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What a magnificent, strong, flaming and huge feeling lives in one of the heroes of the story "". Of course, this is the love that Zheltkov's heart was boundlessly filled with. But how this love affected life and destiny this character? Did she endow him with happiness or become the biggest tragedy?
In his case, there is some truth to both. Zheltkov loved Princess Vera Nikolaevna to the last breath and to the last beat of his heart. He couldn't go a minute without thinking about beautiful woman. He sent her love letters, he explained his strong feelings, but it was all in vain. Vera Nikolaevna could not answer him in return. Her Family status and position in society did not allow her to take the slightest step. Therefore, she tried to ignore all cases of Zheltkov's attentiveness to her person. Because of this, the hero was constantly left alone, alone with his dreams and desires.
At one moment he was insanely happy, but at another moment he was alone, with a feeling of unrequited love. And he made no attempt to correct this situation.
Of course, it was possible to run away to another city, go to work and achieve a life goal. But, Zheltkov did not prefer to fight for his love-free life. He was left alone with his unaccepted feelings. So, his life ended, without a sense of the importance and necessity of his love.
However, the hero still remained happy. Even after death, there was peace and tranquility on his face. This feeling of happiness from such a strong and eternal love did not leave him. Zheltkov accepted his fate as a sign from above, as a message. He did not reproach anyone and did not complain about anyone. After all, for such a clean, clear and strong feeling like love, he was ready to part with his life. And this love lived in his heart all the time, pleased and made the hero happy.
Characteristics of the hero
Zheltkov G.S. The hero is “very pale, with a tender girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he was about 30, 35 years old...
7 years ago, Zh. fell in love with Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, wrote letters to her. Then, at the request of the princess, he stopped bothering her. But now he again confessed his love to the princess. Zh. sent Vera Nikolaevna a garnet bracelet. In the letter, he explained that garnet stones used to be in his grandmother's bracelet, later they were transferred to a gold bracelet. In his letter, J. repented that he had previously written "stupid and impudent letters." Now only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion remained in him. This letter was read not only by Vera Nikolaevna, but also by her brother and husband. They decide to return the bracelet and stop the correspondence between the princess and Zh. Zh. is experiencing "an enormous tragedy of the soul." Later, from the newspaper, the princess learns about the suicide of Zh., who explained his act as state embezzlement. Before his death, Zh. wrote a farewell letter to Vera Nikolaevna. In it, he called his feeling "tremendous happiness" sent to him by God. Zh. admitted that, apart from love for Vera Nikolaevna, “nothing interests him in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people ... Leaving, I say in delight: Hallowed be thy name.” Arriving to say goodbye to Zh., Vera Nikolaevna notices that after his death, his face shone with “deep importance”, “deep and sweet mystery”, as well as a “peaceful expression”, which was “on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon”.
« Garnet bracelet was created to prove the existence of true, pure love in modern world. To do this, he created a story, some perceive it as an anecdote about a telegraph operator who fell in love, while others perceive it as a touching "Love Song" - touching, pure.
The hero of the story is Zheltkov G.S. He was an official of the control chamber. The writer portrays him as young man"About thirty-five years old", rather pleasant appearance: tall, rather thin, with long soft hair. Constantly pale, face so tender, as if girlish, with a childish chin and blue eyes. Zheltkov is endowed with a sense of beauty, namely musical.
Our hero is in love with Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, a woman of "aristocratic" appearance. Zheltkov believes that she is unusual, sophisticated. At first, Zheltkov wrote letters of a vulgar and, at the same time, wise nature. But after a while, he began to reveal his feelings in a more restrained, delicate way. Every moment that he sees the princess is dear to him like nothing else.
Zheltkov - he is the chosen one. That selflessness, selflessness of his love is really strong as death. She does not wait for a reward, for her sake one can give one's life. All women dream of such "eternal, holy" love.
Vera Nikolaevna can be considered the chosen one, since real, selfless love passed through her life. Unfortunately, unlike women, in the modern world, men have become completely impoverished both in spirit and body; But Zheltkov is far from being such. And the dating scene proves it. As he feels and understands people well, he immediately stopped paying attention to the threats from Nikolai Nikolayevich.
Then, when this difficult conversation took place, Zheltkov was returned his own gift - an amazing garnet bracelet, a family heirloom, the hero showed a strong will. He decides that the only way out is to die, because he does not want to cause any inconvenience to his beloved. It was a farewell to life for him. His last words gratitude to the princess for the fact that she is his only joy, his only consolation, were a wish of happiness for his beloved.
All this proves that Zheltkov is endowed with Kuprin nobility. This is not an image of a “little” person, poor in spirit, who was conquered by love. Saying goodbye to life, he turns out to be loving and strong selflessly.
Thus, an official, an “inconspicuous” person of a rather ridiculous surname Zheltkov, for the sake of the happiness of his beloved, gave his life to God. Of course, the fact that he was possessed is true, but what? High feeling! It cannot be considered a "disease". This love is great, the one that fills life with meaning and saves a person from the degeneration of morals. This is the love that only the chosen ones deserve.
Composition
And the heart will no longer respond
It's all over... And my song rushes
In an empty night where you are no more.
A. Akhmatova
A. I. Kuprin is an original writer of the 20th century, in whose work the precepts of Russian classical literature with its democratism, passionate desire to solve the problems of social life, humanism, deep interest in the life of the people. Loyalty to traditions, the influence of L. N. Tolstoy and A. P. Chekhov, the impact of the creative ideas of M. Gorky determined the originality fiction Kuprin, his place in literary process beginning of the century.
Writers whose work was formed during the years of the revolutionary upsurge were especially close to the theme of "enlightenment" of a simple Russian person, seeking the truth V social life. Therefore, in the center of works invariably turns out to be small man, an average intellectual truth seeker, and the main topic is bourgeois civilization, devouring thousands of human lives and entailing the vulgarization of people's relationships "It is natural in such a situation to turn to one of the eternal themes - the theme of love. A. Kuprin also refers to the theme of love as one of the mysteries of being.
Following "Olesya" (1898) and "Duel" (1905), in the 1910s, a kind of "trilogy" about love came out from under his pen, which is formed by the works "Shulamith", "Garnet Bracelet" and "Pit" ( the latter depicts anti-love). Love for Kuprin - saving power, protecting the human soul from the destructive influence of civilization; a phenomenon of life, an unexpected gift that illuminates life in the midst of everyday reality and established life. But love in his works is associated with the idea of death.
The heroes of Kuprin most often die when faced with the world of cruelty, lack of spirituality and the generally accepted philistine morality of the modern world.
The meaning and content of the life of the protagonist of the story "Garnet Bracelet" was a great, but, unfortunately, unrequited love. G. S. Zheltkov is a young man of pleasant appearance, an employee of the control chamber. He is musical, endowed with a sense of beauty, subtly feels and knows how to understand people. Despite his poverty, Zheltkov has a "pedigree", his sofa is covered with a "worn beautiful Teke carpet."
But its main value is "seven years of hopeless and polite love." The object of his worship eldest daughter the late Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, the wife of the marshal of the nobility in the city of K., Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. She married for love a childhood friend, but now she feels for her husband "a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship." Both Vera Nikolaevna herself and those around her consider her marriage a happy one. Vera Nikolaevna is endowed with "aristocratic" beauty. She attracts "with her tall, flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather large hands, and that charming sloping of the shoulders, which can be seen in ancient miniatures."
The heroine is a sensitive, subtle nature with many talents. But Vera does not respond to Zheltkov's feelings. She perceives his attention, his letters and the gift of a garnet bracelet as something unnecessary, besides breaking the usual measured course of life. The princess is accustomed to take life seriously. She soberly assesses the financial situation of the family and tries to "help the prince refrain from complete ruin", denying herself a lot and saving on household chores. At the Sheins wide circle acquaintances, and reputation is very important for Princess Vera, she is afraid to look ridiculous or ridiculous. The very same admirer "with funny last name She considers Zheltkov "a madman" who "haunts her with his love," and even once asks him in writing "not to bother her with his love outpourings." The princess's love is incomprehensible and seems burdensome.
For Zheltkov, the whole life lies in Vera Nikolaevna. He is no longer interested in anything: "neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people." Zheltkov's heart is always near her beloved, at her feet, "every moment of the day is filled" with Vera Nikolaevna, thoughts and dreams about her. But Zheltkov's love is "not a disease, not a manic idea." He fell in love with Vera "because there is nothing in the world like her, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no man more beautiful ... and more tender." This great love- a gift from heaven, "great happiness." This is love, “which God was pleased to reward me for something,” he writes, experiencing “reverence, eternal admiration” for the woman he loves, and boundless gratitude for the mere fact that she exists. The princess, unknowingly herself, painfully injures Zheltkov, pushes him to suicide with the words: "Oh, if you only knew how tired I am of this whole story. Please stop it as soon as possible." But he asked for such a small thing: "to stay in the city, so that at least occasionally to see her, of course, without showing her eyes."
Farewell to Vera Nikolaevna for the hero is tantamount to saying goodbye to life. But, knowing perfectly well that his feelings are not shared, Zheltkov hopes and is “even sure” that Vera Nikolaevna will remember him someday. And indeed, after Zheltkov’s death, saying goodbye to him, she realizes that she has lost something important and very valuable, that “a great love that repeats only once in a thousand years”, “that love that every woman dreams of has passed past her." Shocked by this realization, Vera asks the pianist to play something, not doubting that Jenny will play the very passage from the Second Sonata that Zheltkov asked for. And when she listened to "this exceptional work, unique in its depth," "her soul seemed to split in two." She was filled with music and poems that ended with words from farewell letter loving person: "Hallowed be thy name" ...
Music theme"Appassionata" affirms the high power of love. Music in the story generally plays a very important role, it is not by chance that the title of Beethoven's second sonata is included in the epigraph. It serves as the key to understanding the whole work. "Prayer for Love" runs like a leitmotif throughout the work and sounds powerfully in its finale. What the enamored official of the control chamber was unable to put into words was "told" by the music of the great composer. As you can see, mutual, perfect love did not take place, but this high and poetic feeling, albeit concentrated in one soul, opened the way to a beautiful rebirth of another. After all, every woman in the depths of her heart dreams of such love - "one, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless."
Just a few pages, a few lines from a letter, and before us was the life of a man. Is it real life? Is the main character real?
According to the memoirs of L. Arsenyeva, a younger contemporary of the writer, in the late 1920s in Paris, the aging A. Kuprin challenged an interlocutor to a duel, who allowed himself to doubt the plausibility of the plot of the "Garnet Bracelet". Kuprin rarely resorted to pure fiction in his work. All his works are realistic, based on real events, personal impressions from meetings with people, from conversations. The story of love, which formed the basis of the story, the writer heard in the summer of 1906 while visiting a member of the State Council, Dmitry Nikolaevich Lyubimov. The Lyubimovs showed Kuprin a family album. There were illustrations for letters that Lyubimov's wife received from a person signing the initials P.P.Zh. (it turned out to be petty postal official Pyotr Petrovich Zheltikov). Kuprin creatively rethought what he heard and, with the power of his talent, turned an ordinary episode into a love story that has been dreamed of and yearned for for centuries " the best minds and the souls of mankind - poets, novelists, musicians, artists. "Unlike the hero of the story Kuprin, Zheltikov did not shoot himself, but was transferred to the province, where he then married. But he served real prototype to create a hero who won our hearts with the power and purity of his feelings.
The image of Zheltkov is real. It is real because in the world, contrary to the opinion of General Anosov, there is still love, which is not affected by "any comforts of life, calculations and compromises", and there are men capable of "to strong desires, To heroic deeds to tenderness and adoration". I would like to believe that in the modern world a bright, human feeling is possible, reckless, "hopeless and polite", chivalrous, heroic love; love is strong and pure, the love that God sends to the elect, "like enormous happiness ". Such love," for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy. "But such love cannot, should not end in a fatal outcome. Why die? You need to live, knowing that you just nearby, in the same city, in the same country, on the same planet with the person you love, and from this life is filled with meaning and becomes beautiful.
Despite the tragic ending, "Kuprin's story is optimistic, life-affirming, because in the "Garnet Bracelet" the author, probably stronger and brighter than in other works, sings Eternal values life, mental strength and purity, nobility and the ability to sacrifice in the name of love. And, of course, love itself - the most sublime and beautiful of all human feelings.
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History of creation
Alexander Kuprin worked on the "Garnet Bracelet" in Odessa in the autumn of 1910. The work was originally conceived as a story, but has grown into a story. The work dragged on, and at the beginning of December, judging by Kuprin's letters, the story had not yet been finished.
The plot was based real story, which happened to the wife of a member of the State Council D.N. Lyubimov. The prototype of Zheltkov was a certain petty telegraph official Zheltikov, unrequitedly in love with this lady.
"Garnet bracelet"
Zheltkov is a petty official of the control chamber, aged 30-35. Tall and thin man with soft and long hair. Zheltkov's appearance betrays a fine mental organization - pale skin, a gentle "girlish" face, a childish chin with a dimple, Blue eyes and nervous thin fingers. The hero's hands constantly betray his nervous state - they tremble, pull on buttons, "run" over his face and clothes.
Zheltkov - main character story "Garnet Bracelet" The hero earns little and considers himself a person devoid of fine taste, therefore he has neither the opportunity nor the right to present expensive gifts to the object of his own unrequited passion - the princess. The hero saw a lady in a circus box and immediately fell in love with her. Eight years have passed since then, and all this time the enamored Zheltkov has been writing letters to Vera. At first, the hero was still waiting for reciprocity and thought that the young lady from the box would answer his letters, but Vera never paid attention to the unlucky admirer.
Over time, Zheltkov ceases to hope for reciprocity, but continues to write to Vera from time to time and secretly follow her life. In his letters, Zheltkov accurately describes where and with whom he saw Vera, even what dress she was wearing. In addition to the object of his passion, the hero is not interested in anything - neither science, nor politics, nor the life of his own and other people.
The hero keeps the things of the Faith. The handkerchief that the lady forgot at the ball, but the hero appropriated. The program of the exhibition that Vera left on the chair, and so on. A relic for Zheltkov was even a note written by Vera, in which she forbade the hero to write to her. Zheltkov sees in Vera the only meaning own life, however, with all this, he does not consider himself a maniac, but only in love.
Vera Sheina from the story "Garnet Bracelet" One day, Zheltkov sends the princess a gift for her name day - a family garnet bracelet, which belonged to the hero's great-grandmother, and then to his late mother. The princess's brother, Nikolai, loses his temper over this gift and decides to intervene in order to stop Zheltkov's "harassment" once and for all.
Nikolay finds where the hero lives and demands that he stop persecuting his sister, otherwise he threatens to take action. Vera herself also treats Zheltkov unfriendly and asks to be left alone. That same evening, the hero dies by suicide, but in suicide note does not blame Vera for his own death, but still writes about love for that one. Only at parting did Vera realize that she strong love, which every woman dreams of, was so close, but she refused it.
Zheltkov had a soft and tactful character. The landlady called the hero a "wonderful person" and treated him like a own son. Zheltkov is sincere and incapable of lying, decent. The hero has a weak voice and calligraphic handwriting. The man loves music, especially. Of the relatives, the hero has one brother.
Illustration for the story "Garnet Bracelet" The hero rented a room in high-rise building on Lutheran street. This is a poor house where the stairwells are dark and smell of kerosene, mice and laundry. Zheltkov's room is badly lit, with a low ceiling, and poorly furnished. The hero has only a narrow bed, a shabby sofa and a table.
Zheltkov is a controversial character who showed cowardice in love, but a fair amount of courage, making the decision to shoot himself.
Screen adaptations
In 1964, the film adaptation of "Garnet Bracelet" was released, directed by Abram Room. The image of Zheltkov in this film was embodied by the actor Igor Ozerov. Mr. Zheltkov, whose exact name is not indicated in the story, is called Georgy Stepanovich in the film. In the story, the hero signs with the initials G.S.Zh., and the landlady, from whom Zheltkov rented a house, called the hero “pan Ezhy”, which corresponds to the Polish version of the name “George”. However, it is impossible to say for sure what the name of the hero was.
The film also starred actors Yuri Averin (in the role of Gustav Ivanovich von Friesse) and in the role of Prince Shein, husband main character Vera Sheina, whose role was played by the actress.
Quotes
“It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life is only in you.”
“Think about what I should have done? Run away to another city? All the same, the heart was always near you, at your feet, every moment of the day is filled with you, the thought of you, dreams of you ... "
"I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love."
