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What is true love and is it really capable of transforming a person, elevating and purifying him? Probably, each person finds his own answer to this question. In Russian literature, many writers have thought about this, but no one has given such a comprehensive answer as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in the story “The Lady with the Dog.” Just a few pages of this true masterpiece of world literature shows the love story of two seemingly ordinary people.

Its beginning seems more than an ordinary holiday romance. In Yalta, Gurov meets, this unremarkable bank employee, a run-of-the-mill Don Juan, and Anna Sergeevna, a young “lady with a dog,” who for the first time broke free from the routine of family life. A few meetings, and the vacation at sea is over, and with it the short-lived romance is over. For Gurov, this is one of his many adventures, which, it seems to him, he will soon forget. A few “touches to the portrait” of the hero: here he is, after the first date, which so excited Anna Sergeevna, calmly listens to her confessions and eats a watermelon. But they are walking by the sea, and suddenly our hero is visited by unexpected thoughts about the “highest goals of existence.” But this moment of separation from everyday life quickly disappears, like fog over the sea. The rest is over, everyday life begins: work, household chores, empty conversations with colleagues.

Returning to Moscow, Gurov is sure that soon the memories of the holiday romance will fade and be forgotten, but suddenly they flare up more and more, filling him completely. He is so filled with them that he almost tells his wife about everything, and in the end he shares it with a random interlocutor, his colleague. For Gurov, these unusual feelings for him are the beginning of something new, unprecedented for him, and his interlocutor, calmly chewing his lunch, casually remarks: “The sturgeon is fragrant.” This meaningless ordinary remark is so unlike Gurov’s entire structure of thoughts that he explodes. Suddenly, something is revealed to him that he had been diligently trying to turn away from: he, an exemplary family man, a respectable, experienced person, discovers that for the first time he has truly fallen in love, although gray hair has already appeared in his hair.

Gurov can't wait any longer - he goes to the city where Anna Sergeevna lives. The meeting of the heroes becomes the beginning of their new life. Outwardly, everything about it is the same, but what threw them towards each other now constitutes its true meaning. These are the “highest goals of existence” that Gurov did not want to think about before. Now both he and Anna Sergeevna live, as it were, on a different level, rising above the ordinary level of feelings, emotions, and reflections. They discover previously unknown facets of life and are concerned about new questions and problems that require solutions.

But Chekhov does not strive for final answers; the ending of the story, like many other works of this writer, remains open. And can there be some kind of general solution when it comes to true love? Another thing is more important: the magic of Chekhov’s art drew us into the orbit of the feelings and experiences of his heroes. Together with them, we felt how everything changes when a person’s life is illuminated by love. This means that we, the readers, received a powerful impetus for searches, transformations and new discoveries.

What is Kuprin's work about? Why do you think the author called his story “The Garnet Bracelet”?

(The story shows a sublime feeling - love. This love is ideal, extraordinary and pure. The author himself later said that he had never written anything more chaste. The work shows the unrequited feeling of the telegraph operator Zheltkov for Princess Vera Sheina.)

What significance does the different social status of the characters have for love?

(Between Princess Vera and the petty official Zheltkov, there are social barriers and partitions of class inequality. It is the different social status and Vera’s marriage that makes Zheltkov’s love unrequited and unrequited. The hero himself admits in his letter that he has received only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion ".)

(In his story, Kuprin does not place much emphasis on the “inequality of conditions”; he 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. In this way way is to describe the behavior of people from the circle of Princess Vera Sheina. They laugh at the letters of the young official, mock his feelings, disdain his gift. These people are ready to trample a plebeian for encroaching on something that is not available to him, they can easily recognize an ordinary person as crazy .)

What is the significance of the first chapter of the story and the description of the autumn landscape?

(The first chapter is an introduction, the task of which is to prepare the reader for the necessary perception of subsequent events. Thanks to the description of the autumn landscape with its empty dachas and flower beds, you feel the inevitability of the withering of the surrounding nature, the withering of the world. This is also emphasized by the words of the author: “It’s a pity, and It was sad and disgusting to look through this muddy muslin of rain at this pitiful belongings.")

What role does landscape play in conveying Vera Sheina’s mood?

(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.")

When does the story begin?

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

(According to Kuprin, “Vera Nikolaevna Sheina always expected something happy and wonderful from her name day.” She receives a gift from her husband - earrings; a gift from her sister - a spare book; and from a person with the initials G.S.Zh - a bracelet . This is a gift from Zheltkov: “a gold, low-grade, very thick... bracelet completely covered on the outside... with garnets. It looks like a tasteless trinket next to expensive, elegant gifts. But its value is completely different... After all, Zheltkov gives the most valuable thing he has is the family jewel. Looking at the deep red garnets, Vera felt anxiety, she senses the approach of something unpleasant, sees some kind of omen in this bracelet. It is no coincidence that she immediately compares these red stones with blood: “ It’s like blood!” she exclaims. Vera Sheina’s calm was disturbed.)

What does a garnet bracelet mean to Zheltkov himself?

(For Zheltkov, the bracelet is not only a symbol of reverent, endless and hopeless love, it also has a certain magical power, like any family jewel. The young man writes about this in a letter to Vera Sheina: “According to an old legend preserved in our family, he 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..."

Think about why Zheltkov gave Vera the most valuable thing to him?

Work with text

Read Zheltkov's letter to Vera. What do we learn about the young man from this letter? Based on what you read, give your character description.

How does Vera’s husband feel about Zheltkov’s letters? (Chapter Nine)

Find in the text the answer to the question: “Is Prince Vasily Shein capable of loving deeply and strongly? (General Anosov about Vasya)

The role of General Anosov in the story “Garnet Bracelet”. His thoughts about love.

Characteristics of Zheltkov given by General Anosov: “Madman; maybe he’s just an abnormal guy, a maniac, who knows? “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.”

Vera’s understanding of all the exclusivity of the love that passed her by and the premonition of Zheltkov’s imminent death.

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 person is not capable of deceiving and knowingly lying...” (tenth chapter); “... I feel that I am present at some a huge tragedy of the soul, and I cannot explain here" (chapter eleven). And the prince's address to his wife: "I will say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all.")

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

Vera Sheina’s farewell to the deceased Zheltkov (Chapter 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?

Beethoven's Second Sonata. Why did Zheltkov “force” his beloved woman to listen to this particular immortal work?

(Beethoven's sonata sounds.)

What do you think is the power of 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 in the face of the dead Zheltkov saw “deep importance”, which could only be seen in the masks of such great people as Pushkin and Napoleon. Lyubov Zheltkova, the one who happens “once in a thousand years,” remained immortal It is this kind of love that Kuprin praises.)

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1. My thoughts about the story I read by A. I. Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet.”

2. “...What was it: love or madness?” (Based on the story “Garnet Bracelet”)

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It lives and rules on earth -

Of all miracles, the only miracle.

Yu. Ognev

Indeed, it is very difficult to explain what love is. Philosophers, composers, poets, writers and ordinary people have been searching for the answer to this question for centuries and continue to search. 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 centuryJ.-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...

MyselfKuprin this is what he said about love: this feeling,“which has not yet found an interpreter” .

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

Love, love is a mysterious word,

Who could fully understand him?

Always in everything whether you are old or new,

Languishment of the spirit you or grace?

Irreversible loss

Or getting rich without end?

Hot day what doesn't have a sunset?

Or the night devastated hearts?

Or maybe you're just reminder

About what inevitably awaits us all?

With nature, with unconsciousness merger

And the eternal world cycle?

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Listen to the sonnetI.L. Selvinsky.

- What do you think the hero feels: love or infatuation?

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 hasn't been touched yet la.

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- 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?

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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.)

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“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)

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

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- How does Kuprin resolve this eternal problem of unrequited love?

(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, in your opinion, 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!)

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

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Conclusion:

The theme of love gave Kuprin an opportunity to show more deeply the destructive the impact of abnormal social relations on the human soul, show the hostility of the fermented world to everything pure and holy. But that's not all. For Kuprin, the theme of love opposed everything base, mercantile, and cynical; it could not help but attract a great and spiritually healthy artist who believed in man, in the strength and beauty of the human spirit. Kuprin, in developing this theme, was the legitimate heir of Russian literature of the 20th century.

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Although Bulat-Tuganovsky is still trying to bully Zheltkov and threaten him, the spiritual advantage is already completely on the latter’s side. The little official “straightens up” and speaks as if from a height of feeling that lifted him above the bustle of everyday life, opening up a new, shining world to him.

Actually, there is not even a conversation between Zheltkov and Shein, only Zheltkov speaks, and Shein listens, depressed by the enormity of experiences inaccessible to him. Subsequently, he confessed to his wife: “For him there was no life without you. It seemed to me that I was present at the enormous suffering from which people die, and I even almost realized that in front of me was a dead person. You see, Vera, I didn’t know how to behave, what to do.”

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Bunin's love:

Sunstroke. Unpredictability, uncontrollability, spontaneity...

A moment is enough to illuminate life.

“Dark Alleys” - labyrinths of the soul.

Love is a charm, the power of life... But also doom, brevity. Love can be sudden and swift, like a sunstroke, but never lasting and long-lasting. Bliss flashed - the old life dragged on, now, after happiness, doubly unbearable...

Bunin is convinced that true love is too close to death, true passion does not stand the test of life.

Deceived love is one of Bunin’s constant themes. ("Caucasus").

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Another interesting twist on the topic is the Impossibility of Love. The unattainability of happiness.

What are the similarities between the characters? (Tatyana Lenskaya, Olesya and Zheltkov)

Marina Tsvetaeva “My Pushkin”. What other people have such a heroine, in love, but proud, strong in spirit, wise!?! “The fact of the matter was that he (Onegin) did not love her (Tatyana) ... And only for this reason she chose Him, and not the other, to love, because she secretly knew that he could not love her ...”

Sample essay topics...

Love for ages

Does love always make a person happy?

Love is stronger than death...

Love and war...

Love and separation...

Love is spiritual rebirth...

Faces of love...

“Who told you that there is no true, true, high love in the world?”

“From love for a woman, everything beautiful on earth was born” (A.M. Gorky)

Hypocritical love is worse than hatred.

Love and death.

Maxim Gorky "The Girl and Death" (fairy tale)

Quotes:Sometimes Love burns faster

A thin candle in God's hot temple.

He thinks: “How will I live in the world if people stop kissing?”

The girl says: “Hug my dear - there is no more Earth or Heaven!

And the soul is full of unearthly power,

And an unearthly light burns in my soul!”

There is no God in the world more beautiful than the Sun!

There is no Fire - the Fire of Love is more wonderful!

Death is not a mother, but a woman. And in it

The heart is also stronger than the mind!

Only I will be next to you,

I will forever be near Love!..

There is probably more energy from Love than from Death. Love is a life-affirming principle capable of self-healing. Death only destroys and destroys. If Death from Gorky’s fairy tale is comparable to Lermontov’s Devil, we will get somewhat similar images:

Devil “he sowed evil without pleasure, nowhere did he meet resistance to his art - and evil bored him...”

Death of Gorky « It’s boring to measure time by the hour of death - I want to live more uselessly...”

She's tired of human horror,

Tired of funerals and crypts.

Busy with a thankless task

On Earth both dirty and sick,

She does it skillfully...

Practical task.

Write a miniature on the topic:"Loving each other is..."