Literature lesson based on the story by A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" "Great Power of Love"
Love is a great, sublime feeling that pushes one to heroic deeds and self-sacrifice for the good of one’s chosen one. In books, writers extolled this feeling as the meaning of existence, the great goal in human life. Pushkin, Lermontov, Kuprin, Yesenin, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva - worldwide famous writers, whose works glorify this wonderful feeling. But is love always like this? Unfortunately no. Betrayal, hatred, and anger can also be hidden behind such a feeling. The Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin was against such imaginary love.
Characteristics of Zheltkov in the story "Garnet Bracelet"
From 1900 to 1910, the writer wrote a number of stories and short stories that show true love. Kuprin elevates this all-consuming feeling over people, endowing it with his main characters. The story didn't ignore this topic either." Garnet bracelet"The main character in it becomes a simple official - G.S. Zheltkov. Kuprin endows him with faithful and pure love, one that is not capable of betrayal and deception, which is similar to the ideal.
The characterization of Zheltkov in “The Garnet Bracelet” begins with a description of his unrequited love. The object of the protagonist’s sigh is a young socialite, Vera Nikolaevna. First letter main character He writes stories to the princess even before her marriage. In it, a young and inexperienced telegraph operator describes all his feelings for Vera Nikolaevna. But he doesn’t receive any answer to it. For many years, the hopelessly in love Zheltkov sent letters to the princess, who did not take all his love revelations seriously. Moreover, Vera’s entire family openly mocked and ridiculed him, considering G.S.Zh. a maniac and an abnormal person.
Garnet bracelet
Zheltkov sends his penultimate letter and gift to the princess on her name day. As the telegraph operator himself wrote: “I would never allow myself to present you with anything chosen by me personally: for this I have neither the right, nor subtle taste and - I admit - no money.” This fragment, taken from a letter to his beloved, can be included as the beginning of Zheltkov’s characterization. The gift of a minor official is a bracelet decorated with a scattering of red garnets. This is the only thing that the main character of the story could give to his beloved.
Despite the severity of fate, the hero of Kuprin’s story is happy from the realization that he loves. The main characteristic of Zheltkov is the purity and recklessness of his feelings for Vera. In his letters, he reflects that the most correct thing would be to leave and leave his love, but he is not able to do this. With all his thoughts and feelings, he would still be forever connected with her.
External characteristics of the hero
In appearance, Zheltkov was endowed with soft features, medium build, blue eyes and tall stature. He looked about 35 years old. Despite his gentle appearance, the hero absorbed both sensitivity and sincerity, as well as perseverance. External characteristics Zheltkova is intertwined with his state of mind.
Vera Nikolaevna's grandfather, General Anosov, becomes a supporter of his feelings. Imbued with the whole story of the poor telegraph operator’s unrequited feelings, he tries to convince his granddaughter of that selfless, selfless love, with which Zheltkov burns.
Living conditions of the main character
The key characteristic of Zheltkov in Kuprin’s “Garnet Bracelet” is also the room in which he lived. Due to his low rank, the hero lives in one room, which presents him as a poor man with a complex life story. The living space itself had low ceilings and small windows; it contained only the most necessary furniture.
With all its interior the room showed the state of mind of its owner. He did not strive for comfort and rich decoration. The only joy and outlet in Zheltkov’s life was Vera Nikolaevna. The main character was overwhelmed with feelings for her, and he was not interested in anything else. This moment complements the characterization of Zheltkov in “The Garnet Bracelet” as a sincere person capable of sacrifice in the name of pure and great love.
In his story, Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin shows all the power and strength true love, not expecting a reward. The one that is strong as death. And the main character of the story carries such love as a cross throughout his life. Judging by Zheltkov’s characterization in “The Garnet Bracelet,” it is clear that he is a man of a broad soul, in which there is a place for love and self-sacrifice. And he gives himself to her completely, without reserve, feeling happy only because he has the opportunity to experience this feeling.
“Garnet Bracelet” Kuprin A.I.
Zheltkov G. S.- appears in the story only towards the end: “very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; He must have been about thirty, thirty-five years old.” Along with Princess Vera, he can be called the main character of the story. The beginning of the conflict is when Princess Vera received on September 17, her name day, a letter signed with the initials “G. S. Zh.”, and a garnet bracelet in a red case.
It was a gift from a then stranger to Vera Zh., who fell in love with her seven years ago, wrote letters, then, at her request, stopped bothering her, but now confessed his love again. In the letter, Zh. explained that the old silver bracelet once belonged to his grandmother, then all the stones were transferred to a new, gold bracelet. J. repents that he previously “dared to write stupid and impudent letters” and adds: “Now only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion remain in me.” One of the guests at the name day, for the sake of entertainment, presents the love story of the telegraph operator, P.P.Zh. (distorted G.S.Zh.), to Vera in a comic form, stylized as a pulp novel. Another guest, a person close to the family, old General Anosov, suggests: “Maybe he’s just an abnormal fellow, a maniac.”<...>Maybe your path in life, Verochka, has been crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”
Under the influence of his brother-in-law, Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein, decides to return the bracelet and stop the correspondence. J. amazed Shein at the meeting with his sincerity. Zh., having asked Shein for permission, speaks on the phone with Vera, but she also asks to stop “this story.” Shein felt that he was present “at some enormous tragedy of the soul.” When he reports this to Vera, she predicts that J. will kill himself. Later, from a newspaper, she accidentally learned about the suicide of Zh., who referred in his suicide note to the embezzlement of government money. In the evening of the same day, she receives a farewell letter from J. He calls his love for Vera “an enormous happiness” sent to him by God. He admits that he “is not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people.” All life lies in love for Vera: “Even though I was ridiculous in your eyes and in the eyes of your brother<...>As I leave, I say in delight: Hallowed be Thy name.” Prince Shein admits: J. was not crazy and loved Vera very much and therefore was doomed to death. He allows Vera to say goodbye to J. Looking at the deceased, she “realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.” In the face of the dead ^K. she noticed the “deep importance”, the “deep and sweet mystery”, the “peaceful expression” that “she saw on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon.”
At home, Vera found a familiar pianist, Jenny Reiter, who played her exactly that passage from Beethoven’s second sonata that seemed to J. the most perfect - “Largo Appassionato”. And this music became an afterlife declaration of love addressed to Vera. Vera’s thoughts that “great love passed by” coincided with the music, each “verse” of which ended with the words: “Hallowed be Thy name.” At the very end of the story, Vera says only to her understandable words: “...he has forgiven me now. Everything is fine".
All the characters in the story, not excluding J., had real prototypes. Criticism pointed out, however, the connection between “The Garnet Bracelet” and the prose of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun.
Composition
And the heart will no longer respond
It's all over... And my song rushes
On an empty night where you are no longer there.
A. Akhmatova
A. I. Kuprin is an original writer of the 20th century, in whose work the precepts of Russian classical literature with its democracy, passionate desire to solve the problems of social existence, humanism, and deep interest in the life of the people. Loyalty to traditions, the influence of L. N. Tolstoy and A. P. Chekhov, the influence of the creative ideas of M. Gorky determined the originality literary prose Kuprin, his place in the literary process of the beginning of the century.
Writers whose work was formed during the years of revolutionary upsurge were especially close to the theme of the “epiphany” of the ordinary Russian person, greedily seeking the truth in social life. Therefore, the center of the works invariably turns out to be a small person, an average truth-seeker intellectual, and the main theme is bourgeois civilization, devouring thousands of human lives and entailing the vulgarization of people's relationships." In such a situation, it is natural to turn to one of the eternal themes - the theme of love. Turns to the theme love, as one of the mysteries of existence, and A. Kuprin.
Following “Olesya” (1898) and “The Duel” (1905), in the 1910s, from his pen came a kind of “trilogy” about love, which is formed by the works “Shulamith”, “Garnet Bracelet” and “The Pit” ( the latter depicts anti-love). Love for Kuprin is a saving force that protects the human soul from the destructive influence of civilization; a phenomenon of life, an unexpected gift that illuminates life in the midst of everyday reality and established life. But love in his works is associated with the idea of death.
Kuprin's heroes most often die when faced with the world of cruelty, lack of spirituality and generally accepted philistine morality of the modern world.
The meaning and content of the life of the protagonist of the story “The Garnet Bracelet” became great, but, unfortunately, unrequited love. G. S. Zheltkov is a young man of pleasant appearance, an employee of the control chamber. He is musical, endowed with a sense of beauty, has a subtle feeling and knows how to understand people. Despite his poverty, Zheltkov has a “pedigree”; his sofa is covered with a “worn, beautiful Tekin carpet.”
But its main value is “seven years of hopeless and polite love.” The object of his admiration is the eldest daughter of the late Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, the wife of the leader of the nobility in the city of K., Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. She married a childhood friend for love, and now feels for her husband “a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship.” Both Vera Nikolaevna herself and those around her consider her marriage happy. Vera Nikolaevna is endowed with “aristocratic” beauty. She attracts “with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather large hands and that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient miniatures.”
The heroine is a sensitive, subtle person with many talents. But Vera does not respond to Zheltkov’s feelings. She perceives his attention, his letters and the gift of a garnet bracelet as something unnecessary, which also disrupts the usual measured flow of life. The princess is used to taking life seriously. She soberly assesses the family’s financial situation and tries to “help the prince avoid complete ruin,” denying herself a lot and saving in the household. The Sheins have a wide circle of acquaintances, and Princess Vera’s reputation is very important; she is afraid of looking funny or ridiculous. She considers the very admirer “with the funny surname Zheltkov” to be a “madman” who “pursues her with his love,” and even once asks him in writing “not to bother her anymore with his love outpourings.” Our hero's love is incomprehensible to the princess and seems burdensome.
For Zheltkov, his whole life lies in Vera Nikolaevna. He is no longer interested in anything: “neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people.” Zheltkov’s heart is always near his beloved, at her feet, “every moment of the day is filled” with Vera Nikolaevna, thoughts and dreams about her. But Zheltkov’s love is “not a disease, not a manic idea.” He fell in love with Vera “because there is nothing in the world like her, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no person more beautiful... and more tender.” This great love- a gift from heaven, “tremendous happiness.” This is love, “with which God was pleased to reward me for something,” he writes, experiencing “reverence, eternal admiration” and boundless gratitude for the woman he loves just for the fact that she exists. The princess, without knowing it, painfully wounds Zheltkov, pushes him to commit suicide with the words: “Oh, if you only knew how tired I am of this whole story. Please stop it as soon as possible.” But he asked for such a small thing: “to stay in the city so that he can see her at least occasionally, of course, without showing his face to her.”
For the hero, saying goodbye to Vera Nikolaevna is tantamount to saying goodbye to life. But, knowing full well about the inseparability of his feelings, Zheltkov hopes and is “even sure” that Vera Nikolaevna will someday remember him. And indeed, after Zheltkov’s death, saying goodbye to him, she understands that she has lost something important and very valuable, that “the great love that is repeated only once in a thousand years,” “the love that every woman dreams of, has passed past her." Shocked by this realization, Vera asks the pianist to play something, without doubting that Jenny will play the very passage from the Second Sonata that Zheltkov asked for. And when she listened to “this exceptional, unique work of depth,” “her soul seemed to split in two.” It was filled with music and poetry that ended with words from farewell letter loving person: "Hallowed be Thy name" ...
Musical theme"Appassionata" affirms the high power of love. The music in the story is very important role It is no coincidence that the title of Beethoven's second sonata is included in the epigraph. It serves as the key to understanding the entire work. “Prayer for Love” runs as a leitmotif throughout the entire work and sounds powerfully in its finale. What the lovelorn official of the control chamber could not express in words was “told” by the music of the great composer. As we see, mutual, perfect love did not take place, but this lofty and poetic feeling, albeit concentrated in one soul, opened the way to the beautiful rebirth of another. After all, every woman in the depths of her heart dreams of such love - “united, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless.”
Just a few pages, a few lines from a letter, and a person’s life passed before us. Is life real? Is the image of the main character real?
According to the memoirs of L. Arsenyeva, a younger contemporary of the writer, in the late 1920s in Paris, the aging A. Kuprin challenged his interlocutor to a duel, who allowed himself to doubt the plausibility of the plot of the “Garnet Bracelet”. Kuprin rarely resorted to pure fiction in his work. All his works are realistic, based on real events, personal impressions from meetings with people, from conversations. The writer heard the love story that formed the basis of the story in the summer of 1906 while visiting State Council member Dmitry Nikolaevich Lyubimov. The Lyubimovs showed Kuprin a family album. There were illustrations for letters that Lyubimov’s wife received from a person signing with the initials P.P.Zh. (he turned out to be a minor postal official Pyotr Petrovich Zheltikov). Kuprin creatively rethought what he heard and, with the power of his talent, turned an ordinary episode into a love story, which “the best minds and souls of humanity - poets, novelists, musicians, artists” have been dreaming and yearning for for centuries. Unlike the hero of Kuprin’s story, Zheltikov did not shoot himself, but was transferred to the provinces, where he then got married. But he served as a real prototype for the creation of a hero who won our hearts with the strength and purity of his feelings.
Zheltkov’s image is real. It is real because in the world, contrary to the opinion of General Anosov, there is still love, which is not touched by “any of life’s conveniences, calculations and compromises,” and there are men capable of “strong desires, heroic deeds, tenderness and adoration.” I would like to believe that in modern world perhaps a bright, humane feeling, reckless, “hopeless and polite,” knightly, heroic love; love is strong and pure, the love that God sends to the chosen ones, “like enormous happiness.” The kind of love “for which to accomplish any feat, to give one’s life, to suffer torment is not work at all, but one joy.” But such love cannot and should not end in a fatal outcome. Why die? You need to live knowing that you are just nearby, in the same city, in the same country, on the same planet with the person you love, and this makes life filled with meaning and becomes beautiful.
Despite the tragic ending, Kuprin’s story is optimistic, life-affirming, because in “The Garnet Bracelet” the author, probably stronger and more vividly than in other works, glorifies Eternal values life, spiritual strength and purity, nobility and the ability to sacrifice in the name of love. And, of course, love itself is the most sublime and beautiful of all human feelings.
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The hero of the story is Zheltkov. He holds the post of official of the Control Chamber. G.S has a pleasant appearance. He has eyes blue color, long soft hair. Zheltkov tall and thin build. He has a sublime feeling.
Zheltkov is in love with Vera Shenina, a cold aristocrat. He thinks she's extraordinary. He himself is also very an extraordinary person. From the letter that Zheltkov wrote on Vera’s name day, one can understand his spiritual appearance. He has nothing to hope for, but he is ready to sacrifice everything. His words convey admiration, respect, and courage. As a gift to Vera, he presented a garnet bracelet. It belonged to Mother Zheltkov, who was already deceased at that time, so he was a very valuable hero. In addition, the bracelet has interesting story. According to legend, it gives the gift of foresight and protects its owner from violent death.
The meaning of the hero's life was endless love. He didn't need anything else. Zheltkov was filled with sweet thoughts about his beloved. The hero believed that escaping the city would not be able to resist his feelings. He wouldn't be able to let go of his dreams of Vera. Unfortunately, his love was not reciprocated. Unrequited love has destructive power. Zheltkov wrote in his letter that he was not interested in science, politics, or the world, in a word, absolutely nothing except his beloved Vera. His life consisted only of her. He wrote this letter before his suicide. With his appeal, he raised feelings to the level of tragedy. Now another world opens up before Vera, filled with unknown feelings. It turns out that Zheltkov loved until his last breath, until the last beat of his heart.
It doesn’t matter who you are: a turner, a boss, a writer, a deputy, a cashier, a commander—everyone is on the same level before love. Zheltkov evokes a feeling of compassion, since unrequited love is a heavy burden. But only in her did he see the meaning of life, only she gave him moments saturated with happiness and madness. Probably the worst thing is to be indifferent to everything around and see in front of you only the object of your admiration.
Essay by Yolks with portrait characteristics
Not a single work of Russian literature is devoted to the theme of love. This feeling in any of its manifestations moves people and the world. Relationships between lovers often become a habit. However, A. I. Kuprin endowed one of his heroes in the story “The Garnet Bracelet” with an immortal feeling - love that did not fade away until his death.
Although general characteristics Zheltkova was not distinguished by either her bright appearance or special manifestations of male strength, actions and ideas, but at the end of the work this hero focuses the attention of everyone around her. He becomes understandable and reveals himself thanks to his rich inner world, where pure, sincere love takes place.
Occupying the position of a small official “in some government institution,” he did not stand out for his merits or appearance. The unsightly appearance of a frail, short young man no older than forty years old, he looked more like a gentle girl with a dimple on her chin and “soft hair.” His pale skin, erratic movements, nervousness (“buttoned and unfastened buttons”) completed the image of a seemingly insecure, secretive man.
Zheltkov’s lack of his own housing confirmed his unfavorable financial situation. Judging by the description of the room he rented, he didn't have much money. He lived in an unlit, small room with old furniture. However, despite such characteristics, this man had endless energy, which gave him strength and the ability to endure any pressure. life path thanks to the moment when he first met Vera Sheina at the circus. From that moment on, love eclipsed everything. He saw no flaws in her, it was his ideal. At times, life seemed like torture to Zheltkov, since he did not see even the slightest bit of reciprocity. His beloved was under his supervision all the years. But he did not want to change anything, enjoying the opportunity to love.
This man did not have a special vision of the world. He was an ordinary man, capable of truly loving one woman all his life. Despite her marriage and coldness, hope for reciprocity glimmered in her soul. This feeling gave him unearthly strength and a feeling of happiness. The attitude towards the hero changes from the beginning to the end of the story. From a quiet, unknown person, he turns into a thinking man with raging passions. However, he remains alone with his feelings, expressing thoughts only in letters. He was true to himself and to Vera. And he’s happy just from the thought that he loves her dearly. Zheltkov’s gift in the form of a garnet bracelet is nothing more than a desire to feel an invisible spiritual connection with a woman after she receives it.
Thus, Kuprin endowed Zheltkov with a feeling that pushes a person to heroic deeds. In the souls of such people there is room for kindness, patience, self-sacrifice and loyalty, the desire to give of oneself without reserve.
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(368 words) A.I. Kuprin often wrote about love in all its manifestations. The work “Garnet Bracelet” can be called a story of unearthly love. " Small man“, the poor official “with a girl’s face” turns out to be strong, selfless, and sensitive. Such a hero has no place in a society where cruel morals and everyone is fighting for a place in the sun.
So, we are talking about the “mysterious admirer” of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, who seven years ago saw a young woman and fell in love. Now he writes passionate, but not vulgar messages, leaving modest initials: “G. S. Zh.” Probably, if the heroine had met him earlier, she would not have remained indifferent. Zheltkov is tall, blue-eyed, long-haired. He is only about twenty-five to thirty years old. The official of the control chamber loves with all his heart, even deifies the cold and reserved aristocrat. Realizing that there is no hope, he still sacrifices himself and throws his whole life on the altar of forbidden passion. Zheltkov shows respect for Vera Nikolaevna and barely dares to send her a garnet bracelet - a kind of talisman, which, according to the legend, gives the owner the opportunity to foresee the future and saves from violent death. But no one saved the official himself. Having learned that his unrequited love had violated the peace of his lady, he committed suicide. Even at such a tragic moment, he thought not about himself, but about Vera Nikolaevna. This is a very sad story of a man who, at the cost of his own life, opened up to a “woman from high society” the world of real feelings, the world of love that conquers even death.
For Zheltkov, Vera Sheina is akin to a deity. He addresses her in a letter: “There is nothing more beautiful than you.” Every thing the princess touches becomes a treasure for the poor official. Zheltkov carefully preserves a note, a scarf, and an exhibition program that once belonged to the recipient of his messages. Love is the meaning of the hero's life. True, no one around him understands him. Vera's brother, Nikolai Nikolaevich, a dry and serious man, considers the letters a real insult. But Princess Sheina and her husband are shocked by Zheltkov’s feelings. They live in a completely different world, where secular manners and position in society are valued, and the manifestation of such strong emotions is considered indecent.
The hero can be respected for his feelings and even for the fact that he decides not to bother his beloved anymore with his presence. Now readers will probably agree: love is born in heaven! It is no coincidence that the hero repeats: “Hallowed be Thy name.” His feelings are too lofty, and not everyone is able to share them. Even the hero himself does not expect reciprocity. He simply loves and does not demand anything in return.
