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Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for reward (according to the story by I.A. Kuprin “ Garnet bracelet»)
Sometimes we are so far from reality in our dreams that another comeback actually brings us pain and disappointment. And we run away from the slightest troubles of life, from its coldness and insensitivity. In our pink dreams we see a bright future, in our dreams we again try to build crystal castles in a cloudless sky. But there is a feeling in our lives that is so close to our dreams that it almost touches them. This is Love. With him we feel protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Already from childhood, the foundations of love and affection are laid in the minds of everyone. And each person will carry them throughout his life, sharing them with the world around him, thereby making it wider and brighter. thereby making it wider and lighter. But sometimes it seems that people are becoming more and more grounded own interests, and even feelings become victims of such a landing. They become stale, turn into ice, and become smaller. Unfortunately, not everyone has to experience happy and sincere love. And even that has its ups and downs. And some even wonder: Does it exist in the world? And yet, I really want to believe that this is a magical feeling, in the name of which, for the sake of a loved one, you can sacrifice the most valuable thing - even own life. Precisely about such a selfless and forgiving love, writes Kuprin in his story “Garnet Bracelet”.
The first pages of the story are devoted to a description of nature. It’s as if all events happen against their miraculous light background, it comes true wonderful fairy tale love. Coldish autumn landscape fading nature is similar in essence to the mood of Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. From it we predict her calm, unapproachable character. Nothing attracts her in this life, perhaps that is why the brightness of her being is enslaved by everyday life and dullness. Even during a conversation with her sister Anna, in which the latter admires the beauty of the sea, she replies that at first this beauty also excites her, and then “begins to crush her with its flat emptiness...”. Vera could not be imbued with a sense of beauty in the world around her. She was not a natural romantic. And, having seen something out of the ordinary, some peculiarity, I tried (even if involuntarily) to bring it down to earth, to compare it with the world around me. Her life flowed slowly, measuredly, quietly, and, it would seem, satisfied life principles, without going beyond their scope. Vera married a prince, yes, but the same exemplary, quiet person as she herself was. It's just time, though oh hot, passionate love there was no question. And so Vera Nikolaevna receives from Zheltkov a bracelet, the shine of the garnets plunges her into horror, the thought “like blood” immediately pierces her brain, and now a clear feeling about the impending misfortune weighs on her, and this time it is not at all empty. From that moment on, her peace of mind was destroyed. Having received a letter along with the bracelet in which Zheltkov confesses his love to her, there is no limit to the growing excitement. Vera considered Zheltkov “unfortunate”; she could not understand the tragedy of this love. The expression “happy unhappy person” turned out to be somewhat contradictory. After all, in his feeling for Vera, Zheltkov experienced happiness. He ended his life on the orders of Tuganovsky, thereby blessing the woman he loved. Leaving forever, he thought that Vera’s path would become free, her life would improve and go on as before. But there is no turning back. Farewell to Zheltkov’s body was climax her life. At this moment, the power of love reached its maximum value and became equal to death. Eight years of bad, selfless love that demands nothing in return, eight years of devotion to a sweet ideal, selflessness from own principles. In one short moment of happiness, sacrificing everything accumulated over such a long period of time is not something everyone can do. But Zheltkov’s love for Vera did not obey any models, she was above them. And even if her end turned out to be tragic, Zheltkov’s forgiveness was rewarded. Crystal Palace, in which Vera lived, crashed, letting a lot of light, warmth, and sincerity into life. Merging in the finale with Beethoven’s music, it merges with both Zheltkov’s love and eternal memory about him.
I would so much like this fairy tale about the all-forgiving and strong love, created by I. A. Kuprin. I would like so much that cruel reality could never defeat our sincere feelings, our love. We must increase it, be proud of it. Love, true love, you need to study diligently, like the most painstaking science. However, love does not come if you wait for its appearance every minute, and at the same time, it does not flare up out of nothing, but also extinguish the strong one, true love impossible. She, different in all manifestations, is not a model life traditions, but rather an exception to the rule. And yet a person needs love for purification, for acquiring the meaning of life. A loving person is capable of sacrifice for the sake of peace and happiness of a loved one. And yet he is happy. We must bring into love all the best that we feel, that we are proud of. And then bright sun will certainly illuminate it, and even the most ordinary love will become sacred, merging into one with eternity. Forever…
Irina Polyakova
Natalia Kritskaya
Irina Viktorovna POLYAKOVA (1967), Natalya Valerievna KRITSKAYA (1971) - teachers of Russian language and literature at secondary school No. 32 in Astrakhan.
“Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for reward...”
The theme of love in the works of A.I. Kuprina. Based on the story “Garnet Bracelet”
Goals. Expand and deepen students’ understanding of A.I. Kuprin - a master of artistic expression, who conveyed in words the power of a rare gift high love, the greatness of the experience a simple person; show how the writer depicts the process of human awakening; help you compare what you read with the world of your own soul, think about yourself; form aesthetic perception using various types of art - literature, music.
Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than its punishment,
no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving her.
W.Shakespeare
During the classes
I. Introduction
To the sounds of music by Georgy Sviridov, the teacher recites sonnet (130) by William Shakespeare by heart.
Her eyes don't look like stars
You can't call your mouth coral,
The open skin of the shoulders is not snow-white,
And a strand curls like black wire.With damask rose, scarlet or white,
You can't compare the shade of these cheeks.
And the body smells like the body smells,
Not like a violet's delicate petal.You won't find perfect lines in it,
Special light on the forehead.
I don't know how the goddesses walk,
But the darling steps on the ground.And yet she will hardly give in to those
Who was slandered in comparisons of magnificent people.
Teacher. These words about love belong to the great Shakespeare. And here is how Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky reflects on this feeling.
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?
Love is one of the most sublime, noble and beautiful human feelings. True love is always selfless and selfless. “To love,” wrote L.N. Tolstoy means living the life of the one you love.” And Aristotle said this about this: “To love means to wish for another what you consider to be good, and to wish, moreover, not for your own sake, but for the sake of the one you love, and try, if possible, to deliver this good.”
It is this kind of love, amazing in beauty and strength, that is depicted in the story by A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet".
II. Conversation on the content of the story
What is Kuprin's work about? Why is it called "Garnet Bracelet"?
(The story “The Garnet Bracelet” glorifies the selfless, holy feeling of the “little man,” telegraph operator Zheltkov, for Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. The story is named so because the main events are connected with this decoration. And the garnets in the bracelet with their “bloody lights” trembling inside ” - a symbol of love and tragedy in the fate of the hero.)
The story, consisting of thirteen chapters, begins with landscape sketch. Read it. Why do you think the story opens with a landscape?
(The first chapter is an introduction, preparing the reader to perceive further developments. When reading the landscape, there is a feeling of a fading world. The description of nature reminds us of the transience of life. Life goes on: summer gives way to autumn, youth gives way to old age, and the most beautiful flowers are doomed to wither and die. Akin to nature is the cold, prudent existence of the heroine of the story - Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, the wife of the leader of the nobility.)
Read the description autumn garden(second chapter). Why does it follow the description of Vera’s feelings for her husband? What was the author's goal?
What can we say about her soul? Is she suffering from “heart failure”?
(It cannot be said that the princess is heartless. She loves her sister’s children, wants to have her own... She treats her husband as a friend - “the old passionate love is long gone”; she saves him from complete ruin.)
To understand Vera Nikolaevna more deeply, you need to know the princess’s circle. That is why Kuprin describes her relatives in detail.
How did Kuprin portray Vera Nikolaevna’s guests?
(Students look for “characteristics” of the guests in the text: the “fat, ugly huge” Professor Sveshnikov; and with “rotten teeth on the face of the skull” Anna’s husband, a stupid man who “did absolutely nothing, but was registered at some charitable institution ”; and Staff Colonel Ponomarev, “a prematurely aged, thin, bilious man, exhausted by backbreaking office work.”)
Which of the guests is depicted sympathetically? Why?
(This is General Anosov, a friend of the late father of Vera and Anna. He makes a pleasant impression of a simple, but noble, and most importantly wise man. Kuprin endowed him with “Russian, peasant traits”: “a good-natured, cheerful outlook on life”, “ingenuous, naive faith "... It was he who wrote the damning characteristics of his contemporary society, in which interests have become shallow, vulgarized, and people have forgotten how to love. Anosov says: “People’s love has taken such vulgar forms and has descended to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment. Men are to blame , at twenty years of age, satiated, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, to heroic deeds, to tenderness and adoration before love.” This is how the theme of true love began in the story, love for which “to accomplish a feat, to give one’s life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy.”)
What “happy-miraculous” happened on Princess Vera’s name day?
(Vera is presented with a gift and a letter from Zheltkov.)
Let us dwell on Zheltkov’s letter to Vera. Let's read it. What characteristics can we give to its author? How to treat Zheltkov? Should I sympathize, pity, admire or despise him as a weak-spirited person?
(We can treat the hero as we like, and it’s good if such a tragedy does not happen in the life of each of us, but it is important for us to determine author's position, to reveal the attitude of the author himself towards his hero.)
Let us turn to the episode of the visit of Zheltkov by the husband and brother of Princess Vera Nikolaevna. How does Kuprin present his hero to us? How do the participants in the scene behave? Who wins the moral victory in this confrontation? Why?
(Zheltkov. Behind his nervousness and confusion lies a huge feeling, which only death can kill. Tuganovsky is not given the opportunity to either understand or experience such feelings himself. Even Prince Shein uttered words that speak of the sensitivity and nobility of Zheltkov’s soul: “...Is he to blame for love and is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpretation... I feel sorry for that person. And not only do I feel sorry, but I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul..." )
Find in the words of the author depicting Zheltkov’s behavior evidence that his actions are driven by that same enormous feeling that can make a person either immensely happy or tragically unhappy. What is your impression of last letter Zheltkova?
(The letter is beautiful, like poetry, convincing us of the sincerity and strength of his feelings. For Zheltkov, loving Vera even without reciprocity is “enormous happiness.” He is grateful to her for the fact that for eight years she was for him “the only joy in life, the only consolation , with one thought." Saying goodbye to her, he writes: “As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name.”)
III. Reading by heart a poem by A.S. Pushkin "I loved you..."
How is Pushkin's poem consonant with Kuprin's story?
(Both works express admiration for the beloved, reverence, self-sacrifice, and the pain of a suffering heart.)
Can Zheltkov’s feeling for Vera Nikolaevna be called madness? (“What is this: love or madness?”.)
(Prince Shein: “I will say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all.”)
But why does Zheltkov commit suicide?
(Zheltkov truly loves, with passionate, selfless love. He is grateful to the one who aroused in his heart this wonderful feeling that elevated “ little man" He loves, and that's why he's happy. Therefore, death does not fear the hero.)
The turning point for Vera is the farewell to the deceased Zheltkov, their only date. Let's turn to this episode and read it from the words: “The room smelled of incense...”
What does Vera Nikolaevna experience as she peers into the face of the one who passed away because of her?
(Looking at his face, Vera recalls the same peaceful expression on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon.)
Is this detail random? How does Zheltkov appear before us?
(Zheltkov is great for his suffering, for his love. Vera Nikolaevna also understood this, remembering the words of General Amosov: “Perhaps your path in life, Verochka, was crossed by precisely the kind of love that women dream about and which men are no longer capable of.”)
Note: the story underlying this story is largely true. The prototype of Princess Sheina was L.I. Lyubimov, to whom a man in love with her wrote anonymous letters for several years. He had no hopes, he understood: there was an insurmountable gap between him, the “little man,” and her.
The patience of Lyudmila Ivanovna’s aristocratic relatives ran out when the lover dared to send her a garnet bracelet as a gift. The indignant husband and brother of the princess found the anonymous person, and a decisive conversation took place. As a result, the gift was returned, and Yellow (the lover’s surname) vowed not to write again. That's how it all ended.
Why did Kuprin interpret the “curious incident” differently and introduce a tragic ending into his story?
(The tragic ending makes a great impression and gives extraordinary strength and weight to Zheltkov’s feelings.)
What do you think is the climax of the story?
(Episode with the pianist: “...Excited by what she saw and heard, Vera rushed to her and, kissing her big beautiful hands, screamed...")
The greatness of what a simple person has experienced is comprehended by the sounds of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2, as if conveying shock, pain and happiness to him, and unexpectedly displaces everything vain and petty from Vera’s soul, instilling a reciprocal ennobling suffering.
(Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 plays.)
Why does Zheltkov “force” Vera Nikolaevna to listen to this particular Beethoven work? Why did the words that formed in her mind turn out to be so consonant with the mood expressed in Beethoven's music?
(The words seem to come from Zheltkov. They really coincide with the music, indeed “it was like verses that ended with the words: “Hallowed be Thy name.”)
Princess Vera experiences spiritual unity with a man who gave his soul and life to her. Do you think a reciprocal feeling of love arose in Vera’s soul?
(The reciprocal feeling took place, albeit for one moment, but forever awakening in her the thirst for beauty, the worship of spiritual harmony.)
What do you think is the power of love?
(In the transformation of the soul.)
So, the unfortunate Zheltkov is by no means pitiful, and the depth of his feeling, the ability to self-sacrifice deserve not only sympathy, but also admiration.
Why does Kuprin, placing his hero at such a height, introduces us to him only in the tenth chapter? Are the first chapters different in style from the last?
(The language of the initial chapters is leisurely, calm, in them more descriptions, no strain, more routine.)
Let's find not only a stylistic, but also a semantic contrast between the two parts of the story.
(The lyrical landscape, the festive evening are contrasted with the “spit-stained staircase of the house in which Zheltkov lives, the wretched furnishings of his room, similar to the wardroom of a cargo ship.”)
The surnames are also a means of contrasting the heroes: the insignificant and even somewhat degraded “Zheltkov” and the exaggeratedly loud, triple “Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky”. There are also contrasting objects in the story. Which?
(An exquisite notebook decorated with “a filigree gold pattern of rare complexity, delicacy and beauty,” and a garnet bracelet of low-grade gold with poorly polished garnets.)
What is the idea of the story by A.I. Kuprina? What is the point of contrasting the first and second parts of the story? What tradition of Russian literature of the 19th century did the writer continue in this work?
(The meaning of the story is to show the nobility of the soul of a simple person, his ability for deep, sublime feelings by contrasting the hero with high society. The author shows a psychological contrast: a strong, unselfish feeling cannot arise in a world where only well-being, tranquility, beautiful things and words are valued , but such concepts as beauty of the soul, spirituality, sensitivity and sincerity have disappeared. The “little man” rises and becomes great with his sacrificial love.)
IV. Conclusion
K. Paustovsky said that “Kuprin cried over the manuscript of the “Garnet Bracelet”, cried tears of relief... said that he had never written anything more chaste.” Kuprin’s story leaves us, the readers, with the same feeling of purification and enlightenment. It helps us understand what we can lose if we don’t see, hear, or notice the big, real things in life in time.
V. Homework(answer in writing)
How do you understand Kuprin’s words from the letter 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!”
Topic: “Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for reward”
(based on the story by A. Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet”).
Goals: a) to reveal the ideological and artistic originality of the story (chanting of love as highest value peace); the role of the symbolic sound of details in the poetics of the story);
b) contribute to the education of nobility and spirituality;
c) development of reasoned speech skills.
Method: conversation; discussion; analysis literary text; expressive reading; protection of creative works.
Equipment: recording " Moonlight Sonata» Beethoven.
In preparation for the lesson, students received differentiated homework assignments: Level 1 (compulsory for everyone). Read the story “The Garnet Bracelet.” Think about the question: “Why did M. Gorky call A. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet” an excellent thing?
Level 2 (intellectual). Do benchmarking themes of the “little man” in the works of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky and in A. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet”.
3rd level (creative). Choose an epigraph for the lesson “The Theme of Love in Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet”, justify your choice in writing (miniature essay); prepare an expressive reading of A.S. Pushkin’s poem “I loved you”
introduction teachers.
Love is the leitmotif of A. Kuprin’s entire work. Literary, musical works, paintings by artists, because love is the purest and most pristine feeling. Love is life, and everyone living on earth writes his own page in the book of love, for “individuality is expressed not in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity, but in love.” Your page in eternal book The modest official Zheltkov, the hero of Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet,” was also filled with love. What is it about? How did you understand it? And does your understanding of the story coincide with the author’s intention? We will try to answer these questions.
Revealing the perception of the story.
M. Gorky was delighted with the story “Garnet Bracelet”: “What a thing... Wonderful! And I'm glad it's starting good literature" Do you agree with this assessment of the story?
The opinions of students who read the story vary. Most of the guys liked the story. They note an interesting, exciting plot. They are not indifferent to the suffering and joy of love of the “little man”, his ability to die for the sake of his beloved. They talk about the cleansing effect on the soul of this story of sad, sublime love. It is believed that the high appreciation of the story is due to the fact that the writer contrasted the boring, vulgar reality with the romantic aspiration of the hero, who, even in humiliating poverty, did not lose the ability to have a bright, all-consuming feeling. The advantage of the story, in their opinion, is that “The Garnet Bracelet” made one think about eternal and transitory values, about the fact that wealth and position in society do not determine moral value person, but the ability to truly love is not given to everyone; it cannot be bought. And therefore the ability to love is a priceless spiritual treasure.
Others do not share this view of the story. In their opinion, at present the story has lost its significance because it does not correspond to the truth of life. The story is perceived as a fairy tale. It is about what is not in life, and therefore did not arouse keen interest. The hero of the story is accused of weakness, lack of will, and the fact that he does not know how to achieve his goal. And in general he is not interesting as a person. Zheltkov evokes pity, which humiliates a person, but not respect, and especially not the desire to imitate. They do not agree with Gorky's assessment of the story.
After everyone has spoken, the teacher says that the story they read, despite the diametrically opposed opinions about it, left no one indifferent, everyone read it in their own way. But the initial perception does not give a complete idea of the ideological depth of the work, is not capable of giving a correct understanding of the author’s intention, and therefore suggests turning to the semantic essence of the story.
Protection of epigraphs to the story.
The speaking students argue that the epigraph they have chosen most fully expresses the main idea of the story, after which a discussion-conversation follows, directed by the teacher, during which the teacher suggests turning to the text of the story so that the statements of the speakers are not unfounded.
First epigraph: "When there is no real life, then they live in mirages. Still better than nothing." (A.P. Chekhov)
Second epigraph: (A. Kuprin) Third epigraph:“...Great love, which is repeated only once in a thousand years” ( A. Kuprin)
Speech based on the first presented epigraph.
A mirage, according to Ozhegov’s dictionary, is “a deceptive ghost of something; something apparent." This “deceptive ghost” was the love of the poor official Zheltkov for Princess Vera Sheina, caused by the pressure on him of a “painfully monotonous” life.
For eight years, a romantically inclined young man blindly worshiped an unfamiliar lady from high society, was in awe of her, not daring to appear before her eyes, without uttering a single word to her, because from the first glance at her he understood: “there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better,” in her “all the beauty of the earth was embodied " For Zheltkov, from the first to the last moment of love, Vera was not an earthly woman, a person, but was a kind of idea of beauty. He did not love Vera Sheina, because he did not know her at all, but he loved the image created by his imagination, the image of heavenly beauty. He himself writes in a letter to her that every moment of his life is filled with thoughts about her, dreams about her - “sweet delirium.”
Besides “sweet delirium,” what else connected them? The scarf she forgot at the ball that he stole? The Program She Dropped art exhibition? One single note in which she asked not to write to her? These are the only threads connecting his “sweet delirium” with a living woman. But this is not enough. Will the Program or its handkerchief raised by him replace live communication, open the soul of a beloved woman, give the opportunity to warm her heart, console her in grief, rejoice for her in joy, protect her, protect her from life's adversities? Of course not. His attitude towards her cannot be called love. It is rather worship, deification earthly woman, in a word – a mirage.
But Princess Vera was ordinary, had, like everyone else, shortcomings, she was not an angel, not a deity. The story mentions such “earthly” little things that do not at all correlate with Zheltkov’s romantic ideas about her. For example, Vera loved to eat delicious food, was fond of gambling card game, was arrogant and arrogant in her relations with the servants. And when Zheltkov addresses her in a letter: “Your Excellency, Dear Princess Vera Nikolaevna!” (each letter in the appeal is written with a capital letter) or writes in the same letter: “I dare to forward to you my humble loyal offering...” - with his humiliation he evokes only a feeling of contemptuous pity. And it is no coincidence that Vera, having read only the beginning of his letter, thought with displeasure: “Oh, this is the one!” The official in love came up with an image of Vera for himself that does not at all correspond to the image of the real heroine. Thus, Vera Sheina is also a mirage.
Zheltkov did not love Princess Vera - he dreamed of love, he loved his suffering, his delight, his devotion. The poor young man was happy with his dreams, his “delirium,” because it was his only joy in life. “Man is created for happiness, like a bird for flight,” and if in real life everything is dull, gray, ordinary, then he makes up for the lack of joy with his dreams. The story says little about the life of Zheltkov himself. We only know that he rented a room located under the attic, dark, poorly furnished, which had to be climbed up a dirty, unlit staircase. Zheltkov's portrait, his behavior, and manners reveal a typical commoner - an urban poor man, whose life is a joyless existence, only for a moment illuminated by a mirage of love.
The illusory nature of Zheltkov’s feelings is emphasized by comparison with the earthly, ordinary love of Vera herself and her husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich. Their relationship is built on mutual trust, understanding, and respect. They help each other, give happiness and joy. Their love is love-friendship, love-happiness, love-joy, but not love-mirage.
Discussion - conversation after the defense of the proposed epigraph.
The vast majority did not accept the proposed story concept.
In my opinion, this epigraph does not express the main idea of the story at all. Zheltkov’s love cannot be called a mirage, that is, something apparent. He loved Vera Nikolaevna, sublime, unearthly, ideal, but real love. He even gave up his life to save her from anxiety, excitement, and fuss around her name. At first glance at her, he saw not only heavenly beauty, but also spiritual beauty, which is why he fell in love with her. And this love brought him happiness, the joy of adoration, admiration for his beloved. He himself wrote in a letter: “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 that God wanted to reward me for something.”
Such a strong feeling, such love, cannot be called a mirage. On the contrary, the writer shows that this love reborn Vera Sheina herself, and her husband, and Zheltkov himself, because “true love stronger than death" Before meeting the poor official, Prince Vasily Lvovich laughed “at the poor telegraph operator P.P.Zh.”, drew caricatures and caricatures of him, did not take the poor official’s love seriously, considering his relationship with Vera “an absurd courtship, a curious flirtation. And only after meeting Zheltkov, Vasily Lvovich realized that the poor young man sincerely loved and suffered. “I don’t doubt the sincerity of this man... I will say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all,” he admits in a conversation with Vera. And Vera herself, a cold aristocrat, at the end of the story realized that her life had been crossed by true love. And after Zheltkov’s death, she experienced deep gratitude to him, understood his suffering, appreciated his selfless, all-consuming love, and maybe, at least for a moment, fell in love with him. Zheltkov himself has changed over these eight years of unrequited but selfless love. Let us remember that for the first two years his letters were of a vulgar, curiously ardent nature. But the feeling Great love cleansed and ennobled his soul. He began to write only occasionally: on New Year, on Easter and on her name day. And his letters are full of self-denial, nobility, love. Thus, the author’s intention is to show that true love works miracles, everything is subject to it, nothing is impossible for true love, it ennobles the soul, gives happiness, but not in showing that Zheltkov’s love is a mirage.
The teacher suggests turning to the episode of Vera Nikolaevna’s farewell to Zheltkov, which can serve as an illustration of the statement made. The following questions are proposed for analysis: - For what purpose did Princess Vera Sheina decide to go to the apartment of the late Zheltkov - What did Vera Sheina understand, peering into the face of the one who loved her so devotedly? - What detail emphasizes the greatness of Zheltkov? - What are the other symbolic details present in this episode, what is their role?
The students say that Vera Nikolaevna experienced a feeling of love in front of the tragically deceased Zheltkov and a feeling of gratitude for the great love that he gave her. This love erased all the barriers between her, the princess, and the rootless petty official. This love elevated him in the eyes of the princess. She realized, looking at the dead Zheltkov, that he was great in his love, in his suffering. That is why he reminds Vera Nikolaevna of Pushkin and Napoleon - two great sufferers. And another symbolic detail is the red rose that the princess brought and placed under Zheltkov’s head. The red rose is a symbol of love and death. The red rose resembles the red garnets of the bracelet given to her, which were also associated in Vera’s mind with love and blood. Death united them on a spiritual level.
After the analysis of the episode, the discussion on the 1st epigraph follows.
Zheltkov did not have a life in the common sense: he was poor, occupied a modest place on the career ladder, led working life urban poor. The hero’s social position is guessed through his portrait, the description of his home, and the hero’s words about himself - all this is in the story, but not in the first place. The hero's poverty and the gray, monotonous life that accompanies it do not appear in the story as the root cause of the love of the official, who allegedly sought to escape into the world of dreams from a painfully monotonous life. The author's intention is to show that true love elevates even the most modest man, the greatness of a person lies not in titles, not in wealth, not in position in society - but in the ability to love. That is why Zheltkov is opposed to a privileged society.
The following is an analysis of the episode of the visit of Zheltkov by the husband and brother of Vera Sheina the following questions: 1. How do Zheltkov and Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky behave in this episode? 2. What is the role of the portrait, the author’s characteristics in the description internal state heroes? How expressed author's attitude to the heroes?
3. How does this episode show the moral superiority of a humble official over Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky?
The students say that at the beginning of the conversation, Zheltkov is in confusion, he is confused, scared, and feels guilty before those who came. He is very awkward, arouses pity with his insecurity and vulnerability. But already in the portrait one can guess hidden power, the ability to take decisive action. The guys note in the portrait the romantic pallor, tenderness, large Blue eyes combined with a “stubborn chin and a dimple in the middle.” His inner turmoil is conveyed by the author’s words: “rubbed his hands in confusion”; “thin nervous fingers” buttoned and unbuttoned the buttons of the “jacket”; he bowed awkwardly; “babbled with dead lips”; looked at Shein with “pleading eyes”, etc. And Vera Nikolaevna’s brother behaves arrogantly, showing contempt for the “rabble”, the “plebeian”, who dared to consider himself equal to them, the Tuganovsky princes. He does not notice the hand extended to him, arrogantly and demonstratively turned away, continued to stand, despite the owner’s invitation to sit down. In the author's speech, which accompanies his remarks, the author's attitude towards the hero is felt as negative. Nikolai Nikolaevich spoke to Zheltkov “with slight impudence”; “he almost shouted” at Zheltkov when he dared to interrupt him. But how the behavior of the poor official changed when he heard from the prince that they could turn to the authorities to protect Vera Nikolaevna from his persecution! Zheltkov “laughed,” sitting comfortably on the sofa, lit a cigarette, having previously addressed exclusively Vera Nikolaevna’s husband with an apology for the fact that he was sitting. Fear, confusion, awkwardness disappeared. Now he spoke only to Vera Nikolaevna’s husband, who looked at him “with serious curiosity.” The reason for this metamorphosis is that Prince Tuganovsky showed his mental underdevelopment and Zheltkov understood the prince’s inferiority and felt his human superiority. The distinguished assistant prosecutor did not even suspect that it was impossible to make someone fall out of love and fall in love, that even the authorities could not do this. Because he himself did not know how to love. Never loved. He is not capable of such a feeling as love. Zheltkov himself realized his moral superiority over the prince. Vera Nikolaevna’s husband recognized this superiority and began to talk with Zheltkov with respect, but “impatiently brushed aside” Nikolai Nikolaevich. Vasily Lvovich realized that Zheltkov was not to blame for his love, that it was impossible to control such a feeling as love. He uttered words that speak of his sensitivity and nobility of soul: “I feel sorry for this man. And I feel that I am present at some kind of tragedy of the soul. And I can’t clown around here.” Thus, Prince Vasily Lvovich managed to rise above the contemptuous attitude towards the anonymous admirer of Princess Vera, having recognized him personally, and bow before his spiritual tragedy.
The teacher says that in this story Kuprin continues and develops the “theme of the little man,” which is one of the main ones in Russian literature. A prepared student makes a message “The Theme of the Little Man” in the works of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky, A. Kuprin”
Russian classic literature is distinguished by deep humanism and democracy, and therefore “the theme of the little man is cross-cutting in the work of Russian writers. For the first time in Russian literature, A.S. Pushkin was the main character of his story “ Stationmaster“made a “little man” - 14th grade official Samson Vyrin. The writer showed his plight not so much in material terms as in spiritually. He saw the bitterness and humiliation of the “little man”, who is not taken into account, who is humiliated, from whom the most precious thing can be taken away - only daughter. And which you can simply throw out of the hallway, like a disgusting thing. Pushkin with his story drew the attention of society to “ human essence little people,” called for pity and compassion towards them.
This topic was continued by N.V. Gogol. In his story “The Overcoat” he talked about the fate of Bashmachkin. This is a timid creature, humiliated, capable only of copying papers. There was no more light in his life. And no goals, no joy. And finally, a goal appeared - buying a new overcoat. How long had he been saving pennies to buy an overcoat! How thorough! With what pleasure I chose the cloth and the butt! And so the overcoat, new, good quality, warmly and comfortably covered his body from the cold and wind. But the robbers took away this only joy from the “little man,” like Samson Vyrin. Just like Pushkin's hero, poor Bashmachkin tries to return what was taken away, and just like his timid attempts end in another humiliation and then death. Gogol did not go further than Pushkin in revealing the theme of the “little man.” He also called only for pity and compassion. And at the end of the 40s, F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Poor People” appeared, where the main characters are the poor seamstress Varenka and the official Makar Devushkin. But this is no longer Samson Vyrin or Bashmachkin. “I am human in heart and mind!” – declares Makar Devushkin. He is poor materially, but spiritually richer than many. And this spiritual wealth manifested itself in his ability to love. Loving and caring for a poor, sick girl. In his letters to Varenka one can see big soul, tact, humanity. He is spiritually richer than the nobleman, landowner Bykov, who sees in poor Varenka only an object of joy. Dostoevsky's "Little Man" evokes not so much pity as respect. Kuprin in the story “The Garnet Bracelet” continues the traditions of F.M. Dostoevsky. He gave the ability to love sublimely, purely, passionately to the poor official Zheltkov. He devoted his whole life to love for Princess Vera Sheina. But this love is doomed from the very beginning, since this noble young man is not of the same circle as the princess. He is poor, shy, awkward, his life would be painfully monotonous if not for the great, holy love that illuminated his fate, awakened human dignity in him, and revealed the enormous strength of his spirit. After the death of the poor official, the princess realized that love, which is born once every thousand years, had passed her by. Kuprin revealed the spiritual limitations of representatives of “high society” and elevated the “little man”
Defense of the following epigraph to the story:"Love should be a tragedy, the greatest secret in the world" (A. Kuprin).
ABOUT magical power love, which brings happiness and torment, pushes to reckless actions, incinerates a person’s soul - and cleanses and elevates it, philosophers and writers have thought throughout time. A. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet” is about such love. The main idea of this story is the assertion that love is a mystery, that true love is necessarily fraught with tragedy. This idea is revealed in the love story of the modest, poor official Zheltkov for a noble lady from high society - Princess Vera Sheina. “The little man” turned out to be capable of a huge, all-consuming feeling that contains the whole meaning of life. “It so happens 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,” wrote the selflessly in love Zheltkov to his beloved woman.
His love was unrequited, hopeless, a secret - the princess had never even seen the one who devoted his whole life to loving her. They did not say a single word to each other, but he idolized her, worshiped her, for the sake of her happiness, her peace of mind, he voluntarily gave up his life. This is love from God, sent to him as a reward, as the greatest happiness. It is impossible to understand and explain why he, an inconspicuous, poor young man, fell in love with an unfamiliar noble lady at first sight, knowing that this love would be unrequited and bitterly happy. Why is this one not far ideal woman rose to the level of deity in his eyes? “As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name” - love is mysterious and omnipotent. It is stronger even than death, stronger than the laws of logic. Love and death - this tragic collision is often repeated when it comes to true love. Zheltkov’s love is also colored by the tragedy of death. He was unable to stop loving Vera, because “is it possible to control such a feeling as love, a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter.” And he also could not love her anymore, he could not for the sake of Vera, because his love began to darken the life of the woman he loved. This is a truly tragic situation, the only way out of which is death. Zheltkov committed suicide. But even as he passed away, he thought about Vera. He did not want his death to tarnish her name, even indirectly, so in suicide note He explained the reason for his tragic death as a waste of government money. Not every voluntary death can be called a tragedy, because the tragic confrontation is based on high moral or social motives. Zheltkov’s death was dictated by a high, spiritualized feeling of love. It can be called a tragedy. True love is initially tragic, because it brings happiness and great suffering, because in every joy there is a lot of sadness.
Conversation-discussion after the defense of the presented epigraph.
The epigraph expresses ideological essence story: true love is a mystery, a tragedy. Such love rises above earthly passions, earthly vanity, it is not touched by life’s conveniences, compromises, or calculations. Such love cannot be judged based on ordinary ideas about rationality and morality. True love doesn't fit into worldly wisdom, and in this regard it is the greatest secret in the world. This idea sounds not only in Zheltkov’s love story, but in the story there is minor characters with your love-mystery, love-tragedy. For example, a young warrant officer, a pure, ardent young man, fell in love with an old, ugly, immoral person for some unknown reason - the wife of a regiment commander, and threw himself under a train to prove his love to her. And the other hero - the captain, the favorite of the soldiers, the brave officer - turned into a laughing stock for those around him, because he loved his wife so much that for her sake he protected her lover from dangers and difficulties during campaigns. Sacrificed his life to save him. True love is a mystery, a tragedy.
The teacher asks whether these stories can be called tragic, what role they play in the story. The students' opinions were divided.
It is possible, because they love not for something, not for some merits, but they love in spite of something. Yes, the woman whom a young, pure young man fell in love with is far from ideal. And this is where the tragedy lies. Young ensign, blinded strong feeling, idolized a vile person who could not be different, and therefore, sending someone in love with her to death young man, she was natural in her stupidity, narcissism, arrogance. Despite the baseness of this woman, despite this, the young man was ready to do anything, even death, to prove and show his love. Selfless love and human baseness - isn’t this a tragic contradiction in life?
This story cannot be called tragic. Firstly, General Amosov himself calls it stupidity, and the old general is in the story the mouthpiece of Kuprin’s ideas. He's one of the goodies a story you can trust. Secondly, author's description The heroes of this story prove that there is only one step from the great to the ridiculous. This is not a tragedy, but a farce. The author's speech is deliberately down-to-earth, ironic and satirical. They don’t talk about the tall with these words: “prenatural erysipelas”; "old horse"; “some idiot decided to hold him back and push him away”; “So both his hands were chopped off.” Compared to tragic love Zheltkov, this story proves that “people’s love has taken such vulgar forms... and has reached the point of little entertainment.”
Epigraph protection“...Great love, which is repeated only once in a thousand years” ( A. Kuprin)
In the story “The Garnet Bracelet,” Kuprin showed love of amazing beauty and strength of feeling, sublime, ideal love, “of which women dream and of which men are no longer capable.”
For eight years, the timid and lonely petty official Zheltkov secretly and hopelessly loved Princess Vera Sheina, who was inaccessible to him. Nothing in life interested him; he dedicated all his dreams, best thoughts and aspirations, the most intimate movements of his soul to her - his inaccessible Madonna. In a world of vulgarity, cruelty, prudence, a lonely romantic retained spiritual purity, an enthusiastic impulse towards the ideal, the ability to self-sacrifice in the name of love. Even in the face of death, he is grateful to the one who aroused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him above the vain world, giving him great happiness. That is why, when leaving this life, he blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be Thy name.”
The love of the poor official Zheltkov is ideally romantic, which, according to the old General Anosov, “occurs once in a thousand years.” This is proven in the story using the technique of comparison. Clean and selfless love Zheltkova is opposed corrupt love based on mercantile interests, calculation, falsehood. This is exactly how Vera Sheina’s sister “loves” her husband, marrying him only because he is fabulously rich. Old man Anosov, who has seen a lot in his time, talks about such marriages of convenience and frivolity. But in his own words, he had never encountered true love, selfless, selfless love that did not expect reward.
The sublimely romantic, unearthly nature of the “little man’s” love for the princess is emphasized by verbal and figurative symbolism. Thus, the word “antique” is repeatedly repeated in the story, which contributes to the fact that the love story itself is perceived as a legend passed on from generation to generation, inspired by the dream of an ideal, fabulously beautiful love. Already in the portrait of Princess Vera Sheina, her originality and dissimilarity from others are emphasized: “The eldest, Vera, took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman... with that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient miniatures.” For her birthday, Vera received a gift from her sister notebook in an antique binding from a prayer book with an ornament that makes the shape of a cross, attached to a very ancient real Venetian old gold chain. Finally, the garnet bracelet itself was “entirely covered with small old, poorly polished garnets,” and among the red garnets shimmered one green garnet, which, “according to an old legend, has the property of imparting the gift of foresight to the women who wear it.”
And the image of her beloved poor romantic, and the things that surround her - everything breathes ancient times, antique value, just like the love of a humble official for his Goddess.
Discussion of the proposed epigraph
The epigraph expresses the idea of exclusivity, the romantic elation of the love of a modest official for the princess. The story “The Garnet Bracelet” is a realistic work. It reliably and truthfully depicts social and everyday reality, but at the same time one feels a gravitation towards romantic elation above drab life, a desire to embellish everyday life. The story combines features of realism and romanticism. Already in the portrait of Zheltkov, the hero’s appearance features are emphasized romantic works: pallor, long hair, big Blue eyes. His life is surrounded by an aura of mystery; we know nothing about him, we can only guess from some signs about him. social status in society, but his past, present are all a mystery. Like everyone else romantic hero, his love is mysterious, enigmatic, even acquiring the features of spontaneity, not subject to human will. Love is self-denial, love is a feat. Zheltkov loves passionately, unselfishly. He is grateful to the one who gave him the happiness of love: “Hallowed be Thy name.” Selfless, selfless, pure love is great love.
The teacher asks in what other works of Russian literature love is shown as self-sacrifice, admiration, and feat. Among others, students name A.S. Pushkin’s poem “I loved you”
Student reading by heart the poem “I loved you”
Final words from the teacher.
The selected epigraphs express both the reader’s perception of the story and the author’s position. Kuprin showed love as an eternal bright principle that can elevate the soul of a lover. He showed the eternal mystery of love as " greatest secret in the world". He contrasted great love with base feelings, combining realism with romanticism. The author's epigraph to the story is the name of Beethoven's immortal sonata, because this music revealed to Vera Nikolaevna the beauty of Zheltkov's feelings as a rare value and helped her understand everything and feel forgiven. Zheltkov's love is as immortal as this sonata. She deserves admiration.
Reading by the teacher of the end of the story to the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata.
Composition.
Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for reward, based on the story by I.A. Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet”
Sometimes we are so far from reality in our dreams that the next return to reality brings us pain and disappointment. And we run away from the slightest troubles of life, from its coldness and insensitivity. In our pink dreams we see a bright future, in our dreams we again try to build crystal castles in a cloudless sky. But there is a feeling in our lives that is so close to our dreams that it almost touches them. This is Love. With him we feel protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Already from childhood, the foundations of love and affection are laid in the minds of everyone. And each person will carry them throughout his life, sharing them with the world around him, thereby making it wider and brighter. thereby making it wider and lighter. But sometimes it seems that people are increasingly grounding their own interests, and even feelings become victims of such grounding. They become stale, turn into ice, and become smaller. Unfortunately, not everyone has to experience happy and sincere love. And even that has its ups and downs. And some even wonder: Does it exist in the world? And yet, I really want to believe that this is a magical feeling, in the name of which, for the sake of a loved one, you can sacrifice the most valuable thing - even your own life. It is about this kind of selfless and all-forgiving love that Kuprin writes in his story “The Garnet Bracelet.”
The first pages of the story are devoted to a description of nature. It’s as if all events take place against their miraculous light background, a wonderful fairy tale of love comes true. The cold autumn landscape of fading nature is similar in essence to the mood of Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. From it we predict her calm, unapproachable character. Nothing attracts her in this life, perhaps that is why the brightness of her being is enslaved by everyday life and dullness. Even during a conversation with her sister Anna, in which the latter admires the beauty of the sea, she replies that at first this beauty also excites her, and then “begins to crush her with its flat emptiness...”. Vera could not be imbued with a sense of beauty in the world around her. She was not a natural romantic. And, having seen something out of the ordinary, some peculiarity, I tried (even if involuntarily) to bring it down to earth, to compare it with the world around me. Her life flowed slowly, measuredly, quietly, and, it would seem, satisfied the principles of life without going beyond them. Vera married a prince, yes, but the same exemplary, quiet person as she herself was. The time had simply come, although there was no talk of hot, passionate love. And so Vera Nikolaevna receives from Zheltkov a bracelet, the shine of the garnets plunges her into horror, the thought “like blood” immediately pierces her brain, and now a clear feeling about the impending misfortune weighs on her, and this time it is not at all empty. From that moment on, her peace of mind was destroyed. Having received a letter along with the bracelet in which Zheltkov confesses his love to her, there is no limit to the growing excitement. Vera considered Zheltkov “unfortunate”; she could not understand the tragedy of this love. The expression “happy unhappy person” turned out to be somewhat contradictory. After all, in his feeling for Vera, Zheltkov experienced happiness. He ended his life on the orders of Tuganovsky, thereby blessing the woman he loved. Leaving forever, he thought that Vera’s path would become free, her life would improve and go on as before. But there is no turning back. Saying goodbye to Zheltkov’s body was the culminating moment of her life. At this moment, the power of love reached its maximum value and became equal to death. Eight years of bad, selfless love that demands nothing in return, eight years of devotion to a sweet ideal, selflessness from one’s own principles. In one short moment of happiness, sacrificing everything accumulated over such a long period of time is not something everyone can do. But Zheltkov’s love for Vera did not obey any models, she was above them. And even if her end turned out to be tragic, Zheltkov’s forgiveness was rewarded. The crystal palace in which Vera lived shattered, letting in a lot of light, warmth, and sincerity into life. Merging in the finale with Beethoven’s music, it merges with Zheltkov’s love and with the eternal memory of him.
I would really like this fairy tale about all-forgiving and strong love, created by I. A. Kuprin, to penetrate into our monotonous life. I would like so much that cruel reality could never defeat our sincere feelings, our love. We must increase it, be proud of it. Love, true love, must be studied diligently, like the most painstaking science. However, love does not come if you wait for its appearance every minute, and at the same time, it does not flare up out of nothing, but it is also impossible to extinguish strong, true love. She, different in all manifestations, is not an example of life traditions, but rather an exception to the rule. And yet a person needs love for purification, for acquiring the meaning of life. A loving person is capable of sacrifice for the sake of peace and happiness of a loved one. And yet he is happy. We must bring into love all the best that we feel, that we are proud of. And then the bright sun will surely illuminate it, and even the most ordinary love will become sacred, merging into one with eternity. Forever…
