In the name of love.
The novel "The Captain's Daughter" tells the story of the dramatic events of the 70s of the 18th century, when the discontent of peasants and residents of the outskirts of Russia resulted in a war led by Emelyan Pugachev. Initially, Pushkin wanted to write a novel dedicated only to the Pugachev movement, but censorship was unlikely to let it through. Therefore, the main storyline becomes the love of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev for the captain’s daughter Belogorsk fortress Masha Mironova.
IN " The captain's daughter"Several are developing simultaneously storylines. One of them is the love story of Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova. This love line continues throughout the novel. At first, Peter reacted negatively to Masha due to the fact that Shvabrin described her as “a complete fool.” But then Peter gets to know her better and discovers that she is “noble and sensitive.” He falls in love with her, and she also reciprocates his feelings.
Grinev loves Masha very much and is ready to do anything for her. He proves this more than once. When Shvabrin humiliates Masha, Grinev quarrels with him and even shoots himself. When Peter is faced with a choice: to obey the general’s decision and stay in the besieged city or to respond to Masha’s desperate cry “you are my only patron, stand up for me, poor one!”, Grinev leaves Orenburg to save her. During the trial, risking his life, he does not consider it possible to name Masha, fearing that she will be subjected to a humiliating interrogation - “it occurred to me that if I named her, the commission would demand her to answer; and the idea of entangling her among vile accusations villains and bring her herself to a confrontation..."
But Masha’s love for Grinev is deep and devoid of any selfish motives. She does not want to marry him without parental consent, thinking that otherwise Peter “will not have happiness.” From a timid “coward,” she, by the will of circumstances, is reborn into a decisive and persistent heroine who managed to achieve the triumph of justice. She goes to the empress's court to save her lover and defend her right to happiness. Masha was able to prove Grinev’s innocence and his faithfulness to his oath. When Shvabrin wounds Grinev, Masha nurses him, “Marya Ivanovna never left my side.” Thus, Masha will save Grinev from shame, death and exile, just as he saved her from shame and death.
For Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova, everything ends well, and we see that no vicissitudes of fate can ever break a person if he is determined to fight for his principles, ideals, and love. Unprincipled and dishonest man Those who have no sense of duty often face the fate of being left alone with their disgusting actions, baseness, meanness, without friends, loved ones and just close people.
The love story of Masha Mironova and Peter Grinev
Story by A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" is considered the pinnacle of the writer's creativity. In it, the author touched on many important questions- duty and honor, meaning human life, love.
Despite the fact that the image of Pyotr Grinev is at the center of the story, Masha Mironova plays a large role in the work. I think it is the daughter of Captain Mironov who embodies the ideal of A.S. Pushkin is the ideal of a person full of self-esteem, with an innate sense of honor, capable of feats for the sake of love. It seems to me that it is thanks to mutual love to Masha, Pyotr Grinev became a real man - a man, a nobleman, a warrior.
We first meet this heroine when Grinev arrives at the Belogorsk fortress. Shy at first and quiet girl didn’t make much of an impression on the hero: “...a girl of about eighteen, chubby, ruddy, with light brown hair, smoothly combed behind her ears, which were on fire.”
Grinev was sure that Captain Mironov’s daughter was a “fool,” because his friend Shvabrin had told him this more than once. And Masha’s mother “added fuel to the fire” - she told Peter that her daughter was a “coward”: “...Ivan Kuzmich decided to shoot from our cannon on my name day, so she, my dear, almost went to the next world out of fear.” .
However, the hero soon realizes that Masha is a “prudent and sensitive girl.” Somehow imperceptibly arose between the heroes real love, who withstood all the tests that came her way.
Probably the first time Masha showed her character was when she refused to marry Grinev without the blessing of his parents. According to this pure and bright girl, “without their blessing you will not be happy.” Masha, first of all, thinks about the happiness of her loved one, and for his sake she is ready to sacrifice her own. She even admits the idea that Grinev may find himself another wife - one that his parents will accept.
During the bloody events of the capture of the Belogorsk fortress, Masha loses both parents and remains an orphan. However, she passes this test with honor. Finding herself alone in the fortress, surrounded by enemies, Masha does not succumb to Shvabrin’s pressure - she remains faithful to Pyotr Grinev to the end. Nothing can force a girl to betray her love, to become the wife of a man whom she despises: “He is not my husband. I will never be his wife! I decided better to die, and I will die if they don’t deliver me.”
Masha finds an opportunity to give Grinev a letter in which she tells about her misfortune. And Peter saves Masha. Now it becomes clear to everyone that these heroes will be together, that they are destiny for each other. Therefore, Grinev sends Masha to his parents, who accept her as a daughter. And soon they begin to love her for her human merits, because it is this girl who saves her lover from slander and trial.
After Peter's arrest, when there is no hope left for his release, Masha decides to take an unheard of act. She goes alone to the empress herself and tells her about all the events, asking Catherine for mercy. And she, having taken a liking to the sincere and brave girl, helps her: “Your matter is over. I am convinced of your fiancé’s innocence.”
Thus, Masha saves Grinev, just as he, a little earlier, saved his bride. The relationship of these heroes, it seems to me, is the author’s ideal of a relationship between a man and a woman, where the main things are love, respect, and selfless devotion to each other.
The relationship between Grinev and Masha
I recently read A. S. Pushkin’s work “The Captain’s Daughter”. Pushkin worked on this story in 1834-1836. It is based on pictures of a popular peasant uprising caused by the difficult, powerless situation of the enslaved people. The story is written in the first person - Peter Grinev, aka main character. No less interesting personality in this work is Masha Mironova. When Peter arrived at the Belogorsk fortress, at first Masha, according to Shvabrin’s prejudice, seemed to him very modest and quiet - “a complete fool,” but then, when they got to know each other better, he found in her a “prudent and sensitive girl”
Masha loved her parents very much and treated them with respect. Her parents were uneducated people with limited horizons. But at the same time these were people in highest degree simple and good-natured, devoted to their duty, ready to fearlessly die for what they considered “the shrine of their conscience.”
Marya Ivanovna did not like Shvabrin. “He is very disgusting to me,” said Masha. Shvabrin is the complete opposite of Grinev. He is educated, smart, observant, interesting companion, but in order to achieve his goals, he could commit any dishonorable act.
Savelich’s attitude towards Masha can be seen from his letter to Grinev’s father: “And that such an opportunity happened to him is no reproach for the fellow: a horse with four legs, but stumbles.” Savelich believed that the love between Grinev and Masha was a natural development of events.
At first, Grinev’s parents, having received Shvabrin’s false denunciation, treated Masha with distrust, but after Masha moved in with them, they changed their attitude towards her.
All the most best qualities are revealed in Masha during her trip to Tsarskoe Selo. Masha, confident that she is to blame for her fiancé’s troubles, goes to see the Empress. A timid, weak, modest girl, who has never left the fortress alone, suddenly decides to go to the empress to prove her fiancé’s innocence at any cost.
Nature foretells good luck in this matter. “The morning was beautiful, the sun illuminated the tops of the linden trees... The wide lake shone motionless...” Masha's meeting with the queen happened unexpectedly. Masha, trusting the unfamiliar lady, told her everything why she came to the queen. She speaks simply, openly, frankly, and convinces the stranger that her fiancé is not a traitor. For Masha, this was a kind of rehearsal before her visit to the Empress, so she speaks boldly and convincingly. It is this chapter that explains the title of the story: a simple Russian girl turns out to be the winner in difficult situation, a real captain's daughter.
The love between Grinev and Masha did not break out right away, because young man I didn't like the girl at first. We can say that everything happened very casually. The young people saw each other day after day, gradually got used to each other and opened up to their feelings.
Almost at the beginning of the story, the love of Masha and Grinev comes to a dead end because of Grinev’s father, who categorically refused consent to the marriage, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, Masha’s decisive refusal to marry Grinev “without the blessing” of his parents. Grinev “fell into a gloomy reverie,” “lost the desire for reading and literature,” and only “unexpected incidents” associated with Pugachev’s uprising brought his romance with Masha to new level serious tests.
The young people passed these tests with honor. Grinev boldly came to Pugachev, the leader of the peasant uprising, to save his bride and achieved this. Masha goes to the empress and, in turn, saves her fiancé.
It seems to me that A.S. It was with great pleasure that Pushkin ended this story on an optimistic note. Grinev was released, Masha was treated kindly by the empress. The young people got married. Grinev's father, Andrei Petrovich, received a letter of acquittal from Catherine II against his son. I liked this story precisely because it ended happily, that Masha and Peter, despite the most difficult trials, preserved and did not betray their love.
The last major work by A.S. Pushkin’s novel “The Captain’s Daughter” was short in volume but incredibly deep in meaning. The classic himself, who devoted more than one year to writing it, admitted in his diaries that the work became his philosophical and creative testament, in which he was able to reflect all the thoughts that worried him.
The novel itself primarily contains Christian didacticism. He refers the reader to the Gospel of Matthew, to the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ and to his covenant to be a true righteous man, to do nothing for show and to carry love for his neighbor in his heart, to remain merciful even with the enemy, to take care of honor and dignity. This has been noted many times by literary scholars.
Historian G. Fedotov, for example, called “The Captain’s Daughter” the most Christian work in the entire history of Russian literature. He noted that this is a story about “quiet righteousness.” There is no doubt that the heroine of the novel, Masha Mironova, becomes the bearer of this righteousness.
Despite the fact that the main semantic load falls on the idea of Christian love, Pushkin does not lose sight of romantic love. This is perhaps the most striking and interesting storyline in the work, which makes “The Captain’s Daughter” so attractive even to the modern reader.
The main character of the story, Petrusha Grinev, grew up as a teenager: he chased pigeons, listened to the stories of the poultry woman and rudely scolded his uncle Savelich. Tired of his son’s sloppiness, Grinev Sr. sends him to “serve, smell gunpowder” to the provincial Belogorsk fortress. Surprisingly, it is there that colossal historical events will unfold, which will play an important role in the life of Petrusha and other heroes. And it is here, in the Belogorsk fortress, that a spoiled but honest, noble young man will be lucky enough to meet his true love.
At first, Marya Ivanovna, the daughter of Captain Mironov, the girl who will be able to win Grinev’s heart, will not attract his attention. She was not pretty, had poor health and a sensitive heart. The mother, Vasilisa Egorovna, called her daughter a coward to her face and warned her that she was afraid of a gun shot.
It is interesting that the heroes, who initially appear not in the most favorable light, ultimately unite and change each other in better side. Their souls desperately grow stronger, and the love that arose between them leads them to true happiness and salvation.
The love line in the novel “The Captain's Daughter” is complicated by dramatic twists and turns. Thus, for the first time Masha shows her character when she finds herself marrying her lover without the blessing of his parents. She tells Grinev that without their approval, he, Petrusha, will not be happy. This reveals the amazing nobility of the heroine, ready to sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of the happiness of her loved one.
Later, the trials will become much more terrible: Masha Mironova’s parents die at the hands of vile rebels, and the girl herself is miraculously saved by the priest - Christocentric motives also appear in this episode Pushkin's works. Grinev finds himself separated from his beloved. Soon she is captured and finds herself in the clutches of the traitor Shvabrin. He demands the girl’s consent to marry him, but Masha, observing Christ’s commandment from the Sermon on the Mount “do not commit adultery in your heart,” remains faithful to another. The nobility of her soul appears in the episode where she frantically admits that she is ready to die rather than sell herself to save her body.
The captain's daughter has to seek protection from the rebel Pugachev himself, despite her previous “cowardice.” Love for Grinev enormously changed the character of Masha Mironova. Against her will, she had to become courageous, strong and brave, devoted to her lover. When he needs help, she is the one weak woman, goes to the capital to do everything in her power to save Pyotr Andreich.
It’s interesting that love in “The Captain’s Daughter” takes on a tinge of... belligerence! Alexander Sergeich leads his heroes through many difficult tests, subjects them to the need to perform difficult moral choice. And in the conditions of historical drama, the senseless and merciless Russian rebellion, Masha and Peter seem to deserve spiritual cleansing. The author seems to be arranging for them the circles of Hell and Purgatory, in order to ultimately lead the heroes through pain and suffering to heavenly life on the ground.
It seems that in this novel A.S. Pushkin creates a somewhat exaggerated image ideal relationship between a man and a woman - a relationship where harmony, mutual respect and selfless devotion to each other reign, the willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of a loved one. The historical background against which this love story, is needed only to more strikingly show the contrast between base feelings - the thirst for power, cruelty, etc. - And true love, to which every person on earth should strive.
In The Captain's Daughter, several storylines develop simultaneously. One of them is the love story of Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova. This love line continues throughout the novel. At first, Peter reacted negatively to Masha due to the fact that Shvabrin described her as “a complete fool.” But then Peter gets to know her better and discovers that she is “noble and sensitive.” He falls in love with her, and she also reciprocates his feelings.
Grinev loves Masha very much and is ready to do anything for her. He proves this more than once. When Shvabrin humiliates Masha, Grinev quarrels with him and even shoots himself. When Peter is faced with a choice: to obey the general’s decision and stay in the besieged city or to respond to Masha’s desperate cry “you are my only patron, intercede for me, poor one!” “, Grinev leaves Orenburg to save her. During the trial, risking his life, he does not consider it possible to name Masha, fearing that she will be subjected to a humiliating interrogation - “it occurred to me that if I named her, the commission would demand her to answer; and the idea of entangling her between the vile accusations of villains and bringing her herself to a confrontation... “.
But Masha’s love for Grinev is deep and devoid of any selfish motives. She does not want to marry him without parental consent, thinking that otherwise Peter “will not have happiness.” From a timid “coward,” she, by the will of circumstances, is reborn into a decisive and persistent heroine who managed to achieve the triumph of justice. She goes to the empress's court to save her lover and defend her right to happiness. Masha was able to prove Grinev’s innocence, faithful to his oath. When Shvabrin wounds Grinev, Masha nurses him back - “Marya Ivanovna never left my side.” Thus, Masha will save Grinev from shame, death and exile, just as he saved her from shame and death.
For Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova, everything ends well, and we see that no vicissitudes of fate can ever break a person if he is determined to fight for his principles, ideals, and love. An unprincipled and dishonest person, who has no sense of duty, often faces the fate of being left alone with his disgusting actions, baseness, meanness, without friends, loved ones and just close people.
Reading A. S. Pushkin’s story “The Captain’s Daughter,” we become witnesses to how, against the background historical events true and tender love is born.The young officer Pyotr Grinev, having arrived at the Belogorsk fortress by order of his superiors, was fascinated by the commandant’s daughter Masha Mironova. Despite Shvabrin’s reviews, who tried to denigrate her in the eyes of the visitor, he quickly realized that Masha was a “prudent and sensitive” girl, sincere and sweet, and certainly not a “complete fool.”
Pyotr Grinev also won Masha’s heart, managed to evoke a reciprocal feeling in her with his courage, valor, straightforwardness, and the way he fiercely defended her good name in a duel with Shvabrin. Forced to be separated from her beloved, a helpless and defenseless girl finds herself captured by a hated admirer. Angered by his failures, Shvabrin tries to force her into marriage by force and threats. However, love helps Masha pass this test with honor and not lose her dignity. Freed by Grinev, she admits that she was ready to die, just not to belong to the hypocritical and evil Shvabrin.
However, this noble act towards his beloved is not in vain for Grinev. Having learned about his connections with the rebel Pugachev, the young man is arrested. But even at the trial, he is more concerned not about justifying himself, but about not tarnishing the good name of Marya Ivanovna. For this, Grinev agrees to exile and the unenviable stigma of a traitor.
Masha acts no less decisively. Knowing about Grinev’s innocence, she goes to St. Petersburg to submit a petition to the Empress. We see that fate finally smiled on the young people: “by personal command” Pyotr Grinev “was released from imprisonment”, and his bride was treated kindly by Ekaterina P.
Using the example of Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev, the author shows what enormous strength has true love - faithful and devoted. It is she who gives meaning to life and helps to maintain honor and dignity in any, even the most difficult situations.
Story by A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" reveals many themes. One of the most important is the theme of love. At the center of the story are the mutual feelings of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev and the captain's daughter Masha Mironova.
The first meeting of Peter and Masha
Masha Mironova represents the ideal of A.S. Pushkin, expressing fortitude, honor and dignity, the ability to defend one’s love, to sacrifice much for the sake of feelings. It is thanks to her that Peter gains true courage, his character is tempered, and the qualities of a real man are cultivated.
At the first meeting in the Belogorsk fortress, the girl did not make much of an impression on Grinev; she seemed to the young man a simpleton, especially since his friend Shvabrin spoke very unflatteringly about her.
The inner world of the captain's daughter
But very soon Peter realizes that Masha is a deep, well-read, sensitive girl. A feeling is born between young people, which imperceptibly develops into true, all-conquering love, capable of overcoming all the difficulties encountered along its path.
Trials on the path of heroes
For the first time, Masha shows her steadfastness and reasonableness of character when she does not agree to marry Petya without the blessing of her lover’s parents, because without this simple human happiness will be impossible. For the sake of Grinev’s happiness, she is even ready to give up the wedding.
The girl’s second ordeal falls during the capture of the fortress by Pugachev’s rebels. She loses both parents and is left alone surrounded by enemies. Alone, she withstands Shvabrin’s blackmail and pressure, preferring to remain faithful to her lover. Nothing - neither hunger, nor threats, nor serious illness - can force her to marry another person, whom she despises.
Happy ending
Pyotr Grinev finds an opportunity to save the girl. It becomes obvious that they will be together forever, that they are destined for each other. Then the young man’s parents accept her as their own, recognizing the depths of her soul and inner dignity. After all, it is she who saves him from slander and reprisals before the court.
This is how they save each other. In my opinion, they act as a guardian angel for each other. I think that for Pushkin the relationship between Masha and Grinev is the ideal relationship between a man and a woman, headed by love, mutual respect and absolute devotion.