Presentation on the story and description of the characters. The history of the creation of the story "Asya"
“And happiness was so possible”
Target: learning to write an essay in the genre of diary entries
Equipment: multimedia presentation “Teaching writing an essay in the genre of diary entries”, an exhibition of writers’ diary entries, working materials for the student.
Teacher's opening remarks:
“Happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it doesn’t remember the past, doesn’t think about the future, it has a present - and that’s not a day, but a moment.”
Explain how these words help to understand the drama of the narrator of the story by I. S. Turgenev
(N.N. is lonely, he bitterly realizes that “his whole life has passed by. He loved Asya, but did not immediately understand it, and when he realized it, it was too late.
“When I met her in that fateful room, I did not yet have a clear consciousness of my love; it did not wake up even when I sat with her brother in a senseless and painful silence... it flared up with uncontrollable force only a few moments later, when, frightened by the possibility of misfortune, I began to look for and call her... but already then it was too late")
Find a description of the hero’s state of feeling remorse.
(I felt remorse, the most burning regret, love - yes! The most tender love. I wrung my hands, I called Asya in the middle of the approaching darkness, first in an undertone, then louder and louder; I repeated a hundred times that I love her, I swore never not to part with her, I was everything in the world to her, to hold her cold hand again, to hear her quiet voice again."
Why does he call himself inconsolable?
(Did I really want such a denouement? Am I able to part with her? Can I lose her?)
She condemns herself for that act when, in a dark room, she, confessing her love to him, was rejected by him. He had the strength and spirit to tear her away from himself, even to reproach her for not allowing the feeling that was beginning to ripen to develop.”
"I didn't tell her I loved her." The confession stopped even at the last meeting with Ganin, and the last thread that the hero could still grab onto slipped out of his hands.
What does the narrator say about his future life?
(The feeling that Asya aroused in me, now a burning, now tender, deep feeling, has not been repeated. No! Not a single eye has replaced for me those eyes that were once lovingly fixed on me, nor on anyone’s heart that fell to my chest , my heart did not answer with such a joyful and sweet sinking! Condemned to the loneliness of a familyless little boy, I live out boring years, but I keep her notes and a dried geranium flower, the same flower that she once threw to me from the window, like a shrine.")
Can we say that the narrator is experiencing a personal drama?
(Yes, he is in shock, causing him moral suffering.)
Very often, personal experiences, mental anguish and pain, doubts require emotional self-expression. And then a sheet of paper and a pen, feather, pencil appear on which a person wants to express what just happened and what he felt.
2.Multimedia presentation with teacher comments
Let's imagine that you and I are in an old noble house. Everything here reminds us of the life of the owners. In one of the rooms, into which a ray of sunlight shines through the half-closed window shutters, there is a table, on it an old bronze candlestick, an empty inkwell with a dried pen and a notebook with an inscription, already yellowed with time. "N.N." This is a diary, a repository of the innermost thoughts, experiences, and feelings of the narrator of the story “Asya”.
We open the first page - some landscape sketches, female profiles.
But the diary itself is empty. Today you and I have to create it, getting used to the image of N.N. and formatting it according to the rules of the genre of diary entries.
I think that you are more familiar with the definition of the word “diary” as a student notebook for recording assigned lessons and for making progress notes.
But this word also has a broader lexical meaning. In the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language by S.I. Ozhegov it sounds like this:
“A diary is a sincere, direct record of events that happened, emotional experiences, and moral thoughts. The diary genre is characteristic of the creative individuality of A.S. Pushkin, L.N. Tolstoy, I.S. Turgenev and many, many other writers and poets who kept diary entries for many years. They reflected the continuous work of thought of these artists, their deep thoughts and searches. Such diaries are close to a confession, in which the author talks with utmost frankness about complex moral and intellectual quests.
Writers and poets kept their personal diaries and used this technique in their works. The diary is introduced into the work as an element and opens up opportunities for depicting the inner world of the character, revealing the “history of the human soul.” We are familiar with the diary of Robinson Crusoe, the hero of the novel by Daniel Defoe, we will soon read the journal of Pechorin, the hero of the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time” ”, in which emotional experiences are revealed and the frankness of the character’s self-characteristics is emphasized.
However, modern people also keep diaries and record in them certain current events of their lives.
If you and I looked on the Internet now and went to the Site, we would see a window of 125 sites of various types of diaries: diaries of writers and poets, diaries of football players, artists, performers, housewives.
A diary is personal. They write about the most intimate things in it; it does not like prying eyes. This is the work of the soul, which is addressed to oneself or an imaginary interlocutor. Not everyone can entrust a personal diary to you, but today I do not mind opening the pages of my personal diary for you.
Do you keep diaries?
I think that your diaries are little stories about what you live, what interests you, what you think, what you feel. With the permission of the authors, I will now read a few excerpts from the diaries. (presentation)
HOORAY! Holidays are coming soon. There are 4 days left to study. Soon we will go on a long summer vacation.
I plan that over the summer I will have time to relax, visit my grandmother in the village,
The first day of summer. I sit and get bored. I listen to music. I was so looking forward to the holidays, but
Now I don’t know what to do with myself. I am waiting SMC from the girls and boys of our yard.
Will P. respond to my message?
A week has passed of my stay in the village with my grandmother. There are no friends here, alone
relatives: mom, dad, aunts, uncles, relatives. Previously, the presence of adults was enough for me
people, and now...BOREDOM! This month will seem like a year to me.
Probably, I have already grown up, and I need communication with peers. How I miss P., R., K.!
Today for the first time I thought about how people treat me. I noticed a lot of interesting things.
4. Is this post interesting for you?
Do the views on life and personality traits of the author of these recordings change?
(Vary depending on circumstances, events, mood, self-expression.) What can you say about the type of speech of this text?
(Narrative with elements of reasoning)
Can you say that you heard a diary entry?
5.Let’s fill out the table “Distinctive features of the genre of diary entries”
Dating
Indication of the location of events
The narration is told in the first person
Notes based on initial impressions
Monologue of speech or internal dialogism
Fragmentary thoughts
Encryption or hiding of names and surnames
Reflection of the inner world
The presence of one-part, incomplete, exclamatory sentences
Use of emotionally charged vocabulary
6.The diary entry may reflect the following:
Analysis of the day's events
Reflections on what you saw and read
Emotional Self-Expression
Knots for memory
Portrait sketches
Confession
7. Determine which of the texts belongs to the genre of diary entries. Prove.
Text No. 1
He broke free and went abroad just to look at the world of God. He was healthy, young, cheerful, his money was not transferred, his worries had not yet begun. He lived without looking back, did what he wanted.
Text No. 2
June 10 I finally broke free, went abroad, not in order to “finish my upbringing,” but I just wanted to see the world. I am healthy, young, rich (what else do you need in life?), I want to see new faces, alive, human, to hear their speech.
June 13 I stopped in the city of Z, which is on the left bank of the Rhine, at the foot of two high hills. Great location!
June 14 I go to the Rhine. Majestic river! I sat all evening on a stone bench under a huge ash tree, through the branches of which the town of L was visible on the other bank.
8. Let's try to create a chronological table of events in which literary characters participate.
Date event replica state
9. Working with a reminder on writing an essay in the genre of diary entries.
Memo.
How to write an essay in the genre of diary entries.
Get acquainted with works written in the genre of diary entries.
This will help you adhere to the form and conventions of presentation characteristic of this genre.
Determine the idea of the essay, that is, the most important idea that you undertake to prove with your work. Correctly defining the idea will allow you to deeply and fully reveal the topic of the essay and not “drown” in the extensive material.
Make a plan that will help you outline where to start, what sections to highlight in the essay, what sequence to present the material in, and what conclusions you need to reach.
Try to reincarnate, “get used to” the character, way of thinking, and actions of the hero on whose behalf you will write your work. To do this:
carefully re-read the hero’s remarks;
write down the main themes of his statements and thoughts;
pay attention to typical phrases for this character, speech structures, emotional and evaluative vocabulary;
remember the statements of other characters about this literary hero.
Keep in mind that the introduction and conclusion in an essay of this genre may have a frame that gives the work a personal character.
Remember that diary entries and letters help to track the development of personality and reveal the inner world of the hero. Check if your essay meets this requirement.
I.S. Turgenev "Asya". Mr. N.N. and Gagin. Russian and German literary traditions in the story.
Name the heroes of the story by I.S. Turgenev "Asya".
How do their actions make you feel?
"Things of days gone by..." - quote from Pushkin’s poem “Ruslan N Lyudmila” - the beginning of the first song.
“...In the Dresden “Grune Gewelbe” - Grline Gewolbe - literal translation: “green vault.” Collection of gold jewelry and precious stones in the Dresden Royal Castle.
“A rooster on a high Gothic bell tower...” - the ancient church of St. Peter in Sinzig with a central octagonal tower from the 18th century.
Mr. N.N. and Gagin.
What unites Gagin and Mr. N.N?
Russian and German literary traditions in the story
Germany is an important cultural context for the story. In the atmosphere of the ancient town, “the word “Gretchen” - either an exclamation or a question - just begged to be spoken.” Gretchen is the heroine of I.V.’s tragedy. Goethe "Faust", a young, inexperienced girl of strict rules. She fell in love for the first time in her life and cannot resist the feeling, she is ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of love.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE WORK To find out which heroines literary scholars call “Turgenev’s girls.” What character traits does the heroine of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” have?
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OBJECTIVES To study the main stages of the life and work of I.S. Turgenev. Understand what is hidden under the term “Turgenev girl”. Understand what character traits the heroine of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” has and why she belongs to the images of “Turgenev girls”. How did critics evaluate this image?
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The main stages of the life of I.S. Turgenev. All of Turgenev’s prose is permeated by Pushkin’s motifs. Pushkin was the most important reference point in Russian literature for Turgenev. No less important for Turgenev was the German literary and philosophical tradition, primarily in the person of I.V. Goethe; It is no coincidence that Asya takes place in Germany. The main features of a love story are a small circle of characters. Love stories are also often called “elegiac” not only for the poetry of feeling and the beauty of landscape sketches, but also for their characteristic motifs, which turn from lyrical to plot. With purely romantic idealism, Turgenev's heroes demand everything or nothing from life.
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Turgenev began “Asya” in the summer of 1857 in Sinzig on the Rhine, where the story takes place, and finished it in November in Rome.
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What is hidden behind this term? "Turgenev's girl" This term carries all the most tender and wonderful female character traits. If the author makes the image of Gagin completely clear to the reader, then his sister appears as a riddle, the solution to which N.N. gets carried away first with curiosity, and then selflessly, but still cannot comprehend it to the end. Her extraordinary liveliness is bizarrely combined with timid shyness caused by her illegitimacy and long life in the village. This is where her unsociability and pensive dreaminess stem from (remember how she loves to be alone, constantly runs away from her brother and N.N., and on the first evening of meeting her she goes to her place.
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It is very difficult to form a complete picture of Asya’s character: she is the embodiment of uncertainty and variability. (“What a chameleon is this girl!” involuntarily exclaims N.N.) Either she is shy of a stranger, then she suddenly bursts out laughing (“Asya, as if on purpose, as soon as she saw me, burst out laughing for no reason and, according to her habit, immediately ran away." Either she climbs the ruins and sings songs loudly, which is completely indecent for a society young lady, then she begins to portray a well-bred person, prim in maintaining decorum.
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What is hidden behind this term? After listening to the reading of Goethe's poem "Herman and Dorothea", she wants to seem homely and sedate, like Dorothea. Then she “imposes fasting and repentance on herself” and turns into a Russian provincial girl. It is impossible to say at what point she is no longer herself. Her image shimmers, shimmering with different colors, strokes, and intonations. The rapid change of her moods is aggravated by the fact that Asya often acts inconsistently with her own feelings and desires.
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The image of Asya expands endlessly, because the elemental, natural principle reveals itself in her. Asya's amazing diversity and liveliness, irresistible charm, freshness and passion stem precisely from here. Her timid “wildness” also characterizes her as a “natural person”, far from society. When Asya is sad, shadows “run across her face,” like clouds across the sky, and her love is compared to a thunderstorm, as if having guessed N.N.’s thoughts, and the heroine shows her “Russianness.”
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Understand what character traits the heroine of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” has and why she belongs to the images of “Turgenev girls”. Asya reads a lot indiscriminately (N.N. catches her reading a bad French novel and, according to literary stereotypes, invents the hero Asya “not a single feeling is half”). Her feeling is much deeper than that of the hero. For all her loftiness and selfishness in its orientation, Asya’s desire for a “difficult feat”, the ambitious desire to “leave a mark” presupposes life with others and for others.
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In Asya’s imagination, lofty human aspirations and high moral ideals do not contradict the hope of achieving personal happiness; on the contrary, they presuppose each other. She is demanding of herself and needs help to achieve her aspirations. Asya’s “wildness” is especially evident when she climbs alone through the ruins of a knight’s castle overgrown with bushes. When she, laughing, jumps on them, “like a goat.” she fully reveals her closeness to the natural world. Even her appearance at this moment speaks of the wild unbridledness of a natural being: “as if guessing my thoughts, she suddenly cast a quick and piercing glance at me, laughed again, jumped off the wall in two leaps. A strange smile slightly twitched her eyebrows, nostrils and lips; dark eyes squinted.
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Asya's illegitimacy looks like an inferiority and leads to the inability to bear Mr. N.N.'s refusal, and on the other hand, gives her genuine originality and mystery. Asya does not behave like noble girls. Asya dreams of being like Pushkin’s Tatyana, the heroine of the novel “Eugene Onegin.” What she has in common with Tatyana is sincerity and artlessness of feeling. Like Tatyana, she will be the first to write to her beloved, make an appointment, and express her feelings.
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Evaluation of the image by critics. In the article “Russian man at rendez vous”, dedicated to the story by I.S. Turgenev's "Asya", a contemporary of the writer, critic Chernyshevsky, showed how a significant part of the public reacted to the first publication of the story, assessing the character and actions of the main character. The critic condemns those readers who took N.N.’s side, not wanting to notice either Asya’s self-sacrifice or the nobility in her actions. Why does Chernyshevsky talk not about wine, but about the misfortune of the main character of the story? The character of the hero is socially motivated. He is a son of his era. And it's not his fault.
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Observations and conclusions about Asya’s character and actions will allow us to approach the concept of the literary type (generalized image) of the “Turgenev girl”. What is characteristic of him? A soul that is impossible not to love. Tenderness, the ability to have sincere strong feelings, the absence of artificiality, falsehood, and coquetry. Focus on the future. Strong character, willingness to sacrifice. Activity and independence in deciding your own destiny.
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The images of Turgenev’s heroines, with all the unique originality of each of them, formed into a single image of the “Turgenev girl” characteristic of Russia. For the first time, the main features of this image appeared in the heroine of I.S. Turgenev’s novel “Rudin” - Natalya. “The writer’s contemporaries were surprised and attracted by her desire for a different life and the expectation of a figure who would be able to show the path to it,” wrote G. A. Vyaly, a Russian critic and literary critic, about Turgenev’s heroines.
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And at the same time, Turgenev’s heroines seem to be dominated by “evil fate”: they are all united by “a strict attitude towards life and a premonition of the inevitability of retribution for the pursuit of personal happiness.”
“Asya Turgenev” - The story “Asya” (1858) is perhaps one of Turgenev’s most beloved works. V.A. Nedzvetsky. The story “Asya” (1858). Important conversation. 2004. V. Panov. Illustration by V. M. Zeldes for the story “Asya” by I. S. Turgenev. 1982. TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich (1818-83), Russian writer. Portrait of I.S. Turgenev. 1872.
“I.S. Turgenev Asya” - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Sociologists What attracts you in the story? (24 students and 16 parents participated in the survey.) Sociologists Who is to blame for the separation of heroes? Sociologists (the number of landscapes in the story). Drawings for the story: (Michukov M., Morozova N.). This is how the plot of the story developed...” Anna – “grace”, “pretty” Anastasia – “born again”.
“The Tale of Asya” - What is the basis of the story? 1.What is the basis of the story? The hero missed his chance. The story is based on love. What is the love of Mr. N.N.? And so it happened. Turgenev was convinced that love is associated with the highest upsurge of feelings. What is love? Information resources: Why is Mr. N.N. afraid to confess his feelings to Asya?
“The Tale of Asya Turgenev” - I. S. Turgenev embodied in several of his works an image that has forever entered world literature. Each writer creates unique, special images in his works. The images of Pushkin's heroines and the female images captured on the pages of the works of Lermontov, Ostrovsky and other writers are unique.
“Turgenev's story Asya” - Then “he imposes fasting and repentance on himself” and turns into a Russian provincial girl. Tenderness, the ability to have sincere strong feelings, the absence of artificiality, falsehood, and coquetry. The main stages of the life of I.S. Turgenev. Strong character, willingness to sacrifice. Asya does not behave like noble girls.
“Asya Turgenev's lesson” - On whose behalf is the story being told? The story "Asya". I.S. Turgenev (1818-1883). Lesson 1. Mr. N.N. Gagin, Asya are the main characters of the story. I.S. Turgenev. Is Asya beautiful? Did Mr. N.N. like it? new acquaintances? Questions about the text of the story. Do you notice a contradiction in the character of the hero? M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
Goals and objectives of the lesson:
- the formation of a sense of beauty through the poetic text of the story, music;
- introduce students to a literary work of the 19th century, studying from the point of view of the concept of historicism in literature;
- teach eighth-graders textual analysis of a story and analysis of an episode of a work, to see and understand the meaning of details in a literary work;
- teach children to understand the “psychologism” of the story, to understand the means of expressive language.
Equipment:
- portrait of I.S. Turgenev;
- on the board:
- topic of the lesson;
- epigraph “And happiness was so possible” (A.S. Pushkin);
- “Happiness has no tomorrow...It has a present - and that’s not a day - but a moment” (I.S. Turgenev); - “theater decoration”: one half of the board is designed as a window with a sill; on the windowsill there is a pot of blooming geraniums, a candlestick, an open book with a dried sprig of geranium on it, next to it are yellowed pieces of paper folded with notes.
During the classes.
Love, love is a mysterious word.
Who could fully understand you?
Are you always old or new in everything?
Longing of spirit or grace?
It was no coincidence that I started the lesson dedicated to I.S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” with these poetic lines. Why do you think? Yes, the main thing in the story is love. Everything about her, about love, about the serious and strict, about the intimate and important...
Love... is probably the most mysterious of all human feelings, and Turgenev, perhaps one of the few writers, perceived with poetic trepidation the birth of an eternally young feeling - love. How to cope with heart disease, how to overcome sadness? Unrequited love - what is it? How can you be the first to say “I love you” to a person you’re not entirely sure about? How to endure the suffering of rejected love and offended feelings? And in general, how this sacrament of love is accomplished, how a miracle happens: the world magically changes for the one who falls in love. The colors become brighter, the sounds become clearer! After all, having fallen in love, a person feels more subtly, sees more sharply, his heart opens to beauty, goodness...
Questions, questions... we won’t find direct answers from Turgenev, but all Turgenev’s heroes undergo a “test of love,” a kind of test for viability. A loving person, according to Turgenev, is beautiful and spiritually inspired. One of the researchers of creativity I.S. Turgenev, P. Annenkov, wrote that Turgenev’s stories and stories are united by one feature - each of them contains a “psychological riddle.” So today we have to try to solve this psychological riddle, to understand what means the writer uses in order to reveal to us the secret of spiritual experiences; trace how N.N. met with the Gagins develops into a love story, which turned out to be for the hero a source of both sweet romantic longing and bitter torment, which later, over the years, although they lost their sharpness, doomed the hero to the fate of a bore.
So, let's turn to the text of the story.
The story is written in the form of a story by N.N. about how many years ago he traveled around Europe and in a small German town he met and became friends with Russians: Gagin and his sister Asya. The narrator reports not only on events, conversations, describes the situation, but, most importantly, reproduces the story of his love, relives the past.
- What can you say about N.N. , on whose behalf the story is told? How did he perceive the world around him?
N.N. - a rich nobleman, an artist at heart; he is obsessed with observing, especially people; he is an idle traveler, an observer.
- What amazed N.N. Gagins? when you first meet?
N.N. perceives brother and sister as people of different psychological levels, and the portrait characteristics amaze the reader with accuracy and brevity. The narrator noted the obvious dissimilarity and internal contrast of the Gagins. This further sharpened his curiosity and receptivity. True to the habit of observing people and reading their souls by the expressions of their faces, by involuntary gestures, the narrator, at the first meeting with Asya, notes something of his own, special in the features of her dark face, in her hairstyle, in her demeanor. He describes Asya’s behavior in detail and devotes himself entirely to observing her movements, gaze, and smile.
- The story about the first day of meeting the Gagins ends with a lyrical landscape; read it.(Reading the text of the story is accompanied by Strauss's waltz “Over the Blue Danube”).
- Does this landscape correspond to N.N.’s mood?
Landscape miniature becomes a means of expressing the romantic exaltations of the hero. The meeting with the Gagins sharpened his attention to beauty. Therefore, he devotes himself entirely to contemplation and an elevated mood.
- What is N.N.’s state of mind? after the first day of dating?
Mr. N.N. all pampered with sweet languor and expectation of happiness.
- Where did you meet N.N. with Gagin Asya on the second day of meeting?
Asya sat on the ledge of the wall on the ruins of a feudal castle directly above the abyss. This speaks about the romantic nature of the heroine.
- What feeling does Asya evoke in N.N.? Can you confirm it with the text of the story?(Hateness, annoyance.)
According to her brother, Asya is “a free spirit, crazy.” N.N. she appears to be a semi-mysterious creature, a “chameleon”.
- What “roles” does Asya play? Why is she doing this? Can N.N. answer this question now?
She played the role of a soldier marching with a gun, and this shocked the prim British; at the table she played the role of a well-bred young lady; the next day she introduced herself as a simple Russian girl, almost a maid... To answer the question why Asya behaves this way, N.N. he still can’t, because he doesn’t understand either Asya or himself.
- How does the second day of dating end?
The hero is not aware of what is happening to him. He feels some kind of vague uneasiness, which grows into an incomprehensible anxiety, an unpleasant annoyance; that jealous suspicion that the Gagins are not relatives.
- How is the hero’s moral and psychological state conveyed through the landscape?
Some obscure dark forces burst into the hero’s consciousness, remaining vague, alarming and even annoying. The “deadly” heaviness, incomprehensible to the hero, as the first bursts of unconscious feeling, resolved in the hero’s consciousness into a bitter, burning excitement, into longing for his homeland.
Two weeks of daily meetings have passed, N.N. He became increasingly upset by jealous suspicions and, although he did not fully realize his love for Asa, she gradually took possession of his heart. He found himself at the mercy of this feeling . What was the dominant mood during this period?
Persistent curiosity and some annoyance at the girl’s mysterious behavior, the desire to understand her inner world. (Read the beginning of Chapter 6.)
- How is N.N.’s suspicion confirmed? that Gagin and Asya are not brothers and sister?(Overheard conversation in the gazebo)
- What feelings take possession of the hero after this? (end of 6 - beginning of chapter 7)
The hero himself does not find a definition for his feelings. But we, the readers, understand that he is already captured by a deep and disturbing feeling of love. It is from her that he leaves for the mountains, and when he returns, after reading a note from Gagin, the next day he goes to them.
- What did N.N. learn? about Asa from Gagin's story? ( Selective retelling of Asya's story).
- How does the hero’s state of mind change?
He instantly regains his lost balance and defines his state this way: “I felt some kind of sweetness, precisely sweetness in my heart: as if honey had been secretly poured into me. I felt at ease after Gagin’s story.”
After the conversation about Asa, a new phase of the love relationship between Turgenev’s heroes followed: now there is mutual trust and rapprochement. What did N.N. discover? for yourself in Asa? Why did he like her?
Reassured, N.N. realized that the strange girl attracted him not only with her semi-wild charm, but he liked her soul.
Everything around the lovers is illuminated with a magical light: “I looked at her, all bathed in a clear ray of sunshine, all calm and meek. Everything shone joyfully around us, below, above us - sky, earth and waters; the very air seemed to be saturated with shine.” (Ch. 9) Asya says to her beloved: “If you and I were birds, how we would soar, how we would fly. They would have drowned in this blue…” How to understand these words?
Love inspires a person, lifts him up from everyday life. Literary critic M. Gershenzon wrote: “Here is the image of love, according to Turgenev (he loved allegorical scenes): love swoops down on a person like a thunderstorm on a clear day, and in the stunning whirlwind of it, the soul suddenly grows wings, the person turns into a bird, with swift flight birds, with their indomitable will."
What did N.N. feel? on this day after Gagin’s message about his sister’s story, a cheerful waltz with Asya and her call to imagine that they had grown wings?
N.N. I felt, on the one hand, a secret anxiety in my heart, on the other, an intoxication with the joy of getting closer; The thirst for happiness was kindled in him.
- How does Turgenev help us, readers, understand the psychological state of the hero at this moment?
Through a landscape sketch. (Artistic reading of an excerpt from chapter 10 against the background of the sounds of a Strauss waltz) The landscape, as it were, absorbs the psychological state of a person, becoming the “landscape” of the soul.
Poisoned by the sweet poison of a boiling feeling, the romantic hero finds anxious anticipation and anxiety in everything: “there was no peace in the sky,” in the “dark, cold depths” of the river with the quiet murmur of water behind the stern, in the whisper of the wind - an alarming revival was felt everywhere. It is at this moment of merging with nature that a new leap is made in the hero’s inner world: what was vague, anxious, suddenly turns into an undoubted and passionate thirst for happiness, which is associated with Asya’s personality, but which the hero has not yet dared to name.
Time seems to stop for the hero, overflowing with the expectation of happiness, and only after Asya’s bitter admission that “her wings have grown, but there is nowhere to fly” (what did Asya hide under these words, how can we understand them?), our hero decides to think about the question : “Does she really love me?”
- And what does the hero himself feel, what is happening in his soul?
His own feeling developed “in the half-asleep of consciousness,” according to his own recollections. Sweetness in the heart, the joy of trust and the thirst for happiness still leave the hero in semi-conscious contemplation. The hero prefers to madly surrender to the oncoming impressions: “I’m not only talking about the future, I didn’t think about tomorrow, I felt very good.” The psychology of a contemplator who comprehends beauty and experiences romantic love presupposes a slow pace and internal stop, deepening into oneself, reflection (reflection full of doubts, contradictions; analysis of one’s own psychological state).
And Asya? Close to the “earth”, passionately and wholeheartedly feeling, she could not be satisfied with pointless dreams. And so, without thinking about the consequences, without calculation and caution, she makes an appointment with her beloved. “Another would have been able to hide everything and wait, but not she,” - according to his brother’s correct understanding (chap. 14)
- In what condition was N.N. walking? on a date with Asya?(Doubt, hesitation)
And here it is, the most exciting scene of the story - the date scene. (Selective reading of the scene by the teacher).
Did you like N.N. in this scene?
- What didn’t you like?
- What does he accuse Asya of?
What does he want to justify himself in?
The hero's behavior in the dating scene seemed outrageous to many critics - Turgenev's contemporaries. However, without justifying the hero or condemning him, let’s try to understand. The date scene is an example of Turgenev’s psychologism. The author focuses on the development and change in the psychological state of the hero.
- Why N.N. came on a date?
Judging prudently, N.N. I came on a date in order to part with Asya forever. “I can’t marry her. She won’t know that I loved her too.” However, something touching, helpless in Asya’s timid immobility touches the hero so much that he surrenders to the impulse of natural feeling and thereby comes into conflict with the decision made and with the word that he gave to Gagin. Implicitly, he understands that the decision to break up with Asya does not correspond to the truth of his feelings (remember, “I still didn’t know how the date could be resolved”?). the hero sincerely felt that his feeling was in the ripening stage, and the situation required an immediate solution. Hence his annoyance at the frankness and haste of Asya and Gagin. He condemns in his heart what he says to Asya on a date, since the words do not correspond to his feelings. At the same time, the hero, together with the author, tries to understand the state of another person, but only captures the external manifestations of someone else’s “I”.
- How does Asya behave during N.N.’s reprimand?
N.N. wanted to torment the girl by clarifying his attitude towards her. He, the contemplator, needed time, stopping and thinking about his experiences. And he was surprised by Asya’s reaction to the rebuke.
So, the hero himself came to his misfortune: where an impulse of selfless love was required, he surrenders to reflection (chap. 17).
- And when does the hero realize that he loves?
Later, after the date, when he is looking for Asya, when he is afraid that misfortune is possible, that Asya might kill herself. (Chapter 19).
Why didn’t N.N., having heard from Gagin that Asya had been found, insist on talking right away? How does the author feel about this behavior of the hero?
Turgenev condemns his hero. And N.N. himself speaks sarcastically about his decision to be happy tomorrow (chap. 20).
But these are the words of a man twenty years older than the young N.N. we are talking about now. And then, in what state does N.N. return? home?(end of chapter 20)
- What happened the next day? Did N.N. understand? your mistake, have you condemned yourself?? (end of chapter 21).
- Why didn’t the heroes’ happiness take place? Why did they split up?
Because Asya and N.N. have spiritual life. proceeded differently. Asya experienced a climax of feelings during a date, and N.N. at that moment he was ready only to enjoy romantic contemplation; he did not then feel in himself that he was removing prudence and caution. The awareness of the feeling of love came to him later.
The reason for the life drama of the heroes lies in the difference in their psychological make-up and their temperaments. N.N. – a romantic with a contemplative attitude towards the world; this in some situations does not allow the hero to comprehend his attitude towards people in time and even to understand himself; this does not allow him to take the right action. Asya lives by the direct movement of her heart: not a single feeling in her is half-hearted.
So, we traced the development of the hero’s feelings, experienced with him the psychological changes in his soul.
Love is a mystery. The narrator had to face it, and Ase fully realized his feelings only when everything was lost, lost because of a word not spoken at the right time. But the feelings were not forgotten: twenty years have passed, and N.N. remembers everything down to the smallest detail, sacredly preserves the “sacred relics” of love. (We turn to the theatrical decoration of the lesson: a dried sprig of geranium, notes...)
The seal of first love will not be erased.
We will remember each other all our lives;
Both will have common dreams;
Let's deceive the mind and close the heart -
But longing for the past will not die,
And love won’t come, won’t come -
No, love won't come!
V.S.Kurochkin