How Kuprin solves the problem of unrequited love. Of all the miracles, the only miracle (according to the story of A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet")
The theme of love in the story of A. I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet"
(“The disease of love is incurable…”)
Love ... is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only it, only love keeps and moves life.
I.S. Turgenev.
Love... A word denoting the most reverent, tender, romantic and inspirational feeling inherent in a person. However, people often confuse love with falling in love. The real feeling takes possession of the whole being of a person, sets in motion all his forces, inspires the most incredible deeds, evokes the best motives, excites the creative imagination. But love is not always joy, mutual feeling, happiness given to two. It is also the disappointment of unrequited love. A person cannot fall out of love at will.
Every great artist has devoted many pages to this "eternal" theme. A. I. Kuprin did not bypass her either. The writer throughout his work showed great interest in everything beautiful, strong, sincere and natural. He attributed love to the great joys of life. His novels and stories "Olesya", "Shulamith", "Garnet Bracelet" tell about ideal love, pure, boundless, beautiful and powerful.
In Russian literature, perhaps, there is no work more powerful in terms of emotional impact on the reader than The Garnet Bracelet. Kuprin touches on the theme of love chastely, reverently and at the same time nervously. Otherwise, you can't touch her.
Sometimes it seems that everything has been said about love in world literature. Is it possible to talk about love after "Tristan and Isolde", after the sonnets of Petrarch and "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, after Pushkin's poem "For the shores of the distant homeland", Lermontov's "Do not laugh at my prophetic longing", after "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy and Chekhov's "Ladies with a Dog" But love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own joy, its own happiness, its own sadness and pain, and its own fragrance.
The story "Garnet Bracelet" is one of the saddest works about love. Kuprin admitted that he cried over the manuscript. And if the work makes the author and the reader cry, then this speaks of the deep vitality of what was created by the writer and of his great talent. Kuprin has many works about love, about the expectation of love, about its touching outcomes, about its poetry, longing and eternal youth. He always and everywhere blessed love. The theme of the story "Garnet Bracelet" is love to self-abasement, to self-denial. But it is interesting that love strikes the most ordinary person - the clerical official Zheltkov. Such love, it seems to me, was granted to him from above as a reward for a joyless existence. The hero of the story is no longer young, and his love for Princess Vera Sheina gave meaning to his life, filled it with inspiration and joy. This love was the meaning and happiness only for Zheltkov. Princess Vera considered him mad. She did not know his last name and had never seen the man. He only sent her greeting cards and wrote letters, signing G.S.Zh.
But one day, on the princess's name day, Zheltkov decided to be bold: he sent her an old-fashioned bracelet with beautiful garnets as a gift. Fearing that her name might be compromised, Vera's brother insists on returning the bracelet to its owner, and her husband and Vera agree.
In a fit of nervous excitement, Zheltkov confesses to Prince Shein his love for his wife. This confession touches to the depths of the soul: “I know that I can never stop loving her. What would you do to end this feeling? Send me to another city? All the same, I will love Vera Nikolaevna there as well as here. Jail me? But even there I will find a way to let her know about my existence. Only one thing remains - death ... ”Love over the years has become a disease, an incurable disease. She absorbed his entire essence without a trace. Zheltkov lived only for this love. Even though Princess Vera did not know him, even if he could not reveal his feelings to her, could not possess her ... This is not the main thing. The main thing is that he loved her with a sublime, platonic, pure love. It was enough for him just to see her sometimes and know that she was doing well.
The last words of love for the one that was the meaning of his life for many years, Zheltkov wrote in his suicide letter. It is impossible to read this letter without heavy spiritual excitement, in which the refrain sounds hysterically and amazingly: “Hallowed be thy name!” The story is given special strength by the fact that love appears in it as an unexpected gift of fate, poeticized and illuminating life. Lyubov Zheltkova is like a ray of light in the midst of everyday life, in the midst of sober reality and settled life. There is no cure for such love, it is incurable. Only death can serve as salvation. This love is closed in one person and carries a destructive force. “It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor worries about the future happiness of people,” Zheltkov writes in a letter, “for me, all life lies in you.” This feeling displaces all other thoughts from the consciousness of the hero.
The autumn landscape, the silent sea, empty dachas, the grassy smell of the last flowers also give special strength and bitterness to the narration.
Love, according to Kuprin, is a passion, it is a strong and real feeling that elevates a person, awakens the best qualities of his soul; it is truthfulness and honesty in relationships. The writer put his thoughts about love into the mouth of General Anosov: “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world. No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.”
It seems to me that today it is almost impossible to meet such love. Lyubov Zheltkova - romantic worship of a woman, chivalrous service to her. Princess Vera realized that true love, which is given to a person only once in a lifetime and which every woman dreams of, passed her by.
"Like a sacrificial flame,
My love is pure."
A. S. Pushkin
Before me is the story of A. I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet". The last page is closed, and I cannot tear myself away from the book. At the age of 17, no one, probably, remains indifferent when it comes to love. Everyone dreams of meeting true, devoted, strong and... lofty love on their life path.
What is sublime love? I think it is such a wonderful, selfless feeling when a loved one seems unearthly, ideal, when no sober calculations are taken into account, no conditions are set,
But does such a feeling always make the one who experiences it happy? This is a difficult question and not easy to answer. After all, sublime love can be unrequited. Pushkin's "On the hills of Georgia", "I loved you...", Tatyana Larina's letter to Onegin come to mind...
And here is the "Garnet Bracelet" - a story about the tragedy of a man who fell in love unrequitedly, and about his great happiness. I see no contradiction in this thought - after all, everything was so: a great tragedy and great happiness, bestowed as God's mercy, as a reward of fate.
Everything in the story is simple and complex, as in life. A petty official, “some kind of telegraph operator” with the funny surname Zheltkov, loves a radiant lady, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina.
He met her in his youth, when everything seemed possible and achievable. So the young man believed that a beautiful girl would notice him, appreciate him, fall in love, and began to write letters to her, which only annoyed the arrogant beauty.
Then she got married, became a secular lady, a princess. It would seem that common sense should have told Zheltkov that she should be forgotten. But can a lover, or rather, selflessly and unrequitedly loving, remember common sense?
For seven long years, the modest telegraph operator adores the beautiful princess from afar, not even daring to approach her, abandoning his ridiculous in her eyes and unnecessary messages to her, remaining alone.
Is this happiness? But he does not feel unhappy. Years of unrequited love have transformed him, taught him to feel subtly, to respond to the beauty of the world, to beautiful music.
A person grew spiritually and realized this, felt that he had become more sublime, purer, better. So much tact, taste, true admiration for his beloved in his unusual gift that even the husband of the princess cannot refuse him sympathy and respect.
And with what dignity he holds himself during the visit of unexpected and unwanted guests, Prince Shein and brother Vera Nikolaevna. This dignity does not allow them to show arrogance and swagger towards him.
We have a new person. He is no longer funny with his ridiculous, as it seems to others, love, but tragic, and he does not regret anything, does not want another fate for himself. Love breathed a new soul into him, and he will never be able to stoop to pettiness and vulgarity.
The tragic and beautiful music of the ingenious Beethoven sonata sounds in his soul. She comforts and inspires and lifts her above the world..
Zheltkov's suicide letter to Vera Nikolaevna is an exciting, touching prose poem. It shows that a bright, cleansing flame burns in the heart of the "little man". Beloved refused him even a humble request to allow him to stay in the same city with her. Her husband and brother demand that he "disappear from the life of their family." It is impossible to fulfill this requirement and live for it.
So the only thing left is death. But he does not sink to reproaches, his soul is filled with forgiveness and reconciliation. Each line of the farewell letter breathes great love, adoration, happiness to be capable of such love: material from the site
“I am infinitely grateful to you only for the fact that you exist ... This is the love that God was pleased to reward me for something.
Leaving, I say in delight: "Hallowed be thy name."
In his dying hours, he is happy that he can give his beloved both his soul and life, that he was granted to experience "real, Selfless, true love."
The great Pushkin wrote about such a wonderful, disinterested feeling, about happiness, loving, not demanding anything for himself.
I think that the readiness to give, to rise to self-sacrifice, is the great happiness of true, sublime Love. So, it seems to me, A.I. Kuprin understood this happiness, who created the "Garnet Bracelet", an immortal poem in prose, glorifying true love, which elevates a person and makes him happy, even if this love is unrequited.
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Questions for the lesson
"Love in A. Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet"
1. Why is their only date a farewell to V.N. with the ashes of a young man - can be considered a turning point in her internal state?
(She realized that the love that every woman dreams of had passed her by. She realized how different he was from her empty, insensitive and indifferent acquaintances - on his face she saw "that peaceful expression" which I saw "on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon".)
2. So how does Kuprin solve the “eternal” problem - unrequited, passionate, but true love? Was she unhappy, this unrequited love of Zheltkov? Did it lead to suffering? Or did the author mean something else?
(The high and unrequited love of Zheltkov became "great happiness" for him. It is with his love that he rises above other heroes, it is with his love that he destroys the royal calmness of Vera Nikolaevna. It is his own love that makes Vera Nikolaevna in tears, pain, remorse "comprehend life" which “I humbly and joyfully doomed myself to torment and death.”)
3. Why V.N. immediately, even before marriage, somehow frivolously reacted to an unknown admirer?
(The theme of inequality. The characters have different social backgrounds.)
4. Imagine that this passionate admirer was a rich, powerful person. How would society view his behavior? Would you allow yourself to be involved in this story?
(No. Everywhere and everywhere there was flirting, love affairs - everything is possible for the rich. But a small official ... How could he dare?!)
5. Does nature change with Zheltkov's death?
("autumn sunset burned out". (Real, passionate love, which women are waiting for, dreaming about, has also died. Unfortunately, both in nature and in life, we often do not notice beauty!) “A light wind came up and, as if sympathizing with her, rustled the leaves ...” Nature is able to sympathize, empathize.
(Name George means " victorious" . Yolks from the victorious. Kuprin in his work drew "small but great man")
16. What do you think is the power of love?
(Love elevates a person, transforms his soul. Love gives the lover immense happiness. Sincere, pure love elevates a person. The image of Zheltkov is one of the best achievements of Kuprin. This young man is the only bearer of a bright, selfless feeling in the base world of wealth, selfishness, hypocrisy. And therefore this story sounds like the writer's call to appreciate and protect love as a high value of human existence.
17 What are the main themes raised by Kuprin in the story?
in the story "Garnet bracelet" Kuprin reveals "eternal" themes: high and unrequited love, the theme of inequality.
18. Explain the wording of the topic "The talent of love in the story "Garnet Bracelet"
Kuprin in his works shows us true love, where there is not a single gram of self-interest, and which does not crave any reward. And love in the story "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 just to love, without demanding anything in return. And as we can see, it did not matter to him at all that she did not 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.
Relatives of Vera, dissatisfied with the interference in their personal lives, ask Zheltkov to leave her alone and not write letters that she still does not care about. But how can love be taken away?
The only joy and meaning in Zheltkov's life was love for Vera. He did not have any goals in life, he was not interested in anything else.
As a result, he decides to commit suicide and fulfills the will of Vera, leaving her. Love Zheltkova will remain unrequited ...
Late she will realize that it was true love, the one that many only have to dream of, passed her by. Later, looking at the dead Zheltkov, Vera will compare him to the greatest people.
The story "Garnet Bracelet" colorfully shows us all the torment and tender feelings that are opposed to lack of spirituality in this world, where the lover is ready for anything for the sake of his beloved.
A person who managed to love so reverently, there is some special concept of life. And even though Zheltkov was just an ordinary person, he turned out to be above all established norms and standards.
Kuprin portrays love as an unattainable mystery, and for such love there is no doubt. "Garnet Bracelet" is a very interesting and at the same time sad work, 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 kind people appear before us. Love is a passion, it is a powerful and real feeling, showing the best qualities of the soul. But besides all this, love is truthfulness and sincerity in relationships.
Option 2
Love is a word that evokes a wide variety of emotions. It can be both positive and negative. Kuprin was a unique author who could combine several directions of love in his works. One of these stories was "Garnet Bracelet".
The author has always been reverent about such a phenomenon as love, and in his story he extolled 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, though he could only fully open himself to her at the end of his life. Vera at first did not know how to react, because she received letters with declarations of love, and her family laughed and mocked at it. Only Vera's grandfather suggested that the words written in the letters might not be empty, then the granddaughter misses the love that all the girls in the world dream of.
Love is shown as a bright, pure feeling, and the object of adoration of the official Zheltkov 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 might touch as she passes by, the people she talks to along the way. Therefore, when the realization of the hopelessness of his love and life came to him, he decides to give his beloved woman a gift with which, although not on his own, he can 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. At parting, before his death, he wrote her the last letter in which he said that he was dying at the behest of God, and blesses her and wishes her further happiness. But one can understand that Vera, who realized her chance late, will no longer be able to live peacefully and happily, perhaps it was the only true and sincere love that was waiting for her in life, and she missed it.
In this story by Kuprin, love carries a tragic connotation, because it has remained 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 thy name", which is a reference to the writings of God. He deified his chosen one, which, unfortunately, still could not lead his life to a joyful end. But he did not suffer, he loved, and this feeling was a gift, because not everyone is given 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!
Composition Love in the work of Kuprin Garnet bracelet
For many centuries of human existence, countless works on the theme of love have been written. And this is no accident. After all, love in the life of every person occupies a huge place, giving it a special meaning. Among all these works, very few can be distinguished that describe such a strong feeling of love as Kuprin's work "Garnet Bracelet".
The protagonist official Zheltkov, as he himself describes his feeling, has the good fortune to experience the most real boundless love. His feeling is so strong that in places he can be mistaken for an unhealthy, mentally ill person. The peculiarity of the feeling of yolk is that this person in no case wants to disturb the object of his boundless love and passion. He requires absolutely nothing in return for this superhuman love. It doesn’t even cross his mind to be able to cool down, calm his heart just by meeting with Vera. This not only speaks of the iron willpower of a person, but also of the boundless love of this person. It is love that does not allow him even for a moment to be honored with 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 other heroes of the work are well aware that Zheltkov's love brought him nothing but bitter suffering and torment. But only a person who survived 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 is why the best way out for him is suicide. Before this act, he assures everyone in a letter that he lived a happy life.
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The works of the remarkable Russian writer A. I. Kuprin are destined to have a long life, since the topics that he raised in them have always been relevant and exciting. Reading the notorious story "Garnet Bracelet", you can see that the author is not just a master of the artistic word, but a real singer of sublime love. In it, he reveals himself as a romantic. Alas, the story that formed the basis of the story cannot boast of a happy ending. This is a tragic love filled with mysteries and symbolism. The action of the story takes us to the dacha of the princely couple Sheins.
Vera Nikolaevna is a secular woman with an established reputation. Despite the fact that the former passion for her husband has long been replaced by a sense of everyday devotion and friendship, she is always there and tries with all her might to be a worthy wife. Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein himself is on the verge of ruin, but he does not lose his sense of dignity, he is trying to somehow solve this problem. He always pampers his wife with gifts. So now, on her name day, he gave her magnificent earrings with pear-shaped pearls. On the occasion of this event, the Sheins had few guests, but they were all close relatives or family friends. In the midst of the celebration, Vera Nikolaevna brought another gift.
In a mysterious bundle, the woman was surprised to find a case with original jewelry, inexpensive, but obviously valuable. It was a bracelet of low standard, decorated with red garnets, and in the middle with a small green stone. As it turned out, the bracelet belonged to the great-grandmother of the donor. As you can guess from the emphasis on the stone, the green garnet had a special meaning in the gift. He endowed the owner of the bracelet with the gift of foresight, which the reader can see at the end of the work. Vera Nikolaevna's secret admirer was none other than a person who paid her unobtrusive, but regular attention for many years.
G. S. Zheltkov was a petty official living under the roof of one of the poor houses. Having once seen Vera Nikolaevna at a circus performance, he fell in love with her with that very tender and selfless love that, according to General Anosov, many people expect, but never find. In his unrequited love, Zheltkov found happiness. He did not even demand anything in return, he only wanted to please the object of his ardent feelings and pay at least a little attention. But since in the civilized world it is not customary to bother married ladies with gifts and signs of attention, the husband and brother of Vera Nikolaevna decided to have a direct conversation with Zheltkov, after which he committed suicide, after leaving a note, allegedly did this because of the waste of government money.
The day before, Vera seemed to have a premonition of something terrible. Perhaps this was due to the mysterious properties of the green pomegranate, or perhaps just common sense worked. She understood that a person who had been caring for her for so many years and loving her so sincerely, selflessly, would not be able to live without showing her feelings. Zheltkov himself did not want to bother her with his feelings, so he decided to take his own life. For Vera, he left a farewell letter in which he asked to listen to Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 after his death. With this musical composition, he seemed to forgive her and let her go. In memory of him there was a garnet bracelet of the rarest beauty, in a cheap frame of which his sublime unrequited love was enclosed.
