Tragic love in a garnet bracelet. Helping a student

The recognized master of love prose is Alexander Kuprin, the author of the story "Garnet Bracelet". “Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward, the one about which it is said “strong as death.” Love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to endure torment is not labor at all, but one joy, ”such love touched an ordinary middle-class official Zheltkov.

He once and for all fell in love with Vera. And not ordinary love, but the one that happens once in a lifetime, divine. Faith does not attach importance to the feelings of her admirer, lives full life. She marries a quiet, calm, good man from all sides, Prince Shein. And her quiet, calm life begins, not overshadowed by anything, neither sadness nor joy.

A special role is assigned to Vera's uncle, General Anosov. In his mouth, Kuprin puts the words that are the theme of the story: “... maybe your life path, Vera, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of. Thus, in his story, Kuprin wants to show the story of love, albeit unrequited, but nonetheless, this unrequitedness has not become less strong and has not turned into hatred. According to General Anosov, any person dreams of such love, but not everyone gets it. And Vera, in her family life there is no such love. There is another thing - respect, mutual, for each other. Kuprin, in his story, sought to show readers that such sublime love is already a thing of the past, there are only a few people left, such as the telegraph operator Zheltkov, who are capable of it. But many, the author emphasizes, are not at all able to understand the deep meaning of love.

And Vera herself does not understand that she is destined to be loved by fate. Of course, she is a lady of a certain position in society, a countess. Maybe, happy outcome such love could not be. Kuprin probably himself understands that Vera is not able to connect her life with the "little" man Zheltkov. Although it still leaves her one chance to live the rest of her life in love. Vera missed her chance to be happy.

The idea of ​​the work

The idea of ​​the story "Garnet Bracelet" is faith in the power of a true, all-consuming feeling, which is not afraid of death itself. When they try to take away the only thing from Zheltkov - his love, when they want to deprive him of the opportunity to see his beloved, then he decides to die voluntarily. Thus, Kuprin is trying to say that life without love is meaningless. This is a feeling that does not know temporary, social and other barriers. No wonder the name of the main one is Vera. Kuprin believes that his readers will wake up and understand that not only material values rich man, but rich inner world, soul. The words of Zheltkov “Hallowed be thy name” run like a red thread through the whole story - this is the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe work. Every woman dreams of hearing such words, but big love only by the Lord and not by all.

Oct 26 2010

AI Kuprin has one cherished theme. He touches her chastely and reverently. This is the theme of love. He created many bright works of art, while remaining faithful to the heroes and high, romantic and boundless love. One of the most beautiful and sad stories about love is "Garnet Bracelet". The great gift of love will open in the most ordinary surroundings, in the heart of a simple, seemingly unremarkable person. And the world of well-fed complacency will be shaken by that wonderful and all-consuming, albeit unrequited feeling, which the poor official Zheltkov, the hero of this story, experienced as enormous.

The special power of the "Garnet Bracelet" is given by the fact that love exists in it as an unexpected gift among everyday life, among sober reality and settled life. An unprecedented gift of high and unrequited love became Zheltkov's "huge happiness". This raises him above other heroes: the rude Tuganovsky, the frivolous Anna, the conscientious Shein and the wise Anosov. The beautiful Vera Nikolaevna herself leads a habitual, as it were, drowsy existence, expressively shaded by a coldish autumn landscape dormant nature. Faith is "independent and regally calm." This calm destroys Zheltkov. not about the emergence of Vera's love, but about her spiritual awakening, which proceeds first in the sphere of forebodings, and then - internal contradictions.

The letter and gift already sent by Zheltkov - a bracelet with five densely red ("like blood") grenades - cause an "unexpected" alarm in the heroine. From this moment, the expectation of misfortune, painful for her, grows, up to the foretaste of Zheltkov's death. At the request of Tuganovsky - to disappear, Zheltkov, indeed, cuts off his. Farewell Farewell to Ashes young man, their only "date" - a turning point in her internal state. On the face of the deceased, she read "the same peaceful expression" as "on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon." “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.”

The writer endowed his heroine with much more opportunities than just a person's disappointment in himself. In the finale, Vera's excitement reaches its limit. To the sounds of a Beethoven sonata - Zheltkov bequeathed to listen to it - Vera, in tears of pain, repentance, enlightenment, comprehends "a life that humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment ... and death." Now this life will forever remain with her and for her under the final refrain of the story: “Hallowed be your name!" Kuprin wept over the manuscript of The Garnet Bracelet.

He said that he had never written anything more chaste. Surprisingly sensitively, the writer included a story about the tragic and the only love in the setting of southern seaside autumn. The brilliant and farewell state of nature, transparent days, the silent sea, dry corn stalks, the emptiness of cottages left for the winter - all this gives a special bitterness and strength to the story. And the gentle whisper of the trees, a light breeze enlightens the bitterness of the heroine, as if blessing her for the faithful memory of Zheltkov, for sensitivity to true beauty, imperishable love.

The theme of love never dried up in Kuprin's prose. He has many subtle and excellent stories about love, about the expectation of love, about its tragic outcomes, about its poetry, longing and eternal youth. Kuprin always and everywhere blessed love. He sent "great blessings to everything: earth, waters, trees, flowers, skies, smells, people, animals and eternal goodness and eternal beauty contained in a woman."

The theme of love has been one of the most important in world and Russian literature since its inception. This feeling has the most different definitions, but perhaps the most comprehensive is the gospel definition: "This mystery is great." to understanding great mystery Kuprin and leads the reader through the whole system of images of the short story “Garnet Bracelet”.

The secret of God's gift of love, pure and unique, lofty to the point of self-sacrifice, creating a high atmosphere of morality, the author embodied in the image of the "little man" Zheltkov.

The novel opens with a description of the coming autumn based on the principle of contrast. In mid-August the weather is “disgusting”. It is accompanied by “dense fog, fine as water dust, rain, turning clay roads and paths into solid thick mud”, a ferocious hurricane, “the siren at the lighthouse roared like a mad bull” ... The trees swayed ..., “like waves in a storm”.

By the beginning of September, the weather changes dramatically. “Quiet cloudless days, so clear, sunny and warm, which were not even in July. On the dry, compressed fields, on the prickly yellow bristles, autumn cobwebs shone with a mica sheen. The calmed trees silently and obediently dropped their yellow leaves.

This contrasting landscape, depressing and joyful, seems to anticipate a natural change in the life of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina and the official of the control chamber Zheltkov, where Divine purity and tragedy, insight and faith in eternal, unearthly love will harmoniously merge together. state of mind The author gives Vera Nikolaevna through the prism of attitude to natural beauty, dissolved in the vast world of being.

“She was very happy about the lovely days that had come, the silence, the solitude, clean air chirping on the telegraph wires of swallows…”.

Naturally sensitive, she has long since lost the feeling of love for her husband. They were friends and took care of each other.

Faith intuitively searches for an answer to the question of whether there is love and how it manifests itself.

The author explains the thirst for love and the naivete of married sisters as a stereotype that has developed in many generations, where love is replaced by habit and convenience. The author will lead his heroine, together with the reader, to true love, to the throne, on the altar of which life is laid.

Throughout the story, Zheltkov is the secret lover of Vera Nikolaevna

Sheina, who rarely reminds of himself with letters. For Vera's relatives, he seems ridiculous, insignificant. Vasily Lvovich, Vera's husband, not stupid, merciful, devotes a lot of space to Zheltkov in his home humorous magazine, depicts his caricatured imaginary portrait. Either Zheltkov a chimney sweep, or a monk, or a village woman, or he sends Vera a bottle of perfume filled with tears. In such a reduced manner, Shein portrayed the inferiority of the “little man”, who dared to fall in love with a woman who was not of his circle.

Probably, Prince Shein, at the moment of meeting with Zheltkov, realized his clownishness, since even Nikolai Nikolaevich Tuganovsky instantly saw the nobility of Zheltkov. He peers into the unusual appearance of a man, sees in him inner work souls: “thin, nervous fingers, a pale, tender face, a childish chin.”

These are the external features of a person who perceives the world with sophistication, complemented by touches of his psychological experiences before Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich. Zheltkov was at a loss, his lips turned dead, he jumped up, his trembling hands ran, and so on.

All this characterizes a lonely person who is not accustomed to such communication.

In the novel, the word "cliff" has direct meaning and acquires the meaning of an image - a symbol. Vera lives on a cliff in front of which the sea is raging. She's afraid to look off a cliff. Zheltkov is constantly mentally there, on the precipice.

His speech to the guests who came to deprive him of what he lives on was a jump into the abyss from a cliff. With childish directness, he will say what the soul is filled with: “Sending the bracelet was even more stupid. But ... I can never stop loving her ... Imprison me? But even there I will find a way to let her know about my existence. There is only one thing left - death ... "

Zheltkov rushes off the “cliff” into oblivion when he hears Vera on the phone: “Oh, if you only knew how tired I am of this story.”

The appearance of Zheltkov, speech, behavior stirred up Shein. He suddenly saw in front of him a living person “with unshed tears”, with “an enormous tragedy of the soul”. Shein realized that it's not crazy, but loving person for whom life without Faith did not exist.

Vera hears from the landlady full maternal love and mourn the words: "If you knew, pani, what a wonderful person he was." Vera learns from her that Garnet bracelet he asked to hang on the icon Mother of God. And cold Vera takes from the hands of the landlady what was written for her last letter Zheltkova tenderly reads the lines addressed to her, the only one: “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me, as an enormous happiness, love for you. If you remember me, then play or ask to play the sonata D-dur No. 2. op. 2”.

So, Zheltkov's love, eternal and unique, selfless and selfless, is a gift from the Creator, for which he gladly goes to death. Love Zheltkova heals Vera and two men from pride, spiritual dryness, gives rise to mercy in the souls of these people.

In Vera's family, there was no love between the spouses, although they felt comfortable and confident. There was no demand for love, as evidenced by Vera's conversation with Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov.

People nowadays have forgotten how to love. I do not see true love. Yeah, I didn't see it at the time either.

— Well, how is it, grandfather? Why slander? You were married yourself. So, did you love it?

“It means absolutely nothing, dear Verochka.

“Take at least Vasya and me. Can we call our marriage unhappy? Anosov was silent for a long time. Then he drawled reluctantly:

- Well, well ... let's say - an exception ...

Clever Anosov, who loves both Vera and Anna, very doubtfully agrees with Vera's concept of happiness. Sister Anna could not stand her husband at all, although she gave birth to two children.

He alone among the heroes of the story smells roses this autumn evening: “How roses smell… I can hear from here.” Vera put two roses into the buttonhole of the general's overcoat. The first love of General Anosov is connected with a girl who sorted through dry rose petals.

The subtle scent of roses reminded him of a life story, both funny and sad. This is an insert story in the short story "Garnet Bracelet", with a beginning and an end.

“Here I am walking down the street in Bucharest. Suddenly, a strong pink smell blew over me... Between two soldiers stands a beautiful crystal bottle of rose oil. They oiled their boots and also the locks of weapons.

- What is it with you?

“Some kind of oil, Your Excellency, they put it in porridge, but it’s not good, it hurts your mouth, but it smells good.”

Consequently, the soldiers do not need a delicate fragrance, their horizons are not the same, there is no need for beauty. The path to the pinnacle of spirit, beauty, the pinnacle of nobility is difficult and long.

The image of a rose, a symbol of love and tragedy, permeates the fabric of the novella from beginning to end. Both in the form of dry petals and in the form of already made oil, they are undoubtedly a parallel to all those love stories that grandfather tells, those that the reader himself observes among the acting characters.

The image of a rose alive, red as blood, appears as an impossible phenomenon in autumn in the hands of Vera Nikolaevna. She laid it on the head of the deceased in recognition of his unearthly love. The same color is in the garnet bracelet, only it is a different symbol, a symbol of tragedy, “like blood”.

Realizing the power of Zheltkov's love, Vera is chained to Beethoven's music. And they whispered to her the magical sounds of the words of rapturous love: "Let your name shine." Conscious guilt dissolves in her copious tears. The soul is filled with sounds equivalent to words:

“Calm down, honey, calm down. Do you remember me? You are my one and only last love. Calm down, I'm with you."

And she felt his forgiveness. It was music that united them on this mournful day of the first meeting and farewell, as it united Vera and Zheltkova for all eight years when he first saw her at a concert where Beethoven's music sounded. Beethoven's music and Zheltkov's love is an artistic parallel to the short story, which is preceded by an epigraph to the short story.

L. Von Beethoven. 2 Son. (op.2, no. 2)
Largo Appassionato

So everything artistic means: live speech, insert narratives, psychological portraits, sounds and smells, details, symbols - make the author's narrative a vivid picture, where love is the main motive.

Kuprin convinces that everyone has their own love. Either it is like autumn roses, or it is like dry petals, or love has taken on vulgar forms and descended to worldly convenience and a little entertainment. The love that women dream of, Kuprin focused on the image of Zheltkov. His love is God's gift. His love will transform the world. Kuprin convinces the reader that " small man” may have the richest soul capable of making a beneficial contribution to the improvement of human morality. How important it is to understand this before the onset of the tragedy.

The works of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin entered the classics of Russian literature of the 20th century. Spiritual world of this writer is based on faith in man, natural energy, beauty. One of the cherished themes in his work was the theme of love, it sounds in most of his works, starting from the first stories. According to Kuprin, love is a feeling of high moral content, ennobling a person, giving beautiful moments full of tragedy.

The writer considered love a test for compliance with the high rank of a person. He subjected, for example, the heroes of the story "Olesya" to this test, associating with the heroine dreams of beautiful person, about freestyle and free life merging with nature. One of Kuprin's most striking love stories is also "Garnet Bracelet".

The protagonist of the story, petty official Georgy Zheltkov, has been in love with Princess Vera Sheina for several years. At first, he wrote "daring" letters to her, waiting for an answer, but over time, his feelings turned into reverent, disinterested love. Vera got married, but Zheltkov continued to write to her, to congratulate her on the holidays. He did not expect reciprocal feelings, the hero had enough of his love for Vera: "I am infinitely grateful to you only for the fact that you exist."

On the name day, he gives her the most precious thing that he had, - family heirloom, Garnet bracelet. In the story, the bracelet is a symbol of hopeless, enthusiastic, not expecting anything in return for love. In a note sent along with the jewelry, he explains that Vera is free to "throw away this funny toy", but the fact that her hands touched the bracelet is already happiness for the hero. The gift disturbed, excited Vera, something in her became ready to change.

There was a legend in the Zheltkov family that the bracelet protects men from violent death. George gives this protection to Vera. But the heroine is not yet able to understand that true love touched her. Vera asks Zheltkov to leave her. Realizing that there can be no relationship between them, not wanting to disturb Vera with his existence, he sacrifices himself for the sake of her happiness.

Finally meeting George, who is no longer alive, saying goodbye to him, to the sounds of Beethoven's sonata, Vera realizes that her life has been touched by "exactly the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of." Georgy's feelings awakened the heroine, revealed in her the ability for compassion, empathy, remaining in the mind of Vera as a memory of the eternal, the great, that she realized too late.

“Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world!" - says Kuprin through the mouth of General Anosov. The author considered love to be God's gift, a feeling that few are capable of. In the story, this ability is granted to Georgy Zheltkov. The author endowed the hero with the talent of "disinterested", "selfless", "not waiting for a reward" love, "for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy."

Updated: 2017-06-20

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In the works of A. Kuprin, we meet with selfless love that does not require a reward. The writer believes that love is not an instant, but an all-consuming feeling that can absorb life.

In "Garnet Bracelet" we encounter Zheltkov's true love. He is happy because he loves. It doesn't matter to him that Vera Nikolaevna doesn't need him. As I. Bunin said: "All love is a great happiness, even if it is not shared." Zheltkov simply loved, demanding nothing in return. His whole life was in Vera Shein; he enjoyed every thing of her: a forgotten handkerchief, a program art exhibition that she once held in her hand. His only hope was letters, with the help of them he communicated with his beloved. He wanted only one thing, so that her gentle hands touched a piece of his soul - a sheet of paper. As a sign of his fiery love, Zheltkov presented the most precious thing - a garnet bracelet.

The hero is by no means pitiful, but the depth of his feelings, the ability to sacrifice himself deserves not only sympathy, but also admiration. Zheltkov rises above the whole society of the Sheins, where true love would never have arisen. They can only laugh at the poor hero, drawing caricatures, reading his letters. Even in a conversation with Vasily Shein and Mirza - Bulat - Tuganovsky, he finds himself in a moral gain. Vasily Lvovich recognizes his feelings, understands his suffering. He is not arrogant when dealing with the hero, unlike Nikolai Nikolaevich. He carefully examines Zheltkov, carefully places a red case with a bracelet on the table - he behaves like a true nobleman.

The mention of the power of Mirza - Bulat - Tuganovsky causes a fit of laughter in Zheltkov, he does not understand - how can the authorities forbid him to love?!

The feeling of the hero embodies the whole idea of ​​true love, expressed by General Anosov: "Love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy." This truth, spoken by a “fragment of antiquity”, tells us that only exceptional people what is our hero.

Anosov turned out to be a wise teacher, he helped Vera Nikolaevna understand the depth of Zheltkov's feelings. “At six o'clock the postman came,” Vera recognized the gentle handwriting of Pe Pe Zhe. This was his last letter. It was imbued through and through with the holiness of feeling; there was no bitterness of farewell in it. Zheltkov wishes happiness to his beloved with another, “and let nothing worldly disturb your soul,” probably, he also referred himself to something worldly in her life. One involuntarily recalls Pushkin - "I do not want to sadden you with anything."

Not without reason, Vera Nikolaevna, looking at the dead Zheltkov, compares him with great people. Just like them, the hero had a dream, strong will how could he love them. Vera Shein understood what love she had lost, and, listening to Beethoven's sonata, she realized that Zheltkov forgives her. “Hallowed be thy name” is repeated five times in her mind, like five constituent parts garnet bracelet...