What is the story of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin about? Clean Monday"? About love? Yes, and also about what hypostases love can have, about the fact that it is worth giving it up so that it lives. About our great beautiful capital? Yes, about her people and customs, about the peculiarities of architecture, about the mixture of styles and colors. About the time? Yes. About that poetic time when

The Moscow gray winter day was getting dark, the gas in the lanterns was coldly lit, the shop windows were warmly illuminated - and the evening Moscow life, freed from daytime affairs, flared up: the cab sledges rushed thicker and more vigorously, the overcrowded diving trams rattled harder - in the dusk it was already clear how green stars hissed from the wires - dully blackening passers-by hurried more animatedly along the snowy sidewalks ...

How much poetry in this bewitching, bewitching description! Already in the first paragraph, you can find the basic principle of the story - the opposition: it got dark - it lit up; cold - warm; evening - day; rushed more cheerfully - thundered harder; snowy sidewalks - blackening passers-by. All accents have shifted, and the stars are pouring with a hiss. This is the discontent and the sound of champagne ... Everything is mixed up.

Love seems somehow strange: like love and like coldness. He loves, but whom? How much narcissism in every word of his description of himself: “at that time he was handsome for some reason, southern, hot beauty, he was even“ indecently handsome. And this: "We were both rich, healthy, young and so good-looking that in restaurants, at concerts, they saw us off with their eyes." Yes, apparently, it's nice when you and your companion are seen off with their eyes. But this is such self-confidence. So he loves a girl whom he does not know at all. He constantly repeats that all their relationships are strange, and why are they together? She immediately dismissed conversations about the future, saying that she was not fit to be a wife. Why then continue these tedious, exhausting relationships.

The girl, unlike the hero, lives a deep inner life. She does not advertise it (this life), she is not proud of attending courses in a modest uniform dress, that she dine in a vegetarian canteen on the Arbat for thirty kopecks. All this is hidden somewhere deep inside the soul of this exquisite, so, at first glance, spoiled beauty. Unlike her chatty friend, she is always silent, but on the eve of the very day indicated in the title of the story, she begins to speak. In her speech and excerpts from Platon Karataev, and quotations from chronicles and scriptures. What about the description of the funeral procession she observed at the Rogozhsky cemetery? Delight in the hymns of the deacons on the hooks?! She talks about it with undisguised joy and pride. In all this, the real feeling is Love! She loves Orthodox Russia wants to devote himself to God, to serving people. And here it becomes clear that everything converges at this important point for her: an apartment with a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and a portrait of barefoot Leo Tolstoy on the wall in the hall, and courses, and silence. She is preparing herself to be a nun. How to understand this step, a person who loves her? Having spent the last night "in the world" with her beloved, it is as if she cuts the thread that binds them, announcing her decision. One day spent with a girl occupies the entire story, two lines are devoted to two years that have passed without her. The world without a beloved, as if ceased to exist.

Two years later, he passes the same route that they traveled together then, on that clean Monday. And meets her. Her or not? Is it possible to guess this? No. But he understood and forgave his beloved, which means he let her go.

Writing

Let us turn to "Clean Monday", written on May 12, 1944, when Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was in exile. It was there, abroad, already at an advanced age, that he created the cycle " Dark alleys", which includes the said story. All the works of this collection are about love, therefore, main topic"Clean Monday" - love. This can be confirmed by the words of M. Roshchin: "Dark Alleys" are like a diary, they are so personal, the author is visible in each "adventure". Love is most beautiful in its first, initial stage, what has been achieved turns into sad, everyday, perishable - death overtakes it almost instantly, in its prime, and with the concentration of life that Bunin manages to create, love, along with life, is brought to cosmic density.

You can’t just say about love, you need to think deeper into the name, understand why Bunin used these particular words. In the dictionary, Pure Monday is explained as the first day of Lent, which comes after the rampant Maslenitsa. This interpretation also indicates a kind of purification. From dusk to dawn.

Bunin's love stories have long become classics of the genre; in sterile Soviet times, their discreet but extremely intense eroticism turned the heads of many young ladies of both sexes. Meanwhile, if you think about it, the plot and composition of Bunin's stories are surprisingly monotonous. He (occasionally she), having come across a sudden reminder of the past, begins to reopen a long-healed wound, restoring in his memory all the details of a youthful happy (unhappy, failed) love. Emerging from the pool of memories, he (she) realizes that life has failed. That, in fact, is all. There are relatively few deviations from this scheme.

The heroes of the story "Clean Monday" are rich, and love arises between them. They relax, visit restaurants, theaters, that is, they have a good time ...

At the very beginning of the work, the author uses eight times in the description of the Moscow winter evening words meaning dark shades. Note that from the first lines I.A. Bunin prepares us for the tragedy of two loving people. But in the description main character the writer also continues to use black: “And her beauty was some kind of Indian, Persian: a swarthy amber face, magnificent and somewhat sinister in its thick black hair, eyebrows softly shining like black sable fur, black like velvet coal, eyes; captivating with velvety crimson lips, the mouth was tinted with a dark fluff ..

Perhaps this description of the girl indicates her sinfulness. The features of her appearance are very similar to those of some diabolical creature. Description of clothing is similar to its appearance in terms of colors: "She stood straight and somewhat theatrically near the piano in a black velvet dress that made her thinner, shining with his elegance ..." It is this description that makes us think of the main character as a mysterious, mysterious, diabolical creature.

In the article by E.Yu. Poltavets and N.V. Nedzvitsky "Cryptography of love. I. Bunin's story "Clean Monday" this assumption is confirmed: "The underlined detailing in the description of the rooms and the heroine's outfit contains motifs of a magical action:" the black diabolical color of the dress and the sinister coal velvet of the eyes, "glossy pigtails" and "powdered cheeks" - a hint of the witches' magic ointment, the sounds of somnambulistic blissful " moonlight sonata"an analogue of the moon that hypnotizes the witch."

The author also uses moonlight in the story, the meaning of which is explained in the same article: “Moonlight is a sign of unhappy love. The moon that illuminates lovers portends separation or even death. But in the story “Clean Monday”, moonlight, of course, also symbolizes The heroine takes part in the Sabbath, and this is on a clean Monday, a day of fasting, repentance and atonement for sins! Truly against Christ the Savior!

The heroine thinks not only in entertainment, the thought of God, of the church slips in her head. No wonder Bunin mentions the Cathedrals of St. Basil the Blessed and the Savior-on-Bora, the Novodevichy Convent, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. This detail in the text indicates the moral purity of the soul, thus speaking about the climax of the story, that is, about the departure of the girl to the monastery.

The text traces the heroine's throwing between purification and the fall into sin. This we can see in the description of the lips and cheeks; "Black fluff above the lip and pink amber cheeks." At first, it seems that the heroine is only thinking about going to a monastery, visiting restaurants, drinking, smoking, but then she abruptly changes her views and suddenly goes to serve God. Spiritual purity, renunciation of the sinful world, the world of cruelty and immorality is associated with the monastery. White is known to symbolize purity. Therefore, after the departure of the heroine to the monastery, the writer prefers this particular color shade, pointing to the purification, rebirth of the soul. In the last paragraph, the word "white" is used four times, pointing to the idea of ​​the story, that is, to the rebirth of the soul, the transition from sin, the blackness of life to spiritual, moral purity. This is how the movement from "black" to "white" is traced - from sin to purity.

Folklorists have long known that there are very few stories in the world. Not a single writer has yet been honored to enter the history of world literature due to mere plot skill and diversity. Bunin managed to create an image with an unexpected combination of words, silence, a hint, to convey an atmosphere of fragility, fragility and doom of feeling with the help of all the strength of his native language accumulated over several centuries. It was not for nothing that Nabokov treated his prose so prejudicedly and unkindly: Bunin came as close as possible to the plot on which the author of "Spring in Fialta" did not want to let anyone in.

Bunin's world in "Dark Alleys" is clearly divided into male and female. The male is saturated with deceit, insincerity, hypocrisy, self-interest, weak will and cowardice. The feminine is full of strong feelings, passions, devotion, naturalness. It is only in the fairy tale that the main contradictions of Bunin's world in the Hegelian sense are "removed": a good fellow receives an undefiled bride, vice is punished, and the villain also repents.

In the world that Bunin offers the reader as real, everything happens quite the opposite.

In the theme of love, Bunin reveals himself as a man of amazing talent, a subtle psychologist who knows how to convey the state of the soul, wounded by love. The writer does not avoid complex, frank topics, depicting the most intimate human experiences in his stories. Over the centuries, many artists of the word dedicated their works to the great feeling of love, and each of them found something unique, individual to this theme. It seems to me that the peculiarity of Bunin the artist lies in the fact that he considers love a tragedy, a catastrophe, madness, a great feeling, capable of both infinitely elevating and destroying a person.
Love is a mysterious element that transforms a person's life, giving his fate a uniqueness against the background of ordinary everyday stories, filling his earthly existence with a special meaning.

This mystery of being becomes the theme of Bunin's story Grammar of Love (1915). The hero of the work, a certain Ivlev, having stopped on his way to the house of the recently deceased landowner Khvoshchinsky, reflects on "love incomprehensible, which turned a whole human life into some kind of ecstatic life, which, perhaps, should have been the most ordinary life", if not for the strange charm of the maid Lushki. It seems to me that the mystery lies not in the appearance of Lushka, who "was not at all good in herself," but in the character of the landowner himself, who idolized his beloved. "But what kind of person was this Khvoshchinsky? Crazy or just some kind of stunned, all focused on one soul?" According to neighbors-landlords. Khvoshchinsky "was known in the county as a rare clever girl. And suddenly this love fell on him, this Lushka, then her unexpected death - and everything went to dust: he shut himself up in the house, in the room where Lushka lived and died, and for more than twenty years sat on her bed" How can you call this twenty years of seclusion? Madness? For Bunin, the answer to this question is not at all unambiguous.
The fate of Khvoshchinsky strangely fascinates and worries Ivlev. He understands that Lushka entered his life forever, awakened in him "a complex feeling, similar to what he once experienced in an Italian town when looking at the relics of one saint." What made Ivlev buy from the heir Khvoshchinsky "at a high price" a small book "Grammar of Love", with which the old landowner did not part, cherishing the memories of Lushka? Ivlev would like to understand what the life of a madman in love was filled with, what his orphaned soul fed for many years. And following the hero of the story, "grandchildren and great-grandchildren" who heard "voluptuous legend about the hearts of those who loved" will try to uncover the secret of this inexplicable feeling, and with them the reader of Bunin's work.

An attempt to understand the nature of love feelings by the author in the story "Sunstroke" (1925). "A strange adventure" shakes the soul of the lieutenant. After parting with a beautiful stranger, he cannot find peace. At the thought of the impossibility of meeting this woman again, "he felt such pain and the uselessness of his entire future life without her that he was seized by horror, despair." The author convinces the reader of the seriousness of the feelings experienced by the hero of the story. The lieutenant feels "terribly unhappy in this city." "Where to go? What to do?" he thinks lostly. The depth of the hero's spiritual insight is clearly expressed in the final phrase of the story: "The lieutenant sat under a canopy on the deck, feeling ten years older." How to explain what happened to him? Maybe the hero came into contact with that great feeling that people call love, and the feeling of the impossibility of loss led him to realize the tragedy of being?

The torment of a loving soul, the bitterness of loss, the sweet pain of memories - such unhealed wounds are left in the fate of Bunin's heroes by love, and time has no power over it.

The story "Dark Alleys" (1935) depicts a chance meeting of people who loved each other thirty years ago. The situation is rather ordinary: the young nobleman easily broke up with the serf girl Nadezhda, who was in love with him, and married a woman of his circle. And Nadezhda, having received freedom from the masters, became the mistress of the inn and never married, had no family, children, did not recognize ordinary worldly happiness. “No matter how much time passed, she lived all the same,” she admits to Nikolai Alekseevich. “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten. I could never forgive you. did not have". She could not change herself, her feelings. And Nikolai Alekseevich realized that he had lost in Nadezhda "the most precious thing that he had in life." But this is a momentary insight. Leaving the inn, he "remembered with shame his last words and the fact that he kissed her hand, and was immediately ashamed of his shame. "And yet it is difficult for him to imagine Nadezhda as his wife, the mistress of the Petegbug house, the mother of his children. This gentleman attaches too much great importance class prejudices, in order to prefer genuine feeling to them. But he paid for his cowardice with a lack of personal happiness.
How differently the heroes of the story comprehend what happened to them! For Nikolai Alekseevich, this is "a vulgar, ordinary story," but for Nadezhda - undying memories, many years of devotion to love.

Yes, love has many faces and is often inexplicable. This is an eternal riddle, and each reader of Bunin's works is looking for his own answers, reflecting on the secrets of love. The perception of this feeling is very personal, and therefore someone will treat what is depicted in the book as a "vulgar story", and someone will be shocked by the great gift of love, which, like the talent of a poet or musician, is not given to everyone. But one thing is certain: Bunin's stories, which tell about the most secret, will not leave indifferent readers of the end of the 20th century. Every young person will find in Bunin's works something consonant with their own thoughts and feelings, they will touch the great secret of love. This is what makes the author of "Sunstroke" always a modern writer, arousing deep reader interest.

Target: the formation of attitudes towards tragic love on the example of I.A. Bunin's work.

Every love is a great happiness...

I.A. Bunin

DURING THE CLASSES

1. Organizational moment

2. Teacher's word

Love is a great mysterious element that transforms a person’s life, makes his destiny unique against the background of everyday history, and fills his earthly existence with a special meaning. Over the centuries, many artists of the word have dedicated their works to a great feeling. More often, probably than others, I.A. Bunin addressed this topic, who argued that “all love is a great happiness ...” (reference to the epigraph).

Can we agree with this statement? (Undoubtedly, since love is a noble, sublime feeling, bright, inspiring a person.)

- Remember the previously studied stories of I.A. Bunin. How did they portray love? ("Easy Breath", "Dark Alleys", "Sunstroke", where unrequited love, tragic, carnal, ending in separation or death.)

- Then tell me, if love is a bright and sublime feeling, then why is it almost always tragic in I. Bunin? Reflections on this question will form the basis of our work in the lesson.

3. The story "Clean Monday"

I.A. Bunin, developing the theme of love in his early stories, developed it in the works of the later period, creating the cycle “Dark Alleys”.

Student message about the history of creation and the meaning of the cycle "Dark Alleys".

A collection of stories about love with the mysterious title "Dark Alleys" was created during the emigration period of creativity in 1937-1945. mainly in Grasse during the years of French occupation. During the war, I. Bunin's feelings about the fate of Russia intensified, which is why he again turns to the Russian theme. The collection includes 38 stories in which a sketch of the events of Russian life, taking place in Russia of the past, is created. This is the only book of its kind in Russian literature where everything is about love. Diary entries testify that he wrote this book with concentration, selflessly. In the letters, I. Bunin recalled that he had reread N.P. Ogarev, stopped at a line from his poem: “All around the scarlet rose hips bloomed, there was an alley of dark lindens.” He later wrote to Taffy that "all the stories in the book are only about love, about its "dark" and most often very gloomy and cruel alleys." (Deciphering the metaphorical meaning of the statement, i.e. shady, mysterious, inexplicable alleys, according to Y. Maltsev, about "the intricate labyrinths of love".)

4. Analytical conversation

- Let's turn to the artistic world of the story "Clean Monday", determine the artistic time in the work. The story was written in 1944, but takes us to Moscow at the beginning of the century 1912-1914, in the years preceding World War I, i.e. more than 30 years ago, this is primarily due to the desire to restore the future by referring to the past. The writer's memory with amazing plastic accuracy reproduces the smallest details of that era.

– What signs of real time can we find in the narrative? (The table will be filled in as you go.)

How are present and past represented? How do these two worlds interact with each other?

teacher's word

Against the background of this description, an event takes place in which two people take part - HE and SHE.

Why doesn't the author name his characters? (To give a generalized meaning, the nomination of heroes is not so important, Bunin explores the culture of Russia, the life of people, their entertainment, everything that occupied their souls, i.e. the spiritual life of people.)

– How do the hero-narrator and the heroine perceive these two worlds?
He is a realist, satisfied with this rich, idle life, cheerful. She combines these two worlds: she visits restaurants, skits, concerts, but goes to churches, to the cemetery, is interested in history.

What kind of life do the characters lead? What are they doing? (Every evening they meet and go to a restaurant for dinner, then go either to a concert, or to the theater, or to a lecture. He often visits her. They are immersed in a real semi-bohemian life, but gradually another one appears next to this familiar and sweet life. )

- Describe the character. (Compilation of syncwine, Figure 2a, b.)
He is a young man, good-looking, even handsome "for some reason, with southern hot beauty, even indecently handsome. And he has a southern character, lively, constantly ready for a happy smile." The hero is also a narrator who tells the story of his love for Her. Everything suits him in a relationship. He does not think about what these relationships will lead to, we can say that he has some kind of superficial assessment of events, he is carefree, frivolous, open.

- Describe the character.
It is unusual, it has inexplicable contradictions. On the one hand, “it looked like she didn’t need anything: no flowers, no books, no dinners, no theaters, no dinners outside the city, although all the same, she had favorite and unloved flowers ... she read all sorts of books, loved eat and immediately talked about why people eat at all. She seemed to enjoy the luxurious life: going to restaurants, theaters, concerts. She loved nice clothes, velvet, silk, furs. On the other hand, for some reason I studied at courses, was interested in history, visited churches, the Raskolnichye cemetery, etc. The hero admits that she is incomprehensible to him.

- What epithets, in your opinion, will be the main ones? Support with examples from the text. He is happy, in love; She is strange, mysterious, contradictory. “She was mysterious, incomprehensible to me, our relationship was also strange ... strange love ...”.
The main thing in the characterization of the hero is love, which gives him an exceptional sharpness of sensory perception, through the prism of which the portrait of the heroine, her appearance is presented.

- Let's turn to portrait characteristic heroines. Find the recurring details in the portrait. What signs dominate? (In all the portrait characteristics of the heroine, oriental beauty is emphasized - “swarty amber face”, “black hair”, “black eyebrows, black eyes”. The epithets are “velvet”, “black”, “amber”. In the portrait itself, there is a certain mystery, inconsistency, oriental beauty.)

- Why oriental beauty? (Emphasize its unusualness, dissimilarity, difference from others with unearthly charm.)

teacher's word

Before you are three portraits of paintings by the great artist of the period of the XIX - XX centuries. M. Vrubel. ("Fortuneteller", "Girl on the background of the Persian carpet", "Lilac".)

- Compare the pictures, are there any similarities in all these portraits? What details prove this similarity? (The reproductions depict beautiful, young ladies, oriental beauty is manifested in all external characteristics: black hair, black velvet eyelashes, eyebrows, plump lips, an amber face, a certain mystery in expressions, as if they knew some secrets.)

- It seems that I. Bunin painted a portrait of his heroine from the portraits of M. Vrubel. It can be assumed that this is a kind of artistic device: years later, in the mind of the hero, the image of the beloved woman is enriched with impressions, associations of the art of the time he remembers.

5. Research activities of students

In the symbolic presentation of the heroine, color and light characteristics perform a special artistic function. You are encouraged to work independently on the options.
Task: find out what artistic function the color characteristics perform (1st option), 2nd option - light.

Color	Light
The dominant colors are black, red, white. In portraiture and clothing. Black is the color of night, humility, purification, sacrifice, mourning, mystery. Red is the color of passion, love, sin (corresponding to violence against oneself), sacrifice (garnet dress). White is the color of purity, holiness, spiritual peace (at the end of the story, white clothes). In landscape sketches, shades of these colors: “blackening passers-by”, “snow-gray Moscow”, “golden dome”, “bloody brick walls of the monastery”. Here, too, there is a contradiction: black is light and clear. The red dress is replaced by dazzling black, in which she shone, the same mystery and inconsistency. Color characteristics help to better reveal the image of the main character.	Almost all descriptions of the appearance of the heroine and the surrounding world are given against the background of subdued light, at dusk, and only in the cemetery on Forgiveness Sunday and two years later the process of enlightenment takes place. An artistic transformation takes place, the images of the light and brilliance of the sun change. V the art world dominated by beauty, harmony. "The evening was peaceful, sunny, with frost on the trees." The whole story takes place in the twilight, in a dream. Evening, dusk, mystery - that's what catches your eye in the perception of the image of this unusual woman. In the house of the heroine, the light blinds once: "At ten o'clock in the evening the next day ... it was very light behind her, everything was lit - chandeliers, candelabra, mirrors on the sides and a tall lamp." The author emphasizes the unusual nature of such lighting in the house. According to the researchers, it is as if a sacred fire is lit in the house before a significant night.
Individual research. “I arrived, and she met me already dressed, in a short astrakhan fur coat, in an astrakhan hat ... - All Black! - ... “Tomorrow is Monday already. “Black” and “pure” can be perceived as an antithesis, but the heroine justifies her black on Clean Monday, because it is also the color of sorrow, a sign of humility, recognition of one’s sinfulness. This associative line is continued by astrakhan things. Karakul - a sheep, a flock, a lamb of God. [According to L. Dmitrievskaya] Conclusion: in the color and light characteristics, there is the same mystery and inconsistency, duality, which is characteristic of the heroine herself.

teacher's word

Outwardly, the hero and heroine are a harmonious couple: "both were rich, healthy, young ...". And internally? (The characters do not understand each other.)

– What prevents the heroes from being together, being happy? ( It's all about the heroine, in her internal discord, in the search for herself. The hero does not see this search. He desires her bodily beauty. But her thoughts and feelings were inaccessible to him. "He tried not to think, not to think." “You don’t know me,” she says.)

- What are the sources of internal discord, restlessness of the heroine? (Search for an ideal, lack of harmony, dissatisfaction with life, concern for the soul.)

How is this search carried out? ( The heroine is looking for herself in the past and in secular entertainment. It is all woven from contradictions, throwing between earthly and heavenly, carnal and spiritual.)

1) On Forgiveness Sunday, the heroine suddenly offers to go to the cemetery (Rogozhskoe, schismatic - the center of the Old Believers, a symbol of the eternal Russian "schism"). Here, together with the hero, we learn that she often goes to the Kremlin cathedrals, monasteries, loves to read handwritten chronicles. It seems to her that they only retained "a sense of the homeland, its antiquity." The heroine is trying to find support.

2) Then they go to another tavern, which personifies the feast of the flesh, the revelry of Maslenitsa on the physical level: food, pancakes "thick, ruddy." It is noteworthy that they go for pancakes in Yegorov's tavern after visiting the cemetery of the Novo-Devichy Convent, the graves of Ertel and Chekhov.

3) Suddenly, with a quiet light in her eyes, she reads by heart the annalistic legend about the death of Prince Peter of Murom and his wife (a reminiscence of "the story of Peter and Fevronia of Murom"). An important parallel is that the motifs of fornication and monasticism are intertwined in history. This parallel is especially significant, because the legend is quoted by a woman who is forced to constantly fight with temptation, representing her lover as a snake-tempter. On the other hand, quoting, like other ancient realities, creates a feeling of an unshakable foundation that is preserved in the soul of a Russian person.

4) The next day, the heroes go to the carnal skit, etc. All these events, the alternation of the carnal and the spiritual, prepare the culminating act, the peak of the relationship of the heroes, when she commits her last sin, giving him a moment of pleasure, a moment of carnal love. She dies for earthly, carnal life and goes to a monastery on Pure Monday. (He leaves for Tver, after 2 weeks he writes a letter in which he announces his intention.)

teacher's word

The Sinful Maslenitsa with Forgiveness Sunday is over. It's Clean Monday. If we say that the title reflects the theme, idea or problem of the work, then what is the meaning of the title of the story? (The name evokes the category of threshold, a certain boundary beyond which begins new life. Having given her lover a moment of carnal love, sacrificing herself, the heroine dies for earthly life and leaves for the world of pure spirit. She begins a different life, to which she went for a very long time.)

- Why does the heroine go to the monastery? Name the reasons. (The heroine’s decision was made through suffering, she cannot practically imagine herself in a situation of earthly happiness, since she is aware of its impossibility in advance. “Our happiness, my friend, is like water in a delusion: if you pull, it puffed up, but if you pull it out, there’s nothing.”)

– Therefore, happiness between young people is impossible?

For whom is love a tragedy? What is the tragedy of heroes? In misunderstanding of each other? (For the heroine, a meaningful departure to the monastery is not a tragedy; for the hero, the tragedy is parting.)

6. Summary of the lesson

Researcher N.A. Nikolina stated: “Both the hero and the heroine find themselves above the abyss and seek wholeness and overcoming in duality: the hero is in the “torment” and “happiness” of earthly love, the heroine is in the rejection of passions and in turning to the eternal” .

– Do you agree with the opinion of the scientist? The hero says: “Love is still the same torment and still the same happiness ... after all, happiness, great happiness ...”. Can this love be called happiness? (Having gone through trials and suffering associated with the loss of a loved one, the hero begins to experience the influence of some irrational forces. The heroine opened the way to another world for him. The hero still does not realize, but after 2 years he will repeat the route of that old trip and for some reason he wants to go to the church of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent ...)
“All love is a great happiness, even if it is not shared,” I. Bunin convinces us of this. “For love ... is always very short-term, the stronger, more perfect it is, the sooner it is destined to break off. Break off, but not disappear, but illuminate the memory and life of a person ”(A. Saakyants).

7. Homework . Task with a short detailed answer “What is the meaning of the finale of the story “Clean Monday”?

Lesson topic D

Epigraph: "The path to Bunin's philosophy lies

through Bunin's philology".

V. Khodasevich.

Lesson type: lesson is reflection.

The purpose of the lesson:

1.Educational:

To organize the activities of students in the perception, comprehension and primary consolidation of the ideological and artistic features of the story by I.A. Bunin "Clean Monday".

2. Educational:

Develop the skill of being independent text analysis,

Summarize observations on the features of Bunin's style and philosophical concept writer.

To analyze the spiritual quest of the heroes of I. Bunin's story "Clean Monday", to identify author's position give your own interpretation of the story.

3. Developing:

Promotedevelopment of research skills and abilities of students,

- the development of the creative potential of students through the conscious reading of a work of art,development of communication skills

4 . Educational:

- contribute to the education of love for the motherland, national Orthodox culture;

Develop the ability to be sensitive to other people's opinions.

Tasks:

To reveal the peculiarity of Bunin's understanding of love through a comparative description of the characters (portrait, hobbies, attitude towards each other, understanding the meaning of life).

To reveal Bunin's attitude to Russia through the mention of the monuments of ancient Moscow, the use of the realities of modern Moscow, everyday sketches, conclusions of heroes about Russia.

To analyze Bunin's "philology": artistic means and literary devices.

Educational technologies:

critical thinking technology (call stage - questions, at the study stage - drawing up a table (graphic organization of the material);

value-oriented technologies (associated with educational tasks);

dialogue technologies (formation of communicative competence);

information and communication technologies (use of Internet resources; multimedia applications (presentation for the lesson); work with text and other sources).

Efficiency was achieved through a special organization of the lesson, the emotional mood of the students and the teacher. The class created a relaxed atmosphere.

Teaching methods: method of creative reading, problematic.

Forms of organization of educational activities: individual, frontal, group.

Advanced homework for the lesson.

Using an encyclopedic dictionary, talk about the writers whose names are mentioned in the story.

Tell about the religious holidays that are indicated in the story

Repeat the means of artistic expression.

By the lesson, the class was divided into groups, each group in advanceI received questions for independent work on the text of the story. The performance of each group ends with a collective discussion and a commentary by the teacher.

Equipment: multimedia presentation with music file "Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven , a fragment of the celebration of Maslenitsa from the film "The Barber of Siberia",video lecture "Sacred music in the work of composers" of the educational and methodological complex for the secondary school "Orthodox culture grades 5-6" authors: V.D. Skorobogatov, T.V. Ryzhova, O.N. Kobets. “Sacred music in the work of composers” (Church music by P.I. Tchaikovsky),textthe story "Clean Monday" by I.A. Bunin.

Planned results

Subject Results

identification of the timeless, enduring moral values ​​embedded in the work and their modern sound;

the ability to analyze a literary work;

definition in the work of figurative and expressive means of the language, understanding of their role in the disclosure of the ideological and artistic content of the work;

possession of elementary literary terminology in the analysis literary work;

formulating one's own attitude to a work of Russian literature;

understanding of the Russian word in its aesthetic function, the role of figurative and expressive language means.

Understanding the connection of a literary work with the era of its writing

Personal Outcomes

education of spiritual and moral qualities (interest in the work of the writer, etc.)

respect for Russian literature, religion, culture and painting.

Metasubject Results

the ability to understand the problem, put forward a hypothesis, select arguments to confirm one's own position, formulate conclusions;

the ability to independently organize their activities;

the ability to determine the scope of their interests.

During the classes

1. Organizational moment.

2. Preparing students for the perception of the material. introduction teachers.

Guys! Today we are closing last page the best book, according to the author himself, the collection "Dark Alleys", which was created by I.A. Bunin in 1937 - 1945 in Grasse (France).“All 38 stories in this book are only about love, about its “dark” and most often very gloomy and cruel alleys.”

3. Reflection (stage 1).Primary acquisition of knowledge.

Home inWe independently got acquainted with the story of I.A. Bunin "Clean Monday", which many rightly call "a small masterpiece of a great writer."

Task: 3-4 adjectives (participles) describe the primary impressions that the story made on you. (We will return at the end of the lesson, at the second stage of reflection).

4. Goal setting: try to formulate the topic and goals of the lesson. (Exemplary answers: the topic of the lesson The meaning of the title of the story by I.A. Bunin "Clean Monday", the purpose of the lesson: to analyze the story)

Can we now answer the questions: Why is the story called “Clean Monday?” What is the skill of the writer? (Answer: no, we can't.)

We will try to reveal "the secrets of Bunin the stylist with the help of philological analysis, especially since, according to the apt expression of V. Khodasevich, "The path to Bunin's philosophy lies through Bunin's philology." Address to the epigraph of the lesson. Write down the topiclessonDspiritual searches of the heroes of the storyI. A. Bunina "Clean Monday".

How do you understand the term "spiritual quest"? (Human search for answers to moral questions, your purpose in life)

With which of the characters in the story is this concept primarily associated?with the main character).

5 .Updating knowledge. Story analysis.

Implementation of homework (tasks for groups).

Teacher:The story "Clean Monday" was created in exile, during the difficult years of the Second World War, and was completed on May 12, 1944. In a very short exposition, we learn that the action takes place in Moscow, in the winter of 1912-1914... The story is told on behalf of the hero. Bunin used the technique of retrospection - a look from the present into the past. The plot of the plot is the acquaintance of young people and at a lecture in a literary and artistic circle.

5.1.

1 group "Correspondents". Respondents (classmates) had to answer the question in 2-3 words:What is the story "Clean Monday" about?

Answers of students (read the answers of the respondents): “A story about love”, “A story about failed love”, “A story about young, beautiful people, but with different values”, “A story about love and spiritual transformation”, etc. Thus, the respondents determined the theme of the story - love.

Teacher: Indeed, the focus is on a love conflict, the culmination is a break in relations, the denouement is the departure of the heroine to a monastery. Why couldn't the characters be together? What is their tragedy? Is there a tragedy if Bunin claims:

“All love is a great happiness, even if it is not divided”?

Let's try to figure it out together. Bunin's narration is in the first person, the characters have no names. So, for Bunin, the main thing is to show not heroes, but something else.

5.2. Analytical conversation.

What signs of Moscow life in the early 10s of the 20th century did you find in the text?
The life of the heroes is the most ordinary for their circle: every evening they meet and go to a restaurant for dinner, then go to the theater, or to a concert, or to a theatrical skit. But the main character of the story does not like this life. Nevertheless, she continues to attend skits, concerts, theaters. Often the hero feels unnecessary. But he is happy because he sits with her, hears her melodious voice. And tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, there will be all the same happiness ...
But tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there is no happiness. The hero will soon understand this. “We were rich, healthy, young and so good-looking that in restaurants, at concerts we were seen off with their eyes ...”

Is the heroine happy? How does she define happiness? (“Happiness is like water in a delusion: you pull - it puffed up, but you pull it out - there is nothing”)

6. Drawing up a table " Comparative characteristics heroes "(during the lesson)

Pay attention to the portrait of the heroine. What keywords are used to create an image?Only special was outer beauty heroines? How did she surprise the main character? What epithets, comparisons are used and what is their role in creating the image of the main character? (increase the misunderstanding of the hero, the motive of the heroine's dissimilarity to other girls).

I am from Penza province	She is from Tver, and her grandmother is from Astrakhan
I brought her boxes chocolate, new books - Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Tetmeier, Przybyszewski	She loves to quote Russian chronicle legends, she is especially admired by the Old Russian Tale of the faithful spouses Peter and Fevronia of Murom.
Happy, in love.	Strange, mysterious, contradictory. “She was mysterious, incomprehensible to me, our relationship was also strange: strange love”

- How did the narrator see his beloved?(The whole story is built on antithesis, the heroine and the hero are opposed. In the center of the story is the image of the heroine, “incomprehensible” to the narrator. The words “mysteriousness”, “strangeness” are used to characterize the heroine. she studied at the courses, she didn’t know exactly why (maybe we also do things in life without knowing why. Her obvious weakness was only good clothes, velvet, silks, expensive fur, and she went to courses as a modest student, had breakfast for thirty kopecks in a vegetarian dining room on the Arbat; her soul was drawn to everything Russian, but outwardly she looked like a Russian: “Moscow, Astrakhan, Persia, India,” the hero thought about her.

- Let's analyze the description of the main character's room. What interior details emphasize the character traits of the heroine? (connection of eastern andWestern motifs, a portrait of the barefoot Tolstoy).

What musical motif is associated with the image of the main character?

(An excerpt from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata sounds)

5.3.

Group 3 "Writers". “Writers mentioned on the pages of the story “Clean Monday” by I. A. Bunin.

Lecture by A. Bely, parodied in the story.

B. Bryusov. "Fire Angel". Historical novel.

L. Andreev. The story of Hugo von Hoffmannsthal.

Austrian symbolist Arthur Schnitzler.

Austrian playwright and prose writer, impressionist Tetmeier Kazimierz.

7. Awareness and comprehension of the material.

Why do we not recognize the names of the characters with a large number of proper names in the story? (Proper names help the author to recreate a specific era, to show the spirit of the contradictions of that time, to create a historical and philosophical background for the eternal story of love and parting ... Heroes are the embodiment of a person’s eternal aspirations for happiness in love and the tragic failure of this dream. The author does not give names to his characters in order to give a generalized meaning. The nomination of heroes is not so important, Bunin explores the culture of Russia, the life of people, their entertainment, everything that occupied their souls, i.e. spiritual life of people).

DTo create the characters of the characters, the author does not use internal monologues, does not explain the thoughts and feelings of the characters in words. But to show different inner world heroine and hero, he uses literary names (tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are). The hero gives his beloved fashionable works of European decadence, a "pompous" novel by V. Bryusov, which is not interesting to her. In her hotel room, “for some reason, a portrait of barefoot Tolstoy hangs,” but somehow, for no reason at all, she recalls Platon Karataev ... In an aristocratically refined and mysterious, the features of Katyusha Maslova, sacrificial and pure, suddenly appear in her resurrecting soul from the last (most beloved by Bunin) novel by L. N. Tolstoy "Resurrection". Thus, her inner world is as different from the inner world of the narrator as Tolstoy's inner world is different from the world of Tetmayer, A. Bely, and even the "too much daring" Chaliapin. Clean Monday is just as different from Maslenitsa.

(bell ringing)

Teacher: For a full perception of the story, it is necessary to understand some of the realities of everyday life, church rituals, literary and artistic life at the beginning of the century. The story is about religious holidays.

Clean Monday- the first day of Lent, coming after the rampant Maslenitsa.

Maslenitsa - Maslenitsa week, the week preceding Lent. The symbolism of the rite is associated with the ancient Slavic traditions of seeing off winter and welcoming spring.

(A fragment of the celebration of Maslenitsa from the film "The Barber of Siberia".)

great post - 7 weeks before Easter, during which believers, Christians, refrain from immodest food, do not participate in entertainment, do not marry. The fast is established in remembrance of the 40-day fast of Christ in the wilderness. Great Fortecost begins on Monday, colloquially called "pure".

Why was the view from the window of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and a visit to the Novodevichy Convent and the Rogozhsky cemetery so important for the heroine?

5.4.

Group 3 "Historians". Mentions in the story of ancient temples, monasteries, icons, names of historical figures, quotations from ancient manuscripts and prayers. (Conception Monastery, Miracles Monastery, Archangel Cathedral, Martha - Mary Convent, Iverskaya Chapel, Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Quotes from ancient chronicles. Prayer "Lord, Master of my life ...", sacred music. Names of prominent historical figures (Peresvet, Oslyabya, Yuri Dolgoruky, Prince Svyatoslav).

Students read out: “To the left, part of the Kremlin was visible, on the contrary, somehow too closeoh, the too new bulk of Christ the Savior was white, in the golden dome of which the jackdaws eternally curling around him were reflected with bluish spots.

What words speak about the author's attitude to the temple?All their thoughts and ideas about the highest beauty of love and goodness were connected by our ancestors with the image of the temple - the embodiment of the kingdom of God on earth).

Students read out: “I ... often go in the mornings or evenings ... to the Kremlin cathedrals. So ... deacons - yes, what! Peresvet and Oslyabya! And on two choirs there are two choirs, also all Peresvets: tall, powerful. In long black caftans, they sing, calling to each other, then one choir, then another - and all in unison and not according to notes, but according to hooks. “How good. And now only in some northern monasteries this Russia remains. Yes, even in church hymns.

Blessed Princess Anna Kashinskaya was buried at the Rogozhsky cemetery. The people came to the tomb of their heavenly patroness. People prayed to her in troubles, illnesses and sorrows, and young people asked her for advice before marriage).

(an excerpt from the video lecture "Sacred music in the work of composers" of the educational and methodological complex for the secondary school "Orthodox culture grades 5-6" authors: V.D. Skorobogatov, T.V. Ryzhova, O.N. Kobets. "Sacred music in creativity composers” (Church music by P.I. Tchaikovsky)

Teacher: In the story, the signs of the modern era correlate with the inner world of the narrator and testify to Bunin's deep nostalgia for the Motherland. “Orthodoxy now, when it was so persecuted in the homeland, was realized by Bunin as an inseparable part of Russia, its culture, its history and its national essence” (Maltsev “I. Bunin”). Yet, as far as antiquity is concerned, churches, cemeteries correlate with the inner world of the heroine.

It is with this measure of the historical past that the heroine measures modern life, it is from the moral positions developed over the centuries in the Russian person that the author approaches the love of her heroes. This is the idea behind the story.

8. Analytical conversation.

Teacher:

Why in the last lines of the work, when the piercing denouement comes, does the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, depicted by Bunin, appear unusually high and lyrically?

At the end of the story, majestically high “all in white, long, thin-faced, in a white obrus with a golden cross sewn on her forehead, tall, walking slowly with downcast eyes, with a large candle in her hand,” Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna appears. Truly Great, who accepted Orthodoxy without the blessing of her father, courageously knelt during a memorial service near the remains of her husband, Prince Sergei Alexandrovich, who was brutally murdered by terrorists in 1905, and gave away the largest part of her inheritance for charitable purposes. The Grand Duchess allocated part of the money for the purchase of an estate on Bolshaya Ordynka and began building a church and the premises of the monastery, an outpatient clinic, and an orphanage here. In February 1909, the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent of Mercy was opened, there were only six sisters in it (by 1910 there were already 17 sisters). The heroine of I. Bunin's story goes to this monastery. Life is a renunciation given to the poor and needy. I immediately recall the portrait of the barefoot Tolstoy in the apartment of the heroine, who refused the title of count. And the departure of the heroine, who found peace for her restless soul in the monastery, becomes more understandable. The holy places in the story are filled with some special radiance, here even the evening is bright and quiet, which is so lacking in everyday life. modern life in those places where her hero “drags” every day.

Teacher: Now we can answer the question: Why is the story called “Clean Monday?”

Clean Monday - in Orthodox tradition- a kind of border, a boundary between life - a vanity full of temptations, and the period of Great Lent, when a person is called to cleanse himself from the filth of worldly life. Pure Monday is both a transition and a beginning: from a secular, sinful life to an eternal, spiritual one. The central events of the story fall on Forgiveness Sunday and Clean Monday. On Forgiveness Sunday, people ask for forgiveness and forgive insults and injustices; for the heroine, this is not only a day of forgiveness, but also a day of farewell to worldly life, where she could not find the highest meaning, the highest harmony. On Clean Monday, the first day of Lent, a person begins to cleanse himself of filth. The fun of Shrovetide is replaced by self-deepening and self-contemplation. The very title of the story evokes the category of a threshold, a certain boundary beyond which a new life begins. “Clean Monday is the beginning of the spring renewal of the world. Note that this day was a turning point in the life of the hero. The heroine opens the way to another world for him. Having gone through the suffering associated with the loss of a loved one, the hero begins to feel a desire for the spiritual world into which she leaves. She has been living in it for a long time, it is not by chance that the heroine recalls the prayer: “Lord and Master of my belly! The spirit of idleness, despondency, arrogance and idle talk - do not give me ... "

Idleness is laziness, doing nothing, a spiritual vacuum, behind which is spiritual death.

Curiosity comes from pride, from vanity, from striving for superiority in everything.

Idle talk - unnecessary, superfluous, false words, not binding to anything.

There are no unnecessary, false, superfluous words in the story. The author showed us not only the pinnacle of his philological skills, but also allowed us to penetrate into his inner world, his philosophy. Both characters change in the story. Their life is filled with new meaning, because they prefer the world of enlightenment, peace and clarity to a world filled with momentaryness, flickering of faces, commercialism. A world based on the traditions of Orthodox culture.

9. Consolidation of educational material.

Group 4 "Stylists". Artistic media used by Bunin in this story? (Epithets, metaphors, oxymorons, emotionally colored words, associative parallels, rhythmic and sound organization of the text, etc.). Let us turn to the portrait characteristics of the heroine. Find the recurring details in the portrait. What signs dominate?

How does the writer explain the character traits of the heroine? (Example response:

To characterize the heroine, the words "mysteriousness", "strangeness" are used. It is unusual, it has inexplicable contradictions. On the one hand, “it seemed that she did not need anything: no flowers, no books, no dinners, no theaters, no dinners outside the city, although all the same, she had favorite and unloved flowers: she read all sorts of books, loved eat and immediately talked about why people eat at all. She seemed to enjoy the luxurious life: going to restaurants, theaters, concerts. She loved good clothes, velvet, silk, furs. On the other hand, for some reason I studied at courses, was interested in history, visited churches, the Raskolnichye cemetery, etc. The hero admits that she is incomprehensible to him. In this He is very similar to the author who said:“Women seem to me something mysterious, the more I study them, the less I understand”.

5.6. (An expressive reading of the passage “Strange Love” to the words ... “and something Kyrgyz in the tips of the towers on the Kremlin walls ...”)

7. Independent work.(A fragment of the description of the appearance of the heroine with missing epithets is written on the cards). Try inserting epithets in place of the gaps and see how close you, as stylists, are to the style of the writer.

(She stood ... in a black ___ (velvet) dress that made her thinner, shining with his elegance, ____ (festive) dress of pitch hair, swarthy amber of bare arms, shoulders, sparkling ____ (diamond) earrings along slightly powdered cheeks, ____ (charcoal) velvet eyes and ____ (velvety) purple lips; at the temples, black ____ (glossy) pigtails were bent towards the eyes in half rings, giving her the appearance of an oriental beauty from a popular print.

Self-test (on the slide).

Analysis of the final episode of the story.

Question: Returning to the composition of the story, name the climax in the development of the plot and the relationship of the characters.(After the only happy night, the heroine goes to the monastery).The climactic scene takes place in a lighted bedroom. And in the finale, the word “dark” will be repeated three times: “And then one of the nuns or sisters walking in the middle fixed her dark eyes on the darkness ... What could she see in the darkness, how could she feel my presence ...”

Light illuminates love. Conversely, love is a flash of light. So it is in this story. As Shrovetide is replaced by Clean Monday, so the heroine, who finally gave the long-awaited intimacy to the hero, leaves for the monastery. She lit up and disappeared.

-What do you think, why does the author introduce the episode of the meeting, recognizing the heroes in the 14th year? ( Russia on the thresholdgreat tests ... the First World War, revolutions, civil war).

- Maybe this is purification through suffering. Trials for salvation? Great Lent as a time of repentance and testing of faith for strength is replaced by a great holiday. Maybe the author saw the path of Russia in this ...

- Showing the love and parting of the heroes, Bunin reflects on the history of his homeland.

Comparative analysis

Let's compare the 2 endings.

- Let's remember "Antonov's Apples" and the special, Bunin's language of the work: depicting autumn, the author is sad about the extinction of the noble era, says goodbye to it.

- The finale of the story "Antonov apples" is a metaphorically expressed reflection on the historical path of Russia (the text of the song, the image of the road, ellipsis ...)

- After 44 years, he reflects on the spiritual path of Russia and creates his "Clean Monday",

- The historical and philosophical plan of the work correlates with the thoughts of the heroine about Russia.“Clean Monday” by Bunin is a story not only about love, but also about Russia.

Thus, characterizing the "Bunin's philology", we came to understand the "Bunin's philosophy" of love as "a certain higher tense moment of being" that illuminates the whole life of a person.

Reflection (2nd stage).I ask you to return to the work with which the lesson began. On the sheets where the initial impression of the story was recorded, write down your feelings, thoughts, sensations at this stage, after analyzing the story.

What has changed in your perception, understanding of the story?

What made you think about this lesson?

The story "Clean Monday" shows the beloved I.A. Bunin, the theme of a painfully happy moment of love, short and at the same time eternal, unforgettable. Plisten to how I.A. said about love Bunin is a poet (a poem is read by a trained student)

The sadness of eyelashes, shining and black,

Diamonds of tears, abundant, recalcitrant,

And again the fire of heavenly eyes,

Happy, joyful, humble...

I remember everything ... But there are no us in the world

Once young and blessed.

Where do you come from to me

Why do you resurrect in a dream

Shining with indefinite beauty,

So wonderfully repeated delight,

That meeting is short, earthly,

That God gave us and immediately terminated again.

10. Generalization and systematization of the material.

Students under the guidance of the teacher sum up the conclusions:

Bunin's love is portrayed not just as a short-term feeling, it illuminates a person's life and remains forever in his memory.

Bunin reveals "the inescapable tragedy of man, the only creature in the world that belongs to two worlds: earth and sky, sex and love."

Love in a person's life, memory are the main moral values ​​in Bunin's world.

The writer showed the dissatisfaction of a person with others, the search for an integral and conscious being.

Final word of the teacher

Bunin to one of sleepless nights exclaimed: “I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to write Clean Monday. Today I would like to paraphrase Ivan Alekseevich and say: “I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to read Clean Monday.

Lesson results.

Homework: written work “How would I continue the story “Clean Monday” by I. A. Bunin.

Bunin's story describes the relationship of two young rich people. A comparative description of the heroes of the story "Clean Monday" will help to understand the problems covered in the work. Spirituality or love is a difficult choice of one of the ideal couple.

Young man

The main character is a handsome rich young man. He is handsome, confident and educated. Having fallen in love with a girl, he behaves like a gallant gentleman. The young man does not rush the beauty with an answer, he is waiting for her decision. It is hard for him from misunderstanding and refusal to join in marriage, but there is no feeling of anger, resentment. Strange unrequited love brings happiness, it calms the young man. Sometimes "incomplete intimacy" became unbearable, but respect for the woman prevailed, love held back impulses. The young man tries to fulfill the wishes of his beloved. He goes with her to the cathedral, visits theatrical skits. The man is trying to understand the one he fell in love with, but she remains a mystery to him until the last letter. The meaning of life is lost. The young man starts drinking. This is the usual decision of men of all ages. He pours wine over the grief of parting. Gradually the young man comes to his senses, but love remains in his heart. He sees her among the choir of nuns, leaves the cathedral and says goodbye to his dream. The words of the old woman in the church become medicine: to suffer like this is a sin. It is impossible for a man to deal only with his soul, he had to understand the feelings of a girl much earlier. The deep spiritual world of his companion remained a secret, inexplicable and incomprehensible mystery for him.

strange beauty

The girl with whom the young man is in love surprises and intrigues from the first lines. Her appearance is bright and unusual: she is beautiful like Persians, Indian girls. The heroine is rich, her companion in love too. The ideal relationship should have interested the beauty, but she takes the conversation aside when it comes to marriage. The beauty lives on her own, but this is not a reason to start a real relationship with a man. She, on the contrary, holds a young man

"in unresolved tension, in painful expectation ...".

The girl does not deny herself entertainment: she goes to restaurants, attends theaters, concerts, loves gypsy performances. The author calls love between young people strange. The reader notices oddities, but only on the part of the woman.

The beauty loves expensive stylish clothes, can eat a whole box of chocolate, eats a lot at lunch, does not deny herself dinner. The heroine is more often silent, does not leave the house for three days, carried away by reading books. The character's demeanor is interesting. She carries herself with dignity, knowing about her intelligence and attractiveness. The girl speaks slowly, evenly, quietly, appreciating every word she utters.

The strangeness intensifies when the author talks about her passion for visiting cathedrals. At the end of the story, when everything already foreshadowed the close ties between the lovers, the girl goes to the monastery. Prosperity, happiness with her beloved cannot replace her desire to unite with God. The soul makes its choice: secular pleasures, expensive fashionable outfits remain in the past. The soul seeks rest in prayers and hymns.