A.Kuprin "Garnet bracelet", or Love that passed by

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Love. It was the strength of this feeling that Alexander Kuprin put in first place in his work. "Garnet Bracelet" introduces the reader to a successful woman, Princess Vera. She is faithful and devoted to her husband, but the feeling of love for him has already been lost. Once, two years before her marriage, an ordinary official with a noble heart wrote letters to her and declared his love. But she rejected him. She understands that the feelings of this man are the kind of love that all women dream of. But she doesn't want to think about it. The author presents us with love as the rarest gift.

Which one shows us Princess Vera A. Kuprin? "Garnet Bracelet" describes a fading lady. It resembles a monotonous autumn, dormant nature. In such a slumber, her whole family exists. Relationships are very strong here, but there are no feelings. Therefore, the young woman stopped striving for love, she avoids feelings, therefore, according to her status, she became “kindly condescending” and “cold with everyone.”

Zheltkov, who loves her, never loses sight of her. He can't deal with these changes.in the woman you love. Her regal calmness and strict simplicity hide in her constant concern for the future and the expectation of something fatal. She is haunted by evil thoughts. And now a young man in love brings a gift on her angel's day. In a cover letter, he writes that thanks to this trinket, Vera will have the gift of foresight, and bad thoughts will stop haunting her. This item belonged to his great-grandmother. According to legend, she saved the men of his family from violent death. This means that the donor deprives himself of this magical protection and gives away the family heirloom for the sake of the happiness of his beloved.

A gift from a man in love and the name of the story was invented by Kuprin himself - "Garnet Bracelet". The summary of the plot cannot convey the full depth of the drama of this story. His events unfold slowly. First, the chores associated with the preparation of a dinner dedicated to the birthday girl, the reception of honorable guests are described. The prince presents his wife with pearl earrings. They are precious. Pearls are a symbol of spiritual purity. Pomegranate is a symbol not only of love, but also of blood. Symbol of fatal love.

Where did Kuprin get the plot for this story from? "Garnet Bracelet" was written based on the true story of a telegraph operator who was hopelessly in love with the wife of the governor of one of the Russian provinces. True, in a real story, he gave his beloved an inexpensive gilded chain, the pendant from which was turned into a garnet by the author, which has a more dramatic and subtle meaning. This was highly appreciated by the public when Kuprin first published "Garnet Bracelet".

The author does not make comparisons between the amazing experiences of a man in love and does not ex alt his image above other heroes. He presents Prince Shein as a conscientious person, his wife Vera as a pure, amazing woman, but he puts their environment of communication lower, because it is entirely domestic. Her love is lost. And this becomes clear to everyone when they meet a truly loving person.

It makes no sense to convey the content of the tragic events, the nobility of a loving soul and the text of the letter written by A. Kuprin. The Garnet Bracelet is a must read and reread in person.