Composition on the topic "Reason and feelings in the works of Bunin and Kuprin"
The theme of feelings and reason was raised by many poets and writers, as it is always close and interesting to readers. This is what the works of Kuprin and Bunin tell us about. They show how feelings can be complex and multifaceted. And reason is not always a priority, because if there is love, then the heroes take its side and they do not think what will happen to them later.
Of course, the heroes of the stories of these writers are full of conventions, they are subject to calculation, their ambitions are in many ways incomprehensible, and sometimes they are so false that it is sometimes very difficult to see real feelings, since they are heavily disguised. Despite this, in the stories of both Kuprin and Bunin there is a lot of life-affirming and beautiful, because they devoted many lines to such an exalted feeling as love. But at the same time, it should be understood that the works of these two writers, although often united by a common theme, but they convey it in different ways.
So, it should be noted that the characters in the stories of these writers really love, but this is so rare in life. This feeling pulls the characters out of the cycle of routine, boredom. Of course, this does not last long, sometimes only a moment, and even some heroes have to pay for this short-term happiness with their lives, but still it's worth it.
The works of Bunin and Kuprin are so realistic that they reflect everyday details to the smallest detail with amazing truthfulness. For example, in "Easy breathing", which was written by Bunin, the author focuses on a seemingly insignificant detail, like the diary of one of the heroines of the story, but it is this moment that betrays the veracity of this story.
However, it should be noted that writers treat feelings differently. Kuprin is more prone to tragedy, so if his characters experience love, then they fail to be happy to the end. His lines are filled with suffering and pain. At the same time, Kuprin believes that love should be given completely, and his characters experience torment and happiness at the same time. Since he elevates love to the ideal, therefore the reason in the actions of heroes is often absent, therefore their fate is always very tragic. For example, Chamomile, which is pure and kind person, sacrifices himself, and all for the sake of Shurochka, who was distinguished by her prudence.
Feelings and reason in Bunin's works are often contradictory. If this author speaks of love, then it is violent, if it is about happiness, then it is unrestrained. But all this quickly breaks off, after which awareness and understanding come. This is how he shows the meeting of the lieutenant and the beautiful stranger, which can be read about in " Sunstroke". This moment was saturated with happiness, but it cannot be resurrected. When the stranger leaves, the lieutenant is devastated, he seems to have aged for many years, and all because happiness was so sudden and thus it left only pain in his soul.
Therefore, it seems to me that the feelings that Bunin writes about are in many ways more realistic, they are not ideal, like Kuprin's, but at the same time beautiful and real. Both writers often write about love, this topic is one of the most important for them. But few of the heroes know her, only truly sensual and open people. Thus, the writers show that love can arise only in those people who, above all, are strong, who are not afraid to sacrifice themselves for the sake of love. Therefore, feelings are stronger than reason, they absorb the hero entirely, even if nothing remains after, yet they are happy that they managed to experience love.
Before me is the theme of the essay "Reason or Feelings?", which interested me in that these concepts are constantly opposed to each other. After all, reason is the ability to think logically and creatively. And feelings are the ability to realize and experience something based on sensations. But how to make the right choice: follow the dictates of the heart or accept the prompting of the mind? Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that a person must decide for himself what is more important to him. The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view.
Let's take a look at the works that deal with this topic. Reflecting on the difficult choice in people's lives, I cannot help but turn to the work "Clean Monday" by I.A. Bunin. Depicting the chic life of the young Moscow intelligentsia, the writer describes a couple of young people with particular passion.
These are the most ordinary residents of the capital, whose life boils and rages in an unbridled rhythm, but their main difference is that they are rich, healthy and very good-looking. Talk about their future never ends, so main character endlessly tense. The girl plays with his feelings, removes him from herself, but never lets go at all. At the end of the work, events change and the heroine decides to disappear from the life of a young man, leaving him a letter asking him not to look for her. This story fully shows readers that making their choice between feelings and reason is an overwhelming burden for most people.
Updated: 2017-07-13
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Final essay- this is an exam format that allows you to evaluate several aspects of a student's knowledge at once. Among them: vocabulary, knowledge of literature, the ability to express one's point of view in writing. In a word, this format makes it possible to assess the student's general knowledge of both the language and subject knowledge.
1. 3 hours 55 minutes are allotted for the final essay, the recommended length is 350 words.
2. Date of the final essay 2016-2017. In the 2015-2016 academic year, it was held on December 2, 2015, February 3, 2016, May 4, 2016. In 2016-2017 - December 7, February 1, May 17.
3. The final essay (statement) is held on the first Wednesday of December, the first Wednesday of February and the first working Wednesday of May.
The purpose of the essay is reasoning, a competently and clearly built point of view of the student using examples from the literature within the framework of a given topic. It is important to note that the topics do not indicate a specific work for analysis, it is of an oversubject nature.
Topics of the final essay on literature 2016-2017
Topics are formed from two lists: open and closed. The first is known in advance, reflects approximate general themes, they are formulated as concepts that contradict each other.
A closed list of topics is announced 15 minutes before the start of the composition - these are more specific topics.
An open list of topics for the final essay 2016-2017:
1. "Mind and Feeling",
2. "Honor and dishonor",
3. "Victory and defeat",
4. "Experience and mistakes",
5. "Friendship and enmity".
The topics are presented in a problematic way, the names of the topics are antonyms.
An approximate list of references for all those who will write the final essay (2016-2017):
1. A.M. Gorky "Old Woman Izergil"
2. A.P. Chekhov "Ionych"
3. A.S. Pushkin Captain's daughter”,“ Eugene Onegin ”,“ Stationmaster ”
4. B.L. Vasiliev "I was not on the lists",
5. V.A. Kaverin "Two Captains"
6. V.V. Bykov "Sotnikov"
7. V.P. Astafiev "Tsar-fish"
8. Henry Marsh "Do No Harm"
9. Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe",
10. Jack London "White Fang",
11. Jack London "Martin Eden",
12. I.A. Bunin "Clean Monday"
13. I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"
14. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"
15. M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don"
16. M.Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time"
17. F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot"
18. E. Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea",
19. E.M. Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front",
20. E.M. Remarque "Three Comrades".
Argumenyou to the topic "Mind and feeling"
The point of view should be argued, in order to properly formulate it, one should involve literary material corresponding to the topic. The argument is the main component of the essay, is one of the evaluation criteria. It has the following requirements:
1. Relevant to the theme
2. Include literary material
3. Be inscribed in the text logically, in accordance with the overall composition
4. Be communicated through quality writing
5. Be well-designed.
To the topic "Reason and Feeling" one can take arguments from the works of I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons", A.S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit", N.M. Karamzin " Poor Lisa”, Jane Austen “Sense and Sensibility”.
Examples of final essays
There are a number of essay templates. They are evaluated according to five criteria, here is an example of an essay that scored the highest score:
An example of an essay on the topic: "Should reason prevail over feelings?"
What to listen to, to reason or feelings - every person asks such a question. It is especially acute when the mind dictates one thing, and feelings contradict it. What is the voice of reason, when a person should listen more precisely to his advice, a person decides for himself, the same with feelings. Without a doubt, the choice in one or another favor depends on the specific situation. For example, even a child knows that in a stressful situation one should not panic, it is better to listen to reason. It is important not only to listen to both reason and feelings, but also to really learn to distinguish situations when it is necessary to listen to the first or to the second to a greater extent.
Since the question was always relevant, it was widely used both in Russian and in foreign literature. Jane Austen in the novel "Sense and Sensibility" on the example of two sisters reflected this eternal contradiction. Elinor, the eldest of the sisters, is sensible, but not devoid of feelings, she just knows how to manage them. Mariana is in no way inferior to her older sister, but prudence is not inherent in her in anything. The author showed how their characters affected in the test of love. In the case of her older sister, her prudence almost played a cruel joke on her, thanks to her reserved nature, she did not immediately let her lover know what she felt. Mariana, on the other hand, became a victim of feelings, so she was deceived by a young man who took advantage of her gullibility and married a wealthy lady. As a result, the older sister was ready to put up with loneliness, but the man of her heart, Edward Ferras, makes a choice in her favor, refusing not only the inheritance, but also his word: engagement with an unloved woman. Marianna, after a serious illness and deceit, grows up and agrees to an engagement with a 37-year-old captain, for whom she does not have romantic feelings, but deeply respects.
A similar choice is made by the characters in A.P. Chekhov "About Love". However, Alekhin and Anna Luganovich, succumbing to the call of reason, give up their happiness, which makes their act right in the eyes of society, but deep down in their souls, both heroes are unhappy.
So what is the mind: logic, common sense, or just boring reason? Can feelings interfere with a person's life or, on the contrary, provide an invaluable service? There is no unequivocal answer in this dispute, whom to listen to: reason or feeling. Both are equally important for a person, so you just need to learn how to use them correctly.
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Brief analysis of I. Bunin's story "Clean Monday"
Man, like no other earthly creature, is lucky to have a mind and a choice. A person chooses all his life. Having taken a step, he faces a choice: to the right or to the left, where to go next. He takes one more step and chooses again, and so he walks to the end of the path. Some go faster, others slower, and the result is different: you take a step and either fall into a bottomless abyss, or you get your foot on the escalator to heaven. A person is free to choose work, passions, hobbies, thoughts, worldviews, love. Love is for money, for power, for art, it can be ordinary, earthly love, or it can happen that above all, above all feelings, a person puts love for the motherland or for God.
In Bunin's story "Clean Monday" the heroine is nameless. The name is not important, the name is for the earth, and God knows everyone without a name. Bunin calls the heroine - she. From the very beginning, she was strange, silent, unusual, as if a stranger to the whole world around her, looking through it, "she kept thinking something, everything seemed to delve into something mentally; lying on the sofa with a book in her hands, she often lowered it and looked inquiringly ahead of her. She seemed to be from a completely different world, and, just so that she would not be recognized in this world, she read, went to the theater, dined, dined, went for walks, attended courses. But she was always drawn to something lighter, more immaterial, to faith, to God, and just as the Savior's temple was close to the windows of her apartment, so God was close to her heart. She often went to churches, visited monasteries, old cemeteries.
And finally, she made up her mind. IN last days worldly life, she drank its cup to the bottom, forgave everyone on Forgiveness Sunday and was cleansed of the ashes of this life on "Clean Monday": she went to the monastery. "No, I'm not fit to be a wife." She knew from the very beginning that she could not be a wife. She is destined to be the eternal bride, the bride of Christ. She found her love, she chose her path. You might think that she left home, but in fact she went home. And even her earthly lover forgave her this. Forgive me, even though I didn't understand. He could not understand that now "she can see in the dark", and "came out of the gates" of a strange monastery.
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Bunin said that "Clean Monday" is the best work that he wrote:
I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to write Clean Monday.
Genre, direction
"Clean Monday" is written in the direction of realism. But before Bunin, they didn’t write about love like that. The writer finds the only words that do not trivialize feelings, but each time re-discover emotions familiar to everyone.
The work "Clean Monday" is a short story, a small everyday work, somewhat similar to a story. The difference can be found only in the plot and compositional construction. The genre of the short story, unlike the story, is characterized by the presence of a certain turn of events. In this book, such a turn is a change in the views on life of the heroine and a sharp change in her lifestyle.
The meaning of the name
Ivan Bunin clearly draws a parallel with the title of the work, making the main character a girl who rushes between opposites, and still does not know what she needs in life. It changes for the better from Monday, and not just the first day of a new week, but a religious celebration, that turning point, which is marked by the church itself, where the heroine goes to cleanse herself from the luxury, idleness and bustle of her former life.
Clean Monday is the first feast of Great Lent in the calendar, and leading to Forgiveness Sunday. The author draws the thread of the heroine's turning point in her life: from various amusements and unnecessary fun, to the adoption of religion, and leaving for a monastery.
essence
The story is told in the first person. The main events are as follows: every evening the narrator visits a girl who lives opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, for whom she has strong feelings. He is extremely talkative, she is very silent. There was no intimacy between them, and this keeps him at a loss, and some kind of expectation.
For some time they continue to go to theaters, spend evenings together. Forgiveness Sunday is approaching, and they are going to the Novodevichy Convent. Along the way, the heroine talks about how she was at the schismatic cemetery yesterday, and describes with admiration the rite of burial of the archbishop. The narrator did not notice in her earlier some kind of religiosity, and therefore listened attentively, with burning loving eyes. The heroine notices this, and is amazed at how much he loves her.
In the evening they go to the skit, after which the narrator accompanies her home. The girl asks to let the coachmen go, which she has not done before, and to go up to her. It was only their evening.
In the morning, the heroine says that she is leaving for Tver, to the monastery - there is no need to wait or look for her.
Main characters and their characteristics
The image of the main character can be viewed from several angles of the narrator: a young man in love evaluates the chosen one as a participant in the events, he also sees her as a person who only remembers the past. His views on life after falling in love, after passion, are changing. By the end of the novel, the reader now sees his maturity and depth of thought, but at first the hero was blinded by his passion and did not see the character of his beloved behind her, did not feel her soul. This is the reason for his loss and the despair into which he plunged after the disappearance of the lady of the heart.
The girl's name cannot be found in the work. For the narrator, this is just the same - unique. The heroine is an ambiguous person. She has education, refinement, intelligence, but at the same time she is removed from the world. She is attracted by an unattainable ideal, to which she can strive only within the walls of the monastery. But at the same time, she fell in love with a man and cannot just leave him. The conflict of feelings leads to internal conflict, which we can catch a glimpse of in her tense silence, in her desire for quiet and secluded corners, for reflection and loneliness. The girl still can not understand what she needs. She is seduced by the chic life, but at the same time, she resists it, and tries to find something else that will light her path with meaning. And in this honest choice, in this loyalty to oneself lies a great strength, there is a great happiness, which Bunin described with such pleasure.
Topics and issues
- The main theme is love. It is she who gives a person meaning in life. For the girl, a divine revelation became a guiding star, she found herself, but her chosen one, having lost the woman of his dreams, went astray.
- The problem of misunderstanding. The whole essence of the tragedy of the heroes is a misunderstanding of each other. The girl, feeling love for the narrator, does not see anything good in this - for her this is a problem, and not a way out of a confused situation. She is looking for herself not in the family, but in the service and spiritual calling. He sincerely does not see this and is trying to impose his vision of the future on her - the creation of marriage bonds.
- Choice theme also featured in the novel. Every person has a choice, and everyone decides for himself how to do the right thing. The main character chose her path - leaving for the monastery. The hero continued to love her, and could not come to terms with her choice, because of this he could not find inner harmony, find himself.
- Also, I. A. Bunin traces the theme of human purpose in life. The main character does not know what she wants, but she feels her calling. It is very difficult for her to understand herself, and because of this, the narrator also cannot fully understand her. However, she goes to the call of her soul, vaguely guessing the destination - the destiny of higher powers. And it's very good for both of them. If a woman made a mistake and got married, she would forever remain unhappy and blame the one who led her astray. A man would suffer from unrequited happiness.
- The problem of happiness. The hero sees him in love with the lady, but the lady moves along a different coordinate system. She will find harmony only alone with God.
the main idea
The writer writes about true love, which eventually ends in a break. Heroes make such decisions themselves, they have complete freedom of choice. And the meaning of their actions is the idea of the whole book. Each of us must choose exactly the kind of love that we can meekly worship all our lives. A person must be true to himself and the passion that lives in his heart. The heroine found the strength to go to the end and, despite all the doubts and temptations, come to her cherished goal.
The main idea of the novel is an ardent call for honest self-determination. There is no need to be afraid that someone will not understand or condemn your decision if you are sure that this is your calling. In addition, a person must be able to resist those obstacles and temptations that prevent him from hearing his own voice. On whether we will be able to hear it depends on the fate, and our own fate, and the position of those to whom we are dear.
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