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Prepared by: Usova Tatyana
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Teacher: Stetsenko L.A
INTRODUCTION
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Roman M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don" - it is primarily a historical work that reflects the characteristic features and characteristics of the era of the First World War and the Civil War. This is one of the most difficult periods in the history of our country, which radically changed the fate of the people who lived then. It was reflected in the works of many writers of the 20th century, the novel by M.A. Sholokhov - one of the most outstanding and outstanding among them. In it, the writer reflects not only the political views of the Cossacks, their perception of historical events, but also pays a lot of attention to their way of life, way of life, traditions, relationships and, of course, their soul, feelings, touching on those philosophical issues that have always worried and will worry humanity .
In the novels of M. Sholokhov they love violently, passionately, tragically. The love drama of Natalia, the tragic love story of Grigory and Aksinya, the love of Nagulnov and Lushka - every time before us open up new and new facets of the human personality, its possibilities.
Each of the women - heroines of the novel "Quiet Flows the Don" - - painful, but always - genuine.
The theme of love in this novel is one of the main ones, because love is this is a feeling that makes you perform feats and commit a crime, a feeling that can move mountains, change the course of history, a feeling that gives happiness and inspiration and makes you suffer, a feeling without which life has no meaning.
1. SAVING WOMAN'S LOVE ACCORDING TO M. SHOLOHOV'S NOVEL "QUIET DON"
"Quiet Flows the Don" by M. Sholokhov is a novel about the fate of the people in a critical era. The fate of the main characters of the novel develops dramatically. Women's destinies are also complicated, marked by a deep and vivid feeling of love.
The image of Grigory Melekhov's mother, Ilyinichna, personifies the difficult lot of a Cossack woman, her highest moral qualities. Life with her husband was not easy for her. Sometimes, flaring up, he beat her severely. Ilyinichna grew old early, was ill a lot, but until the last day she remained a caring and energetic hostess.
M. Sholokhov calls Ilyinichna a “courageous and proud” old woman. She has wisdom and justice. Ilyinichna - family keeper. She comforts her children when they feel bad, but she also judges them severely when they do wrong. She tries to dissuade Gregory from excessive cruelty: "You are God ... God, son, do not forget ...". All her thoughts are connected with the fate of children, especially the youngest. - Gregory. But she loves not only children and her husband, but also her native land, tormented by wars and revolutions.
The image of Aksinya is distinguished by external and internal beauty. She is completely absorbed in love for Gregory, in the struggle for happiness she shows pride and courage. Having experienced all the bitterness of a woman's joyless fate early, Aksinya boldly and openly rebels against patriarchal morality. In her passionate love for Gregory, a resolute protest is expressed against ruined youth, against the torture and despotism of her father and her unloved husband. Her struggle for Gregory, for happiness with him - it is a struggle for the assertion of their human rights.
Rebellious and rebellious, with her head held high, she went against prejudice, hypocrisy and falsehood, causing evil talk and gossip. Throughout her life, Aksinya carried her love for Grigory. The strength and depth of her feelings was expressed in the readiness to follow her beloved to the most difficult trials. In the name of this feeling, she leaves her husband, the household and leaves with Grigory to work as a laborer for Listnitsky. During the Civil War, she goes with Grigory to the front, sharing with him all the hardships of camp life. And for the last time, at his call, she leaves the farm with the hope of finding her “share” with him in the Kuban. All the strength of Aksinya's character was expressed in one all-encompassing feeling - love for Gregory.
He loves Gregory and Natalya, a woman of high moral purity. But she is unloved, and her fate is marked by suffering. However, Natalia hopes for a better life. She curses Gregory, but loves him endlessly. And happiness comes, harmony and love reign in the family. She gave birth to twins - son and daughter. Natalya turned out to be just as loving and caring mother as she was a wife. But , in the end , Natalya cannot forgive her husband's infidelity, she refuses motherhood and dies. Destroyed and insulted, Natalya did not want to live, because the ideal of her life - purity.
The complete opposite of her - Daria Melekhova, a broken, dissolute woman, ready to "twist love" with the first person she meets. But now comes the decisive hour - the hour of testing, and behind this street morality, behind the swagger, something else, hitherto hidden, is revealed, which promised other possibilities, another direction and development of character. Daria decided to die so as not to be disfigured by a "bad disease." In this decision, a real challenge and human strength.
2. THE HEART THAT KNEW TO LOVE (THE IMAGE OF AKSINIA IN M. SHOLOHOV’S NOVEL “QUIET DON”)
In the novels of M. Sholokhov they love violently, passionately, tragically. The love drama of Natalia, the tragic love story of Grigory and Aksinya, the love of Nagulnov and Lushka - each time new facets of the human personality, its possibilities open before us.
The image of Aksinya stands out with special charm. She has both outer and inner beauty. She stubbornly fights for her happiness, having experienced all the bitterness of a woman's fate early, Aksinya boldly and openly rebels against the slavish, humiliated position of a woman, against patriarchal morality.
In Aksinya's passionate love for Gregory, a resolute protest is expressed against ruined youth, against the torture and despotism of his father and unloved husband. Her struggle for Gregory, for happiness with him - it is a struggle for the assertion of their human rights. Rebellious and rebellious, with her head held high, she went against prejudices, hypocrisy and falsehood, winning her happiness with her loved one, causing evil talk and gossip.
Throughout her life, Aksinya carried her love for Grigory, the strength and depth of her feelings was expressed in selflessness, in her readiness to follow her beloved to the most difficult trials. In the name of this feeling, she leaves her husband, the household and leaves with Grigory to work as a laborer for Listnitsky. During the Civil War, she follows Gregory to the front, sharing with him all the hardships of camp life. And for the last time, at his call, she leaves the farm with the hope of finding her “share” with him in the Kuban. The whole strength of Aksinya's character was expressed in one all-encompassing feeling - love for Gregory.
One of the constant definitions of Aksinya's human essence, her struggle for happiness, is the epithet "proud" in the novel. Aksinya has a “proud” face, despising farm gossip, she “proudly and high carried her happy, but shameful head.” After a quarrel with the Melekhovs, she does not greet them, "with satanic pride, flaring her nostrils, she passed by." The repeatedly repeated definition of "proud" serves to highlight one of the most essential traits of Aksinya's character. Aksinya is proud not only of her bright, exciting beauty. Her pride expresses her constant readiness to defend her human dignity, shows vitality, strength and nobility of character.
The difficult life trials did not break Aksinya, but, on the contrary, revealed all the best in her. If at the beginning of the novel she could, under the influence of a momentary mood, change Grigory and Listnitsky, insult Natalya, shout at Panteley Prokofievich, then in the last volume she changes, shows love and understanding towards other people. A new feeling arises in Aksinya in relation to her unloved husband Stepan - she begins to understand him and pity him in her own way. The attitude towards Natalya also changes: in the last conversation, when Natalya comes to find out if Aksinya really “took possession” of Grigory again, Aksinya no longer sneers at Natalya, as before, but sensibly, almost like Ilyinichna, argues: “You know what? Let's not talk about him anymore. Will be alive ... will return - will choose." Aksinya loves Grigory's children with all the fullness of maternal feelings ("They themselves, Grisha, began to call me mother, do not think that I taught them"). It is no coincidence that Ilyinichna, who used to be so uncompromisingly related to Grigory's relationship with Aksinya, as Dunyashka says, "has fallen in love with Aksinya lately."
The rebellious character of Aksinya, her all-encompassing feeling for Gregory reveal to the reader the beauty and richness of human experiences. Each of the characters depicted by M. Sholokhov carries the uniqueness that makes up the diversity and richness of the human world.
Each of the women heroines of the novel "Quiet Flows the Don" - passes his way of the cross. This path is marked by love, not always happy, more often - painful, but always - genuine.
The theme of love in this novel is one of the main ones, because love - this is a feeling that makes you perform feats and commit a crime, a feeling that can move mountains, change the course of history, a feeling that gives happiness and inspiration and makes you suffer, a feeling without whose life has no meaning
3. WOMAN'S LOVE IN THE NOVEL "QUIET DON"
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The main female images of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "Quiet Flows the Don" are Natalya Melekhova and Aksinya Astakhova. Both of them love the same Cossack, Grigory Melekhov. He is married to Natalya, but he loves Aksinya, and she, in turn, is married to another Cossack, Stepan Astakhov. A very traditional love triangle is formed, an important part of the plot of the novel. But it is resolved very tragically. By the end of the novel, both Natalia and Aksinya are dying. What led two almost completely different women to a sad outcome? In the most general form, this question can be answered as follows: love for Gregory. Natalya cannot bear the fact that her husband continues to love Aksinya, does not want to have another child from him because of this, and commits a suicidal abortion, actually seeking death, and not just trying to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Aksinya's love for Grigory drives him to the Kuban. And since Melekhov is hiding from the authorities, they have to run from the patrol that came across. A patrolman's bullet accidentally wounds Aksinya and mortally wounds her.
The end of each of the heroines is logical in its own way. Natalia is a nervous, reflective woman. She is hardworking, beautiful, kind, but unhappy. Natalya, having only learned about the Melekhovs’ marriage, declares: “I love Grishka, but I won’t marry anyone else! .. I don’t need others, my friend ... bring the monastery..." She is a deeply religious, God-fearing person. And in order to decide first to attempt suicide, and then to kill an unborn child, she had to step over the Christian commandments that were so important to her. Only the strongest feeling of “love and jealousy motivated Natalya to such actions. She experiences her grief in herself without splashing it out. Aksinya, from the very beginning, “decided to take Grishka away from the happy, neither sorrow nor joy of love, who had not seen Natalia Korshunova ... She decided only one thing firmly: to take Grishka away from everyone, to fill her with love "to own him, as before," before marriage. But in the clash of two women who love Gregory, there will be no winners, as we know.
When, due to her husband's betrayal, Natalya temporarily returns to her parents' house, "it seemed to her that Grigory would return to her, she waited with her heart, not listening to the sober whisper of her mind; she went out at night in burning anguish, collapsed, trampled on by unexpected undeserved resentment." Aksinya, unlike Natalya, loves Grigory not only with her heart, but also with her mind. She is ready to fight for her beloved by all available means. Aksinya is actively striving for her happiness, while making Natalia unhappy. However, kindness is characteristic of her to no lesser extent than her rival. After Natalya's death, it is Aksinya who takes care of her children, and they call her mother. Long before her death, Natalya is inclined to go to her parents' house with her children, allowing Grigory to openly take Aksinya into his hut. However, Grigory’s mother, Ilyinichna, by the author’s definition, “a wise and courageous old woman,” categorically forbids her to do this: “From a young age, I thought so too,” Ilyinichna said with a sigh. I accepted from him, and it’s impossible to say. Only it’s not easy to leave your own husband, and there’s nothing to it. Think with your mind - you’ll see for yourself. Yes, and take the kids from their father, how is it? No, you’re talking in vain. And don’t think about it I won't!" Here "everything that had been accumulating in Natalya's heart for so long suddenly erupted in a convulsive fit of sobs. With a groan, she tore off her handkerchief from her head, fell face down on the dry, unkind" ground and, pressing her chest against it, sobbed without tears. " In a frenzy Natalya sends the most terrible curses on the head of an unfaithful husband: “Lord, punish his accursed one! Beat him to death there! So that he no longer lives, does not torment me! .. "And dooms himself to a painful death, trying to get rid of his child. Ilyinichna was going with the help of Panteley Prokofievich "to dissuade the daughter-in-law who was furious with grief from an unreasonable act," but she did not have time. she went berserk with grief." Aksinya is more balanced than Natalya. She also drank a lot of grief, survived the death of her daughter. However, she refrained from harsh, thoughtless actions. Aksinya wants them to be able to unite with Grigory forever, get rid of people's gossip, live a normal life. It seems to her that this dream may come true after Natalya's death. Aksinya nurses Melekhov's children, and they almost recognize her as a mother. But Grigory did not have a chance to live in peace with her. Almost immediately after returning from the Red Army, he was forced to flee from his native farm, because fears arrest for old sins - active participation in the Vyoshensky uprising. Aksinya yearns without him, fears for his life: “It is evident that she, so strong, was broken by suffering. It is evident that she lived salty these months ...” Nevertheless, Aksinya readily responds to Grigory’s proposal to leave the house, children (their Melekhov expects to pick it up later) and go with him to the Kuban towards the unknown: “What would you think? .. Is it sweet for me alone? I’ll go, Grishenka, my dear! Better kill life, but don’t leave it again!..” She, of course, does not suspect that this time she and Grigory will not be there for very long, that her quick and ridiculous death awaits. Gregory worries about the death of both women - But he worries. differently. Learning that Natalya was driven to a fatal step by a conversation with Aksinya, who told his wife the whole truth, Grigory "came out of the room, aged and pale; soundlessly moving his bluish, trembling lips, sat down at the table, caressed the children for a long time, seating them on his knees .. He understands that he is to blame for the death of his wife: “Gregory imagined how Natalya said goodbye to the children, how she kissed them and, perhaps, baptized them, and again, as when he read the telegram about her death, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain in the heart, a deaf ringing in the ears As the author notes: “Gregory suffered not only because he loved Natalia in his own way and got used to her for six years lived together, but also because he felt guilty of her death. If during her lifetime Natalya had carried out her threat - she had taken the children and gone to live with her mother, if she had died there, bitter in hatred for her unfaithful husband and unreconciled, Gregory, perhaps, would not have felt the burden of loss with such force, and certainly, remorse would not have tormented him so violently. But from the words of Ilyinichna, he knew that Natalya forgave him everything, that she loved him and remembered him until the last minute. This increased his suffering, aggravated his conscience with unceasing reproach, forced him to rethink the past and his behavior in it in a new way ... "Gregory, who had previously treated his wife indifferently and even hostilely, warmed up to her because of the children: his father's feelings woke up in him He was ready to live with both women at one time, loving each of them in his own way, but after the death of his wife, he temporarily felt hostility towards Aksinya "because she betrayed their relationship and thereby pushed Natalya to death."
However, the death of Aksinya causes Grigory even deeper suffering. He saw how "blood flowed ... from Aksinya's half-open mouth, bubbling and gurgling in his throat. And Grigory, dying of horror, realized that it was all over, that the worst thing that could have happened in his life had already happened. .." Again Melekhov unwittingly contributed to the death of a woman close to him, and this time she literally died in his arms. With the death of Aksinya, life for Grigory almost lost its meaning. Burying his beloved, he thinks; that "they parted for a while ...".
There are a lot of deaths in The Quiet Don. Almost all members of the Melekhov family die, and not a single hut on the Tatarsky farm escaped death. So it really was in the civil war, when a lot of Cossacks died. And the death of the two main characters in this sense is natural. The death of Natalya and the death of Aksinya, according to the writer's intention, should deepen Grigory's loneliness to the end of the story, leaving him only with his only surviving son, Mishatka: with him, everything was ruined by a ruthless death. Only the children remained "(Grigory does not yet know that his daughter Polyushka died" from a glottis "). In Sholokhov's novel, both the strong-willed Aksinya and the weaker Natalya are doomed to perish. The tragedy of the civil war intensifies the tragedy of the love line of the "Quiet Flows the Don".
Brothers, there is no forgiveness for me!.. Cut down, for God's sake... into God's mother... Death... betray!.. "
He speaks in almost the same words as the Cossack Yegor Zharkov, who received a mortal wound in the First World War and begged his comrades to end his torment: “Brothers, put to death! Brothers! .. Brothers ... -e? .. Aha-ha-ah-ah-ah-ah! .. Brothers, put to death! .. "
Melekhov, unlike Zharkov, whose guts are falling out of his torn stomach, is not wounded, but experiences almost the same torment that he has to kill compatriots, Russian people, Cossacks, peasants, sailors ... Even killing the enemy in a fair fight, he experiences sometimes moral agony. What can we say about the killing of the unarmed. True, in avenging Peter, Grigory is already doing a dirty deed. But the feeling of revenge passes quickly. And having learned that the killers of Peter fell into the hands of the Cossacks, Grigory hurries to his native farm not to hasten their death, but on the contrary, to save them from death. But he was too late: during the lynching, Ivan Alekseevich was killed by Peter's widow Daria.
Truly, "what is done with people"! Grigory does not accept the brutality caused by the civil war. And in the end it turns out to be a stranger in all warring camps. He begins to doubt whether he is looking for the right truth. Melekhov thinks about the Reds: “They are fighting so that they can live better, and we fought for our good life ... There is no one truth in life. sick, swaying back and forth ... In the old days, you hear, the Don offended the Tatars, they went to take away the land, to captivity. Now - Russia. No! I will not make peace! They are strangers to me and all the Cossacks. " He feels a sense of community only with fellow countrymen Cossacks, especially at the time of the Vyoshensky uprising. He dreams of the Cossacks being independent from both the Bolsheviks and the "Kadets", but quickly realizes that there is no place left for any "third force" in the struggle between the Reds and the Whites. In the White Cossack army of Ataman Krasnov, Grigory Melekhov serves without enthusiasm. Here he sees robbery, and violence against prisoners, and the unwillingness of the Cossacks to fight outside the region of the Don Cossacks, and he himself shares their sentiments. And just as without enthusiasm, Grigory fights with the Reds after the connection of the Vyoshensky rebels with the troops of General Denikin. The officers who set the tone in the Volunteer Army are not just strangers to him, but also hostile. It is not for nothing that Yesaul Yevgeny Listnitsky becomes an enemy, whom Grigory beats half to death for his connection with Aksinya. Melekhov foresees the defeat of the Whites and is not too sad about this. By and large, he is already tired of the war, and the outcome is almost indifferent. Although during the days of the retreat "at times he had a vague hope that the danger would force the dispersed, demoralized and warring forces of the whites to unite, fight back and overturn the victoriously advancing red units." CONCLUSION
Each person understands what love is in their own way. In the novel by M. Sholokhov, all facets of this feeling are revealed, the author allows us to look at it from different angles, helps us understand that love cannot be given an unambiguous definition. Even the same person can feel so differently! A striking proof of this is the love of Grigory Melekhov, the protagonist of the novel.
In general, the traditions and moral principles that have developed in the Cossack society are not conducive to manifestations of tender feelings. The character of the Cossack is distinguished by its extreme simplicity, the absence of any prejudices inherent in an aristocratic society. But at the same time, the Cossacks are mostly rude and cruel, disrespectful towards women. In early childhood, the boy sees how his father treats his mother with disdain, even contempt, and transfers this model of relations to his family. Melekhov stands out from all the Cossacks with special sensitivity, humanity, the ability to empathize, subtly feel the pain of others. He has a kind soul, a huge potential for warmth and tenderness. But a Cossack should not be soft and compassionate. It is not surprising that, fearing ridicule, Gregory drowns out the voice of his heart and hides his bright spiritual impulses behind mock callousness. Let us recall, for example, the episode with a duckling accidentally cut by a scythe in a meadow: Grishka shyly hides the suddenly awakened feeling of pity from others and from himself. He does not know that there should be some kind of respect for a woman, he does not know about romance, and it is probably ridiculous for him to imagine a knight singing serenades under the window of his beloved. But then he meets Aksinya, his first love. According to the Cossacks, she is unspeakably beautiful. But not her simple beauty, but as if vicious, forbidden and therefore even more attractive. Some kind of mystery and appeal lurk in these “shamelessly greedy, puffy” lips, in fluffy curls on the neck, in black eyes burning with violent fire. This fire awakened passion in Grigory's soul, and life without a spiritual storm, without a fire, was not life for him. Therefore, Aksinya became simply necessary for him, as if he drew vitality from her soul. The fact that she was married only spurred him on. And Grishka became not indifferent to Aksinya, but loved. Having seen a lot of sorrows and suffering in her life, who did not know affection, as a girl she was raped by her own father, and in marriage she was beaten by Stepan almost every day, she was delighted at the attention of the “black affectionate guy”, reached out to him: “At dawn, waking up to milk the cows, she smiled and, not yet realizing why, she recalled: “Today there is something joyful. What? Grigory... Grisha...” This feeling, at first kind of playful and frivolous, grew into true love. These proud, self-willed, freedom-loving, passionate people, so similar to each other, were brought together by fate itself. They were destined for each other from above.
The love of Aksinya and Grigory was so strong that it forced them to disregard public opinion, the views of people on the farm.
Sholokhov leads his heroes through trials. The first test is the marriage of Gregory. Marrying Natalya and leaving Aksinya, he acted meanly. How much pain, moral and physical, she had to endure because of Melekhov's selfishness! "The bitch won't want - the male will not jump”, - he answered Aksinya when she tried to accuse him. Indeed, both were to blame, but she alone was responsible.
Grigory was young and inexperienced then, but his heart was wiser than he, it was drawn to Aksinya. On distant campaigns, at war, in the arms of some zhalmerka, wherever Melekhov was, he always remembered his beloved, her fluffy curl around her neck, and tenderness overwhelmed his soul: experienced, ran into Aksinya in this life that had gone somewhere into the irretrievable, thought: “Lyubushka! Unforgettable! ”Even her betrayal with Listnitsky did not erase this feeling. No matter how Grigory tried to hate, to forget, Aksinya's proud, “victorious” look always stood before his eyes. Grishka himself was not without sin, so why reproach Aksinya? The sorrows and joys experienced together made them related: “And I, Ksyusha, still can’t tear you away from my heart. Now my children are big, and I myself have become half gray-haired, how many years have laid an abyss between us ... And I still think about you. He returned to her again, their love lit up with renewed vigor, they found strength in it, and nothing in the world no longer existed for them.
But Sholokhov gives his hero another kind of love. - Natalia. Pantelei Prokofich married Grishka as if out of spite, by force. Immediately after the wedding, Natalya, although sweet, kind, simple-hearted, open, submissive, unrequited, caring, but girlishly timid, shy, modest and inexperienced in love, with her “indifferent, slow blood”, was disgusted with Grigory: “You are a stranger some... you - like this month: you don’t cool and you don’t warm. I don't love you...”
Aksinya then occupied all his thoughts. And the naive girl has already fallen in love with her husband without a memory, still not really knowing him. Having exchanged rings with her fiancé, Natalya gave him her soul. Leaving her, Gregory ruined her youth. It was excruciatingly unfortunate to see the mocking glances of passers-by, to learn about gossip. Frivolity Melekhov pushed Natalya to commit suicide. But she was lucky: she survived. He was lucky because not all his life Gregory was destined to hurt people. He matured, became wiser, he needed a peaceful haven. He was tired of all this fuss, fire, war, he wanted peace and quiet. He found this peace at home, in the devoted eyes of his lawful wife Natalia.
Natalya was initially associated with Gregory with appeasement, calm, and Aksinya - with fire, with a storm, with the elements. The rapprochement between Natalia and Gregory was also very strongly influenced by the birth of children. Children were what united them, for Melekhov they were a gift: “Children’s love aroused a reciprocal feeling in Grigory, and this feeling, like a spark, was transferred to Natalya.” He really fell in love with Natalya as much as Aksinya, but with a different love: “She was next to him, his wife and mother of Mishatka and Polyushka ... slightly tilting her head to one side, she sat, so pitiful, ugly and yet beautiful, radiant some pure inner beauty.”
Melekhov loved both Aksinya and Natalya at the same time, he never thought that one could replace the other for him. For Gregory, who found only cruelty and blood everywhere, the only truth in life was love, which he carried through all difficulties and always kept in his heart. For Aksinya love - the source of life, its only joy and its inexpressible suffering. For Natalia Grigory - life itself.
This is how M.A. shows us such a multifaceted, diverse one. Sholokhov is great, in many ways an incomprehensible, unknown feeling.
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Tasks:
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to develop the creative and speech activity of students through the expression of their ideas about the heroes of the work;
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develop emotional susceptibility;
promote understanding of the value of the family.
Equipment:
Computer, multimedia projector. slide presentation (as an accompaniment to the lesson).
Preliminary preparation.
Tasks by groups:
Contrasting "love-passion" and "family love" in Russian classical literature.
Analyze the love triangle Aksinya-Grigory-Natalya from the point of view of two types of love.
Peter and Daria
Love in War: Contrasting Love and Duty (Bunchuk and Anna).
“Free love of Timofey and Lisa Mokhova.
The ideal of love according to Sholokhov.
During the classes.
I . Introduction by the teacher.
In the days of terrible historical upheavals, when all the usual foundations suddenly collapse, life takes on some monstrous forms, a person is so helpless! How to resist, survive, not break? What can become that straw that will support, save? Love is the basis of life.
What is true love - passion or duty? Madness, impulse or peace, security? What understanding of love is in tune with folk Christian traditions and, in particular, the Cossack way of life?
II . Work on the topic of the lesson.
Teacher. The traditional people's understanding of love is the continuation of the family, which means the choice is up to the family, duty, and ultimately - children.
Let us turn to Russian classical literature - the works of A.S. Pushkin, A.N. Ostrovsky, L.N. Tolstoy, N.A. Nekrasov. What is the choice of the main characters?
I a group of students.
Tatyana Larina chooses honor and duty (“But I am given to another / And I will be faithful to him for a century”), despite the strength of her love for Onegin. She cannot break her vow of allegiance given in the church.
The love of Katerina, the heroine of Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm", is the desire for light from the darkness and ignorance of the world of the Kabanovs; passion is opposed to the sanctimonious way of the husband's family. But vicious love violated the patriarchal order, therefore, a tragic outcome is inevitable.
Natasha Rostova (L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace") from false (passionate) love for Anatol Kuragin (ready to go even against the family, discredit her name and jeopardize the honor of the family) through the comprehension of her duty comes to true love, leading a person to understand the higher purpose of a woman, when it is no longer important how she looks, but children, husband, family are important.
The wives of the Decembrists left their relatives, sacrificed their position in society, well-being in order to alleviate the fate of their husbands, to support in difficult times, fulfilling the promise given before God and people to be near in sorrow and in joy, in sickness and health.
Conclusion: in Russian classical literature there are many examples of understanding the family as a union of a man and a woman, based on fidelity, respect, mutual assistance, the main goal of which is the continuation of the family (slide 1).
Teacher: This position is closest to the Cossack understanding of the essence of the family. It is impossible to understand the spiritual world of the Cossacks without realizing the family relations that were built on the basis of patriarchal Orthodox traditions, which was also reflected in folklore. Let's give as an example the lines of only some songs.
The Cossack, fulfilling his military duty, dreams of returning home as soon as possible, to his wife, family, children (the teacher quotes lines from the song "Kalinushka"):
Oh, how one of them prays to God,
Oh, yes, praying to God, asking to go home.
Oh, yes you, my colonel, let me go home,
Oh, let me go home to us on the Quiet Don.
Oh, let me go home to us on the quiet Don,
Oh, yes, to us on the Quiet Don, to my father and mother.
Oh, yes, to us on the quiet Don, to my father and mother,
Oh, yes, to my father and mother, and to my young wife.
Oh, yes, to the wife and the young, to the little kids,
Oh, yes, to small children, youngsters.
A special place was occupied by ideas about the Cossack traditions, among which one should highlight love of freedom, devotion to military duty, religious tolerance, moral and physical health. All this is very important for a Cossack, if a faithful Cossack woman is waiting for him at home (the teacher reads out the lines of the songs “The Cossack went”, “To the meadow” - see the appendix). If the girlfriend is unfaithful, life without love and fidelity loses its meaning (“The Cossack Rode”).
Let us turn to Sholokhov's novel "Quiet Flows the Don" and try to understand the attitude towards love, family, folk traditions of the main characters of the work.
Before us unfolds not only a social, but also a personal tragedy.
Analyze the relationship of Grigory, Aksinya and Natalia from the point of view of two types of love: “love is passion” and “family love”.
II a group of students.
(Slide 2: "Grigory and Aksinya"). The relationship between Grigory and Aksinya is love - passion, a challenge to the patriarchal way of life of the Cossacks, the destruction of the norm, the impossibility of peace. "Having desired his neighbor's wife," Gregory obeys reckless attraction. Aksinya (slide 3) is beautiful in her passion, her willingness to follow her lover to the ends of the world, in her inextinguishable desire for freedom. Despising everything in the name of love for Gregory, violating all laws and foundations, she fights for her love (“I’ll throw my husband and everything, if only you were ...”, “I’ll go on foot, crawl after you, but I won’t be left alone anymore!” “I will follow you everywhere, even to death”). Aksinya suffered her right to love: she had to step over a lot, give up many. The strength, pride, directness of the heroine deserve respect. Undoubtedly, she is worthy of happiness, but not at the cost of the misfortune of other people.
Teacher: The measure of the truth of the relationship between a man and a woman in the Cossack environment, as well as throughout the Christian world, is the family hearth and children. God gave Aksinya the happiness of motherhood. Why did Pantelei Prokofievich no longer insist on his son returning to the farm after the birth of his daughter?
Remember the scene in Yagodnoye - Natalya's attempt to defend her love and retreat in front of the "gloomy black eyes of Grigory" looking at her from the face of a child (1-3-XIX). (Slide 4)
Students: The birth of a child connected Grigory and Aksinya stronger than other ties, leaving your child is the greatest sin.
But God takes the daughter away from Aksinya, as if punishing her for her sins.
Teacher: What is Grigory's love for Natalia?
Love for Natalia (slide 5) embodies the craving for the norm, Cossack traditions, peace, family hearth, settled life. Natalia, true to her duty, is rewarded with the birth of children (slide 6). She is the embodiment of true love, which is spoken of in Scripture:
“Love is long-suffering, merciful, love does not envy, love does not exalt itself, does not pride itself, does not behave violently, does not seek its own, is not irritated, does not think evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; covers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything. Love never ceases, although prophecy will cease, and tongues will be silent, and knowledge will be abolished.
The relationship between Gregory and Natalia is full of drama: self-realization as "unloved", a timid attempt to defend their love, motherhood and pride in children, Gregory's betrayal, the offended feeling of mother and wife, the death of relatives, a break with his brother, collapsed hopes for saving the family.
Teacher: Can Natalya be called the ideal of a woman?
Students: Natalia is not ideal. She, a loving wife and mother, being offended in her feelings, turns out to be capable of killing an unborn child, asks God to send death to the father of her children (4-7-XVI). The world, family, destinies are crumbling.
Teacher: The death of Natalia is a tragic outcome of life and retribution for violence against nature. Grief and despair obscured from her a simple, universal truth: the unborn child is not to blame for anything and should not pay for the sins of his father. Natalya paid for the death of a child with her own life. But before her death, the heroine, as a true Christian and a loving woman, forgave all insults ("... love covers all sins").
What wins in Gregory: love - passion or love - duty?
Students: For Gregory, who is unable to make a choice between the opposing political forces, it turns out to be a painful choice in the love sphere as well. Two very different feelings are equally strong. It is no coincidence that he himself admits to himself the impossibility of choosing between his beloved women: “He would not mind living with both of them, loving each of them in different ways ...” (4-7-XVIII)
Teacher: How was this situation resolved?
Students: Gregory was very upset by the death of Natalia (4-7-XVII). With the death of Aksinya, daylight faded for him: “... I saw a black sky above me and a dazzlingly shining black disk of the sun” - an old folk symbol of trouble in the world (4-8-XVII).
Teacher: The hero returns to what he left: to his family, to his native kuren. True, only the younger sister and son remained from the family, and the chicken has long been a stranger. On the last pages, “family thought” sounds with renewed vigor, an understanding of the great significance of the family, home, hearth, love and fidelity. They are the meaning of life and salvation. “He stood at the gates of his native house, holding his son in his arms ... It 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.”
Teacher: Give an assessment from the point of view of a person of a patriarchal way of life to the relationship between Daria and Peter Melekhov.
III a group of students.
These relationships cannot be considered truly family. It is not given to Daria, shameless and walking, destroying the foundations of the Cossack family with the cynicism of her behavior for centuries, to become a loving mother (the only child who has not yet been named died early). She never remembered the child, never regretted that she no longer had children. There is no loyalty or love in this family.
Teacher: Daria bypassed a deep feeling for a man. She was only capable of "dog love." All her life she went on about her own carnal desires, not knowing other joys, and this ruined her. Daria thoughtlessly flew through life, leaving behind neither offspring nor a good memory.
Conclusion: Such an attitude towards marriage is alien to the Cossack environment. Trampled all the foundations: loyalty, mutual understanding, procreation. Vicious women have always been condemned, disgracing the family, despising their duties, dropping their honor and the honor of their husband.
Teacher: In the terrible years of the Civil War, the question arose: is love possible during social upheavals? Perhaps it is worth postponing dreams of happiness to a more appropriate time, to the future? In an age of revolution, one must devote oneself entirely to the fulfillment of duty. A similar position is inherent in Bunchuk and Anna. What distinguishes the relationship between Anna and Bunchuk from the love of the main characters of the novel?
IV a group of students.
The relationship between Bunchuk and Anna is not love - a passion, like Grigory and Aksinya, and not family love, like Natalya. The originality was initially determined by the characters and their family history: Bunchuk is a Cossack, but an urban one, Anna is a former gymnasium student, then a worker from the Asmolov factory, “a faithful comrade” is an epithet devoid of gender. In a truly popular understanding of the feminine essence, war and a woman are not compatible concepts, especially a woman and murder. And Anna is a machine-gunner, raising soldiers - men to attack, supporting Bunchuk in the difficult service of the executioner of the Revolutionary Tribunal, i.e. in killing unarmed people. The only natural female share fell to Anna when she cared for the sick Bunchuk. But just as Bunchuk was emasculated by his "execution" service (the impossibility of justifying the monstrous sacrifices for today's happiness tomorrow, the impossibility of growing a beautiful garden for a son on the blood of the executed is confirmed by the fact that it is service in the Revolutionary Tribunal that robs Bunchuk of the opportunity to become a father), so Anna lost the ability to embody a truly popular ideal of love for a woman - a mother. Anna puts service to the idea above the possible motherhood.
The death of Anna (slide 7) was for Bunchuk not only the loss of a loved one, but also the final collapse of hopes for the birth of a son, which made all his activities and life meaningless (2-5-XXV).
Conclusion: Anna Pogudko and Bunchuk devote themselves to building a happy future, that "bright tomorrow" in which their son will live. But, in order to grow a beautiful garden for their son, as they think, you first need to "destroy human dirty tricks", "clean off the dirt." However, life convinces of the opposite: human happiness cannot be built on blood and violence.
Teacher: Tell us about the history of the relationship between Timofey and Liza Mokhova. How is their "free love" different from the love of Aksinya and Grigory? (1-3-XI)
It is noteworthy that the story of this love appears in the chapter that tells about the war, morally crippling simple souls with its murderous permissiveness. In the list of changes taking place with the Cossacks at the front, a story from the diary of a murdered student, immodestly read by clerks, is suddenly inserted. Therefore, love itself is perceived as vulgar and immorally frank from the very beginning. Its content only complements the initial feeling: if the student had money - rise, ran out - decline, gap.
What Liza and Aksinya have in common is only the initial description: both are beautiful and vicious. However, by the end of the novel, this epithet in Aksinya's description disappears, because she begins to think only about Gregory, forgetting about herself. Lisa remains vicious.
Can this relationship be called love? I think not. Calculation, lust, physiology - nothing more. Such a relationship does not oblige you to anything, but is it good? Freedom - yes. But freedom from what? From kindness, understanding, care, fidelity, children ... What remains? Emptiness…
Teacher: Everyone understands what love is in their own way. But no matter how life changes, people, “eternal values” remain unchanged. Love, family - the essence of life of any person. What is the ideal of love according to Sholokhov?
VI group.
The ideal is “family love”. None of the couples are perfect. The closest thing to him is the relationship of Grigory and Natalya, because thanks to them the Melekhov family did not stop. The possibility of creating a full-fledged family of Aksinya and Grigory, which emerged after their last meeting, was destroyed by the war. Gregory returns home, to raise a son. Therefore, the ideal is home, family, children.
It is gratifying to see that attention to the family and children has increased so much lately. A strong state consists of happy people. Complete happiness is possible only in the family. I would like to finish with the words from Scripture: “Most of all, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.”
Homework.
Prepare for an essay based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don".
Sample essay topics:
The problem of moral choice in the novel Quiet Flows the Don.
Love in the fates of Sholokhov's heroes.
The tragic fate of Grigory Melekhov.
The theme of motherhood in the novel "Quiet Flows the Don"
Truth private and general (based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don").
The meaning of the title of the novel "Quiet Flows the Don".
Annex 1.
KALINUSHKA
Oh yes, you, Kalinushka, rasmalinushka,
Oh, don't stand, don't stand on the steep mountain.
Oh, don't stand, don't stand on the steep mountain,
Oh, don't let go of the leaf in the blue sea
Oh, don't let go of the leaf, but in the blue sea.
Oh yes, the ship is sailing in the blue sea,
Oh yes, the ship is sailing, already the water is roaring.
Oh yes, the ship is sailing, even the water is roaring.
Ah yes, how on that ship there are three regiments of soldiers
Oh yes, there are three regiments of soldiers on that ship,
Oh yes, three regiments of soldiers, young guys.
Oh yes, three regiments and soldiers, young guys,
Oh yes, how one of them prays to God.
Oh yes, how one of them prays to God,
Oh yes, praying to God, asking to go home.
Oh yes you, my colonel, let me go home
Oh yes let go home to us on the Quiet Don
Oh, let me go home to us on the Quiet Don,
Oh yes, to us on the Quiet Don, with my father and mother.
Oh yes, to us on the Quiet Don, with my father and mother,
Oh, yes, to my father and mother, and to my young wife.
Oh, yes, to the little wife, yes, to the young, to the little children,
Oh yes, to the little kids, the little ones.
Appendix 2
NOT FOR ME
Spring is not for me
Don will spill not for me,
And a girl's heart will beat
With delight of feelings - not for me.
Gardens bloom not for me
The grove blossoms in the valley.
There the nightingale meets spring,
He will not sing for me.
Streams murmur not for me,
They flow like diamonds.
There is a girl with black eyebrows,
She doesn't grow for me.
Easter is not for me
All relatives will gather at the table,
"Christ is Risen" will pour out of the mouth.
Easter day is not for me.
Flowers don't bloom for me
The rose will dissolve the fragrant color.
Pick a flower and it will wither.
This life is not for me.
And for me a piece of lead
He digs into the white body,
And bitter tears will shed.
Such a life, brother, awaits me.
Appendix 3
THE COSSACK WENT
The Cossack went to a foreign land far away
On a good horse he is his raven.
For a while he left his country,
He could not return to his father's house.
In vain his young Cossack
And morning and evening looks to the north,
Everything is waiting, waiting: from a distant land -
Her dear Cossack, her soul will fly.
The Cossack was dying, and asked, and prayed
Pour earthen mounds in their heads,
On that mound Kalinka b native
She would grow up, show off in azure colors.
On that mound in the far side,
When spring spills over the Don,
Perhaps, dear, stray bird
Sometimes it chirps about the life of a Cossack.
Long beyond the mountains, where blizzards, blizzards,
Where evil frosts crackle from the wind,
Where the pines moved menacingly, and ate -
Cossack bones lie under the snow.
Appendix 4
AT THE MEW
At the meadow, meadow, meadow,
With a wide field
At the station herd
The horse was free to walk.
The horse walked freely
Cossack involuntarily.
"You walk, walk, my horse,
As long as it's your will.
You walk, walk, my horse,
As long as it's your will.
How will I catch, I will bore
Silk knot.
I'll sit on a horse
On your bay.
I will strike, I will strike under the sides,
I'll shoot with an arrow.
You fly, fly, horse.
Fly, don't stumble.
Against the millin yard
Stop, stop.
Stand in front of the gate
Hit your hooves
To come out kindly
With black eyebrows.
And I myself get off the horse,
I will go to the shrine.
I wake up a sweet dream
Darlings of a girl."
The girl didn't sleep
I took by the hands,
I took by the hands,
Yes, I kissed you.
Appendix 5
RIDE COSSACK
The Cossack rode through the valley,
Through the German fields.
Below him is a restless raven horse,
The earth trembles under the horseman.
He galloped, a lone rider,
Clinging to the saddle pommel,
And the thought - about the sweet, about the distant -
The ring glittered on her hand.
The Cossack gave a ring,
When the Cossack went on a campaign.
She gave, said:
"I'll be yours in a year."
A year has passed - the Cossack strives
Hurry to the native village
I saw a house under the mountain -
The Cossack's heart beat.
An old woman walked towards him,
Joking speech saying:
“In vain you, Cossack, strive,
You are really torturing the horse.
The Cossack cheated on you
I gave happiness to another.
Then the Cossack took a turn to the left
And galloped into the open field.
He took off his rifle
And ended his life forever.
Let the Cossack remember
Me, a Don Cossack.
Me, dashing, young,
That life ended forever.
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When the Cossack Aksinya was only seventeen years old, she was married to Stepan Astakhov. At first, she really liked this man, but the very next day after the wedding, the husband "deliberately and terribly beat his young wife" and began to "grab on the side."
Aksinya's life in the Astakhovs' house was very difficult, since the girl was not only constantly bullied by her husband, but was also forced to completely pull the household. Soon, their first child was born with Stepan, who died before reaching a year.
Of course, such a difficult situation oppressed the woman. Although after the birth of the child, Aksinya became attached to her husband, but it was not love, but only "a bitter woman's pity and habit." It is not surprising that when the heroine saw Grigory Melekhov's interest in herself, she herself also noted that "she is drawn to a black affectionate guy."
This "new feeling that filled her whole" frightened the Cossack woman, but she could not help herself. Grishka Melekhov became her only joy, and, remembering him, even doing her usual household chores, she smiled.
Grigory himself stubbornly pursued Aksinya, flirting with her and constantly tempting her with "his persistent and waiting" love. That is why, when Stepan left for the May Cossack camps, the girl succumbed to her feelings.
Since then, rumors have spread around the farm about their relationship with Grigory, but Aksinya had her feminine dignity, and therefore she “proudly and high carried her happy, but shameful head.” Of course, the happiness of a married woman with a young lover could not be long, since her husband soon returned. The girl kept waiting for Grigory to be able to do something for the sake of their relationship, but he backed down from her.
But Aksinya was very strong in spirit, and nothing could break her. If she fell in love with someone, then she had to fight for him. That is why, when her parents are going to marry Grishka to Natalya Korshunova, the woman decides to take him away from the girl.
And she succeeds, she and Grigory begin to meet again, for which the father kicks his son out of the house. Aksinya follows her beloved to work as a "black cook" in the Listnitskys' house. By that time, she was already pregnant with their common child with Grigory.
Then the war begins and Gregory is taken to the front. It is hard for Aksinya to remain alone away from her beloved and again to pull on her shoulders all the domestic difficulties. Despair finally overcomes the woman when her daughter dies of scarlet fever. Unable to cope with her grief, Aksinya falls into the arms of Yevgeny Listnitsky, who has been courting her for a long time.
Aksinya's betrayal leads to Grigory leaving her. The poor abandoned woman eventually has nothing left to do but return to her husband Stepan. But Grigory still cannot forget his proud Cossack woman, without her his heart has hardened and "hardened, like a salt marsh in a drought."
Unable to live without each other, the lovers again begin to meet. Aksinya openly tells Natalya that now she has "taken possession of Gregory" and will never again "let go of him."
This is how it happens. There are still many difficulties that the lovers have to endure, as the Civil War is on, and the life of Gregory is constantly under threat. In the end, young people together decide to go to the Kuban.
Leaving the house, Grigory looks at Aksinya's "swollen from tears, shining with happiness" eyes, and at that moment it seems to both of them that a calm and good life is already close. In the Kuban, a man wants to settle down, find a job, then take his children there and start living with his beloved Aksinya, but fate has its own plans for them.
On the way to their joint happiness, the heroine is killed by the Red Army. Holding the dying Aksinya in his arms, Grigory, "dead with horror", realizes that it's all over. The ten-year story of their passionate, painful and tragic love ended at one moment along with the life of a woman.
Of course, for Gregory, this was the most terrible thing that could ever happen to him. But Aksinya died a happy woman, because she achieved everything she wanted and won her beloved, without retreating before any difficulties and adequately coped with all the trials that fate had prepared for her.
Love is perhaps the most mysterious of all human feelings. It is a source and a powerful converter of vital energy, ennobles and activates a person. Sometimes love is tragic, unrequited, misunderstood. But this feeling does not disappear - it only flares up with a hellish flame. In the work of any writer and poet, the theme of love occupies a significant place. Mikhail Sholokhov's novel Quiet Flows the Don is no exception.
The relationship of the main characters of the work: Grigory, Aksinya and Natalya - form a classic love triangle, where the most suffering side is, in my opinion, Aksinya. Her fate was dramatic: raped by her father, she was married to Stepan Astakhov. Her husband severely beat her. Overwhelmed with work, alone, deprived of affection, far from her relatives, she dutifully carried a joyless burden.
Aksinya's unquenched thirst for happiness found a way out in her feelings for Grigory Melekhov. This love became for her both joy and grief - the only meaning and justification for life. “Today there is something joyful. What? Grigory: Grisha, ”the emerging feeling frightened Aksinya, she tried with all her might to suppress it. Being a beautiful woman, she aroused universal admiration. But it was this heroine that fate had in store for a very difficult fate.
Trying to transcend the moral and family norms accepted in her environment, every day and hour Aksinya fell more and more in love with Gregory with all her longing heart (“Incinerating her cheeks, her restless blush burned”).
Their love was passionate and ardent, but for Aksinya it had a different meaning than for Gregory. He is still a young man, a cheerful "verbal" guy; for him, love for Aksinya is, first of all, a sensual attraction to a beautiful woman. Behind the shoulders of the heroine is already a lot of things: a terrible drama of abuse, three years of a difficult marriage. For her, Gregory is the only outlet in a hateful life ("For all my life I will love the bitter! .. And then kill the hell! My Grishka! Mine!").
Aksinya's feelings for Grigory turned out to be the embodiment of sacrificial, selfless love, ignoring the power of traditions, and the opinions of others, and the hardships of life ("Remember, I told you for a long time that I would follow you to the ends of the earth"). She was able to endure everything, nothing could break her spirit: neither the exhausting work, nor the beatings of Stepan Astakhov, nor the bitter relationship with Listnitsky, nor the civil war.
Not inferior to Aksinya in the power of love is another heroine of The Quiet Flows the Don - Natalya Melekhova. Sholokhov individualizes Natalya, emphasizes her trusting, shy, graceful nature. The fate of this heroine, like the fate of Aksinya, is tragic: she marries her beloved, but not loving Grigory Melekhov, obeying a strong and courageous impulse of her heart; because of a break with her husband, she tries to commit suicide, subsequently falls ill with typhus and finally dies, getting rid of the child she carried under her heart. In Natalya, feelings of resentment, bitterness constantly struggled with devoted love for her husband.
Unlike Aksinya, Natalya is restrained in her feelings, although sincerity, sacrifice and devotion distinguish the love of both of these women. "Quiet", but strong love of Natalia to Gregory was doomed to death. Although outwardly everything was peaceful, she felt that her husband was weighed down by her.
Gregory betrayed Natalya many times, but she, even when offended, remains true to her husband, her love, despite the gossip of others.
Grigory Melekhov himself loves both women in different ways. For Aksinya, he experiences an unbridled passion, from which he loses his head, forgets about his duties as a father and husband. His love for Natalia is different - it is, first of all, respect for a tender, fragile and pure woman.
Melekhov is tormented by the consciousness of his own guilt, both before his wife and before Aksinya. However, it is love that saves him from despair, cruelty, gives him strength to fight the dirt and blood of war.
Thus, it is in love that the character of the heroes of Sholokhov's novel "Quiet Flows the Don" is truly revealed. Love becomes a life test in which the moral strength of a person is verified. It seems to me that, despite the dramatic fate, the heroes of the novel were still not deprived of life, they had a chance to experience a rare and wonderful feeling, and the obstacles encountered along the way only allowed them to feel the taste of happiness more sharply.
