Love is one of the feelings that a person is given to experience in life. We can say that this feeling makes a person kinder, cleaner, more perfect.
The theme of love is one of the leading themes of world literature from ancient times to the present day. Many lovers have become the personification of this feeling. It is worth remembering Leila and Majnun, the Cavalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, the lady with the dog and Gurov, as well as many, many others. It is difficult to think of what famous poets and prose writers would write about, what great composers and artists would be inspired by, if there were no love in the world.
The ancients considered love a gift from the gods. This feeling, in their opinion, brought mortals closer to the celestials. In the Middle Ages, a real cult of love developed. The knights devoted their entire lives to serving the beautiful lady and were happy. Since then, the word “knight” began to be used to describe anyone who treats a woman with respect and admiration.
We can judge what place love occupied in the lives of our ancestors, in particular, from the works of Russian classics. And one of the reasons for the most famous duel in Russian history was precisely ardent love colliding with burning jealousy.
To say “I love you” means to say “you will never die,” the great French writer Albert Camus once remarked. A lover imprints the image of a loved one in his heart, makes him immortal, just as the sun, earth, and wind are immortal, and only such immortality is possible in our imperfect world.
"I have you alone, Like the moon in the night, Like spring year, Like a pine tree in the steppe.
There is no other like this, beyond any river,
No behind the fogs,
Distant countries"
These lines were written by the famous bard Yuri Vizbor. They can be considered a kind of result of modern artistic and everyday experience. Today, love has hardly changed much: this feeling still inspires a person to new beginnings, achievements, and exploits. And anyone who has carried this wonderful feeling throughout his life can confidently say: “I did not live in vain.”
The power of love
It seems to me that love is one of the most beautiful feelings that a person can experience. So what is this feeling, to which songs of praise have been sung and all sorts of curses have been sent for centuries?I think a person cannot live happily without love. She has many faces. We love parents, children, husbands and wives, friends - and everyone in different, special ways. But no matter who we feel this feeling for, true love always means understanding, respect, willingness to help, protect, the ability to make a sacrifice for the sake of a loved one.The power of love lies in the fact that it awakens a reciprocal feeling, heals the soul, and can save lives. This is the state of a person when his soul is most open to the supreme principles of goodness, truth and beauty. He who loves not only demands, but also gives, not only thirsts for pleasure, but is also ready for the highest feats of self-denial. True love is also an expression of creativity; it presupposes care, respect, and responsibility.Love is an important part of human life. We become what we think about. To love someone or something, you must first respect it. But above all, you need to respect yourself, because if you don’t love and respect yourself, it’s very difficult to love and respect others. You need to learn to accept yourself, value yourself, no matter what others think or say about you.It seems to me that we create love ourselves - it is not the result of fate or luck. Each of us has the ability to love and be loved. Love must be learned. True love overcomes everything, covers everything, forgives everything. Love is probably when you love the shortcomings of another person. If a person seems beautiful, smart, talented to you, this is not necessarily love. It's another matter if you know and love the shortcomings that he has. However, it is worth paying attention to the statement about love by V. G. Belinsky: “Love is often mistaken, seeing in a beloved object something that is not there... but sometimes only love reveals in it the beautiful or great, which is inaccessible to observation and the mind.” That is, the power of love is manifested in the fact that it can reveal the dignity of a person, awaken something beautiful in him.Love gives rise to an uncontrollable desire in us to do good deeds. All the world around us to a person in love it seems beautiful and significant. Everyday tasks become important and even pleasant and are carried out with some special ease. It is not for nothing that love is considered the elixir of life - it awakens the hidden powers of a person.Of course, true happiness can bring mutual love. But in life it doesn't always happen like this. People, having once felt suffering from love, believe that it only brings pain and should be avoided. By unrequited love they judge love in general - “it’s better not to love and not to suffer”... But is it so good to live “halfway”?Love is a feat, a sacrifice, the pinnacle of development of the human soul. One of the facets of this feeling - the love of a man and a woman - is captured in many creations of the human spirit, glorified by writers and poets, composers and artists, directors and actors. Love is an eternal source of inspiration.A monument to such omnipotent love is the beautiful and sad story of Romeo and Juliet - young lovers who, with the power of their feelings, overcame what seemed to be the most insurmountable things - hatred, enmity and even death itself.In Russian literature you can also find many works that sing the hymn of eternal love. Thus, the pathos of Pushkin’s poem “I loved you...” is a bright sadness about eternal love and the impossibility of happiness with one’s beloved. The lyrical hero is noble and selfless. He timidly hopes that love, perhaps, has not completely faded away, but he renounces his happiness for the well-being of his beloved woman.In the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov main character She willingly sold her soul to the devil. The spirit of evil helped her take revenge on her lover’s offenders. And before, Margarita, without hesitation, refused, for the sake of happiness with the Master, from a wealthy, peaceful life with my husband.And yet love cannot be deciphered, has no precise definition. Love is the most complex, mysterious and paradoxical reality that a person faces. And not because, as is usually believed, there is only one step from love to hate, but because love cannot be “calculated or calculated”! You can’t be calculating in it – nature will easily upset any calculations! One can only be sensitive to it in order to follow its whimsical flow and in time with the soul guess all its bends, shifts imperceptible to the eye, turns sometimes inexplicable to the mind. In love it is impossible to be petty and mediocre - it requires generosity and talent, vigilance of the heart, breadth of soul, a kind, subtle mind and much, much more that nature has endowed us with in abundance and that we unwisely waste and dull in our vain life.This high, life-affirming feeling has enormous power. Love is a feeling of togetherness. True Love? this is joy! This? giving and receiving joy.
Love, what it is... (based on the works of A. Kuprin)
One of the highest values in human life, according to A.I. Kuprin, has always been love. Love, which collects into a single bouquet all the best, all that is healthy and bright, with which life rewards a person, which justifies any hardships and hardships that may come along his way. So in “Oles”. So in “Garnet Bracelet”. So in “Shulamith”. So in “Duel”. Until the end of his life, the writer retained the romantic mood of his youth in his soul, and this is what makes his works strong.Many events take place before us on the pages of the story “The Duel.” But the emotional culmination of the work was not the tragic fate of Romashov, but the night of love he spent with the insidious and therefore even more captivating Shurochka; and the happiness experienced by Romashov on this pre-duel night is so great that it is this alone that is conveyed to the reader.The story “The Garnet Bracelet” makes us think about the enormous power of unrequited love. And the modest, inconspicuous telegraph operator suddenly appears before us as significant, great! After all, it was he who carried pure love and worship of women throughout his life. And the words will always sound like a prayer: “Hallowed be Thy name!”According to Kuprin, a person who is close to nature is truly capable of love. He reveals this topic in an unusually interesting way in the story about the Polesie girl-witch. The main characters of the work are Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich. Olesya's integral and spontaneous nature is distinguished by the richness of her inner world. It is rare to find a person so generously gifted by nature, who would combine naivety and authority, femininity and proud independence, touching courage and delicacy, and spiritual generosity. Together with the heroes of the story, we experience the anxious period of the birth of love and happy moments of pure, complete, all-consuming delight. The world of jubilant nature merges with wonderful human feeling. The bright, fairy-tale atmosphere of the story does not fade even after the tragic ending. Gossip and gossip, vile persecution of the clerk fade into the background. Great love triumphs over everything insignificant and evil, which is remembered without bitterness, “easily and joyfully.”A.I. Kuprin is an idealist, a dreamer, a singer of sublime feeling. He found special, exceptional conditions that allowed him to create romanticized images of women and their ideal love. In his environment, A. Kuprin saw a sad waste of beauty, a crushing of feelings, and delusion of thought. The writer’s ideal went back to the victory of the strength of the spirit over the strength of the body and to “love faithful to death.” For Kuprin, love is the most consistent form of affirmation and identification of the personal principle in a person.Protesting against cynicism, corrupt feelings, vulgarity, A. I. Kuprin created the story “Sulamith”. It was written based on the biblical “Song of Songs” by King Solomon. Solomon fell in love with a poor peasant girl, but because of the jealousy of Queen Astiz, whom he abandoned, she dies. Before her death, Shulamith says to her lover: “I thank you, my king, for everything: for your wisdom, to which you allowed me to cling to with my lips, like to a sweet source... There has never been and will never be a woman happier than me.” The main idea of this work: love is as strong as death, and it alone, eternal, protects humanity from the moral degeneration that modern society threatens it with.A new return to the theme of great, all-consuming love took place in the story “The Garnet Bracelet.” The poor official Zheltkov, having once met Princess Vera Nikolaevna, fell in love with her with all his heart. This love leaves no room for other interests of the hero. Zheltkov kills himself so as not to interfere with the princess’s life, and, dying, thanks her for being there for him.” the only joy in life, the only consolation, one thought.” This story is not so much about love as it is a prayer to it. In his dying letter, the hero blesses his beloved: “As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name!”Kuprin especially singled out the figure of the old General Anosov, who is confident that high love exists, but it “... must be a tragedy, the greatest secret in the world,” which knows no compromises. Princess Vera, a woman, for all her aristocratic restraint, very impressionable, capable of understanding and appreciating beauty, felt that her life came into contact with this great love, sung by the best poets of the world. The love of the official Zheltkov is alien to that deep hiddenness in which noble modesty is intertwined with noble pride. “Be silent and perish”... This talent was not given to Zheltkov. But for him, too, the “magic shackles” turned out to be sweeter than life.The story “Olesya” develops the theme of Kuprin’s creativity - love as a saving force that protects the “pure gold” of human nature from “degradation”, from the destructive influence of bourgeois civilization. It is no coincidence that Kuprin’s favorite hero was a man of strong-willed, courageous character and a noble, kind heart, capable of rejoicing in all the diversity of the world. The work is built on a comparison of two heroes, two natures, two worldviews. On the one hand, an educated intellectual, a representative of urban culture, the rather humane Ivan Timofeevich, on the other, Olesya, a “child of nature” who has not been influenced by urban civilization. Compared to Ivan Timofeevich, a man of a kind but weak, “lazy” heart, Olesya rises with nobility, integrity, and proud confidence in her strength. Freely, without any special tricks, Kuprin draws the appearance of the Polesie beauty, forcing us to follow the richness of shades of her spiritual world, always original, sincere and deep. “Olesya” is Kuprin’s artistic discovery. The writer showed us the true beauty of the innocent, almost childish soul of a girl who grew up far from the noisy world of people, among animals, birds and forests. But along with this, Kuprin also highlights human malice, senseless superstition, fear of the unknown, the unknown. However, true love triumphed over all this. A string of red beads is the last tribute to Olesya’s generous heart, the memory of “her tender, generous love.”The peculiarity of A. I. Kuprin’s artistic talent - an increased interest in each human personality and mastery of psychological analysis - allowed him to fully master the realistic heritage. The value of his work lies in the artistic and convincing revelation of the soul of his contemporary. The writer considers love as a deep moral and psychological feeling. The stories of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin raise the eternal problems of humanity - the problems of love.
The love everyone dreams of
Love is the most important component of our life. There is no poet, writer, musician who would not sing of this amazing feeling. Everyone encounters love every day, be it brotherly, motherly, for a spouse or for a friend.However, all people perceive the word “love” in their own way. Some associate it with pain, suffering, jealousy, while others associate it with joy, lightness: as if the soul is singing and you want to fly.. There are so many people, so many opinions, so it is impossible to give an exact definition of love.For example, in the story “The Garnet Bracelet,” love, according to A.I. Kuprin, should be based on sublime feelings, mutual respect and honesty. This is Zheltkov’s love for Vera Nikolaevna. A petty dreamer official fell in love with a society lady. Fell in love secretly, and, as a result, unrequitedly. Vera does not take his letters seriously; the donated bracelet caused a storm of indignation. Meanwhile, reminders of these letters and the gift support hope in Zheltkov’s soul and reduce the suffering of love. He felt such a passionate, sizzling love for Vera that he was ready to take it with him to the grave. The official is grateful to the one who evoked this wonderful feeling and elevated him above this vain world. Zheltkov idolizes his beloved, as evidenced by the line from his last letter: “Hallowed be Thy name.”However, I have a negative attitude towards Zheltkov’s suicide due to unrequited love. I think self-sacrifice is part of love. ss moment of danger. And quite another thing is suicide from unrequited feelings. This should be treated as a disease, mental problems.In my opinion, love is similar to Kuprin’s description: to love is to give without asking for anything in return, to forget about one’s own self, to cherish every minute spent together, to sacrifice oneself for the sake of the life of one’s beloved. No wonder, translated from one of the eastern languages, the phrase “I love you” means “I will take your pain upon myself.”Many people prove their love through reckless actions. Probably every second person said these words: “I’m ready to do anything for you.” I admit, I, too, would not refuse the earth strewn with flowers under the windows of my house. But I can never tell a person: “Die for me.” I simply do not have the right to do this, because any life is priceless.In the end, I would like to answer the question of what kind of love everyone dreams of. In my opinion, love should be mutual. Then there will be mutual understanding and altruism in the relationship, and there will be fewer people who die from unrequited feelings.
Love as a vice and as the highest spiritual value in Russian prose of the 20th century. (based on the works of A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunin, A.I. Kuprin)
The theme of love in the works of writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is special - it is often painted in pessimistic, even tragic tones. Chekhov, Bunin, Kuprin - they all feel a longing for real, strong, sincere love, but they do not see it around them. According to these artists of the word, people of their time have forgotten how to love, they are selfish and selfish, their souls are callous, and their hearts are cold. But the need to love is inherent in man by nature. That is why almost all the heroes of Chekhov, Bunin, Kuprin are unhappy: they strive for love, but cannot comprehend it.However, these writers are convinced that love is the brightest and happiest thing that can happen in every person’s life. And in their works they show examples of such love. I was struck with great force by A.P.’s story. Chekhov “About Love” and the story by I.A. Bunin "Caucasus". They are about different things and, at the same time, about the same thing. Chekhov’s story says that people, not daring to change their lives, remain unhappy forever and miss their love.Landowner Alekhine tells a story. He was in love with a married woman, Anna Alekseevna. This well-mannered, intelligent, well-read lady was the wife of a mediocre, gray man, whom, in fact, she did not love. What kept her close to him? Habit, fear of change, fear of serious action? Although the heroine began to experience sympathy and kinship of souls with Alekhine almost immediately. But I chose a routine life. Over time, she has two children, and she continues to live with an unloved person.The characters didn't even talk about their feelings. For what? After all, they still wouldn’t dare to change anything. And only the departure of his beloved forces Alekhine to confess to her: “When here, in the compartment, our eyes met, our spiritual strength left us both, I hugged her, she pressed her face to my chest, and tears flowed from her eyes; kissing her face, shoulders, hands, wet with tears - oh, how unhappy we were with her! “I confessed my love to her, and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, petty and how deceptive everything was that prevented us from loving.” But it was too late - the hero lost his happiness forever.Bunin’s story “The Caucasus” shows the opposite situation. The heroine and the hero decided to run away from the heroine's husband. They fled to the Caucasus, where they spent perhaps better days in your life, the best days of your novel.The Caucasian landscape contrasted sharply with cold, gray, dull Moscow. How contrasted and state of mind heroes. Here they were together, against the backdrop of this sunny, bright, exotic landscape: “When the heat subsided and we opened the window, the part of the sea visible from it between the cypress trees standing on the slope below us was the color of violet and lay so smoothly, peacefully that “It seemed there would never be an end to this peace, this beauty.”These shared moments became even more precious because they soon had to return to Moscow, to their familiar and hateful life.It would seem that this story is about two loving people. But the final lines of the work turn everything upside down, change everything. We understand that main character“Caucasus” is the person who loved the heroine, and who was mentioned only in passing.This man is given only the final lines of the story: “Returning to his room, he lay down on the sofa and shot himself in the temples with two revolvers.” This is for whom love was a real obsession, this is whose feelings were conveyed by the sultry Caucasian landscape! I think this man’s obsessive feeling is similar to the obsessive Caucasian heat, which clouds the mind and makes a person delirious.Kuprin also tells us about the greatest need to love. His hero Zheltkov (“Garnet Bracelet”) is the lucky one who was gifted with the ability to love. This man has great feelings for a married woman who is superior to him social status. Zheltkov will never be able to connect with her, but this is not the main thing for him. This man is happy because he sees Vera Nikolaevna, breathes the same air with her, and sometimes can hear her voice. For the sake of his love, because of her, Zheltkov leaves this life, at the last moment deifying his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.”Bunin's heroes love a little differently. Their feeling is a bright flash, love-passion, which certainly passes, sometimes giving way to tragedy (“Dark Alleys”, “ Cold autumn", "Caucasus", etc.). Love, according to Bunin, often destroys, cripples, and kills. But still, this is the greatest, highest and most divine thing that is available to man on this earth.In this, both Chekhov and Kuprin agree with Bunin. Love is a divine gift for which you need to be grateful to the Almighty. Without this feeling, life is empty and worthless. And let sometimes love look like a vice, destroying, incinerating, destroying. However, truly unhappy are those who are not able to experience this vicious and, at the same time, divine feeling.
Love in the life of L. N. Tolstoy's heroes
In the novel “War and Peace” L.N. Tolstoy singled out and considered the most significant “folk thought”. This theme is most vividly and multifacetedly reflected in those parts of the works that tell about the war. In the depiction of the “world,” the “family thought” predominates, playing a very important role in the novel.Almost all the heroes of “War and Peace” are subjected to the test of love. They do not all come to true love and mutual understanding, to moral beauty, and not all at once, but only after going through mistakes and the suffering that redeems them, developing and purifying the soul.Andrei Bolkonsky's path to happiness was thorny. A twenty-year-old inexperienced youth, carried away and blinded by “ external beauty“, he marries Lisa. However, very quickly Andrei came to a painful and depressing understanding of how “cruelly and uniquely” he had made a mistake. In a conversation with Pierre, Andrei, almost in despair, utters the words: “Never, never get married... until you have done everything you could... My God, what I wouldn’t give now not to be married! ” Family life did not bring Bolkonsky happiness and peace, he was burdened by her. He did not love his wife, but rather despised her as a child of an empty, stupid world. Prince Andrei was constantly oppressed by the feeling of the uselessness of his life, equating him with a “court lackey and idiot.”Then there was the sky of Austerlitz, the death of Lisa, and a deep spiritual change, and fatigue, melancholy, contempt for life, disappointment. Bolkonsky at that time was like an oak tree, which “stood like an old, angry and contemptuous monster between the smiling birches” and “did not want to submit to the charm of spring.” “An unexpected confusion of young thoughts and hopes” arose in Andrei’s soul. He left transformed, and again in front of him was an oak tree, but not an old, ugly oak tree, but covered with “a tent of lush, dark greenery,” so that “no sores, no old mistrust, no grief - nothing was visible.”Love, like a miracle, revives Tolstoy's heroes to a new life. A true feeling for Natasha, so unlike the empty, absurd women of the world, came to Prince Andrei later and with incredible force turned him over and renewed his soul. He “seemed and was a completely different, new person,” and it was as if he had stepped out of a stuffy room into the free light of God. True, even love did not help Prince Andrei to humble his pride; he never forgave Natasha for “betrayal.” Only after a mortal wound and a mental break and rethinking of life did Bolkonsky understand her suffering, shame and repentance and realize the cruelty of breaking up with her. “I love you more, better than before,” he said then to Natasha, but nothing, not even her fiery feeling, could keep him in this world.Pierre's fate is somewhat similar to his fate best friend. Just like Andrei, who in his youth was carried away by Lisa, who has just arrived from Paris, the childishly enthusiastic Pierre is carried away by the “doll-like” beauty of Helen. The example of Prince Andrei did not become a “science” for him; Pierre was convinced from his own experience that external beauty is not always internal beauty - spiritual.Pierre felt that there were no barriers between him and Helene, she “was terribly close to him,” her beautiful and “marble” body had power over him. And although Pierre felt that this was “not good for some reason,” he weakly succumbed to the feeling instilled in him by this “depraved woman” and eventually became her husband. As a result, a bitter feeling of disappointment, gloomy despondency, contempt for his wife, for life, for himself gripped him some time after the wedding, when Helen’s “mystery” turned into spiritual emptiness, stupidity and debauchery.Having met Natasha, Pierre, like Andrei, was amazed and attracted by her purity and naturalness. Feelings for her had already timidly begun to grow in his soul when Bolkonsky and Natasha fell in love with each other. The joy of their happiness mixed in his soul with sadness. Unlike Andrei, Pierre's kind heart understood and forgave Natasha after the incident with Anatol Kuragin. Although he tried to despise her, he saw the exhausted, suffering Natasha, and “a never-before-experienced feeling of pity filled Pierre’s soul.” And love entered his “soul, which blossomed towards a new life.” Pierre understood Natasha, perhaps because her connection with Anatole was similar to his infatuation with Helen. Natasha believed in the inner beauty of Kuragin, in communication with whom she, like Pierre and Helen, “felt with horror that there was no barrier between him and her.” After a disagreement with his wife, Pierre's life's quest continues. He became interested in Freemasonry, then there was a war, and the half-childish idea of killing Napoleon, and the burning one - Moscow, terrible minutes of waiting for death and captivity. Having gone through suffering, Pierre's renewed, purified soul retained his love for Natasha. Having met her, who had also changed greatly, Pierre did not recognize Natasha. They both believed that after everything they had experienced they would be able to feel this joy, but love awoke in their hearts, and suddenly “it smelled and filled with long-forgotten happiness,” and the “forces of life” began to beat, and “joyful madness” took possession of them.“Love has awakened, and life has awakened.” The power of love revived Natasha after the mental apathy caused by the death of Prince Andrei. She thought that her life was over, but the love for her mother that arose with renewed vigor showed her that her essence - love - was still alive in her. This all-encompassing power of love, which brought to life the people it loved and towards whom it was directed.The fates of Nikolai Rostov and Princess Marya were not easy. Quiet, meek, ugly in appearance, but beautiful in soul, the princess during her father’s life did not even hope to get married or raise children. The only wooer, and even then for the sake of a dowry, Anatole, of course, could not understand her high spirituality and moral beauty.In the epilogue of the novel “War and Peace,” Tolstoy exalts the spiritual unity of people, which forms the basis of nepotism. A new family was created, in which seemingly different principles were united - the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys.“As in every real family, in the Lysogorsk house several completely different worlds lived together, which, each maintaining its own peculiarity and making concessions to one another, merged into one harmonious whole.”
Love in the lives of Onegin, Tatyana and Pushkin (based on the novel “Eugene Onegin”)
The theme of love is one of the leading ones in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". It is the ability to sincerely and devotedly love that the author “measures” human nature and the level of development of his heroes. Pushkin himself believed that love is the meaning of existence; only by loving can a person fully reveal all his capabilities and experience life to the end.The main character of the novel is the young nobleman Eugene Onegin. One of the main questions of the work is whether Onegin knows how to love? The reader thinks about this throughout the novel.It seems to me that in order to answer this question, it is worth turning to the description of the hero’s upbringing and lifestyle. From a very young age, Onegin was part of the high society of St. Petersburg. All that the hero could learn there was the art of lies and hypocrisy:How early could he be a hypocrite?To harbor hope, to be jealous,To dissuade, to make believe,Seem gloomy, languish...The high society of St. Petersburg is completely unpretentious. It values only the superficial ability to make a pleasant impression. No one is going to look deeper. I think in such a society it is easy for superficial people to shine.Constant romances, intrigues, flirting - these are the main entertainments in this society. Naturally, Onegin perfectly mastered the “art of tender passion.” But there is not a drop of sincerity in this relationship. Evgeniy quickly became disillusioned with life and his surroundings. He lost interest in everything around him. After some time, Onegin left for the village. For only a few days he was interested in simple village life. But then the hero became bored again.It was during such a “spiritual coldness” that Evgeny Onegin met Tatyana. The young girl instantly fell in love with the capital's dandy. She, unlike Onegin, knew how to love strongly and sincerely, giving herself entirely to this feeling. Confirmation of this is the confession that the heroine first wrote to Onegin:I know you were sent to me by God,Until the grave you are my keeper...You appeared in my dreams,Invisible, you were already dear to me...But Onegin was sure that no one would be able to agitate him for long. Onegin does not reciprocate the heroine's feelings, giving her a rebuke. Having survived this refusal, Tatyana, without love, marries someone else.Onegin, after the murder of Lensky, he wandered for some time, moved away from high society, and changed greatly. Everything superficial is gone, only a deep, ambiguous personality remains. A few years later, Evgeniy meets with Tatyana again. Now she is a married woman, a socialite. But we understand that the heroine still loves Onegin:I love you (why lie?),But I was given to someone else;I will be faithful to him forever.And the changed hero is now able to love and suffer, but it’s too late - Tatyana refuses him, remaining faithful to her husband.Thus, Pushkin’s heroes reached the end of the work truly loving people. This is not surprising, because the Author himself considers love to be the most important feeling in a person’s life: “And the mighty life gives And lush flowers and sweet fruit.” The ability to love is the main criterion in assessing literary heroes and people for Pushkin.
Talk about love
Love is one of the feelings that a person is given to experience in life. We can say that this feeling makes a person kinder, cleaner, more perfect. The theme of love is one of the leading themes of world literature from ancient times to the present day. Many lovers have become the personification of this feeling. It is worth remembering Leila and Majnun, the Cavalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, the lady with the dog and Gurov, as well as many, many others. It’s hard to think of what famous poets and prose writers would write about, what great composers and artists would be inspired by, if there were no love in the world,
The ancients considered love a gift from the gods. This feeling, in their opinion, brought mortals closer to the celestials. In the Middle Ages, a real cult of love developed. The knights devoted their entire lives to serving the beautiful lady and were happy. Since then, the word “knight” began to be used to describe anyone who treats a woman with respect and admiration. We can judge what place love occupied in the lives of our ancestors, in particular, from the works of Russian classics. And one of the reasons for the most famous duel in Russian history was precisely ardent love colliding with burning jealousy.
Love has many faces. These are love-friendship, love-cooperation, love-passion, love-tragedy and others. In love there is not only happiness, the joy of mutual understanding, pleasure, but also deception, jealousy, fear, pain. We can say that against the background of love, other spiritual manifestations of a person appear more clearly, prominently, and prominently. In this way a person is trusted by love.
To say “I love you” means to say “you will never die,” the great French writer Albert Camus once remarked. A lover imprints the image of a loved one in his heart, makes him immortal, just as the sun, earth, and wind are immortal, and only such immortality is possible in our imperfect world.
Love, as has already been said, is not a profitable acquisition, but a gift. And like any unexpected and a nice gift, this feeling must be treasured. After all, they say that true love is given to a person once in a lifetime, and this is not far from the truth.
It is known that love is realized entirely in the sphere of interpersonal communication. Therefore, it is necessary to learn to speak, think, and breathe again. In this, many see the work and hardships of love, especially if love is crowned with legal marriage. Here it is important not to lose your own individuality, your own point of view on the world around you and on love itself in particular.
"You are the only one I have,
Like the moon in the night,
It's like spring in the year,
Like a pine tree in the steppe.
There is no other one like this
Beyond any river
No behind the fogs,
Distant countries"
These lines were written by the famous bard Yuri Vizbor. They can be considered a kind of result of modern artistic and everyday experience. Today, love has hardly changed much: this feeling still inspires a person to new beginnings, achievements, and exploits. And anyone who has carried this wonderful feeling throughout his life can confidently say: “I did not live in vain.”
Love on the pages of the works of I. A. Bunin
In the first half of the twenties, the struggle between two principles was stronger than ever in Bunin’s work: life and death. The writer sees the opposition to death in love. This topic becomes the main one for him. According to him, love is the beautiful moments that illuminate a person’s life. “Love does not understand death. Love is life” - these words of Andrei Bolkonsky from “War and Peace” are deeply reflected in the work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. He writes about the highest and most complete, from his point of view, earthly happiness.In the twenties, Bunin wrote a long story, “The Case of Cornet Elagin.” The hero, in love with the actress, experiences a painful and crushing feeling. It turns out to be fatal for both and leads to a tragic outcome.Usually first love is viewed poetically or as something frivolous, even frivolous. But Bunin argues that this is not at all the case: “Often this “first love” is accompanied by dramas, tragedies, but no one thinks at all that just at this time people are experiencing something much deeper, more complex than excitement, suffering, usually called the adoration of a dear creature: they experience, without knowing it, the terrible blossoming, the painful opening, the first mass of sex.” This “first mass of sex” changes a person’s inner world to the core, heightens his sensitivity to everything around him. What was the relationship between Elagin and Sosnovskaya? His hot feeling clashed with her capricious and changeable mood. Elagin painfully experiences the transition of his beloved’s feelings from sudden manifestations of love to indifference, almost indifference. The hero was close to suicide, rushing from despair to outbursts of tenderness, from rage to forgiveness.As witness Zalessky says at the trial, “she either set him on fire (Elagin) or doused him with cold water.” Elagin had to constantly suffer from jealousy, since Sosnovskaya was constantly surrounded by fans.A very similar situation is described in the story “Mitya’s Love”, in the novel “The Life of Arsenyev”, in the story “Chang’s Dreams”. According to the writer, passionate love and cruel jealousy are caused by a certain type of woman who is the embodiment of “the most typical female nature.” It is impossible to understand them, their souls are restless, unstable, as if “unfinished” by nature. These women often suffer and make others suffer. This is how the captain, the hero of the story “Chang’s Dreams,” says about them: “There are, brother, female souls who are always languishing with some kind of sad thirst for love and who, because of this, never love anyone. There are such people - and how can we judge them for all their heartlessness and deceit?.. Who will figure them out?”Meanwhile, men with heightened sensitivity and a developed imagination give their hearts to such women with the same recklessness with which the impressionable, enthusiastic Elagin is captivated by the capricious and hysterical Sosnovskaya.A special place in Bunin’s work is occupied by the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys”. Critics called it “an encyclopedia of love.” Ivan Alekseevich explores and describes the most diverse shades of the relationship between the two. These include tender, sublime feelings (stories “Rusya”, “Natalie”), and violent passion (“Zoika and Valeria”, “Galya Ganskaya”, “Oaks”), and the manifestation of contradictory emotions (“Antigone”, “Business Cards” ).But first of all, Bunin is interested in true earthly love, “the harmony of earth and sky.” Such love is rare in life, but experiencing it is a huge, incomparable happiness. However, it has long been noted that the stronger, brighter and more perfect love is, the sooner it is destined to end. But to break off does not mean to die. This feeling illuminates a person’s entire life path. Thus, in the story “Dark Alleys,” Nadezhda, the owner of the “inn,” carried throughout her life her love for the master who once seduced her. “Everyone’s youth passes, but love is another matter,” “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten,” she says. And the master Nikolai Alekseevich, who once abandoned her, understands that the best moments of his life are connected with this woman. But you can't bring back the past.In the story “Rusya,” the hero for twenty years cannot forget the wonderful girl in whose family he once served as a tutor. But the lovers had to part, and many years have passed since then. The hero has aged, gotten married, but still remembers how “one day she got her feet wet in the rain... and he rushed to take off her shoes and kiss her wet narrow feet - there was no such happiness in his entire life.”And here we have the heroine of the story “Cold Autumn,” who saw off her fiancé to war on a cold autumn evening. A month later he was killed, but the feeling for him continues to live in the soul of the young girl. She had to suffer a lot, endure difficult trials, but on the threshold of old age something else is important for her: “But, remembering everything that I have experienced since then, I always ask myself: yes, but what happened in my life? And I answer myself: only that cold autumn evening. Was he really there once? Still, it was. And that’s all that happened in my life - the rest is an unnecessary dream.”Reading Bunin's short stories, you notice that he never writes about happy, prosperous love. Thus, the only woman who was truly loved by the hero of the story “Henry” dies from a shot by a jealous lover, Nikolai Platonovich dies of a heart attack in the short story “In Paris”, the sudden appearance of the crazy mother Rusya during her meeting with her beloved separates them forever, leaves The heroine of “Clean Monday” goes to the monastery; Natalie dies from premature birth.Why does Bunin never talk about happy love connecting lovers? Probably because the union of lovers is completely different feelings and relationships. There is no place for suffering and pain, but there is no place for that bliss, “lightnings of happiness.” Therefore, at the moment when a love story comes to a happy conclusion, unforeseen circumstances inevitably appear or a catastrophe breaks out, even to the death of the heroes. With his characteristic high skill, the writer strives to stop the moment at the highest rise of feelings.One more interesting feature The love of the heroes is that they seem to avoid even the thought of marriage.In “The Case of Cornet Elagin,” the author notes: “Is it really not known that there is a strange property of every strong and generally not quite ordinary love, even to avoid marriage, as it were?” Indeed, both Elagin and Sosnovskaya understand that marriage between them is impossible. In the story “Swing,” the hero asks the question: “But what kind of husband am I?” And the girl’s answer is: “No, no, not that.” “Let it be only what it is... It won’t be better,” she believes. The hero of the short story “Tanya” thinks with horror about what will happen if he marries Tanya. Meanwhile, he only truly loves her. Once Bunin quoted someone’s words that it is often easier to die for a woman than to live with her. Apparently, this point of view was reflected in his stories about love. You can agree with this, you can disagree. This does not detract from the beauty and charm of Bunin's short stories. And it doesn’t matter whether the heroes got married or not. “All love is great happiness, even if it is not shared.” These words from the book “Dark Alleys” run like a red thread through the entire work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.
What unites Turgenev's stories about love? (based on the works “First Love”, “Klara Milich”, “Spring Waters”)
Peru I.S. Turgenev wrote several stories about love - “Clara Milich”, “Spring Waters”, “First Love”. All of them, one way or another, are dedicated to the first feeling. The main character of these stories is a young man, on whose behalf the story is most often told.It must be said that there is a lot of autobiography in Turgenev’s stories about love. In both “Klara Milich” and “Spring Waters,” the objects of the protagonist’s love are foreign women (or women with non-Russian blood). We know that the fatal love in the life of the writer himself was the opera singer Pauline Viardot. Details of this woman’s appearance, her character, as well as Turgenev’s feelings for her are subtly present on the pages of his stories dedicated to love.The narrator in them, as a rule, is the hero, a young man. The stories are also united by a retrospective composition - most often the work is a recollection of an already mature person about the events of his youth that left a strong mark on his soul or radically influenced his fate.Thus, in “Spring Waters” Sanin’s love for Gemma has not faded even after several decades. In the mystical story “After Death,” the love of the heroes has overcome death itself - Jacob materializes Clara with the power of his feelings, and then he himself dies to be with his beloved.The heroes of Turgenev's stories about love are from the category of “untouched”. These are people who are pure in soul and mind, capable of sincerely and strongly loving, dreaming, doing crazy things, living and not existing (let’s just remember the contrast between Dmitry Sanin and Mr. Kluber from “Spring Waters”).It is interesting that the main characters of Turgenev’s stories about love, one way or another, are women. It is their image that the writer brings to the fore - admiring their beauty, freshness, and their inherent charm (Gemma, Klara Milich). But not all female images in Turgenev's stories are positive. There are also devilish creatures among them, destroying, destroying, playing, but still attracting with irresistible force (Marya Nikolaevna Polozova, partly Princess Zasekina). But, in any case, women are portrayed by Turgenev as fatal creatures capable of inspiring a man to any madness.The unifying feature of Turgenev's works about love is their unhappy ending. This applies to “First Love”, and “Spring Waters”, and partly to “Klara Milich”. The heroes of these works will face separation, mental anguish, great inner work. Often one of them will die.So what is love, according to I.S. Turgenev? Why does he so often describe first love? It seems to me that the writer believes that it is the first feeling that is most often real, namely “love.” Young, inexperienced souls of “untouched” people are still capable of experiencing sublime, crazy, sincere feelings, not clouded by any self-interest. Perhaps, with age, according to Turgenev, this goes away.In any case, the writer believes that love is a fundamental emotion that contains the essence and meaning of life itself. Happy is the one who is able to sincerely love and in whose life this feeling happened.
We present to your attention several options for an argumentative essay with additional arguments.
According to Yakovlev's text
(195 words) What is love? In my opinion, love can be called the unity of two souls connected by thoughts about each other. They show attention and care, try to overcome difficulties together, and admire each other. Having experienced true love only once, a person will no longer be the same, which makes first love very important.
Yu. Yakovlev describes exactly this feeling in his text. The boy falls in love for the first time, and he is ready to stand in the rain and wait for a long time near the music school just to talk to her a little. However, Diana, his beloved, does not give the hero special attention, which hurts his soul. He becomes so upset that he responds to another girl's invitation to visit her. But the boy still cannot do anything with his feeling, and he returns to school time after time, unable to resist the aspirations of his soul.
Another example is the story by A.S. Pushkin’s “The Captain’s Daughter” and its heroes: Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev. Young people experience true love for the first time, and it awakens new, wonderful qualities in them. Peter saves Masha from Shvabrin’s captivity, and the captain’s daughter herself stands up for her lover in front of the empress herself, saving him from exile.
Love is one of the most beautiful feelings in our life.
According to Lvovsky's text
(206 words) Love is a sublime, pure and sincere feeling that can often make up a person’s happiness. Thanks to her, people can do wonderful things, becoming better, kinder, just so they can spend more time with their loved one.
M. Lvovsky in his text describes the birth of the first, most amazing love. A quiet, inconspicuous girl with glasses falls in love with Lesha, her classmate. He was as inconspicuous and lonely as the girl. Lyosha Zhiltsov agrees to Gali’s proposal for a kiss, which causes contempt from others, but certainly not from the girl with glasses, because she feels true love for Lyosha.
A novel in verse by A.S. Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" is suitable as a second argument. Tatyana, a girl who spent her whole life in the village and read French novels, falls in love with Eugene Onegin, who arrived from St. Petersburg. He seems to come straight from the pages of her favorite works and is a kind of ideal for her. Her feelings have not changed even after many years, which shows how strong and long-lasting love can be.
Thus, love is not just a feeling of affection between two people for each other. This is mutual assistance and mutual assistance, unity of souls and minds, admiration and happiness. Truly sincere love can completely change a person for the better and enrich his inner world. Therefore, it is important to appreciate love in all its manifestations, because it is the best thing a person can experience.
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From literature: Andriy, hero of the story by N.V. Gogol's "Taras Bulba", for the sake of love for a Polish woman, rejects both his family and his homeland. It cannot be said that Andriy acted extremely wrongly. It’s just that his love was so strong and inspired that it made him forget all other values. The hero can be understood, and the reader involuntarily admires a feeling over which neither war, nor the difference of religions, nor the opinions of others have power, a feeling that surpasses everything in its power.
From the literature: The hero of the novel A.S. Pushkin's "Dubrovsky" love inspires courageous and decisive actions. He risks his own life to save Marya, his beloved. The girl's father arranged her marriage to a rich and old nobleman, regardless of Marya's own feelings. Vladimir Dubrovsky helps his beloved escape from the castle, but it’s still too late. Masha became the wife of an old nobleman. The hero does not try to destroy new family, he goes abroad, but cannot find peace anywhere. In this work, love is presented as a feeling that can inspire people to brave achievements, and at the same time as a cause of mental pain and sorrow from lost happiness.
From life: I also did not receive reciprocity from my first lover, at least at first. In an effort to achieve her love, I began to court her, throwing sheets of love poems by famous poets into her briefcase. She liked literature, so I decided that she would enjoy poetry. And I was not mistaken: as soon as I invited her to the cinema, she immediately agreed.
Love is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. How often do many of us think about what it is? Some people confuse love and infatuation. These two feelings are very similar. Here's what I think about it.
Love
1. Your feelings arose suddenly, the so-called “love at first sight” happened. Does such a thing even exist? No. Love is a conscious feeling, it does not appear out of nowhere.
2. You want to tell everyone about your love so that everyone knows how you feel.
3. You are considering other candidates for your heart. Compare with your chosen one.
4. Sometimes, you feel awkward and pressed alone with your loved one. You are afraid to say something unnecessary, risking being rejected. I believe that if people love each other, they should be natural in their behavior. It’s not for nothing that they say that we are only natural with those we love.
5. You evaluate a person: his level of intelligence, appearance, habits. If you are not satisfied with something, you will want to end the relationship.
6. You can stop loving a person in one moment. One day you think that he is the only one, and the next you forget about him.
7. You can be in love with several people at the same time.
8. It's an emotional feeling. If your loved one leaves you, you begin to hate the whole world. Falling in love tends to destroy everything, while love creates.
9. You mentally make plans for the future, come up with names for your unborn children, picture a cloudless life for yourself.
10. You tend to idealize your chosen one. Focused on two advantages, you do not pay attention to visible shortcomings.
11. Separation for you is separation. Your feelings cannot tolerate waiting. As soon as a person disappears from sight, you forget him.
12. You have a hard time making compromises. Falling in love is selfish.
13. People in love hide from problems without trying to solve them.
14. Falling in love is a flash, a feeling based on emotions, and not on a common sense approach.
1. This is a conscious feeling based on trust. When you love, you trust the person. My grandmother always says that trust is the most important thing in any relationship.
2. You have been dating a person for a long time, there were difficulties and failures, but you still overcame it together.
3. Love comes gradually: with every minute, day, year, this feeling only grows stronger.
4. Love does not go away quickly, you can even say that it lives throughout your life.
5. True love focuses on one person who contains everything that is especially valuable to you. And you stop there, because it is absurd to look for another person in place of your ideal.
6. Love brings out the best in you. She gives the desire to create, not destroy.
7. Love takes into account flaws rather than ignoring them. When we love, we notice everything, but we accept it if we cannot change it.
8. When we love, we notice everything that we did not pay attention to before. The world doesn't seem so dark anymore.
9. You are ready to survive all the difficulties that lie ahead of you.
10. Love is selfless; you want to give more than receive in return.
11. You enjoy taking care of your loved one.
12. You have no doubts about your choice, you are sure that it is correct.
13. People, for real loving friend friend, do not hide from problems, but try to solve them. If something threatens their relationship, they openly discuss it and try to find a reasonable solution.
14. You look at things realistically, approach everything sensibly, and do not build cloudless hopes.
15. This is a strong and pure feeling. When you love, you simply don't think about what it's called.
(1) A model of an atom with a silvery nucleus and electrons fixed in wire orbits stood on a rickety shelf, supported by Zinochka Kryuchkova, a very small and very proud girl with a sharp face. (2) Around him, against the background of glass cabinets, diagrams and tables of the physics room, a stormy life was in full swing.
- (3) Well, no one will help you hammer in a nail? - Galya Vishnyakova, the most beautiful girl schools. (4) She and Zinochka could not cope with the shelf. - (5) Boys, I’ve already broken off all my fingers.
(6) Lyosha would hammer this nail very cleverly. (7) Not a great feat, but still it would have been somehow easier: universal recognition could have saved him from the bitter feeling of loneliness. (8) But as soon as he approached the girls, Gali again developed a desire for independence. (9) She was clearly expecting something different. (10) And she waited. (11) The hammer was intercepted by a slender giantin training pants - Vakhtang.
(12) Zinochka felt sorry for Lyosha.
- (13) Let this guy beat him, - to console Lyosha, Zinochkanodded dismissively at Vakhtang - he is taller.
(14) Lyosha sadly watched as Vakhtang, having made several“warm-up” movements, hit the hammer past the nail and jumped, blowing onbruised fingers. (15) Forgetting about Lyosha, the girls laughed benevolently: Vakhtang was forgiven everything.
(16) Lyosha walked away from them with a contemptuous gesture: “This shelf of yours is up to my waist.” (17) But the gesture did not help: the bitter feeling did not go away.
(18) And suddenly, in a ray of light falling from the window, Lyosha saw a new girl. (19) From an inconspicuous girl, she has now turned into the most noticeable. (20) With glasses, chocolate brown from a southern tan, the girl is so
smiled at him so that he even looked around.
(21) But no one else for whom this smile could be intended,there was no one nearby.
- (22) Is your name Lesha? – the girl asked, and Lyosha realized that she had been watching him for a long time.
(23) Lyosha did not answer immediately, because in such cases, as is known,the invisible conductor gives a sign to the invisible violins to join the soundingThe orchestra is not easy for someone who is not used to it.
“(24) I remember,” Lyosha said carefully and, it seems, did not spoil anything.
- (25) Because I’m just reading about Clero, and his name was Alexis.
“(26) And you are Zhenya Karetnikova, from Krasnodar,” answered Lyosha, fearing that the conversation might get stuck on the unknown Alexis.
“(27) I remember,” said Zhenya.
(28) Gradually Lyosha realized that the orchestra was performing not sodifficult melody, that some liberties are possible in it and that he, Lyosha,also quite on the level.
- (29) Why do you always look out the window during lessons? – Zhenya asked and went up to Lesha’s window. - (30) What did you see there?
(31) Lyosha stood next to Zhenya.
(32) From the window they could see the large open pavilion “Fruits and Vegetables,” located on the other side of the street. (33) Nearby, a glass telephone booth reflected the dazzling blue of the autumn sky.
– (34) Do you have to listen to what the teachers say in class? – Lyosha asked with irony, which he had never been able to demonstrate in front of any girl.
- (35) If you haven’t come up with something new instead of: “I taught, but forgot.”
(36) Lyosha laughed.
“(37) These words must be carved in marble,” he said.
“(38) You can... at my table... (39) I’m also sitting alone,” Zhenya suggested.
(According to M.G. Lvovsky)** Lvovsky Mikhail Grigorievich (1919–1994) – Russian Soviet songwriter, playwright, screenwriter.
Finished essay 9.3 “What is LOVE”:
What is love? Love is one of the most beautiful feelings a person can experience. Love is a feeling of deep affection and aspiration for another person or object. Love ennobles and evokes admiration for the world around us. Every person wants to love and be loved.
In the text by M. G. Lvovsky we see the emergence of a feeling of love between the boy Lyoshka and the girl Zhenya. In sentences 23-24, at first the boy does not immediately answer the girl’s question, and then gives the wrong answer altogether; what is important to him is that she remembers his name. His wife also likes Leshka, she smiles at him, enters into dialogue with him, and then invites him to sit at the same desk. This is where the wonderful feeling of love is born.
A person cannot do without love in life. I would like to give an example of true, sincere love from W. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. In it, the heroes were ready to do any act, make any sacrifice, just to be together. It was impossible for them to live in the world without their loved one, which is why the play has such a tragic ending. We can only admire the power of their love.
So, love is the most wonderful feeling that can inspire, inspire, bring joy and happiness to a person.
