How Kuprin solves the eternal problem of unrequited love. Life and art

It’s not for nothing that A.I. Kuprin’s story “” is a great work about a feeling that can neither be bought nor sold. This feeling is called love. Anyone can experience the feeling of love, regardless of their position in society, rank or wealth. In love there are only two concepts: “I love” and “I don’t love.”

Unfortunately, in our time it is increasingly rare to meet a person who is obsessed with the feeling of love. Money rules the world, pushing tender feelings into the background. More and more young people are thinking about a career first, and only then about starting a family. Many people marry for convenience. This is done only to ensure a comfortable existence.

In his work, Kuprin, through the mouth of General Anosov, laid down his attitude towards love. The general compared love with a great mystery and tragedy. He said that no other feelings or needs should be mixed with the feeling of love.

Ultimately, “not love” became a tragedy for the main character of the story, Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. According to her, there have been no warm loving feelings between her and her husband for a long time. Their relationship resembled a strong, faithful friendship. And this suited the spouses. They didn’t want to change anything, because it was convenient to live this way.

Love is a wonderful, but at the same time dangerous feeling. A man in love loses his mind. He begins to live for the sake of his lover or beloved. A person in love sometimes commits inexplicable actions that can have tragic results. A loving person becomes defenseless and vulnerable from external threats. Unfortunately, love cannot protect us from external problems; it does not solve them. Love brings happiness to a person only when it is mutual. Otherwise, love becomes a tragedy.

Zheltkov’s feelings for Vera Nikolaevna became the biggest tragedy in his life. Unrequited love ruined him. He put his beloved above everything in his life, but, not seeing reciprocity, he committed suicide.

Millions of works have been written about love. This multifaceted feeling has been sung by poets and writers, artists and performers in all centuries. But this feeling can hardly be understood by reading stories, listening to music, or looking at paintings. Love can only be fully felt when you are loved and love yourself.

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Author-developer –Malyukova Vera Fedorovna, teacher of Russian language and literature of the highest category, Municipal Educational Institution Secondary School No. 1 with in-depth study of individual subjects in Ivanteevka, Moscow Region, Unified State Examination expert in the Russian language, Honorary Worker of General Education RF.

Detailed summary of a literature lesson in 11th grade

A.I. Kuprin. Life and art. The talent of love in the story “Garnet Bracelet”(2 hours).

The lesson is built using problem-based learning technology

Lesson type: lesson on learning new material

Lesson form: lesson - conversation ( analytical and research work on the text)

Lesson objectives:

To introduce (overview) the work of A.I. Kuprina;

Show Kuprin's skill in depicting the world of human feelings;

Identify the role of detail in the story;

Develop skills in analytical and research work on text, a culture of coherent oral speech; expressive reading skills; thinking;

To awaken students’ desire to philosophize on the topic of love, learn to defend their opinions, citing arguments from text and life.

Methodical techniques:student's report (computer presentation), teacher's lecture, work with text, analytical conversation, work in pairs.

Problematic question– understand how Kuprin resolves the eternal problem of unrequited love.

Equipment: portrait of A.I. Kuprina; audio recording Second sonata by L.V. Beethoven.

Epigraph (for lesson 1): It lives and rules on earth -

Of all miracles, the only miracle.

Yu. Ognev

During the classes

1. Org. moment.

2. Introductory speech by the teacher.

- Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870 - 1938) is one of the most popular writers of pre-revolutionary Russia. His prose was noted with approval by L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov. And for Kuprin, these great masters of words remained the ideal of an artist for the rest of his life.

Already in his early works, Kuprin with great skill reveals eternal, existential problems, criticizes the dark sides of the surrounding reality ("Life", "Horror"),forced labor("Moloch"). He also writes about the bitter destinies of people("From the street"), and about the Russian army("Duel"). But the most cherished theme for him was love, often unrequited, unrequited(“Holy Love”, “Garnet Bracelet”).The topic of man and the environment also occupies an important place.(“Olesya”, “On the wood grouse”).

Unlike Bunin, who wrote his best works in exile, Kuprin experienced a severe creative crisis during these years. Kuprin's work was better known to the Soviet reader because, unlike Bunin, a year before his death, in 1937, he returned from emigration to his homeland, returned deeply ill, unable to work. According to the writer's memoirs Nikandrova, “he did not come to Moscow, but his wife brought him as a thing, since he was unaware of where he was and what he was”. But in Soviet Moscow, panegyric (praise) essays and repentant interviews were written for Kuprin. But only the signature scratched with a weak hand truly belonged to him. The writer died in 1938 in Leningrad from cancer, and his wife committed suicide during the blockade there.

A short message or computer presentation about the life and work of Kuprin and his attitude to revolutionary events will make...

3. Checking individual homework.

(Message or presentation on the topic« Life and work of A.I. Kuprin"– based on materials from the textbook, additional literature and Internet resources.)

4. Work on the topic of the lesson.

1). Reading and discussion of the epigraph.

How do you understand the meaning of the epigraph to the lesson? What is this “miracle” that “lives and rules on earth”?

What is love? What does it mean to love?

Teacher: - Indeed, it is very difficult to explain what love is. For many centuries, philosophers, composers, poets, writers and ordinary people have been and continue to seek the answer to this question. They have always never ceased to glorify this great and eternal feeling of man. This is how the famous playwright wrote about love back in the 17th century J.-B. Moliere:

The day would fade in my soul, and darkness would come again,

If only we would banish love from the earth.

Only he knew bliss who passionately touched the heart,

And whoever didn’t know love doesn’t care

That he didn’t live...

Kuprin himself spoke about love like this: it’s a feeling“which has not yet found an interpreter”.

You might also find it interesting to think about love.V. Rozhdestvensky:

Love, love is a mysterious word,

Who could fully understand him?

In everything you are always old or new,

Are you languor of spirit or grace?

Irreversible loss

Or endless enrichment?

Hot day, what a sunset

Or the night that devastated hearts?

Or maybe you're just a reminder

About what inevitably awaits us all?

Merging with nature, with unconsciousness

And the eternal world cycle?

2). Reading and discussion of the sonnet by I.L. Selvinsky "Wreath of Sonnets".

- “Love” and “infatuation”: how do these concepts differ?

Teacher: - It’s probably not easy to immediately understand the feeling that has gripped and captured you: what is it – love or infatuation?

Listen to the sonnetI.L. Selvinsky.

What feelings do you think the hero is experiencing: love or falling in love?

I've been in love, but I didn't love.

Love? I don't know this name.

I could describe it sensibly,

How Turgenev explained this to me.

Or show off a quote from Tolstoy,

Or borrow ink from Pushkin...

But why - I’ll just whisper this word,

And behind your shoulders are the outlines of wings?

But the wings blew like a fan.

My soul languished and sighed,

But the sails did not rush through the fog.

Nothing, nothing fascinated me.

And although love is a boundless ocean,

My shore has not yet moved from the pier.

- How does love transform a hero?

Explain the meaning of the metaphor “love is a boundless ocean.”

- Love, passion, sensuality, pity, compassion... In your opinion, are these words synonymous?

Select epithets for the word “LOVE”, discuss in pair x and write it down.

Distinguish between these concepts:love is passion;love is pity;love is a habit;love - worship.

Are loving and being loved the same thing? What's better?

Love without reciprocity: happiness or tragedy?

What qualities does a loving person have?

Does ideal love exist? What is she like?

Do you agree that love elevates a person?

3). Quiz based on the story “The Garnet Bracelet” (1910).

Teacher: - Today it is no coincidence that we talk so much about love, because the story that we have to discuss is"Garnet bracelet"– also about love.

But before we directly move on to discussing Kuprin’s work, to revealing its main themes, to discussing the characters’ characters, we will conduct a quiz, the questions of which will help you remember the content and some details of the work.

What time of year does the story take place?(Autumn, September.)

Where do the events of the work take place?(Black Sea resort.)

What is the name of the main character?(Princess Vera Sheina.)

Princess Sheina's surname before marriage?(Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovskaya.)

Who was Vera Sheina's ancestor?(Tamerlane.)

What is the name of Vera Sheina's sister?(Anna Friesse.)

What is the name of Princess Vera's husband?(Prince Vasily Lvovich.)

His position? (Leader of the nobility.)

What date was the name day of Princess Vera Sheina?(September 17, old style, September 30, new style.)

What did her husband give her?(Pear-shaped pearl earrings.)

What did your sister give Vera?(Notebook"in an amazing binding.")

What was the name of the famous pianist, Vera’s friend?(Zhenya Reuter.)

Who gave the bracelet with garnets?(Zheltkov.)

What does Vera compare deep red garnets to?(“Like blood.”)

Who is Zheltkov?(Telegraph operator in love with Vera.)

What does his owner call Zheltkov?(Mr. Ezhiy)

Zheltkov's real name?(George.)

About whom Kuprin wrote: “Took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather large hands, and that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient miniatures...”(About Princess Vera.)

What was the name of the husband of Anna, Vera's sister?(Gustav Ivanovich.)

Whose portrait is this? “She was...somewhat broad-shouldered, lively and frivolous, a mocker. Her face was of a very Mongolian type with quite noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes... captivating with some elusive and incomprehensible charm...”(Anna.)

About whom Kuprin writes: “... very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must be about thirty, thirty-five years old”?(About Zheltkov.)

What kind of music is heard in the work?(Beethoven's Second Sonata.)

Whose portrait is this?“A corpulent, tall, silvery old man, heavily getting off the step... He had a large, rough, red face with a fleshy nose and with that good-natured, stately, slightly contemptuous expression in his narrowed eyes... which is characteristic of courageous and simple people...”(General Anosov.)

- Who is he writing about (About Vera Sheina.)

Who owns the words “Where is love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about whom it is said “strong as death”? ...the kind of love for which to accomplish any feat, to give one’s life, to suffer torment is not work at all, but pure joy... Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life conveniences, calculations or compromises should concern her.”(To General Anosov.)

4. Discussion of the story “Garnet Bracelet”. Analytical and research work on the text.(2nd lesson)

Epigraphs: "Hallowed be thy name..."

“It is not in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent... individuality is not expressed in creativity. But in love"

Louis Aragon, French poet

Teacher: - In the story "Garnet bracelet"reflected the “eternal” theme – love.

What kind of love is this? What epithets apply to the feeling described in this story?

(Passionate, sublime, ideal, extraordinary, pure, unrequited, unrequited.)

The purpose of our lesson(problematic question) - understand how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of unrequited love.

Who turned out to be capable of such sublime love?(Zheltkov.)

Why is this passionate love of Zheltkov unrequited?

(The different social status of the characters (she is from high society, and he is a minor official) and Vera’s marriage.)

Teacher: - The hero himself understands perfectly well and admits in a letter what befell him“only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion”.

What is this secular society to which Vera belongs? What kind of life do these noble and rich people lead? What do they do and how do they have fun?How does Kuprin describe the guests?

Who stands out among them?

(The author does not describe in detail the portraits of the guests, but only gives their brief characteristics. There is"fat, ugly huge"Speshnikov, Anna's husband"with rotten teeth on the face of the skull"“prematurely aged, thin, bilious”Ponomarev. They gamble, look at a humor magazine, listen to singing, and tell stories.

Of all the guests, General Anosov, a friend of the late father of Vera and Anna, stands out. This is a brave servant, a simple and wise man. The heroines affectionately call him"grandfather" He knows many stories. The human attitude towards everyone is what distinguishes him. Anosov is one of the guests who understands music.)

Teacher : - Parties, playing poker; gossip, social flirting; walking is what these noble people do; someone else is listed in some charitable institutions.

When does the story begin?

What does the heroine expect from her name day and what happens on this day??

(Faith “I always expected something happy and wonderful from my name day.”She receives a gift from her husband - earrings; a gift from my sister - a notebook; and from a man with the initials G.S. J. – bracelet.)

Teacher : - Probably, really, a gift G.S. AND. looks like a tacky trinket next to expensive, elegant gifts. But its value lies in something completely different.

What does this garnet bracelet mean for Zheltkov?

(For him, the bracelet is a family jewel.)

Teacher : - The bracelet for Zheltkov is not only a symbol of reverent love, it also has some magical power, like any family jewel. The young man writes about this in a letter to Vera Sheina:“According to an ancient legend that has been preserved in our family, it has the ability to impart the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while it protects men from violent death...”

Why did Zheltkov give this valuable thing and not keep it for himself?

(For the sake of the peace of mind of his beloved woman, the bracelet will help her anticipate something bad and prevent it. In addition, the bracelet is the most expensive thing for him - this is the only way he could express his love for her.)

How did the heroine feel when she received this gift?

(She felt anxiety, a feeling that something unpleasant was approaching. She sees some kind of omen in this bracelet. It is no coincidence that she compares these red stones with blood: the bracelet lights up“living lights”, “like blood!”- she exclaims. Vera's peace was disturbed.)

Teacher . Kuprin in the story does not place much emphasis on"inequality of conditions"does not openly criticize the society to which the main character belongs. The author finds another way to show the gulf that separates the main characters and which makes mutual feelings impossible. This method is to describe the behavior of people from the environment of Princess Vera Sheina.

How do these noble people behave when they learn about Zheltkov’s letters, feelings and gift??

(They laugh at the letters of the young official, mock his feelings, disdain his gift. These people are ready to trample the plebeian for encroaching on what, in their opinion, is inaccessible to him, they can easily recognize a simple person as crazy. With Zheltkov’s gift, the husband and Vera's brother is insulted.)

Are these rich, influential people capable of true love? Was there ardent, passionate love in their life? For example, Vera Nikolaevna, General Anosov, Anna Nikolaevna?

(Anna is only flirting; the general never loved; Vera passionately loved her husband, Prince Vasily Shein, but for some reason she faded away - Kuprin says nothing about this.)

Do they believe that passionate, selfless love still exists? How does General Anosov explain to Vera the lack of true love? Who does he think is to blame for this?

(Chapter 8. General Anosov, told two stories about “love”. The first story is about the wife of a regimental commander and a newly minted ensign, and the second is about Lenochka, who got along with Lieutenant Vishnyakov, and her, a booby husband for whom the most important thing was"Lenochka's happiness."“The fault lies with men who, at twenty years old, are jaded, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, of heroic deeds, of tenderness and adoration before love...”The general concludes:“Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world..."and all he saw was“so... some kind of sourness...”)

Let's remember the pages of the story where the characters tell love stories that happened to them or heard.

Retell the love story of the poor telegraph operator, which Shein told, wanting to amuse the guests.

(Pages 386-387, Chapter VI. From Shein’s stories we learn for the first time about Zheltkov’s love. Vera’s husband laughs at Zheltkov, who is unfamiliar to him, showing the guests a humorous album with a letter from a telegraph operator. At the same time, the prince intertwines truth with fiction. For him, this is funny story,“book market news”, “touching poem”,which he called"Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love."The image of Zheltkov in the stories undergoes changes: the telegraph operator > dresses up as a chimney sweep > becomes a dishwasher > turns into a monk > the hero dies tragically, leaves a will after his death (two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears).

What is love like in the stories of General Anosov?

(Page 390-391, Ch. 7: "A decent novel" With “pretty little Bulgarian girl”; “I hugged her, pressed her to my heart and kissed her several times...”; “When the moon appeared in the sky with the stars, he hurried” to her and “forgot all the worries of the day for a while with her.”Of course, the guests called this love story"The Adventure of an Army Officer"And the general himself realized that, unfortunately, there was no true love in his life:“holy, pure, eternal...unearthly...”The general did not have any special love for his wife - she was simply attracted"fresh girl" in which “My breasts are moving under my blouse” but this one "reel, actress, slob, greedy"That’s what the general calls his ex-wife, she also cheated... This is such “love”...)

What new did G.S. learn about this? J. from Vera’s story to the general?

(Ch. 8. G.S.Zh. He began to pursue her with his love two years before marriage. He mentioned about himself that he was serving as a small official somewhere. From his letters, she understood that he was constantly watching over her, because he knew where she was, how she was dressed, etc. But when she asked him not to bother himself with letters, he practically stopped writing to her - his letters came only on Easter, New Year and on her name day. And today I sent this garnet bracelet.)

What unexpected assumption does the general make after listening to Vera’s story? What characterization does General Anosov give to Zheltkov?

(“A madman; maybe he’s just an abnormal guy, a maniac, who knows? - maybe your path, Verochka, was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)

Why is Zheltkov, this little official, opposed to the jaded, lazy rich people who are incapable of true love? What did the author mean by this?

(With this opposition he challenges the lowly world, this rich, but selfish, hypocritical society. Zheltkov seems to be arguing with"the mighty of this world."They prove that there is no real love, and give convincing examples. And he refutes all their arguments by saying that he simply loves truly, without demanding anything in return.)

Why did Zheltkov decide to disappear? Why does he end his life? Maybe he was frightened by the visit of Vera’s husband and brother?

(Vera asked "stop this story."

Maybe he should have left?

(You can’t hide from love anywhere.)

Read Zheltkov's suicide letter to Vera Nikolaevna. What did the hero seem like to you? What do we learn about the young man from this letter?

Compare him with other acquaintances and friends of Vera Nikolaevna.

(Chapter 11. Pages 406-407. “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me. Like enormous happiness, love for you... I’m not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future the happiness of people - for me, my whole life lies only in you. I checked myself - this is not a disease... - this is love with which God was pleased to reward me for something... It’s as if all the beauty of the earth was embodied in you... From the bottom of my heart I thank you for that you were my only joy in life, my only consolation...God grant you happiness, and may nothing...everything disturb your beautiful soul. I kiss your hands. G.S. Zh."

Why didn't he say in a letter that he had decided to commit suicide?

(I couldn’t disturb the peace of my beloved.)

Read the final chapter - V.N. listens to a Beethoven sonata, which Zheltkov bequeathed to listen to. What discovery does she make for herself while listening to Beethoven, what does she comprehend? What words are formed in her mind that match the music? Why did the heroine cry?

Note. Beethoven's Second Symphony sounds - the student reads the final chapter, reminiscent of"prayer" "Hallowed be thy name"

(Chapter XIII, pp. 410-411. “Now I will show you in tender sounds a life that has humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death... I have one prayer before you: “Hallowed be Thy name.”

...I remember your every step, smile, look, the sound of your gait... I will not cause you grief. I leave alone, silently, as God and fate willed. "Hallowed be Thy name."

... In my sad dying hour, I pray only to you... In my soul I call upon death, but in my heart I am full of praise to you: “Hallowed be Thy name.”

...you and the people who surrounded you, you all don’t know how beautiful you were. ...in the sorrowful hour of parting with life, I still sing - glory to You.

Here she comes, death pacifying everything, and I say - glory to You.")

(V.N. comprehends “a life that obediently and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death”. Perhaps she realized that“A great love passed by her, which is repeated only once in a thousand years.”Or maybe a reciprocal feeling awakened in her soul, at least for a moment.)

Why did Zheltkov “force” his beloved woman to listen to this particular immortal work?(Chapter XIII, p. 319)

(Music plays a big role in awakening the soul of Vera. Second sonata Beethoven is in tune with Vera’s mood; through music her soul seems to connect with Zheltkov’s soul.)

Why is their only date a farewell to V.N. with the ashes of a young man - can be considered a turning point in her internal state?

(She realized that the love that every woman dreams of had passed her by. She realized how different he was from the empty, insensitive and indifferent acquaintances of hers - on his face she saw"that very peaceful expression" which I saw “on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon”.)

So how does Kuprin solve the “eternal” problem - unrequited, passionate, but true love? Was she unhappy, this unrequited love of Zheltkov? Led to suffering? Or did the author want to say something else?

(Zheltkov’s lofty and unrequited love became"tremendous happiness"for him. It is with his love that he rises above other heroes, and it is with his love that he destroys the royal calm of Vera Nikolaevna. It is his love that makes Vera Nikolaevna cry, pain, and repent."comprehend life" which “humbly and joyfully doomed herself to torment and death.”)

What other theme, besides lofty and unrequited love, is heard in the story? Why V.N. immediately, even before marriage, did you somehow take the unknown admirer lightly?

(Theme of inequality. The characters have different social backgrounds.)

Imagine if this passionate admirer were a rich, powerful person. How would society regard his behavior? Would you allow yourself to interfere in this story?

(No. Everywhere and everywhere there was flirting, love affairs - the rich can do anything. But the little official... How could he dare?!)

Teacher. You probably noticed that there are a lot of landscape sketches in the work; human feeling is identified with the creative energy of nature itself.

What is the role of landscape at the beginning of the story? How does the landscape help us understand Vera’s psychological state?

(The first chapter is an introduction that should prepare the reader for the perception of subsequent events. Kuprin draws a parallel between the description of the autumn garden and the internal state of the main character. There is a feeling of fading. Her life is the same: monotonous, autumnal.“The trees calmed down, silently and obediently dropping their yellow leaves.”Princess Vera is in the same calm, prudent state; she has peace in her soul:“And Vera was strictly simple, cold with everyone... amiable, independent and royally calm”.)

Teacher. A completely different picture in chapter 7: in nature - “the autumn sunset was burning out”. And in life – with the death of Zheltkov (he shot himself), the true, passionate love that women wait for and dream about also died. Unfortunately, we often do not notice the beauty in nature and in life!

“A light wind came and, as if sympathizing with her, rustled the leaves...”Nature is capable of sympathy and empathy.

So can Zheltkov’s feeling be called madness? Find the words of Prince Shein in the text, which will be the answer to the question posed.

("I I feel that this person is not capable of deceiving and knowingly lying...(10 chapters); “I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I cannot explain here”. (chap. 11) and the prince’s address to his wife:“I will say that he loved you and was not crazy at all.”.)

(The name George means “victorious” . Yolks from the victorious. Kuprin drew in his work"small but great man.")

What do you think is the power of love?

(Love elevates a person, transforms his soul. Love gives the lover enormous happiness. Sincere, pure love elevates a person not only in his own eyes, but also in the eyes of others. It is this kind of love that is immortal!)

Teacher. Indeed, the image of Zheltkov is one of Kuprin’s best achievements. This young man is the only bearer of a bright, selfless feeling in the base world of wealth, selfishness, and hypocrisy. And therefore this story sounds like a call from the writer to value and protect love as a high value of human existence.

What main themes does Kuprin raise in the story?

Record. In the story "Garnet bracelet"Kuprin reveals “eternal” themes: high and unrequited love, the theme of inequality.

Explain the formulation of the theme “The Talent of Love in the story “The Garnet Bracelet.”

Teacher. By the way, the heroes of the story have real prototypes.The work is based on facts from the family chronicle of the princes Tugan-Baranovsky.This sad story happened in Odessa. Zholtikov, a small telegraph official, is hopelessly and touchingly in love with the wife of State Council member L. Lyubimov, Lyudmila Ivanovna, née Turan-Baranovskaya; the princess's brother is an official of the State Chancellery - Nikolai Ivanovich Turan-Baranovsky.

Teacher. And I would like to end today's lesson with a poem Nikolai Lenau , Austrian poet of the first half of the 19th century:"Be silent and die...", which, it seems to me, has a connection with the content of the story "Garnet bracelet»:

To remain silent and perish... But dearer,

Than life, magical shackles!

Your best dream is in her eyes

Search without saying a word! -

Like the light of a shy lamp

Trembling in the face of the Madonna

And, dying, he catches the eye,

Her heavenly gaze is bottomless!

Teacher. "Be silent and perish"- this is the spiritual vow of a telegraph operator in love. But still he violates it, reminding himself of his only and inaccessible Madonna. This supports hope in his soul and gives him strength to endure the suffering of love. Passionate, sizzling love, which he is ready to take with him to the other world. Death does not frighten the hero. Love is stronger than death.He is grateful to the one who aroused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him, a little man, above the huge, vain world, the world of injustice and malice. That is why, when leaving this life, he blesses his beloved:“Hallowed be thy name.”

5. Reading and discussion of epigraphs.

Explain the choice and meaning of the epigraphs:

1). “Hallowed be thy name.”

2). “It is not in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent... individuality is not expressed in creativity. But in love.

A.I. Kuprin. Letter to F.D. Batyushkov (1906)

3). There is no love on earth that does not know suffering,

There is no love on earth that does not bring torment,

There is no love on earth that does not live in sorrow...

Louis Aragon, French poet

6. Lesson summary. Ratings. Reflection.

Is such love possible now? Does it exist at all?

Is the work relevant today?

How will you now answer the question: what is love?

How Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of unrequited love.

7. Homework.

At students' choice:Miniature essay “What is love?” or a syncwine on one of the topics: "Happiness", "Love"(based on the story by A. Kuprin"Garnet bracelet".)
Individual task(through a lesson): based on materials from the textbook, additional literature and Internet resources (list of recommended literature on page 81)prepare a message or presentation on a topic"Maksim Gorky.Personality. Creation. Fate".
Everyone: Prepare for a creativity control lesson by I.A. Bunin and A.I. Kuprina(multi-level tasks - at the students’ choice)

The theme of love in A. I. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet”

(“The disease of love is incurable...”)

Love... is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only by her, only by love does life hold and move.

I.S. Turgenev.

Love... A word denoting the most reverent, tender, romantic and inspired feeling inherent in a person. However, people often confuse love with being in love. A real feeling takes possession of a person’s entire being, sets all his forces in motion, inspires the most incredible actions, evokes the best motives, and excites the creative imagination. But love is not always joy, mutual feeling, happiness given to two. It is also disappointment from unrequited love. A person cannot stop loving at will.

Every great artist devoted many pages to this “eternal” topic. A.I. Kuprin did not ignore it either. Throughout his career, the writer showed great interest in everything beautiful, strong, sincere and natural. He considered love to be one of the great joys of life. His stories and stories “Olesya”, “Shulamith”, “Pomegranate Bracelet” tell about ideal love, pure, boundless, beautiful and powerful.

In Russian literature, perhaps, there is no work that has a stronger emotional impact on the reader than “The Garnet Bracelet.” Kuprin touches on the theme of love chastely, reverently and at the same time nervously. Otherwise, you can’t touch her.

Sometimes it seems that everything has been said about love in world literature. Is it possible to talk about love after “Tristan and Isolde”, after the sonnets of Petrarch and “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, after Pushkin’s poem “For the Shores of the Distant Fatherland”, Lermontov’s “Don’t Laugh at My Prophetic Melancholy”, after Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” and Chekhov's "Lady with a Dog"? But love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own joy, its own happiness, its own sadness and pain, and its own fragrance.

The story “The Garnet Bracelet” is one of the saddest works about love. Kuprin admitted that he cried over the manuscript. And if a work makes the author and reader cry, then this speaks of the deep vitality of what the writer created and his great talent. Kuprin has many works about love, about the expectation of love, about its touching outcomes, about its poetry, longing and eternal youth. He always and everywhere blessed love. The theme of the story “The Garnet Bracelet” is love to the point of self-abasement, to the point of self-denial. But the interesting thing is that love strikes the most ordinary person - the office official Zheltkov. Such love, it seems to me, was given to him from above as a reward for a joyless existence. The hero of the story is no longer young, and his love for Princess Vera Sheina gave meaning to his life, filled it with inspiration and joy. This love was meaning and happiness only for Zheltkov. Princess Vera considered him crazy. She did not know his last name and had never seen this man. He only sent her greeting cards and wrote letters signed G.S.Zh.

But one day, on the princess’s name day, Zheltkov decided to be bold: he sent her an antique bracelet with beautiful garnets as a gift. Fearing that her name may be compromised, Vera's brother insists on returning the bracelet to its owner, and her husband and Vera agree.

In a fit of nervous excitement, Zheltkov confesses to Prince Shein his love for his wife. This confession touches to the depths of the soul: “I know that I can never stop loving her. What would you do to end this feeling? Send me to another city? All the same, I will love Vera Nikolaevna there just as much as I do here. Put me in jail? But even there I will find a way to let her know about my existence. There is only one thing left - death...” Over the years, love has become a disease, an incurable disease. She absorbed his entire essence without a trace. Zheltkov lived only by this love. Even if Princess Vera didn’t know him, even if he couldn’t reveal his feelings to her, couldn’t possess her... That’s not the main thing. The main thing is that he loved her with a sublime, platonic, pure love. It was enough for him to just see her sometimes and know that she was doing well.

Zheltkov wrote his last words of love for the one who had been the meaning of his life for many years in his suicide letter. It is impossible to read this letter without heavy emotional excitement, in which the refrain sounds hysterically and amazingly: “Hallowed be thy name!” What gives the story special power is that love appears in it as an unexpected gift of fate, poeticized and illuminating life. Lyubov Zheltkova is like a ray of light among everyday life, among sober reality and established life. There is no cure for such love, it is incurable. Only death can serve as deliverance. This love is confined to one person and carries destructive power. “It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concerns about the future happiness of people,” Zheltkov writes in a letter, “for me, all life lies in you.” This feeling crowds out all other thoughts from the hero’s consciousness.

The autumn landscape, the silent sea, empty dachas, and the grassy smell of the last flowers add special strength and bitterness to the story.

Love, according to Kuprin, is passion, it is a strong and real feeling that elevates a person, awakening the best qualities of his soul; it is truthfulness and honesty in relationships. The writer put his thoughts about love into the mouth of General Anosov: “Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world. No life conveniences, calculations or compromises should concern her.”

It seems to me that today it is almost impossible to find such love. Lyubov Zheltkova - romantic worship of a woman, knightly service to her. Princess Vera realized that true love, which is given to a person only once in a lifetime and which every woman dreams of, passed her by.

Sections: Literature

Class: 11

Lesson type: lesson on learning new material

The purpose of the lesson: to reveal the originality of the solution to the love theme in the work of A.I. Kuprina

Tasks:

show Kuprin’s skill in depicting the world of human feelings;
comprehend the meaning of the word “love”, using the description of this feeling in the story by A.I. Kuprin “Garnet Bracelet”;
develop the ability to see the world of the characters’ feelings and experiences, develop a sense of figurative speech, expressive reading skills; logical and associative thinking;
cultivate respect for the feelings of another person, restraint of one’s feelings, emotional sensitivity and attention.

Methodological equipment: text of the story, computer, screen, recording of a sonata by L. van Beethoven, task cards

Methods: heuristic, partially search, independent work,

The problematic question is to understand how Kuprin resolves the eternal problem of unrequited love.

Epigraph (written on the board):

It lives and rules on earth -

Yu. Ognev

During the classes

1. Organizational moment .

2. Updating knowledge. We continue our acquaintance with the work of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, and the topic of the lesson is: “ Of all the miracles, the only miracle”.

What miracle are we going to talk about? What will we devote our lesson to? (Students: About love)

Love's undying miracle
It lives and rules on earth -
Of all miracles, the only miracle.
Yu. Ognev

Why is love a miracle? What do we mean by the word “miracle”? (Students' answers)

Teacher: From Ephraim's explanatory dictionary: Miracle - 1. A phenomenon that contradicts the laws of nature and cannot be explained by them, but is possible - according to superstitious ideas - due to the intervention of an otherworldly force. 2. Something unprecedented, supernatural, fantastic.

Which value suits us best? Prove it.

Is it possible for everyone to know true love?

Is it possible for everyone who knows love to tell about it? Kuprin managed to talk about love! I invite you to a dialogue about the love described by Kuprin in the story “Garnet Bracelet”, about love that happens only once in a lifetime...

Can you now say how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of love?.. No. It's complicated!

What is the purpose of our lesson? (Students formulate a goal - to understand how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of love).

3. Checking homework.

1) Conversation.

Tell me, what questions did you have while reading the story “Garnet Bracelet?” What issues would you like to discuss today? (Students' answers)

Let's talk about what love means in your understanding, what it can be.

Love – happiness or misfortune?! How can this be determined?

- What do you think love is?

Student answers: Love is a sublime feeling, beautiful, extraordinary, love can conquer everything, can raise a person to the pinnacle of bliss, make a person work on himself. You can't live without love. Love is a feeling that brings pain, disappointment, self-doubt, love can destroy a person, force him to commit madness, love throws a person into the abyss of grief. It's better to live without love.

2) Checking individual work with dictionaries.

What definition do linguists give to the word “LOVE”? Listen and find commonalities.

1 student (prepared at home) reads (the rest are looking for commonality in the definitions):

Love is:

Love is an intimate and deep feeling, a desire for another person, a human community or an idea. (Large encyclopedic dictionary)

Love is 1) deep emotional attraction, a strong heartfelt feeling; 2) a feeling of deep affection, selfless and sincere affection; 3) constant, strong inclination, passion for something; 4) the object of love (he or she whom someone loves, towards whom he feels attraction, affection); 5) addiction, taste for something. (Explanatory Dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov)

Love – 1) a feeling of affection based on common interests, ideals, and the willingness to devote one’s strength to a common cause. 2) An inclination, disposition, or attraction to something. (Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, edited by D.N. Ushakov)

Students: in each definition the words sound: deep feeling; strong heart feeling; feeling of affection; inclination, disposition.

4. Conversation.

Does LOVE elevate a person or not? (Students: love elevates a person, changes him for the better. Love brings joy, but also causes pain)

Indeed, it is very difficult to explain what love is. This is how the famous playwright wrote about love back in the 17th century J.-B. Moliere:

The day would fade in my soul, and darkness would come again,
If only we would banish love from the earth.
Only he knew bliss who passionately touched the heart,
And whoever didn’t know love doesn’t care
That he didn't live...

Choose epithets for the word LOVE. (Love - kind, soft, mutual, creative, joyful, happy, tragic, fatal, painful, unrequited, destructive, Endless, immortal, faithful, eternal, long-standing, long, long-awaited, long-awaited, belated, strong, unquenchable, undying, short-lived , unexpected, new, first, late, last, devoted, former, long, strong, early, reckless, crazy, great, mutual, sublime, sinful, sacrificial, living, ideal, sincere, beautiful)

What kind of love is A. Kuprin talking about?

5. Work in groups. Division into groups.

Groups are given tasks to discuss and complete in 8 minutes.

1 group. How does Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina appear to readers in the first chapters of the story? What is her attitude towards her husband? Is she capable of ardent, passionate love? Why does the author compare her with her sister Anna?

2nd group. How does the landscape relate to the theme of love in the story? What is the general tone of landscape sketches? In what details does it manifest itself? What means of expression does the author use? What mood does it create in the reader? Why? Support your conclusions with text.

3rd group. What role do everyday details play in understanding the theme of love? What gifts did Vera receive on her birthday? What do we learn about the attitude of these people towards Vera Nikolaevna? How did Vera feel about the gifts? Explain the meaning of the title of the work?

4th group. Why is the image of General Anosov written in such detail and with such obvious sympathy of the author? Portrait? Character? What role does this character play in the story and the stories he tells?

5 group. Image of Zheltkov. Who is Zheltkov? (Appearance, behavior.) How do we learn about Zheltkov’s love? How was Zheltkov’s gift different from all the others? Kuprin did not find it necessary to describe the housing of the Shein princes, but he describes Zheltkov’s room in great detail. For what purpose? How does Zheltkov behave with Prince Vasily and Shein?

6 group. Analyze the scene of Vera’s farewell to the deceased Zheltkov. Why did Vera come? How does the princess feel on this last date? Why is the facial expression of the deceased compared to Pushkin and Napoleon?

7 group. What, in your opinion, is the role of the epigraph and ring composition in the Larqo Appassionato theme from Beethoven’s Second Sonata, associated with the theme of true love and true life? How does Zheltkov appear in his suicide letter? Why does he make a fatal decision? What does his farewell letter say?

6. Group responses.

Suggested answer. Life proceeds calmly, everything is like everyone else, nothing remarkable... They just lived and loved, but this life and love did not bring much joy... Life dragged on boringly and monotonously... Vera herself personified coldness, indifference, kept within herself regal calm, a sense of superiority. The outward inaccessibility was initially stated by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility.

The student reads (prepared at home): Name Vera- this is an original Russian name and literally translated from Greek means “faith”, “service to God”. Faith, hope, love are the three main virtues in Christianity. Among Christians, the martyrs Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov and their mother Sophia, who lived in the 2nd century, are revered. Vera can be described as an intelligent, truthful and supportive person. She is sensible and values practicality. The actions of the owner of this name always reveal her prudence.

She selflessly tries to quietly help her husband and loves her sister dearly.

In her youth and early youth, the princess was capable of a strong, all-consuming feeling, but now she has changed, and “the former passionate love for her husband has long passed into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship”

Suggested answer. The first chapter is an introduction. Its content prepares the reader for the perception of further events. Immediately there is a feeling of a fading world: in the autumn landscape, in the sadness of empty dachas with broken windows, in empty flowerbeds. You involuntarily focus your attention on the phrase: “It was a pity, and sad, and disgusting to look through this muddy muslin of rain at this pitiful belongings.”

But then the weather suddenly changed sharply and unexpectedly: “The trees calmed down, silently and obediently dropping their yellow leaves.” The same calm, cold, prudent existence is characteristic of the heroine of the story - Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, the wife of the leader of the nobility. Kuprin shows the heroine against the backdrop of clear, sunny, warm days, in the silence and solitude that Vera enjoys. This suggests that she is a sensitive and delicate person.

Bad weather is perceived as an illustration of dramatic events, a tragic situation.

A.I. Kuprin conveys the state of nature with the help of epithets (clay roads, disgusting weather, a ferocious hurricane, broken glass, mutilated flower beds), metaphors (a thick fog lay heavily), comparisons (fine rain, like water dust), personifications (the garden obediently fell asleep: the stars trembled).

Kuprin's landscape is full of sounds, colors and - especially - smells.

The flower beds were empty and looked disorganized. Did the multi-colored double carnations bloom, as well as the gillyflower? half in flowers, and half in thin green pods that smelled like cabbage. But dahlias, peonies and asters bloomed magnificently with their cold, arrogant beauty, spreading an autumnal, grassy, sad smell in the sensitive air.

Joint conclusion. The semantic load carried by the descriptions of nature in this work is enormous. Landscape sketches in many ways anticipate upcoming events in the story and characterize the inner world of the characters and the author’s attitude towards them. The landscape of the first chapter is the beginning and at the same time the encrypted plot of the work. The boring everyday life of aristocrats is contrasted with the strong feeling of a poor official who destroyed their icy calm.

Suggested answer. My husband gave me beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls. Anna ? a small notebook in an amazing binding, Zheltkov ? Garnet bracelet.

Anna, like Vera, is partial to beauty, so her gift is elegant and original. Vasily Lvovich’s ardent feelings have passed, he treats his wife with respect and “invested” only a certain amount of “despicable metal” in his gift. And Zheltkov “conveyed in his modest loyal offering” the most precious thing that he had: a thing that is connected with his late mother.

The bracelet is like a closed space from which neither Zheltkov nor Vera Nikolaevna can escape. Five garnets surrounding a strange green pebble are that true love that occurs once every millennium. Green is the color of hope, while large garnets are red as blood, since everything great, including a great feeling, must be paid for.

Joint conclusion : With the help of minor details, we understand more and more the relationships between people. The Sheins' family life is boring and ordinary. Kuprin shows aristocrats as not such bad people. However, the writer speaks of their spiritual limitations. Vera’s soul is empty and asleep. But she is unhappy that Zheltkov violated the rules of decency, and some kind of anxiety has already crept into her heart. A truly serious conversation about love arises in the story at the suggestion of General Anosov.

Suggested answer: The general’s unostentatious courage, his nobility and honesty make the reader feel sincere sympathy for the hero and trust in his words. Therefore, the definition of true love spoken by Anosov is perceived as truth. Kuprin assigns considerable importance to the “fat, tall, silvery old man” - General Anosov. It is he who is presented with the task of forcing Vera Nikolaevna to take the love of the mysterious G.S.Zh. more seriously. With his thoughts about love, the general helps his granddaughter to look at her own life with Vasily Lvovich from different angles. He owns the prophetic words: “...maybe your path in life, Verochka, has been crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.” General Anosov symbolizes the wise older generation. The author entrusted him with making a very important conclusion that is of great importance in this story: in nature, true, holy love is extremely rare and is available only to a few and only to people worthy of it. In his entire life, Anosov has not met a single example of this, but he continues to believe in sublime love and conveys his confidence to Vera Nikolaevna.

The person who fell in love with Vera Nikolaevna so much was a simple official of the control chamber, G.S. Zheltkov. We learn about Zheltkov’s love for the first time from the stories of Prince Shein. The prince intertwines truth with fiction. It's a funny story for him. The image of Zheltkov in the prince's stories undergoes changes: a telegraph operator - dresses up as a chimney sweep - becomes a dishwasher - turns into a monk - dies tragically, leaving a will after his death

Zheltkov’s gift is “golden, low-grade, very thick, but blown and covered on the outside with small old, poorly polished garnets,” a tasteless thing. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. Zheltkov gives the most precious thing he has - a family jewel. Deep red grenades burst into flames under the electric light: “Like blood!” The garnet bracelet is a symbol of love, reverent, endless and hopeless, and tragedy in the fate of the hero. The bracelet seems to reflect the essence of Zheltkov. The stones are poorly polished, but they are real, just like the feelings of this person.

Zheltkov admits that he “cut an uncomfortable wedge” into Vera’s life and is eternally grateful to her just for the fact that she exists. His love is not a disease, not a manic idea, but a reward sent by God. His tragedy is hopeless, he is a dead man.

6 group. Psychological climax.

Kuprin considers Zheltkov not a “little man,” but a great sufferer. His greatness lies in the great love for which he gave his life.

The unhappy lover asked to hang a bracelet - a symbol of holy love - on the icon. The lips of the dead hero “smiled blissfully and serenely, as if he had learned some deep and sweet secret before parting with life,” and Vera realized that “the love that every woman dreams of passed her by.” After his death, Zheltkov receives the highest reward: Vera “kissed him on his cold, damp forehead with a long, friendly kiss.” And yet a friendly kiss! No, even after Zheltkov’s self-sacrifice, the princess did not fall in love with her admirer.

Only at the end of the story do we learn the name of our hero, or rather, guess about him. What is it like? Who pronounces it? Why did the author give him the name George?

Student (prepared at home): about the meaning of the name Georgy: Great Martyr George is the patron saint of knights and warriors, the Victorious One, who defeated the serpent - the tempter, and fought against vice. Considered the patron saint of Russia; In his honor, an order was established for the highest valor on the battlefield - the Cross of St. George. Do we know the hero's middle name? No, and this is symbolic. This image is the image of a knight, but not from a novel, but from everyday, everyday life.

And this pure love of a knight (work with the word platonic) illuminated the life not only of Zheltkov, but the lives of other people, awakened feelings in their souls. Who is this about? (Prince Shein before and after meeting with Zheltkov. Princess Vera).

Suggested answer. The epigraph sets us up to listen to Beethoven's sonata - a majestic, romantically elevated reflection on the gift of life and love. The story ends with these same sounds. Ring composition.

Joint conclusion. Music tells Princess Vera what life is and what love is. This is Zheltkov’s last gift, which only a deaf person could not accept, in which he shows the authenticity and perfection of Vera, which he saw in his youth.

Only three things can explain everything to a person so quickly - love, music and death. Kuprin combines all three in the finale of the story. This is the special meaning of the musical theme, which gives - from the epigraph to the last scene - exceptional completeness to the work.

(Zheltkov admits that he “cut an uncomfortable wedge” into Vera’s life and is eternally grateful to her just for the fact that she exists. His love is not a disease, not a manic idea, but a reward sent by God. His tragedy is hopeless, he is a dead man. “ The little man" turns into a Man. Nobility and strength of spirit exclude pity for him. The features of not a “little man”, but a “poor knight”, who with the strength and purity of feeling serves the higher powers, serves as the gift of polite, knightly, heroic love, emerge more and more clearly.

7. Listen to a piece of music and have a conversation.

Students listen to Beethoven's Sonata No. 14, which is accompanied by reading a fragment of Zheltkov's letter (the student prepared at home).

“It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me love for you as a great happiness. It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, my whole life lies only in you. I now feel that I have crashed into your life like some kind of uncomfortable wedge. If you can, forgive me for this. Today I am leaving and will never return, and nothing will remind you of me.

I am eternally grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love with which God wanted to reward me for something.

As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name.”

Eight years ago I saw you in a box at the circus, and then in the first second I said to myself: I love her because there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no person is more beautiful and gentle than you. It’s as if all the beauty of the earth was embodied in you...

Think about what I needed to do? Run away to another city? All the same, the heart was always near you, at your feet, every moment of the day was filled with you, thoughts about you, dreams about you... sweet delirium. I am very ashamed and mentally blush for my stupid bracelet - well, what? - error. I can imagine the impression he made on your guests.

I don't know how to finish the letter. From the depths of my soul, I thank you for being my only joy in life, my only consolation, my only thought. May God grant you happiness, and may nothing temporary or everyday disturb your beautiful soul. I kiss your hands.”

Music is playing.

Teacher: And the words of the modest official Zheltkov sound in Vera’s soul as a hymn of love.

What role does Beethoven's music play in the work?

Disciples: The music is in amazing harmony with the experiences of Faith, in whose soul the words ring: “Hallowed be Thy name.” In these gentle sounds there is a life that “humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death.” Zheltkov’s last memories are shrouded in sweet sadness; moments of happiness become eternity for him.

Why did Zheltkov “force” Vera to listen to this particular Beethoven work?

What do you think is the power of love? (In the transformation of the soul.)

Did Kuprin show this in the story? Prove your opinion.

(Vera’s perception of music: “Princess Vera hugged the trunk of the acacia tree, pressed herself against it and cried...”)

What do Vera’s tears say? (These are tears that cleanse and elevate the soul.)

8. Reflection. Teacher:

Have we answered the questions we asked at the beginning of the lesson?

How does Kuprin show love?

What is love? What is the idea of the work?

Students: Kuprin is looking for people in real life who are obsessed with a high feeling of love, who are able to rise above the surrounding vulgarity and lack of spirituality, who are ready to give everything without demanding anything in return. The writer sings of sublime love, contrasting it with indifference and inability to feel. This is why the music of love has been heard for centuries; sounds for Vera at a tragic moment of moral insight for her; sounds for all of us.

The last page of this amazing story is closed. We got acquainted with the story of pure, naive love, along the way of which we encountered class prejudices and misunderstandings. We were able to penetrate into the thoughts and feelings of the characters, together with them we worried, hoped and believed in moral values. After reading the work, many questions remain:

What was Zheltkov’s feeling – true love or madness?

What was the death of the hero - cowardice or force?

This story about love does not leave a single person indifferent. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin's story about love is one of the rarest pearls of Russian classical literature.

– What is the author’s idea expressed in the story? (A special case is poeticized by A.I. Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated, in his opinion, “ only once every thousand years" Love, according to Kuprin, “ always tragedy, always struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death" The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty. We can say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling. A.I. Kuprin wrote that he sought to “show the spiritually transforming, enlightening power of the all-consuming feeling of love”).

9. Lesson summary. Ratings.

Now how do you answer the question: what is love?

Is such love possible now? Does it exist at all?

Is the work relevant today?

How does Kuprin resolve this eternal problem of unrequited love?

D/Z: write an essay on one of the topics:

Love without reciprocity: happiness or tragedy?

Does ideal love exist?

Are loving and being loved the same thing? What's better?

“Is love a great gift or a curse”?

Topic: The talent of love in A. I. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet.”

Educational:

Show Kuprin's skill in depicting the world of human feelings, how the writer depicts the influence of love on a person; the role of detail in the story; reveal the meaning of the symbolic images of the story.

Educational:

Awaken the desire of students to philosophize on the topic of love, learn to defend their opinions, citing compelling arguments from the text and from life.

Develop the ability to identify the main means of creating an artistic image.

Develop the ability to determine the function of artistic images in a text.

Educational:

To cultivate a reverent attitude towards the feeling of love as an eternal spiritual value of a person

Method: teacher's word, commented reading, analytical conversation, student retellings, expressive reading by heart, listening to audio recordings, watching film episodes, presentations.

Technologies: technology of problem-based learning (problem question: “Understand how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of unrequited love?”).

Lesson type: combined.

Lesson equipment: audio and video recordings, portrait of the writer, exhibition of books by A. I. Kuprin, presentation.

During the classes.

Love, love, says the legend,

Union of soul with dear soul.

Their unity, combination

And their fatal merger,

And the duel is fatal.

And which one is more tender?

In the unequal struggle of two hearts,

The more inevitable and more certain,

Loving, suffering, passionately melting,

It will finally wear out.

(F.I. Tyutchev)

1. The student reads the epigraph by heart (Beethoven’s Second Sonata sounds).

2. Announcement of the topic and objectives of the lesson.

As you understand from the epigraph, today in class we will talk to you about love.

But what kind of love? (Undivided, misunderstood.)

Record the topic of the lesson.

3.The teacher’s word (slide 1).

The story “The Garnet Bracelet,” written by Kuprin in 1910, is dedicated to one of the main themes of his work—love. The epigraph of the story was the first line of music from Beethoven's Second Sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to musical talent. The work is based on a real fact - the love story of a modest official for a socialite, the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov.

4. The teacher reads an excerpt from L. Lyubimov’s memoirs about the prototypes of the story:

“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story), wrote that he served at the telegraph (in Kuprin, Prince Shein jokingly decides that only some telegraph operator can write like that), in one letter he reported that under the guise the floor polisher entered my mother’s apartment and described the situation (in Kuprin, Shein again jokingly tells how Zheltkov, disguised as a chimney sweep and smeared with soot, enters Princess Vera’s boudoir). The tone of the messages was sometimes pompous, sometimes grumpy. He was either angry with my mother or thanking her, although she did not react in any way to his explanations...

At first, these letters amused everyone, but then (they arrived almost every day for two or three years) my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator in the morning.

And then came the denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle and father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to see Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, actually lived on the sixth floor. “The spit-stained staircase,” writes Kuprin, “smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry” - all this corresponds to what I heard from my father. Yellow lived in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. Like Kuprin’s Shein, the father remained silent during the explanation, looking “with bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity into the face of this strange man.” My father told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. My uncle, again like Kuprin’s Nikolai Nikolaevich, got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and eel-mo promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. In any case, we know nothing about his further fate.”

L. Lyubimov. In a foreign land, 1963

5. Analytical conversation of a comparative nature.

How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard in the family of the high-ranking official Lyubimov? (Kuprin idealized and elevated real vulgar history).

What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero’s love into the realm of an unattainable dream? (Between Princess Vera and the petty official Zheltkov, there are social barriers and partitions of class inequality. It is Vera’s social status and marriage that makes Zheltkov’s love unrequited and unrequited. The hero himself admits in his letter that he has received “only awe, eternal admiration and slavish devotion ".)

Can we say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling?

Kuprin was not a poet, but there is one poem written by him (slide 2).

6.Reading the poem “Forever” (slide 3).

Is there a connection between the garnet bracelet that the hero of the story gives to Vera Sheina and the “ruby bracelet” from Kuprin’s late poem “Forever”?

7. Conversation on the story “Garnet Bracelet”.

What time does the story take place?

What role does landscape play in conveying Vera Sheina’s mood? (slide 4).

(Kuprin draws a parallel between the description of the autumn garden and the internal state of the main character. “The trees calmed down, silently and obediently dropped their yellow leaves.” Princess Vera is in the same calm, prudent state, she has peace in her soul: “And Vera was strictly simple, cold with everyone... amiable, independent and royally calm.")

How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina? (slide 5).

(The outward inaccessibility and inaccessibility of the heroine is stated at the beginning of the story by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility. But Kuprin shows the heroine against the background of clear, sunny, warm days, in silence and solitude, which Vera rejoices in, reminding, maybe howling, about love for the solitude and beauty of nature of Tatyana Larina (also, by the way, a princess in marriage). We see that the princess is outwardly regally calm, “coldly and haughtily kind” to everyone with a “cold and proud face” (compare with the description of Tatyana in St. Petersburg, chapter eight, stanza XVII: “But an indifferent princess, / But an unapproachable goddess / The luxurious, royal Neva”) - a sensitive, delicate, selfless person: she tries to quietly help her husband “make ends meet”, maintaining decency, still saving , since “I had to live above my means.” She dearly loves her younger sister (their obvious dissimilarity in both appearance and character is emphasized by the author himself, Chapter II), with “a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship” she treats her husband, childishly affectionate with “grandfather”, General Anosov, a friend of their father.)

(Kuprin “gathers” all the characters in the story, with the exception of Zheltkov, for the name day of Princess Vera. A small society of people who are pleasant to each other cheerfully celebrates the name day, but Vera suddenly notes that there are thirteen guests, and this alarms her: “she was superstitious.”)

What gifts did Vera receive? What is their significance? (Reading descriptions of gifts).

(The princess receives not just expensive, but lovingly chosen gifts: “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls” from her husband, “a small notebook in

amazing binding... a labor of love by the hands of a skillful and patient artist" from my sister.)

How does Zheltkov’s gift look against this background? What is its value? (Reading the description of the bracelet) (slide 6).

(Zheltkov’s gift - “golden, low-grade, very thick, but inflated and with an outer

The sides are completely covered with small old, poorly polished garnets,” the bracelet looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. The deep red grenades light up with living fires under the electric light, and it occurs to Vera: “It’s like blood!” - this is another alarming omen. Zheltkov gives the most valuable thing he has - a family jewel.)

What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?

(This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Let us remember the gift Olesya left for Ivan Timofeevich - a string of red beads.)

How does the theme of love develop in the story?

(At the beginning of the story, the feeling of love is parodied. Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, a cheerful and witty man, makes fun of Zheltkov, who is still unfamiliar to him, showing the guests a humorous album with the “love story” of the telegraph operator for the princess. However, the end of this funny story turns out to be almost prophetic: “Finally he dies, but before his death he bequeaths to give Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears.”)

8. Retelling of love stories told by General Anosov (slide 7).

Further, the theme of love is revealed in inserted episodes and acquires a tragic connotation. General Anosov tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which in the retelling seems to be just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. “I don’t see true love. I haven’t seen it in my time either!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, vulgar unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about which it is said “strong as death”?.. Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! Anosov talks about tragic cases similar to such love. The conversation about love brought up the telegraph operator’s story, and the general felt its truth: “maybe your path in life, Verochka, was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)

9.Continuation of the conversation.

(Kuprin develops the theme of the “little man”, traditional for Russian literature. An official with the funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, he, with the power of his love, rises above the petty vanity, life’s conveniences, decency. He turns out to be a man, not at all inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love elevated him. Love became suffering, the only meaning of life. “It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me all life consists only in you," he writes in a farewell letter to Princess Vera. Leaving this life, Zheltkov blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name." Here one can see blasphemy - after all, these are the words of a prayer. Love for the hero is above all earthly things, it is of divine origin No "decisive measures" or "appeals to the authorities" can make you stop loving. Not a shadow of resentment or complaint in the hero's words, only gratitude for the "tremendous happiness" - love.)

10.Viewing the episode “Visit to Prince Shein and Vera Nikolaevna Zheltkov’s brother” from the film “Garnet Bracelet”.

How do the participants in this scene behave?

What character traits does Yolk show in this episode?

How do you characterize the behavior and words of Nikolai Nikolaevich?

11.Reading the episode: Vera Sheina’s farewell to the deceased Zheltkov (chap. 12).

Why do you think Vera cried? What caused the tears—the “impression of death” or something else? Maybe she realized that “a great love passed by her, which is repeated only once in a thousand years”? Or maybe a reciprocal feeling awakened in her soul at least for a moment?

What is the significance of the image of a hero after his death?

(The dead Zheltkov acquires “deep importance, ... as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his entire human life.” The face of the deceased reminds Vera of the death masks of “the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon.” This is how Kuprin shows the great talent of love, equating it with the talents of recognized geniuses.)

What mood will the ending of the story have? What role does music play in creating this mood?

(The ending of the story is elegiac, imbued with a feeling of light sadness, not tragedy. Zheltkov dies, but Princess Vera awakens to life, something previously inaccessible was revealed to her, that very “great love that repeats itself once every thousand years.” The heroes “loved each other only one moment, but forever." Music plays a big role in awakening Vera’s soul. Beethoven’s second sonata is in tune with Vera’s mood, through music her soul seems to connect with Zheltkov’s soul.)

12.Main conclusions:

Can Zheltkov’s feeling for Vera be called madness?

(Find in the text the words of Prince Shein, which are the answer to the question posed. “I feel that this man is not capable of deceiving and knowingly lying...” (chap. 10); “... I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul , and I can’t explain here” (chap. 11). And the prince’s address to his wife: “I’ll say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all”).

(The name Georgy means victorious. Zheltkov from the victorious. Kuprin in his work painted a “small but great man”).

What do you think is the power of love?

And the main question of the lesson: “How does Kuprin solve the eternal problem of unrequited love?”

(Love elevates a person, transforms his soul. Love blossoms in Zheltkov’s heart and gives him “enormous happiness.” He limited his life only to this feeling, neglecting everything else. This ideal, pure love elevates the “little man”, makes him significant in his own and in the eyes of others. It is no coincidence that Vera saw in the face of the dead Zheltkov “deep importance”, which could only be seen in the masks of such great people as Pushkin and Napoleon. Love Zheltkov, the one that happens “once in a thousand years,” remained immortal. It is this kind of love that Kuprin praised.Back in the 17th century, the famous playwright J.-B. Moliere wrote about love:

The day would fade in my soul, and darkness would come again,

If only we would banish love from the earth.

Only he knew bliss who passionately touched the heart,

And whoever didn’t know love doesn’t care

That he didn’t live...) (teacher reads)

13.Reading a poem by A. Dementyev by heart.

The answer to the question about unrequited love can also be a poem by A. Dementyev.

Love not only elevates. Love sometimes destroys us. Breaks destinies and hearts... She is beautiful in her desires, She can be so dangerous, Like an explosion, like nine grams of lead. She bursts in suddenly. And you can no longer not see the sweet face tomorrow. Love not only elevates. Love accomplishes and decides everything. And we go into this captivity. And we don’t dream of freedom. While the dawn rises in the soul, the soul does not want change. (A. Dementyev)

14. Teacher's final words

A particular case is poeticized by Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated “only once in a thousand years.” Love, according to Kuprin, “is always a tragedy, always a struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death.” The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty.

Kuprin wrote this to F.D. Batyushkov (1906): Individuality is not expressed in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!

And I would like to end today’s lesson with a poem by Nikolai Lenau, an Austrian poet of the first half of the 19th century: “Be silent and perish...”, which, it seems to me, has a connection with the content of the story “Garnet Bracelet”:

To remain silent and perish... But dearer,

Than life, magical shackles!

Your best dream is in her eyes

Search without saying a word! -

Like the light of a shy lamp

Trembling in the face of the Madonna

And, dying, he catches the eye,

Her heavenly gaze is bottomless!

“Be silent and perish” - this is the spiritual vow of a telegraph operator in love. But still he violates it, reminding himself of his only and inaccessible Madonna. This supports hope in his soul and gives him strength to endure the suffering of love. Passionate, sizzling love, which he is ready to take with him to the other world. Death does not frighten the hero. Love is stronger than death. He is grateful to the one who aroused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him, a little man, above the huge, vain world, the world of injustice and malice. That is why, when leaving this life, he blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.”

15. Beethoven’s second sonata sounds and students read the ending of the story.

16.D/s.: Write an essay - an argument “Unrequited love - “enormous happiness” or “enormous tragedy of the soul”?”

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