Composition
“Garnet Bracelet” is a story about love. Work on the story influenced state of mind Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin. The main character of “The Pomegranate Bracelet” is an insignificant official with the surname Zheltkov, hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with Princess Vera, the wife of the leader of the nobility. Zheltkov signs his letters to her only with the initials “G.S.Zh.” Drama ensues when, on the day of her angel, he gives Vera an ancient family heirloom - Garnet bracelet. Zheltkov tells in a letter about the unique properties of one of the garnets: “In the middle, between the large stones, you will see one green one. This is a very rare variety of pomegranate - green pomegranate. According to an old legend that has been preserved in our family, it has the ability to impart the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while it protects men from violent death... You can throw away this funny toy right now, but I will be happy that your hands touched it.”
Princess Vera’s “former passionate love for her husband has long turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship,” and she does not have any strong feelings for her mysterious admirer. However, such attention flatters her to some extent. Vera thinks that Zheltkov’s letters are just an innocent joke. She does not attach to them the importance that her brother Nikolai Nikolaevich Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, a fellow prosecutor, attaches. He, like other pillars of the local secular society, regards sending the bracelet as a violation of any and all decency. Nikolai Nikolaevich establishes the identity of the poor lover and, together with Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, comes to Zheltkov’s apartment. They give him a humiliating reprimand: “...With your last act, precisely by sending this very garnet bracelet, you crossed the boundaries where our patience ends. Do you understand? - ends. I won’t hide from you that our first thought was to turn to the authorities for help, but we didn’t do this, and I’m very glad that we didn’t, because... I immediately recognized you as a noble person.” However, the prosecutor’s comrade did not continue the game of nobility for long, and Nikolai Nikolaevich ominously blurted out: “You see, my dear, this measure will never leave you... Breaking into someone else’s family...” People like Tuganovsky do not believe in pure, platonic love Zheltkov, suspecting him of the most vulgar adultery. He tells Vera’s husband: “I know that I can never stop loving her...” Zheltkov could not even see each other in last time with her beloved, she only stated in a telephone conversation that she was already tired of this story. And Zheltkov wrote to Vera Farewell letter: “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me, as great happiness, love for you. It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, my whole life lies only in you. I now feel that I have crashed into your life like some kind of uncomfortable wedge. If you can, forgive me for this. Today I am leaving and will never return, and nothing will remind you of me.
I am eternally grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love with which God wanted to reward me for something.
Even if I was ridiculous in your eyes and in the eyes of your brother... Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be your name.”
Eight years ago I saw you in the circus, in the box, and then in the first second I said to myself: I love her because there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better, there is no animal, no plant, no star , no person is more beautiful and gentle than you. It’s as if all the beauty of the earth was embodied in you...”
For a hero, love is also a cure for loneliness. After all, nothing in life except love for Vera actually exists for him - no friends, no other women, no family, no science, no philosophy, no career. In addition, in order to make a new frame for the bracelet, Zheltkov squandered government money and was threatened with trial. However, it was not waste that caused the suicide of the hero of Kuprin’s story. He was forced to commit suicide by the realization that the inability to see the only one he loved would leave him now in complete, absolute loneliness.
Vera Nikolaevna feels the tragic end of Zheltkov. Even before receiving the final letter, she warns her husband: “...I know that this man will kill himself.” She, after Zheltkov’s suicide, goes to the apartment where he lived and finds out that the deceased asked the landlady to convey: “If it happens that I die and some lady comes to look at me, then tell her that Beethoven has the most best work- “Appassionata” (the name of this sonata became the epigraph to “Garnet Bracelet”).
The princess understands her guilt towards the deceased - if she had not pushed him away rudely, perhaps something irreparable would not have happened. Spouse and brother who are to a greater extent contributed to what happened, Vera Nikolaevna could not see after returning from the Zhelkovsky mistress. She realizes that she is almost as lonely as the man who devotedly and selflessly loved her. And only when he hears Beethoven’s “Appassionata” performed famous pianist, feels as if the one who gave her the garnet bracelet is explaining to her: “You, you and the people; who surrounded you, you all don’t know how beautiful you were. The clock is striking. Time. And, dying, in the sorrowful hour of parting with life, I still sing - glory to you.” And through the princess’s sobs, the music seemed to send her calm: “Calm down, dear, calm down, calm down. Do you remember about me? Do you remember? You are my only one and last love. Calm down, I'm with you. Think of me and I will be with you, because you and I loved each other only for one moment, but forever. Do you remember about me? Do you remember? Do you remember? Now I feel your tears. Calm down. I can sleep so sweetly, sweetly, sweetly.” Both with her mind and soul she comprehends that she has been forgiven by him, begins to realize that she actually had tender feelings for Zheltkov, but at one time she could not admit it.
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And love in the story “The Garnet Bracelet” is described as all-consuming, it is not just a hobby, but a great feeling for life.
In the story we see the true love of one poor official Zheltkov for the married Vera Shein, how happy he is to simply love, without demanding anything in return. And as we see, it didn’t matter to him at all that she didn’t need him. And as proof of his boundless love, he gives Vera Nikolaevna a garnet bracelet, the only valuable thing that he inherited from his mother.
Vera’s relatives, dissatisfied with the interference in their personal life, ask Zheltkov to leave her alone and not write letters, which she doesn’t care about anyway. But is it really possible to take away love?
The only joy and meaning in Zheltkov’s life was his love for Vera. He didn’t have any goals in life, he wasn’t interested in anything anymore.
As a result, he decides to commit suicide and fulfills Vera’s will by leaving her. Zheltkova’s love will remain unrequited...
She will realize late that it was real love, the one that many can only dream of, passed her by. Later, looking at the dead Zheltkov, Vera will compare him with the greatest people.
The story “The Garnet Bracelet” colorfully shows us all the torment and tender feelings that are contrasted with the lack of spirituality in this world, where a lover is ready to do anything for the sake of his beloved.
A person who has managed to love so reverently has some special concept of life. And even though Zheltkov was only an ordinary person, he turned out to be above all established norms and standards.
Kuprin portrays love as an unattainable mystery, but for such love there is no doubt. “Garnet Bracelet” is very interesting and at the same time sad piece, in which Kuprin tried to teach us to appreciate something in life in a timely manner...
Thanks to his works, we find ourselves in a world where selfless and good people. Love is passion, it is a powerful and real feeling that shows the best qualities of the soul. But besides all this, love is truthfulness and sincerity in relationships.
Option 2
Love - this word evokes completely different emotions. It can carry both a positive and negative attitude. Kuprin was a unique author who could combine several areas of love in his works. One of these stories was “The Garnet Bracelet.”
The author has always been sensitive to such a phenomenon as love, and in his story he exalted it, one might say, idolized it, which made his work so magical. The main character - the official Zheltkov - was madly in love with a lady named Vera, although he was able to open up to her entirely only at the end of his life. life path. Vera at first did not know how to react, because she received letters with declarations of love, and her family laughed and mocked it. Only Vera’s grandfather suggested that the words written in the letters may not be empty, then the granddaughter will miss the love that all girls in the world dream of.
Love is shown as a bright, pure feeling, and the object of official Zheltkov’s adoration appears before us as an example of the female ideal. Our hero is ready to envy absolutely everything that surrounds and touches Vera. He envies the trees she could touch as she passed, the people she talked to along the way. Therefore, when the realization of the hopelessness of his love and life came to him, he decides to give the woman he loves a gift with which, although not on his own, he will be able to touch her. This bracelet was the most expensive item our poor hero had.
Love at a distance was very difficult for him, but he cherished it in his heart for a long time. In parting, before his death, he wrote her one last letter, in which he said that he was leaving this life at the behest of God, and that he was blessing her and wishing her further happiness. But one can understand that Vera, who realized her chance too late, will no longer be able to live calmly and happily; perhaps this was the only true and sincere love that was waiting for her in life, and she missed it.
In this story by Kuprin, love has a tragic connotation, because it remains an unopened flower in the lives of two people. At first she was unresponsive for a very long time, but when she began to sprout into the second heart, the first, already exhausted from waiting, stopped beating.
The work “Garnet Bracelet” can be perceived not only as an “ode” to love, but also as a prayer for love. Zheltkov in his letter used the expression “hallowed be your name", which is a reference to the scriptures of God. He deified his chosen one, which, unfortunately, still could not bring his life to a joyful end. But he did not suffer, he loved, and this feeling was a gift, because not everyone is given the opportunity to experience such a strong feeling at least once in their life, for which our hero remained grateful to his chosen one. She gave him, albeit unrequited, but true love!
Essay Love in the work of Kuprin Garnet bracelet
Over the many centuries of human existence, countless works have been written on the topic of love. And this is not without reason. After all, love occupies a huge place in the life of every person, giving it a special meaning. Among all these works, one can single out very few that describe such a strong feeling of love as Kuprin’s work “Garnet Bracelet”.
The main character, official Zheltkov, as he himself describes his feeling, has the happiness of experiencing real, boundless love. His feeling is so strong that in some places he can be mistaken for an unhealthy, mentally ill person. The peculiarity of Zheltkov’s feeling is that this person in no way wants to disturb the object of his boundless love and passion. He demands absolutely nothing in return for this superhuman love. It doesn’t even occur to him that he can cool down and calm his heart just by meeting Vera. This not only talks about iron strength the will of a person, but also about the boundless love of this person. It is love that does not allow him, even for a moment, to be worthy of the attention of the object of love.
In the letter, Zheltkov calls his love a gift from God and expresses his gratitude to the Lord for the opportunity to experience such a feeling. Of course, both the reader and the other heroes of the work are well aware that Zheltkov’s love brought him nothing more than bitter suffering and torment. But only a person who has experienced all this and felt such a strong feeling of love has the right to judge or understand the hero. Zheltkov is unable to do anything with his love. He knows about the impossibility of his further coexistence with this feeling of love. That's why the most the best way out it becomes suicide for him. Before this act, he assures everyone in a letter that he has lived a happy life.
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In Kuprin's story The Garnet Bracelet, the theme of mind and feelings is fully reflected in Zheltkov's feelings for Vera Nikolaevna Sheina and subsequently in the ending of the story, reflected in her personal feelings and experiences, on the basis of which deep conclusions and sensory awareness of what happened are reproduced.
Zheltkov, in love, fell in love at first sight, and, as often happens, this fatal love enveloped his soul completely by accident, but swiftly, when he had the opportunity to contemplate the beautiful image of Vera Nikolaevna on circus performance. After this trip to entertainment event, the life of a petty official, completely turned into dependence and a barely overcome desire for Sheina, which burdened his life, but at the same time filled him with meaning. It consisted in the illusory hope that someday he would still be able to get the object of his desire. However, as a person not devoid of reason and rationality in his idea of the world, he understood that in the realities of his existence, this was hardly possible.
Moreover, although at first he wrote letters, and then, as the apogee of the manifestation of his feelings, he gave her this very bracelet, the name of which is the name of the whole story, he realized that this compromises the object of desire of his feelings. In such manifestations, Kuprin cuts off possible thoughts that this person was ruled by selfishness. On the contrary, the author shows that Zheltkov truly loved Veora Nikolaevna, since only with such love there are thoughts that are nothing more than concern for the life of the person you love.
Subsequently, in the form of Zheltkov’s suicide, the author shows that love in the harsh realities of life can be harmful and destructive and can sometimes destroy, destroying a person who has lost hope that his feelings will receive an adequate and reasonable response. Of course, it couldn’t exist for the reason that society is built on reasons, legalized in the form of marriage, which sometimes keep in a tight grip even those who could potentially respond to such an impulse in their direction.
Alexander Kuprin's story The Garnet Bracelet tells us about love, which can be incredibly strong and pure. The main character, Zheltkov, loved the married princess, wrote secret letters to her, realizing that they would never be together. So why did you write??? Just so as not to keep everything to himself, he needed it, it’s like talking to someone, it’s believed that it will become easier.
Reason and feeling- mind main character He was well aware that he could not be with his beloved, that his love could not lead to something good, but he still wrote letters, turned off his mind and gave in to his feelings. This is what needs to be written about, that sometimes feelings are much stronger than the mind, they seem to simply turn it off. So it was with Zheltkov. Evaluate the actions of the main character, look at them with both feelings and reason, it will be interesting.
In an essay about reason and feelings in the work Pomegranate Bracelet, you can write about how Zheltkov fell in love with Vera, about how he felt for her.
And of course it must be mentioned that he understood with his mind that he could not be with her in any way, but at the same time the feelings did not go away. I would conclude that feelings are stronger than reason in this work.
As an argument, one can cite the work War and Peace, where some heroes are guided by reason, others by feelings.
You can start your essay with an epigraph from Moliere’s play:
In Kuprin's story The Garnet Bracelet, the key theme is relationships. ordinary person Zheltkov and Vera Nikolaevna, unattainable for him. The feeling that arises feeds Zheltkov with hope, gives him the illusion of possible happiness, reveals in him sincere impulses to give himself to another person, to devote his life to caring for the object of love.
However, the framework accepted by humanity can have a detrimental effect on beautiful principles and impulses - this is already the influence of reason, the so-called reality.
Only similar ones sincere feelings can motivate people to do wonderful things and create masterpieces. But how often cruel reality brings people back to earth.
Zheltkova’s love is sincere, all-forgiving and all-giving, which rarely happens to anyone in life. This is what Vera Nikolaevna understands when she loses this love.
When writing the essay Reason and Feelings based on the story by Alexander Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, it is worth talking about great, pure love.
In the story we see two unhappy people: Zheltkov, an unrequitedly in love official who was in love with a married lady, Vera Sheina. She, in turn, no longer experiences any emotions towards her husband. And all of them family life and happiness is false.
Zheltkov does not dare to confess his passionate feelings to her and only shows her rare signs of attention for 8 years. Over time, Vera’s entire family begins to laugh at the lover in love, because they are not able to understand such pure feelings.
Of course, we can say with confidence that it is impossible to meet such men capable of such feelings in modern life.
Yolks is the most happy man among other characters. He knows how to live and love without asking for anything in return. His love leads to death, but he is happy because he experiences such feelings that are rare.
In the essay you need to describe the feelings of the hero of the work Zheltkov’s Garnet Bracelet. Zheltkov fell in love with the married Vera Nikolaevna, he loved her with the purest and most unrequited love, realizing that he would never see reciprocity from a married woman.
Zheltkov’s love led him to death, and it was death that helped Zheltkov cope with his feelings.
In the story called The Garnet Bracelet, we can follow such an amazing feeling as love. How strong love can be is known only to those who really love or have been sincerely in love. So main character In the story, Zheltkov was simply hopelessly in love with the heroine named Vera. And everything would have been fine, but she was married. And because of this, his hopelessness only intensified every day. The main character struggles with reason and feelings, but his feelings take over and he gives Vera a garnet bracelet and writes letters.
The struggle between reason and feelings and, ultimately, the superiority of feelings over reason is written through Kuprin’s entire work. Zheltkov is a very sincere person who, despite the lack of reciprocity, continues to love and occasionally express himself, because he wants to shout about his feelings to the whole world, but he does not have this opportunity.
And let feelings overcome reason, but Zheltkov was truly sincere, which is rare, especially these days. Yes, and the main character understands this, because there is nothing real left in her marriage with her husband, but honor cannot be lost.
The story ends sadly. The suicide of the main character, whose mind could not prevail over his feelings. Death shouldn't be like this, but it freed him from torment. This is his choice, although I don’t think it’s the right one.
The main theme is love. And love is not ordinary, but the kind that all women dream of. And in life main character Just such an all-consuming, selfless feeling appears. But since she was married, the feeling was unrequited, nevertheless, the petty official continued to love her, simply rejoicing that she existed in the world. And about this one sublime love and will be written in an essay about the “Garnet Bracelet”. Let's look at the story of how the mind can fight strong feelings.
The theme of reason and feeling in the essay “Garnet Bracelet”
Vera Sheina is an example of a respectable woman, whose youthful love for her husband had already passed, but instead respect and care appeared, and this union continued to rest on them. Her husband, Prince Shein, had the same feelings for his wife; perhaps he still retained the love that he had at the beginning of their family life.
And a secret admirer appears in the princess’s life, writing letters to her in which he talks about his unrequited love for her. And here the struggle between reason and feeling begins inner world Zheltkov (admirer of the princess). But what kind of reason can there be, since we are talking about a sublime feeling? Perhaps if there had not been this dispute, then this love would not have been such a special feeling in the eyes of others. Therefore it is worth clarifying that main theme there will be not just a discussion about love, but an essay about reason and feeling in “The Garnet Bracelet” will be more correct.
The appearance of reason in the novel
What can you write about the mind in an essay about “The Garnet Bracelet”? We should start with the fact that Zheltkov never told the princess his name, never showed himself to her. Why such caution? Zheltkov was just a minor employee, and he perfectly understood that he was below the princess in social status. And in those days, the similar social status of spouses meant a lot.
Realizing that Vera was married, Zheltkov realized that they could not have a future. After all, Vera was a respectable woman who tried to do everything for the benefit of her husband. Realizing that it was impossible to see her and constantly writing was indecent, he only sent her congratulations on Angel Day. It was his reason that stopped him from trying to seek a meeting with Vera.
Manifestation of feelings in a novel
But, despite understanding the impossibility of a relationship, Zheltkov continued to love Sheina, not expecting reciprocity. It was precisely because feelings overwhelmed his entire being that he could not stop writing to her about his feelings and thanking her for simply existing in the world. The man did not understand for what merits he had the good fortune to love the princess.
The theme of feeling in the essay on “The Garnet Bracelet” is predominant, because high love all the characters in the novel argue. In a conversation with General Anosov, they touch on the topic of such love, which can only happen once, and it must certainly be tragic. Even when Prince Shein finds out the whole truth about Zheltkov’s feelings, he feels sorry for him because he understands that true love cannot be controlled.
And yet, in this struggle of opposites, feelings prevailed. Zheltkov could not cope with them, could not come to terms with the fact that he would never be with Princess Vera, and therefore decides to die. And this tragedy gives a special sublimity in Sheina’s eyes, and only then did she realize that she had missed the very love that all women dream of.
What did the bracelet symbolize in the novel?
In an essay about the “Garnet Bracelet” you should also write about the presence of symbolism. And the symbol in the novel is the decoration given to Sheina by Zheltkov. It was made from a low-quality sample, the bracelet was made simply, but it was decorated with beautiful bright red garnets, which seemed to Vera like drops of blood. But the most surprising thing was a green-colored stone, which turned out to be a very rare type of stone.
In an essay about the “Garnet Bracelet”, it is very important not to forget to write about Zheltkov’s gift as a confirmation of his selfless love. After all, he was poor, nevertheless he tried to give a gift that, in his opinion, would be worthy of her. And such selflessness serves as proof of the strength of his feelings.
The garnet bracelet symbolizes that selfless love, which a person is capable of, regardless of his social status. This sublime feeling- rare, and it is beautiful, but can often be accompanied by worries or tragedy, as indicated by the color of the stones. The essay on “The Garnet Bracelet” talks not so much about the fact that love should be tragic, but that people are gradually losing the ability to experience such a feeling. But they continue to dream about him, and we can say that both Vera and Zheltkov were lucky: in her life there was a man who selflessly loved her, and he was able to know all the beauty of sublime love.
Essay “You need to live with your heart” (based on the story “Garnet Bracelet” by A.I. Kuprin)
In a number of psychological works, I was surprised by the definition of feeling as a product of experience, thinking, accumulated experience, because in the philistine sense it is more common to perceive mental activity as a synonym for “mind.” I wonder if a person can live, obeying only spiritual impulses? Prince Igor, Katerina A.N. Ostrovsky, Oblomov, Natasha Rostova, the nameless hero of I. Bunin’s story “ Sunstroke“- each of them more than once faced a choice: to listen to the dictates of reason or to live according to the call of the heart. Is it right, forgetting about common sense, to follow the rule of the Fox who taught The Little Prince: “Only the heart is vigilant”? I will try to answer this question in my essay - reasoning.
It seems to me that you can get a solution to the problem by turning to the works of A.I. Kuprin: “The Duel”, “Olesya” and, of course, one of my favorite stories - “The Garnet Bracelet”. Reading it, you learn about the main character - G.S. Zheltkov. The little official, who devoted his entire life to only one feeling - love, evokes not only great compassion. Reading the last letter of the main character, seeing his confidence that this “tremendous happiness” was sent to him by God, repeating after him: “Every moment of the day was filled with you, the thought of you, dreams of you” and “Hallowed be your name” , - I understand that it was real life. Zheltkov was not interested in what was happening next to him, “neither politics, nor science, ... nor concern for the future happiness of people.” Stored long years a scarf left at a ball in the Noble Assembly, a program forgotten by Princess Vera Sheina art exhibition and a single note with a ban on writing to her for 7 years constitute the meaning of the hero’s life.
The fact that without this feeling of deep admiration for the princess and admiration for her, life for Zheltkov would have turned into existence becomes clear from his actions. Last phone conversation with the object of adoration, a farewell letter with recognition and a request to remember him and play or listen to a Beethoven sonata convinces that it is impossible to live without a strong, all-consuming feeling. I try to imagine a hero following the voice of reason, refusing his silent presence in the life of Vera Sheina, not giving her his family jewel - a garnet bracelet, and I realize how empty and meaningless his life is becoming. It is no coincidence, it seems to me, that A.I. Kuprin describes in such detail the feelings of melancholy and anxiety that gripped Vera Sheina at the moment when she learns about Zheltkov’s death. Her understanding of the fact that, as General Anosov said, eternal, exclusive, true love, “which is repeated only once in a thousand years,” passed by, helps the reader answer the question of whether it is possible to live only by feelings.
A.I. Kuprin, his story “The Garnet Bracelet” and the story of G.S. Zheltkov helped me understand: a person, of course, can live with his heart only if he experiences sincere, deep, real feelings.