Composition “Ways of searching Grigory Melekhov. Presentation "The way of searching Grigory Melekhov. Choice of the way." Georgy Melikhov's life path plan

Which began and ended on the same page, remain in your memory for a long time. V. Ya. Shishkov M. Sholokhov we can rightfully call the chronicler of the Soviet era, its researcher, its singer. He created a whole gallery of images that, in terms of their expressiveness and artistic value, are on a par with the most remarkable images of advanced literature. "" - about the fate of the people in a critical era. This is the fundamental author's point of view on the revolution and civil.

The dramatic fates of the main characters, the cruel lessons of the fate of Grigory Melikhov, the main novel, are formed by Sholokhov into the unity of the historical truth of the people on the path of building a new life. Following the thorny path of Grigory's life quest, one can understand how Sholokhov himself managed to solve the problem of the moral quest of his protagonist. In allsoch. Common crawl en 2001-2005 At the beginning of the story, young Gregory - a real Cossack, a brilliant rider, hunter, fisherman and hardworking rural worker - is quite happy and carefree.

The traditional Cossack commitment to military glory helps him out in the first trials on the bloody battlefields in 1914. Distinguished by exceptional courage, Gregory quickly gets used to bloody battles. However, he is distinguished from brothers in arms by sensitivity to any manifestation of cruelty, to any violence against the weak and defenseless, and as events develop, also a protest against horrors and absurdities.

In fact, he spends his whole life in an environment of hatred and fear that is alien to him, hardening and discovering with disgust how all his talent, his whole being goes into the dangerous skill of creating death. He has no time to be at home, in the family, among people who love him. All this cruelty, dirt, violence made Gregory take a fresh look at life: in the hospital where he was after being wounded, under the influence of revolutionary propaganda, doubts about loyalty to the tsar, fatherland and military duty appear. In the seventeenth year, we see Gregory in chaotic and painful attempts to somehow decide in this "troubled time." He searches for political truth in a world of rapidly changing values, guided more often by the external signs of events than by their essence.

At first he fights for the Reds, but the killing of unarmed prisoners by them repels him, and when the Bolsheviks come to his beloved Don, doing robbery and violence, he fights them with cold fury. And again, Gregory's search for truth does not find an answer. They turn into the greatest drama of a man completely lost in the cycle of events. The deep forces of Gregory's soul repel him from both the Reds and the Whites.

“They are all the same! he says to his childhood friends leaning towards the Bolsheviks. “They are all a yoke around the neck of the Cossacks!” And when he learns about the rebellion of the Cossacks in the upper reaches of the Don against the Red Army, he takes the side of the rebels. Now he can fight for what is dear to him, for what he loved and cherished all his life: “As if there were no days of searching for the truth, trials, transitions and heavy internal struggle behind him.

What was there to think about? Why was the soul tossed about - in search of a way out, in resolving contradictions? Life seemed mocking, wisely simple.

Now it already seemed to him that from eternity there was no such truth in it, under the wing of which anyone could warm up, and, embittered to the extreme, he thought: everyone has his own truth, his own furrow. For a piece of bread, for a plot of land, for the right to life - people have always fought and will fight as long as the sun shines on them, while warm blood oozes through their veins. One must fight with those who want to take life, the right to it; you have to fight hard, not swaying, - like in a wall, - but the intensity of hatred, hardness will give the fight! Both a return to the dominance of officers in the event of a victory for the Whites, and the power of the Reds on the Don are unacceptable for Grigory.

In the last volume of the novel, the demolition as a result of insubordination to the White Guard general, the death of his wife and the final defeat of the White Army bring Gregory to the last degree of despair. In the end, he joins Budyonny's cavalry and heroically fights the Poles, hoping to clear his guilt before the Bolsheviks. But for Gregory there is no salvation in Soviet reality, where even neutrality is considered a crime.

With bitter mockery, he tells the former orderly that he envies Koshevoy and the White Guard Listnitsky: “It was clear to them from the very beginning, but everything is still unclear to me. They both have their own, straight roads, their own ends, and since the age of 17 I have been walking along the forks, like a drunk swinging ... ”One night, under the threat of arrest, and therefore the inevitable execution, Grigory flees from his native farm. After long wanderings, yearning for children and Aksinya, he secretly returns.

Aksinya hugs him, presses her face against his wet overcoat and is silent, sobbing: “Better kill, but don’t throw again!” Having begged his sister to take the children, he and Aksinya flee at night in the hope of making their way to the Kuban and starting a new life. Enthusiastic joy fills the soul of this woman at the thought that she is again next to Gregory. But it does not last long: on the road they are caught by a horse outpost, and they rush into the night, pursued by bullets flying after them.

When they find shelter in the ravine, Grigory buries his Aksinya: “With his palms, he diligently pressed wet yellow clay on the grave mound and knelt near the grave for a long time, bowing his head, gently swaying. Now there was no need for him to rush. It was all over…” Hiding for weeks in the thicket of the forest, Grigory is experiencing an increasingly strong desire “to walk around… to his native places, to show off like kids, then one could die…

» He returns to his native farm. Having touchingly described Grigory's meeting with his son, Sholokhov ends his novel with the words: “Well, that little thing that Grigory dreamed about during sleepless nights has come true. He stood at the gates of his native house, holding his son in his arms ... This was all that remained in his life, which still made him related to the earth and to all this huge world shining under the cold sun.

Gregory did not have long to enjoy this joy. Obviously, he came back to die. To perish from communist necessity in the person of Mikhail Koshevoy. In a novel full of cruelty, executions and murders, Sholokhov wisely lowers the curtain on this last episode.

In the meantime, a whole human life flashed before us, flashing brightly and slowly fading away. Sholokhov's biography of Grigory is quite voluminous. Gregory lived, in the full sense of the word, when his life idyll was not disturbed in any way. He loved and was loved, he lived an ordinary worldly life in his native farm and was satisfied.

He always tried to do the right thing, and if not - well, everyone has the right to make a mistake. Many moments of Gregory's life in the novel are a kind of "escape" from events that are beyond the power of his mind. The passion of Gregory's searches is most often replaced by a return to himself, to natural life, to his home.

But at the same time, it cannot be said that Gregory's life quests have come to a standstill, no. He had true love, and fate did not deprive him of the opportunity to be a happy father. But Gregory was forced to constantly look for a way out of the difficult situations that had arisen. Speaking about the moral choice of Gregory in life, it is impossible to say unequivocally whether his choice was always really the only true and correct one. But he is almost always guided by his own principles and beliefs, trying to find a better share in life, and this desire of his was not a simple desire to "live the best."

It was sincere and affected the interests not only of himself, but also of many people close to him, in particular, the woman he loved. Despite the fruitless aspirations in life, Gregory was happy, although for a very short time. But even these short minutes were so necessary enough.

They did not disappear in vain, just as Grigory Melekhov did not live his life in vain.

The purpose of the lesson: to show the inevitability of the tragic fate of Grigory Melekhov, the connection of this tragedy with the fate of society.

Methodological techniques: checking homework - correcting the plan drawn up by the students, talking according to the plan.

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Methodological development of a lesson on the topic "The fate of Grigory Melekhov as a way to search for the truth." Grade 11

The purpose of the lesson: to show the inevitability of the tragic fate of Grigory Melekhov, the connection of this tragedy with the fate of society.

Methodological techniques: checking homework - correcting the plan drawn up by the students, talking according to the plan.

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Teacher's word.

Sholokhov's heroes are simple, but outstanding people, and Grigory is not only brave to the point of despair, honest and conscientious, but also truly talented, and not only the hero's "career" proves this (a cornet from ordinary Cossacks at the head of a division is evidence of considerable abilities, although the Reds during the Civil War, such cases were not uncommon). This is also confirmed by his life collapse, since Gregory is too deep and complicated for the unambiguous choice required by time!

This image attracts the attention of readers with the features of nationality, originality, sensitivity to the new. But there is also something spontaneous in it, which is inherited from the environment.

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Approximate plot plan "The Fate of Grigory Melekhov":

Book One

1. The predetermination of a tragic fate (origin).

2. Life in the father's house. Dependence on him ("like dad").

3. The beginning of love for Aksinya (thunderstorm on the river)

4. Skirmish with Stepan.

5 Matchmaking and marriage. ...

6. Leaving home with Aksinya to work as a laborer with the Listnitskys.

7. Call to the army.

8. Murder of an Austrian. Loss of anchor point.

9. Wounded. The news of death received by relatives.

10. Hospital in Moscow. Conversations with Garanzha.

11. Break with Aksinya and return home.

Book Two, Parts 3-4

12. Etching the truth of Garangi. Leaving for the front as a "good Cossack".

13.1915 Rescue of Stepan Astakhov.

14. Hardening of the heart. Influence of Chubatoy.

15. Premonition of trouble, injury.

16. Gregory and his children, desire for the end of the war.

17. On the side of the Bolsheviks. Influence of Izvarin and Podtelkov.

18. Reminder about Aksinya.

19. Wounded. Massacre of the prisoners.

20. Infirmary. "To whom to lean?"

21. Family. "I am for Soviet power."

22. Unsuccessful elections to detachment atamans.

23. Last meeting with Podtelkov.

Book Three, Part 6

24. Conversation with Peter.

25. Anger towards the Bolsheviks.

26. Quarrel with the father because of the loot.

27. Unauthorized departure home.

28. Red at the Melekhovs.

29. Dispute with Ivan Alekseevich about “male power”.

30. Drunkenness, thoughts of death.

31. Gregory kills sailors

32. Conversation with grandfather Grishaka and Natalya.

33. Meeting with Aksinya.

book four, part 7:

34. Gregory in the family. Children, Natalia.

35. Dream of Gregory.

36. Kudinov about Grigory's ignorance.

37. Quarrel with Fitzhalaurov.

38. Breakup of a family.

39. The division is disbanded, Gregory is promoted to centurion.

40. Death of a wife.

41. Typhus and convalescence.

42. An attempt to board the ship in Novorossiysk.

Part 8:

43. Gregory at Budyonny.

44. Demobilization, conversation with. Michael.

45. Leaving the farm.

46. ​​In the gang of Owl, on the island.

47. Leaving the gang.

48. The death of Aksinya.

49. In the forest.

50. Return home.

Conversation.

The image of Grigory Melekhov is central in M. Sholokhov's epic novel "Quiet Flows the Don". It’s impossible to tell right away if he’s a positive or a negative character. For too long he had wandered in search of the truth, his way. Grigory Melekhov appears in the novel primarily as a truth seeker.

At the beginning of the novel, Grigory Melekhov is an ordinary farm boy with the usual range of household chores, activities, and entertainment. He lives thoughtlessly, like grass in the steppe, following traditional principles. Even the love for Aksinya, which captured his passionate nature, cannot change anything. He allows his father to marry him, as usual, preparing for military service. Everything in his life happens involuntarily, as if without his participation, as he involuntarily cuts through a tiny defenseless duck while mowing - and shuddered at what he had done.

Grigory Melekhov did not come into this world for bloodshed. But the harsh life put a saber into his hardworking hands. As a tragedy, Gregory experienced the first shed human blood. The appearance of the Austrian killed by him then appears to him in a dream, causing mental pain. The experience of the war generally turns his life upside down, makes him think, look into himself, listen, look at people. Conscious life begins.

The Bolshevik Garanzha, who met Grigory in the hospital, seems to reveal to him the truth and the prospect of changes for the better. "Autonomist" Efim Izvarin, the Bolshevik Fedor Podtelkov played a significant role in shaping the beliefs of Grigory Melekhov. The tragically deceased Fyodor Podtelkov pushed Melekhov away, shedding the blood of unarmed prisoners who believed the promises of the Bolshevik who captured them. The senselessness of this murder and the soullessness of the "dictator" stunned the hero. He is also a warrior, he killed a lot, but here not only the laws of humanity are violated, but also the laws of war.

"Honest to the bottom," Grigory Melekhov cannot but see the deception. The Bolsheviks promised that there would be no rich and poor. However, a year has already passed since the “Reds” were in power, and the promised equality is no more like no: “a platoon commander in chrome boots, and“ Vanyok ”in windings.” Gregory is very observant, he tends to think over his observations, and the conclusions from his thoughts are disappointing: “If the pan is bad, then the boor is a hundred times worse.”

The civil war throws Gregory either into the Budyonnovsky detachment, or into the white formations, but this is no longer thoughtless submission to the way of life or a combination of circumstances, but a conscious search for the truth, the path. His native home and peaceful labor are seen by him as the main values ​​of life. In the war, shedding blood, he dreams of how he will prepare for sowing, and these thoughts make his soul warm.

The Soviet government does not allow the former hundredth ataman to live peacefully, threatens with prison or execution. The food requisition plant instills in the minds of many Cossacks the desire to "re-war", instead of the workers' power to put their own, the Cossacks. Gangs are formed on the Don. Grigory Melekhov, who is hiding from the persecution of the Soviet authorities, falls into one of them, Fomin's gang. But bandits have no future. For the majority of the Cossacks it is clear: it is necessary to sow, and not to fight.

The protagonist of the novel is also drawn to peaceful work. The last test, the last tragic loss for him is the death of his beloved woman - Aksinya, who received a bullet on the way, as it seems to them, to a free and happy life. Everything died. Gregory's soul is scorched. Only the last, but very important thread that connects the hero with life remains - this is his home. The house, the land waiting for the owner, and the little son are his future, his footprint on the earth.

With amazing psychological authenticity and historical validity, the depth of the contradictions through which the hero went through is revealed. The versatility and complexity of the inner world of a person is always in the center of attention of M. Sholokhov. Individual destinies and a broad generalization of the ways and crossroads of the Don Cossacks make it possible to see how complex and contradictory life is, how difficult it is to choose the true path.

What meaning does Sholokhov put in when he speaks of Grigory as a “good Cossack”? Why was Grigory Melekhov chosen as the main character?

(Grigory Melekhov is an extraordinary person, a bright personality. He is sincere and honest in his thoughts and actions (especially in relation to Natalya and Aksinya (see episodes: the last meeting with Natalya - part 7, chapter 7; Natalya's death - part 7, chapter 16 -eighteen;death of Aksinya). He has a sympathetic heart, a developed sense of pity, compassion (duckling in the hayfield, Franya, the execution of Ivan Alekseevich).

Grigory is a man capable of an act (leaving Aksinya for Yagodnoye, a break with Podtelkov, a clash with Fitskhalaurov - part 7, chapter 10; the decision to return to the farm).

In what episodes is Grigory's bright, outstanding personality most fully revealed? The role of internal monologues. Does a person depend on circumstances or make his own destiny?

(He never lied to himself, despite doubts and throwing (see internal monologues - part 6, chapter 21). This is the only character whose thoughts the author reveals. War corrupts people to commit acts that a person in a normal state would never Grigory had a core that did not allow him to commit meanness once. Deep attachment to the house, to the earth - the strongest spiritual movement: "My hands need to work, not fight."

The hero is constantly in a situation of choice (“I myself am looking for a way out”). Fracture: dispute and quarrel with Ivan Alekseevich Kotlyarov, Shtokman. The uncompromising nature of a man who never knew the middle ground. Tragedyas if transferred to the depths of consciousness: "He painfully tried to sort out the confusion of thoughts." This is not political vacillation, but the search for truth. Gregory longs for the truth, "under whose wing everyone could warm up." And, from his point of view, neither the Whites nor the Reds have such a truth: “There is no one truth in life. It can be seen whoever defeats whom, he will devour him. And I was looking for the bad truth. My soul ached, swayed back and forth. ” These searches turned out to be, as he believes, "futile and empty." And this is also his tragedy. A person is placed in inevitable, spontaneous circumstances, and already in these circumstances he makes a choice, his own destiny.) “Most of all, a writer needs,” Sholokhov said, “he himself needs to convey the movement of a person’s soul. I wanted to tell about this charm of a person in Grigory Melekhov ... "

In your opinion, does the author of The Quiet Flows the Don manage to "transmit the movement of a person's soul" using the example of the fate of Grigory Melekhov? If so, what do you think is the main direction of this movement? What is its general character? Is there something in the image of the protagonist of the novel that you could call charm? If so, what is its charm? The main problem of "The Quiet Flows the Don" is revealed not in the character of one, even if the main character, which is Grigory Melekhov, but in the comparison and opposition of many and many characters, in the entire figurative system, in the style and language of the work. But the image of Grigory Melekhov as a typical personality, as it were, concentrates the main historical and ideological conflict of the work and thereby unites all the details of a huge picture of the complex and contradictory life of many actors who are carriers of a certain attitude towards the revolution and the people in this historical era.

How would you define the main problems of The Quiet Flows the Don? What, in your opinion, allows us to characterize Grigory Melekhov as a typical person? Can you agree that it is in it that “the main historical and ideological conflict of the work” is concentrated? Literary critic A.I. Khvatov states: “In Gregory, there was a huge reserve of moral forces necessary in the creative accomplishments of the emerging new life. No matter what complications and troubles befell him and no matter how painful the deed under the influence of a wrong decision fell on his soul, Gregory never looked for motives that would weaken his personal guilt and responsibility to life and people.

What do you think gives the scientist the right to assert that “a huge reserve of moral forces lurked in Gregory”? What actions do you think support this assertion? And against him? What “wrong decisions does the hero of Sholokhov make? Is it permissible, in your opinion, to talk about the “wrong decisions” of a literary hero? Reflect on this topic. Do you agree that "Gregory never looked for motives that weaken his personal guilt and responsibility to life and people"? Give examples from the text. “In the plot, the conjugations of motives are artistically effective in revealing the image of Grigory, the inescapability of love that Aksinya and Natalya give him, the immensity of Ilyinichna’s maternal suffering, the devoted comradely loyalty of fellow soldiers and peers,” especially Prokhor Zykov. Even those with whom his interests intersected dramatically, but to whom his soul was opened ... could not help but feel the power of his charm and generosity.(A.I. Khvatov).

Do you agree that the love of Aksinya and Natalya, the suffering of his mother, as well as the comradely loyalty of fellow soldiers and peers play a special role in revealing the image of Grigory Melekhov? If so, how does it manifest itself in each of these cases?

With which of the characters the interests of Grigory Melekhov "dramatically intersected"? Can you agree that Grigory Melekhov’s soul is revealed even to these heroes, and they, in turn, were able to “feel the power of his charm and generosity”? Give examples from the text.

Critic V. Kirpotin reproached (1941) Sholokhov's heroes for primitivism, rudeness, "mental underdevelopment": "Even the best of them, Grigory, is slow-witted. Thought for him is an unbearable burden.

Are there among the heroes of "The Quiet Flows the Flows the Don" those who seemed to you to be rude and primitive, "mentally undeveloped" people? If so, what role do they play in the novel?Do you agree that Sholokhov's Grigory Melekhov is a "slow-thinker", for whom thought is this "unbearable burden"? If yes, give concrete examples of the hero's "slow-thinking", his inability, unwillingness to think. Critic N. Zhdanov noted (1940): “Grigory could be with the people in their struggle ... but he did not become with the people. And this is his tragedy.

Is it fair, in your opinion, the statement that Gregory "did not stand with the people", unless the people are only those who are for the Reds?What do you think is the tragedy of Grigory Melekhov? (This question can be left as homework for a detailed written answer.)

Homework.

How do the events that seized the country relate to the events of Grigory Melekhov's personal life?

"Quiet Don" is a work that shows the life of the Don Cossacks in one of the most difficult historical periods in Russia. The realities of the first third of the twentieth century, which turned the whole habitual way of life upside down, like caterpillars drove through the fate of the common people. Through the life path of Grigory Melekhov in the novel “Quiet Flows the Don”, Sholokhov reveals the main idea of ​​the work, which is to depict the clash of the individual and the historical events that do not depend on him, his wounded fate.

The struggle between duty and feelings

At the beginning of the work, the protagonist is shown as a hardworking guy with a hot temper, which he inherited from his ancestors. Cossack and even Turkish blood flowed in him. Oriental roots endowed Grishka with a bright appearance that could turn the head of more than one Don beauty, and the Cossack stubbornness, in places bordering on stubbornness, ensured the stamina and steadfastness of his character.

On the one hand, he shows respect and love for his parents, on the other hand, he does not listen to their opinion. The first conflict between Gregory and his parents happens because of his love affair with a married neighbor Aksinya. To end the sinful connection between Aksinya and Grigory, his parents decide to marry him. But their choice in the role of the sweet and meek Natalya Korshunova did not solve the problem, but only exacerbated it. Despite the official marriage, love for his wife did not appear, and for Aksinya, who, tormented by jealousy, was increasingly looking for a meeting with him, only flared up.

The blackmail of his father with his house and property forced the hot and impulsive Gregory to leave the farm, his wife, relatives in his hearts and leave with Aksinya. Because of his act, the proud and adamant Cossack, whose family from time immemorial cultivated their own land and grew their own bread, had to become a mercenary, which made Grigory ashamed and disgusted. But he now had to answer both for Aksinya, who had left her husband because of him, and for the child she was carrying.

War and betrayal of Aksinya

A new misfortune was not long in coming: the war began, and Gregory, who swore allegiance to the sovereign, was forced to leave both the old and the new family and recover at the front. In his absence, Aksinya remained in the master's house. The death of her daughter and news from the front about the death of Grigory crippled the woman's strength, and she was forced to succumb to the onslaught of the centurion Listnitsky.

Coming from the front and learning about Aksinya's betrayal, Grigory returns to his family again. For some period, his wife, relatives and soon appeared twins delight him. But the troubled time on the Don, associated with the Revolution, did not allow them to enjoy family happiness.

Ideological and personal doubts

In the novel "Quiet Flows the Don" Grigory Melekhov's path is full of quests, doubts and contradictions both politically and in love. He constantly rushed about, not knowing where the truth was: “Everyone has his own truth, his own furrow. People have always fought for a piece of bread, for a plot of land, for the right to life. We must fight those who want to take life, the right to it ... ". He decided to lead the Cossack division and repair the pillars of the advancing Reds. However, the longer the Civil War continued, the more Gregory doubted the correctness of his choice, the more clearly he understood that the Cossacks were waging war with windmills. Nobody was interested in the interests of the Cossacks and their native land.

The same model of behavior is typical in the personal life of the protagonist of the work. Over time, he forgives Aksinya, realizing that he cannot live without her love and takes him to the front. After he sends her home, where she is forced to once again return to her husband. Arriving on a visit, he looks at Natalya with different eyes, appreciating her devotion and loyalty. He was drawn to his wife, and this intimacy culminated in the conception of a third child.

But again the passion for Aksinya took over him. His last betrayal led to the death of his wife. Grigory drowns his remorse and the impossibility of resisting feelings in the war, becoming cruel and merciless: “I got so smeared on someone else's blood that I didn’t have any stings left for anyone. Childhood - and I almost do not regret this one, but I don’t even think about myself. The war took everything out of me. I became terrible myself. Look into my soul, and there is blackness, as in an empty well ... ".

Alien among their own

The loss of loved ones and the retreat sobered Gregory, he understands: you need to be able to save what he has left. He takes Aksinya with him on his retreat, but due to typhus, he is forced to leave her.

He again begins to search for the truth and finds himself in the Red Army, taking command of a cavalry squadron. However, even participation in hostilities on the side of the Soviets will not wash away Grigory's past, stained by the white movement. He is threatened with execution, about which his sister Dunya warned him. Taking Aksinya, he makes an attempt to escape, during which the woman he loves is killed. Having fought for his land and on the side of the Cossacks and the Reds, he remained a stranger among his own.

The path of Grigory Melekhov's search in the novel is the fate of a simple man who loved his land, but lost everything that he had and appreciated, protecting it for the life of the next generation, which in the finale is personified by his son Mishatka.

Artwork test

Roman M.A. Sholokhov's "Quiet Don" tells us about the life of the Cossacks, about that difficult time when a new government was established on the lands of the Russians.

It was necessary to believe in the policy of the Reds 100%, unquestioningly obey its ideas and principles. Those who did not comply with at least one item from the established rules were referred to the White Guards, to enemies, to opponents. However, not every person could dutifully live according to stupid rules.

The protagonist of the novel is a Cossack - Grigory Melekhov throughout history is in search of truth, in search of truth, wandering from one camp to another. Grigory was an ordinary Cossack, attractive and sweet. No wonder Aksinya immediately applied it at the first meeting. He was unusually sensitive. This is evidenced by the episode during the mowing, when Grigory accidentally killed a small, recently hatched duckling. He held it in his palm, and an incredible feeling of pity overwhelmed the soul of a strong man.

He was industrious and industrious. He wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. Also, he was sincere and honest. Having fallen in love with Aksinya, he retained his feelings until the end of his life. Being in a relationship with a beautiful girl, Grigory did not hide in the yards and sheds, but carried his feelings openly and with dignity.

Melekhov was distinguished by the purity of his soul and deeds from his comrades in the service. There was a case when the Cossacks did something bad and began to rape a woman. Gregory was even tied up so that he would not interfere with such acts.

However, not everything is perfect in this character. He is constantly in search, hesitates and changes his mind. By the will of his parents, he marries Natalya, although he loves Aksinya with all his heart.

The Cossack behaves in the same vague way during hostilities. He is constantly trying to find the truth, to understand why this war is needed, what is the point of his participation in it?

Grigory was also a Bolshevik, he also considered himself a member of the White Guard camp.

The outbreak of the war sent Melekhov hundreds and thousands of kilometers from his home. A terrible longing overwhelmed his soul, which was looking for peace and shelter. Grigory lived only in thoughts about his native farm and in every possible way wanted to return back home.

During his stay in a foreign land, Melekhov is looking for the meaning of the war, trying to find out the basic principles of the Bolshevik government. At one time, he takes their side, tries to live according to the laws of the Reds. However, through the internal monologue, the reader can observe those mental torments that overwhelm the Cossack.

Watching the cruel reprisals of the Reds over the prisoners, the protagonist feels charitable towards them. His pure soul does not accept such cruelty and injustice. Melekhov renounces both the Reds and the Whites, calling everyone the same.

Having seen enough of the cruelty and stupidity of the war, having endured trials and torments, Grigory had one dream - to return to his beloved and live a quiet life with her. She beckoned him with her tenderness and depth of feelings.

Reunited, the happiness of the lovers was short-lived. During the flight to the Kuban, death overtakes Aksinya. A woman dies in the arms of her beloved, without even saying goodbye. The most precious thing in life is lost forever. How now to live the main character?

Everything around was painted black. Only the thought of his son made Gregory breathe. Melekhov makes an important vital conclusion. The Red camp, like the White camp, is politics - dirty, bloody and hypocritical. The hero only has to believe in honest work, home and family.

After hundreds of sleepless, tearful nights, Melekhov returns to his native land, stands at the threshold of his farm and sees his little son. This is all that remains after the war. And now the Cossack will have to live with this.

Roman M.A. Sholokhov's "Quiet Don" is a novel about the Cossacks in the era of the Civil War. The protagonist of the work - Grigory Melekhov - continues the tradition of Russian classical literature, in which one of the main images is the hero-truth seeker (the works of Nekrasov, Leskov, Tolstoy, Gorky).
Grigory Melekhov also strives to find the meaning of life, to understand the whirlwind of historical events, to find happiness. This simple Cossack was born in a simple and friendly family, where centuries-old traditions are sacred - they work hard, have fun. The basis of the hero's character - love for work, for his native land, respect for the elders, justice, decency, kindness - is laid right here, in the family.
Handsome, hardworking, cheerful, Grigory immediately wins the hearts of those around him: he is not afraid of human rumors (almost openly loves the beautiful Aksinya, the wife of the Cossack Stepan), he does not consider it shameful to become a farm laborer in order to maintain relations with his beloved woman.
And at the same time, Gregory is a man who tends to hesitate. So, despite his great love for Aksinya, Grigory does not resist his parents, marries Natalya Korshunova at their will.
Without fully realizing it himself, Melekhov strives to exist "in truth." He is trying to understand, to answer for himself the question “how should one live?”. The search for a hero is complicated by the era in which he was born - the time of revolutions and wars.
Gregory will experience strong moral hesitation when he gets to the fronts of the First World War. The hero went to war, thinking that he knew which side the truth was on: you need to defend the fatherland and destroy the enemy. What could be easier? Melekhov does just that. He fights valiantly, he is brave and selfless, he does not shame the honor of the Cossacks. But gradually doubts come to the hero. He begins to see in opponents the same people with their hopes, weaknesses, fears, joys. What is all this slaughter for, what will it bring to people?
The hero begins to realize this especially clearly when fellow countryman Melekhov Chubaty kills a captive Austrian, still a very young boy. The prisoner tries to establish contact with the Russians, openly smiles at them, tries to please. The Cossacks were pleased with the decision to bring him to the headquarters for interrogation, but Chubaty kills the boy simply out of love for violence, out of hatred.
For Melekhov, this event becomes a real moral blow. And although he firmly protects the Cossack honor, deserves a reward, he understands that he was not created for war. He desperately wants to know the truth in order to find the meaning of his actions. Having fallen under the influence of the Bolshevik Garandzhi, the hero, like a sponge, absorbs new thoughts, new ideas. He starts fighting for the Reds. But the killing of unarmed prisoners by the Reds pushes him away from them too.
The childishly pure soul of Gregory alienates him from both the Reds and the Whites. Melekhov reveals the truth: the truth cannot be on either side. Reds and whites are politics, class struggle. And where there is a class struggle, blood is always shed, people die, children remain orphans. The truth is peaceful work in the native land, family, love.
Gregory is a wavering, doubting nature. This allows him to seek the truth, not to stop there, not to be limited by other people's explanations. Gregory's position in life is a position "between": between the traditions of the fathers and his own will, between two loving women - Aksinya and Natalya, between whites and reds. Finally, between the need to fight and the realization of the senselessness and uselessness of the massacre (“my hands need to plow, not fight”).
The author himself sympathizes with his hero. In the novel, Sholokhov objectively describes the events, talks about the "truth" of both the Whites and the Reds. But his sympathy, feelings are on the side of Melekhov. It fell to this man to live at a time when all moral guidelines were shifted. It was this, as well as the desire to search for the truth, that led the hero to such a tragic ending - the loss of everything that he loved: “Why did you, life, cripple me like that?”
The writer emphasizes that the civil war is a tragedy for the entire Russian people. There are no right or wrong in it, because people die, brother goes against brother, father against son.
Thus, Sholokhov in the novel "Quiet Flows the Don" made a man from the people and from the people as a truth seeker. The image of Grigory Melekhov becomes the concentration of the historical and ideological conflict of the work, an expression of the tragic searches of the entire Russian people.