Essay-reasoning " Garnet bracelet: love or madness. Love in Kuprin's story
Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet" reveals the secret riches of the human soul, so it is traditionally loved by young readers. It shows what the power of sincere feeling is capable of, and each of us hopes that we too are capable of feeling so nobly. However, the most valuable quality of this book lies in main topic, which the author masterfully illuminates from work to work. This is the theme of love between a man and a woman, a dangerous and slippery road for the writer. It's hard not to be banal, describing the same thing for the thousandth time. However, Kuprin invariably manages to surprise and touch even the most sophisticated reader.
In this story, the author tells the story of an undivided and forbidden love: Zheltkov loves Vera, but cannot be with her, if only because she does not love him. In addition, all circumstances are against this couple. Firstly, their position differs significantly, he is too poor and is a representative of a different class. Secondly, Vera is married. Thirdly, she is attached to her husband and would never agree to cheat on him. These are just the main reasons why heroes cannot be together. It would seem that with such hopelessness one can hardly continue to believe in something. And if you do not believe, how to feed the feeling of love, devoid of even hope for reciprocity? Zheltkov could. His feeling was phenomenal, it demanded nothing in return, but gave everything of itself.
Zheltkov's love for Vera was precisely a Christian feeling. The hero resigned himself to his fate, did not grumble at her and did not rebel. He did not expect a reward for his love in the form of a response, this feeling is selfless, not tied to selfish motives. Zheltkov renounces himself, his neighbor has become more important and dear to him. He loved Vera as himself, and even more. In addition, the hero turned out to be extremely honest in relation to the personal life of his chosen one. In response to the claims of her relatives, he humbly laid down his arms, did not persist and impose his right to feelings on them. He recognized the rights of Prince Vasily, understood that his passion was in some sense sinful. Not once in all these years did he cross the line and dare not come to Vera with an offer or somehow compromise her. That is, he cared about her and her well-being more than about himself, and this is a spiritual feat - self-denial.
The greatness of this feeling is that the hero managed to let go of his beloved so that she would not feel the slightest discomfort from his existence. He did it at the cost of his life. After all, he knew what he would do with himself after spending state money, but he went for it consciously. At the same time, Zheltkov did not give Vera a single reason to consider himself guilty of what had happened. The official committed suicide because of his crime. Desperate debtors in those days shot themselves to wash away their shame and not shift material obligations onto relatives. His act seemed to everyone logical and in no way connected with a feeling for Vera. This fact speaks of the unusual trepidation of the relationship to the beloved, which is the rarest treasure of the soul. Zheltkov proved that love is stronger than death.
In conclusion, I want to say that the noble feeling of Zheltkov is not depicted by the author by chance. Here are my thoughts on this: in a world where comfort and routine obligations crowd out true and sublime passion, it is necessary to sober up and not take the loved one for granted and everyday. Must be able to appreciate loved one on a par with himself, as Zheltkov did. It is this reverent attitude that the story “Garnet Bracelet” teaches.
Interesting? Save it on your wall!Reason and feelings - these two concepts have great importance in a person's life, despite the fact that they play different roles. How often we are faced with the fact that common sense tells us one thing, and the voice of the heart - quite another. Indeed, the mind is the ability of people to objectively evaluate the world around them, and feelings are the ability to emotionally perceive the phenomena of reality. Many poets and writers of world and domestic fiction addressed this topic in their works.
A vivid proof is the story of the famous Russian writer A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet". Using the example of the main characters of the work, the author showed readers that the main thing is to remain yourself, have a reasonable mind, listen to your heart and be guided by your conscience. The protagonist Zheltkov, a small employee, a lonely and timid dreamer, thinks that his destiny is to love madly, but unrequitedly, and that it is impossible to escape from fate. Love is like an ideal, it should be based on lofty feelings, on mutual respect, honesty and truthfulness. That's how I envisioned her. main character. For many years his hopeless love for a young society lady from high society. The letters he sends to her serve as the subject of ridicule from members of the Schen family. The princess herself does not take them seriously, and the bracelet presented for her birthday causes a lot of indignation at all. With his mind, Zheltkov understood that his life would never be connected with this woman, but he was chained to her with his heart and feelings, because it was impossible to run away from his love.
However, a turning point still comes in the life of the protagonist, and he begins to realize that he is no longer able to live with unrequited feelings. He comes to the conclusion that he only prevents Vera Nikolaevna from living, complicates her relationship with her husband. Zheltkov is grateful to this woman for the wonderful feeling in his heart that elevated him above the world of injustice and evil, for that inseparable love that, fortunately, he was destined to experience. But for him, love became stronger than death, he decided to leave this life. And only after the death of Vera Nikolaevna realized that in the soul of the "little man" lived a huge and pure love that passed her by. I believe that the hero's mind surpassed his feelings, because the understanding that the woman he sincerely loves will never be with him was a fatal step on the path of this man.
Thus, a person must understand and be aware of his actions and actions that can affect his fate or lead to irreparable tragedies. Everyone must determine for himself what is more important: an objective mind or unconscious feelings. After all, making the wrong choice, we risk our own happiness, and maybe even our lives.
Writing.
Direction: "Mind and Feeling".
Folk wisdom says: "Only the one who is crazy can love madly." It is this proverb that perfectly reveals the inner world of a person who, in his actions, is based on feelings, and not on reason. At all times, writers and poets of different cultures and epochs turned in their work to the theme of reason and feeling. Heroes literary works often faced with a choice between the dictates of the heart and the prompting of the mind. They are the important components of the inner world of man. How can these concepts affect the actions of a person and his aspirations? I think that they can manifest themselves both in harmonious unity and in confrontation, which constitutes the internal conflict of the personality. I will try to consider the influence of these concepts on peace of mind person, on the example of literary works, such as the story of A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" and the story of I.A. Bunin "Natalie".
One of the highest values in human life, according to AI Kuprin, has always been love. Love, which gathers into a single bouquet all the best and brightest that life rewards a person, justifies any hardships and hardships. The story of A.I. Kuprin's "Garnet Bracelet" makes us feel the amazing beauty and strength of a high feeling of love. A petty official, a lonely and timid dreamer, falls in love with a young secular lady, a representative of the so-called high class. Unrequited and hopeless love lasts for many years. Letters from a lover are the subject of ridicule and bullying by members of the Shein family. Princess Vera Nikolaevna, the addressee of these love revelations, does not take them seriously either. And a garnet bracelet sent to unknown lovers causes a storm of indignation. People close to the princess consider the poor telegrapher crazy, and only General Amosov guesses the true motives for such risky acts of the unknown lover. And the hero only lives with these reminders of himself: letters, a garnet bracelet. I believe that this is what keeps hope in his soul, gives him the strength to endure the suffering of love. The feelings of the hero prevail over the mind. His passionate, sizzling love, which he is ready to take with him into other world. He is grateful to the one who evoked this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him, a little man, above the vast vain world, the world of injustice and malice. What does such love lead to? Could the tragedy have been avoided? These questions are on our minds throughout the story. But we see that, leaving life, he thanks her, blessing his beloved: "Hallowed be thy name." His love seemed to dissipate in the world around him. Under the passionate sounds of Beethoven's Sonata No. 2, the heroine feels the painful and beautiful birth of a new world in her soul, experiencing a feeling of deep gratitude to the person who placed love for her above all else, even above life itself.
In stories about love, I.A. Bunin affirms the true spiritual values, beauty and greatness of a person capable of a great, selfless feeling. The writer draws love as a high, ideal, beautiful feeling, despite the fact that it brings not only joy and happiness, but sometimes grief, suffering, even death. In his stories, Bunin claims that all love is a great happiness, even if it ends in separation, suffering. I believe that many Bunin's heroes come to this conclusion, having lost, overlooked or destroyed their love themselves. But this insight, enlightenment comes to the heroes too late, as, for example, to Vitaly Mishchersky, the hero of the story “Natalie”. The writer told the love story of student Mishchersky for the young beauty Natalya Stankevich. The tragedy of this love lies in the character of Mishchersky. For one girl he feels a sincere and sublime feeling, and for another - a passion, and the other seems to him love. But it's impossible to love two people at the same time. We see how the feeling of love makes the hero not only suffer internally, torment, doubt, but also feel life brighter, more colorful. His spiritual impulse - to explain himself to his beloved, leads to misunderstanding and isolation. The physical attraction to Sonya quickly passes, but remains true love Natalie for life. It was sad to read the lines in which the cordial affection, the union of Mishchersky and Natalie is cut off by the untimely death of the heroine. The feelings experienced by the hero, quivering and inexplicable, make him suffer about the loss of his beloved. His love, in my opinion, is a test of the viability of a person as a person, when feelings prevail over reason.
So, considering the feelings of love as a multifaceted and inexplicable concept, one cannot but say that the depiction of this feeling in Russian writers also acquires a “sensual” character. Internal experiences, unrest, suffering sometimes force the heroes to do noble deeds in the name of love. It was sad to realize that love and death are always there. For Russian writers, love and existence without it are two opposite, different lives, and if love dies, then that other life is no longer needed. Raising love, both Bunin and Kuprin do not hide the fact that it brings not only joy, happiness, but also very often harbors torment, grief, disappointment, death.
Composition "You need to live with your heart" (based on the novel by A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet")
In a number psychological works I was surprised by the definition of feeling as a product of experience, thinking, accumulated experience, because in the philistine sense it is more customary to perceive mental activity as a synonym for “mind”. I wonder if a person can live, obeying only spiritual impulses? Prince Igor, Katerina A.N. Ostrovsky, Oblomov, Natasha Rostova, the nameless hero of I. Bunin's story "Sunstroke" - each of them more than once faced a choice: listen to the dictates of reason or live according to the call of the heart. Is it right, forgetting about common sense, to follow the rule of the Fox, who taught the Little Prince: “Only the heart is vigilant”? I will try to answer this question in my essay - reasoning.
It seems to me that you can get a solution to the problem by referring to the works of A. I. Kuprin: "Duel", "Olesya" and, of course, to one of my favorite stories - "Garnet Bracelet". Reading it, you learn about the main character - G.S. Zheltkovo. A small official who devoted his whole life to only one feeling - love, causes not only great compassion. Reading the last letter of the protagonist, seeing his confidence that this "great happiness" was sent to him by God, repeating after him: "Every moment of the day was filled with you, the thought of you, dreams of you" and "Hallowed be your name" - I understand that it was a real life. Zheltkov was not interested in what was happening next to him, "neither politics, nor science, ... nor concern for the future happiness of people." The handkerchief, kept for many years, left at the ball in the Noble Assembly, the program forgotten by Princess Vera Sheina art exhibition and the only note with a ban on writing to her for 7 years is the meaning of the hero's life.
The fact that without this feeling of deep admiration for the princess and admiration for her, life for Zheltkov would have turned into existence, it becomes clear from his actions. Last telephone conversation with an object of adoration, a farewell letter with a confession and a request to remember him and play or listen to a Beethoven sonata convince that it is impossible to live without a strong, all-consuming feeling. I try to imagine a hero following the voice of reason, refusing his silent presence in the life of Vera Sheina, not giving her his family jewel - a garnet bracelet, and I realize how empty and meaningless his life becomes. It is no coincidence, it seems to me, that A. I. Kuprin describes in such detail the feelings of longing and anxiety that gripped Vera Sheina at the moment when she learned about Zheltkov's death. Her understanding of what passed by, as General Anosov said, eternal, exceptional, true love, “which is repeated only once in a thousand years,” helps the reader answer the question of whether it is possible to live only with feelings.
A.I. Kuprin, his story "Garnet Bracelet" and the story of G.S. Zheltkova helped me understand: a person, of course, can live with his heart only if he experiences sincere, deep, real feelings.
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 go to 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, Kuprin in his story wants to show the story of love, albeit unrequited, but nevertheless, from this unrequitedness, it 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. Probably, such a love could not have a happy outcome. 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 a person is not only rich in material values, but inner world, soul. The words of Zheltkov “Let the your name", - this is the idea of \u200b\u200bthe work. Every woman dreams of hearing such words, but great love is given only by the Lord and not to everyone.
