The work "Garnet Bracelet", the analysis of which we will now give in this article, is read by everyone - both students and adults who graduated from school a long time ago. And all because Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a great master of short prose, his stories, so vividly describing the brightest feelings, have their own unique style and help to understand the subtle notes of the soul of a Russian person. That is why now we will consider the analysis of the story "Garnet Bracelet".

What a story

The basis for the plot of the story was a real story that Kuprin learned. The love of one telegraph official for a married lady led to the fact that he could no longer hide his feelings and decided to give her a gift. So, the main character, whose name is Sheina Vera Nikolaevna, is presented with a very interesting decoration as a gift. Not only that, judging by the note, the gift was made by a secret admirer, it says about the properties of green pomegranate. And the gift is a garnet bracelet. The giver is sure that the owner of this stone gets the opportunity to foresee.

In the analysis of the story "Garnet Bracelet" it is important to note that green garnet becomes a symbol of passionate love and passionate feelings. Princess Sheina, who received a gift, decides to tell her husband that she received such a gift and even lets him read the attached note. The reader will soon learn that the hero of the story, Zheltkov, is the secret admirer. He serves as a petty official and has long been in love with the princess. Although after it becomes known about him, Zheltkov receives threats from his brother Sheina and other offensive words, thanks to his love he endures everything.

In the end, in order to avert shame from his beloved, Zheltkov takes his own life. Even without making a deep analysis of the story "The Garnet Bracelet", it is clear that the princess only after these sad events understands how deep and pure the feelings of the poor official Zheltkov were. But she understands not only this, but something else important.

Kuprin reveals the theme of love

The image of Zheltkov, which runs like a red thread through the entire story, shows what selfless and self-sacrificing love can be in a person's heart. Without betraying his feelings, Zheltkov decides to say goodbye to life. However, there are changes in Princess Sheina, and this is thanks to Zheltkov's love. Now Vera again wants to feel that she is loved and wants to love herself, and this becomes the central theme of the story "Garnet Bracelet", which we are now analyzing. After all, during the time that the main character is married, she practically forgets about feelings and goes with the flow.

What meaning did Kuprin put into the symbol of the garnet bracelet? Firstly, thanks to this bracelet, Princess Vera realized that passion and love can be experienced again, and secondly, having received such a gift, she blossomed and fell in love with life again, again her days were filled with colors and emotions.

Alexander Kuprin in his works attached great importance to the theme of love, and this is clearly seen in the "Garnet Bracelet". Love, as a pure feeling, should be in the heart of a person. Although the ending in the story is sad, the main character remained happy because she realized what feelings her soul is capable of.

Lesson Objectives:

• to deepen students' ideas about the artistic originality of AI Kuprin's prose;
• to acquaint students with the history of the creation of the story "Garnet Bracelet";
• on the basis of direct impressions from reading the story, conduct a comprehensive analysis of the work, considering the problems of the story, its plot and compositional features, the originality of artistic images;
• improve students' skills in analyzing a work of art, developing the ability to highlight the main, essential moments in the development of an action, determine their role in revealing the theme and idea of ​​a work, and draw independent conclusions;
• working on the analysis of the work, to form in students their own attitude to the events and heroes of the story, thereby contributing to the development of an active life position, the ability to defend their own point of view;
• develop the skills of researching a literary text.
• on the example of the main character to bring up the best human qualities.
• cultivate an attentive attitude to the word.

(During the lesson, a computer presentation is used. Appendix No. 1)

During the classes

I. Org. moment. Explanation of the goals and objectives of the lesson.

Today we continue to study the work of A. I. Kuprin. On the

In the previous lesson, we talked about the life of a writer, having considered creativity in general terms. In today's lesson, our task will be to approach this issue in more detail: we will focus on the study and analysis of A. I. Kuprin's story “Garnet Bracelet”.

Before a direct analysis of the work, I would like to remind you that when getting acquainted with works of literature, art, you do not need to make hasty conclusions: it is difficult, incomprehensible .... Remember: in order to understand, you need, according to L. N. Tolstoy, “ force your mind to act with all its possible strength.

II. Literary five minutes, poetic mood.

(Almost every literature lesson, the guys and I begin with a poetic five-minute session. At five-minute sessions, students read by heart poems that are somehow dear to them, close. These can be works from both the school curriculum and extracurricular reading lessons. Some students read poems of their favorite poets whose work is not studied at school.In addition to expressive reading of the poem, the speaker should conduct a small analysis: determines the topic, the idea of ​​the read work, expresses his attitude.In preparation for this lesson, I asked the student to learn the poem by A. S. Pushkin “I loved you ... ”) Expressive reading by students of the poem by A. S. Pushkin “I loved you ...”

III. Transition to the topic of the lesson.

1. Introductory speech of the teacher.

I think you understand that the choice of this poem is not accidental - the theme of love in literature is considered “eternal”, many writers addressed it: both poets and prose writers. AI Kuprin in this case is not an exception, but, most likely, confirmation. But it should be noted that each of them revealed it in its own way. How is this topic revealed by Kuprin in the story "Garnet Bracelet"? To answer this question, we need to reveal the problematics, consider the plot and compositional features and the system of images of this work. As an epigraph to our lesson, I took the words of V. Lvov-Rogachevsky: “The work of Kuprin reflected life in all its infinite diversity, not so much life as a whole, but in fragments, in a whirlwind of accidents ... He has the greed of a collector, only he collects not rare coins , but rare occasions”. To be convinced of the authenticity of the words of V. Lvov-Rogachevsky, we will be able to get acquainted with the history of the creation of this work.

2. Familiarization of students with the history of the creation of the story "Garnet Bracelet". Student's message “History of the creation of the story by A. I. Kuprin” (individual homework of the student).

"Garnet Bracelet" has an unusual creative history. Work on the story went on in the autumn of 1910 in Odessa. At this time, Kuprin often visited the family of the Odessa doctor L. Ya. Maisels and listened to Beethoven's Second Sonata performed by his wife. The musical work captured Alexander Ivanovich so much that work on the story began with the fact that he wrote down the epigraph. “L. van Beethoven. 2 Son. (op. 2, no. 2). Largo Appassionato. Beethoven's Sonata "Appassionata", one of the most intense, languishing, passionate creations of the human genius in music, awakened Kuprin to literary creativity. The sounds of the sonata combined in his imagination with the story of bright love, which he witnessed. On October 15, 1910, Kuprin wrote about the plot of the story to his friend, critic F. D. Batyushkov: “Remember, this is the sad story of the little telegraph official P. P. Zholtikov, who was so hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with Lyubimov’s wife (D. N. is now the governor in Vilna)” . (Listening to a fragment of “Appassionata”) In the recently published memoirs “In a Foreign Land” by the writer Lev Lyubimov, the son of D.N. Lyubimov, we can read:

“In the period between the first and second marriages, my mother began to receive letters, the author of which, without naming himself and emphasizing that the difference in social status does not allow him to count on reciprocity, expressed his love to her. These letters were kept in my family for a long time... Anonymous lover, as it turned out later - Zhelty (in Zheltkov's story) wrote that he worked at the telegraph office..., in one letter he reported that under the guise of a polisher he entered my mother's apartment, and described the situation. The tone of the messages was sometimes pompous, sometimes grouchy. He was either angry with my mother, or thanked her, although she did not react to his explanations in any way ...

At first, these letters amused everyone, but then ... my mother even stopped reading them, and only my grandmother laughed for a long time, opening another message from a telegraph operator in love in the morning. And then there was a denouement: an anonymous correspondent sent my mother a garnet bracelet. My uncle and father went to Yellow. All this happened not in the Black Sea city, like Kuprin, but in St. Petersburg. But Zhovty, like Zheltkov, really lived on the sixth floor ... huddled in a miserable attic. He was caught writing another message. Like Kuprin's Shein, the father was more 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 in Yellow some kind of secret, a flame of genuine selfless passion.

Uncle, again like Kuprin's Nikolai Nikolaevich, got excited, was unnecessarily harsh. Yellow accepted the bracelet and grimly promised not to write to my mother again. This is how it all ended. In any case, we do not know anything about his further fate.

3. A comparative discourse.

- We saw that the story of A. I. Kuprin has a real basis. Why do you think Kuprin artistically transformed the real story? (Departing from true events, Kuprin managed to create a work full of great generalizations. Having based his story on a “case from life” and slightly changing it, the author managed to achieve typification. And in this way he defended his writer’s right to be an artist, and not just a reporter life).

- Concluding the story with a tragic denouement, Kuprin wanted to set off the power of great love, "which is repeated only once in a thousand years." Do you think the writer achieved his goal?

4. Analytical work on the text of the work.

a) Analytical work on the genre correlation of the work. Interviews with students on:

– A. I. Kuprin defined the genre of his work as a story. Tell,
please, what is the story? (The story is called a small
a narrative work dedicated to some individual event in a person’s life, without a detailed depiction of what happened to him before and after this event).

What do you know about story composition? (In the composition of the story, one can distinguish
the following parts: exposition, plot, climax, denouement).

- Explain what the above parts are.

The composition of the story includes the following parts:

1. The exposition is an introductory part (optional part), which at the initial stage of the analysis of a work of art helps to answer a number of questions: where? when? what's happening? and gives an initial idea of ​​the current characters.
2. The tie is the event from which the action begins.
3. Action development.
4. The climax is the highest point in the development of the action.
5. Decline in action.
6. The denouement is the event that ends the action.

In a similar way, any story, as well as other fiction of a small epic form, can be represented in the form of the following graphic scheme:

Further, during analytical work, the correspondence of one or another episode of the work to the corresponding paragraph of the scheme is determined. As a result of the analysis, a plot-compositional scheme is obtained, which visually helps to present the chain of events that make up the plot of the work, and reveal the structural features of the work under study.

In the course of the analysis, the ability to give an individual and generalized description of the characters is improved, an idea of ​​the form of narration and the image of the narrator develops, knowledge of composition and plot deepens.

b) Analytical work on the plot and composition of the story.

(Next, together with the students, we work on the plot-compositional scheme of the story, with the help of which further analytical work will proceed. On the board and in notebooks, we draw // draw the plot-compositional scheme of the story, determining which point of the scheme corresponds to one or another episode of the work. In at the moment of constructing the scheme, each item corresponding to one or another episode is discussed).

- Is there an exposition in the story "Garnet Bracelet"?

What is the role of exposition in a story? (She “immerses” the reader into the artistic
time and artistic space: gives an initial idea of ​​time, about
place of action, about the hero).

What do we learn about the main character of the story at this moment? How does the author describe her?

– What is their role? How do these episodes show the characters of the story?

- What is the artistic function of detailed detailing of individual moments?

- What episode of the story can be designated as the climax? Why?

- How does the story end? Which part of the story is the beginning of the story?

What is the mood of the finale of the story? What role does music play in creating this mood? (The ending of the story is elegiac, imbued with a feeling of light sadness, but tragedy. Zheltkov dies, but Princess Vera awakens to life, something inaccessible before was revealed to her, that same “great love that repeats once every thousand years.” The heroes “loved each other only one moment, but forever.” Music played an important role in the awakening of Vera’s soul: through music, her soul seemed to unite with the soul of Zheltkov).

- What features in the composition of the story "Garnet Bracelet" can be noted?

in) Analytical work on the subject of the story "Garnet Bracelet".

– How did you determine the theme of A. I. Kuprin’s story “Garnet Bracelet”? What themes does the author raise in his work? (The theme of interpersonal relations; the author considers such topics as: the theme of love, friendship, the theme of hatred, selfishness, callousness. In addition, the author also addresses the theme of the “little man.” The image of Zheltkov helps to reveal this theme, traditional for Russian literature. In “ Garnet bracelet "there is no sharp criticism of bourgeois society. The ruling classes are depicted in soft colors. But in comparison with the enormous feeling of the little official Zheltkov, the hardening of the soul of people who consider themselves superior to Zheltkov is revealed. Nikolai Nikolaevich Bulat-Tuganovsky in the story appears as a person symbolizing everything bad, what happens in the aristocracy. An official with a funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, but by the power of his love rises above petty fuss, life's conveniences, decency. He turns out to be a man who is in no way inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love exalted him Love became suffering, the only meaning of his life).

- How do you understand the words of K. G. Paustovsky: “Garnet Bracelet” is one of the fragrant stories about love - and the saddest”?

What is the author's idea expressed in the story? (A special case is poeticized by A. I. Kuprin. The author talks about love, which, in his opinion, 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. It can be said that Kuprin himself expressed his dream of an ideal, unearthly feeling in the "Garnet Bracelet". A. I. Kuprin wrote that he sought to "show spiritually transforming, enlightening the power of an all-consuming feeling of love”).

A.I. Kuprin in his works often raises the theme of true love. In his story "Garnet Bracelet", written in 1911, he touches on its infinity and significance in human life. However, often this vivid feeling turns out to be unrequited. And the power of such love can destroy the one who experiences it.

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Direction and genre of the work

Kuprin, being a real literary artist, liked to reflect real life in his works. He was the one who wrote many stories and novels based on real events. "Garnet Bracelet" was no exception. "Garnet Bracelet" genre - a story written in the spirit.

It was based on an incident that happened to the wife of one of the Russian governors. A telegraph official was in love with her unrequitedly and passionately, who once sent her a chain with a small pendant.

If for people from the real world this case was tantamount to a joke, then for Kuprin's characters a similar story turns into a strong tragedy.

The genre of the work "Garnet Bracelet" cannot be a story, due to the insufficient number of characters and one storyline. If we talk about the features of the composition, then it is worth highlighting many small details that, as events slowly unfold, hint at a catastrophe at the end of the work. To an inattentive reader, it may seem that the text is fairly filled with details. However, it is they help the author to create a complete picture.“Garnet Bracelet”, the composition of which is also framed by inserts about love, ends with a scene explaining the meaning of the epigraph: “L. van Beethoven. 2 Son. (op. 2, no. 2). Largo Appassionato»

The theme of love, in one form or another, sews the whole work with a red thread.

Attention! There is nothing left unsaid in this masterpiece. Thanks to skillful artistic descriptions, realistic images emerge before the eyes of readers, the plausibility of which no one will doubt. Natural, simple people with ordinary desires and needs are of genuine interest to readers.

Image system

There are not so many heroes in Kuprin's work. To each of them the author gives a detailed portrait. The appearance of the characters reveals what is going on in the soul of each of them. Description of the heroes of the "Garnet Bracelet", their memories occupy a large part in the text.

Vera Sheina

This woman of regal calm, is the central figure story. It is on her name day that an event takes place that forever changed her life - she receives a garnet bracelet as a gift, which gives its owner the gift of foresight.

Important! A revolution in the mind of the heroine occurs when she listens to Beethoven's sonata, bequeathed to her by Zheltkov. Dissolving in music, she awakens to life, to passions. However, her feelings are difficult, and even impossible, to understand others.

Georgy Zheltkov

The only joy in the whole life of a petty official is opportunity to love at a distance Vera Nikolaevna. However, the hero of the "Garnet Bracelet" cannot stand his all-consuming love. It is she who elevates the character above other people with their base, and even insignificant, feelings and desires.

Thanks to his gift of high love, Georgy Stepanovich was able to experience great happiness. He bequeathed his life to Vera alone. Dying, he did not hold a grudge against her, but continued to love, cherishing her image in his heart, as evidenced by the words spoken towards her: “Hallowed be thy name!”.

The basic idea

If you look closely at the work of Kuprin, you can see a number of short stories reflecting his search for the ideal of love. These include:

• "Shulamith";
• "On the road";
• "Lenochka".

Completing this love cycle, "Garnet Bracelet" showed, alas, not the deep feeling that the writer was looking for and would like to fully reflect. However, in its strength, Zheltkov’s painful unrequited love is not inferior at all, but on the contrary, transcends the attitudes and feelings of other characters. Contrasted with his hot and passionate emotions in the story is the calmness that reigns between the Shein spouses. The author emphasizes that only good friendship remained between them, and the spiritual flame has long been extinguished.

Zheltkov is supposed to excite the calm state of Vera. He does not evoke reciprocal feelings in a woman, but arouses excitement in her. If throughout the book they were expressed as premonitions, then at the end, obvious contradictions rage in her soul.

A sense of danger in Sheina arises already when she first sees a gift sent to her and a letter from a secret admirer. She involuntarily compares the modest gold bracelet adorned with five bright red garnets to blood. This is is one of the key symbols that marked the future suicide of the unfortunate lover.

The author admitted that he had never written anything more sensitive and subtle. And the analysis of the work "Garnet Bracelet" confirms this. The bitterness of the story intensifies autumn landscape, the atmosphere of farewell to summer cottages, cold and transparent days. The nobility of Zheltkov's soul was appreciated even by Vera's husband, he allowed the telegraph operator to write her the last letter. In it, each line is a poem about love, a real ode.

Play by Alexander Ostrovsky: a summary of the chapters

Strong episode story can be considered a scene where the main characters meet, whose fates are so suddenly intertwined and changed. Living Vera looked at the peaceful face of the dead man and thought about her spiritual shock. Numerous aphorisms, often used in speech, fill this small work. What quotes make readers shudder:

• “I am infinitely grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something.
• “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.”
• "Do not go to your death until you are called."

Garnet bracelet. Alexander Kuprin

Garnet bracelet. A.I. Kuprin (analysis)

Conclusion

Zheltkov's unrequited passion did not pass without a trace for the main character. The symbol of eternal love - a garnet bracelet - turned her life upside down. Kuprin, who always blesses this feeling, expressed in his story the full force of this inexplicable gravity.

It's very difficult to explain it. The end is crumpled, but both main thoughts are expressed here. I formulated what I tried to prove to everyone. Might be worth slicing it out.

All task: come up with an epigraph !!!

So, it turned out like this:

"What was it: love or madness?" (Based on Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet")

It is difficult to find a writer or poet who has not touched the theme of love in his works. It is also difficult to find a person who has not experienced this feeling at least once. Love transforms a person. She can make him happy or vice versa, doom him to painful suffering.

Kuprin often presents love as a kind of force beyond the control of people, and, at the same time, an invaluable gift. Gift from God.

The story described in the story "Garnet Bracelet" is real. It happened in Odessa. Kuprin wrote to Batyushkov: “Do you remember this? - the sad story of the little telegraph official P.P. Zheltikov, who was so hopelessly in love with Lyubimov’s wife ... His face, who shot himself (she told him not to even try to see her), is important , deep, illuminated by that mysterious wisdom that only the dead comprehend ... " Kuprin acted in this case in the same way as Prince Vasily Shein did in his story, about which it was said that "he took the true episode as the basis of the story, but exaggerated "that in his presentation "truth was wonderfully intertwined with fiction."

For Kuprin, love is one of the "secrets" of a person. The image of General Anosov in the story is not accidental. Anosov expresses the writer’s own thoughts about love: “Where is love? Selfless love, selfless, not waiting for a reward? The one about which it is said “strong as death”? life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy. It is through the mouth of Anosov that the author proclaims that it is impossible to pass by big and pure love: “Maybe it’s just a crazy guy, a maniac, but - who knows? - maybe your life path, Verochka, was crossed precisely by such a love that women dream of and which men are no longer capable of."

The story ends sadly. Vera's brother and husband find Zheltkov and demand that they stop interfering in their personal lives. Powerless before the feeling, Zheltkov finds only one way out: to die. Faith is shaken. She visits his apartment, where she sees him for the first time, but already dead, and feels that "the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by."

It seems that the story is tragic: the lover dies without waiting for reciprocal love, and Vera is doomed to eternal suffering. But Kuprin does not reveal what happens to Vera after. The story ends with the words "No, no - he has forgiven me now. Everything is fine." Love is stronger than death.

Very beautiful. Beautiful, if you believe that this is love. But is it love? Is it possible to love a person without ever meeting his eyes, never once hearing a word from him?.. Is it possible to love such a "shadow"?

You can love the way Ivan Timofeevich loved Olesya, loved her every word, every movement. And Zheltkov, extremely rarely seeing Vera, created an image with which he fell in love. Yes, he truly loved, but he loved his fantasy. It is likely that having known Vera closer, he would have been disappointed in her.

So, answering the question "Love or madness?", I say: madness, because to love an image does not mean to love a real person with all his virtues and shortcomings.

However, Zheltkov's love opened up a new life for Vera. This is the bright end.