IV. Conversation on the story “Garnet Bracelet. Summary of a lesson on literature "the embodiment of the moral ideal in the story" Olesya "

Klimov Sergey Alexandrovich

Place of work, position:

Bilyarskaya average comprehensive school, teacher of Russian language and literature

Republic of Tatarstan

Characteristics of the lesson (lesson)

The level of education:

Basic general education

The target audience:

Teacher (teacher)

Class(es):

Item(s):

Literature

The purpose of the lesson:

Educational: to cultivate a love of artistic expression; encourage responsibility for expressing human feelings, self-improvement. Developmental: to develop the creative abilities of students, the culture of dialogical communication during the discussion of a story, to develop the ability to highlight the main thing, generalize and draw conclusions. Educational: show Kuprin’s skill in depicting the world of human feelings; the role of detail in the story.

Lesson type:

Combined lesson

Students in the class (auditorium):

Textbooks used and teaching aids:

1. “Lesson-based developments in the literature of the twentieth century; Grade 11, 1st semester - 4th ed., revised. And additional - M.; WAKO, 2005.

Used methodological literature:

1. L. Lyubimov “In a foreign land”; M.; 1963.

2. Chalmaev V.A., Zinin S.A. “Russian literature of the 20th century: Textbook for grade 11: In 2 parts. Part 1.- 2nd ed., revised. And additional - M.: “TID “Russian Word-RS”, 2003.

3. Story by A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet".

Equipment used:

recording of Beethoven's Second Sonata, graphic projector, portrait of A.I. Kuprin.

Short description:

Consolidation of material on the work of Kuprin

During the classes:

- organizational moment.

1) Teacher's word:

The story “The Garnet Bracelet,” written by Kuprin in 1910, is dedicated to one of the main themes of his creativity - love. The epigraph contained the first line of music from Beethoven's Second Sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to music. The work is based on real fact - history the love of a modest official for a socialite, the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov.

2) Story prototypes:

Reading an excerpt from the memoirs of L. Lyubimov:

“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it later turned out, Zhelty (in Zheltkov’s story), wrote that he worked at the telegraph office; in one letter he said that under the guise of a floor polisher he entered my mother’s apartment and described the situation. The tone of the messages was grumpy. He was either angry with my mother or thanking her, although she did not react in any way to his explanations...

At first, these letters amused everyone, but then my mother stopped even reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator.

And then came the denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle and father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to Zheltkov. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, lived on the sixth floor. He huddled in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. The father is more silent while explaining. He told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. My uncle got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and gloomily promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. Anyway, oh future fate nothing is known about him.”

3) Analytical conversation of a comparative nature:

How Kuprin artistically transformed real story, heard by him in the family of a high-ranking official Lyubimov?

What social barriers push the hero’s love into the realm of an unattainable dream?

Can we say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling?

4) Conversation on the story “The Garnet Bracelet.”

-How Kuprin draws main character story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina?

(The outward inaccessibility, inaccessibility of the heroine is stated at the beginning of the story by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility. But Kuprin shows the heroine against the backdrop of clear, sunny days, in silence and solitude, which Vera rejoices in, perhaps reminding us of the love of solitude. She is a sensitive, delicate, selfless person. She tenderly loves her younger sister, treats her husband with a “feeling of strong, faithful, true friendship”, and is childishly affectionate with her “grandfather,” General Anosov, a friend of their father).

(Kuprin “gathers” everyone characters story, with the exception of Zheltkov, on the name day of Princess Vera. A small company of people who are pleasant to each other are cheerfully celebrating their name day, but Vera suddenly notes that there are thirteen guests, and this alarms her: “she was superstitious”).

-What gifts did Vera receive? What is their significance?

(She receives not just expensive, but lovingly chosen gifts: “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls” from her husband, “a small notebook in an amazing binding ... the labor of love of the hands of a skillful and patient artist” from her sister).

-How does Zheltkov’s gift look against this background? What is its value?

(Zheltkov’s gift - “a gold, low-grade, very thick, but blown and on the outside completely covered with small old, poorly polished garnets” bracelet looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. Deep red garnets light up alive under electric light lights, and it occurs to Vera: “It’s like blood!” - this is another alarming omen. Zheltkov gives the most valuable thing he has - a family jewel).

-What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?

(This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless love).

- How does the theme of love develop in the story?

(At the beginning of the story, the feeling of love is parodied. Vera’s husband is a cheerful and witty man, makes fun of Zheltkov, who is still unfamiliar to him, showing the guests an album with the “love story” of the telegraph operator for the princess. But the ending of the story is prophetic: “Finally he dies, but before his death he bequeaths to convey to Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears.”

Further, the theme of love takes on a tragic connotation. General Anosov tells his love story, where love - marriages people according to convenience. A conversation about love brings up the story of the telegraph operator, and the general felt its truth: “your life path, Verochka, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are not capable of."

(Kuprin develops the theme “ little man" An official with the funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, but with the power of his love rises above the petty vanity of life. Love elevated him. Love became suffering, the meaning of his life. Leaving this life, he blesses his beloved: “Hallowed your name" Love for the hero is higher than everything earthly; it is of divine origin).

-What is the significance of the image of the hero after his death?

(The dead Zheltkov acquires “deep importance.” The face of the deceased reminds Vera death masks"the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon." This is how Kuprin shows the talent of love, equating it to the talents of recognized geniuses)

-What mood will the ending of the story be filled with? What role does music play in creating this mood?

( The ending is imbued with a feeling of light sadness. Zheltkov dies, but Vera awakens, love is revealed to her. Music plays a big role in awakening the soul of Vera. Beethoven's second sonata is in tune with Veru's mood; through music her soul connects with the soul of Zheltkov).

5) Final words from the teacher:

The author talks about love, which is repeated “only once in a thousand years.” The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasizes this. Kuprin wrote: “Individuality is not expressed in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!

The melody of Beethoven's Second Sonata sounds .

- summing up the lesson (Active students receive grades in a diary and in a journal).

-Homework:

Prepare to write an essay on the works of A.I. Kuprin.

Subject:

Goals:

Educational:

Show Kuprin's skill in depicting the world of human feelings, how the writer depicts the influence of love on a person; the role of detail in the story; reveal the meaning of the symbolic images of the story.

Educational:

Awaken the desire of students to philosophize on the topic of love, learn to defend their opinions, citing compelling arguments from the text and from life.

Develop the ability to identify the main means of creating an artistic image.

Develop the ability to determine the function of artistic images in a text.

Educational:

To cultivate a reverent attitude towards the feeling of love as an eternal spiritual value of a person

Method: teacher's word, commented reading, analytical conversation, student retellings, expressive reading by heart, listening to audio recordings, watching film episodes, presentations.

Technologies: problem-based learning technology (problematic question: “Understand how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem unrequited love?").

Lesson type: combined.

Lesson equipment: audio and video recordings, portrait of the writer, exhibition of books by A. I. Kuprin, presentation.

During the classes.

Epigraph:

Union of soul with dear soul.

Their unity, combination

And their fatal merger,

And the duel is fatal.

And which one is more tender?

The more inevitable and more certain,

It will finally wear out.

(F.I. Tyutchev)

As you understand from the epigraph, today in class we will talk to you about love.

But what kind of love? ( Undivided, misunderstood.)

Record the topic of the lesson.

3.The teacher’s word (slide 1).

The story “The Garnet Bracelet,” written by Kuprin in 1910, is dedicated to one of the main themes of his work—love. The epigraph of the story was the first line of music from Beethoven's Second Sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to musical talent. The work is based on a real fact - the love story of a modest official for a socialite, the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov.

4. Hteacher shadowing

“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story), wrote that he served at the telegraph (in Kuprin, Prince Shein jokingly decides that only some telegraph operator can write like that), in one letter he reported that under the guise the floor polisher entered my mother’s apartment and described the situation (in Kuprin, Shein again jokingly tells how Zheltkov, disguised as a chimney sweep and smeared with soot, enters Princess Vera’s boudoir). The tone of the messages was sometimes pompous, sometimes grumpy. He was either angry with my mother or thanking her, although she did not react in any way to his explanations...

At first, these letters amused everyone, but then (they arrived almost every day for two or three years) my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator in the morning.

<...>and my father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to see Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, actually lived on the sixth floor. “The spit-stained staircase,” writes Kuprin, “smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry” - all this corresponds to what I heard from my father. Yellow lived in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. Like Kuprin’s Shein, the father was more silent during the explanation, looking “with bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity in the face of this strange man" My father told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. My uncle, again like Kuprin’s Nikolai Nikolaevich, got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and gloomily promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. In any case, we know nothing about his further fate.”

L. Lyubimov. In a foreign land, 1963

5. Analytical conversation of a comparative nature.

How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard in the family of the high-ranking official Lyubimov?

What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero’s love into the realm of an unattainable dream?

Can we say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling?

Kuprin was not a poet, but there is one poem written by him (slide 2).

Is there a connection between the garnet bracelet that the hero of the story gives to Vera Sheina and the “ruby bracelet” from Kuprin’s late poem “Forever”?

-- What time does the story take place?

What role does landscape play in conveying Vera Sheina’s mood? (slide 4).

How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina? (slide 5).

(The outward inaccessibility and inaccessibility of the heroine is stated at the beginning of the story by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility. But Kuprin shows the heroine against the backdrop of clear, sunny, warm days, in the silence and solitude that Vera rejoices in, reminding, perhaps howling, of Tatyana Larina’s love for solitude and the beauty of nature (also, by the way, a married princess). We see that the princess is outwardly regal calm, “coldly and haughtily amiable” to everyone, with a “cold and proud face” (compare with the description of Tatyana in St. Petersburg, chapter eight, stanza XVII: “But an indifferent princess,/But an unapproachable goddess/The luxurious, royal Neva”)- a sensitive, delicate, selfless person: she tries to quietly help her husband “make ends meet”, maintaining decency, and still save, since “she had to live above her means.” She dearly loves her younger sister (their obvious dissimilarity in both appearance and character is emphasized by the author himself, the headII), treats her husband with a “feeling of strong, faithful, true friendship”, and is childishly affectionate with “grandfather”, General Anosov, a friend of their father.)

, friend of people

What gifts did Vera receive? What is their significance? (Reading descriptions of gifts).

(Princessreceives not just expensive, but lovingly chosen gifts: “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls” from her husband, “a small notebook in

How does Zheltkov’s gift look against this background? What is its value?

(Gift from Zheltkov-

- What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?

(This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Let us remember the gift Olesya left for Ivan Timofeevich - a string of red beads.)

- How does the theme of love develop in the story?

(At the beginning of the story, the feeling of love is parodied. Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, a cheerful and witty man, makes fun of Zheltkov, who is still unfamiliar to him, showing the guests a humorous album with the “love story” of the telegraph operator for the princess. However, the ending of this funny story turns out to be almost prophetic: “Finally he dies, but before his death he bequeaths to give Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears.”)

Further, the theme of love is revealed in inserted episodes and acquires a tragic connotation. General Anosov tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which in the retelling seems to be just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. “I don’t see true love. I haven’t seen it in my time either!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, vulgar unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about which it is said “strong as death”?.. Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! Anosov talks about tragic cases similar to such love. The conversation about love brought up the telegraph operator’s story, and the general felt its truth: “maybe your path in life, Verochka, was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)

9.Continuation of the conversation.

(Kuprin develops the traditional theme of the “little man” in Russian literature. An official with the funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, he, with the power of his love, rises above the petty vanity, life's conveniences, and decency. He turns out to be a man in no way inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love elevated him. Love has become suffering, the only meaning of life. “It so happened that nothing in life interests me: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people- - he writes in a farewell letter to Princess Vera. Leaving this life, Zheltkov blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.” Here you can see blasphemy- after all, these are the words of prayer. For the hero, love is above everything earthly; it is of divine origin. No amount of “decisive measures” or “appeals to the authorities” can make you stop loving. Not a shadow of resentment or complaint in the hero’s words, only gratitude for the “tremendous happiness”- Love.)

- How do the participants in this scene behave?

What character traits does Yolk show in this episode?

How do you characterize the behavior and words of Nikolai Nikolaevich?

Why do you think Vera cried? What caused the tears—the “impression of death” or something else? Maybe she realized that “a great love passed by her, which is repeated only once in a thousand years”? Or maybe a reciprocal feeling awakened in her soul at least for a moment?

- What is the significance of the image of a hero after his death?

(Dead Zheltkov acquires “deep importance,...

- What mood will the ending of the story have? What role does music play in creating this mood?

(The ending of the story is elegiac, imbued with a feeling of light sadness, not tragedy. Zheltkov dies, but Princess Vera awakens to life; something previously inaccessible was revealed to her, that very “great love that repeats itself once every thousand years.” The heroes “loved each other only for a moment, but forever.” Music plays a big role in awakening the soul of Vera. Beethoven's second sonata is in tune with Vera's mood; through music her soul seems to connect with Zheltkov's soul.)

12.Main conclusions:

Can Zheltkov’s feeling for Vera be called madness?

What do you think is the power of love?

And the main question of the lesson: “How does Kuprin solve the eternal problem of unrequited love?”

The answer to the question about unrequited love can also be a poem by A. Dementyev.

Love not only elevates.
Love sometimes destroys us.
Breaks destinies and hearts...
Beautiful in her desires,
She can be so dangerous

She bursts in suddenly.
And you can no longer tomorrow
Don't see a cute face.
Love not only elevates.
Love accomplishes and decides everything.
And we go into this captivity.
And we don’t dream of freedom.
While the dawn rises in the soul,
The soul does not want change.
(A. Dementyev)

14. Teacher's final words

A particular case is poeticized by Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated “only once in a thousand years.” Love, according to Kuprin, “is always a tragedy, always a struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death.” The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty.

Kuprin wrote this to F.D. Batyushkov (1906): Individuality is not expressed in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!

And I would like to end today’s lesson with a poem by Nikolai Lenau, an Austrian poet of the first half of the 19th century: “Be silent and perish...”, which, it seems to me, has a connection with the content of the story “Garnet Bracelet”:

To remain silent and perish... But dearer,

Than life, magical shackles!

Your best dream is in her eyes

Search without saying a word! -

Like the light of a shy lamp

Trembling in the face of the Madonna

And, dying, he catches the eye,

Her heavenly gaze is bottomless!

“Be silent and perish” - this is the spiritual vow of a telegraph operator in love. But still he violates it, reminding himself of his only and inaccessible Madonna. This supports hope in his soul and gives him strength to endure the suffering of love. Passionate, sizzling love, which he is ready to take with him to the other world. Death does not frighten the hero. Love is stronger than death. He is grateful to the one who brought this into his heart wonderful feeling, which elevated him, a little man, above the huge, vain world, the world of injustice and malice. That is why, when leaving this life, he blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.”

16.D/z.: Write an essay - an argument “Unrequited love - “enormous happiness” or “enormous tragedy of the soul”?”

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Subject: The talent of love in A. I. Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet.”

Goals :

Educational:

Show Kuprin's skill in depicting the world of human feelings, how the writer depicts the influence of love on a person; the role of detail in the story; reveal the meaning of the symbolic images of the story.

Educational:

Awaken the desire of students to philosophize on the topic of love, learn to defend their opinions, citing compelling arguments from the text and from life.

Develop the ability to identify the main means of creating an artistic image.

Develop the ability to determine the function of artistic images in a text.

Educational:

To cultivate a reverent attitude towards the feeling of love as an eternal spiritual value of a person

Method: teacher's word, commented reading, analytical conversation, student retellings, expressive reading by heart, listening to audio recordings, watching film episodes, presentations.

Technologies: technology of problem-based learning (problematic question: “Understand how Kuprin resolves this eternal problem of unrequited love?”).

Lesson type: combined.

Lesson equipment:audio and video recordings, portrait of the writer, exhibition of books by A. I. Kuprin, presentation.

During the classes.

Epigraph:

Love, love, says the legend,

Union of soul with dear soul.

Their unity, combination

And their fatal merger,

And the duel is fatal.

And which one is more tender?

In the unequal struggle of two hearts,

The more inevitable and more certain,

Loving, suffering, passionately melting,

It will finally wear out.

(F.I. Tyutchev)

1. The student reads the epigraph by heart (Beethoven’s Second Sonata sounds).

2. Announcement of the topic and objectives of the lesson.

As you understand from the epigraph, today in class we will talk to you about love.

But what kind of love? (Undivided, misunderstood.)

Record the topic of the lesson.

3.The teacher’s word (slide 1).

The story “The Garnet Bracelet,” written by Kuprin in 1910, is dedicated to one of the main themes of his work—love. The epigraph of the story was the first line of music from Beethoven's Second Sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to musical talent. The work is based on a real fact - the love story of a modest official for a socialite, the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov.

4. Reading by the teacherexcerpt from L. Lyubimov’s memoirs about the prototypes of the story:

“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story), wrote that he served at the telegraph (in Kuprin, Prince Shein jokingly decides that only some telegraph operator can write like that), in one letter he reported that under the guise the floor polisher entered my mother’s apartment and described the situation (in Kuprin, Shein again jokingly tells how Zheltkov, disguised as a chimney sweep and smeared with soot, enters Princess Vera’s boudoir). The tone of the messages was sometimes pompous, sometimes grumpy. He was either angry with my mother or thanking her, although she did not react in any way to his explanations...

At first, these letters amused everyone, but then (they arrived almost every day for two or three years) my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator in the morning.

And then came the denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle<...>and my father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to see Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, actually lived on the sixth floor. “The spit-stained staircase,” writes Kuprin, “smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry” - all this corresponds to what I heard from my father. Yellow lived in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. Like Kuprin’s Shein, the father remained silent during the explanation, looking “with bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity into the face of this strange man.” My father told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. My uncle, again like Kuprin’s Nikolai Nikolaevich, got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and gloomily promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. In any case, we know nothing about his further fate.”

L. Lyubimov. In a foreign land, 1963

5. Analytical conversation of a comparative nature.

How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard in the family of the high-ranking official Lyubimov?(Kuprin idealized and elevated real vulgar history).

What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero’s love into the realm of an unattainable dream?(Between Princess Vera and the petty official Zheltkov, there are social barriers and partitions of class inequality. It is Vera’s social status and marriage that makes Zheltkov’s love unrequited and unrequited. The hero himself admits in his letter that he has received “only awe, eternal admiration and slavish devotion ".)

Can we say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling?

Kuprin was not a poet, but there is one poem written by him (slide 2).

6.Reading the poem “Forever” (slide 3).

Is there a connection between the garnet bracelet that the hero of the story gives to Vera Sheina and the “ruby bracelet” from Kuprin’s late poem “Forever”?

7. Conversation on the story “Garnet Bracelet”.

-- What time does the story take place?

What role does landscape play in conveying Vera Sheina’s mood? (slide 4).

(Kuprin draws a parallel between the description of the autumn garden and internal state main character. “The trees calmed down, silently and obediently dropping their yellow leaves.” Princess Vera is in the same calm, prudent state; she has peace in her soul: “And Vera was strictly simple, cold with everyone... amiable, independent and royally calm.”)

How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina? (slide 5).

(The outward inaccessibility and inaccessibility of the heroine is stated at the beginning of the story by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility. But Kuprin shows the heroine against the background of clear, sunny, warm days, in silence and solitude, which Vera rejoices in, reminding, maybe howling, about love for the solitude and beauty of nature of Tatyana Larina (also, by the way, a married princess). chapter eight, stanzaXVII: “But an indifferent princess,/But an unapproachable goddess/The luxurious, royal Neva”)- a sensitive, delicate, selfless person: she tries to quietly help her husband “make ends meet”, maintaining decency, and still save, since “she had to live above her means.” She dearly loves her younger sister (their obvious dissimilarity both in appearance and in character is emphasized by the author himself, Chapter II), treats her husband with a “feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship”, is childishly affectionate with her “grandfather”, General Anosov, their father's friend.)

(Kuprin “collects” all the characters in the story, with the exception of Zheltkov, on the name day of Princess Vera. A small company of pleasant friends friend of people celebrates her name day cheerfully, but Vera suddenly notes that there are thirteen guests, and this alarms her: “she was superstitious.”)

- What gifts did Vera receive? What is their significance?(Reading descriptions of gifts).

(The princess receives not just expensive, but lovingly chosen gifts: “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls” from her husband, “a small notebook in

amazing binding... a labor of love by the hands of a skillful and patient artist" from my sister.)

How does Zheltkov’s gift look against this background? What is its value?(Reading the description of the bracelet) (slide 6).

(Gift from Zheltkov- “golden, low-grade, very thick, but inflated and with an outer

The sides are completely covered with small antique, badpolished garnets,” the bracelet looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. The deep red grenades light up with living fires under the electric light, and it occurs to Vera: “It’s like blood!” - this is another alarming omen. Zheltkov gives the most valuable thing he has - a family jewel.)

- What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?

(This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Let us remember the gift Olesya left for Ivan Timofeevich - a string of red beads.)

- How does the theme of love develop in the story?

(At the beginning of the story, the feeling of love is parodied. Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, a cheerful and witty man, makes fun of Zheltkov, who is still unfamiliar to him, showing the guests a humorous album with the “love story” of the telegraph operator for the princess. However, the end of this funny story turns out to be almost prophetic: “Finally he dies, but before his death he bequeaths to give Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears.”)

8. Retelling of love stories told by General Anosov (slide 7).

Further, the theme of love is revealed in inserted episodes and acquires a tragic connotation. General Anosov tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which in the retelling seems to be just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. “I don’t see true love. I haven’t seen it in my time either!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, vulgar unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about which it is said “strong as death”?.. Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! Anosov talks about tragic cases similar to such love. The conversation about love brought up the telegraph operator’s story, and the general felt its truth: “maybe your path in life, Verochka, was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)

9.Continuation of the conversation.

(Kuprin develops the theme of the “little man”, traditional for Russian literature. An official with the funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, he, with the power of his love, rises above the petty vanity, life’s conveniences, decency. He turns out to be a man, not at all inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love elevated him. Love became suffering, the only meaning of life. “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, my whole life lies only in you,”- he writes in a farewell letter to Princess Vera. Leaving this life, Zheltkov blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.” Here you can see blasphemy- after all, these are the words of prayer. For the hero, love is above everything earthly; it is of divine origin. No amount of “decisive measures” or “appeals to the authorities” can make you stop loving. Not a shadow of resentment or complaint in the hero’s words, only gratitude for the “tremendous happiness”- Love.)

10.Viewing the episode “Visit to Prince Shein and Vera Nikolaevna Zheltkov’s brother” from the film “Garnet Bracelet”.

- How do the participants in this scene behave?

What character traits does Yolk show in this episode?

How do you characterize the behavior and words of Nikolai Nikolaevich?

11.Reading the episode: Vera Sheina’s farewell to the deceased Zheltkov (chap. 12).

Why do you think Vera cried? What caused the tears—the “impression of death” or something else? Maybe she realized that “a great love passed by her, which is repeated only once in a thousand years”? Or maybe a reciprocal feeling awakened in her soul at least for a moment?

- What is the significance of the image of a hero after his death?

(Dead Zheltkov acquires “deep importance,... as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his entire human life.” The face of the deceased reminds Vera of the death masks of “the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon.” This is how Kuprin shows the great talent of love, equating it with the talents of recognized geniuses.)

- What mood will the ending of the story have? What role does music play in creating this mood?

(The ending of the story is elegiac, imbued with a feeling of light sadness, not tragedy. Zheltkov dies, but Princess Vera awakens to life, something previously inaccessible was revealed to her, that very “great love that repeats itself once every thousand years.” The heroes “loved each other only one moment, but forever.” Music plays a big role in awakening Vera’s soul. Beethoven’s Second Sonata is in tune with Vera’s mood, through music her soul seems to connect with Zheltkov’s soul.)

12.Main conclusions:

Can Zheltkov’s feeling for Vera be called madness?

(Find in the text the words of Prince Shein, which are the answer to the question posed. “I feel that this person is not capable of deceiving and knowingly lying...” (chap. 10); “...I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I cannot explain here” (chap. 11). And the prince’s address to his wife: “I will say that he loved you, and was not crazy at all”).

(The name Georgy means victorious. Zheltkov from the victorious. Kuprin in his work painted a “small but great man”).

What do you think is the power of love?

And the main question of the lesson: “How does Kuprin solve the eternal problem of unrequited love?”

(Love elevates a person, transforms his soul. Love blossoms in Zheltkov’s heart and gives him “enormous happiness.” He limited his life only to this feeling, neglecting everything else. This ideal, pure love elevates the “little man”, makes him significant in his own and in the eyes of others. It is no coincidence that Vera saw in the face of the dead Zheltkov “deep importance”, which could only be seen in the masks of such great people as Pushkin and Napoleon. Lyubov Zheltkova, the one who happens “once in a thousand years”, remained immortal. It is this kind of love that Kuprin praised. Back in the 17th century, the famous playwright J.-B. Moliere wrote about love:

The day would fade in my soul, and darkness would come again,

If only we would banish love from the earth.

Only he knew bliss who passionately touched the heart,

And whoever didn’t know love doesn’t care

That he didn’t live...) (teacher reads)

13.Reading a poem by A. Dementyev by heart.

The answer to the question about unrequited love can also be a poem by A. Dementyev.

Love not only elevates.
Love sometimes destroys us.
Breaks destinies and hearts...
Beautiful in her desires,
She can be so dangerous
Like an explosion, like nine grams of lead.
She bursts in suddenly.
And you can no longer tomorrow
Don't see a cute face.
Love not only elevates.
Love accomplishes and decides everything.
And we go into this captivity.
And we don’t dream of freedom.
While the dawn rises in the soul,
The soul does not want change.
(A. Dementyev)

14. Teacher's final words

A particular case is poeticized by Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated “only once in a thousand years.” Love, according to Kuprin, “is always a tragedy, always a struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death.” The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty.

Kuprin wrote this to F.D. Batyushkov (1906): Individuality is not expressed in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!

And I would like to end today’s lesson with a poem by Nikolai Lenau, an Austrian poet of the first half of the 19th century: “Be silent and perish...”, which, it seems to me, has a connection with the content of the story “Garnet Bracelet”:

To remain silent and perish... But dearer,

Than life, magical shackles!

Your best dream is in her eyes

Search without saying a word! -

Like the light of a shy lamp

Trembling in the face of the Madonna

And, dying, he catches the eye,

Her heavenly gaze is bottomless!

“Be silent and perish” - this is the spiritual vow of a telegraph operator in love. But still he violates it, reminding himself of his only and inaccessible Madonna. This supports hope in his soul and gives him strength to endure the suffering of love. Passionate, sizzling love, which he is ready to take with him to the other world. Death does not frighten the hero. Love is stronger than death. He is grateful to the one who aroused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which elevated him, a little man, above the huge, vain world, the world of injustice and malice. That is why, when leaving this life, he blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.”

15. Beethoven’s second sonata sounds and students read the ending of the story.

16.D/z.: Write an essay - an argument “Unrequited love - “enormous happiness” or “enormous tragedy of the soul”?”

1. 
   How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Vera Sheina?
2. 
   How did Vera and her family receive the gift of a garnet bracelet? What is its value? What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?
3. 
   What does General Anosov say about love?
4. 
   Who does the author sympathize with in the story and why?
5. 
   What mood will the ending of the story have? What role does music play in creating mood?
6. 
   In whom and how was nobility manifested, in whom and how was spiritual poverty manifested in the face of great and pure love?
7. 
   Do you agree with what is depicted in the story? cruel world? If so, where did you see this cruelty?
8. 
   What do you think is the most exciting thing about the story?
9. 
   The theme of love, what is its tragedy in this story?
10. 
    How did the death of the telegraph operator affect Vera Sheina?
11. 
    Why does Zheltkov’s love story for the princess continue to excite today?

1. 
   How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Vera Sheina?
2. 
   How did Vera and her family receive the gift of a garnet bracelet? What is its value? What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?
3. 
   What does General Anosov say about love?
4. 
   Who does the author sympathize with in the story and why?
5. 
   What mood will the ending of the story have? What role does music play in creating mood?
6. 
   In whom and how was nobility manifested, in whom and how was spiritual poverty manifested in the face of great and pure love?
7. 
   Do you agree that the story depicts a cruel world? If so, where did you see this cruelty?
8. 
   What do you think is the most exciting thing about the story?
9. 
   The theme of love, what is its tragedy in this story?
10. 
    How did the death of the telegraph operator affect Vera Sheina?
11. 
    Why does Zheltkov’s love story for the princess continue to excite today?

1. 
   When and where do the events take place in the play “At the Bottom”? Give a description of the shelter.
2. 
   Divide all characters into two groups according to social status.
3. 
   Follow how the play “At the Lower Depths” develops its first story line(Vasilisa - Ashes). What characters does it capture? Where does it reach its apogee?
4. 
   What unites the lonely inhabitants of the shelter? Can we consider the main conflict of the play only the opposition of the social plane?
5. 
   Where do you think the plot of the play is? What strings of the heroes’ souls does Luke touch with his speeches?
6. 
   Interpret the parable of the righteous land told by Luke?
7. 
   What is the purpose of Luke’s “consolation”: does he pursue selfish interests, or is his intervention in the fate of other heroes caused by other motives? Why doesn’t Luka try to “comfort” Bubnov and Satin?
8. 
   With the plays of which Russian writer is Gorky's drama comparable in its compositional organization?

1. 
   Give a general description of Kostylev and Vasilisa.
2. 
   Is there a glimmer of hope for the characters in the play in the exhibition? Prove it.
3. 
   What is a monologue, dialogue, polylogue? What is their role in the play?
4. 
   Restore the event rad of the play. What events take place on stage and what events happen behind the scenes?
5. 
   It is not for nothing that the wanderer bears the name of one of the apostles of Christ. What does he promise, what does he call for? Why does none of the promises benefit the inhabitants of the “bottom”?
6. 
   Under what circumstances does Satin pronounce his monologue about a person? What motivated his rebuke to the Baron? Does Satin condemn or defend Luke in his monologue?
7. 
   Why is Luke’s life conclusion about the righteous land so attractive: “if you believe, it is”?
8. 
   So what is more necessary: ​​truth or compassion? Whose position – Luke’s or Satina’s – is closer to you?
9. 
   Luka and Satin: antipodes or kindred spirits? Why does Satin suddenly protect Luka after the old man leaves?

1. 
   Has the life of the night shelters changed with the appearance of Luke?
2. 
   What do heroes live for? What do the inhabitants of the “bottom” dream about?
3. 
   How does Luke console the homeless people? How do they feel about his words?
4. 
   What is attractive about Luke’s appearance and judgment? What do you take in it?
5. 
   Is it Luke's fault for what happened in the last scenes?
6. 
   Do Actor, Ashes, Nastya change me in the play? How and why?
7. 
   Do the weak need lies? Are pity, empathy, and compassion always humiliating?
8. 
   Is a debate about Truth and Man necessary in the play? How do you feel about the participants in the dispute and their position?
9. 
   Why did Gorky entrust Satin with an important monologue about a person?

1. 
   What event overturned all the illusions sown by Luke?
2. 
   What changed in the lives of the night shelters after the murder of Kostylev and the disappearance of Luka?
3. 
   Which characters' fates particularly shocked you and why?
4. 
   So what is more needed: truth or compassion?
5. 
   Identify the compositional elements of the play.
6. 
   What is the outcome of the debate about truth?
7. 
   What is Gorky’s innovation as a playwright?
8. 
   What is the philosophical meaning of the play?
9. 
   Highlight repeating, mirrored episodes in the play. What is their role in the composition of the work?

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Test work on the works of S. Yesenin.
(Questions are chosen by the student at will)

1. 
   What poems did S. Yesenin devote to the “lesser brothers”?
2. 
   How does Yesenin depict nature?
3. 
   Do you agree that Yesenin’s early poems are “full of sounds, smells, colors”? justify your answer.
4. 
   What are the most striking, interesting comparisons, images, metaphors, and other figurative devices you came across in the poet’s early poems?
5. 
   What is village life like in Yesenin’s early poems?
6. 
   Is it possible to judge from this poetry how the village lived, what processes took place in it?
7. 
   Which poems by Yesenin, in your opinion, most clearly indicate that he is in love “with the fields, with his village sky, with animals and flowers”?
8. 
   What feelings do Yesenin’s famous poems about animals evoke?
9. 
   Which poems by Yesenin about his homeland seemed the most significant and interesting to you?
10. 
    What is “new, unfamiliar, young” noted in the poem “Soviet Rus'”? Do you agree that Yesenin, judging by this poem, did not find a place for himself in this new one? Justify your answer.
11. 
    Do you agree that when the poet talks about himself as a hooligan, the poet is pretending? Justify your answer.
12. 
    How do you understand the definition of “decadence”? Do you agree that Moscow Tavern demonstrates “elements of social and literary decadence”? Give reasons for your answer.
13. 
    Do you agree that even in the most “tavern” poems Yesenin remains a gentle lyricist? Justify your answer.

1. 
   What determines the innovative nature of Mayakovsky's poetry?
2. 
   Which artistic techniques uses Mayakovsky?
3. 
   Why did the poet come specifically to futurism?
4. 
   How is the depiction of the revolution different in the works of Mayakovsky and Blok?
5. 
   “Mobilized and called by the revolution”... Confirm these words of Mayakovsky with the facts of his biography and work.
6. 
   Who are Mayakovsky's satirical works addressed to?
7. 
   What place does the theme of the poet and poetry occupy in Mayakovsky’s work?
8. 
   Why did some modern critics want to “throw Mayakovsky himself off the boat of poetry?” Are the poet's poems relevant for today?

1. 
   What did you learn about Katerina from Day 1? How is she different from other characters? Which of them is closest to Katerina?
2. 
   Genre of the play "Thunderstorm"
3. 
   What are the similarities and differences between the characters of Boris and Tikhon? How do they feel about Katerina?
4. 
   How does the Wild’s tyranny manifest itself?
5. 
   In the scene of farewell to Tikhon, Katerina says: “Fathers, I am perishing!” Explain the reason for Katerina’s suffering. What struggle is going on in her soul?
6. 
   What is Katerina's tragedy?

1. 
   Who can we consider the “masters” of life?
2. 
   What do you know about the environment in which Katerina was raised?
3. 
   Why did Boris consider himself “the black sheep in the city of Kalinov”? Prove it.
4. 
   Features of the composition.
5. 
   In Act 1 of “The Thunderstorm,” two characters talk about the beauty of nature. How are these statements different? What traits of the characters are reflected in their words about nature?
6. 
   Why didn’t Ostrovsky name the drama “The Thunderstorm” after the main character? moral meaning contained in the title of the drama?

1. 
   How is it different from the residents of the city of Kuligin?
2. 
   Tell us about the Kabanov family. What are the morals of this family?
3. 
   Composition of the play.
4. 
   Is Boris worthy of Katerina's love?
5. 
   Could Katerina find happiness in her family? Under what conditions?
6. 
   The meaning of the play's title.

1. 
   What laws do they live by in the city of Kalinov?
2. 
   Why did Katerina “wither” when she got to the Kabanovs’ house?
3. 
   Why can’t Varvara understand Katerina’s suffering?
4. 
   Prove the correctness of Varvara’s words that “there is a reason to love Tikhon.”
5. 
   What is the essence of the main conflict?
6. 
   Will the city of Kalinov be able to live as before after Katerina’s death?

1. 
   Boris says about himself: “I am a free bird,” but, in essence, who is freer, Katerina or Boris?
2. 
   Why does Katerina consider her love for Boris “criminal”?
3. 
   Who can we consider “victims of the dark kingdom”?
4. 
   Are tyrants confident that they are right?
5. 
   Did Kabanikha lose or win?
6. 
   Prove that Katerina’s death is a protest?

1. 
   Katerina means “pure” in Greek. Why does Ostrovsky give this name to his heroine?
2. 
   Tell us about the relationship between mother and son (Kabanova and Tikhon). Love? Respect? Submission? Fear? Too lazy to argue?
3. 
   The scene with the key, its role in the play.
4. 
   Why does Kuligin ask Dikiy for money? How does this characterize him?
5. 
   What actions and statements of Katerina indicate her honesty, desire for freedom, directness?
6. 
   Can Katerina’s suicide be considered a protest against Kabanov’s concepts of morality? Did Katerina have another way out? .

1. 
   Do you see only the “peaceful and gentle” sides of “Oblomovism” in the novel?
2. 
   Compare Oblomovka’s lifestyle with the hero’s life in St. Petersburg. How are they similar and how are they different?
3. 
   Does Stolz inspire confidence in you? Do you believe he is a “magnificent fellow”? Why?
4. 
   Can you call Stolz a “public figure”? What is the purpose of this hero’s activities?
5. 
   What features of Olga Ilyinskaya would you call defining? Why?
6. 
   Could you explain “why” Olga Ilyinskaya fell in love with Ilya Oblomov? Can their relationship be called love, in your opinion?
7. 
   Is Oblomov modern today?
8. 
   Can Oblomov evoke sympathy? How?

1. 
   How did Olga Ilyinskaya meet Oblomov? (1 point)
2. 
   Tell us about Oblomovka and its inhabitants? (1 point)
3. 
   Portrait of Zakhar. (1 point)
4. 
   Compare the attitude towards Oblomov of Olga and Agafya Matveevna. (2 points)
5. 
   What is Stolz's lifestyle like? What are his moral ideals? (2 points)
6. 
   Is it possible to characterize inner world Oblomov on the material of part 1. (2 points)
7. 
   Why is the first part of the novel dedicated to only one day of Oblomov? (3 points)
8. 
   What novels are written by I. Goncharov? What is their main conflict? (3 points)
9. 
   Why does Goncharov compare Oblomov’s death to a dream? (3 points)

1. 
   Portrait of Oblomov. (1 point)
2. 
   How were the years of Ilya’s apprenticeship? (1 point)
3. 
   Tell us how Agafya Matveevna lived after Oblomov’s death? (1 point)
4. 
   What feature of Oblomov did Goncharov want to emphasize with the words “the poets touched him to the quick”? (2 points)
5. 
   Express your attitude towards Oblomov, Stolz, Ilyinskaya, Pshenitsyna (two characters to choose from) (2 points)
6. 
   Why does Oblomov refuse last meeting with Olga? (2 points)
7. 
   Swipe comparative analysis Oblomov’s life on Gorokhovaya, in Pshenitsyna’s house and Ilya Ilyich’s memories of Oblomovka. (3 points)
8. 
   What literary character do you know that Oblomov can be compared to when you first met him? (3 points)
9. 
   Why did Oblomov’s spiritual death come before Stolz’s physical one? (3 points)

1. 
   What does the situation in his apartment say about the character and lifestyle of the hero? (1 point)
2. 
   Tell us about Oblomov’s service in the office. (1 point)
3. 
   Tell us about the parents of Andrei Stolts. What principles guided them in raising their son? (1 point)
4. 
   Why do you think the relationship between Olga and Oblomov has no future? (2 points)
5. 
   When and under what circumstances does the word “Oblomovism” appear in the novel? (2 points)
6. 
   Why is the first part of the novel dedicated to only one day of Oblomov? (2 points)
7. 
   Why did Olga’s marriage to Stolz become possible only after Olga’s love for Oblomov? (3 points)
8. 
   What features bring Stolz closer to Oblomov? (3 points)
9. 
   How will Andrei Oblomov grow up? (3 points)

1. 
   What two “misfortunes” occupy Oblomov? What difficulties does he see in solving these problems? (1 point)
2. 
   Visitors to Oblomov. Purpose of their visits (1 point)
3. 
   How I spent it free time I.I. Oblomov? (1 point)
4. 
   Tell us about how the relationship between Olga and Ilya develops. (2 points)
5. 
   What place does Tarantiev occupy in the system of images of the novel? What is his role in Oblomov’s life? (2 points)
6. 
   How does Oblomov feel about the innovations in the village that Stolz talks about? (2 points)
7. 
   Compare the life together of Olga Ilyinskaya and Andrei Stolts. Have they achieved the ideal? (3 points)
8. 
   Which artistic details used by the author when creating portrait characteristics Oblomov? (3 points)
9. 
   What is Pshenitsyna’s role in Oblomov’s life? (3 points)

whoever can (help a lot) this is an internal exam in literature 1. What is the tragedy of the love of Zheltkov, the hero of Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet”?
2. Prove that for the hero of Kuprin’s story “The Garnet Bracelet,” love is the highest value of the world.
3. Show the richness of the spiritual world of the heroine of Kuprin’s story “Olesya”.
4. Prove by giving examples from Kuprin’s works that his favorite hero is a young man, gentle, intelligent, conscientious, ardently sympathetic to his “little brother” and at the same time weak-willed, tragically subject to the forces of the environment and circumstances.
5. Why is the era of poets of the early 20th century characterized as “ silver Age"Russian poetry? What are its fundamental differences from the “golden age”?
6. What three pieces of advice does he give to a young poet? lyrical hero poems by V.Ya. Bryusov " To the young poet"? Do you agree with his position? What do you think it should be true poet? Read the poem by heart.
7. Tell us what you know about Bryusov, the translator. Name its main translations. What languages ​​are they used in?
8. How does Balmont’s lyrics show interest in ancient Slavic folklore? What images arise? Analyze the poems “Evil Spells” and “Firebird”.
9. What picture does Balmont paint in the poem “First Love”? Tell us about your perception of this poem.
10. Describe the work of early Mayakovsky. What are its main specific features? Read one poem from this period by heart.
11. “Freedom is the most beautiful thing in life, for the sake of it a person should be ready to sacrifice everything, even his life.” Confirm Gorky’s words with examples from his stories “Makar Chudra” and “Old Woman Izergil”.
12. Prove that even a crazy but extraordinary step, according to Gorky, will remain in people’s memory. Give examples from “The Song of the Falcon”, “The Song of the Petrel”, “The Legend of Marco”.
13. What is the meaning of the title of the play “At the Bottom”? Explain its symbolic meaning.
14. Who is Blok’s cycle of poems “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” dedicated to? What was it written for? Analyze 3 poems from this collection. Read one by heart.
15. How is the theme of the House revealed in Bulgakov’s novel “The White Guard”? What symbolic meaning does the word “house” have for Bulgakov?
16. What philosophical problems are raised in Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”?
17. Show the inextricability of the connection between Tsvetaeva’s fate and creativity and Moscow. Analyze the cycle “Poems about Moscow.” Read one poem by heart.
18. Describe the image of the lyrical heroine of the poem “Requiem”.
19. Describe the Cossack life depicted by Sholokhov. Show the peculiarities of Cossack speech. How they help the writer convey the vitality of the setting. How does a writer depict the life of a village?
20. Describe the family structure of the Melekhovs, Korshunovs, Astakhovs. Make a comparative description.
21. How the First is depicted in the novel “Quiet Don” World War?
22. Compare Aksinya and Natalya, explain Gregory’s feelings for each of them. What is the significance of the heroines' names? Why do they both die?
23. What is the meaning of the title of Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of a Man”?
24. Give a detailed description military prose and poetry. Analyze 2 works.
25. Give a detailed description of urban prose. Analyze 2 works.

The purpose of the lesson: show Kuprin’s skill in depicting the world of human feelings; the role of detail in the story.

Lesson equipment: recording of Beethoven's Second Sonata.

Methodical techniques: commented reading, analytical conversation.

During the classes.

I. The teacher's word

The story “The Garnet Bracelet,” written by Kuprin in 1910, is dedicated to one of the main themes of his work - love. The epigraph contained the first line of music from Beethoven's Second Sonata. Let us remember the statement of Nazansky, the hero of “The Duel,” that love is a talent akin to music. (It is possible to listen to a musical excerpt.) The work is based on a real fact - the love story of a modest official for a society lady, the mother of the writer L. Lyubimov.

II. Story prototypes

The teacher reads the following excerpt from the memoirs of L. Lyubimov:
“In the period between her first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without identifying himself, emphasized that the difference in social status did not allow him to count on reciprocity, and expressed his love for her. These letters were preserved in my family for a long time, and I read them in my youth. An anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story), wrote that he served at the telegraph (in Kuprin, Prince Shein jokingly decides that only some telegraph operator can write like that), in one letter he reported that under the guise the floor polisher entered my mother’s apartment and described the situation (in Kuprin, Shein again jokingly tells how Zheltkov, disguised as a chimney sweep and smeared with soot, enters Princess Vera’s boudoir). The tone of the messages was sometimes pompous, sometimes grumpy. He was either angry with my mother or thanking her, although she did not react in any way to his explanations...
At first, these letters amused everyone, but then (they arrived almost every day for two or three years) my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening the next message from the loving telegraph operator in the morning.
And then came the denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle<...>and my father, who was then my mother’s fiancé, went to see Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhelty, like Zheltkov, actually lived on the sixth floor. “The spit-stained staircase,” writes Kuprin, “smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry” - all this corresponds to what I heard from my father. Yellow lived in a squalid attic. He was caught composing another message. Like Kuprin’s Shein, the father remained silent during the explanation, looking “with bewilderment and greedy, serious curiosity into the face of this strange man.” My father told me that he felt some kind of secret in Yellow, a flame of genuine selfless passion. My uncle, again like Kuprin’s Nikolai Nikolaevich, got excited and was needlessly harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and gloomily promised not to write to my mother again. That was the end of it. In any case, we know nothing about his further fate.”
L. Lyubimov. In a foreign land, 1963

III. Analytical conversation of a comparative nature

How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard in the family of the high-ranking official Lyubimov?
- What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero’s love into the realm of an unattainable dream?
- Can we say that “The Garnet Bracelet” expressed Kuprin’s own dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling?
- Is there a connection between the garnet bracelet that the hero of the story gives to Vera Sheina and the “ruby bracelet” from Kuprin’s late poem “Forever”?
- Compare the understanding of love in the works of Kuprin and Bunin (based on Kuprin’s “Olesya’s “Duel”, “Garnet Bracelet” and Bunin’s stories “Sunstroke” and “Clean Monday”). What brings these two writers of the same age together and how do they sharply differ in other components of creativity - the processing of life material, the degree of metaphorical prose, “plot construction,” the nature of conflicts?

IV. Conversation on the story “Garnet Bracelet”

- How does Kuprin draw the main character of the story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina?
(The outward inaccessibility and inaccessibility of the heroine is stated at the beginning of the story by her title and position in society - she is the wife of the leader of the nobility. But Kuprin shows the heroine against the backdrop of clear, sunny, warm days, in silence and solitude, which Vera rejoices in, perhaps reminiscent of love for the solitude and beauty of nature of Tatyana Larina (also, by the way, a married princess). , chapter eight, stanza XX “But an indifferent princess, / But an unapproachable goddess / Of the luxurious, royal Neva”) - a sensitive, delicate, selfless person: she tries to quietly help her husband “make ends meet”, observing decency, still saving , since “I had to live above my means.” She dearly loves her younger sister (their obvious dissimilarity in both appearance and character is emphasized by the author himself, Chapter II), with “a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship” she treats her husband, childishly affectionate with “grandfather General Anosov, a friend of their father.)

- What technique does the author use to more clearly highlight the appearance of Zheltkov in the story?
(Kuprin “gathers all the characters in the story, with the exception of Zheltkov, for the name day of Princess Vera. A small society of people who are pleasant to each other cheerfully celebrates the name day, but Vera suddenly notes that there are thirteen guests, and this alarms her: “she was superstitious.”)

- What gifts did Vera receive? What is their significance?
(The princess receives not just expensive, but lovingly chosen gifts: “beautiful earrings made of pear-shaped pearls” from her husband, “a small notebook in an amazing binding... the labor of love of the hands of a skillful and patient artist” from her sister.)

- How does Zheltkov’s gift look against this background? What is its value?
(Zheltkov’s gift - “a gold, low-grade, very thick, but exaggerated and on the outside completely covered with small old, poorly polished garnets” bracelet looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value lie elsewhere. Deep red garnets light up alive under electric light lights, and it occurs to Vera: “It’s like blood! - this is another alarming omen. Zheltkov gives the most valuable thing he has - a family jewel.)

- What is the symbolic meaning of this detail?
(This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Let us remember the gift Olesya left for Ivan Timofeevich - a string of red beads.)

- How does the theme of love develop in the story?
(At the beginning of the story, the feeling of love is parodied. Vera’s husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, a cheerful and witty man, makes fun of Zheltkov, who is still unfamiliar to him, showing the guests a humorous album with the “love story” of the telegraph operator for the princess. However, the end of this funny story turns out to be almost prophetic: “Finally he dies, but before his death he bequeaths to give Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears.”
Further, the theme of love is revealed in inserted episodes and acquires a tragic connotation. General Anosov tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which in the retelling seems to be just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. “I don’t see true love. I haven’t seen it in my time either!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, vulgar unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about which it is said “strong as death”?.. Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! Anosov talks about tragic cases similar to such love. The conversation about love brought up the telegraph operator’s story, and the general felt its truth: “maybe your path in life, Verochka, was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and that men are no longer capable of.”)

- How is Zheltkov and his love portrayed by the author? What traditional theme for Russian literature does Kuprin develop?
(Kuprin develops the theme of the “little man”, traditional for Russian literature. An official with the funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, he, with the power of his love, rises above the petty vanity, life’s conveniences, decency. He turns out to be a man, not at all inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love elevated him. Love became suffering, the only meaning of life “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, life is all about. only in you - he writes in his farewell letter to Princess Vera. As he passes away, Zheltkov blesses his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.” Here one can see blasphemy - after all, these are the words of a prayer for a hero, above all earthly things, they are of no divine origin. “decisive measures” and “appeals to the authorities” cannot make one stop loving. Not a shadow of resentment or complaint in the hero’s words, only gratitude for the “tremendous happiness” - love.)

- What is the significance of the image of a hero after his death?
(The dead Zheltkov acquires deep importance... as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his entire human life." The face of the deceased reminds Vera of the death masks of "the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon." So Kuprin shows the great talent of love, equating it with the talents of recognized geniuses.)

- What mood will the ending of the story be filled with? What role does music play in creating this mood?
(The ending of the story is elegiac, imbued with a feeling of light sadness, and not tragedy. Zheltkov dies, but Princess Vera awakens to life, something inaccessible to her was revealed to her, that same “great love that repeats itself once every thousand years.” The heroes “loved each other only one moment, but forever.” Music plays a big role in awakening the soul of Vera.
Beethoven's second sonata is in tune with Vera's mood; through music her soul seems to connect with Zheltkov's soul.)

V. Teacher's final words

A particular case is poeticized by Kuprin. The author talks about love, which is repeated “only once in a thousand years.” Love, according to Kuprin, “is always a tragedy, always a struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death.” The tragedy of love, the tragedy of life only emphasize their beauty.
Let’s think about Kuprin’s words from a letter to F.D. Batyushkov (1906): “Individuality is not expressed in strength, not in dexterity, not in intelligence, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!
The melody of Beethoven's Second Sonata sounds.

VI. Homework

Prepare for an essay based on the story of A.I. Kuprin.

Essay topics:
1. My thoughts about the story I read by A. I. Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet.”
2. “...what was it: love or madness?” (Based on the story “Garnet Bracelet”)