Brief analysis: Vampilov, “Elder son. Life lessons - lessons of kindness in the play The eldest son The eldest son analysis of the work
Always like this: tragedy with elements of comedy and comedy with elements of tragedy. The creator of "Duck Hunt" did not do anything special, he just tried to reproduce life in his works as it is. In it, there is not only black and white, the existence of a person is filled with halftones. Our task is to tell about this in the article, in which the analysis will be carried out. Vampilov, "Elder Son" - in the focus of attention.
It should immediately be noted that it is necessary and brief retelling(it will contain some analytical observations) of Vampil's masterpiece. We are starting on it.
Failed party for four
It all starts with the fact that two young guys (Vladimir Busygin and Semyon Sevostyanov) in their 20s saw off the girls and expected a pleasant evening, but the girls turned out to be “not like that”, which they told the boyfriends about. Of course, the guys argued a little for the sake of appearance, but there is nothing to do, always on the side of the girls keyword in a romantic matter. They remained on the outskirts of the city, without shelter, and it was cold outside, the last train left.
There are two zones in this area: the private sector (there are village-type houses) and directly opposite is a small stone house (three floors high) with an arch.
Friends decide to split up: one goes to look out for an overnight stay in a stone shelter, and the other cultivates the private sector. Busygin knocks on the door of 25-year-old local court worker Natalya Makarskaya. Some time ago, she quarreled with 10-grader Vasenka, who, apparently, has long and hopelessly been in love with her. She thought it was the young man again, but no. Makarskaya and Busygin argue for some time, but, of course, the young man does not get an overnight stay with the girl.
Sevostyanov Semyon (Silva) is refused by a resident of the house opposite. Young people find themselves where they were - on the street.
And suddenly they observe how an elderly man - Andrey Grigorievich Sarafanov - a clarinetist who serves in the orchestra, official version, but in fact playing at the funeral and dances, knocks on Natasha and asks to give him a few minutes. Young people think that this is a date, and decide to break into Sarafanov's apartment under any pretext, they do not want to freeze on the street.
Our task is to analyze: Vampilov (“The Elder Son”, his play) is his object, therefore it should be noted that the characters Busygin and Silva at first seem to be completely superficial, frivolous people, but in the process of plot development one of them changes before the reader’s eyes: it acquires depth of character and even some attractiveness. Who, we will find out later.
Keeping in mind the goal, it must also be said that Busygin is fatherless and a medical student, his mother lives in Chelyabinsk with his older brother. What Silva does is completely irrelevant in the context of our plan.
An unexpected addition to the family
Young people are not mistaken: indeed, the door to the Sarafanovs' apartment remains open, and Vasenka, upset by the recent love failure, is going to run away from home, as it turns out a little later, his goal is the taiga. Sarafanov's daughter (Nina) will leave for Sakhalin not today or tomorrow, one of these days she will marry a pilot. In other words, discord reigns at home, and its inhabitants are not up to guests, even if they are expected, or not, so the aliens chose the moment well. We will also need this for our analysis. Vampilov ("Elder Son") wrote his play filigree, all the characters perform their parts flawlessly and realistically.
Busygin pretends to know Vasenka's father and says the following phrase: "All of us, people, are brothers." Silva begins to spin this idea and brings it to the point that Vladimir is Vasenka's unexpectedly found half-brother. The young man is in shock, Busygin is also slightly stunned by the agility of his comrade, well, what to do, I don’t want to spend the night on the street. They play this performance in front of the Sarafanovs. As the analysis shows, Vampilov ("Elder Son") began the play with a prank. His drama is based on a joke, and the whole play seems to be something like a comedy, but this is only at first glance.
Vasya is looking for something to drink. Young people, including a 10th grader, use. Then Sarafanov appears, and the unlucky mourners hide in the kitchen. Vasya tells his father the whole story of his eldest son. The old man begins to recall aloud the details of the meeting with Vladimir's possible mother and involuntarily gives the swindlers all necessary information, and they eagerly catch every word: the name of the woman, the city (Chernihiv), the desired age of the eldest son, if he were.
Then Vladimir appears, answers all his father's questions correctly. The house is overwhelmed by general jubilation, and the booze continues, but now Sarafanov Sr. has joined her.
Nina comes out to the noise and demands an explanation. At first, the girl does not trust her older brother, then she also gains confidence in him.
Busygin begins to believe in his own game. character spawn point
Contact is instantly established between Busygin and the elderly man, and the father opens his whole soul to prodigal son. They talked all night. From nighttime communication, Vladimir learns the details of the life of the Sarafanovs, for example, that Nina will soon marry a pilot, as well as the mental anguish of his father himself. How hard it was for the family. Impressed by the night conversation, after his father had gone to bed, Vladimir wakes up Semyon and begs him to leave quickly, but Andrei Grigorievich finds them at the door. He asks his eldest son to accept a family heirloom - a silver snuffbox. And then a spiritual upheaval happens to Vladimir. Either he felt very sorry for the old man, or himself, because he did not know his father. Busygin imagined that he was indebted to all these people. He believed that he was related to them. This is very important point in the study, and the analysis of Vampilov's play "The Elder Son" moves on.
Love as a unifying force
When the holiday was noisy, it was necessary to clear the table and generally put the kitchen in order. Two volunteered to do this - Busygin and Nina. During the joint work, which, as you know, unites, love took out its own and pierced the heart of each of the young people. Further narration only follows from such a landmark event. An analysis of Vampilov's play "The Elder Son" brings us to this conclusion.
By the end of cleaning Busygin, for example, allows himself very caustic and caustic remarks about Nina's husband at five minutes. She not only rejects them, but also does not resist her brother's poison too much. This suggests that the "relatives" are already on friendly terms with each other, and only strong mutual sympathy can be responsible for the rapid development of trusting relationships in a short time.
Spontaneously emerging love between Vladimir and Nina builds the whole further plot and is the force that unites the Sarafanov family again into a single whole.
Divergence in different spheres of Busygin and Sevostyanov
Thus, mindful of the newly born love, the reader understands that Vladimir is now not illusory, but really becomes his own in the Sarafanov family. An unexpected guest becomes the nail that does not allow relatives to lose ties with each other, he connects them, becomes the center. Silva, on the contrary, turns out to be more and more alien to Busygin and the house where they were accidentally brought, so Semyon tries to extract at least something from the current situation and tries to have an affair with Natasha Makarska. A wonderful play was written by Vampilov - "The Elder Son" (analysis and summary continue).
Appearance of the groom
On the day of cleaning the kitchen should happen significant event: Nina plans to introduce her father to her fiancé, a flight school cadet Mikhail Kudimov.
Between morning and evening, a whole chain of events takes place, which is worth mentioning at least briefly: Makarskaya changes her attitude towards Vasenka from anger to mercy and invites him to the cinema. He rushes off to buy tickets, unaware that Silva is already weaving her web of seduction. In it, he expects to catch Natasha. She readily, of course, yields to a lover of women, because Semyon is more suitable for her age. Silva and Natasha are due to meet at exactly 22:00. At the same time, an inspired boy takes tickets to a movie show. Natasha refuses to go with him and reveals the secret that Andrei Grigorievich came to her at night to woo Vasyatka.
A fiery young man in despair, he again runs to collect a backpack in order to leave the house away into the arms of the taiga. Somehow, the characters in the utmost nervous tension are waiting for the evening and the arrival of the groom.
The representation of the parties somehow immediately goes at random. The newly-made older brother and Silva make fun of the cadet, he is not offended, because he "loves funny guys." Kudimov himself is always afraid of being late for the military hostel, and in general, the bride is a burden to him.
Here comes the father of the family. Having met Sarafanov, the groom begins to suffer from the fact that he cannot remember where he saw the face of the future father-in-law. Old man, in turn, says that he is an artist, therefore, probably, the pilot saw his face either in the philharmonic society or in the theater, but he brushes aside all this. And suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, the cadet says: “I remembered, I saw you at the funeral!” Sarafanov is forced to admit that yes, indeed, he has not been working in the orchestra for 6 months.
After revealing the secret, which was no longer a secret to anyone, since the children had known for a long time, another scandal broke out: Vasya leaves the house with screams and groans, determined to get to the taiga. The groom also, having seen enough, hurries back to the military hostel before it closes. Silva goes to the movies. The father of the family has a tantrum: he also wants to go somewhere. Busygin and Nina calm him down, the musician gives in. All this is very important, as it is directly related to the climax. Masterfully everything was done by Vampilov. “Elder Son” (we provide an analysis of the work) continues.
Catharsis
Vladimir then confesses to Nina that he is not her brother and, even worse, he loves her. IN this moment, probably, according to the author's intention, a catharsis should occur with the reader, but this is not quite the denouement. In addition, Vasyatka runs into the apartment and admits that he set fire to Makarska's apartment just at the time when she was there with Silva. The latter's trousers fell into disrepair due to the hooligan antics of the young man. To complete the picture, the unfortunate father came out of his room with a suitcase, ready to go to Chernigov to Vladimir's mother.
Fed up with the performance on a wave of disappointment from ruined clothes, Semyon pawns Busygin and says that Vladimir is the same son to Sarafanov as he is his niece, and leaves.
Sarafanov does not want to believe and claims the opposite. Moreover, he even offers Volodya to move from the student hostel to them. In the intricacies of all these events, Busygin discovers that he was again late for the train. Everyone laughs. Everyone is happy. Thus ends the play written by Alexander Vampilov. The Elder Son (analysis also shows this) is an extremely difficult and ambiguous work to evaluate. It remains for us to draw some conclusions.
A family in a rut
Now that we know the whole story, we can reflect on who the “eldest son” was in this whole story.
It is obvious that the family was falling apart: the father lost his job, began to drink. The walls of loneliness began to converge, he was in despair. The daughter was tired of pulling the whole family (she had to work, and therefore looked older than her 19 years), it seemed to her that leaving for Sakhalin as the wife of a military pilot was a wonderful way out. Still better than this life. Vasenka also looked for a way out and did not find it, so he decided to go into the taiga, since he did not manage to cling to a more experienced woman (Natasha Makarskaya).
During the night conversation, when the father dedicated his son to the details of his life and the details of the life of his family, he very accurately described the situation, it could be fit in one phrase: “Everyone is running, anticipating a huge tragedy hanging over them.” Only Andrei Grigoryevich has nowhere to run.
Busygin as a savior
The older brother came just when everyone needed him. Vladimir restored the balance and harmony of the family. Their love with Nina filled the empty reservoirs of family grace, and no one wanted to run anywhere.
The father felt that he had a son, the eldest son, on whom he could rely. Nina realized that it was not necessary to go to the island, and her brother was able to overcome his painful attachment to a girl much older than himself. Naturally, under Vasya's love for Natasha, there was a global longing for his mother, a sense of security and comfort.
The only character in the play who has remained at an absolute loss is Silva, since all the other main characters have formed an inner circle. Only Semyon was excluded from it.
Of course, Vladimir Busygin also won in the end: he had a father, whom he had dreamed about since childhood. In other words, the play ends with a scene of shared family harmony. This is where I want to end brief analysis. "The Elder Son" by Vampilov is written brilliantly, and it is not only a wonderful, but also a profound work that poses serious questions to the reader.
Presentation. PPT.
Reading a poem by Peter Reutsky:
Remember me cheerfully
In a word, the way I was.
What are you, willow, hanging branches,
Or did I not like it?
I don't want to be sad.
I'll go under the wind geek.
Only songs full of sadness
I value all others.
I walked the earth in joy.
I loved her like a god
And no one to me in this smallness
Couldn't refuse...
All mine will stay with me
Both with me and on earth
Someone's heart hurts
In my home village.
There will be springs whether winters,
Sing my song.
Only me, my loved ones,
I won't sleep with you anymore.
What are you, willow, hanging branches,
Or did I not like it?
Remember me cheerfully
In a word, the way I was.
There was a poem by Peter Reutsky. It is dedicated to a man who entered literature young, young in it and remained. He lived only 35 years. Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov(slides 1,2). Valentin Rasputin said about him: "He was doubly talented - both as a person and as a writer."
Alexander Vampilov could not live a single day without music. A guitar was kept in his house, an old one, left over from his grandfather, which is why it is especially attractive. In a close friendly circle, to the accompaniment of guitars, romances to the verses of A.S. Pushkin, A. Delvig, M. Yu. Lermontov and other authors.( slide 3 listening romance on poems by A. Pushkin) .
We have to get acquainted with the life of A. Vampilov, plunge into the creative world of the writer. Think about which lines from those that will sound today can be put as an epigraph to the lesson? Which of them expresses the essence of this person?
Close friends called Vampilov simply and affectionately: "Sanya." From this name, the pseudonym Alexander Sanin was formed, with which the young playwright signed his first book, it was called “Coincidence of Circumstances”.
Student's report about A.V. Vampilov
Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov was born in 1937 in the village of Kutulik, Irkutsk Region, into a family of teachers. By the will of circumstances, he was forced to grow up without a father. Valentin Nikitich was arrested on a false denunciation and shot in 1938. On the eve of the birth of his son, he wrote to his wife Anastasia Prokopievna: “Probably there will be a robber - a son, and I’m afraid that he won’t become a writer, because I see writers in a dream.”
The prophetic father's dream came true, he was born future writer, a playwright who brought to the stage "an amazing, all-powerful sense of truth."(slide 4 parents)
In youth Vampilov read the works of N.V. Gogol and V. Belinsky, everyone remembers that Alexander sang beautifully, he had a small but very pleasant voice, an amazingly simple and sincere manner of performance, but he did not sing often, only among his close friends, at a good moment. I loved old romances, songs to the verses of S. Yesenin and N. Rubtsov, with whom he became friends later, while studying at a literary institute. Fishing and hunting are also among his interests.
After leaving school, Alexander Vampilov studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University, since 1960 he worked in the editorial office of the regional newspaper "Soviet Youth", became interested in dramaturgy, began to write plays.
The people of Irkutsk are rightfully proud of their talented countryman. There is a theater in the city that bears his name, a monument to Alexander Vampilov stands on the central square of Irkutsk, evenings dedicated to the memory of the playwright are held in the halls of the oldest museum in Siberia. (slides 5, 6, 7)
In 1965, A. Vampilov brought to Moscow to the Sovremennik Theater and offered O.N. Efremov's play "Hormons with a Guitar", which was then called "Suburb", and in 1970 - "Elder Son". During the life of the writer, only two plays were staged: "Farewell in June" and "Elder Son". Years of so-called stagnation passed, not everything could be written directly and openly. The young playwright was deeply concerned about the problems of morality. His works are written on the vital material of that time. The awakening of conscience, the education of a sense of justice, kindness, mercy - these are the main motives of his plays.( slide 8 )
« duck hunting”, “Provincial jokes”, “Last summer in Chulimsk” saw the light and were put on stage after the death of the writer.
Vampilov drowned in Lake Baikal in the summer of 1972. “It was cloudy, but dry and quiet when we carried him in our arms to the theater building, where we were waiting for cars,” recalled Vyacheslav Shugaev. playing at the funeral. A. Vampilov was buried in Irkutsk.
Life was cut short on its very rise, a life that seemed to have no end, to which he himself was used to dictating conditions, because Sanya did not even allow himself to drown. There were two of them in the boat, which overturned from hitting the driftwood. One clung to the bottom, hoping that the boat would be noticed sooner than he himself. And Vampilov swam to the shore. And he swam, and already felt the bottom under his feet, but his heart could not stand it.
There was a car on the beach at the time. People who arrived by car were smoking, indifferently watching what was happening, a man struggling with death. Suddenly, someone shouted in a heart-rending voice: “People, people, throw away the spare tire from the car, throw at least a stick, stretch out your hand to meet you, but do something.” People, leaving the thrown remark unattended, stared once again at the drowning man, sat quietly in the car and left. So sad and tragic the life of a man was cut short. (slide 9)
The death of A. Vampilov shocked his friends. On August 20, 1972, an obituary was published in the Soviet Youth newspaper, written by Irkutsk poet Mark Sergeev. (slide 10)
Student message
“Our Sasha is gone. I don't believe it, I don't believe it. We were proud when we learned that Georgy Tovstonogov, Oleg Efremov, Yuri Lyubimov became interested in Sasha's plays. In September, he was again going to Moscow. He promised to bring one of us a fashionable tie and a record of Chopin's waltzes, and the other consulted Sasha about his vacation, and together they made a "plan".
And then he went to visit Baikal, and the old man did not let him go back ...
Now about you, Sasha, you need to say "was." You would have laughed, old man, if you had heard of this a week ago. And your eyes, whose sharp oriental cut always said that you can understand and appreciate a joke, would smile with you. But we will not say, Sasha, that you were, because you will remain with us among your heroes, among the deeds and deeds of your friends. They will live like the same loving life and people like you. We will keep the memory of your directness and honesty, of your respect for creativity.
And we will also be kinder and more attentive to each other, because then it’s too late.”
Think about which lines express the essence of Alexander Vampilov's personality and can become an epigraph to our lesson? ("Let's be kinder and more attentive to each other, because then it's too late" Mark Sergeev - writing an epigraph in notebooks)
Student reading a poem by Alexander Vampilov (slide 11)
What is unfriendly, wide dol, are you making noise?
Can't you forgive my separation?
What they don't keep, what people don't remember,
That, eternal, you both remember and keep.
I am forever in your endless meadows,
I am forever in your thick meadows.
And after all the roads of fate -
random,
Twisted, confusing, steep -
The last road to me
Direct -
Here to die in peace...
(slide 12)
If his friends experienced Vampilov's untimely death in this way, one can imagine what it was like for a mother who outlived her son.
Student message
Anastasia Prokopievna Kopylova - Vampilova was a mathematics teacher in a rural school. It was to her that he dedicated his masterpiece - the story "French Lessons" - Valentin Rasputin. People who knew her well remember that the playwright's mother was a person of the greatest tact and nobility.
From the memoirs of Anastasia Prokopyevna Kopylova - Vampilova: “From the first years of university, Sanya began to write stories, read them to me, and when he said that he wanted to write plays, I expressed great doubt whether he could do it? And Sasha said: "You, mother, do not believe in me." To which I replied: "Mothers should always be strict with their children and their abilities." And shortly before his death, Sasha told me: “But you, mother, did not believe in me.” Having presented me with the play “Elder Son”, published in Moscow, Sasha wrote on it: “Dear mother from the youngest son.”
(slide 13, list of books by A. Vampilov)
Recording in notebooks of the most important dates in the life and work of A. Vampilov (slides 14,15)
1937 – was born A.V. Vampilov. The village of Kutulik. Irkutsk region. A playwright was born who brought "an amazing, all-powerful sense of truth" to the stage.
1960 - Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University. Work in the newspaper "Soviet Youth". Passion for dramaturgy.
1965 - Arrival in Moscow at the Sovremennik Theater
1966 - "Farewell in June"
1970 - "Elder Son", "Duck Hunt"
1972 - "Last summer in Chulimsk." August 1972 - the tragic death of a writer
Alexander Vampilov liked to repeat: "A chance, a trifle, a combination of circumstances sometimes become the most dramatic in a person's life." Let's move on to the discussion of the play "The Elder Son". In the late 60s and the first half of the 70s, the play was staged in more than 50 cities of our country, as well as abroad (in Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Poland). In 1976, director Vitaly Melnikov made a film based on this work, invited wonderful actors who were able to skillfully embody the characters of the main characters, to convey the idea of the author, playwright Alexander Vampilov.
Questions for analysis
Remember what set of circumstances led the main character and his companion to the house of the Sarafanov family?(slide 16)
What can you tell about the members of this family? Why did Andrei Grigorievich believe, recognized Volodya Busygin as the eldest son? Can you call him a loser?(slide 17)
What do you like about Nina? What are you judging her for? How and why does Nina change at the end of the play?(slide 18)
How can Vasenka's actions be explained? How does the author's affectionate appeal to him help to understand the character of the hero? Has Vasenka changed at the end of the play?(slide 19)
Tell us about Volodya Busygin. What are the main features of his character? How does Volodya characterize his attitude towards the Sarafanov family? Did meeting this family change him?(slides 20, 21)
Prove that Silva is, in fact, also an orphan with living parents. Where is the cynicism and practicality of Silva manifested?(slide 22)
What is your opinion about Nina's fiancé - Mikhail Kudimov? What is disturbing about him? What do you think main feature his character?(slide 23)
Alexander Vampilov used several names for his work - "Suburb", "Hormons with a Guitar", "The Sarafanov Family".
Why is "Elder Son" the most successful? What does Alexander Vampilov affirm in a person?( slide 24)
The main thing is not where the events take place, but who participates in them. To be able to listen, understand another, support in difficult times - that's main idea plays. Being kindred is more important
blood relationship.
Summing up, let us turn to the statement of V. Rasputin about the work of Vampilov: “It seems that main question, which the Vampils constantly asks: will you, a man, remain a man? Will you be able to overcome all that false and unkind that is prepared for you in many life's trials, where it is difficult to distinguish and opposites - love and betrayal, passion and indifference, sincerity and falsehood, goodness and enslavement "(slide 25)
I hope that the work of A. Vampilov left a deep imprint on your souls, made you think about a lot, rethink a lot, and set life priorities. Today we have just opened the door to the world of a talented great writer. This world must be comprehended through his works.
D / C: prepare a review of the book read according to the following plan:
What is the theme and main idea of the piece?
Where and when do the events take place?
What places in the book made the strongest impression on you?
Which of the characters did you like the most? Why?
Which of the characters do you think deserves condemnation?
How did the book enrich you? What questions made you think?
Review of a book read student work)
“Let's be kinder and more attentive to each other, because then it's too late,” Siberian poet Mark Sergeev dedicated these words to his friend Alexander Vampilov. They became, in fact, a life rule that the playwright followed. Such character traits as: kindness, responsiveness - Vampilov wanted to see in the heroes of his plays. Volodya Busygin from the comedy "Elder Son" was no exception.
What is this book about? The plot is simple: two young men see the girls home on a spring evening, hoping that they will be invited, the acquaintance will continue, and as a result, they are forced to stay on the street all night. Distrustful residents are in no hurry to help overnight guests. Chilled, already desperate, Volodya and Silva knock on one of the apartments, where Silva introduces Busygin as the eldest son of the family. This meeting of the "father" and the imaginary son will become important for Volodya and for all the Sarafanovs. After all, the main thing is not how many relatives you have, but whether there is at least someone on whom you could rely, whom you can trust, it is important not blood kinship, but kinship of souls.
Volodya Busygin pretends to be Andrei Grigoryevich's son, but he pretends only at the very beginning. Perhaps the young man feels that he needs Sarafanov just as Andrei Grigorievich needs him. The elder Sarafanov is a smart, kind, trusting, lonely person, he is not always understood by those around him, even his own children, the wife who left him called her husband “blessed”. When a new member of the family appeared - the "eldest" son, he grabbed him like a drowning man at a straw. The father of the family says: "For me, the fact that you appeared is real happiness, son."
The children of Andrei Grigorievich did not even notice that they had forgotten about their father, they no longer needed him.
Nina is getting married, the other day she is leaving with her fiancé for Sakhalin; Vasenka - to the taiga at a construction site, running away from unrequited love. Which of the characters did I like? This is Volodya Busygin. There is something in him that attracts from the first minutes of meeting him. He is a student at the medical institute, his fate was not easy. An orphan, he never knew his father, but he did not lose his kindness, love, responsiveness to people. Volodya is ready to stay with a complete stranger to help, support. Nina and Vasenka also owe him a lot. Busygin helped the younger Sarafanovs understand what a real feeling, love, affection, care for loved ones is.
Vampilov's play teaches us to be kinder, to love and respect our parents. No matter how your life develops, no matter what, try to remain human.
Let us recall the words of Andrey Grigorievich Sarafanov: “Every person is born a creator, each in his own business, and each, to the best of his strength and capabilities, must create, so that the best that was in him remains after him.”
I think this was also the opinion of Alexander Vampilov, who made a significant contribution to Russian literature. His comedy, written in 1970, has not lost its modernity and significance even today: at all times, society will need kind, honest, decent, sympathetic people.
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The play "The Elder Son" (1967, first published in the anthology "Angara", 1968, No. 2) became one of the most famous works Soviet drama, director V. Melnikov made a wonderful film based on it, in which Yevgeny Leonov (Sarafanov) and Nikolai Karachentsov (Busygin) shone. Vampilov finds high meaning in the story of Andrey Grigoryevich Sarafanov, the "loser in life", because this man lived his life honestly, always trying to live in good conscience, and his spiritual purity and insecurity attract completely strangers to him, such as the rather tough and pragmatic young man Vladimir Busygin, who understands that "this dad is a holy man."
The plot of the comedy is well known, so it is necessary to dwell on the characters of the characters, which determine the main conflict and plot of the work. In the center of the play are two characters: Sarafanov and Busygin. These are people who are united by an incomprehensible kinship of souls, they are truly able to understand each other, despite the difference in age. The attraction of Andrey Grigorievich Sarafanov's spiritual purity is so great that it is almost impossible to resist, and this happens because the hero does not pretend, does not play, he loves all people at the very date, he openly and trustingly looks at the world, and the ironically sad "blessed "(as addressed to him in his letters ex-wife, the mother of his children, who left him for the sake of a "serious person") most accurately characterizes this person. Yes, in ordinary life such people cause surprise, irritation, distrust, they contrast too much with how "one should know how to live," but why then can't children leave him - both his own and those of others? "No, no, you can't call me a loser. I have wonderful children ..." - says Sarafanov after his daughter's fiancé, who "doesn't care" what his bride's father does, involuntarily "exposes" the clarinetist fired from the orchestra, whose family and he himself pretend that he still plays in the orchestra ... In the same way, nothing can change in his attitude towards the "eldest son" and the "exposure" of Silva, Sarafanov is unable to believe that he has become his own Busygin is not a son to him.
It may seem that the decisive factor in Busygin's attitude towards Sarafanov is that he really likes Nina (by the way, in the first version of the play love line had much greater value than in the final one), but this is not so. The main thing for the hero is Sarafanov, who lives the way it is "not accepted" to live, but at the same time maintains spiritual purity, and this is acutely felt by "fatherless" Vladimir Busygin, an ordinary, in general- then a young man suddenly faced with an inexplicable state for himself: there are people who cannot be abandoned, because they love you. "You are my children because I love you. Whether I'm good or bad, I love you, and this is the most important thing..." Sarafanov says, and Busygin understands him. He understood a lot during these days, and this happened thanks to a failed musician who has a great gift of love for people and generously gives them this love ...
By genre, the work belongs to the comedy style with the inclusion of tragic motifs in the content, creating the impression of a kind of philosophical parable.
The storyline of the play is based on a strange coincidence, dramatic moments that are the driving force in the development of the narrative action built around the Sarafanov family.
All the characters in the work are presented by the writer as key images, starting with two young friends Silva (Semyon Sevostyanov) and Vladimir Busygin, who, by chance, found themselves on the outskirts of the city and found lodging for the night in the apartment of Sarafanov, the head of a small family consisting of Vasenka, who was finishing school, and daughter Nina, who recently married cadet Kudimov.
The events of the play, which began with a simple deception of young men who were looking for a place to sleep, unfold in a serious direction, since the elder Sarafanov suddenly recognizes Busygin as his eldest son, illegitimately born twenty years ago, and the rest of the family subsequently see them resemblance. Thus, Busygin is accepted into the Sarafanov family relationships, which are not prosperous.
The elder Sarafanov is an elderly, intelligent man with a failed career, long abandoned by his wife, raising children alone who do not plan to tie their later life with an aging father, dreaming of leaving for Sakhalin and the taiga. In Busygin, Sarafanov hopes to find his son's lost love, not feeling deceit and lies, and subsequently not wanting to notice them.
Vladimir gradually gets used to the invented role of a son and begins to take an active part in the life of the family, giving advice to younger children in their personal life, sometimes rudely interfering in private relationships.
The semantic load of the play lies in the depiction by the writer of an acute human need for a constant feeling of spiritual kinship and the desire to find a native home.
Busygin, being a complete stranger to the Sarafanovs, unexpectedly begins to feel a family connection between them and feels his responsibility for their further fate. Despite youthful bravado and cynicism, in young man the ability to manifest true feelings in the form of love, forgiveness, compassion is born.
The narrative content of the play “The Elder Son” throughout the development of the action demonstrates, using the example of a simple everyday story, universal humanistic problems in the form of an acute shortage of human kindness, trust, mutual understanding and responsibility, and also depicts the possibility of gaining spiritual kinship between people who are not connected by formal close relationships, who only met by chance.
The writer raises in the play deep moral issues, which consists in the dream of every person to find a common family blissful harmony.
Analysis 2
The work of A.V. Vampilov "Elder Son" can be attributed to the comedy genre. But, despite this, tragic moments can be traced in the plot. Therefore, the play is more like a philosophical parable. In the work, events happen as if by chance. All actions revolve around the Sarafanov family.
Absolutely all the characters are the main characters. It can be said that the writer did not deprive anyone of attention. Even seemingly random characters (several guys asked for an overnight stay in the apartment of the Sarafanov family) play a significant role in the work. The Sarafonov family is small; the schoolboy Vasenka is brought up in it and the daughter Nina lives with her husband cadet Kudimov.
The work begins with a story about how the guys were looking for an overnight stay, and found it in the apartment where the Sarafonovs lived. From that moment, events began to unfold in a serious direction. The head of the family recognizes in one guy (Vladimir Busygin) his illegitimate eldest son. He should have been twenty years old. But after a while, all family members began to note the outward similarity of the elder Sarafanov and Busygin. The poor guy was literally dragged into family relationships who were not well off.
The head of the Sarafan family is an elderly man, intelligent, but who did not have a career. His wife left him, leaving him two children. Children do not want to live and inspect the old man in the future. They plan to leave the city for Sakhalin. Sarafanov saw his son in Busygin. The old man hoped that the guy would stay with him. Sarafanov believed that his newfound son needed him. Therefore, he did not notice the deception that was happening before his eyes.
Vladimir was not opposed to playing along with the old man and portraying his son. He actively entered the character. The guy quickly gained confidence. Vladimir treated the younger children as if they were his own brothers. He gave them advice and guidance. He tried to teach them about life. Sometimes he went too far and intervened where he shouldn't.
In fact, Busygin was not Sarafanov's own child. But, despite this, feelings of compassion, paternal love and understanding arose between them.
The main idea of the work is that every person wants to feel needed, loved and irreplaceable. The author tried to convey to the reader the idea of how important family relationships and relationships are. The play “The Elder Son” demonstrates the problem of the lack of kindness, caress, care, trust and love in family relationships.
Composition on the topic Genius
Genius. What does this concept mean? I think it's the ability to come up with something new, the ability to make a discovery. Everyone knows the great scientists and artists who, thanks to their talent
The work is one of the parts of the writer's prose collection called "A Hunter's Notes", which considers Russian life in the context of a person's relationship to his native land as the main theme.
Composition
“A chance, a trifle, a combination of circumstances sometimes become the most dramatic moments in a person’s life,” Vampilov developed this idea in his plays. A. Vampilov was deeply concerned about the problems of morality. His works are based on real life material. The awakening of conscience, the education of a sense of justice, kindness and mercy - these are the main motives of his plays. The plot of the play "Elder Son" is simple. Two young men - a student at the medical institute Volodya Busygin and a trade agent nicknamed Silva (Semyon Sevastyanov) - were brought together by chance at a dance. After seeing home two girls living on the outskirts of the city, they are late for the last train and they have to look for a lodging for the night. The young men call the Sarafanovs' apartment. The resourceful Silva comes up with the idea to come up with a story that Busygin is the eldest son of Andrei Grigoryevich Sarafanov, that he was allegedly born to a woman with whom fate accidentally brought Sarafanov at the end of the war. In order to somehow pass the night, Busygin does not refute this fiction.
Sarafanov’s life didn’t work out: his wife left, things didn’t work out at work - he had to leave the position of an actor-musician and work part-time in an orchestra playing at a funeral. Not all is well with children either. Sarafanov's son, tenth grader Vasenka, is in love with his neighbor Natasha Makarskaya, who is ten years older than him and treats him like a child. Daughter Nina is going to marry a military pilot, whom she does not love, but considers a worthy couple, and wants to go with him to Sakhalin.
Andrei Grigorievich is lonely, and therefore becomes attached to the "eldest son." And the one who grew up without a father, in an orphanage, is also drawn to the kind, glorious, but unhappy Sarafanov, besides, he liked Nina. The play has a happy ending. Volodya honestly admits that he is not the son of Sarafanov. Nina does not marry the unloved. Vasenka manages to persuade him not to run away from home. The "elder son" becomes a frequent guest of this family.
The title of the play "The Elder Son" is the most apt, since its main character- Volodya Busygin - fully justified the role he had taken on. He helped Nina and Vasenka understand how much their father means to them, having raised both of them without a mother who left the family. The gentle character of the head of the Sarafanov family is manifested in everything. He takes everything to heart: he is ashamed of his position in front of the children, hides that he left the theater, recognizes the “eldest son”, tries to calm Vasenka, to understand Nina. You can’t call him a loser, since at the very peak of his mental crisis, Sarafanov survived, while others broke down. Unlike the neighbor who refused Busygin and Silva an overnight stay, he would have warmed up the guys, even if they had not invented this story with the “eldest son”. But most importantly, Sarafanov cherishes his children and loves them. Children are callous towards their father. Vasenka is so carried away by his first love that he does not notice anyone except Makarska. But his feeling is selfish, because it is no coincidence that, having become jealous of Natasha for Silva, he sets a fire and does not repent for what he has done. There is little truly lyrical in the character of this young man. Nina is smart, beautiful girl and at the same time practical and prudent. These qualities are manifested, for example, in the choice of a groom. However, these qualities were predominant in her until she fell in love. Love completely changes her life position. Busygin and Silva, having met by chance during a dance, behave corny, courting the first girls they meet, and in this they are similar to each other. But, being in a non-standard situation, the characters manifest themselves in different ways. Volodya Busygin loves people, he is conscientious, sympathetic, sympathetic to someone else's misfortune, obviously, that's why he acts decently. The "positiveness" of aspirations makes him strong and noble.
Silva, like Volodya, is also essentially an orphan: with living parents, he was brought up in a boarding school. Apparently, his father's dislike was reflected in his character. Silva told Volodya about how his father “admonished” him: “Hey, he says, you have the last twenty rubles, go to a tavern, get drunk, make a brawl, but such a brawl that I won’t see you for a year or two.” Vampilov did not accidentally make the origins of the fates of the heroes similar. By this he wanted to emphasize how important own choice a person independent of circumstances. Unlike orphan Volodya, "orphan" Silva is cheerful, resourceful, but cynical. His true face is revealed when he "exposes" Volodya, declaring that he is not a son or brother, but a recidivist. Nina's fiancé - Mikhail Kudimov - is an impenetrable man. Such people are found in life, but you will not immediately understand them. “Smiling. He still smiles a lot. Good-natured,” says Vampilov about him. In fact, the word that he gave himself for all occasions is dearest of all to him. He is indifferent to people. This character occupies an insignificant place in the play, however, he is a pronounced type of “correct” people who create a suffocating atmosphere around themselves.
Involved in a family intrigue, Natasha Makarskaya is shown as a decent, but unhappy and lonely person. Vampilov deeply reveals in the play the theme of loneliness, which can bring a person to despair. In the image of the neighbor Sarafanovs, a type of a cautious person, an inhabitant, who is afraid of everything (“looks at them with apprehension, suspicion”, “removes silently and timidly”) and does not interfere in anything is deduced. The problematics and the main idea of the play are stated in the title itself. dramatic work. It was no coincidence that the author replaced the original name "Suburb" with "Elder Son". The main thing is not where the events take place, but who participates in them. To be able to think, understand each other, support in difficult moments to show mercy - this is the main idea of the play by Alexander Vampilov. Being kindred in spirit is more than being born. The author does not define the genre of the play. Along with the comic, there are many dramatic moments in the play, especially in the subtext of the statements of Sarafanov, Silva, Makarska.
What does the author affirm in man and what does he deny in him? “It seems that the main question that Vampilov constantly asks is: will you, a man, remain a man? Will you be able to overcome all that false and unkind that is prepared for you in many life's trials, where love and betrayal, passion and indifference, sincerity and falsehood, goodness and enslavement have become difficult to differ and oppose ... ”(V. Rasputin).
