Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a Russian writer who, without a doubt, can be classified as a classic. His books are still recognizable and loved by readers, and not only because of coercion school teacher, but at a conscious age. Distinctive feature his work is documentary, his stories were based on real events or real events became the impetus for their creation - among them the story “Garnet Bracelet”.
“The Garnet Bracelet” is a true story that Kuprin heard from friends while looking through family albums. The governor's wife made sketches for letters sent to her by a certain telegraph official who was unrequitedly in love with her. One day she received a gift from him: a gold-plated chain with a pendant in the shape of an Easter egg. Alexander Ivanovich took this story as the basis for his work, turning these meager, uninteresting data into a touching story. The writer replaced the chain with the pendant with a bracelet with five garnets, which, according to what King Solomon said in one story, mean anger, passion and love.
Plot
“The Pomegranate Bracelet” begins with preparations for the celebration, when Vera Nikolaevna Sheina suddenly receives a gift from an unknown person: a bracelet with five garnets flecked in green. The paper note that came with the gift stated that gem capable of endowing the owner with foresight. The princess shares the news with her husband and shows a bracelet from an unknown person. As the action progresses, it turns out that this person is a petty official named Zheltkov. He first saw Vera Nikolaevna at the circus many years ago, and since then the suddenly flared up feelings have not faded away: even her brother’s threats do not stop him. However, Zheltkov does not want to torment his beloved, and he decides to commit suicide so as not to bring shame on her.
The story ends with the realization of the strength of the stranger’s sincere feelings, which comes to Vera Nikolaevna.
Love theme
The main theme of the work “Garnet Bracelet” is undoubtedly the theme of unrequited love. Moreover, Zheltkov is a shining example of selfless, sincere, sacrificial feelings that he does not betray, even when his loyalty cost his life. Princess Sheina also fully feels the power of these emotions: years later she realizes that she wants to be loved and love again - and the jewelry donated by Zheltkov marks the imminent appearance of passion. Indeed, she soon falls in love with life again and feels it in a new way. you can read on our website.
The theme of love in the story is frontal and permeates the entire text: this love is high and pure, a manifestation of God. Vera Nikolaevna feels internal changes even after Zheltkov’s suicide - she learned the sincerity of a noble feeling and willingness to sacrifice herself for the sake of someone who will give nothing in return. Love changes the character of the entire story: the princess’s feelings die, fade, fall asleep, having once been passionate and ardent, and turned into a strong friendship with her husband. But Vera Nikolaevna still continues to strive for love in her soul, even if this has become dulled over time: she needed time to let passion and sensuality come out, but before that her calmness could seem indifferent and cold - this puts a high wall for Zheltkov.
Main characters (characteristics)
- Zheltkov worked as a minor official in the control chamber (the author placed him there to emphasize that main character was a small man). Kuprin does not even indicate his name in the work: only the letters are signed with initials. Zheltkov is exactly how the reader imagines a man of low position: thin, pale-skinned, straightening his jacket with nervous fingers. He has delicate facial features and blue eyes. According to the story, Zheltkov is about thirty years old, he is not rich, modest, decent and noble - even Vera Nikolaevna’s husband notes this. The elderly owner of his room says that during the eight years that he lived with her, he became like family to her, and he was a very nice person to talk to. “...Eight years ago I saw you in a box at the circus, and then in the first second I said to myself: I love her because there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better...” - this is how it begins modern fairy tale about Zheltkov’s feelings for Vera Nikolaevna, although he never cherished hopes that they would be mutual: “...seven years of hopeless and polite love...”. He knows the address of his beloved, what she does, where she spends her time, what she wears - he admits that he is not interested in anything but her and is not happy. you can also find it on our website.
- Vera Nikolaevna Sheina inherited her mother's appearance: a tall, stately aristocrat with a proud face. Her character is strict, uncomplicated, calm, she is polite and courteous, kind to everyone. She has been married to Prince Vasily Shein for more than six years; together they are full members of high society, organizing balls and receptions, despite financial difficulties.
- Vera Nikolaevna has a younger sister, Anna Nikolaevna Friesse, who, unlike her, inherited her father’s features and his Mongolian blood: narrow eyes, femininity of features, flirtatious facial expressions. Her character is frivolous, perky, cheerful, but contradictory. Her husband, Gustav Ivanovich, is rich and stupid, but he idolizes her and is constantly nearby: his feelings seem to have not changed from the first day, he looked after her and still adored her just as much. Anna Nikolaevna cannot stand her husband, but they have a son and a daughter, she is faithful to him, although she treats him quite contemptuously.
- General Anosov - godfather Anna, him full name- Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov. He is fat and tall, good-natured, patient, hard of hearing, he has a large, red face with clear eyes, he is very respected for the years of his service, he is fair and courageous, has a clear conscience, he always wears a frock coat and cap, and uses a hearing horn and a stick.
- Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein is the husband of Vera Nikolaevna. Little is said about his appearance, only that he has blond hair and a large head. He is very soft, compassionate, sensitive - he treats Zheltkov’s feelings with understanding, and is unshakably calm. He has a sister, a widow, whom he invites to the celebration.
Features of Kuprin's creativity
Kuprin was close to the theme of the character’s awareness life truth. He saw the world around him in a special way and sought to learn something new; his works are characterized by drama, a certain anxiety, and excitement. “Cognitive pathos” - they call it business card his creativity.
In many ways, Kuprin’s work was influenced by Dostoevsky, especially in the early stages, when he writes about fatal and significant moments, the role of chance, the psychology of characters’ passions - often the writer makes it clear that not everything can be understood.
It can be said that one of the features of Kuprin’s work is a dialogue with readers, in which the plot is traced and reality is depicted - this is especially noticeable in his essays, which in turn were influenced by G. Uspensky.
Some of his works are famous for their lightness and spontaneity, poeticization of reality, naturalness and authenticity. Others are the theme of inhumanity and protest, the struggle for feelings. At some point, he begins to be interested in history, antiquity, legends, and thus fantastic stories are born with motives of the inevitability of chance and fate.
Genre and composition
Kuprin is characterized by a love of plots within plots. “The Garnet Bracelet” is further proof: Zheltkov’s note about the qualities of the jewelry is the plot within the plot.
The author shows love with different points vision – love in general terms and Zheltkov’s unrequited feelings. These feelings have no future: marital status Vera Nikolaevna, the difference in social status, circumstances - everything is against them. This doom reveals the subtle romanticism invested by the writer in the text of the story.
The entire work is ringed by references to the same thing. piece of music- Beethoven sonatas. Thus, the music that “sounds” throughout the story shows the power of love and is the key to understanding the text, heard in the final lines. Music communicates the unsaid. Moreover, it is Beethoven’s sonata at the climax that symbolizes the awakening of Vera Nikolaevna’s soul and the awareness that comes to her. Such attention to melody is also a manifestation of romanticism.
The composition of the story implies the presence of symbols and hidden meanings. So the fading garden implies the fading passion of Vera Nikolaevna. General Anosov tells short stories about love - these are also small plots within the main narrative.
It is difficult to determine the genre of “Garnet Bracelet”. In fact, the work is called a story largely due to its composition: it consists of thirteen short chapters. However, the writer himself called “The Garnet Bracelet” a story.
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STORY
“GARNET BRACELET” by A. AND KUPRIN
(XI grade)
“...WHAT WAS IT: LOVE OR MADNESS?”
Lesson objectives: 1. Show the rare gift of high love, the greatness of the experience a simple person.
2. Show how the writer depicts the process of a person’s awakening.
3. Develop students’ philological thinking.
4. Form aesthetic perception using various types arts: literature, music, visual arts.
LESSON PROGRESS:
(At the beginning of the lesson, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 is played. To the sound of music, the literature teacher reads lines about love.)
The day would fade in my soul, and darkness would come again,
If only we would banish love from the earth.
Only he knew bliss
Who caressed the heart passionately,
And whoever didn’t know love doesn’t care
That he didn’t live...
These words about love belong to Jean Baptiste Moliere, French writer, playwright, author of the famous comedies “The Bourgeois in the Nobility” and “Tartuffe”.
What is this love? According to Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, love is a feeling “that has not yet found an interpreter.” Philosophers, writers, poets, artists, composers have sought and continue to seek the answer to this question, and you and I are also trying to understand this feeling.
Who could fully understand him?
In everything you are always old or new,
Are you languid spirit or wealth?
Irreversible loss
Or endless enrichment?
About what inevitably awaits us all?
And the eternal world cycle?
This is how Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky thinks about love. And a few more thoughts about love. Read them and write them down in your notebook.
(Students read expressively and write down in a notebook statements about love placed on the board or written on sheets of whatman paper.)
“The first sign of love is reverence. We idolize the one with whom we are in love, and this is absolutely fair, for nothing in the world compares for us with the object of our passion.”
(Blaise Pascal)
« Like the sun burns without burning out, love.
Like a bird of heaven - love.
But not yet love - nightingale moans,
Do not groan from love while dying - love!
(Omar Khayyam)
“Love is fire: it doesn’t shine - everything is dark,
And it’s shining, so it’s no wonder it’s going to burn out.”
(Eastern wisdom)
“Love is like a tree; it grows by itself, takes deep roots throughout our entire being and often continues to turn green and even bloom on the ruins of our heart.”
(Victor Hugo)
“Wounds from love, if they don’t kill, never heal.”
(George N. G. Byron)
“Love has thousands of stories, and each of them has its own light, its own sadness, its own happiness and its own fragrance.”
(K.G. Paustovsky)
One of these “plots” will be the subject of our attention today. The topic of the lesson: “...what was it: love or madness?”
Let’s immediately write down a question, the answer to which you will give at the end of the lesson: which of the statements about love heard at the very beginning of the lesson would you use as an epigraph to the lesson?
First, let's conduct a quiz - remember the details, details of the story, names and surnames of the characters. Let's check how carefully you read the work.
Quiz
1. Where and when does the story take place? (Black Sea resort, autumn, September.)
3. Vera’s sister’s last name? (Friesse).
4. Who was the ancestor of Princess Vera? (Tamerlan)
5. What did Anna give to her sister? (Notebook)
6. What did Vera’s husband give? (Earrings made of pear-shaped pearls)
7. Whose portrait is this: “...she took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather big hands and that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient miniatures”? (Faith)
8. Whose portrait is this: “She was half a head shorter, somewhat broad in the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mocker. Her face was of a very Mongolian type with quite noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes... however, it captivated with some elusive and incomprehensible charm..."? (Anna)
9. Vera’s husband’s name? (Prince Vasily Lvovich)
10. Whose portrait is this: “a fat, tall, silvery old man, heavily getting off the step... He had a large, rough, red face with a fleshy nose and with that good-natured, stately, slightly contemptuous expression in his narrowed eyes... which is characteristic of courageous and ordinary people...? (General Anosov)
11. Vera’s last name before marriage? (Mirza-Bulat - Tuganovskaya.)
12. Who “...laughed loudly and enthusiastically, and the thin face, smoothly covered with shiny skin, with slicked, thin, blond hair, with sunken eye sockets, looked like a skull revealing very bad teeth in laughter?” (Anna’s husband is Gustav Ivanovich)
13. Name Zheltkov? (George)
14. Whose portrait is this: “...very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must have been about thirty, thirty-five years old?” (Zheltkov)
15. Who is this woman who “... hugged the acacia trunk, pressed herself against it and cried?” (Faith)
16. 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”? You see, 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. Wait, wait, Vera, now you want to tell me about your Vasya again? Really, I love him. He's a good guy. Who knows, maybe the future will show his love in the light of great beauty. But you understand what kind of love I'm talking about. Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life inconveniences, calculations or compromises should concern her”? (To General Anosov)
- What are Kuprin’s works about? Why is it called "Garnet Bracelet"?
(The story “Garnet Bracelet” glorifies the selfless, holy feeling of the “little man”, telegraph operator Zheltkov, for the aristocrat, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina.)
- Let us recall in our memory the main events described in the work.
Conversation on the content of the story.
We have identified the place where the story takes place (the Black Sea resort). Autumn has come.The story, consisting of 13 chapters, begins with a landscape sketch. Read it.
-What role does the first chapter play in the work?
- What mood does the landscape create?
(The first chapter is an introduction. Its content prepares the reader for the perception of further events. A feeling of a fading world immediately arises: in the autumn landscape, in the sadness of empty dachas with broken windows, in empty flowerbeds. You involuntarily focus on the phrase: “It’s a pity, and sad, and it was disgusting to look through this muddy muslin of rain at this pitiful belongings.”
But then the weather suddenly changed sharply and unexpectedly: “The trees calmed down, silently and obediently dropping their yellow leaves.” The same calm, cold, prudent existence is characteristic of the heroine of the story - Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, the wife of the leader of the nobility.)
(He draws a parallel between Vera’s internal state and the description of the autumn garden.)
- Find and read this description (Chapter 2)
This description was preceded by a description of Vera’s feelings for her husband. Read from the words: “Princess Vera, who has the same passionate love for her husband...”
-What unites these descriptions: the feelings of Faith and the garden?
(Show that Vera’s soul is in a state of slumber. “And Vera was strictly simple, cold with everyone... amiable, independent and royally calm.”)
The plot of the action takes place on the name day of Princess Vera, September 17. Kuprin writes: “Vera Nikolaevna Sheina always expected something “happy and wonderful” from her name day. What “happily - miraculously” happened on this day?
(Vera received gifts: from her husband, from her sister Anna and from a man with the initials G.S.Zh., and Vera also had a premonition of something unpleasant. Zheltkov destroyed Vera’s “royal calm.”
In the fourth chapter, Kuprin introduces readers to the guests of the Sheins’ house. In the fifth chapter, during a festive dinner, anxiety entered Vera’s soul: “She was superstitious.” It turned out that there were 13 guests. “This is not good!” - Vera thought to herself.
The reader is expecting something unusual. Kuprin introduces an element of anticipation, mystery, and anxiety into the narrative. What happens next?
(Vera is presented with a gift and a letter from Zheltkov.)
- Read the description of the gift. Compare it with the gifts of the prince and Anna.
(About the earrings: “Wonderful earrings; what a beautiful thing! Lovely! Where did you get such a treasure?; about the bracelet: gold, low-grade, very thick.
“Definitely blood!” - Vera thought with alarm.)
- What did we learn about the bracelet from Zheltkov’s letter?
(“According to an old legend that has been preserved in our family, it has the property of imparting the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while it protects men from violent death…»)
Why did Zheltkov give Vera the bracelet? family value, the most expensive thing, which was passed down from generation to generation to women in the Zheltkov family?
Let us dwell on Zheltkov’s letter to Vera. Let's read it. What characterization can we give Zheltkov after reading this letter?
Let's compare his letter with a letter - a declaration of love, placed in the humorous family album of the Sheins. How does Vera’s husband perceive Zheltkov’s letters?
(words of brother Vera, chapter nine).
What can we say about Prince Vasily Lvovich, Vera’s husband, after reading this episode? How does he describe the story of Zheltkov’s love for Vera?
- How do these two people feel about love? And Vera?
- Is Prince Shein capable of loving deeply and strongly? Is there an answer to this question in the text of the story?
(Anosov about Vasya.)
- What role does Kuprin assign to General Anosov in the story?
- How does he talk about love?
- What did General Anosov learn about Zheltkov from Vera?
- What characteristics of Zheltkov do we find in Vera’s story and in Anosov’s conclusions?
(“Madman; maybe he’s just a crazy guy, a maniac, who knows? - maybe yours life path, Verochka, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)
Further, everything that happens sharpens Vera’s awareness of the exclusivity of the love that has passed her by, right up to the premonition near death Zheltkova. Let us turn to the episode of the meeting between Prince Shein Nikolai Nikolaevich and Zheltkov. Find and read Zheltkov’s portrait sketch.
- Read aloud the words of Zheltkov’s declaration of love in the tenth chapter and Zheltkov’s last letter to Vera.
- Can Zheltkov’s feeling for Vera be called madness? “What is this: love or madness?”
(For proof, we cite the words of Prince Shein (tenth chapter): “I feel that this person is not capable of deceiving and knowingly lying...”, etc. to the words: “I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I can’t clown around here” (chapter eleven). “I will say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all.”)
The turning point for Vera is the farewell to the deceased Zheltkov (chapter twelfth). Let's look at this episode. Let's read aloud from the words: “The room smelled of incense...” to the end of the chapter.
Why did Vera suddenly cry? Was the reason for the tears the “impression of death” or is there another reason?
(She realized that “a great love passed by her, which is repeated only once in a thousand years.”)
The greatness of what a simple person has experienced is comprehended by the sounds of Beethoven’s sonata number two, 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.
Let's listen to music. (Beethoven's Largo Appassionato sounds.)
- Why did Zheltkov “force” Vera 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 teacher reads a fragment of text to the sound of music)
Faith experiences spiritual unity with a person who has given his soul and life to her. Do you think there was a reciprocal feeling of love in Vera’s soul?
(Yes. Vera’s reciprocal feeling took place, albeit for one moment, but forever awakening in her a thirst for beauty, a worship of spiritual harmony.)
-What do you think is the power of love?
(In the transformation of the soul.)
-Did Kuprin show this in the story? Prove your opinion.
(Vera’s perception of music: “Princess Vera hugged the acacia trunk, pressed herself against it and cried...”)
-What do Vera’s tears say?
(These are tears that cleanse and elevate the soul.)
-Why did Kuprin give the story the title “Garnet Bracelet”?
-Did you like this work? Justify your answer.
-Look at the illustrations and choose names for them.
The artists tried, with the help of images and color, to express the feelings of the characters in the story and their attitude towards the work, and now try to express your thoughts, feelings, impressions about what you read. What statement would you choose as an epigraph for our lesson?
(Children's opinions are heard)
Lesson summary.
MOLO"X, ah, pl. no, m.
A symbol of cruel and inexorable force, demanding sacrifices from people (book). M. war. Make sacrifices to Molech.
MOLOCH, -a, m. (book). About the blind and mercilessly killing power of the original. among ancient peoples: the god of the sun, fire and war, to whom human sacrifices were made. M. war.
“The talent of love in the stories of A.I. Kuprin
“Garnet Bracelet” and “Olesya”
“Love is omnipotent: there is no sorrow on earth - higher than its punishment,
no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving her"
Shakespeare
Love, love, says the legend,
Union of soul with dear soul.
Their unity, combination
And their fatal merger,
And the duel is fatal.
And which one is more tender?
In the unequal struggle of two hearts,
The more inevitable and more certain,
Loving, suffering, passionately melting,
It will finally wear out.
(F. Tyutchev)
Many writers and poets dedicated their creations to love. With no less justification, Kuprin can be called a singer of sublime love. Today in class we will remember Kuprin's story "Olesya", we will walk through the wilderness of Polesie, where the heroine of the story lives, we will look into the closet of the poor official in the story "The Garnet Bracelet" to look at examples of ideal love, amazing in beauty and strength.
So, in the last lesson we analyzed the story “Olesya”. Let's take another look into the wilderness of Polesie and remember the main points of the story.
- First, let's remember the plot of the story.
- Olesya was considered a witch. What does the word witch mean?
Working with the dictionary: a sorceress means not only a witch, but a magician, a charmer, a sorceress. The name Olesya is melodious and poetic and corresponds precisely to this meaning.
-What attracts the reader to Olesya?
(She is distinguished by the desire for goodness, purity, love as the main meaning human existence. Olesya is not afraid to live in harmony with her heart, so she is destined to see further and feel more subtly than her cautious chosen one. About peasants who regularly attend church, who consider themselves respectable, but in whose souls anger and hatred lurk, Olesya says: “We don’t even need people. People who carry anger and cruelty." For Olesya, kindness is the most important quality in a person. (Her phrase addressed to the young master is filled with deep meaning: “Well, come in, perhaps, if you really kind person»)
(The main idea of the story: only far from civilization, from an indifferent city, can one find a person capable of loving unselfishly, devotedly. Only in unity with nature, in preserving naturalness, can a person achieve moral purity and nobility. Olesya is a child of nature, inextricably linked with it. She firmly grasped the wisdom: that one should not do harm to a living creature, be it a person, an animal, a bird.)
- What attracts Olesya I.T.?
(the master is surprised at Olesya’s grace, delicacy, nobility. “He was captivated by Olesya’s flexible, agile mind”) Olesya enchanted, bewitched the master Ivan Timofeevich - song “Enchanted, Bewitched”
- Did you sincerely fall in love with Oles I. Timofeevich?
(Olesya’s feelings are always sincere, she does not know how to deceive either others or herself) Olesya plunged into the magic of love.
- Does Ivan Timofeevich sincerely love Olesya?
(His sincere love is like a fairy tale, it attracts attention because it is pure and selfless, but in I.T. his egoism is alive, which he acquired while living in the city, and this is alien to Olesya)
- Why, despite the sincerity of feelings, does everything end with the separation of the heroes?
(Despite mutual love, Olesya and her lover stand on opposite sides. Ivan Timofeevich grew up in civilization and suffers from the diseases of society. “A kind man, but weak,” he is not capable of true love, he understands the impossibility of shared happiness. Kuprin claims that only in unity with nature, a person retains his naturalness and is able to achieve spiritual purity and nobility.)
- How does the story end?
Excerpt from the film “Olesya” (The story ends with a bright detail - I.T. finds a string of red beads. This is not so much a memory of Olesya’s “tender, generous love”, but rather a symbol of her pure feeling, a symbol of her undying love. Each bead - like the light of this love.)
But not only a string of coral beads remains after Olesya, but also painful thoughts that previously had no place in the life of a person with a “cold and lazy heart.”
“Like the sun burns without burning out, love.
Like a bird of heavenly paradise - love.
But not yet love - nightingale moans,
Don’t moan, dying of love - love!”
(Omar Khayyam)
Conclusion : in the story “Olesya” we saw an example of omnipotent, sincere love, pure and tender love, and most importantly mutual love, but this love did not give the heroes happiness, because... these are people from different worlds, from different civilizations. Coral beads are a symbol of Olesya’s unburning love. In another work, Kuprin used the symbol - garnet bracelet- a symbol of the eternal, sincere, omnipotent, unrequited and never-ending love of the petty official Zheltkov for a socialite.
Today in the lesson we will go through the pages of this work by Kuprin, which is called “Garnet Bracelet” and prove that Kuprin is indeed a singer of beautiful, sublime love. (melody sounds)
In the epigraph to the story, Kuprin used the first line of music from Beethoven's second sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to music.
- What is love? (students' opinions)
For centuries, philosophers, artists, composers, poets and ordinary people. They have always never ceased to glorify this great and eternal feeling of man. Kuprin himself spoke about love this way: it is “a feeling that has not yet found an interpretation.”
R. Rozhdestvensky tried to answer this question in his poem.
Love, love is a mysterious word,
Who could fully understand?
Everything is 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?
Indeed, love is a mysterious feeling.But what does the talent of love mean?
Working with the dictionary: talent - (from Ozhegov’s dictionary) - 1. outstanding, innate qualities, special natural abilities. 2. a person who has such qualities and abilities.
So, the talent of love is the ability to love, the ability to love, which is what the main character of Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet”, Georgy Zheltkov, possessed.
Convey the plot of the story.
The work is based on a real fact - the love story of a modest official for a society lady, the writer’s mother. L. Lyubimova.
Excerpt from the memoirs of L. Lyubimov:
“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story), wrote that he worked at the telegraph (in Kuprin, Prince Shein jokingly decides that only some telegraph operator can write them. At first these letters amused everyone, but then (they came almost every day for two or three years) my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator in the morning.
And then came the denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle and father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to see Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, actually lived on the sixth floor. . Yellow lived in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. Like Kuprin’s Shein, the father was more silent during the explanation, looking with “bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity in the face of this strange man" My father told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. The uncle, again Nikolai Nikolaevich Kuprin, got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and gloomily promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. Anyway, oh future fate We don’t know anything about him.”
L. Lyubimov In a foreign land. 1963
A.I. Kuprin heard this story in the family of a high-ranking official Lyubimov.
- How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard?
(Kuprin embodied in his creation the ideal of beautiful, omnipotent, but not mutual love, showed that the “little man” is capable of a great, all-encompassing feeling. Kuprin ended the story with the death of the hero, which made Vera Nikolaevna think about love, about feeling, made her worry , sympathize, which she has not done before)
- What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero’s love into the sphere of inaccessible love?
(different social status - princess - minor official (telegraph operator); Vera Nikolaevna is married, therefore she cannot reciprocate Zheltkov, Vera Nikolaevna grew up and was brought up in a completely different world - secular society which sometimes deprives a person of sincerity, beauty of feelings and thoughts)
The story “The Garnet Bracelet” is not just about love, but about the kind of love that “will never pass or be forgotten,” for which they sacrifice their lives. No wonder K. Paustovsky called “The Pomegranate Bracelet” “one of the most fragrant, languid... and saddest” stories about love. The image of the protagonist of the story, the petty official Zheltkov, leaves no one indifferent. He committed suicide due to unrequited love. Maybe it's stupid to commit suicide. Maybe it would be more correct to take the motto: if you love, then you have to fight for love. And if there is no reciprocity, then you need to drown out this feeling in yourself. Maybe Zheltkov weak person? What about women? What woman does not dream of devoted, selfless love?
-So how do you feel about Zheltkov? Sympathize? Regret? Admire or despise?
Selecting a topic for discussion:
Zheltkov is a weak, weak-willed person, so he committed suicide, unable to survive unrequited love.
Zheltkov – great man, he had the talent to love, but as fate would have it, love was not reciprocated. His feeling is one of pride. He passed away so as not to interfere with the life of the woman he loved, not to be an obstacle.
Weak or great Zheltkov.
What was Zheltkov’s talent for love?
Students' opinions.
But is suicide the solution?
There is only one life, you need to appreciate it, accept it as it is, overcome difficulties, obstacles and continue to live. According to God's law, suicide is a grave sin; previously, suicides were buried outside the cemetery; they are not buried in the church.
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.
Where does the story begin (description of nature)
Read the description of nature in the text
What mood does nature create?
(Sadness, grief, anticipation of something tragic)
In the initial chapters, we meet the woman whom Zheltkov adored and deified (illustration)
How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story by V.N. Sheina?
(- external inaccessibility;
- inaccessibility;
-has the title of princess and position in society;
- regally calm and indifferent;
- but tries to help her husband “make ends meet”;
-while maintaining decency, you have to save money, because... lived above their means;
-loves his younger sister dearly;
- a delicate, selfless person;
- husband's devoted friend
- childishly affectionate with grandfather General Anosov)
It was to her that the lover Zheltkov sent letters.
September 17 is the name day of Faith, Hope, Love. On this day Vera celebrated her name day. Guests have gathered at her house.How many? (13)
- What did the author want to show by this? (Vera was superstitious. Waiting for tragedy)
- What does high society do?
(The guests are having harmless fun: playing cards, listening to the singing of Vera’s socialite and revelry husband Vasily, making fun of Prince Shein’s inventions.) (illustration)
- How do they feel about Zheltkov’s messages in Vera’s family?
(they laugh, mock, his messages are a reason for jokes; Prince Shein demonstrated his handwritten album, where he reproduces with buffoonery love story Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love. In this concocted story, a telegraph operator in love showers Verochka with love messages written contrary to all spelling rules, disguises himself as a chimney sweep, enters the boudoir, leaves traces of soot everywhere, ends up in an insane asylum, losing his mind from love, and before his death sends his beloved two telegraph buttons and a bottle of perfume - filled with his tears)
-What conclusion can be drawn about high society?
(high society immoral, the sublime love feelings of a small official are alien to him, people of the highest circle mock and mock true feelings, treat people of lower origin with contempt, are proud of their social status)
- What does Vera Nikolaevna 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”
- What gifts did Vera receive on this name day, September 17?
The princess receives expensive, lovingly chosen gifts:
From my husband – “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls”
From my sister - “a small notebook in an amazing binding”
From a fan of Zheltkov - a garnet bracelet.
- How did Zheltkov’s gift look against the backdrop of expensive gifts? What is its value?
Zheltkov’s gift is “gold, low-grade, very thick, but inflated and covered on the outside with small old, poorly polished garnets,” the bracelet looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. Densely red grenades light up with live fires under electric light.
- What does Vera compare deep red garnets to?
(with blood) In the story “Olesya”, remember - the coral beads that Olesya gave to Ivan Timofeevich as a farewell symbol - a symbol of love.
Grenades burn like Zheltkov’s heart, burning with love. After all, he gave the most expensive thing he had - a family jewel.
- What does a garnet bracelet mean to Zheltkov himself?
For him, the bracelet is not only a symbol of reverent, endless and hopeless love, it also has some magical power, like any family jewel. Zheltkov writes about this in a letter: “According to an old legend preserved in our family, it has the ability to impart the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them.”
- Why did Zheltkov give Vera the most valuable thing?
This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless love. He doesn’t feel sorry for anything for Vera Nikolaevna. He wanted to bring her joy
- How was Zheltkov’s gift received by Vera and her family?
(Vera - alarmed, worried, for her husband - this is a reason for ridicule, Vera’s brother is indignant, shows contempt for a person of a lower circle, Anosov - says that Vera passed by true love)
It is Anosov who reflects on true love. Who is Anosov?
This is a friend of Vera and Anna’s late father, General Anosov, whom they called grandfather. He gives the 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,” “an ingenuous, naive faith.”
- How does Anosov feel about love?
(“Love among people has taken such vulgar forms and has descended to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment. The fault lies with men who, at twenty years of age, are well-fed, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, To heroic deeds, to tenderness and adoration before love")
This is how the story begins with the theme of true love, love for which, according to Anosov, “to accomplish a feat, to give one’s life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy.”
Topic for discussion:
Love, like Zheltkov’s, happens once every thousand years. Strong, passionate, eternal love Zheltkova is love at a distance, love is admiration and admiration for the beloved.
But if he became a husband, then love would turn into everyday life and soon become a habit.
Does true love exist?
What is this?
Students' opinions are listened to.
Love is a noble feeling that elevates a person, makes his soul purer and better. Of course, we don’t know what would happen to Zheltkov’s love if he lived every day near Vera Nikolaevna. But in the story we are shown precisely talent, that is, the ability to love.
- Why is there no Zheltkov in the initial chapters? The author introduces us to him only in chapter 10.
(The initial chapters prepare the appearance of Zheltkov, it is in the initial chapters that the conversation about true love begins and the story with the garnet bracelet begins) - this, in compositional terms, is the beginning. Yes, indeed, true love passes by Vera Nikolaevna, love that is not clear to either Vera’s husband or her brother. They had never experienced such a sincere, all-consuming feeling. Zheltkov’s love for them is a reason for ridicule and indignation.
An episode of Vera Nikolaevna's husband and brother visiting Zheltkov. Climax.
Working with text (reading an episode) (chapter 10)
(The name Georgy means Victorious. Zheltkov from Pobedonostsev. Kuprin drew a small but great man. Let's try to prove it)
-How does Kuprin imagine his hero to us?
long fluffy soft hair,
thin, nervous fingers,
brown, short jacket,
stubborn, childish chin with a dimple in the middle,
Blue eyes.
(Most likely not, Kuprin wants to show Zheltkov’s insecurity, vulnerability, maybe even vulnerability)
- How do the heroes behave? Vera's husband? (silent)
How does Vera's brother behave?
(arrogantly, rudely, speaks with slight impudence, breaks into a scream)
- How does Zhelkov behave at first?
(He hesitates, gets nervous, then unbuttons his jacket buttons, then buttons it, then blushes, then bows awkwardly, out of breath.)
But as soon as his human dignity was affected, when Tuganovsky told him to stop persecuting Vera Nikolaevna, otherwise they would intend to turn to the authorities. How has Zheltkov’s behavior changed?
J. laughed, put his hands in his pockets, sat down comfortably in the corner of the sofa and stopped seeing and hearing Tuganovsky, and addressed only Vera’s husband.
- Why?
(A normally thinking person understands that only the husband has the right to be jealous)
- What does Zheltkov say to Vasily Lvovich?
(reading) (Indeed, Zheltkov loves Vera, he was able to prove his feelings to V.L.)
- What conclusions does V.L. make? (reading)
Indeed, he understands, perhaps for the first time, the sincerity of feelings, sympathizes and has compassion for poor Zheltkov. He anticipates a tragedy.
Reading the episode
Even Prince Shein, who, as it would seem, as Vera’s husband, has more right to be indignant, “looked with bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity” into Zheltkov’s face and uttered words testifying to the sensitivity and nobility of his soul: “... is it really his fault? Yolks are in 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 I not only feel sorry, but I feel like I’m present at some kind of tragedy of the soul.”
- What conclusions does V.L. make? ?
(J. is a great man, V.L. is convinced of the sincerity of J.’s feelings, he has a presentiment tragic ending.)
Chapter 10, namely the visit of J. by Vera’s brother and husband -
in compositional terms, the peak of events, and therefore the culmination.
Tragic ending.
The denouement came soon, namely the tragic ending - the death of Zheltkov. He didn’t even know that love would play a cruel joke on him, that it would be cruel, but you couldn’t command the feeling.
The tragedy happened, but first the last letter was written. Reading a letter.
-What is your impression of Zheltkov’s last letter?
For Zheltkov, loving Vera Nikolaevna even without reciprocity is great happiness. He is grateful to her that for eight years she was the only joy in his life, the only consolation, the only thought.
Pushkin's poem "I loved you"
- How is Pushkin’s poem consonant with Kuprin’s story?
(In both works, admiration for the beloved, reverence for self-sacrifice, and the pain of a suffering heart are expressed)
When Vera found out about Zheltkov’s death, she goes to say goodbye to the dead, of course she feels guilty. (illustration)
Topic for discussion
Zheltkov committed suicide because he had no choice.
There is always a way out, and committing suicide is stupid.
Did Zheltkov need to die?
Students' opinions
Let's read the episode of Vera's farewell to Zheltkov. What does she feel as she peers into the face of the one who passed away because of her?(chapter 12)
She realized that Zheltkov was a great man. It was J. who had the talent of love.
- What mood will the ending of the story be filled with?
The ending of the story is imbued with a feeling of light sadness. Zheltkov dies, but Vera Nikolaevna awakens to life; something previously inaccessible was revealed to her. Music is of great importance in awakening the soul of Faith.
Beethoven's Second Sonata. Why did Zheltkov force the woman he loved to listen to this particular immortal work?
After Zheltkov’s death, pianist Zhenya Reiter plays for Vera Nikolaevna the immortal Beethoven sonata, the same one about which he wrote to her in his last letter. Apparently this music revealed to Vera the beauty of his love and helped her understand everything and feel forgiven.
Music "Second Sonata" by Beethoven. To its sounds, we read the place in the chapter where the writer conveys the words that take shape in Vera’s mind under the influence of music, which seem to come from Zheltkov
So, the unfortunate Zheltkov is by no means pitiful, and the depth of his feeling, the ability to self-sacrifice deserves not only sympathy, but also admiration
Love elevates a person and transforms his soul.
Love blossoms in Zheltkov’s heart and gives him great happiness.
He limited his life only to this feeling, abandoning the rest.
This one is perfect pure love lifts up the little man
makes him significant in his own and others' eyes.
Love not only elevates.
Love sometimes destroys us.
Breaks destinies and hearts...
Beautiful in her desires,
She can be so dangerous
Like an explosion, like nine grams of lead.
She bursts in suddenly.
And you can no longer tomorrow
Don't see a cute face.
Love not only elevates.
Love accomplishes and decides everything.
And we go into this captivity.
And we don’t dream of freedom.
While the dawn rises in the soul,
The soul does not want change.
(A. Dementyev)
- Formulate your views on love according to Kuprin?
(sublime, beautiful, sometimes mutual, but often unrequited, tragic ending)
The tragedy of love was also in Bunin’s works. Remember the main features of love in Bunin's works. (love, often mutual, a flash of feelings, passion, physical intimacy, then the separation of the heroes, or the death of one of them, not in Bunin happy ending, love never ends with marriage, creation of a family, birth of a child)
Kuprin and Bunin poeticized love and described examples of beauty and nobility in their works. Today we looked at Kuprin’s work “Garnet Bracelet”. A particular case is poeticized by Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated only once every thousand years. According to Kuprin, love is always a tragedy, always a struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death. The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty.
The theme of love in the works of A.I. Kuprina
"Garnet Bracelet"
Hallowed be your name...
Is this story pure fiction or did Kuprin manage to find a plot in real life that corresponds to the author’s idea?
The writer tried to find in real world plots and images for their works. The story is based on facts from the family chronicle of the Tugan-Baranovsky princes. In October 1910, Kuprin reported this to his friend, critic and literary historian F.D. Batyushkov: “This - remember? - is the sad story of the little telegraph official Zheltkov, who was so hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with Lyubimov’s wife (D.N. is now the governor in Vilna).”
– Where does the action take place? What pictures of nature does the author describe, how do they affect the mood of Princess Vera Nikolaevna?
The action takes place in a seaside resort town. Kuprin shows the middle of August, when “suddenly the disgusting weather that is so characteristic of the northern coast of the Black Sea began.” Rain, hurricane wind, thick fog they drive away the resort's inhabitants, the "abandoned dachas with their sudden spaciousness, emptiness and bareness" look sad. But by the beginning of September, “quiet cloudless days arrived, so clear, sunny and warm, which were not even in July.” The peace that came in nature was also transmitted to Vera Nikolaevna: she “was very happy about the lovely days that had come, the silence, the solitude.”
– How does the princess perceive her name day?
“According to the sweet, distant memories of her childhood, she always loved this day and always expected something happily wonderful from it.”
– How does Vera Nikolaevna relate to her husband?
“The former passionate love for my husband has long since turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship.”
– How does her portrait characterize the princess?
With a tall, flexible figure, a cold and proud face, she “was strictly simple, cold and a little patronizingly kind to everyone, independent and royally calm.”
– Will she be capable of ardent, passionate love?
Perhaps in her youth and early youth the princess was capable of a strong, all-consuming feeling; it is not for nothing that Kuprin mentions her former passionate love for her husband. But “time heals,” including from ardent impulses. Now this woman will no longer easily let anyone into her soul. Kuprin does not condemn the heroine, he only notes the changes in her character that have occurred over time. And who among us does not lose spontaneity and depth of feelings with age! But there are people for whom love at any age is a holy and passionate revelation. They managed to preserve their souls for the great elements. Meeting them is a happy and wonderful moment in a woman’s life.
– What event disrupts the calm progress of the name day? Read the description of the bracelet. What did the princess feel when she saw him?
In poorly polished garnets, before the fire, light bulbs light up “lovely, rich red living lights.” The bracelet foreshadows a future tragedy. (“It’s like blood!” Vera thought with unexpected alarm.”)
– What did Vera Nikolaevna think when she saw the letter? ?
"Oh, this is the one!" – Vera thought with displeasure. Apparently, this is not the first letter that the princess receives from her admirer.
– Read the letter. What properties does green pomegranate have? What feelings does G.S.Zh. experience?
A rare variety of pomegranate - green - "has the property of imparting the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while protecting men from violent death." Note that G.S.Zh. Now there is no talisman - and now nothing will protect the unfortunate lover from death. Feelings of G.S.J. unusually sublime - “reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion.” They are akin to the feelings of Khvoshchinsky, the hero of the story by I.A. Bunin "Grammar of Love". “Now I can only wish you happiness every minute and rejoice if you are happy. I mentally bow to the ground of the furniture on which you sit, the parquet floor on which you walk, the trees that you touch in passing, the servants with whom you speak.” This is sacrificial, to some extent even crazy love. G.S.J. devoted to his beloved until death and “a humble servant after death.” But he is unhappy, this is confirmed by Vera: “... now not only this unfortunate man will be funny, but I will be funny along with him.”
– What is included in Prince Shein's homemade humorous album?
This album contains the story “Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love.” From the ironic story of Vasily Lvovich, we learn how Vera, not yet married, received her first letter “with kissing doves on the title” and showed it to her parents and fiance. Prince Shein mocks the feelings of G.S.Zh. For Shein, true love means nothing; it is for crazy people. And again in the prince’s story there is a mention of the death of a lover...
– What is the story of General Anosov and why is it given in such detail? What is this man's drama?
Anosov knows what love is at first sight. But his wife left him. “People in our time have forgotten how to love,” says the general. “I don’t see real love. And I didn’t see it in my time.” Anosov talks about why people get married. Women have “the desire to be a housewife, the head of the house, independent... In addition, the need for motherhood, and to start building their own nest.” Men have other motives - “tiredness from a single life, from disorder in the rooms... from debts, from unceremonious comrades... You feel that it is more profitable, healthier and more economical to live with a family... you think: the kids will come, - I I’ll die, but a part of me will still remain in the world... there are sometimes thoughts about a dowry.” As we see, the motives for marriage of people who lived at the beginning of the 20th century differ little from the aspirations of our contemporaries... Through the mouth of his hero, Kuprin exclaims: “Where is love? Selfless, selfless love, not waiting for reward? about which it is said “strong as death”?.. Such love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one’s life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy.” According to the writer, “love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life’s conveniences, calculations and compromises should concern it.” Kuprin tried to find this kind of love in real life and glorified it in his story. The writer is sure that “almost every woman is capable of the most high heroism... For her... love contains the whole meaning of life - the whole universe. But it is not at all her fault that love among people has taken such vulgar forms and has simply descended to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment. Men are to blame... incapable of strong desires, heroic deeds, tenderness and adoration before love." Every woman dreams of love "united, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless." This is the ideal of love according to Kuprin. But to achieve the ideal difficult, almost impossible. If there is no love, women take revenge on themselves and others.
How deep and true are the author’s thoughts about love! How subtly he understands its nature! The story “The Garnet Bracelet” is a textbook of life, a source of wisdom and moral purity. The essence of the great feeling is revealed to us in its entirety. We think again and again about the eternal, the imperishable, about what worries people at all times...
Prince Shein and the princess's brother decide to find Zheltkov and return the bracelet to him in order to preserve the good name of Vera and her husband. The telegraph operator's appearance is unusual: "very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle." He is very excited, looking at Vasily Lvovich with pleading eyes. Seven years of “hopeless and polite love” have passed, but the feeling cannot be drowned out. Zheltkov sees the only way out - death. The “enormous tragedy of the soul” is resolved by suicide.
– What does Vera think about when she learns about Zheltkov’s death?
She had a presentiment tragic outcome. What was it - love or madness?
– How does Zheltkov appear in his suicide letter? Does he already seem like a dead person to begin with?
Zheltkov admits that he “cut an uncomfortable wedge” into Vera’s life and is eternally grateful to her just for the fact that she exists. His love is not a disease, not a manic idea, but a reward sent by God. His tragedy is hopeless, he is a dead man.
– What is the fate of the garnet bracelet? How does the princess feel on her last meeting with Zheltkov?
The unhappy lover asked to hang a bracelet - a symbol of holy love - on the icon. The lips of the dead hero “smiled blissfully and serenely, as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his entire human life.” And Vera realized that “the love that every woman dreams of passed her by.” After his death, Zheltkov receives the highest reward: Vera “kissed him on his cold, damp forehead with a long, friendly kiss.” And yet a friendly kiss! No, even after Zheltkov’s self-sacrifice, the princess did not fall in love with her admirer. You can't command your heart...
– What role does Beethoven's music play in the work? What feelings does it evoke for the princess?
Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 is “an exceptional, unique work of depth.” The music is in amazing harmony with the experiences of Faith, in whose soul the words ring: “Hallowed be Thy name.” In these gentle sounds there is a life that “humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death.” The last memories of the lover are covered with sweet sadness. "Calm down, I'm with you. Think of me and I'll be with you, because you and I loved each other only for a moment, but forever. Do you remember about me?" A moment of happiness for Zheltkov becomes an eternity.
– Has Zheltkov forgiven the princess?
Vera feels that her lover has forgiven her. I could not help but forgive, because in the mournful hour of parting, on the threshold of death, I still sang the glory of my goddess.
– How does the writer see true love?
True love, according to Kuprin, is the basis of everything earthly. It should not be isolated, undivided. Love must be based on high sincere feelings, strive for the ideal. This is a holy tragedy in human life. Love is stronger than death and elevates a little person above the vain world of injustice and malice.
"Olesya"
Kuprin loved Olesya, although he saw the shortcomings of the story and agreed with A.P. Chekhov, who found it “a youthful, sentimental and romantic thing.” Kuprin confessed to his wife: “... Anton Pavlovich is also right, who considers this thing weak and pointed out to me that the mysterious past of the old witch and the mysterious origin of Olesya are a device of a pulp novel.” That is why the writer did not include “Olesya” in his first large collection, “Stories,” published in 1903. However, a few years later, Kuprin, when asked which of his stories he considered the best, answered: “There are two of them: “Olesya” and “River of Life.” Here there is life, freshness, the struggle with the old, outdated, impulses for the new, the better. In these two stories contain more of my soul than in my other stories." M. Gorky praised this story and regretted that it was not included in the collection “Stories”. “I like this piece because,” he said, “that it is entirely imbued with the mood of youth. After all, if you wrote it now, you would write it even better, but that spontaneity would no longer be in it.” This work has an amazing charm, and above all, the image is mysterious and attractive. main character. The story captures the soul of the writer, the reader’s task is to comprehend it.
– For what purpose does the young “gentleman” Ivan Timofeevich come to a remote village in the Volyn province?
“Polesie... wilderness... bosom of nature... simple morals... primitive natures,” the hero reflects, “a people completely unfamiliar to me, with strange customs, a peculiar language... and, probably, what a multitude of poetic legends , legends and songs! All this is so attractive for an aspiring writer! But in the village, besides hunting, there is nothing to do. Ivan Timofeevich cannot get along with the local “intelligentsia” in the person of the priest, the policeman and the clerk; he also fails to establish contact with the peasants.
– What breaks the usual village boredom of the city “gentleman”?
Ivan Timofeevich learns about the existence of a witch. “The witch lives some ten miles from my house... a real, living, Polesie witch!” This thought immediately excited and interested him. "Panych" decides to visit the house of a mysterious witch.
– What fairy tale elements are used in the description of Manuilikha?
Her house is located in a hard-to-reach place - behind a swamp: “It wasn’t even a hut, but a fairy-tale hut on chicken legs.” The mistress of the house is an old woman sitting on the floor near the stove. "All the features of Baba Yaga, as she is depicted folk epic, were obvious: thin cheeks, pulled inward, turning below into a sharp, long, flabby chin, almost touching the nose hanging down; the sunken, toothless mouth moved incessantly, as if chewing something; faded, once blue eyes, cold, round, bulging, with very short red eyelids, looked like the eyes of an unprecedented ominous bird." Manuilikha is not happy with the uninvited guest. But suddenly a fresh, ringing voice is heard female voice and the most mysterious heroine of the story, Olesya, appears on the threshold.
– What is so attractive about Olesya’s portrait?
Ivan Timofeevich involuntarily admired her: “My stranger, a tall brunette of about twenty to twenty-five years old, carried herself lightly and slenderly. A spacious white shirt wrapped freely and beautifully around her young, healthy breasts. The original beauty of her face, once seen, could not be forgotten, but it was difficult, even having gotten used to him, to describe him. His charm lay in those large, shiny, dark eyes, to which the thin eyebrows, broken in the middle, gave an elusive shade of slyness, authority and naivety in the dark-pink tone of his skin, in the willful curve of his lips; , of which the lower one, somewhat fuller, protruded forward with a decisive and capricious appearance."
The portrait of a girl is an expression of her rich inner world. She has everything - determination, authority, naivety, and even cunning, and all this is elusive, unusual, exciting.
– How do the villagers treat Olesya and her grandmother?
Ordinary people do not oppress Olesya. But the bosses constantly humiliate and rob.
– What image of Olesya stands before the hero’s eyes in the days early spring? Is there a hint of budding feeling here? (ch. IV)
“Poetic sadness poured into Ivan Timofeevich’s soul.” The image of Olesya did not leave him. “I liked... to constantly evoke in my imagination her face, now stern, now sly, now beaming with a gentle smile, her young body, which grew in the open air of the old forest as slender and as powerful as young fir trees grow, her fresh voice, with unexpected low velvety notes." In the appearance of Olesya, in her movements and words, the hero sees something noble, “some kind of innate graceful moderation.” How city dwellers lack this moderation! It turns out that true nobility is not necessarily inherent in people from wealthy, educated strata of society, but even in the wilderness of Polesie a beautiful, proud, mysterious girl can grow up. A feeling arises, not yet conscious, but deep, strong and pure.
– How does fortune telling help you find out the character of Ivan Timofeevich? Did Olesya's prediction come true?
Ivan Timofeevich is a kind man, but weak, “not a master of his word.” He doesn’t value money and doesn’t know how to save. Fortune telling promises him love from some lady of clubs, dark-haired, like Olesya. The lady herself ends up with long sadness and great misfortune. It’s easy to guess that the queen of clubs is Olesya. The prediction came true exactly.
– What wonderful gift does Olesya have?
She can determine a person’s fate by looking at his face, speak to a wound, instill fear, treat the most severe illnesses, even knock you down with a glance. But Olesya never used her gift to harm people.
– How does love arise: at first sight or in the process of communication? What fascinates Ivan Timofeevich in Oles? (Chapter VI)
In the process of communication, Ivan Timofeevich and Olesya became more and more attached to each other. “Not a word had yet been said about love between us, but being together had already become a necessity for us, and often in silent moments, when our glances accidentally and simultaneously met, I saw how Olesya’s eyes moistened and how her thin blue vein beat. on the temple." Ivan Timofeevich is fascinated not only by Olesya’s beauty, but also by her integral, original, free nature, clear, childishly innocent mind.
– What misfortune threatens Olesya and her grandmother? What is Ivan Timofeevich forced to sacrifice to help? How did Olesya’s behavior change after this? What is Ivan Timofeevich experiencing at this moment? (Chapter IX)
Olesya and her grandmother are facing eviction; the greedy police officer is no longer satisfied with their modest offerings. Ivan Timofeevich gives him an old hunting rifle without hesitation. For a while, Manuilikha’s family is saved, but proud Olesya cannot forgive her patronage: “In her treatment of me there was not a trace left of the former trusting and naive affection, the former animation, in which coquetry was so sweetly mixed beautiful girl with playful childish playfulness. In our conversation, some kind of irresistible awkward compulsion appeared." Ivan Timofeevich is surprised: "Where, in fact, could such an overly scrupulous pride come from a simple girl who grew up in the middle of the forest?" Kuprin traces the stages of development of feelings: first, interest in an unusual appearance, nature, then a craving for communication, and finally a period of “vague, painfully sad feelings.” The hero’s heart is “tied with thin, strong, invisible threads” to charming girl: “...all my thoughts were occupied with the image of Olesya, my whole being strove for her, every memory... squeezed my heart with a quiet and sweet pain.”
– Why is the development of love shown in close connection with pictures of nature?
The main idea of the story: only far from civilization, from an indifferent city, can you find a person capable of loving unselfishly and devotedly. Only in unity with nature, in preserving naturalness, can a person achieve moral purity and nobility.
– What does the hero’s illness bring with it?
She brings separation. But “separation is for love what the wind is for fire: it extinguishes small love, and fans the big one even stronger.” Olesya is happy, her face “in an instant reflected, replacing each other, bewilderment, fear, anxiety and a tender, radiant smile of love.” Ivan Timofeevich experiences “pure, complete, all-consuming delight.” In Olesya’s eyes, he sees the excitement of the meeting and an ardent declaration of love.
– Who will be the first to confess their love and what premonition accompanies the explanation?
Olesya is the first to pour out her feelings. Fate cannot be escaped; a feeling of anxiety, a premonition of impending disaster does not leave both.
– The “naive, charming fairy tale of love” lasts for a whole month. What feelings does Ivan Timofeevich experience? (ch. XI)
The girl, who grew up in the middle of the forest and cannot even read, “in many cases in her life shows sensitive delicacy and a special, innate tact.” “Calm, healthy, sensual” love gives rise to the thought of marriage. But the hero is frightened by the fact that Olesya, having become his wife, will be expelled from her native environment. Olesya is afraid that one day she will get tired of her beloved. In addition, the superstitious fear of the church is strong in her soul.
– What action did Olesya decide to take to prove her love both to Ivan Timofeevich, and - most importantly - to herself?
Olesya overcame her fear and came to church. But the hatred and fear of the peasants awaited her, from whom she miraculously managed to escape. In despair, Olesya threatened the crowd and is now forced to leave, since the very first incident in the village will be attributed to her charms. In memory of herself, Olesya leaves a string of cheap red beads, which (like the garnet bracelet in the work of the same name) will forever remind of tender, generous love.
– What is the drama of this love?
It's beautiful, gentle, pure, sublime feeling. But there are too many external obstacles to happiness. Separation and sadness await lovers.
Kuprin is looking for people in real life who are filled with a holy feeling of love, who are able to rise above the surrounding vulgarity and lack of spirituality, who are ready to give everything without demanding anything in return. “Garnet Bracelet” and “Olesya” are hymns to female beauty and love, hymns to a woman who is spiritually pure and wise, hymns to a sublime, primordial feeling. The eternal theme of love has always excited and will excite the hearts of people, but few are able to unravel its secrets. Among them is the wonderful Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, whose works carry not only quiet sadness, but also faith in the spiritual perfection of man.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin Story “Garnet Bracelet”. The meaning of the dispute about selfless love Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin Story “Garnet Bracelet.” The meaning of the dispute about selfless love is moral philosophical issues works; the meaning of the title of the work, central images
“The Garnet Bracelet” (1910) Work on the story “The Garnet Bracelet” began in the fall of 1910 in Odessa. At this time, Kuprin often visited the family of the Odessa doctor L. Ya. Maizels and listened to Beethoven’s Second Sonata performed by his wife,” one of the most intense, languid, passionate creations of human genius in music. Work on the story “The Garnet Bracelet” began in the fall of 1910 years in Odessa. At this time, Kuprin often visited the family of the Odessa doctor L. Ya. Meisels and listened to Beethoven’s Second Sonata performed by his wife,” one of the most intense, painful, passionate creations of human genius in music. The sounds of the sonata were combined in his imagination with the story of the bright love that he witnessed. The sounds of the sonata were combined in his imagination with the story of the bright love that he witnessed. On October 15, 1910, Kuprin wrote about the plot of the story to his friend, critic F. D. Batyushkov: “This, remember, is the sad story of the little telegraph official P. P. Zholtikov, who was so hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov On October 15, 1910, Kuprin wrote about the plot of the story to his friend, critic F. D. Batyushkov: “This, remember, is the sad story of the little telegraph official P. P. Zholtikov, who was so hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov
Vital sources of the story Another vital source of the work is associated with the music of Beethoven. While living in Vienna, the composer gave quite a lot of private music lessons to girls from wealthy aristocratic families. Another vital source of the work is associated with the music of Beethoven. While living in Vienna, the composer gave quite a lot of private music lessons to girls from wealthy aristocratic families. One of these students was the young Countess Juliet Guicciardi, whose famous “Moonlight Sonata” in C sharp minor op (1801) was dedicated to her, which became a kind of musical monument to tragic, unrequited love. One of these students was the young Countess Juliet Guicciardi, whose famous “Moonlight Sonata” in C sharp minor op (1801) was dedicated to her, which became a kind of musical monument to tragic, unrequited love. After the composer’s death, a letter was found in a secret drawer of his wardrobe, called “Letter to a Distant Beloved.” L.V.Beethoven
The role of the detail. Landscape and title. Kuprin shows the heroine against the backdrop of clear, sunny days, in silence and solitude (similar to Tatyana Larina, also a married princess). Outwardly, regal-calm, delicately sensitive, selfless, helping her husband “make ends meet,” tenderly loving her younger sister and General Anosov (“grandfather”). Vera, who had been “asleep” all her life, woke up only when Zheltkov entered her life, paying a high price for the awakening of his beloved. Vera Nikolaevna is the wife of the leader of the nobility, Vasily Lvovich Shein, for whom passionate love has long passed, “transformed into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship.”
“It was gold, low-grade, very thick, but blown and on the outside completely covered with small old, poorly polished garnets, but in the middle of the bracelet rose, surrounding some small green stone, five beautiful caboton garnets, each the size of a pea. When Vera successfully turned the bracelet in front of the fire of an electric light bulb, then in them, deep under their smooth egg-shaped surface, the lovely deep red living lights."
The meaning of the title of the work: Somewhere deep in the heroine’s soul, “thick red living lights” lit up. She feels a subtle change in herself, not yet understanding what is happening and how important it is. According to an old legend of the Zheltkov family, the bracelet has the ability to impart the gift of foresight to the women who wear it. Why? There are only six stones: five red and one green. Man has five physical senses, but there is also a metaphysical sense, a sixth: intuition. And if you look at the geometry of the bracelet’s stones, it will look like a circle with a dot inside, which looks like an eye, the “third eye.” These signs accumulate energy that will give women the gift of foresight. The garnet bracelet became the starting point, the support that Vera lacks in order to wake up. The bracelet turned out to be the fire that could melt Vera’s heart.
Love as the highest value of the world in the story “The Garnet Bracelet” 4. What do you know about Vera Nikolaevna and her family? 5. What was the relationship between the spouses? 6. Why was the image of General Anosov introduced into the story? (Chapter 4). What is the significance of this image and the story of his love? (Ch. 7) What is real love for the general? (pp. 138, 140)
The theme of the “little man” Official with funny last name, quiet and inconspicuous, grows into a tragic hero, with the power of his love he rises above the petty vanity, life’s inconveniences, and decency. He turns out to be a man in no way inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love elevated him, became suffering and the only meaning of life. (farewell letter - p. 151) Leaving this life, Zheltkov blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.” Dead Zheltkov acquires “deep importance,... as if he had learned... some deep and sweet secret...” (chapter 12, p. 154)
The role of detail in the story Bad weather gives way to warm, clear days. 13-number of guests at Vera Nikolaevna’s name day. The six stones in the bracelet are five red and one green: five physical senses and a metaphysical sense, the sixth: intuition. The geometry of the bracelet's stones is a circle with a dot inside, something similar to a “third eye”.
To the question Why is Kuprin's story called The Garnet Bracelet? given by the author Kovalkov Vyacheslav the best answer is Because the whole story is based on the “garnet bracelet”. Kuprin wanted to highlight the love that appears once in a thousand
years, to show that it exists, that even objects can emit
love, to show that true love lives forever.
this story could not be called otherwise.
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the bracelet has become the starting point, the support that is missing
Faith to wake up. The bracelet turned out to be the fire that could
melt Vera's heart.
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A magnificent story about love. Through tears and a smile that replaces them. Kuprin, without intrusiveness, without chewing, shows us 2 types of love: real, earthly love, the one that lasts a lifetime and love that is not real, not earthly, ephemeral.
We all subconsciously strive and chase after the first one, the one that is at first sight, which is like a flash that gives birth to madness, suicide, self-sacrifice, and we do not understand that this is the path of self-destruction inherent in us. This love is useless, it is called falling in love, you should treat it only as a beautiful fairy tale, a pleasant memory, but under no circumstances should you take it seriously and not plunge into the abyss of madness. This is entertainment, this is growing up, this is a valuable experience and a surge of mental strength, it is sweet, beautiful, romantic, but a little deeper it gets into the soul and you have to run headlong to save yourself. Never before has anyone lived mutually happily and for a long time on the wave of this love, yes, it (even the most insane one) is replaced by everyday life and there it withers, dies and suffocates.
The kind of love that every person can envy, conscious, serious love between Vera and her husband; they have complete mutual understanding, trust, deep and priceless mutual feeling. After all, long and mutually happy life is possible only if you are, first of all, good and loyal friends, if you are, in some way, kindred spirits. But is this love really appreciated by subtle romantic natures, that is, by us! ? No, we believe that “Among people, love has taken such vulgar forms and has simply descended to some kind of everyday convenience.” We think that “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world. No life conveniences, calculations or compromises should concern her.” And everyone who thinks so, let him read the story again, especially those heart-warming stories that grandfather tells. Think about what is so beautiful here that you have to literally burn yourself from the inside and ultimately kill yourself! ? All human feelings and actions must be for the sake and in the name of life!
There is no need to make the mistake made by Vera, who, sobbing, realized “that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by, a great love that is repeated only once in a thousand years” and one can guess that she is missing out, forever losing that most priceless thing. she and her husband had, exchanging for a fairy tale and tears. Alas.
But that's all in the story... huh real life, it is much more complicated...
Think for yourself... Who gives and to whom a garnet bracelet...
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Because if not for this gift, the little man would have remained alive. It was the garnet bracelet that prompted the heroine’s husband to begin searching for a secret admirer.