Do you need courage in love Kuprin. Direction "courage and cowardice"
Having become acquainted with the work of A.I. Kuprin, I noted for myself the main theme of his works - the glorification of pure, immaculate, generous love.
I turned the last page of the story “Olesya” - my favorite story by A. I. Kuprin.
“Olesya” touched me deeply, I consider this story the greatest anthem, pure love, which, in my opinion, should be in the life of every person. I’m talking about Olesya’s love for Ivan Timofeevich. These people are so different: Olesya is “an integral, original, free nature, her mind is both clear and shrouded in unshakable mediocre superstition, childishly innocent, but not without sly coquetry beautiful woman“, and Ivan Timofeevich - “although a kind man, he is only weak.” They belong to different social strata: Ivan Timofeevich - educated person, a writer who came to Polesie to “observe morals,” and Olesya is a “witcher,” an uneducated girl who grew up in the forest.
But despite these differences, they fell in love with each other. However, their love was different: Ivan Timofeevich was attracted by the beauty, tenderness, femininity, naivety of Olesya, and she, on the contrary, was aware of all his shortcomings and knew that their love was doomed, but, despite this, she loved him with all her ardent soul as Only a woman is capable of love. Her love inspires my admiration, because Olesya was ready to do anything, make any sacrifice, for the sake of her loved one. After all, for the sake of Ivan Timofeevich, she went to church, although she knew that it would end tragically for her.
But I don’t consider Poroshin’s love to be as pure and generous. He knew that disaster might happen if Olesya went to church, but did nothing to stop her: “Suddenly, a sudden horror of foreboding gripped me. I uncontrollably wanted to run after Olesya, catch up with her and ask, beg, even demand, if necessary, that she not go to church. But I restrained my unexpected impulse...” Ivan Timofeevich, although he loved Olesya, was at the same time afraid of this love. It was this fear that prevented him from marrying her: “Only one circumstance frightened and stopped me: I did not even dare to imagine what Olesya would be like, dressed in a human dress, talking in the living room with the wives of my colleagues, torn from this charming frame of the old forest.” .
The tragedy of love between Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich is the tragedy of people who “broke out” of their social environment. The fate of Olesya herself is tragic, because she differed sharply from the Perbrod peasants, first of all, in her pure, with an open soul, the richness of the inner world. This is what gave rise to the hatred of the callous people towards Olesya, limited people. And, as you know, people always strive to destroy someone they do not understand, someone who is different from them. Therefore, Olesya is forced to part with her beloved and flee from her native forest.
It is also impossible not to say about literary skill A. I. Kuprin. Before us are pictures of nature, portraits, inner world heroes, characters, moods - all this deeply impressed me. The story “Olesya” is a hymn to the beautiful, primordial feeling of love and the personification of the most beautiful and precious thing that can happen in the life of any of us.
People often wonder, is courage necessary in love? What is courage? This is a person’s ability to overcome fear to perform any actions. Love pushes a person to take certain actions and is driving force many feats. But people are not always able to find the courage to make great sacrifices for the sake of love.
I am convinced of the correctness of this point of view by the story of I.A. Bunin " Dark alleys». Main character Nikolai stops at an inn, the owner of which is his first love, Nadezhda.
She is a wealthy woman who has devoted her entire life to her favorite business. The characters in the story recognize each other, talk and remember the past years. Nadezhda always loved Nikolai and carried this feeling throughout her life. His life is not going well. His wife left him, his son grew up dishonest, unscrupulous person. Only now, many years later, did he realize that this love was the main thing in his life. But during their youth, there was a strict unspoken rule in society that prohibited marriage between the noble and peasant classes. Society believed that such an alliance harmed the reputation of not only the nobleman himself, but also the entire class as a whole. Nikolai did not have the courage to confront his environment; he was afraid of people’s opinions, misunderstanding and contempt. The master felt that he had no choice but to come to terms with his fate. Because of cowardice mutual love Nicholas and Nadezhda was doomed to an unhappy end.
Touching on this topic, I cannot help but turn to the novel by M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita". main character I was ready to do anything for the sake of my loved one. The master suffers a creative failure, falls into despair and voluntarily goes to a mental hospital. But Margarita does not want to put up with this, her life becomes unbearable without her lover. To save the Master, she will stop at nothing. A woman decides to make a deal with the devil and becomes queen at Satan's ball. Before being with her beloved, Margarita destroys her immortal soul and gives it into the possession of Woland. She even takes revenge on the critic Latunsky by trashing and flooding his apartment. Woland decides to reward the woman for her courage and self-sacrifice. He gives her and the Master eternal peace and solitude.
To summarize, we can conclude that courage in love is definitely necessary and important. Real, high feelings are characterized by courage and readiness to take any action. After all, it is courage that helps people be close to their loved ones and never part.
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The theme of love is the main theme in the works 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. sees that man in his contemporary world has shrunk, become vulgar, and become 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.
Love for Olesya 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 the relative poverty of his 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. Furthermore 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.
True love is pure, sublime, all-consuming love.
Such love is depicted in many works by A. I. Kuprin: “ Garnet bracelet", "Sulamith", "Olesya". All three stories end tragically: “The Pomegranate Bracelet” and “Shulamith” are resolved by the death of the main characters, in “Oles” the plot action ends with the separation of Olesya and the narrator. According to Kuprin, true love doomed because she has no place in this world - she will always be condemned in a vicious social environment.
In "Oles" the obstacle to the love of the heroes was their social differences and prejudices of society. Olesya is a girl who was born and spent her entire youth in the Polesie thickets, wild, uneducated, alienated from people. Locals they considered her a witch, despised her, hated her (the cruel reception she received from church fence). Olesya did not respond to them with mutual hatred, she was simply afraid of them and preferred solitude. However, she gained confidence in the narrator from the first meeting; their mutual attraction grew rapidly and gradually developed into a real feeling.
The narrator (Ivan) was struck by her combination of naturalness, “forest soul,” and nobility, “of course, in in the best sense this is a rather vulgar word.” Olesya never studied, did not even know how to read, but she spoke eloquently and fluently, “no worse than a real young lady.” And the main thing that attracted him to the Polesie witch was her attraction to folk traditions, her strong, strong-willed character and freedom-loving, sensitive and capable of sincerely loving soul. Olesya did not know how to pretend, so her love could not be a base impulse or a mask. And the hero had genuine feelings for her, so sincere: he found a kindred spirit in the girl, they understood each other without words. And true love, as you know, is built on mutual understanding.
Olesya loved Ivan selflessly, sacrificially. Fearing that society would judge him, the girl left him, abandoned her happiness, preferring his happiness. Each of the heroes chose the well-being of the other. But their personal happiness turned out to be impossible without mutual love. This confirms the ending of the story: “Lord! What happened?" - Ivan whispered, “entering the entryway with a sinking heart.” This was the apogee of the hero's misfortune.
Love united them forever and separated them forever: only strong feelings prompted Olesya to leave Ivan, and Ivan to allow her to do so. They were not afraid for themselves, but they were afraid for each other. Olesya went to church for Ivan, realizing that danger awaited her there. But she did not reveal her fears to Ivan, so as not to upset him. In their scene last date she also did not want to upset her lover, to disappoint him, so she did not turn her face to him until he “with tender emotion took her head away from the pillow.” She cried out: “Don’t look at me... I beg you... I’m disgusting now...” But Ivan was not embarrassed by the long red abrasions that furrowed her forehead, cheeks and neck - he accepted her as she was, he did not he turned away from her, wounded, for him even then she was the most beautiful. He loved her unconditionally and did not give up his intention to marry her. But in cruel society ossified in prejudices, this was impossible.
Olesya was an outcast from society. People believed that Olesya was causing trouble, casting spells, they despised and feared her, but Ivan believed her. Even when she herself began to assure him that she had witchcraft powers, he had no doubt that she was kind and incapable of harming anyone, that the power contained in her was light, and gossip about her was a superstitious fiction. He could not suspect Olesya of anything bad, he trusted her, which means he felt true love, love based on faith, hope and forgiveness.
Olesya was also ready to forgive Ivan in any situation, to blame herself, but to shield him (although it was because of Ivan that she went to church, she only blamed herself for the misfortune that happened to her). Tears and an inexorable trembling in the reader’s heart are caused by Olesya’s answer to the hero’s request to forgive him: “What are you doing!.. What are you doing, dear?.. Aren’t you ashamed to even think about it? What is your fault here? I'm all alone, stupid... Well, why did I really bother? No, honey, don’t blame yourself...” The girl placed all the blame and all responsibility for what had happened on herself. And for subsequent actions too. Olesya, who had never been afraid of anything, suddenly became afraid... for Ivan. Ivan repeatedly invited Olesya to marry him, expressed assurances to her about their future, happy and together, but the girl was afraid to expose him to the law and rumors, and to cast a shadow on his reputation. And Ivan, in turn, neglected his reputation in the name of love.
Their feeling did not bring them happiness, nor did sacrifices in the name of each other. Society had too much pressure on them. But no prejudices could overcome their love. After Olesya’s disappearance, the narrator says: “With a constricted heart overflowing with tears, I was about to leave the hut, when suddenly my attention was attracted by a bright object, apparently deliberately hung on the corner of the window frame. It was a string of cheap red beads, known in Polesie as “corals,” - the only thing that remained to me as a memory of Olesya and her tender, generous love.” This unforgettable thing symbolized for Ivan Olesya’s love, which she, even after breaking up, tried to convey to him.
The concepts of “soul” and “love” for both heroes were inseparable, therefore their love is pure and immaculate, sublime and sincere, just like their souls are pure and bright. Love for them is a creation of the soul. A feeling devoid of mistrust and jealousy: “Were you jealous of me?” - “Never, Olesya! Never!" How could one be jealous of her, pure and bright Olesya?! Their mutual love was too sublime, strong and strong to allow for an egoistic instinct - jealousy. Their love itself excluded everything mundane, vulgar, banal; the heroes did not love for themselves, did not cherish their own love, but gave their souls to each other.
Such love is eternal, but not understood by society, sacrificial, but does not bring happiness, can be given to not many and only once in a lifetime. Because such love is highest manifestation Human. And a person is born only once.
final essay on the topic: "Courage and Cowardice »
Courage is a quality that is not inherent in every person. It can motivate people to do different things, but at any moment it can turn into misfortune, grief and even death. Many writers and poets talk about courage in love, but everyone understands this quality and its manifestation in such a complex feeling differently.
Let us confirm what has been said with examples from fiction. So,
can be called a brave woman. Having been given in marriage to an elderly rich merchant at a young age, the heroine never knew what love was and was not happy. But life brings her together with a young worker, Sergei. Passion flares up between the characters, and while the husband is on the road, they see each other. The current situation can be looked at from different angles: on the one hand, adultery is a great sin, but, on the other hand, love is most often above any reason. And one can understand Katerina, who decided to take a bold action and wanted to fight for her happiness. But the heroine’s courage acquired dangerous traits. She decided not to be content with just a secret relationship, but went further: she killed her legal husband, so that Sergei would later take his place. Having committed a crime, Katerina did not stop there. In order to become a full-fledged mistress and the sole owner of a large fortune, the heroine, together with Sergei, goes to kill her father-in-law and her husband’s nephew. Thus, we see that for the sake of love, Katerina is ready to do a lot: to step over the laws of morality and humanity. And if we are able to understand and approve of her courage in the desire to love and be loved, then her further actions are impossible to accept.
I'm ready to do a lot for love and
A young girl, living with her grandmother in the wilderness because they are considered witches, falls in love with a master. This love is mutual. Ivan Petrovich Poroshin is ready to despise Olesya public opinion, although it is very difficult for him to imagine her outside the forest setting, outside her wild, free life. Olesya herself is constantly tormented by vague premonitions of tragedy. She wants to believe in a happy ending relations with Poroshin, but cannot. Despite this, the girl is ready to overcome her fear for the sake of love in order to prove to her man that she is capable of living among people and communicating with them. To do this, Olesya goes to a church full of people. But people do not accept the girl; they see her coming as a bad sign and brutally beat Olesya. The ending of the work is sad, since the lovers were not destined to be together. Angry villagers accuse the girl of destroying crops by a thunderstorm, so Olesya and her grandmother are forced to flee. Despite this, we admire the girl’s courage, her desire to follow love to the end. And although love was a tragedy for Olesya, we want to believe that she taught the heroine a lot, discovered in her qualities that may have been dormant until now, including courage. Olesya’s action proved the depth of her feelings.
Thus, courage in love can manifest itself in different ways among people. She forces someone to fight for their feelings, to prove that you are worthy of love. But sometimes this quality in achieving seemingly “legitimate” happiness forces us to abandon moral standards for the sake of a loved one. In any case, there is a limit to everything, and it is very important not to cross the line of what is acceptable in relation to the people around you, even for the sake of such an incredible feeling as love.
