Let's open the academic "Dictionary of the Russian Language": "Beauty is a property according to the meaning of the adjective beautiful", "beautiful - pleasing to the eye, distinguished by the correctness of outlines, harmony of colors, tones, lines, distinguished by the completeness and depth of the internal content, calculated on the result, on the external impression ". Any of these definitions can find its confirmation on the pages of L. N. Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace", because there is the beauty of the soul, and the catchy external beauty of the body, and the beautiful Russian nature, and the beauty of human relations, and the greatness of military labor .
I will try to justify that beauty manifests itself in the image of Tolstoy's most beloved heroine - Natasha Rostova. Outwardly, she is not a beauty in the distance, in the novel there are women who literally sparkle with beauty. This, for example, Helen Kuragina. But her physical beauty can give nothing but physical satisfaction.
There is nothing catchy in Natasha's appearance: "black-eyed, with a big mouth, ugly, but live girl, with her childish open shoulders that jumped out of her bodice from a quick run, with her black curls knocked back, thin bare arms and small legs "- such is the thirteen-year-old girl Natasha at the time of our first meeting with her on the pages of the novel. Two years later we will see her in Otradnoye: black-haired, black-eyed, very thin, in a cotton dress - there is nothing special about the girl's appearance.
Not bright in appearance, Natasha is gifted with the beauty and richness of her voice, reflecting the richness of her inner world. Yes, connoisseurs judged her voice that it had not yet been processed, but they talked about it only after she finished singing. In the meantime, the very sound sounded - they forgot about its "rawness" and only enjoyed it. It is the sister's singing that brings Nikolai Rostov out of a severe depression after a card loss, revealing to him all the splendor and wealth of the world.
The giftedness of the heroine is also manifested in a deep sense of the beauty of nature, which made her lose sight of everything. Natasha - the embodiment of a radiant life - is in complete contrast to the deadly boredom of a secular living room. Appearing on a sunny day in the forest, or against the background of a flooded moonlight park, or among the autumn fields, it is in harmony with the inexhaustible life of nature with all its being. In Otradnoye, Prince Andrei hears her sound, speaking of the charms of the night, of the impossibility of sleeping amidst the enchanting beauty of nature, and I think that just at that very moment his feeling for a hitherto unfamiliar girl is born.
The beauty of Natasha's soul is reflected in her sensitivity, in her unusually subtle and deep intuition. Thanks to this property, she guessed what was not said in words, and, despite the lack of life experience, she correctly understood people. In this regard, her early sympathies for Pierre, who looks somewhat ridiculous, fat, are very indicative; comparison of Boris Drubetskoy with narrow long watches; her antipathy to Dolokhov, who so pleased all the Rostovs. The depth of Natasha's intuition is also evidenced by her words that Nikolai will never marry Sonya.
After the death of Prince Andrei, Natasha, who had a hard time surviving his death,. feels a sense of alienation from his family, and all people. But here is the news of Petya's death. Despair drives the mother almost to madness. Natasha sees her father sobbing, and "something terribly painfully hit her in the heart." All alienation disappears, she is the embodiment of consolation: she does not leave her mother day or night. Only a man with a big and beautiful heart is able to forget about his own trouble for the sake of saving the most dear and close being.
And here is another moment of the novel, proving the beauty and breadth of the heroine's soul. At the hour of departure from Moscow, she, having shown reasonable practicality, ingenuity and dexterity in packing things, learns about the refusal of her parents to hand over places to the wounded on carts. Perhaps for the first time we see Natasha Rostova in anger: "This is disgusting! This is an abomination!" Her face is disfigured with anger, she screams at her mother, and her deed is bright and beautiful. And the parents agree with their daughter - they give carts to the wounded, and after all, her future dowry could be taken out on them.
In my opinion, Natasha's beauty blossomed in marriage and motherhood. Remember how, all inspired by joy, the heroine runs to meet Pierre, who has arrived after a long absence? The old Countess Rostov, moreover, believes that her daughter takes her love to the extreme, which is idiotic, but this opinion, in my opinion, is the result of a cold secular upbringing.
So, answering the question "what is beauty?", I would say: "Look at Natasha Rostova - naturalness, sensitivity, talent, "mind of the heart"".
The theme of beauty and the world of man in the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"
In the novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy claims that each person has his own world and worldview, and hence the perception of beauty. The writer reveals inner world his heroes, shows their spiritual beauty, which manifests itself in the continuous internal struggle of thoughts and feelings. Natasha Rostova, the writer's favorite heroine, subtly feels kindness, truth, human beauty, art, nature. It was in this heroine that Tolstoy embodied the ideal of femininity.
For the first time on the pages of the novel, Natasha appears as a thirteen-year-old girl. We see her "black-eyed, with a big mouth, ugly, but alive." Already here in her one can feel the fullness of life, the desire to live interestingly. Tolstoy, emphasizing the ugliness of Natasha, argues that the point is not in external beauty. He describes the richness of her inner nature. Natasha is very emotional. She is able to admire the beauty of the night: “Oh, what a charm!” Natasha Rostova is a sensitive person with subtle intuition, able to understand and come to the rescue. She lives not with her mind, but with her heart, and it rarely deceives.
Tolstoy endowed his heroine with poetry and talent. Natasha has a wonderful voice. And although adults often said that her voice was not processed, but good, as soon as Natasha began to sing, everyone listened to her singing and admired it. The beauty of her voice helped Nikolenka, who lost almost all of the Rostovs' fortune, to forget about everything for a while and enjoy her beautiful singing.
One of the main advantages of Natasha Rostova is sensitivity and insight. She knows how to be compassionate. After all, it is Natasha who is able to support her mother, who is distraught with grief after the death of Petya. Natasha Rostova has a subtle intuition that helps her understand a person. Natasha surrounds everyone in the house with love, care and kindness.
Natasha Rostova loves everyone and wishes everyone well. Tolstoy emphasizes in it the closeness to the people. She loves folk songs, tradition, music. Natasha admires her uncle's singing and does not notice how she starts dancing. And while reading the Manifesto, her soul is overwhelmed with a feeling of love for the Motherland, Natasha is ready for any sacrifice for her.
Natasha Rostova appears in the novel as the embodiment of love. Love is the essence of her character. Constantly carried away, Natasha lives in an atmosphere of love and happiness. sincere feeling visits her for the first time when meeting with Prince Andrei. He becomes her fiancé, but he has to go abroad. The long wait becomes unbearable for Natasha: “Oh, if only he would come soon. I'm so afraid it won't. What I have now will no longer be.” This impatient feeling of expectation, as well as the insult inflicted by the old prince Bolkonsky, push Natasha to make a mistake - to be infatuated with Anatole. Repentant and realizing her guilt before Prince Andrei, she tells him: “Before I was bad, but now I am good, I know ...” Having reconciled with him, Natasha remains near the dying Prince Andrei until the end of his life. In the epilogue of the novel, we learn about Natasha's marriage. From the ideal of a girl, she turned into a model of a wife and mother. Only through love for Pierre and the creation of a family, Natasha finally finds peace and happiness.
In his work, Tolstoy claims that Natasha Rostova is the true ideal of beauty and harmony. Cold Helen, a recognized beauty in the world, dies, cutting off the “vile breed” of the Kuragins, and the true, spiritual beauty of Natasha continues in her children. This is the triumph of true beauty, a single and creative beauty.
Problem true love in the novel L.N. Tolstoy is presented in a peculiar way and is solved in the whole system of images.
The author's concept of true love is in no way connected with the concept external beauty on the contrary, true love, according to L.N. Tolstoy, - rather, inner beauty. So, already from the first pages, the characters are divided into outwardly beautiful and outwardly not so attractive: Prince Andrei is handsome with his coldish and emphasized aloof beauty, Lisa is beautiful with her short upper lip, Helen Kuragina is magnificent and majestic. Separately, it should be said about the beauty of the Kuragins. Them main feature- a pleasant appearance, but the heroes have absolutely nothing behind it: they are empty, frivolous, overly carefree. Remember the episode with Natasha and Anatole's kiss arranged by Helen: for the Kuragins, this is just entertainment, but for Natasha, who has come to her senses, it is pain, suffering and - subsequently - the loss of a loved one. Helene's beauty bewitches Pierre, but the spell passes quickly, and nothing new appears behind the already familiar appearance. The beauty of the Kuragins is calculation and complete indifference to other people; it's more of an anti-beauty. True beauty, according to L.N. Tolstoy, - the beauty of a different level.
In their own way, clumsy, overweight Pierre and Natasha Rostova with their peculiar appearance are also beautiful. Against the background of the Kuragins or, for example, Vera Rostova, they look more gray and ordinary, but they internal organization causes admiration. Natasha selflessly takes care of the wounded, after that she faithfully follows her husband, completely dissolving in the family. Pierre courageously defends the girl in burning Moscow and selflessly tries to kill Napoleon. These heroes are transformed into moments of inspiration (Natasha's singing), heavy thoughts, thoughts about tragic destinies surrounding and whole country(Pierre).
Energy is true beautiful heroes L.N. Tolstoy cannot go unnoticed: it is no coincidence that the impulsive Denisov falls in love with Natasha at first sight.
Princess Marya Bolkonskaya is also outwardly unattractive, but her radiant eyes, full of meekness, gentleness and kindness, make her pretty, sweet. Marya is beautiful in conversations with her adored brother, beautiful when she puts an image around his neck, seeing him off to war.
What is true beauty? L.N. Tolstoy, the answer to this question is unequivocal: true beauty is moral beauty, a sensitive conscience, kindness, generosity; as opposed to the beauty-emptiness and beauty-evil of the Kuragins. 
Depicting the elderly, L.N. Tolstoy follows the same trend. For all their education and aristocratic manners Prince Vasily Kuragin makes a repulsive impression, and the Rostovs retained charm, cordiality, sincerity and simplicity even in old age. old prince Nikolai Bolkonsky frightens Liza with his aristocratic appearance, but he strikes his son with lively, radiant eyes, active energy and an incomparable mind.
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Epic novel by L.N. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is one of the pinnacles in world literature. It is striking in the breadth of the depicted life, the versatility, the multi-heroic, multi-problematic nature of the work. And one of these problems is the problem of true love and spiritual beauty of a person.
I want to dedicate my composition to Natasha Rostova. After all, Natasha's soul is in itself a whole novel, a life story, and all the most important and most important is manifested in her spiritual qualities and deeds. To be honest, the topic I have chosen is both simple and complex. Simple because Natasha's endless love for life, for the people around her, her realism and comprehensibility to each of us, her childhood dreams, joys themselves reveal this topic. But, on the other hand, the concept human soul” is so extensive and includes so many different things that the topic of my essay may forever remain undisclosed.
And yet I will try to convey the spirituality of that Natasha, whom I remembered and fell in love with. Natasha was the most beloved heroine of L. Tolstoy. He is a master of depicting human souls and characters - he embodied in her the most best features. Tolstoy, apparently, did not consider his heroine smart, prudent, adapted to life. But her simplicity, spirituality of the heart conquered the mind and good manners. Despite her appearance, ugliness in childhood and adolescence (many times Tolstoy mercilessly emphasizes that Natasha is far from always beautiful, because she is not Helen), Natasha even attracted unfamiliar people who met by the will of fate. But it is so important - to be an outlet for people, something like a guardian angel, without making any special efforts.
Many episodes of the novel tell how Natasha inspires people, makes them better, kinder, returns their love of life to them. For example, when Nikolai Rostov loses to Dolokhov in cards and returns home irritated, not feeling the joy of life, he hears Natasha's singing and with this peaceful voice forgets everything in the world. He feels that this very life is beautiful, that everything else is trifles, not noteworthy, and most importantly, that “... suddenly the whole world concentrated for him in anticipation of the next note, the next phrase ...” Nikolai thinks: “All this: misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - everything nonsense, but she is real ... "Natasha, of course, helped people not only in difficult situations. She simply brought them joy and happiness, gave them the opportunity to admire themselves and at the same time did it disinterestedly. I remember the incendiary Russian dance in Otradnoye.
Or another episode. Again Delightful. Night. Natasha, whose soul is full of bright poetic feelings, asks Sonya to go to the window, peer into the extraordinary beauty of the starry sky, breathe in the smells. She exclaims: "After all, such a lovely night has never happened!" But Sonya does not understand Natasha's lively, enthusiastic excitement. It does not have such a divine spark that Tolstoy sang in his beloved heroine. Sonya is kind, sweet, honest and friendly, she does not commit a single bad deed and carries her love for Nikolai through the years. But such a girl is not interesting to either the reader or the author. “Empty flower,” Natasha will say about her, and this word will contain the most cruel truth.
Sonya is too good and correct, unlike Natasha. But, probably, that is why everyone, everyone who reads and loves the novel, falls in love with Natasha, and not with anyone else, is imbued with her feelings and emotional experiences. And now about the most interesting pages novel. Natasha and love They are inseparable. Love is part of her soul. Love for father and mother, for Andrei and Pierre, for Nikolai and Sonya ... Each feeling is different from the other, but they are all deep and true.
And for some reason I want to say more about her love for Andrei. This is the most beautiful feeling in the novel. It has been subjected to many life's trials, but withstood, withstood, retained depth and tenderness. Let us recall the meeting of Natasha and Andrey at the ball. It seems to be love at first sight. But they were introduced to each other. It would be more accurate to call it some kind of sudden unity of feelings and thoughts of two unfamiliar people. They understood each other suddenly, from half a glance, they felt something uniting them both, their souls united. Prince Andrei rejuvenated next to Natasha. He became at ease and natural next to her. But from many episodes of the novel it is clear that Bolkonsky could remain himself only with very few people. “Prince Andrei ... loved to meet in the world that which did not have a common secular imprint. And that was Natasha.
Now I want to ask myself a question. Why does Natasha, deeply loving Andrei, suddenly fall in love with Anatole? In my opinion, this is a rather simple question, and I don’t want to judge Natasha strictly. She has a changeable personality. She is real person who is not alien to everything worldly. Her heart is characterized by simplicity, openness, amorousness, gullibility. Natasha was a mystery to herself. She sometimes did not think what she was doing, but opened herself to feelings, opening up her naked soul. But true love still won, woke up in the soul of Natasha a little later. She realized that the one whom she idolized, whom she admired, who was dear to her, lived in her heart all this time. It was a joyful and new feeling that swallowed Natasha whole, brought her back to life.
It seems to me that Pierre played a significant role in this "return". His "childish soul" was close to Natasha. And he was the only one who brought joy and light to the Rostovs' house when she was ill, when she was tormented by remorse, suffered, hated herself for everything that had happened. She did not see reproach and indignation in Pierre's eyes. He idolized her, and Natasha was grateful to him only for the fact that he exists in the world and that he is her only consolation.
Despite the mistakes of youth, despite the death of a loved one, Natasha's life was wonderful. She was able to experience love and hate, spiritualize those around her and create a magnificent family, finding peace of mind in her. She loved her family hearth and children very much. And what about the fact that the old fire went out in it? She gave it to her loved ones, giving others the opportunity to warm themselves by this fire.
Natasha Rostova, in my opinion, is the most beautiful in a feminine way in Russian literature, which is unusually real and at the same time divine. This is what I think a mother should be. And then the children will inherit only the most beautiful parental qualities of the soul and heart. The image of Natasha embodied the ideal of a woman for Tolstoy, this is exactly how a woman should be, according to the writer, and I think that few will disagree with him.
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"WAR AND PEACE"
Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" is one of the most populous novels known to world literature. Each event of the narrative attracts, like a magnet, many names, destinies and faces, a huge number of historical characters, dozens of heroes created by creative fantasy author. Following Tolstoy, we go and descend into a complex life human existence and together with it we look at the living beings that act in it. This is a very complex, diverse reality that goes into the endless world of ideas.
There are annoying faces, there are heroes who cause admiration or hatred, love, and among them Nikolai Rostov is the most sincere character in the novel.
What a wonderful children's World in the Rostovs' house: life is cleaner and "talks are more fun." Two handsome young men, one an officer, the other a student, Nikolai Rostov, "a short curly young man" with open expression faces.
The next time we meet Rostov in the Pavlodar hussar regiment: "The squadron in which Nikolai Rostov served was located in the German village of Zalzenek," Tolstoy reports. complex world Nicholas builds military relations with the help of three main grounds for him: honor, dignity and loyalty to the oath. He can't even think of lying. The ambiguous position in which it turns out due to the act of Telyatin surprises even experienced fellow soldiers. No wonder the gray-haired captain admonishes Rostov: "Ask Denisov, does it look like something for a cadet to demand satisfaction from a regimental commander?"
And the young Rostov finds out that the honor of the regiment in the internal hierarchy of values is higher and dearer than honor personal. "I'm to blame, all around to blame!" he exclaims when he realizes this. We are witnessing a change of character. The impulsive, pure young man turns into a defender of the fatherland, connected with his comrades in arms by the corporate concept of honor.
When the plot logic leads Nikolai to the battlefield of Shengraben, the "moment of truth" arrives. Rostov realizes the impossibility of murder and death. It can't be that they want to kill me, he thinks as he runs away from the French. He is confused. Instead of shooting, he throws a pistol at the enemy. He runs away with the feeling of "a hare running away from dogs." His fear is not fear of the enemy. He is possessed by a "feeling of fear for his happy young life."
Nikolai Rostov is distinguished neither by the depth of mind inherent, for example, in Prince Andrei, nor by the ability to think deeply and experience the pain and aspirations of people, characteristic of Pierre Bezukhov. Bolkonsky rightly sees in him a close-minded hussar officer, the type of people that he especially did not like. The author calls him "innocent", and this is just the word that can express his inner being. Simple soul. Honest and decent.
Having fallen in love with Princess Marya, he remains faithful to Sonya, to whom he gave his word, to the end, to a certain limit of rationality.
Having married, he, just as he once devoted himself to serving the fatherland, devoted himself to serving his family and household. “Nikolai was a simple owner,” notes Tolstoy, “he did not like innovations ... he laughed at theoretical essays about the economy. He had only one estate before his eyes, and not some separate part his ... And the economy of Nikolai brought the most brilliant results. "(The highest praise of Count Tolstoy.)
The author reluctantly says goodbye to Nikolai Rostov. Certain traits of his character are easily guessed in Konstantin Levin from Anna Karenina. They received the final design in the image of Dmitry Nekhlyudov from "Resurrection". Something like this))
