family.
Pierre, pure soul and thoughts, having passed the path of severe trials and realizing that happiness must be sought in love and harmony, at the end of the novel he finds peace and tranquility in the family and children, marrying Natasha Rostova.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy in his famous novel"War and Peace" singled out "people's thought" as the main idea. This theme is most multifaceted and vividly reflected in excerpts from the work that describe the war. As for the "world", "family thought" predominates in its depiction. She also plays very important role in the work we are interested in. The theme of love in the novel "War and Peace" in many ways helps the author to reveal this idea.
Love in the life of the characters of the novel
Almost all the characters in the work are tested by love. Not all of them come to moral beauty, mutual understanding and true feeling. Also, it doesn't happen right away. Heroes have to go through mistakes and suffering that redeems them, purifies and develops the soul.
The life of Andrei Bolkonsky with Lisa
The theme of love in the novel "War and Peace" is revealed on the example of several characters, one of which is Andrei Bolkonsky. His path to happiness was rocky. At the age of 20, being an inexperienced young man, blinded by external beauty, he decides to marry Lisa. But Andrei very quickly comes to a depressing and painful understanding that he was mistaken cruelly and uniquely. In a conversation with his friend, Pierre Bezukhov, he utters almost in despair the words that one should not marry before he has done everything he could. Andrey says that he would give a lot not to be bound by family ties now.
Bolkonsky and his wife did not bring peace and happiness. What's more, he was obsessed with her. Andrew did not love his wife. He rather despised her, treating her like a child from a stupid empty light. Bolkonsky was oppressed by the feeling that his life was useless, that he had become an idiot and court lackey.
Andrew's heartbreak
This hero had the death of Lisa ahead, a mental break, longing, fatigue, disappointment, contempt for life. At that time, Bolkonsky resembled an oak that stood contemptuously, angry and old freak between smiling birches. This tree did not want to submit to the charm of spring. However, suddenly a confusion of young hopes and thoughts arose in Andrei's soul, unexpected for him. As you probably guessed, the theme of love in the novel "War and Peace" gets further development. The hero leaves the estate transformed. Again in front of him on the road is an oak tree, but now it is not ugly and old, but covered with greenery.
Bolkonsky's feeling for Natasha
The theme of love in the novel "War and Peace" is very important for the author. According to Tolstoy, this feeling is a miracle that revives us to a new life. to Natasha, a girl so unlike the absurd and empty women of the world, Bolkonsky did not immediately appear. It renewed his soul, turned it over with incredible strength. Andrey has now become a completely different person. He seemed to come out of a stuffy room. True, even a feeling for Natasha did not help Bolkonsky to humble his pride. He never managed to forgive Natasha for her "treason". Only after he received a mortal wound did he rethink his life. Bolkonsky, after a mental break, understood the suffering, remorse and shame of Natasha. He realized that he was cruel, breaking off relations with her. The hero admitted that he loves her even more than before. However, nothing could keep Bolkonsky in this world, even Natasha's fiery feeling.
Pierre's love for Helen
The theme of love in Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" is also revealed on the example of Pierre. The fate of Pierre Bezukhov is somewhat similar to the fate of Andrei, his best friend. Like him, who was carried away in his youth by Lisa, Pierre, who had just returned from Paris, fell in love with Helen, who was doll-likely beautiful. When revealing the theme of love and friendship in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace", it should be noted that Pierre's feeling for Helen was childishly enthusiastic. Andrew's example taught him nothing. Bezukhov had to own experience make sure that outer beauty is not always internal, sincere.
Unhappy marriage
This hero felt that there were no barriers between him and Helen, that this girl was terribly close to him. Her marble beautiful body had power over Pierre. And although the hero understood that this was not good, he nevertheless succumbed to the feeling that this depraved woman inspired in him. As a result, Bezukhov became her husband. However, the marriage was not happy. A feeling of gloomy despondency, disappointment, contempt for life, for himself and for his wife, seized Pierre some time after living with Helen. Her mystery turned into stupidity, spiritual emptiness and debauchery. This is worth mentioning if you are writing an essay. The theme of love in Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" is covered with new side in the relationship between Pierre and Natasha. About how these heroes finally found their happiness, we'll talk now.
Pierre's new love
Bezukhov, having met Natasha, like Andrei, was struck by her naturalness and purity. In his soul, the feeling for this girl began to grow timidly even when Natasha and Bolkonsky fell in love with each other. Pierre was happy for them, but this joy was mixed with sadness. Kind heart Bezukhov, unlike Andrei, understood Natasha and forgave her for the incident with Anatole Kuragin. Despite the fact that Pierre tried to despise her, he was able to see how exhausted she was. And then Bezukhov's soul for the first time was overwhelmed with a feeling of pity. He understood Natasha, perhaps because her infatuation with Anatole resembled his own infatuation with Helen. The girl believed that Kuragin possessed inner beauty. In communication with Anatole, she, like Pierre and Helen, felt that there was no barrier between them.
Renewal of the soul of Pierre Bezukhov
Path life quest Bezukhov continues after a quarrel with his wife. He is fond of Freemasonry, then participates in the war. Bezukhov is visited by the half-childish idea of \u200b\u200bkilling Napoleon. He sees Moscow burning. Further, he is destined for difficult minutes of waiting for his death, and then captivity.
Pierre's soul, cleansed, renewed, having gone through suffering, retains love for Natasha. When he meets her again, he discovers that this girl has also changed a lot. Bezukhov did not recognize the former Natasha in her. Love awakened in the hearts of the heroes, "long-forgotten happiness" suddenly returned to them. They were seized, in the words of Tolstoy, "joyful madness."
Finding happiness
Life woke up in them along with love. The power of feeling brought Natasha back to life after a long mental apathy, which was caused by the death of Prince Andrei. The girl thought that with his death her life was over. However, the love for her mother that arose in her with new force showed Natasha that love is still alive in her. The strength of this feeling, which is the essence of Natasha, was able to bring to life the people whom this girl loved.
The fate of Princess Marya and Nikolai Rostov
The theme of love in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" is also revealed on the example of the relationship between Princess Marya and Nikolai Rostov. The fate of these heroes was not easy. Ugly in appearance, meek, quiet princess had a beautiful soul. During the life of her father, she did not even hope to ever marry, raise children. Anatole Kuragin was the only one who wooed her, and even then only for the sake of a dowry. Of course he couldn't understand. moral beauty and high spirituality of this heroine. Only Nikolai Rostov managed to do this.
Tolstoy in the epilogue of his novel speaks of the spiritual unity of people, which is the basis of nepotism. At the end of the work appeared new family, where so different, it would seem, began - Bolkonsky and Rostov. Reading Lev Nikolayevich's novel is very interesting. Eternal themes in the novel "War and Peace" by L. N. Tolstoy make this work relevant today.
