What does happiness mean in the story Caucasus. An essay on the topic “What does it mean to be happy?” Based on the stories: Chekhov “About Love”, Bunin “Caucasus”, Kuprin “Lilac Bush”

An essay on the topic “What does it mean to be happy?” Based on the stories: Chekhov “About Love”, Bunin “Caucasus”, Kuprin “Lilac Bush”

the essay seems to be normal, but there are speech errors
Thank you, you helped :)
Every person asks himself the question: What does it mean to be happy? In literature lessons we read three works about love and each is different from the other, each has its own truth.
In A.P. Chekhov's work About Love, the author shows that love is a responsibility and a test of fate... It shows the love of two people who could not be together. In I. A. Bunin's story Caucasus, the author also depicts the feelings of people who loved each other. Unlike the story of A.P. Chekhov, where the lovers could not be together, here the loved ones were together and rested in the Caucasus, but this was not the love that everyone is waiting for. In this work, the husband of the main character shoots himself, because he cannot live with the thought that his wife is cheating on him with another... This story shows love, for which you have to do something and sacrifice something. A.I. Kuprin in his work The Lilac Bush shows love that closes its eyes to everything, because Vera forgot about her life, she lived only for her husband, was ready to do everything for him and not think about herself...

I believe that there are as many opinions as there are people. Each author has his own opinion, his own point of view about love. For each author, love exists differently... maybe all these works and stories from them can be found in our time. Happiness is what surrounds us, everything we see, feel, but some do not notice the most basic, the simplest things, but all this is happiness
We recently read the work of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, Lilac Bush. The main character of this work is Vera Almazova. She was the wife of a young, poor officer, Nikolai Evgrafovich Almazov. Verochka was his main support and support. But is Vera Almazova happy? When asking this question, you need to think about what happiness is.
Happiness is a very bright feeling. I think true happiness comes from people close to us. Many people think that they are happy because they have something. But this is not real happiness. And true happiness lies in mutual understanding between people. They are ready to go through life together and overcome everything together life difficulties, be true friend friend and sincere. But all this cannot be achieved without love. It is love that makes us go to desperate deeds and spare nothing for the sake of our other half. And love is also happiness.

Faith has it all. I don't have loving husband, he values and respects her. And she loves him very much and does not spare anything for him. Thanks to love and mutual understanding, Verochka and Nikolai solved their problem together.

Based on all this, we can safely say that Vera Almazova was truly happy after all.
thank you very much, you helped me out :))
in short, normal stories
Nikita's essay contains interesting thoughts. Although there are speech defects. Overall the impression is good.

“We always only remember about happiness. And happiness is everywhere...” Ivan Bunin, who was not only a poet, but also a wonderful prose writer, once said. His collection contains many stories and novellas, the motifs of which were borrowed a little later by Kuprin and Chekhov. This is the eternal problem of happiness, which is reflected in the works of these three writers.

The heroes of Bunin's stories do not think that happiness can be found in everything around them. Each story has unhappy ending, which makes the reader think about what happiness really is and why they talk so much about it. A false idea of happiness emerges in the story “The Gentleman from San Francisco.” On a luxury ship in a world of money, jewelry and debauchery, truly happy people No. Rich people live in constant worries; they do not know sincere feelings. The most happy man It turns out that he is a poor fisherman, and what exactly is his happiness - in poverty or in something else - Bunin makes us think about it ourselves.

For the heroes of Kuprin's stories, the highest happiness is love, moreover, non-reciprocal love, but pure, worthy of self-sacrifice. " Garnet bracelet"is a love story of a man who finds his happiness in death. Social status prevents Zheltkov from being with his beloved, who, by the way, is married. But this person is happy even because he has the opportunity to see the one who makes him happy. Vera Sheina, most likely, would also be happy with Zheltkov, if not for her beloved, but for the powerful and jealous husband. Probably, people like this failed couple could make each other happy if not for the circumstances. For Zheltkov, happiness did not last long. He could not stand his situation, which forces him to constantly hide, so he acts faster and easier. He sees salvation in death and quickly takes this step, asking his beloved not to blame herself for anything.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is known not only as a satirist, but also as a person who raises complex life important questions. Of course, for his heroes, happiness lay either in love or in material benefits. In the story "Gooseberry" there is a meeting between two brothers, one of whom considers himself a happy person, and the second tries to talk about his happiness and the situation of disadvantaged people. In the end, Ivan Ivanovich, on whose behalf the story is told, comes to the conclusion that the meaning of life lies not in happiness, and certainly not in eating the fruits from all the gooseberry bushes, but in doing good. So maybe this is the highest happiness...?

All three writers presented their interpretation of happiness to the reader. So what is it - wealth, love or just kindness? The choice remains with each of us.

Topic little man touched upon N.V. in their works. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky, A.S. Pushkin. These heroes evoked pity and compassion. After all, they became like this because of difficult life circumstances and the disdainful attitude of others. At A.P. Chekhov's image of a little man is significantly different. Heroes like Vanka from work of the same name or the coachman Jonah from the story “Tosca” evoke sincere sympathy. They have no one to share their troubles with. These are very lonely, small people. Writer […]
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a wonderful master short story and an outstanding playwright. He was called “an intelligent man from the people.” He was not ashamed of his origins and always said that “a man’s blood flows in him.” Chekhov lived in an era when, after the murder of Tsar Alexander II by the Narodnaya Volya, persecution of literature began. This period of Russian history, which lasted until the mid-90s, was called “twilight and gloomy.” IN literary works Chekhov, as a doctor by profession, valued the authenticity [...]
Poetry occupies a significant place in the work of I. A. Bunin, although he gained fame as a prose writer. He claimed to be first and foremost a poet. It was with poetry that his path in literature began. When Bunin was 17 years old, his first poem “The Village Beggar” was published in the Rodina magazine, in which young poet described the state of the Russian village: It’s sad to see how much suffering, and melancholy, and need there is in Rus'! From the very beginning creative activity the poet found his style, his themes, [...]
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - greatest writer turn of XIX-XX centuries He entered literature as a poet and created wonderful poetic works. 1895 ...The first story “To the End of the World” is published. Encouraged by the praise of critics, Bunin begins to study literary creativity. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a laureate of various awards, including laureate Nobel Prize in literature 1933. In 1944, the writer creates one of the most wonderful stories about love, about the most beautiful, significant and highest, […]
Throughout his creative activity, Bunin created poetic works. Bunin's original, unique artistic style cannot be confused with the poems of other authors. In individual artistic style the writer reflects his worldview. Bunin in his poems responded to difficult questions being. His lyrics are multifaceted and deep in philosophical questions of understanding the meaning of life. The poet expressed the mood of confusion, disappointment and at the same time knew how to fill his […]
The image of nature is organic for art world Kuprin and is inextricably linked with his concept of man. One can single out a number of works by the writer in which nature occupies important place. Such are the picturesque Polesie cycle, lyrical miniatures “Woodcocks”, “Night in the Forest”, reflections on natural phenomena- “Empty Dachas” (beginning of autumn), “Golden Rooster” (sunrise). This also includes a series of lyrical essays about Balaclava fishermen “Listrigons”. For the first time, Kuprin’s concept of man and nature was [...]
Kuprin portrays true love as the highest value of the world, as an incomprehensible mystery. For such an all-consuming feeling there is no question “to be or not to be?” It is devoid of doubt, and therefore is often fraught with tragedy. “Love is always a tragedy,” wrote Kuprin, “always struggle and achievement, always joy and fear, resurrection and death.” Kuprin was deeply convinced that even an unrequited feeling can transform a person’s life. He wisely and touchingly spoke about this in “The Garnet Bracelet,” a sad […]
Nikolai Vera Portrait of heroes There is no description of the heroes in the story. Kuprin, it seems to me, deliberately avoids this method of characterizing characters in order to draw the reader’s attention to the internal state of the characters and show their experiences. Characteristics Helplessness, passivity (“Almazov sat without taking off his coat, he turned to the side...”);
irritation (“Almazov quickly turned to his wife and spoke hotly and irritably”);
displeasure (“Nikolai Evgenievich wrinkled all over, as if from [...] Nikolai Almazov Verochka Almazova Character Traits Dissatisfied, irritable, weak, cowardly, stubborn, purposeful. Failures made him insecure and nervous. Gentle, calm, patient, affectionate, restrained, strong. Characteristics Helpless, passive, wrinkles his forehead and spreads his arms in amazement, overly ambitious. Accurate, resourceful, active, fast, active, decisive, absorbed in love for her husband. Faith in the outcome of the case Unsure of success, cannot find [...] The theme of the search for happiness is one of the key themes in the works of Russian classical literature , however, few authors manage to reveal it as deeply and at the same time laconicly, as Kuprin does in the story “The Lilac Bush”. The story is not long at all, and there is only one story line
– the relationship between Nikolai Almazov and his wife, Verochka. Both heroes of this work are looking for happiness, each in their own way, and each quite successfully. Almazov is a young ambitious officer, hungry for fame and
Essay-reasoning Plan: 1. Introduction 2. Main part a) the theme of love in the work b) the question of human happiness c) the problem of people’s behavior in difficult life situations 3. Conclusion The story of Alexander Kuprin “The Lilac Bush” was written in 1984, and refers to early creativity author. But it reveals the writer’s skill, his ability to subtly convey psychological condition heroes. The work, which is small in volume, contains deep content and raises many important and [...]
The mystery of love is eternal. Many writers and poets have tried unsuccessfully to unravel it. Russian artists dedicated words to the great feeling of love best pages of their works. Love awakens and incredibly strengthens best qualities in a person’s soul, makes him capable of creativity. The happiness of love cannot be compared with anything: the human soul flies, it is free and full of delight. The lover is ready to embrace the whole world, move mountains, powers are revealed in him that he did not even suspect about. Kuprin owns wonderful […]
The story “Mr. from San Francisco” is the result of the writer’s reflection on questions of meaning human existence, the existence of civilization, the fate of Russia during the First World War. The story appeared in print in 1915, when a worldwide catastrophe was already taking place. Bunin describes the plot and poetics of the story last month the life of a wealthy American businessman who arranged a long and pleasure-filled trip to Europe for his family. Europe was to be followed by the Middle East and […]
The writing personality of V. Bunin is marked to a great extent by such a worldview in which an acute, hourly “sense of death”, a constant memory of it, is combined with a strong thirst for life. The writer might not have admitted what he said. autobiographical note: “The Book of My Life” (1921), because his work itself speaks about this: “The constant consciousness or feeling of this horror / death / has haunted me almost since infancy, under this fatal sign I have lived my whole century. I know well What […]
Story " Clean Monday", written in 1944, is one of the author's favorite stories. I.A. Bunin recounts the events of the distant past from the perspective of the narrator - a young wealthy man with no special occupation. The hero is in love, and the heroine, as he sees her, makes a strange impression on the reader. She is pretty, loves luxury, comfort, expensive restaurants, and at the same time she is a “modest student” and has breakfast in a vegetarian canteen on Arbat. She has a very critical attitude towards many fashionable works [...]
“All love is great happiness, even if it is not shared” - this phrase contains the pathos of Bunin’s depiction of love. In almost all works on this topic, the outcome is tragic. It was precisely because love was “stolen” that it was not complete and led to tragedy. Bunin reflects that the happiness of one can lead to the tragedy of another. Bunin's approach to describing this feeling is somewhat different: the love in his stories is more frank, naked, and sometimes even rude, filled with unquenchable passion. Problem […]
After the revolution of 1905, Bunin was one of the first to sense the changes in the life of Russia, namely the mood of the post-revolutionary village, and reflected them in his stories and stories, especially in the story “The Village,” which was published in 1910. On the pages of the story “The Village,” the author paints a terrifying picture of the poverty of the Russian people. Bunin wrote that this story marked “the beginning of a whole series of works that sharply depicted the Russian soul, its peculiar textures, its light and dark, but almost always […]
Bunin's short story cycle Dark alleys"includes 38 stories. They differ in genre, in creating the characters of the heroes, and reflect different layers of time. The author wrote this cycle, the last in his life, for eight years, during the First World War. Bunin wrote about eternal love and the strength of feelings at a time when the world was collapsing from the bloodiest war in history known to him. Bunin considered the book “Dark Alleys” to be “the most perfect in craftsmanship” and ranked it among his highest achievements. This is a memoir book. In the stories [...]
The story “Clean Monday” is part of Bunin’s series of stories “Dark Alleys”. This cycle was the last in the author’s life and took eight years of creativity. The cycle was created during the Second World War. The world was collapsing, and the great Russian writer Bunin wrote about love, about the eternal, about the only force capable of preserving life in its highest purpose. The cross-cutting theme of the cycle is love in all its many faces, the merging of the souls of two unique, inimitable worlds, the souls of lovers. The story “Clean Monday” […]

The heroes of Bunin's stories do not think that happiness can be found in everything around them. Each story has an unhappy ending, which makes the reader think about what happiness really is and why they talk so much about it. A false idea of happiness emerges in the story “The Gentleman from San Francisco.” There are no truly happy people on a luxury ship in the world of money, jewelry and debauchery. Rich people live in constant worries; they do not know sincere feelings. The happiest person turns out to be a poor fisherman, and what exactly is his happiness - in poverty or in something else - Bunin makes us think about it ourselves.

For the heroes of Kuprin's stories, the highest happiness is love, and, moreover, non-reciprocal love, but pure, worthy of self-sacrifice. “The Garnet Bracelet” is a love story of a man who finds his happiness in death. Social status prevents Zheltkov from being with his beloved, who, by the way, is married. But this person is happy even because he has the opportunity to see the one who makes him happy. Vera Sheina, most likely, would also be happy with Zheltkov, if not for her beloved, but for her domineering and jealous husband. Probably, people like this failed couple could make each other happy if not for the circumstances. For Zheltkov, happiness did not last long. He could not stand his situation, which forces him to constantly hide, so he acts faster and easier. He sees salvation in death and quickly takes this step, asking his beloved not to blame herself for anything.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is known not only as a satirist, but also as a person who raises complex vital issues. Of course, for his heroes, happiness lay either in love or in material wealth. In the story "Gooseberry" there is a meeting between two brothers, one of whom considers himself a happy person, and the second tries to talk about his happiness and the situation of disadvantaged people. In the end, Ivan Ivanovich, on whose behalf the story is told, comes to the conclusion that the meaning of life lies not in happiness, and certainly not in eating the fruits of all the gooseberry bushes, but in doing good. So maybe this is the highest happiness...?

All three writers presented their interpretation of happiness to the reader. So what is it - wealth, love or just kindness? The choice remains with each of us.

What does it mean to be happy?

What does it mean to be happy? Having heard this question, I thought, what does this mean? To clarify this, I turned to the works that we read at school.

Let's first look at the work “Asya” by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. It talks about young man calling himself N.N. And about his life. In his life he found only one true love. Only when he was with Asya did he feel good, he was happy. But when he pushed her away from him and she left, only then did he realize that only with her he was a happy man. And so throughout his subsequent life he did not find that girl whom he really loved and so that next to her he felt happy.

But of course there are other stories. For example, Verochka Almazova, from the story “The Lilac Bush” by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, was always happy in her life. Although she did not live richly, she lived optimistically. Never losing hope. She lived happy because of love, but unlike N.N. She always understood what her happiness was. And instead of losing, she finds everything new that enriches her life. She is truly happy and is not going to lose it.

What more can be said? Happiness can be not only in love and not necessarily any for a long time. There may be moments when you experience happiness from something you have never done before, and this remains in your memory for the rest of your life. In the poem “Mtsyri”, by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Mtsyri, having escaped from the monastery, felt a sense of freedom, but he experienced real happiness only when he overcame a predatory leopard. In this fight, he splashed out all his feelings and emotions. Even though he was pretty exhausted, he felt that he was happy. He was interested in the world, and seeing it was happiness for him, a humble monk.

Even a poor old lady who has lost everything can become happy. In the story of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov “ Old genius"Poor old lady who lost everything because of her kind soul, you still end up happy in the end. Without losing hope for a bright future, she stood her ground when she was rejected everywhere, she was confident that someday she would defend her convictions and rights and be happy. And with her persistent efforts, she was able to regain what she had lost and her good and honest name.

Thus we can summarize that for everyone be happy, it varies. For some, this is a short time spent together with your loved one, which will be interrupted due to one of your mistakes, for others it is a long happy life together, for some it’s a matter of minutes during which your dreams come true, and for some it’s getting back what’s yours and defending your beliefs.

What is happiness and what does it mean to be happy? Example - my little sister once tried to get an apple from the table, and when she finally got it, she was happy, her eyes shone with joy, and a smile played on her lips. Happiness is moments. And to be happy means to have many such moments.

But now I want to talk not about happiness in general, but about happiness in certain cases. In literature lessons we were introduced to three works: “The Caucasus” by I. Bunin, “The Lilac Bush” by I. Kuprin and the story “About Love” by A. Chekhov. I want to explain the happiness that the main characters of these works experienced. What did this happiness mean to them?

In Kuprin's story "The Lilac Bush", the main characters are Vera and Nikolai Almazov. Nikolai often had failures in his life, but his wife “...learned to meet each of his failures with a clear, almost cheerful face.” Vera really truly loved her husband, she was his support and support, she was a part of Nikolai Evgrafovich himself. And when they overcame all adversity together again and again, Vera was happy. Therefore, from this work we can say that for a person, happiness is being with a loved one no matter what and fighting together for life without adversity.

Or, let’s take the story “About Love” by A.P. Chekhov. IN this work The main characters are Anna Alekseevna, the young wife of a judge, and Alyohin, an armchair man. Their happiness was not really happiness. After all, happiness should be sweet, but for Alekhine and Anna Alekseevna it was bitter. They loved each other, but could not be together, and this made them unhappy. At least they could at least see each other, that was no small thing. Love must bring sweet happiness, only then will there be love true love. Consequently, in Chekhov's story we are talking about the fact that love does not always bring happiness, and happiness does not always bring us joy, sometimes happiness from love brings pain and grief.

And finally, Bunin’s story “The Caucasus”. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin in his work also showed the love of two people, but unlike Chekhov’s story, these people could be together. They vacationed in the Caucasus, but this love cannot be called exactly the love about which legends are written. This is not the kind of love that penetrates people to their fingertips, this is not the kind of love that everyone is waiting for. The main characters cannot be together, because the girl is already married, but still the young people meet secretly and even vacation in the Caucasus. In this work the husband main character shoots himself because he cannot live with the thought that his wife is cheating on him. In this story we see that for the sake of love you need to take action, you need to sacrifice something, and sometimes even yourself. In this work, sacrificial love appears before us.

And yet, what does it mean to be happy? Judging by these works, to be happy means to love, to be loved and to have the opportunity to be close to your loved one, to overcome all obstacles together with your soulmate. This is what it means to be happy. But I can say from myself that happiness is absolutely everything that surrounds us every day. Even the fact that we exist in this world is already happiness.

happiness to love literary