The image of love in Olesya's story. Educational and methodological material on literature (grade 11) on the topic: Features of the embodiment of the theme of love in the works of A.I. Kuprin (“Olesya”, “Shulamith”, “Pomegranate Bracelet”)
In his work, A.I. Kuprin often turns to the theme of love. However, this sublime feeling often leads to tragic consequences.
In Olesya's story, a young man accidentally meets a beautiful witch who lives in a hut in a deep forest. The girl's beauty, kind character, and natural spontaneity attract him, and he falls in love. Not paying attention to either the condemnation of others or the warnings of his chosen one, he completely surrenders to this overwhelming feeling. The hero is not embarrassed by differences, even opposites, in his image with his beloved. He even believed that this feeling was there, that they would be happy.
But instead of accepting his beloved as she is, the hero begins to remake, reshape the sorceress in his own way. As a result, this leads to tragic end. Reality ruins his plans. The gap separating them is too great.
Garnet bracelet It also describes to us the history of relationships between people from different walks of life. And just like in Olesya’s story, this love story is doomed to tragedy in advance. And it’s not just a matter of differences in social status characters. What confuses me most is the indecision, some half-heartedness in Zheltkov’s actions. He himself seems to understand the impossibility of mutual feelings. Why then this obsession of his? He seems to transfer the initiative into the hands of a woman. Which, of course, doesn’t see the point in these advances of his. What does he hope for? He himself understands that he has no chance, and decides to voluntarily die. This act seems to elevate him in the eyes of readers. Did he think that these memories would lie as a heavy burden on the soul of his beloved? That he seems to make her an accomplice to his murder?
Both of these stories, “Olesya” and “The Garnet Bracelet,” are undoubtedly tragic. But there is both beauty and joy in this tragedy. Otherwise, the writer would not have made these stories the plots of his works. After all, the heroes had a chance to experience true love. Isn’t that what a person lives for in this world?
The theme of love in A. I. Kuprin’s story “Olesya” occupies a special place in creativity. The writer gave us three stories, united by this great topic, - “Garnet Bracelet”, “Olesya” and “Shulamith”.
Kuprin showed different facets of this feeling in each of his works, but one thing remains unchanged: love illuminates the lives of his heroes with extraordinary light, becomes the brightest, unique event of life, a gift of fate. It is in love that the best features of his heroes are revealed.
Fate threw the hero of the story “Olesya” into a remote village in the Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polesie. Ivan Timofeevich - writer. He is an educated, intelligent, inquisitive person. He is interested in people, with their customs and traditions, and in the legends and songs of the region. He was traveling to Polesie with the intention of replenishing his life experience new observations useful for the writer: “Polesie... wilderness... bosom of nature... simple morals... primitive natures,” he thought, sitting in the carriage.
Life presented Ivan Timofeevich with an unexpected gift: in the Polesie wilderness he met a wonderful girl and his true love.
Olesya and her grandmother Manuilikha live in the forest, away from the people who once expelled them from the village, suspecting them of witchcraft. Ivan Timofeevich is an enlightened person and, unlike the dark Polesie peasants, he understands that Olesya and Manuilikha simply “have access to some instinctive knowledge obtained by chance experience.”
Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, of his circle. Reproaching Olesya for superstition, Ivan Timofeevich himself is not to a lesser extent is at the mercy of the prejudices and rules by which people of his circle lived. He didn’t even dare to imagine what Olesya would look like dressed in fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of his colleagues, Olesya, torn from the “charming frame of the old forest.”
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak, unfree man, “a man with a lazy heart” who will not bring happiness to anyone. “You will not have great joys in life, but there will be a lot of boredom and hardship,” Olesya predicts to him from the cards. Ivan Timofeevich could not save Olesya from harm, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her beliefs, despite the fear of the hatred of local inhabitants.
Oles has courage and determination, which our hero lacks; she has the ability to act. She is alien to petty calculations and fears when we're talking about about the feeling: “Let it be what will be, but I won’t give my joy to anyone.”
Pursued and persecuted by superstitious peasants, Olesya leaves, leaving a string of “coral” beads as a souvenir for Ivan Timofeevich. She knows that for him soon “everything will pass, everything will be erased,” and he will remember her love without grief, easily and joyfully.
The story “Olesya” adds new touches to the endless theme of love. Here, Kuprin’s love is not only the greatest gift, which it is a sin to refuse. Reading the story, we understand that this feeling is unthinkable without naturalness and freedom, without bold determination to defend your feeling, without the ability to sacrifice in the name of those you love. Therefore, Kuprin remains the most interesting, intelligent and sensitive interlocutor for readers of all times.
The main theme in the work of A. I. Kuprin. It is love that makes it possible to realize the most intimate principles of the human personality. Especially dear to the writer strong natures who know how to sacrifice themselves for the sake of feeling. But A. Kuprin sees that man in his contemporary world has become shallow, vulgar, and entangled in everyday problems. The writer dreams of a personality who is not subject to the corrupting influence of the environment, and realizes his dream in the image of the Polesie witch Olesya, the heroine of the story of the same name.
Olesya does not know what civilization is; time seems to have stopped in the thickets of Polesie. The girl sincerely believes in legends and conspiracies and believes that her family is connected with the devil. The norms of behavior accepted in society are completely alien to her; she is natural and romantic. But it is not only the exotic image of the heroine and the situation described in the story that attract the writer’s attention.
The work becomes an attempt to analyze that eternal thing that should underlie any high feeling. A.
I. Kuprin pays especially close attention to how feelings develop in the characters of the story. The moment of their meeting is wonderful, the growth of sincere affection in their hearts is amazing. A.I. Kuprin admires the purity of their intimacy, but does not do this romantic love serene, leads the heroes to difficult trials.
To Olesya it becomes turning point in the life of Ivan Timofeevich, a city resident. His initial focus exclusively on his own world is gradually overcome, and the need becomes the fulfillment of the desire to be with another person. His feeling is probably based on vague desires, but very soon it is reinforced by spiritual intimacy. Kuprin accurately conveys the internal transformation of the hero’s personality, the source of which is nature itself. One of the most important phenomena of love for Kuprin is that even a premonition of happiness is always overshadowed by the fear of losing it. What stands on the way to the happiness of the heroes is the difference in their social status and upbringing, the weakness of the hero and the tragic prediction of Olesya.
The thirst for a harmonious union is generated by deep emotions. At the beginning of the story, Ivan Timofeevich seems soft, sympathetic and sincere. But Olesya immediately detects weakness in him, saying: Your kindness is not good, not heartfelt. And the hero of the story really causes a lot of harm to his beloved. His whim is the reason why Olesya goes to church, although she understands the destructiveness of this act. The lethargy of the hero’s feelings brings trouble to the sincere girl. But Ivan Timofeevich himself quickly calms down.
At the moment when he talks about the most seemingly exciting episode of his life, he does not experience guilt or remorse, which speaks of his relative poverty inner world. Olesya is the complete opposite of Ivan Timofeevich. In her image, Kuprin embodies his ideas about the ideal woman. She has absorbed the laws by which nature lives, her soul is not spoiled by civilization. The writer creates exclusively romantic image daughters of the forests. Olesya’s life passes in isolation from people, and therefore she does not care about what many devote their lives to modern people: fame, wealth, power, rumor. Emotions become the main motives for her actions.
Moreover, Olesya is a witch, she knows the secrets of the human subconscious. Her sincerity and lack of falsehood are emphasized in her appearance, and in gestures, movements, smile. Olesya's love becomes the greatest gift that can give life to the hero of the story. In this love there is dedication and courage, on the one hand, and contradiction, on the other. Olesya initially understands the tragic outcome of their relationship, but is ready to give herself to her lover.
Even leaving her native place, beaten and dishonored, Olesya does not curse the one who destroyed her, but blesses those brief moments of happiness that she experienced. The writer sees the true meaning of love in the desire to selflessly give to his chosen one all the fullness of feelings that he is capable of. loving person. Man is imperfect, but the power of love can, at least for a short time, return to him the sharpness of sensations and naturalness that only people like Olesya have retained.
The strength of the soul of the heroine of the story is capable of bringing harmony even to such contradictory relationships as those described in the story. Love is contempt for suffering and even death. It’s a pity, but only a select few are capable of such a feeling.
As an epigraph to my essay, I took a quote Russian writer Konstantin Semyonovich Melikhan. The man makes us think. The first part of the quote is obvious and understandable, I think, to everyone, but the second says that to love you need to change yourself from the inside. People often strive to “reform” anyone, but not themselves. Especially in marriage. Trying to change a person can take away the personality you fell in love with.
Many people say that marriage is primarily about working on yourself. I agree with this phrase. You have to fight for love.
Let's remember the most famous novel Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy "War and Peace". The author introduces us to many different heroes. Consider characters such as Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova. These heroes stand out for their difference from the society around them. At the beginning of the work, Pierre appears before us in the image of a “big child.” But as the plot of the work develops, we can observe the moral maturation of the hero. At the beginning of the novel, Natasha appears to us as a thirteen-year-old, sincere, active girl, but life difficulties“temper” her character.
Great changes in people brought with them great love. Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova are perhaps the most beautiful couple in Russian literature.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin in the story “Olesya” also discusses the topic of fidelity and betrayal. The main character of the work is Ivan Timofeevich. The young master meets Olesya and falls in love with her. The girl turns out to be the granddaughter of a witch, which negatively affects her reputation. After some time, Ivan invites Olesya to move to the city and marry him, but she refuses, since, being a pagan, she cannot get married in a church. Soon Ivan learns that the girl tried to change her faith, but nothing good came of it. I would like to analyze this episode in more detail. Olesya believed Ivan and was ready to change her faith for his sake. The young master is not ready for decisive actions. His behavior can be called selfish. As the proverb says: “Alone in the field is not a warrior.”
Thus, based on the above, I want to draw a conclusion. The Russian writer Konstantin Semyonovich Melikhan is certainly right when he says that for love, both men and women need to change. There are many examples in the literature that confirm his words. You need to try to change yourself rather than someone else.
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The theme of love occupies a special place in the work of A. I. Kuprin. The writer gave us three stories united by this wonderful theme - “The Garnet Bracelet”, “Olesya” and “Shulamith”.
Kuprin showed different facets of this feeling in each of his works, but one thing remains unchanged: love illuminates the lives of his heroes with extraordinary light, becomes the brightest, unique event of life, a gift of fate. It is in love that the best features of his heroes are revealed.
Fate threw the hero of the story “Olesya” into a remote village in the Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polesie. Ivan Timofeevich - writer. He is an educated, intelligent, inquisitive person. He is interested in people, with their customs and traditions, and in the legends and songs of the region. He was traveling to Polesie with the intention of enriching his life experience with new observations useful for the writer: “Polesie... wilderness... bosom of nature... simple morals... primitive natures,” he thought while sitting in the carriage.
Life presented Ivan Timofeevich with an unexpected gift: in the Polesie wilderness he met a wonderful girl and his true love.
Olesya and her grandmother Manuilikha live in the forest, away from the people who once expelled them from the village, suspecting them of witchcraft. Ivan Timofeevich is an enlightened person and, unlike the dark Polesie peasants, he understands that Olesya and Manuilikha simply “have access to some instinctive knowledge obtained by chance experience.”
Ivan Timofeevich falls in love with Olesya. But he is a man of his time, of his circle. Reproaching Olesya for superstition, Ivan Timofeevich himself is no less at the mercy of the prejudices and rules by which the people of his circle lived. He did not even dare to imagine what Olesya would look like, dressed in a fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of his colleagues, Olesya, torn from the “charming frame of the old forest.”
Next to Olesya, he looks like a weak, unfree man, “a man with a lazy heart” who will not bring happiness to anyone. “You will not have great joys in life, but there will be a lot of boredom and hardship,” Olesya predicts to him from the cards. Ivan Timofeevich could not save Olesya from harm, who, trying to please her beloved, went to church contrary to her beliefs, despite the fear of the hatred of local inhabitants.
Oles has courage and determination, which our hero lacks; she has the ability to act. Petty calculations and fears are alien to her when it comes to the feeling: “Let it be what will be, but I won’t give my joy to anyone.”
Pursued and persecuted by superstitious peasants, Olesya leaves, leaving a string of “coral” beads as a souvenir for Ivan Timofeevich. She knows that for him soon “everything will pass, everything will be erased,” and he will remember her love without grief, easily and joyfully.
The story “Olesya” adds new touches to the endless theme of love. Here, Kuprin’s love is not only the greatest gift, which it is a sin to refuse. Reading the story, we understand that this feeling is unthinkable without naturalness and freedom, without bold determination to defend your feeling, without the ability to sacrifice in the name of those you love. Therefore, Kuprin remains the most interesting, intelligent and sensitive interlocutor for readers of all times.
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