Love is one of the feelings that a person is given to experience in life. We can say that this feeling makes a person kinder, cleaner, more perfect.

The theme of love is one of the leading themes of world literature from ancient times to the present day. Many lovers have become the personification of this feeling. It is worth remembering Leila and Majnun, the Cavalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, the lady with the dog and Gurov, as well as many, many others. It is difficult to think of what famous poets and prose writers would write about, what great composers and artists would be inspired by, if there were no love in the world.

The ancients considered love a gift from the gods. This feeling, in their opinion, brought mortals closer to the celestials. In the Middle Ages, a real cult of love developed. The knights devoted their entire lives to serving the beautiful lady and were happy. Since then, the word “knight” began to be used to describe anyone who treats a woman with respect and admiration.

We can judge what place love occupied in the lives of our ancestors, in particular, from the works of Russian classics. And one of the reasons for the most famous duel in Russian history was precisely ardent love colliding with burning jealousy.

To say “I love you” means to say “you will never die,” the great French writer Albert Camus once remarked. A lover imprints the image of a loved one in his heart, makes him immortal, just as the sun, earth, and wind are immortal, and only such immortality is possible in our imperfect world.

“I have you alone, Like the moon in the night, Like spring in the year, Like a pine tree in the steppe.
There is no other like this, beyond any river,
No behind the fogs,
Distant countries"

These lines were written by the famous bard Yuri Vizbor. They can be considered a kind of result of modern artistic and everyday experience. Today, love has hardly changed much: this feeling still inspires a person to new beginnings, achievements, and exploits. And anyone who has carried this wonderful feeling throughout his life can confidently say: “I did not live in vain.”

Power of love

It seems to me that love is one of the most beautiful feelings that a person can experience. So what is this feeling, to which songs of praise have been sung and all sorts of curses have been sent for centuries?I think a person cannot live happily without love. She has many faces. We love parents, children, husbands and wives, friends - and everyone in different, special ways. But no matter who we feel this feeling for, true love always means understanding, respect, willingness to help, protect, the ability to make a sacrifice for the sake of a loved one.The power of love lies in the fact that it awakens a reciprocal feeling, heals the soul, and can save lives. This is the state of a person when his soul is most open to the supreme principles of goodness, truth and beauty. He who loves not only demands, but also gives, not only thirsts for pleasure, but is also ready for the highest feats of self-denial. True love is also an expression of creativity; it presupposes care, respect, and responsibility.Love is an important part of human life. We become what we think about. To love someone or something, you must first respect it. But above all, you need to respect yourself, because if you don’t love and respect yourself, it’s very difficult to love and respect others. You need to learn to accept yourself, value yourself, no matter what others think or say about you.It seems to me that we create love ourselves - it is not the result of fate or luck. Each of us has the ability to love and be loved. Love must be learned. True love overcomes everything, covers everything, forgives everything. Love is probably when you love the shortcomings of another person. If a person seems beautiful, smart, talented to you, this is not necessarily love. It's another matter if you know and love the shortcomings that he has. However, it is worth paying attention to the statement about love by V. G. Belinsky: “Love is often mistaken, seeing in a beloved object something that is not there... but sometimes only love reveals in it the beautiful or great, which is inaccessible to observation and the mind.” That is, the power of love is manifested in the fact that it can reveal the dignity of a person, awaken something beautiful in him.Love gives rise to an uncontrollable desire in us to do good deeds. The whole world around a person in love seems beautiful and significant. Everyday tasks become important and even pleasant and are carried out with some special ease. It is not for nothing that love is considered the elixir of life - it awakens the hidden powers of a person.Of course, true happiness can come from mutual love. But in life it doesn't always happen like this. People, having once felt suffering from love, believe that it only brings pain and should be avoided. By unrequited love they judge love in general - “it’s better not to love and not to suffer”... But is it so good to live “halfway”?Love is a feat, a sacrifice, the pinnacle of development of the human soul. One of the facets of this feeling - the love of a man and a woman - is captured in many creations of the human spirit, glorified by writers and poets, composers and artists, directors and actors. Love is an eternal source of inspiration.A monument to such omnipotent love is the beautiful and sad story of Romeo and Juliet - young lovers who, with the power of their feelings, overcame what seemed to be the most insurmountable things - hatred, enmity and even death itself.In Russian literature you can also find many works that sing the hymn of eternal love. Thus, the pathos of Pushkin’s poem “I loved you...” is a bright sadness about eternal love and the impossibility of happiness with one’s beloved. The lyrical hero is noble and selfless. He timidly hopes that love, perhaps, has not completely faded away, but he renounces his happiness for the well-being of his beloved woman.In the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov, the main character of her own free will sold her soul to the devil. The spirit of evil helped her take revenge on her lover’s offenders. And before, Margarita, without hesitation, refused, for the sake of happiness with the Master, a secure, quiet life with her husband.And yet love cannot be deciphered, has no precise definition. Love is the most complex, mysterious and paradoxical reality that a person faces. And not because, as is usually believed, there is only one step from love to hate, but because love cannot be “calculated or calculated”! You can’t be calculating in it - nature will easily upset any calculations! One can only be sensitive to it in order to follow its whimsical flow and in time with the soul guess all its bends, shifts imperceptible to the eye, turns sometimes inexplicable to the mind. In love it is impossible to be petty and mediocre - it requires generosity and talent, vigilance of the heart, breadth of soul, a kind, subtle mind and much, much more that nature has endowed us with in abundance and that we unwisely waste and dull in our vain life.This high, life-affirming feeling has enormous power. Love is a feeling of togetherness. True love? this is joy! This? giving and receiving joy.

Love, what it is... (based on the works of A. Kuprin)

One of the highest values ​​in human life, according to A.I. Kuprin, has always been love. Love, which collects into a single bouquet all the best, all that is healthy and bright, with which life rewards a person, which justifies any hardships and hardships that may come along his way. So in “Oles”. So in “Garnet Bracelet”. So in “Shulamith”. So in “Duel”. Until the end of his life, the writer retained the romantic mood of his youth in his soul, and this is what makes his works strong.Many events take place before us on the pages of the story “The Duel.” But the emotional culmination of the work was not the tragic fate of Romashov, but the night of love he spent with the insidious and therefore even more captivating Shurochka; and the happiness experienced by Romashov on this pre-duel night is so great that it is this alone that is conveyed to the reader.The story “The Garnet Bracelet” makes us think about the enormous power of unrequited love. And the modest, inconspicuous telegraph operator suddenly appears before us as significant, great! After all, it was he who carried pure love and worship of women throughout his life. And the words will always sound like a prayer: “Hallowed be Thy name!”According to Kuprin, a person who is close to nature is truly capable of love. He reveals this topic in an unusually interesting way in the story about the Polesie girl-witch. The main characters of the work are Olesya and Ivan Timofeevich. Olesya's integral and spontaneous nature is distinguished by the richness of her inner world. It is rare to find a person so generously gifted by nature, who would combine naivety and authority, femininity and proud independence, touching courage and delicacy, and spiritual generosity. Together with the heroes of the story, we experience the anxious period of the birth of love and happy moments of pure, complete, all-consuming delight. The world of jubilant nature merges with wonderful human feeling. The bright, fairy-tale atmosphere of the story does not fade even after the tragic ending. Gossip and gossip, vile persecution of the clerk fade into the background. Great love triumphs over everything insignificant and evil, which is remembered without bitterness, “easily and joyfully.”A.I. Kuprin is an idealist, a dreamer, a singer of sublime feeling. He found special, exceptional conditions that allowed him to create romanticized images of women and their ideal love. In his environment, A. Kuprin saw a sad waste of beauty, a crushing of feelings, and delusion of thought. The writer’s ideal went back to the victory of the strength of the spirit over the strength of the body and to “love faithful to death.” For Kuprin, love is the most consistent form of affirmation and identification of the personal principle in a person.Protesting against cynicism, corrupt feelings, vulgarity, A. I. Kuprin created the story “Sulamith”. It was written based on the biblical “Song of Songs” by King Solomon. Solomon fell in love with a poor peasant girl, but because of the jealousy of Queen Astiz, whom he abandoned, she dies. Before her death, Shulamith says to her lover: “I thank you, my king, for everything: for your wisdom, to which you allowed me to cling to with my lips, like to a sweet source... There has never been and will never be a woman happier than me.” The main idea of ​​this work: love is as strong as death, and it alone, eternal, protects humanity from the moral degeneration that modern society threatens it with.A new return to the theme of great, all-consuming love took place in the story “The Garnet Bracelet.” The poor official Zheltkov, having once met Princess Vera Nikolaevna, fell in love with her with all his heart. This love leaves no room for other interests of the hero. Zheltkov kills himself so as not to interfere with the princess’s life, and, dying, thanks her for the fact that she was for him “the only joy in life, the only consolation, the only thought.” This story is not so much about love as it is a prayer to it. In his dying letter, the hero blesses his beloved: “As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name!”Kuprin especially singled out the figure of the old General Anosov, who is confident that high love exists, but it “... must be a tragedy, the greatest secret in the world,” which knows no compromises. Princess Vera, a woman, for all her aristocratic restraint, very impressionable, capable of understanding and appreciating beauty, felt that her life came into contact with this great love, sung by the best poets of the world. The love of the official Zheltkov is alien to that deep hiddenness in which noble modesty is intertwined with noble pride. “Be silent and perish”... This talent was not given to Zheltkov. But for him, too, the “magic shackles” turned out to be sweeter than life.The story “Olesya” develops the theme of Kuprin’s creativity - love as a saving force that protects the “pure gold” of human nature from “degradation”, from the destructive influence of bourgeois civilization. It is no coincidence that Kuprin’s favorite hero was a man of strong-willed, courageous character and a noble, kind heart, capable of rejoicing in all the diversity of the world. The work is built on a comparison of two heroes, two natures, two worldviews. On the one hand, an educated intellectual, a representative of urban culture, the rather humane Ivan Timofeevich, on the other, Olesya, a “child of nature” who has not been influenced by urban civilization. Compared to Ivan Timofeevich, a man of a kind but weak, “lazy” heart, Olesya rises with nobility, integrity, and proud confidence in her strength. Freely, without any special tricks, Kuprin draws the appearance of the Polesie beauty, forcing us to follow the richness of shades of her spiritual world, always original, sincere and deep. “Olesya” is Kuprin’s artistic discovery. The writer showed us the true beauty of the innocent, almost childlike soul of a girl who grew up far from the noisy world of people, among animals, birds and forests. But along with this, Kuprin also highlights human malice, senseless superstition, fear of the unknown, the unknown. However, true love triumphed over all this. A string of red beads is the last tribute to Olesya’s generous heart, the memory of “her tender, generous love.”The peculiarity of A. I. Kuprin’s artistic talent - an increased interest in each human personality and mastery of psychological analysis - allowed him to fully master the realistic heritage. The value of his work lies in the artistic and convincing revelation of the soul of his contemporary. The writer considers love as a deep moral and psychological feeling. The stories of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin raise the eternal problems of humanity - the problems of love.

The love everyone dreams of

Love is the most important component of our life. There is no poet, writer, musician who would not sing of this amazing feeling. Everyone encounters love every day, be it brotherly, motherly, for a spouse or for a friend.However, all people perceive the word “love” in their own way. Some associate it with pain, suffering, jealousy, and others - with joy, lightness: as if the soul is singing and you want to fly... There are so many people, so many opinions, so it is impossible to give an exact definition of love.For example, in the story “The Garnet Bracelet,” love, according to A.I. Kuprin, should be based on sublime feelings, mutual respect and honesty. This is Zheltkov’s love for Vera Nikolaevna. A petty dreamer official fell in love with a society lady. Fell in love secretly, and, as a result, unrequitedly. Vera does not take his letters seriously; the donated bracelet caused a storm of indignation. Meanwhile, reminders of these letters and the gift support hope in Zheltkov’s soul and reduce the suffering of love. He felt such a passionate, sizzling love for Vera that he was ready to take it with him to the grave. The official is grateful to the one who evoked this wonderful feeling and elevated him above this vain world. Zheltkov idolizes his beloved, as evidenced by the line from his last letter: “Hallowed be Thy name.”However, I have a negative attitude towards Zheltkov’s suicide due to unrequited love. I think self-sacrifice is part of love. ss moment of danger. And quite another thing is suicide from unrequited feelings. This should be treated as a disease, mental problems.In my opinion, love is similar to Kuprin’s description: to love is to give without asking for anything in return, to forget about one’s own self, to cherish every minute spent together, to sacrifice oneself for the sake of the life of one’s beloved. No wonder, translated from one of the eastern languages, the phrase “I love you” means “I will take your pain upon myself.”Many people prove their love through reckless actions. Probably every second person said these words: “I’m ready to do anything for you.” I admit, I, too, would not refuse the earth strewn with flowers under the windows of my house. But I can never tell a person: “Die for me.” I simply do not have the right to do this, because any life is priceless.In the end, I would like to answer the question of what kind of love everyone dreams of. In my opinion, love should be mutual. Then there will be mutual understanding and altruism in the relationship, and there will be fewer people who die from unrequited feelings.

Love as a vice and as the highest spiritual value in Russian prose of the 20th century. (based on the works of A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunin, A.I. Kuprin)

The theme of love in the works of writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is special - it is often painted in pessimistic, even tragic tones. Chekhov, Bunin, Kuprin - they all feel a longing for real, strong, sincere love, but they do not see it around them. According to these artists of the word, people of their time have forgotten how to love, they are selfish and selfish, their souls are callous, and their hearts are cold. But the need to love is inherent in man by nature. This is why almost all the heroes of Chekhov, Bunin, Kuprin are unhappy: they strive for love, but cannot comprehend it.However, these writers are convinced that love is the brightest and happiest thing that can happen in every person’s life. And in their works they show examples of such love. I was struck with great force by A.P.’s story. Chekhov “About Love” and the story by I.A. Bunin "Caucasus". They are about different things and, at the same time, about the same thing. Chekhov’s story says that people, not daring to change their lives, remain unhappy forever and miss their love.Landowner Alekhine tells a story. He was in love with a married woman, Anna Alekseevna. This well-mannered, intelligent, well-read lady was the wife of a mediocre, gray man, whom, in fact, she did not love. What kept her close to him? Habit, fear of change, fear of serious action? Although the heroine began to experience sympathy and kinship of souls with Alekhine almost immediately. But I chose a routine life. Over time, she has two children, and she continues to live with an unloved person.The characters didn’t even talk about their feelings. For what? After all, they still wouldn’t dare to change anything. And only the departure of his beloved forces Alekhine to confess to her: “When here, in the compartment, our eyes met, our spiritual strength left us both, I hugged her, she pressed her face to my chest, and tears flowed from her eyes; kissing her face, shoulders, hands, wet with tears - oh, how unhappy we were with her! “I confessed my love to her, and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, petty and how deceptive everything was that prevented us from loving.” But it was too late - the hero lost his happiness forever.Bunin’s story “Caucasus” shows the opposite situation. The heroine and the hero decided to run away from the heroine's husband. They fled to the Caucasus, where they spent perhaps the best days of their lives, the best days of their romance.The Caucasian landscape contrasted sharply with cold, gray, dull Moscow. The state of mind of the heroes also contrasted. Here they were together, against the backdrop of this sunny, bright, exotic landscape: “When the heat subsided and we opened the window, the part of the sea visible from it between the cypress trees standing on the slope below us was the color of violet and lay so smoothly, peacefully that “It seemed there would never be an end to this peace, this beauty.”These shared moments became even more precious because they soon had to return to Moscow, to their familiar and hateful life.It would seem that this story is about two loving people. But the final lines of the work turn everything upside down, change everything. We understand that the main character of “Caucasus” is the person who loved the heroine, and who was mentioned only in passing.This man is given only the final lines of the story: “Returning to his room, he lay down on the sofa and shot himself in the temples with two revolvers.” This is for whom love was a real obsession, this is whose feelings were conveyed by the sultry Caucasian landscape! I think this man’s obsessive feeling is similar to the obsessive Caucasian heat, which clouds the mind and makes a person delirious.Kuprin also tells us about the greatest need to love. His hero Zheltkov (“Garnet Bracelet”) is the lucky one who was gifted with the ability to love. This man has great feelings for a married woman who is higher than him in social status. Zheltkov will never be able to connect with her, but this is not the main thing for him. This man is happy because he sees Vera Nikolaevna, breathes the same air with her, and sometimes can hear her voice. For the sake of his love, because of her, Zheltkov leaves this life, at the last moment deifying his beloved: “Hallowed be thy name.”Bunin's heroes love a little differently. Their feeling is a bright flash, love-passion, which certainly passes, sometimes giving way to tragedy (“Dark Alleys”, “Cold Autumn”, “Caucasus”, etc.). Love, according to Bunin, often destroys, cripples, and kills. But still, this is the greatest, highest and most divine thing that is available to man on this earth.In this, both Chekhov and Kuprin agree with Bunin. Love is a divine gift for which you need to be grateful to the Almighty. Without this feeling, life is empty and worthless. And let sometimes love look like a vice, destroying, incinerating, destroying. However, truly unhappy are those who are not able to experience this vicious and, at the same time, divine feeling.

Love in the life of L. N. Tolstoy's heroes

In the novel “War and Peace” L.N. Tolstoy singled out and considered the most significant “folk thought”. This theme is most vividly and multifacetedly reflected in those parts of the works that tell about the war. In the depiction of the “world,” the “family thought” predominates, playing a very important role in the novel.Almost all the heroes of “War and Peace” are subjected to the test of love. They do not all come to true love and mutual understanding, to moral beauty, and not all at once, but only after going through mistakes and the suffering that redeems them, developing and purifying the soul.Andrei Bolkonsky's path to happiness was thorny. A twenty-year-old inexperienced young man, carried away and blinded by “external beauty,” he marries Lisa. However, very quickly Andrei came to a painful and depressing understanding of how “cruelly and uniquely” he had made a mistake. In a conversation with Pierre, Andrei, almost in despair, utters the words: “Never, never get married... until you have done everything you could... My God, what I wouldn’t give now not to be married! ”Family life did not bring Bolkonsky happiness and peace; he was burdened by it. He did not love his wife, but rather despised her as a child of an empty, stupid world. Prince Andrei was constantly oppressed by the feeling of the uselessness of his life, equating him with a “court lackey and idiot.”Then there was the sky of Austerlitz, the death of Lisa, and a deep spiritual change, and fatigue, melancholy, contempt for life, disappointment. Bolkonsky at that time was like an oak tree, which “stood like an old, angry and contemptuous monster between the smiling birches” and “did not want to submit to the charm of spring.” “An unexpected confusion of young thoughts and hopes” arose in Andrei’s soul. He left transformed, and again in front of him was an oak tree, but not an old, ugly oak tree, but covered with “a tent of lush, dark greenery,” so that “no sores, no old mistrust, no grief - nothing was visible.”Love, like a miracle, revives Tolstoy's heroes to a new life. A true feeling for Natasha, so unlike the empty, absurd women of the world, came to Prince Andrei later and with incredible force turned him over and renewed his soul. He “seemed and was a completely different, new person,” and it was as if he had stepped out of a stuffy room into the free light of God. True, even love did not help Prince Andrei to humble his pride; he never forgave Natasha for “betrayal.” Only after a mortal wound and a mental break and rethinking of life did Bolkonsky understand her suffering, shame and repentance and realize the cruelty of breaking up with her. “I love you more, better than before,” he said then to Natasha, but nothing, not even her fiery feeling, could keep him in this world.Pierre's fate is somewhat similar to the fate of his best friend. Just like Andrei, who in his youth was carried away by Lisa, who has just arrived from Paris, the childishly enthusiastic Pierre is carried away by the “doll-like” beauty of Helen. The example of Prince Andrei did not become a “science” for him; Pierre was convinced from his own experience that external beauty is not always internal - spiritual beauty.Pierre felt that there were no barriers between him and Helen, she “was terribly close to him,” her beautiful and “marble” body had power over him. And although Pierre felt that this was “not good for some reason,” he weakly succumbed to the feeling instilled in him by this “depraved woman” and eventually became her husband. As a result, a bitter feeling of disappointment, gloomy despondency, contempt for his wife, for life, for himself gripped him some time after the wedding, when Helen’s “mystery” turned into spiritual emptiness, stupidity and debauchery.Having met Natasha, Pierre, like Andrei, was amazed and attracted by her purity and naturalness. Feelings for her had already timidly begun to grow in his soul when Bolkonsky and Natasha fell in love with each other. The joy of their happiness mixed in his soul with sadness. Unlike Andrei, Pierre's kind heart understood and forgave Natasha after the incident with Anatol Kuragin. Although he tried to despise her, he saw the exhausted, suffering Natasha, and “a never-before-experienced feeling of pity filled Pierre’s soul.” And love entered his “soul, which blossomed towards a new life.” Pierre understood Natasha, perhaps because her connection with Anatole was similar to his infatuation with Helen. Natasha believed in the inner beauty of Kuragin, in communication with whom she, like Pierre and Helen, “felt with horror that there was no barrier between him and her.” After a disagreement with his wife, Pierre's life's quest continues. He became interested in Freemasonry, then there was a war, and the half-childish idea of ​​killing Napoleon, and the burning one - Moscow, terrible minutes of waiting for death and captivity. Having gone through suffering, Pierre's renewed, purified soul retained his love for Natasha. Having met her, who had also changed greatly, Pierre did not recognize Natasha. They both believed that after everything they had experienced they would be able to feel this joy, but love awoke in their hearts, and suddenly “it smelled and filled with long-forgotten happiness,” and the “forces of life” began to beat, and “joyful madness” took possession of them.“Love has awakened, and life has awakened.” The power of love revived Natasha after the mental apathy caused by the death of Prince Andrei. She thought that her life was over, but the love for her mother that arose with renewed vigor showed her that her essence - love - was still alive in her. This all-encompassing power of love, which brought to life the people it loved and towards whom it was directed.The fates of Nikolai Rostov and Princess Marya were not easy. Quiet, meek, ugly in appearance, but beautiful in soul, the princess during her father’s lifetime did not even hope to get married or raise children. The only wooer, and even then for the sake of a dowry, Anatole, of course, could not understand her high spirituality and moral beauty.In the epilogue of the novel “War and Peace,” Tolstoy exalts the spiritual unity of people, which forms the basis of nepotism. A new family was created, in which seemingly different principles were united - the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys.“As in every real family, in the Lysogorsk house several completely different worlds lived together, which, each maintaining its own peculiarity and making concessions to one another, merged into one harmonious whole.”

Love in the lives of Onegin, Tatyana and Pushkin (based on the novel “Eugene Onegin”)

The theme of love is one of the leading ones in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". It is the ability to sincerely and devotedly love that the author “measures” human nature and the level of development of his heroes. Pushkin himself believed that love is the meaning of existence; only by loving can a person fully reveal all his capabilities and experience life to the end.The main character of the novel is the young nobleman Eugene Onegin. One of the main questions of the work is whether Onegin knows how to love? The reader thinks about this throughout the novel.It seems to me that in order to answer this question, it is worth turning to the description of the hero’s upbringing and lifestyle. From a very young age, Onegin was part of the high society of St. Petersburg. All that the hero could learn there was the art of lies and hypocrisy:How early could he be a hypocrite?To harbor hope, to be jealous,To dissuade, to make believe,Seem gloomy, languish...The high society of St. Petersburg is completely unpretentious. It values ​​only the superficial ability to make a pleasant impression. No one is going to look deeper. I think in such a society it is easy for superficial people to shine.Constant romances, intrigues, flirting - these are the main entertainments in this society. Naturally, Onegin perfectly mastered the “art of tender passion.” But there is not a drop of sincerity in this relationship. Evgeniy quickly became disillusioned with life and his surroundings. He lost interest in everything around him. After some time, Onegin left for the village. For only a few days he was interested in simple village life. But then the hero became bored again.It was during such a “spiritual coldness” that Evgeny Onegin met Tatyana. The young girl instantly fell in love with the capital's dandy. She, unlike Onegin, knew how to love strongly and sincerely, giving herself entirely to this feeling. Confirmation of this is the confession that the heroine first wrote to Onegin:I know you were sent to me by God,Until the grave you are my keeper...You appeared in my dreams,Invisible, you were already dear to me...But Onegin was sure that no one would be able to agitate him for long. Onegin does not reciprocate the heroine's feelings, giving her a rebuke. Having survived this refusal, Tatyana, without love, marries someone else.Onegin, after the murder of Lensky, he wandered for some time, moved away from high society, and changed greatly. Everything superficial is gone, only a deep, ambiguous personality remains. A few years later, Evgeniy meets Tatyana again. Now she is a married woman, a socialite. But we understand that the heroine still loves Onegin:I love you (why lie?),But I was given to another;I will be faithful to him forever.And the changed hero is now able to love and suffer, but it’s too late - Tatyana refuses him, remaining faithful to her husband.Thus, Pushkin’s heroes came to the end of the work as truly loving people. This is not surprising, because the Author himself considers love to be the most important feeling in a person’s life: “And the mighty life gives And lush flowers and sweet fruit.” The ability to love is the main criterion in assessing literary heroes and people for Pushkin.

Talk about love

Love is one of the feelings that a person is given to experience in life. We can say that this feeling makes a person kinder, cleaner, more perfect. The theme of love is one of the leading themes of world literature from ancient times to the present day. Many lovers have become the personification of this feeling. It is worth remembering Leila and Majnun, the Cavalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, the lady with the dog and Gurov, as well as many, many others. It’s hard to think of what famous poets and prose writers would write about, what great composers and artists would be inspired by, if there were no love in the world,

The ancients considered love a gift from the gods. This feeling, in their opinion, brought mortals closer to the celestials. In the Middle Ages, a real cult of love developed. The knights devoted their entire lives to serving the beautiful lady and were happy. Since then, the word “knight” began to be used to describe anyone who treats a woman with respect and admiration. We can judge what place love occupied in the lives of our ancestors, in particular, from the works of Russian classics. And one of the reasons for the most famous duel in Russian history was precisely ardent love colliding with burning jealousy.

Love has many faces. These are love-friendship, love-cooperation, love-passion, love-tragedy and others. In love there is not only happiness, the joy of mutual understanding, pleasure, but also deception, jealousy, fear, pain. We can say that against the background of love, other spiritual manifestations of a person appear more clearly, prominently, and prominently. In this way a person is trusted by love.

To say “I love you” means to say “you will never die,” the great French writer Albert Camus once remarked. A lover imprints the image of a loved one in his heart, makes him immortal, just as the sun, earth, and wind are immortal, and only such immortality is possible in our imperfect world.

Love, as has already been said, is not a profitable acquisition, but a gift. And like any unexpected and pleasant gift, this feeling must be treasured. After all, they say that true love is given to a person once in a lifetime, and this is not far from the truth.

It is known that love is realized entirely in the sphere of interpersonal communication. Therefore, it is necessary to learn to speak, think, and breathe again. In this, many see the labor and hardships of love, especially if love is crowned with legal marriage. Here it is important not to lose your own individuality, your own point of view on the world around you and on love itself in particular.

"You are the only one I have,

Like the moon in the night,

It's like spring in the year,

Like a pine tree in the steppe.

There is no other one like this

Beyond any river

No behind the fogs,

Distant countries"

These lines were written by the famous bard Yuri Vizbor. They can be considered a kind of result of modern artistic and everyday experience. Today, love has hardly changed much: this feeling still inspires a person to new beginnings, achievements, and exploits. And anyone who has carried this wonderful feeling throughout his life can confidently say: “I did not live in vain.”

Love on the pages of the works of I. A. Bunin

In the first half of the twenties, the struggle between two principles was stronger than ever in Bunin’s work: life and death. The writer sees the opposition to death in love. This topic becomes the main one for him. According to him, love is the beautiful moments that illuminate a person’s life. “Love does not understand death. Love is life” - these words of Andrei Bolkonsky from “War and Peace” are deeply reflected in the works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. He writes about the highest and most complete, from his point of view, earthly happiness.In the twenties, Bunin wrote a long story, “The Case of Cornet Elagin.” The hero, in love with the actress, experiences a painful and crushing feeling. It turns out to be fatal for both and leads to a tragic outcome.Usually first love is viewed poetically or as something frivolous, even frivolous. But Bunin argues that this is not at all the case: “Often this “first love” is accompanied by dramas, tragedies, but no one thinks at all that just at this time people are experiencing something much deeper, more complex than excitement, suffering, usually called the adoration of a dear creature: they experience, without knowing it, the terrible blossoming, the painful opening, the first mass of sex.” This “first mass of sex” changes a person’s inner world to the core, heightens his sensitivity to everything around him. What was the relationship between Elagin and Sosnovskaya? His hot feeling clashed with her capricious and changeable mood. Elagin painfully experiences the transition of his beloved’s feelings from sudden manifestations of love to indifference, almost indifference. The hero was close to suicide, rushing from despair to outbursts of tenderness, from rage to forgiveness.As witness Zalessky says at the trial, “she either set him on fire (Elagin) or doused him with cold water.” Elagin had to constantly suffer from jealousy, since Sosnovskaya was constantly surrounded by fans.A very similar situation is described in the story “Mitya’s Love”, in the novel “The Life of Arsenyev”, in the story “Chang’s Dreams”. According to the writer, passionate love and cruel jealousy are caused by a certain type of woman who is the embodiment of “the most typical female nature.” It is impossible to understand them, their souls are restless, unstable, as if “unfinished” by nature. These women often suffer and make others suffer. This is how the captain, the hero of the story “Dreams of Chang”, speaks about them: “There are, brother, female souls who are always languishing with some kind of sad thirst for love and who, because of this, never love anyone. There are such people - and how can we judge them for all their heartlessness and deceit?.. Who will figure them out?”Meanwhile, men with heightened sensitivity and a developed imagination give their hearts to such women with the same recklessness with which the impressionable, enthusiastic Elagin is captivated by the capricious and hysterical Sosnovskaya.A special place in Bunin’s work is occupied by the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys”. Critics called it “an encyclopedia of love.” Ivan Alekseevich explores and describes the most diverse shades of the relationship between the two. These include tender, sublime feelings (stories “Rusya”, “Natalie”), and violent passion (“Zoika and Valeria”, “Galya Ganskaya”, “Oaks”), and the manifestation of contradictory emotions (“Antigone”, “Business Cards” ).But first of all, Bunin is interested in true earthly love, “the harmony of earth and sky.” Such love is rare in life, but to experience it is a huge, incomparable happiness. However, it has long been noted that the stronger, brighter and more perfect love is, the sooner it is destined to end. But to break off does not mean to die. This feeling illuminates a person’s entire life path. Thus, in the story “Dark Alleys,” Nadezhda, the owner of the “inn,” carried throughout her life her love for the master who once seduced her. “Everyone’s youth passes, but love is another matter,” “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten,” she says. And the master Nikolai Alekseevich, who once abandoned her, understands that the best moments of his life are connected with this woman. But you can't bring back the past.In the story “Rusya,” the hero for twenty years cannot forget the wonderful girl in whose family he once served as a tutor. But the lovers had to part, and many years have passed since then. The hero has aged, gotten married, but still remembers how “one day she got her feet wet in the rain... and he rushed to take off her shoes and kiss her wet narrow feet - there was no such happiness in his entire life.”And here we have the heroine of the story “Cold Autumn,” who saw off her fiancé to war on a cold autumn evening. A month later he was killed, but the feeling for him continues to live in the soul of the young girl. She had to suffer a lot, endure difficult trials, but on the threshold of old age something else is important for her: “But, remembering everything that I have experienced since then, I always ask myself: yes, but what happened in my life? And I answer myself: only that cold autumn evening. Has he ever been? Still, it was. And that’s all that happened in my life - the rest is an unnecessary dream.”Reading Bunin's short stories, you notice that he never writes about happy, prosperous love. Thus, the only woman who was truly loved by the hero of the story “Henry” dies from a shot by a jealous lover, Nikolai Platonovich dies of a heart attack in the short story “In Paris”, the sudden appearance of the crazy mother Rusya during her meeting with her beloved separates them forever, leaves The heroine of “Clean Monday” goes to the monastery; Natalie dies from premature birth.Why does Bunin never talk about happy love that unites lovers? Probably because the union of lovers is completely different feelings and relationships. There is no place for suffering and pain, but there is no place for that bliss, “lightnings of happiness.” Therefore, at the moment when a love story comes to a happy conclusion, unforeseen circumstances inevitably appear or a catastrophe breaks out, even to the death of the heroes. With his characteristic high skill, the writer strives to stop the moment at the highest rise of feelings.Another interesting feature of the heroes’ love is that they seem to avoid even the thought of marriage.In “The Case of Cornet Elagin,” the author notes: “Is it really not known that there is a strange property of every strong and generally not quite ordinary love, even to avoid marriage, as it were?” Indeed, both Elagin and Sosnovskaya understand that marriage between them is impossible. In the story “Swing,” the hero asks the question: “But what kind of husband am I?” And the girl’s answer is: “No, no, not that.” “Let it be only what it is... It won’t be better,” she believes. The hero of the short story “Tanya” thinks with horror about what will happen if he marries Tanya. Meanwhile, he only truly loves her. Once Bunin quoted someone’s words that it is often easier to die for a woman than to live with her. Apparently, this point of view was reflected in his stories about love. You can agree with this, you can disagree. This does not detract from the beauty and charm of Bunin's short stories. And it doesn’t matter whether the heroes got married or not. “All love is great happiness, even if it is not shared.” These words from the book “Dark Alleys” run like a red thread through the entire work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.

What unites Turgenev's stories about love? (based on the works “First Love”, “Klara Milich”, “Spring Waters”)

Peru I.S. Turgenev wrote several stories about love - “Clara Milich”, “Spring Waters”, “First Love”. All of them, one way or another, are dedicated to the first feeling. The main character of these stories is a young man, on whose behalf the story is most often told.It must be said that there is a lot of autobiography in Turgenev’s stories about love. In both “Klara Milich” and “Spring Waters,” the objects of the protagonist’s love are foreign women (or women with non-Russian blood). We know that the fatal love in the life of the writer himself was the opera singer Pauline Viardot. Details of this woman’s appearance, her character, as well as Turgenev’s feelings for her are subtly present on the pages of his stories dedicated to love.The narrator in them, as a rule, is the hero, a young man. The stories are also united by a retrospective composition - most often the work is a recollection of an already mature person about the events of his youth that left a strong mark on his soul or radically influenced his fate.Thus, in “Spring Waters” Sanin’s love for Gemma has not faded even after several decades. In the mystical story “After Death,” the love of the heroes has overcome death itself - Jacob materializes Clara with the power of his feelings, and then he himself dies to be with his beloved.The heroes of Turgenev's stories about love are from the category of “untouched”. These are people who are pure in soul and mind, capable of sincerely and strongly loving, dreaming, doing crazy things, living and not existing (let’s just remember the contrast between Dmitry Sanin and Mr. Kluber from “Spring Waters”).It is interesting that the main characters of Turgenev’s stories about love, one way or another, are women. It is their image that the writer brings to the fore - admiring their beauty, freshness, and their inherent charm (Gemma, Klara Milich). But not all female images in Turgenev’s stories are positive. There are also devilish creatures among them, destroying, destroying, playing, but still attracting with irresistible force (Marya Nikolaevna Polozova, partly Princess Zasekina). But, in any case, women are portrayed by Turgenev as fatal creatures capable of inspiring a man to any madness.The unifying feature of Turgenev's works about love is their unhappy ending. This applies to “First Love”, and “Spring Waters”, and partly to “Klara Milich”. The heroes of these works face separation, mental anguish, and a lot of inner work. Often one of them will die.So what is love, according to I.S. Turgenev? Why does he so often describe first love? It seems to me that the writer believes that the first feeling is most often real, namely “love.” Young, inexperienced souls of “untouched” people are still capable of experiencing sublime, crazy, sincere feelings, not clouded by any self-interest. Perhaps, with age, according to Turgenev, this goes away.In any case, the writer believes that love is a fundamental emotion that contains the essence and meaning of life itself. Happy is the one who is capable of sincere love and in whose life this feeling happened.

An example of an essay in the direction of “Love”

What is love? This is one of the most mysterious feelings inherent in humans. It inspires someone, makes them happy, and brings pain and disappointment to others. Despite this, every person dreams of experiencing this feeling, hoping that it will give him happiness. Perhaps there is not a single poet or writer who would ignore this wonderful topic.

One of the greats said that it is in love that the true character of a person is revealed. How brave Tatyana Larina turns out to be, the heroine of the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”! She decides to confess to Onegin because she is unable to hide the strong feeling that overwhelms her. Risking her own reputation, the girl excitedly writes a frank letter to the unsuspecting Evgeniy. Having learned that Onegin does not love her, disappointed Tatyana experiences pain, but remains true to herself, her habits and affections, spending a lot of time with a book in her hands and communicating with nature. The deep moral principle that A.S. Pushkin admires remains in the heroine even after marriage. Yes, she continues to love Onegin, but remains faithful to her husband. The image of Tatyana is an example of the fact that a person can and should control his feelings, without succumbing to emotional impulses, and maintain moral purity.

A.I. Kuprin reflects on the eternal secret of love in the story “The Garnet Bracelet.” His hero - a modest telegraph operator Zheltkov - is capable of a strong, deep feeling that becomes the meaning of his life. Love for the married princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina is admiration for a woman without any hope of reciprocity. This is a bright and at the same time tragic feeling that became the basis of Zheltkov’s life. The hero is happy at the thought that his beloved lives somewhere nearby. It is important for him that she knows about his feelings and at the same time is not burdened by him. Only after the death of the hero does the princess realize that the amazing love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.

The heroine of I.A. Bunin’s story “Dark Alleys,” Nadezhda, experienced bitter disappointment. The feeling that flared up in her youth turned her whole life upside down. The young master quickly lost interest in the serf girl, and Nadezhda could not forget and forgive the pain he caused. The mental wound turned out to be so deep that the heroine, who had lost faith in happiness, never got married. She retained love in her soul and even years later did not regret the strong feeling that she experienced in her youth.

What is love? This is an amazing gift, a feeling that transforms a person, elevates and enriches him. Does this mean that love has miraculous powers? Yes, it changes, “regenerates ourselves.” This magical power makes someone happy, inspires, and hurts someone, bringing disappointment. And yet, every person dreams of experiencing this wonderful feeling, hoping to find happiness.

Love is the most beautiful feeling on earth that a person can experience. Love makes you and I do rash actions, good and not so good.

It’s not for nothing that they say that love is visible. A person in love shines, glows and bursts with vital energy. A person’s eyes light up from love - has everyone heard this phrase? Love can be at first sight, from the first second, from one moment. Or it may come gradually. Common interests unite people, and this shapes feelings.

Some people believe that love is a chemical process in the human body. When you see a pretty person, your body begins to produce certain substances that, when combined, cause love and delight.

Some say that love is a physical process. When you fall in love, your heart begins to beat faster, your blood begins to rush through your body faster, your cheeks turn pink when you see an attractive person.

Love can be different. You can love cats, dogs, mom, dad, the opposite sex, ice cream or mashed potatoes.

Mom's love is special. She begins to love her child long before his birth. Moms don't sleep at night because of us. Mom carries a 5 kilogram burden under her heart for 9 months. Mom is nervous about both 5-year-old Petya and 45-year-old Petya. Mom loves us and doesn't demand anything in return.

Dad begins to love mom long before the children. Their love leads to the birth of a child. And they already love their child with double strength. Over time, the child begins to give the opposite feelings towards his parents.

We all love pets because they are cute, kind, affectionate and fluffy. All animals also have feelings for their owners. Even if the owner is not born and beats the pet, the pet is still faithfully waiting for him from work.

The teacher loves his students. He puts his heart and soul into his lessons and tries to make sure the kids learn all the information.

A man in love with girls tries to win the heart of his chosen one. He does incredible things. A man tries to change, and change something in himself, so that the lady of his heart will like him.

Each of us has relatives to whom we pay little attention. Approach them, hug them, kiss them, remind them of your feelings.

Love can be different: pure and sincere, mercantile and untruthful. Love is a wonderful feeling that gives you wings! Love is wonderful! Only love can save the world from wars and strife. Love each other.

Essay 2

Love is without a doubt one of the most beautiful feelings a person can experience. For many centuries love has been sung in great works, in music and painting. For many, love is happiness, but also for many it is a curse that cannot be gotten rid of.

A person cannot live without love. But you should understand that love comes in different forms. There is love for parents, friends, wives and husbands. Everyone has their own, special love. True love requires us to respect our loved ones, be willing to be a protector, lend a helping hand, and sacrifice our own interests for the benefit of others.

For many, the question of love remains a mystery. What is her strength? The state of love allows us to open up from a new side, turns our soul inside out and awakens our best qualities - determination, honesty, kindness. It is worth understanding that in love you need to be able to not only accept this very love, but also give it. What is important is not so much the receipt of pleasure as the willingness to sacrifice.

To be able to love, you need to be able to love yourself. The same applies to respect. Also important is the ability to value ourselves, regardless of those whispering behind our backs.

Love is not so much the result of a successful combination of circumstances as the result of a lot of work. We create love ourselves. We are all capable of loving and being loved. One of the most important features of love is that it is able to overcome and forgive everything. Seeing a beautiful and intelligent person in front of us, certain feelings awaken in us, but we should not confuse them with love. They often love in spite of, that is, not only for the positive qualities, but also for the shortcomings that each of us has. The main advantage of love is the fact that it reveals the best virtues of an individual, awakens in him the bright and kind, which a person did not even suspect.

Love makes us do good deeds; the whole world seems wonderful and beautiful to a lover. Simple life is filled with ease, things are done with a pleasant feeling.

Love is sung by many poets, artists and musicians, because it is the most important source of inspiration. A monument to such love is the wonderful, but sad, story of young lovers - Romeo and Juliet. With their love, the power of feelings, they managed to accomplish the impossible - they defeated enmity, hatred, and even death.

Let us remember the great Russian literature, namely the poem by A.S. Pushkin "I loved you." We see in the work all the sadness of a man who will never be able to be close to his beloved and share happiness and loss with her. The main character understands that they will no longer have anything with this woman, but still, deep down in his soul, he hopes that perhaps love has not yet faded away. But still he renounces his feelings for the well-being of his beloved.

Love has enormous power and authority over a person. It can give both joy and bitterness. But life without love is meaningless and there will be no joy in it.

About Love (essay No. 3)

What is love anyway? What do we know about her?

Some will say that this is the most wonderful feeling, while others will say that this is all nonsense and it was impossible to come up with anything more stupid.

Love is the most mysterious emotional manifestation in people. It is so ingrained among us that it is difficult to imagine life without this feeling.

And it is this feeling that pushes many to stupid, reckless actions. It was as if a sticky fog had seeped into our minds and distorted our thoughts and perceptions. We begin to follow emotions, without listening to the arguments of common reason. Lovers are ready to do rash things, and a mother will always do anything for the sake of her beloved child.

You can turn to examples from literature to prove crazy things done for the sake of love. The same Mayakovsky, in whose place hardly anyone would have decided to live with his beloved and her husband. This seems stupid.

In the work of Alexander Kuprin “Garnet Bracelet” there is also a worthy example. How unrequitedly and madly Zheltkov loved the prince’s wife. And how did it all end? The man kept his warmest feelings for the woman for a long time, and once sent her a birthday gift - a garnet bracelet. The faithful wife, of course, told everything to her husband, and he, in turn, urgently asked the unrequited lover to take the gift and stop writing letters. The price of love for Zheltkov was his own life. Reckless actions destroy, and this example clearly shows us this.

In Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina, the main character gives up everything and leaves home in order to be with her beloved. The woman understands that there is no turning back and she will no longer be able to see her son, but she still follows her feelings. How did it end in Anna's case? She couldn’t decide what was more important to her: passion or her own child. Another death in the name of love.

I guess reason and love are always fighting each other. But it is worth noting that the voice of reason is not always right. Many great deeds were accomplished because of such a strong feeling as love.

So is love reasonable? Is there a place for reason when a person is in love?

Rather, “love” and “reason” do not go well together. In times of blind or even crazy love, we rarely think about the consequences and are ready to do anything for our loved one to make him happy. When a person loves, then love destroys all common sense.

Option 4

You and I all experience an incredible variety of feelings. It could be anger burning from within or all-consuming hatred. It could be relationship-damaging jealousy or stupid envy. We can be visited by joy, despondency, fear. But the greatest imprint on our soul can be left only by the most beautiful of all feelings - love.

Perhaps you can’t count all those songs and ballads, fairy tales, incredible stories and tales written and dedicated to only one single love. Love lives on our lips, in our hearts and souls, but what is love? Countless people have asked this question, and most likely you have asked it too. This word means a lot to each of us, but also everyone understands it differently. Someone longs for it, and someone desperately runs away from its influence, one denies it, while the other tirelessly dreams of it. One way or another, albeit unconsciously, we are all looking for her and dreaming of meeting her on our long journey of life.

Not everyone can understand love, not everyone can understand what it really is. It would seem that everything is simple! Love is a feeling that one person experiences for another. But is it really that simple? Is love really limited to relationships? Mutual understanding, care, patience, respect and devotion - this is the best thing that can be in life, this is what follows from love, but is this feeling really limited to this?

Love is immense. Emotions, actions and consequences that are explained by love are inexplicable and sometimes simply incomprehensible to anyone. Love is in the air, love can be found at every step, in every word, love surrounds us, although it is not so easy to notice. A drawing drawn by a child for his beloved mother is love. Cooking dinner for your family after a hard day is love. A lullaby before bed, a gentle “good morning” or a grumpy “put on your hat” - all this is love!

Only this incredible feeling can apply to almost everything. Not just to family, significant other or friends. Love for the business to which you have dedicated or want to devote your life. Love of music or aromatic coffee. Love for long sunsets and sunrises. Love for a sometimes difficult, but full of incredible joys of life. But life without love is impossible. Only she fills her with happiness and real meaning. A person without love is an unremarkable organism. Inside a loving person lies a whole world.

Arthur Gray, one of the main characters of the story “Scarlet Sails”, was born and grew up in a beautiful house, in a noble family. The only beloved son from infancy was surrounded by the love and attention of caring parents

(1) A model of an atom with a silvery nucleus and electrons fixed in wire orbits stood on a rickety shelf, supported by Zinochka Kryuchkova, a very small and very proud girl with a sharp face. (2) Around him, against the background of glass cabinets, diagrams and tables of the physics room, a stormy life was in full swing.

- (3) Well, no one will help you hammer in a nail? – Galya Vishnyakova, the most beautiful girl in the school, was indignant. (4) She and Zinochka could not cope with the shelf. - (5) Boys, I’ve already broken off all my fingers.

(6) Lyosha would hammer this nail very cleverly. (7) Not a great feat, but still it would have been somehow easier: universal recognition could have saved him from the bitter feeling of loneliness. (8) But as soon as he approached the girls, Gali again developed a desire for independence. (9) She was clearly expecting something different. (10) And she waited. (11) The hammer was intercepted by a slender giantin training pants - Vakhtang.

(12) Zinochka felt sorry for Lyosha.

- (13) Let this guy beat him, - to console Lyosha, Zinochkanodded dismissively at Vakhtang - he is taller.

(14) Lyosha sadly watched as Vakhtang, having made several“warm-up” movements, hit the hammer past the nail and jumped, blowing onbruised fingers. (15) Forgetting about Lyosha, the girls laughed benevolently: Vakhtang was forgiven everything.

(16) Lyosha walked away from them with a contemptuous gesture: “This shelf of yours is up to my waist.” (17) But the gesture did not help: the bitter feeling did not go away.

(18) And suddenly, in a ray of light falling from the window, Lyosha saw a new girl. (19) From an inconspicuous girl, she has now turned into the most noticeable. (20) With glasses, chocolate brown from a southern tan, the girl is so
smiled at him so that he even looked around.

(21) But no one else for whom this smile could be intended,there was no one nearby.

- (22) Is your name Lesha? – the girl asked, and Lyosha realized that she had been watching him for a long time.

(23) Lyosha did not answer immediately, because in such cases, as is known,the invisible conductor gives a sign to the invisible violins to join the soundingThe orchestra is not easy for someone who is not used to it.

“(24) I remember,” Lyosha said carefully and, it seems, did not spoil anything.

- (25) Because I’m just reading about Clero, and his name was Alexis.

“(26) And you are Zhenya Karetnikova, from Krasnodar,” answered Lyosha, fearing that the conversation might get stuck on the unknown Alexis.

“(27) I remember,” said Zhenya.

(28) Gradually Lyosha realized that the orchestra was performing not sodifficult melody, that some liberties are possible in it and that he, Lyosha,also quite on the level.

- (29) Why do you always look out the window during lessons? – Zhenya asked and went up to Lesha’s window. - (30) What did you see there?

(31) Lyosha stood next to Zhenya.

(32) From the window they could see the large open pavilion “Fruits and Vegetables”, located on the other side of the street. (33) Nearby, a glass telephone booth reflected the dazzling blue of the autumn sky.

– (34) Do you have to listen to what the teachers say in class? – Lyosha asked with irony, which he had never been able to demonstrate in front of any girl.

- (35) If you haven’t come up with something new instead of: “I taught, but forgot.”

(36) Lyosha laughed.

“(37) These words must be carved in marble,” he said.

“(38) You can... at my table... (39) I’m also sitting alone,” Zhenya suggested.

(According to M.G. Lvovsky)** Lvovsky Mikhail Grigorievich (1919–1994) – Russian Soviet songwriter, playwright, screenwriter.

Finished essay 9.3 “What is LOVE”:

What is love? Love is one of the most beautiful feelings a person can experience. Love is a feeling of deep affection and aspiration for another person or object. Love ennobles and evokes admiration for the world around us. Every person wants to love and be loved.

In the text by M. G. Lvovsky we see the emergence of a feeling of love between the boy Lyoshka and the girl Zhenya. In sentences 23-24, at first the boy does not immediately answer the girl’s question, and then gives the wrong answer altogether; what is important to him is that she remembers his name. His wife also likes Leshka, she smiles at him, enters into dialogue with him, and then invites him to sit at the same desk. This is where the wonderful feeling of love is born.

A person cannot do without love in life. I would like to give an example of true, sincere love from W. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. In it, the heroes were ready to do any act, make any sacrifice, just to be together. It was impossible for them to live in the world without their loved one, which is why the play has such a tragic ending. We can only admire the power of their love.

So, love is the most wonderful feeling that can inspire, inspire, bring joy and happiness to a person.