Olesya Analysis Why Ivan did it. "Why did the love of Ivan Timofeevich and Olesy become a tragedy? Is it possible to be guilty of the "lazy heart" of the hero? (on the work of

The writing

In his early stories "Olesya" (1898), A. I. Kubrin expressed a dream about the existence of a person who did not experience any impacts of the controversial environment, society, and living only with his sincere impulses.

The main heroine of the work, in my opinion, can be considered the girl Olesy. She is not familiar with civilization, since childhood lives in the forest, surrounded by the ancient beliefs of his ancestors. Therefore, Oles is absolutely alien public norms of behavior, she recognizes only the call of the soul, their true needs that can hear and distinguish.

In the story, the story of the young heroine falls in love with a person from a completely different world - she meets a man born and brought up in the city, who has experienced all the "decomposing" influence of civilization. A sincere feeling is born between heroes, which reveals the essence of the characters of both.

In a brief, saturated household details, Kuprin expressed his ideas about the internal transformation of the personality through love. Nature itself reported to people thirst for beauty, harmony, high gusts, full merging with their native soul. At the same time, she limited their capabilities. Someone can overcome this limitation, someone is not capable of this ...

In my opinion, the development of the plot of the whole work constantly pushes us to one thought - the love between Olesy and Ivan Timofeevich is impossible. Moreover, she can end the real tragedy.

What is the reason for the development of events? I think mainly in nature a hero, in his character, formed under the influence of the city intelligent environment. Ivan Timofeevich has positive qualities - he is kind, educated. However, there is no main thing in it - the wholeness of nature, sincerity, the ability to listen to your heart and not be afraid to follow His call. Over the hero, all sorts of social prejudices are brought to overcome which he is unable. No wonder the author characterizes Ivan Timofeevich as a man with a "lazy" heart, whose emotions are crushed by reason, stereotypes.

We feel that in the soul of the "civilized" hero, there is some kind of moral flaw, which prevents him from being happy and give happiness to another person. This man is spiritually deaf and indifferent, he just does not know how to think and take care of others.

So, Ivan Timofeevich is ready to force Oles to choose among himself and grandmother, he does not think about what the desire of Olesi can end in the church. In addition, the hero allows his beloved to convince himself in the need for their parting.

Such a selfish behavior of this character becomes the cause of a real tragedy in the life of a girl, and Ivan Timofeevich himself. Olesya and her grandmother are forced to leave the village, because they threaten the real danger from the locals. The life of these heroes is largely destroyed, not to mention the heart of Olesi, who sincerely loved Ivan Timofeevich.

Thus, we see that the main conflict of the story is concluded in a collision and opposition of two human types - "natural" and "civilized". They, in the opinion of the writer, are clearly connected with the contradiction between the Natural Society and Social Society.

The world from which Olesya and the old woman of Manuilich was expelled - the world of the village - personifies the society in the story of the modern writer. Kubrin shows that he is deprived of poetry and harmony, cruel and ugly. The author emphasizes the extraordinary undevelopedness of its inhabitants (Yarmol, Rustic women), their slave habits (desire for any convenient case to kiss the handle from "Pan"), a terrible accuracy, darkness, non-education in combination with almost animal cruelty (killing of the inkrade of Yashka, readiness to score stones Manulyhu with Olesya).

A collective portrait of this world is a drunken rustic crowd at the festival of the Holy Trinity: "Unbearable hot air seemed to be all saturated with a disgusting mixed smell of blinking vodka, onions, sheepskin trees, strong Machorka-Bakuna and evaporation of dirty human bodies. Break through the carefully between people and with difficulty holding a woven head of the Taranter, I could not help but notice that from all sides I was accomplished by unceremonious, curious and hostile views. "

This roarful, unrestrained, bad smelling faceless mass was ready for everything: to cripple, destroy, kill any stranger, and not only Olesya, but also Ivan Timofeevich.

We see that those who go to church and considers themselves Christians, turn out to be worse than animals. Olesya understood this for a long time, eliminating the very possibility of communication with the world carrying evil: "We do not need people." But she is ready to understand and forgive them, and even leave, abandoning his happiness, so as not to introduce people "in sin." But the village wants no reconciliation, but destruction and violence.

The human world does not withstand the test of love, he is not created for happiness and harmony, tells us the Kuprin with his story. Modern civilization gives rise to people like Ivan Timofeevich, - she kills the soul in them, deprives the most important thing - a thrift, thirsty hearts. That is why this feeling is doomed in the human world for tragic death.

Other writings on this work

"Great Mystery of Love" in the works of Alexander Ivanovich Kurin "Olesya" and "Pomegranate bracelet"

1. What conflict underlies the story of the story "Olesya" ? With the external simplicity of the plot - what is the innovation of the story?

2. Why does Ivan Timofeevich attract a story about the local sorcerer?

3. Read the scene of the appearance of Oley. What did Ivan Timofeevich expected to see her?

4. Why does the hero do not trust the Talent of Olesya? How does it characterize this distrust?

5. Whose eyes are the events in the story? Which of the characters are given characteristics? And who does not give a characteristic?

6. What is the function of the episode of the divination of Oley? What does Olesya say about the kindness of Ivan Timofeevich? Is she right?

7. What are the actions of Ivan Timofeevich make it possible to judge his feelings for Oles?

8. Why did not love Ivan Timofeevich and Olesy?

9. What is the meaning of the final of the story?

10. Match the images of Oleas and Princess faith from the story "Garnet bracelet" . What does Kubrin emphasize the appearance of the faith of Nikolaevna?

11. What sources the reader knows about the love of yellowkova?

12. For what details can you recreate the psychological portrait of Zheltikov?

13. What did the bracelet mean yolkkova? For what purpose did he send him faith?What is the reaction of those surrounding for a gift?

14. Was prevented the tragic final? Who is to blame?

15. Why was selfless, selfless love passed by faith? Will she change after experienced?

16. What does the love say about love? Do you agree with him?

1. What periods allocate 20th century in the development of Russian literature? Specify the chronological framework of these periods.

2. What is the associated fragmentation of the literary process of the 20th century?

3. What cultural and social trends in Russia can be noted at the turn of 19-20 centuries? Why N.A. Berdyaev called this period "Russian spiritual Renaissance"?

4. What is modernism? What flows and directions in the literature united modernism?

5. List the writers who have worked in the direction of realism, and writers who worked in line with modernism.

6. What has changed in the literary process after the October Revolution?

7. What was the geographical and ideological fragmentation of Russian literature of the Soviet period showed?

8. List the writers left in the USSR, and writers who continued their creative path in emigration.

9. What is the realism of the beginning of the 20th century fundamentally different from critical realism in the literature of the 19th century?

10. Give the overall characteristic of satirical literature of the early 20th century.

2. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

1870 – 1953

2. a) Philosophical problems in Prose I. A. Bunin (on the material of the stories "Mr. from San Francisco", "Bowl of Life", "Brothers", "Snah Chang")

1. What is the peculiarities of the narrative manner of the Bunin-Prosaik? What themes are the stories of the writer? What role is played in the Bunin stories plot, lyrical motifs, confessional motives, artistic part? What is the chronotop of the story of the Bunin you read?

2. What unites - thematically, motif, stylistically - the stories "Mr. from San Francisco", "Bowl of Life", "Brothers", "Dream Changa"?

3. What is the purpose of Bunin deprives the name of the main character of the story "Mr. from San Francisco"? What is known about the hero?
4. How is the ship shown in the story? How and why is it so called? What is the symbolism of the images of the ship and ocean in the story?
5. Why dies suddenly? How is his death described in the story?

6. What is the connected taller about the life of the characters of the story "Bowl of Life"?
7. Describe Selikhov, Horizontov, Jordanian, Disyper. What lived these heroes? How are they described in the work? What does Bunin seek to focus the reader's attention? Who among the characters, in your opinion, has lived meaningless, and who is a happy life?

8. What is the meaning of the capital metaphor? Is it worth protecting the "bowl of life" always, under any circumstances?

9. How is the motive "Bowl of Life" in the story "Brothers"? Where is the action of the story? Match the fate of two Ricksh - Father and Son. Is their life equally?

10. Why is the narrative is accompanied by quotes from the sacred Buddhist books?

11. Why the characters of the story "Brothers" are deprived of names?
12. For what purpose is the image of the Englishman introduced into the story? What is the meaning of the legend, they told?

13. Title the name of the story with the epigraph. What is the meaning and name, and epigraph?

14. What does Bunin report on the reader about Chang and his owner? Why are the events of their life only strokes?
15. Is it possible to consider treason of the captain's wife an event predetermined his sorting fate?

16. Why the world and events are shown in this story through the eyes of a dog? What question does the story sound like a leitmotif?
17. What does the image of the ocean correlate in the story of "Dream Chang"?
18. What two truths about life knows Chang? Why does Bunin talk about the "third truth," but silent about her essence?

19. Write out of these stories 5 - 7 of the statements that attracted your attention, and comment on them.

2. B) the theme of love in the stories I.A. Bunin. Characters of Buninsky Heroine (on the material of the stories "Easy breath", "Mitina Love", "Dark Alleys", "Clean Monday")

1. What unites the listed stories?
2. Why does the story "Easy Breath" begins with the description of the grave of Olya Meshcherskaya?
3. What can be said about the character of Olga? What admires it, and for which it can be condemned?
4. How does Olya understand love? What does her diary testify about?
5. What feelings, in your opinion, awakened Olya in men?
6. Who and for what purpose comes to the grave of Olga?
7. Why is the story called "Light Breath"?
8. What is like similar and does not look like Olya Meshcherskaya Katya - the heroine of "Mitina Love"?
9. What do we know about the relationship of Mitya and Kati at the beginning of the story?
10. What is the meaning of the dispute about jealousy? Whose position is closer to you? How are love and jealousy connected in the story?
11. What is caused by the jealousy of Mitya to Kate? Why gradually Katina feelings fade?
12. What do we know about the past Mitya? Is it possible to say that love accompanied him all his life?
13. Why is the smell of love (Katina gloves and hair ribbons) and the smell of death are intertwined in the minds of Mitya? What is the meaning of this detail?
14. How do love and sensuality combine in Mity? What did Mitya survive after tie to Alena?
15. Random or natural was the decision of Mitya about suicide?
16. What is the unfortunate of the story "Dark Alleys"? Who, in your opinion, is happier - a hero or heroine?
17. Why did the name of this story become the title of a whole collection?
18. What is the mysteriousness of the heroine of the story "Clean Monday"? Why does hero speak about the "oddity" of love relationships?
19. Describe the characters of the story. Why is the narrative lead from his behalf?
20. Why are the Moscow realities underlined in the story? Is it possible to say that the hero is his own Moscow, and the heroine has its own?
21. What kind of old Russian work is cited in the story? For what purpose?
22. What and why exactly the tribunal of heroes ended? What is the choice of heroine?
23. What is the meaning of the final scene of the story?
24. What is the concept of love in the works of the Bunin?

3. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

1870 - 1938

"Olesya", "Pomegranate bracelet"

1. What conflict underlies the story of the story "Olesya"?
2. What attracts Ivan Timofeevich the story about the local sorcerer?
3. Read the scene of the appearance of Oley. What did Ivan Timofeevich expected to see her?
4. Why does the hero do not trust the Talent of Olesya? How does it characterize this distrust?
5. What does Olesya talk about the kindness of Ivan Timofeevich? Is she right? Is its chosen one who is able to real feel?
6. Why wasn't the love of Ivan Timofeevich and Olesy? What left the heroine for his lover?
7. Compare the images of Oleas and Princess of Faith. What does Kubrin emphasize the appearance of the faith of Nikolaevna?
8. What sources do the reader know about the love of yellowkova?
9. What did the bracelet mean yolkkova? For what purpose did he send him faith?
10. What is the reaction of the surrounding yolkkova?
11. Was prevented the tragic finale? Who is to blame?
12. Why was selfless, selfless love passed by faith? Will the heroine change after experienced?
13. What does not say about love, General Anosov? Do you agree with him?

(Maksim Gorky)

1868 – 1936

Piece M. Gorky "At the bottom": the system of characters and socio-philosophical issues

I want the will

I can't break the chain ...

a) killing ashes Kostyleva;

b) death of Anna;

c) Suicide actor?

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  It is believed that Luka and Satin are just apparent antipodes. What episodes do they behave equally?
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  Write the replicas of the characters of the Pieces, which became aphorisms. What is the meaning of these aphorisms purchased in our time?

1871 – 1819

5. a) Tale L.N. Andreeva "Life of Vasily Fewish". Mythology of human destiny

5. B) Tale L.N. Andreeva "Juda Israariot". Dialectics of betrayal

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  What do you know about the history of creating a story? Why did Andreev changed the initial name of the story?
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  How close is the connection of the story and the Gospel? What do you think is more important for the author to rethink the gospel plot or comprehend the treachery as such?
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  What attracts and repels in the appearance of Judah? What is known about his past?
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  How is Judas stand out among other apostles? Is it allocating his Jesus?
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  What unites Judas and Jesus? Is it possible to say that each of them has its own mission?
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  Give the characteristics of John, Fome, Peter. What makes them think about Judas?
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  What are the actions of Judah get a dual interpretation?
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  Does Judas Jesus love? Why does he betray the teacher?
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  Can a betrayal be caused by good intentions? Give an assessment of the foreigner of Judas.
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  Does the finale confirms the news that Judas is the only true student of Jesus?
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  What is interesting to the story to the modern reader?

6. Russian symbolism

6. a) Poetry K.D. Balmont

1867 – 1942

I am the sophistication of the Russian

slow speech,

I feel others

poets - Forerunners ...

K.D. Balmont.
He was always the greatest, did not forget for a minute,

that he is not a simple mortal, and the poet.

A.A. Akhmatova

6. b) Alexander Aleksandrovich Blok

"Knight of the beautiful lady"

1880 – 1921

1. What periods are isolated in the work of A.A. Blak?

2. What influence on the poetry of the block was the teachings of Vladimir Solovyov?

3. Up and comment on the poem

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  "I think you. Years pass by ... "(1901),
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  « The wind brought from a longtime"(1901),
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  « Dusk. Twilight Western"(1901),
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  "I will stand in Morning Misty" (1901),
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  « I, LETTERS, LIGHTING Candles"(1902),
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  « I dreamed of cheerful minds"(1903),
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  "I enter the dark temples" (1904),
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  « Autumn Volia"(1905),
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  "Girl sang in church choir" (1905).

1. 
   What means are created in the poem of an eternal wife listed in p.3? What feelings are owned by the lyrical hero? How does the block embodies in verses of the myth about the Knight's poet and his light-blooded girlfriend?
2. 
   Is it possible to say that the image of an excellent lady is experiencing a certain evolution? Argument your answer.
3. 
   What role is the poetics of associations, symbolism of color, symbolism of the poetic part play in poems of the collection "Poems about the beautiful lady"? Give examples.

1. 
   Analysis of the poem« Stranger»

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  What year it was written a poem "Stranger"? Why is it so called?
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  Could this poem log in to the collection "Poems about the beautiful lady"? Why?
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  What are the hero's moods been transferred at the beginning of the poem? In which details is embodied the assessment of the lyrical hero of the overall atmosphere shown in the poem?
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  Why does the image of the stranger appear in the poem not immediately?
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  How are the stanzas "and each evening each other ..." and "and every evening, an hour appointed ..."?
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  What details make the image of a stranger? She is part of the surrounding situation or a messenger of a different world? Why do you think so?
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  Why is the "stranger and charming distance" are seen for the dark veil of the stranger?
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  What is the value in the poem of such images of characters as sun, Wine, Shore?
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  What is the meaning of the last stanza? What does the exclamation mean "are you the right, drunk monster!"?
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  Learn by heart the excerpt from the poem "Stranger" (at least 24 lines).

1. 
   Addressee of love lyrics block

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  Tell us about the addresses of the love lyrics of the block. What compilations and poetic cycles are devoted to the topic of love? How did they change with the times of the heroine and lyrical hero?
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  Read and comment on poems
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  "She was young and beautiful ..."(1898)
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  « The moon woke up. The city is noisy ..."(1899)
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  « Snowy wine"(1907)
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  « I am Hamlet. Cold blood ..."(1914)
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  « Angry gaze colorless eyes ..."(1914)
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  "No, never, and you will not be a draw ..."(1914)
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  Learn by heart (fully) and analyze the poem "On Valleys, about the exploits, about glory ..." (1908). What is his leitmotif? What poem Pushkin it reminds? Is it possible to say that the lyrical hero has resigned with the loss of happiness? What is the symbolic meaning of raw night images and a blue raincoat?
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  Is it possible to single out the overall features of the heroine of love poetry block?

1. 
   Philosophical motifs in lyrics A.A. Blak

He is all - freedom celebration.

A.A. Blok.

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  What is the view of the block on the role and purpose of the poet in poems "The earthly heart is still ..."(1911 - 1914), "Pushkin house"(1921), in the prologue to the poem « Retribution» ?
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  How is the question of the meaning of being in poems solved by the poet
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  "Worlds fly. Years fly. Empty ... "(1912)
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  « Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy ..."(1912)
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  "Oh, I want to live insanely ..."(1914)
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  How. In your opinion, in the soul of the lyrical hero get along
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  "Mad" desire to live and sensation of meaninglessness and hopelessness
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  genesis? Is the poet answer to the question about the nature of happiness?
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  Read and comment on the entry into the first chapter of the poem "Retribution" (about two centuries). What was the prophetic gift of the poet?
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  Match the poem block " Is everything calm in the people? "(1903) With Lermontov "Prediction".

1. 
   The image of Russia in poetry block

i dedicate life.

A.A. Blok.

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  Why. In your opinion, the topic of the Motherland is present in the work of every poet?
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  What is the unusual of the interpretation of this topic in the poem of the block "RUS '"?
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  Read the poem "Russia" (1908). What is she - Russia Block? What is expensive in her poet? What shades acquire the image of Russia due to the comparison with the image of a woman, wife? What symbolizes the image of the road in this poem?
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  How is the subject of the fate of Russia and the Russian woman in poems "On the railway" (1910) and "My Russia. My life, Together we will be laughing? "(1910) ?
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  How to relate the past and present Russia in the cycle "On the field of Kulikov"? What is before us - an attempt by Rusich to overlook the future or attempt to the lyrical hero-contemporary find in the resistance of the ancestors of the spiritual support for women in the present? Why did the block appealed to the events of the Kulikov battle?
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  Read and analyze the poem Scythians. Learn by heart the passage from this poem.

The main character of the story - Ivan Timofeevich, a resident of St. Petersburg, in the will of fate found himself in a small Ukrainian village in Polesie. Here he meets an unusually beautiful and noble girl Oles, who lives in a small hut with his grandmother Manulyah. All surrounding residents consider their witch. Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich fell in love with each other. However, their happiness was short-lived: the main hero on the debt of the service was forced to go to St. Petersburg, and Olesya with the old manulyah had to leave those places, since the villagers considered their reason for all their misfortunes.
Why was the happiness of heroes collapsed? Was the future of their love? We see that in a story, as in life, there is a conflict between the gusts of the heart and the arguments of the mind, between emotions and reason, between spiritual and material. Heroes belong to different worlds. But is Ivan Timofeevich and Olesya do not like each other, do not want to be together, do not agree to sacrifice your principles for the other?
Yes, they love each other, but they live in different dimensions, in different worlds, between which there is no contact. An indicative of the phrase Ivan Timofeevich: "... can not be neglected ..." Some of two had to leave their circle. Note that Ivan Timofeevich represented Oles in his world, and she was not. Olesya was ready to give up, but did not imagine himself in the city - she did not even know how to read "and write. Olesya - the child of nature, she is also interested in the hero with its naturalness, incompanied. She understands it herself and says Ivan Timofeevich that as soon as it stops being a secret - He will spit it away.
Each world holds tightly who belongs to him. Holds invisible threads. These threads are a circle of friends, affairs, familiar items, usual concepts. I think: how would I do on the site of Ivan Timofeevich? I will say honestly: I do not know. It is difficult to accept the thought that it is necessary to part with your loved one forever. It is difficult to understand that happiness is an instant, and it cannot last long.
Was the future in love of Olesy and Ivan Timofeevich? I think no. And the lines from the Turgenev "Asi" are remembered: "Happiness has no tomorrow."
The future of the love of the heroes was not. And love was.

One of the first major works of Alexander Kupin became the story "Olesya". The story was written in 1898 and in the same year was published. The author himself considered this work one of his best works. "Olesya" 3 times was shielded: in 1915, in 1956 (the film was called "Caldong") and in 1971.

Young Barin Ivan Timofeevich, from whose face is a story, comes to a small settlement on the outskirts of Volyn Polesia. Barina is bored in a deaf village after urban life. He is trying to make friends with the locals: he teaches a diploma of his servant, treating. However, none of these classes brings the "stranger" with the population of the village. Ivan Timofeevich begins to engage in hunting. The servant Barina Yarmola tells her owner that the Witch of Manuilich lives in the local forest, and the unexpectedly rising wind attributes the black magic of the old witches. A few days later, the Barin accidentally gets off the way on the hunt. Trying to find the way back, he goes to the hut Manuili. Ivan Timofeevich meets Olesi, the granddaughter of the sorcerer. The girl helps Barina leave the forest.

The main character could not forget his new acquaintance for a long time. After a while he returns to the forest to find Olesya. Barin wants the girl to pay him. The sorceress foreshadows loneliness, the desire to reduce accounts with life and great love with a dark-haired woman. However, even love will not be able to give happiness. The one that Ivan Timofeevich will love will suffer and take shame. Olesya claims that Barina has a lazy heart, which means to love truly, he does not know how to love. The protagonist does not believe in divination or in the supernatural forces that are attributed to Manuilich and her granddaughter. The only purpose of His arrival in the forest hut is to see the young sorcerer again.

Ivan Timofeevich and Olesya begin to secretly meet, despite the protests of Manulya. The main character saves his beloved and her grandmother from Evpsiche's Herriknik, who is trying to evict "witches" from their home. Ivan Timofeevich bribes a leakage and persuades him to leave women alone. Having learned about it, proud Olesya was offended. There is a breakdown between lovers. Then the protagonist is ill. During the week, he does not see the Olesya. After recovery, Ivan Timofeevich continues to meet with the sorcerer. The young barin knows that he will soon be a return to the city and offers Oles to get married and leave him. The girl disagrees. No woman in her family was wary, because the soul of the sorcerer belongs to Satan.

The main character for a while is forced to go to the next village. Returning, he learns that the locals beat the wipdom near the church. She managed to break out and run into the forest. Ivan Timofeevich rushes into a forest hut, realizing that the peasants attacked Olesya. Having come home to your beloved, he finds a girl beaten. Olesya decided to go to church to please Ivan Timofeevich. The peasants accepted the witch act as a challenge. The sorceress should not desecrate its presence holy place. After serving on Olesy, they attacked and beaten. Ivan Timofeevich proposes to bring a doctor, but the girl refuses. Young sorceress reports to the main character that they and grandmother will soon move in order not to get an even greater anger of peasants. Olesya wants to part with Ivan Timofeevich, so that their novel is not afraid of trouble on both. The girl regrets only one thing: she will not have a child from a loved one.

The same night in the village was a thunderstorm with a hail, because of which the entire harvest died. Yarmola offers Barina immediately leave. The peasants are confident that the thunderstorm arranged the old sorcerer to go over to his granddaughter. In the village already aware of the Roman of Olesy and the arrival of Barin. Ivan Timofeevich can also arrange violence. The main character decided to listen to the good advice. Before leaving, Ivan Timofeevich decided to visit Oles again. However, Manulyah and her granddaughter had already managed to leave. As if sending a favorite farewell hello, Olesya left her red beads in the hut.

Characteristics of characters

Characteristic of the chief hero gives Olesya itself. Ivan Timofeevich does not show margins towards ordinary people, trying to become a friend. He is capable of good and sympathy. Nevertheless, as the forest witch notes, the Barina "Lazy Heart". Being a person decent, he offers Oles official marriage. But at the very first refusal, it retreats, not seeking to defend his love.

To many actions of Ivan Timofeevich encourages boredom. Without the opportunity to live the life he was in the city, the main character is trying to entertain himself. In the end, the main entertainment of the Barin becomes a sorceress. Ivan Timofeevich gives preference to this particular girl due to its dissimilarity on other rustic women. It differs from ordinary peasants and at the same time does not belong to the society to which the protagonist is used. Roman with a witch for Ivan Timofeevich was worked out by mystics, despite the fact that he does not believe in the supernormalness of the girl.

The proposal that the protagonist makes Oles is purely symbolic. Having entered into close relationship with the girl, Ivan Timofeevich considers himself obliged to marry her. However, Barin knows in advance: honest disinterested Olesya will not agree to become his wife.

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Ivan Timofeevich describes the main heroine, like a beautiful and strong girl. Despite its lightness, Olesya is very smart. The main character notes that the young sorcerer had a flexible mind and delicacy, so that their relations were very harmonious.

Barin does not believe in supernatural abilities with his beloved, attributing faith in the otherworldly sorcerer illiteracy. Olesya is sure that he knows how to stop the blood spell. Ivan Timofeevich explains the girl that blood stops natural, and not because of the witchcraft. According to the author, in Oles really there is something unusual, but he does not bind it with magic.

Unlike Ivan Timofeevich, Olesya is not selfish in love. Forest witch understands that such a girl, as she, is not a place in the Higher Society. Barin should marry equal. Olesya, without thinking, refuses to love her beloved for the good of her beloved.

Residents of the village hate the witch for the strength, beauty and independence that it is inherent. Any misfortune (blizzard, thunderstorm, etc.) is attributed to the actions of the sorcerer. The girl is not adequate with religious prohibitions, as it believes that her soul from birth belongs to the devil, and it cannot be corrected in any way. The absence of prohibitions helps her be free in love.

Symbols in Tale

The author draws attention to the main symbol of the story "Olesya" only at the end of the narration. They become beads of forest witch. Bright red decoration symbolizes the independent character of the girl. Olesya, like her beads, it is difficult not to notice. And the cause of this is not beauty or supernatural abilities, but the inner force and fearlessness, coming from the heart of the witch.

Red color as a symbol
Red - a symbol of passionate love that captures Olesya, makes it more bolder and more beautiful. However, there are red and other meanings: blood, self-sacrifice. Love makes the girl to challenge the surrounding and go to the church, where she used to do not decide, fearing "pile". The cheeky act led to unfortunate (blood).

The incident makes Olesy to take a difficult decision - to abandon the most expensive person to her. Further relations between Barin and just a forest girl having the fame of the sorcerer cannot have a happy finale. Olesya sacrifices his interests, first of all, for the sake of Ivan Timofeevich.