“simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty” (l. n.

1. fairy tale motifs Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas".
2. Characters of the main characters.
3. The life-affirming beginning of Gogol's story.

Human life is complex and multifaceted. It has a place for everything: exploits and adventures, politics and love, entertainment and work. If you give up at least something, life will definitely become poorer. Interest in a fairy tale will never fade in a person. It's amazing beauty fairy tales makes them so beautiful and attractive to readers. I would like to dedicate my essay to Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas". This work perfectly matches Tolstoy's formula: "Simplicity is necessary condition beautiful." There is so much truly fabulous in Gogol's story. Real world closely intertwined with folklore, fairy-tale motifs.

We easily and imperceptibly fall under the influence of a magical story created by the writer. This work does not call anyone to anything, it is far from politics and the social situation. But "man does not live by bread alone." No matter how interested we are in social contradictions and moral quest Russian classics, magical stories from the collection "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", told by Gogol, we like no less.

The story "The Night Before Christmas" cannot leave indifferent even a skeptic. Everyone will find in this work what he likes. Someone likes fantastic motives, someone likes the warm and lively humor of the writer, and someone seems especially interested in human relations against the backdrop of mystical events. The unknown, the mystical has always attracted man. But the fear of the unknown made such an interest dangerous and creepy. However, Gogol makes his magic story so captivating that the reader is left with the most iridescent mood after reading.
Gogol skillfully combines folk beliefs, legends, fairy tales. They combine so harmoniously and naturally that we involuntarily begin to believe in fiction author. All the characters in the story resemble real "folk" characters. The brave and desperate blacksmith Vakula, the beautiful Oksana, who so excites his heart, remind us of the "laws" fairy tales. It is in fairy tales that a plot is very common in which a young man, trying to achieve the love of a beautiful woman, performs acts unprecedented in his courage in her honor.

In Gogol's story, exactly the same laws apply. The beauty wants to receive the royal slippers. The condition is definitely not an easy one. But the brave young blacksmith cannot fail to fulfill the desire of his beloved. In order for the beauty to receive her slippers, the blacksmith had to saddle the devil and fly on it. The blacksmith Vakula brought the royal slippers to the beautiful Oksana, and he managed to deceive the devil and save his soul. Wonderful fairy story, Gogol's amazing language, authentic, vivid human characters - all this makes the work unforgettable. Gogol's story "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" can be read more than once.

The work gives the reader positive attitude. The devil - the personification of evil forces - is put to shame. A simple person turns out to be much smarter, more cunning, quick-witted. "In gratitude" for the journey from the blacksmith, the devil receives a good beating. Evil forces in the form of a devil are shown in Gogol's story as so miserable and miserable that it is impossible not to laugh at them. The noble hero was on top, no one could defeat him.

Each magical story shows us not only incredible adventure but also real relationships between people. And these relationships sometimes turn out to be no less interesting. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" reveals to us the surprisingly vivid characters of the characters. We laugh at comedic episodes with pleasure, observe with interest everyday details that are so natural and believable.

Gogol's story pleases us good ending, which is also fully consistent fairytale traditions. Good triumphs over evil. In the story, a life-affirming beginning is clearly felt. The story is very simple, easy and understandable for perception. She likes both children and adults. In minutes sad thoughts she is able to please, make you think about how beautiful life is. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" is surprisingly simple and that is why such a wonderful work.

There are in the works of great poets
Features of the naturalness of that
What is impossible, having tasted them,
Don't end up in complete silence.

In kinship with everything that is, making sure
And knowing the future in everyday life,
It is impossible not to fall to the end, as in heresy,
In unheard of simplicity.

But we won't be spared
When we don't hide it.
She's only people need,
But the complex is clearer to them.

In the blog about Pushkin, I cited only the second stanza. But look what's next:

But we won't be spared
When we don't hide it.

How to understand it? Will we be punished for simplicity? Who will not spare us? The people who need it the most? But why? Is it because simplicity is true? Ah, it is said that nothing offends people so much as the truth. So, for simplicity, that is, for truth, do not expect mercy ...

She is what people need most.
But the complex is clearer to them.

That "everything is needed" is so. Simplicity, that is, truth (truth) is constructive, its vector is development, movement into the future.
But why is “complex more understandable” to people? Is it so? Rather, the complex is more familiar to them, more pleasant. So the guru speaks to his disciples with hints, allusions, parables, without colliding with the truth (truth) in the forehead, because for a fledgling mind such a collision can be fatal.
That is, in the complex, like in a soft wrapper, like a bubble wrap, our human amateurism bathes.

Here are some aphorisms about simplicity.

Don't pretend to be anything; simplicity is the mark of genius.
C. Berne
Simplicity is the consciousness of one's own human dignity.
P. Buast
Simplicity is the closest relative of the mind and talents.
F. Glinka
Simplicity is always the result of sublimity of feelings.
J. D'Alembert
The ostentatious simplicity is a refined hypocrisy.
F. La Rochefoucauld
Simplicity makes life not only more pleasant, but ... and more pure and beautiful.
M. Montaigne
Simplicity is the main condition of moral beauty. In order for readers to sympathize with the hero, it is necessary that they recognize in him as many of their weaknesses as virtues, virtues are possible, weaknesses are necessary ...
L. Tolstoy
Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.
L. Tolstoy
All people engaged in a truly important business are always simple, because they do not have time to invent something superfluous.
L. Tolstoy
Least of all are people who want to appear simple.
L. Tolstoy
The language of truth is simple.
Seneca Aucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Be wise as serpents and simple as doves. New Testament. Gospel of Matthew
Simplicity is not only the best, but also the noblest.
Theodor Fontane
How easier man expressed, the easier it is to understand.
James Fenimore Cooper
In character, in manner, in style, in everything, the most beautiful thing is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing easier than greatness; verily, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simplicity is the hardest thing in the world; this is the extreme limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
The pursuit of simplicity in life is the most complex souls and everything simple tends to complexity.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

And finally - an excerpt from the novel "Doctor Zhivago"
Yuri Zhivago: “All his life he dreamed of originality, smoothed and muffled, outwardly unrecognizable and hidden under the cover of a commonly used and familiar form, all his life he strove to develop that restrained, unpretentious style, in which the reader and listener master the content, without noticing how they absorb it. All his life he cared about an inconspicuous style that did not attract anyone's attention, and was horrified at how far he was from this ideal.

The idea of ​​L. N. Tolstoy that “simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty” becomes especially close and understandable when you admire the beauty of nature. The world around us is so harmonious and beautiful that one never ceases to wonder: who is he, the creator of all living things, an unknown architect and a tireless experimenter? The night starry sky, the sunny splendor of the day, the exquisite simplicity of greenery rustling under the breath of a light breeze, the insane raging elements of the World Ocean - a person freezes in mute admiration, becoming a witness to a wonderful life. Not without reason, revealing the poetic aspects of reality, writers, artists, musicians turn to emotional descriptions of nature. A.P. Chekhov, in a letter to D.V. Grigorovich, penetratingly remarked: “I am deeply convinced that while in Rus' there are forests, summer nights while the waders are still screaming and the lapwings are crying, neither you, nor Turgenev, nor Tolstoy will be forgotten, just as they will not forget Gogol.

In particular, L. N. Tolstoy always creates charming descriptions of nature, imbued with a deep feeling, detailed and accurate, conveying the picture in all details, with exhaustive completeness. So, in the “Fragment of the diary of 1857 (Travel notes in Switzerland)”, the writer noted: “I love nature when it surrounds me on all sides and then develops endlessly into the distance, but when I am in it. I love it when hot air surrounds me from all sides...; when you are not alone in rejoicing and rejoicing in nature, when myriads of insects buzz and curl around you, cows crawl entangled, birds are flooding everywhere, all around. These words express Tolstoy's attitude to nature, endless love for her, great interest in the smallest details of her life, a desire to get closer to her.

Man is an integral part of natural balance and harmony. A person is beautiful, this is often emphasized in art. For example, in the story "After the Ball" L. N. Tolstoy gives such a description of the girl with whom he was in love main character: she “was lovely: tall, slender, graceful and majestic, just majestic. She always carried herself unusually straight ... and this gave her, with her beauty and tall, despite her thinness, even bony, some kind of regal appearance.

A person can think abstractly, consciously set goals for himself, make plans to achieve them, then set to work to realize them, and find satisfaction in their implementation.

A sense of morality makes it possible to distinguish between good and evil, conscience reproaches a person when he is mistaken. He finds happiness when he is useful to someone, joy when he loves and is loved. A person can contemplate plants and animals, the magnificence of mountains and oceans, or the expanse of the starry sky and feel his insignificance. He has a sense of time and eternity, he is interested in where he is going, he wants to understand what is behind it all. As you can see, the beauty of a person lies not only in external data, but also in an internal harmonious and fruitful life.

Imitating the beautiful surrounding world, trying to express his delight with beauty, a person creates brilliant works of art. However, not all so simple. Human nature dual: where there is good, evil necessarily appears; a stream of disharmony flows into the ocean of harmony. Moreover, the scales of good and evil are not in balance. All our actions are measured by these scales, our whole life. If we forget about this, then we are unworthy of even an accidental mention of our descendants.

Man seeks to "replay" nature, to bring into existing reality their understanding of the origins of beauty.

Scientific and technological development is on the rise. Gigantic skyscrapers rise into the sky, the azure sky is cut through by the metal bodies of aircraft, spaceships, the bowels of the earth are disfigured in pursuit of black gold. The pace of life is accelerating - a person strives to achieve more, better.

Result: a "destructive creature" man, "to maintain his life", destroys a variety of living beings, plants, destroys the beauty of nature, violates the delicate balance of harmony.

In the introduction to L. N. Tolstoy’s story “Hadji Murat”, where meadows and summer wild flowers are described, we read: “The “Tatar” bush consisted of three shoots. One was torn off, and the rest of the branch stuck out like a severed hand. On the other two, each had a flower... It was evident that the whole bush had been run over by a wheel and then rose up and therefore stood sideways, but still stood. It was as if a piece of his body had been torn out, his insides turned out, his arm was torn off, his eye was gouged out. But he still stands and does not surrender to the man who destroyed all his brothers around him. This mutilated bush "Tatar" can be symbolically correlated with the results economic activity person.

Nature, "ridden by the wheel" of civilization, does not give up its positions. What is the price of the most comfortable city in the highest degree adapted to human life, in comparison with the endless fields, green forests?

Of course, I am well aware that a person will not give up all the achievements of civilization under any pretext. However, the path to the beautiful and equally simple can be started at any time. One has only to analyze your thoughts and actions: if there are no evil thoughts, vicious desires, unkind aspirations in your soul, we can assume that you are on the way to the primary sources of beauty.

Complex and multifaceted. It has a place for everything: exploits and adventures, politics and love, entertainment and work. If you give up at least something, life will definitely become poorer. Interest in a fairy tale will never fade in a person. It is the amazing fairytale stories that make them so wonderful and attractive to readers. I would like to dedicate my essay to Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas". This fits perfectly with Tolstoy's formula: "Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty." There is so much truly fabulous in Gogol's story. The real world is closely intertwined with folklore, fairy-tale motifs.

We easily and imperceptibly fall under the influence of a magical story created by the writer. This work does not call anyone to anything, it is far from politics and the social situation. But "he does not live by bread alone." No matter how interested we are in the social contradictions and moral quests of the Russian classics, we like the magical stories from the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, told by Gogol, no less.

The story "The Night Before Christmas" cannot leave indifferent even a skeptic. Everyone will find in this work what he likes. Someone likes fantastic motives, someone likes the warm and lively humor of the writer, and someone seems especially interested in human relations against the backdrop of mystical events. The unknown, the mystical has always attracted man. But the fear of the unknown made such an interest dangerous and creepy. However, Gogol makes his magical story so fascinating that after reading the reader remains in the most iridescent mood.
Gogol skillfully combines folk beliefs,. They are combined so harmoniously and naturally that we involuntarily begin to believe in the author's fiction. All the characters in the story resemble real "folk" characters. The brave and desperate blacksmith Vakula, the beautiful Oksana, who so excites his heart, remind us of the "laws" of fairy tales. It is in fairy tales that a plot is very common in which a young man, trying to achieve the love of a beautiful woman, performs acts unprecedented in his courage in her honor.

In Gogol's story, exactly the same laws apply. The beauty wants to receive the royal slippers. The condition is definitely not an easy one. But the brave young blacksmith cannot fail to fulfill the desire of his beloved. In order for the beauty to receive her slippers, the blacksmith had to saddle the devil and fly on it. The blacksmith Vakula brought the royal slippers to the beautiful Oksana, and he managed to deceive the devil and save his soul. A wonderful fairy-tale plot, amazing Gogol, reliable, vivid human characters - all this makes the work unforgettable. Gogol's "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" can be read more than once.

The work gives the reader a positive attitude. The devil - the personification of evil forces - is put to shame. A simple person turns out to be much smarter, more cunning, quick-witted. "In gratitude" for the journey from the blacksmith, the devil receives a good beating. Evil forces in the form of a devil are shown in Gogol's story as so miserable and miserable that it is impossible not to laugh at them. The noble hero was on top, no one could defeat him.

Each magic shows us not only incredible adventures, but also real relationships between people. And these relationships sometimes turn out to be no less interesting. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" reveals to us the surprisingly vivid characters of the characters. We laugh at comedic episodes with pleasure, observe with interest everyday details that are so natural and believable.

Gogol's story pleases us with a good ending, which also fully corresponds to fairy-tale traditions. Good triumphs over evil. In the story, a life-affirming beginning is clearly felt. The story is very simple, easy and understandable for perception. She likes both children and adults. In moments of sad reflection, she is able to please, make you think about how beautiful life is. Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas" is surprisingly simple and that is why such a wonderful work.

The statements of the great ones about the significance of such a quality of a person’s character as “simplicity” ...

“There is nothing difficult in life. We are complex.
Life is a simple thing, and what is simpler in it is more correct. »
Oscar Wilde

“With happiness, things are like clockwork:
the simpler the mechanism, the less often it deteriorates.
Nicola Chamfort

“We should be thankful to God that he created the world in such a way
that everything simple is true, and everything complicated is not true.
Grigory Skovoroda

“True is too simple;
going to him is sometimes very difficult.”
George Sand

"Strong people are always simple." - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
"... there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth." - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.

“There is nothing easier than greatness;
verily, to be simple is to be great.”
Ralph Emerson

“Ordinary people are struck by incredible phenomena;
the educated, on the contrary, are frightened and perplexed by the most simple, ordinary things. — Edmund Burke.

"In character, in manners, in style, in everything, the most beautiful thing is simplicity." — Henry Longfellow.
"Simplicity is the closest relative of the mind and talents." - Fedor Glinka.
"At the truth simple speech." - Grigory Skovoroda.

The power of simplicity in human life

“Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant." - Anton Chekhov.
"If thought cannot be expressed in simple terms It means that it is insignificant and must be discarded. - Luc Vauvenargues.

“Never take any complex moves when the same can be achieved much more simple ways. This is one of the wisest rules of life. It is very difficult to apply it in practice. Especially intellectuals and romantics. - Erich Remarque.

“About serious things, one should speak simply: pomposity is inappropriate here;
speaking of insignificant things, one must remember that only the nobility of tone, manner and expression can give them meaning. - Jean La Bruyère.

"Originality does not preclude simplicity."
Denis Diderot

“Nothing like simplicity brings people together.” - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
"Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty." - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
"Simplicity is always the result of sublimity of feelings." - Jean d'Alembert.

"In character, in manners, in style, in everything, the most beautiful thing is simplicity." — Henry Longfellow
“To love in simplicity, one must know how to show love.” - Fedor Dostoevsky

Simply put, simplicity in everything makes life is easy and joyful. We will talk about this in the next article The simplicity of man", which will be placed in the section" Qualities of character "...

"Everything in this world is simple... as long as we don't confuse everything ourselves..."
Black Doctor