1. Mind and feeling

2. Mind and feeling

Everyone in their life is faced with the choice of how to act: in accordance with the mind or succumb to the influence of feelings. And the mind and feelings are an integral part of a person. If you completely surrender to feelings, you can spend a lot of time and effort on unreasonable experiences and make many mistakes, which in turn cannot always be corrected. Following only reason, people can lose their humanity, become callous and indifferent to others. Such people cannot rejoice in simple things, enjoy their good deeds. Therefore, in my opinion, the goal of every person is to find harmony between the dictates of the senses and the promptings of the mind.

In support of my position, I want to give an example of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace". One of the main characters is Prince Bolkonsky. For a long time, he tries to be like Napoleon. This character, surrendered without a trace to the mind, because of which he did not allow feelings to break into his life, so he no longer paid attention to his family, but only thought about how to commit a heroic deed, but when he gets injured during the war, he becomes disillusioned with Napoleon, who defeated the Allied army. The prince realizes that all his dreams of glory are useless. At that moment, he allows feelings to penetrate his life, thanks to which he realizes how dear his family is to him, how he loves her and cannot live without her. Returning from the battle of Austerlitz, he finds his wife already dead, who died during childbirth. At this moment, he realizes that the time he spent on his career is irretrievably gone, regrets that he did not show his feelings earlier and completely abandons his desires.

As another argument, I want to cite as an example the work of I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The main character, Evgeny Bazarov, devoted his life to science. He devoted himself without a trace to the mind, believing that love and feelings are a waste of time. Because of his position in life, he feels like a stranger and older to Kirsanov and his parents. Although deep down he loves them, his presence only brings them grief. Yevgeny Bazarov was dismissive of others, does not allow feelings to break through, dies from a trifling scratch. Being near death, the hero allows feelings to open up, after that he approaches his parents and, albeit not for long, finds peace of mind.

Thus, the main task of a person is to find harmony between reason and feeling. Anyone who listens to the promptings of the mind and at the same time does not deny feelings gets the opportunity to live a full life, full of bright colors and emotions.

3. Mind and feeling

Probably everyone in their life faced with a difficult choice of how to act: in accordance with the mind or succumb to the influence of feelings. And the mind and feelings are an integral part of a person. I believe that in the life of every person there should be harmony. Surrendering to feelings without a trace, we can make many mistakes, which in turn cannot always be corrected. Following only reason, people can gradually lose their humanity. That is, to enjoy simple things, to enjoy your good deeds. Therefore, in my opinion, the goal of every person is to find harmony between the dictates of the senses and the promptings of the mind.

In support of my position, I want to give an example of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace". One of the main characters is Prince Balkonsky. For a long time, he tried to be like Napoleon. This character surrendered without a trace to the mind, which is why he did not allow feelings to break into his life. Because of this, he no longer paid attention to his family, but only thought about how to accomplish a heroic deed, but when he gets injured during the fighting, he is disappointed in Napoleon, who defeated the Allied army. He realizes that all his dreams of glory were insignificant and useless in his life. And at that moment, he allows feelings to penetrate his life, thanks to which he realizes how dear his family is to him, how he loves them and cannot live without them. Returning home from the battle of Austerlitz, he finds his wife already dead, who died during childbirth. At this moment, he realizes the time he spent on his career is irretrievably gone, regrets that he did not show his feelings before and completely abandons his desires.

As another argument, I want to cite as an example the work of I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The main character, Evgeny Bazarov, devoted his life to science. He devoted himself without a trace to the mind, believing that love and feelings are a waste of time. Because of his position in life, he feels like a stranger and older to Kirsanov and to his parents, in the depths of his soul he loves them, but with his presence brings them only grief. Yevgeny Bazarov was dismissive of others, did not let his feelings break through, and dies from a trifling scratch. But being near death, he allows his feelings to open up, after that he approaches his parents and finds peace of mind.

The main task of a person is to find harmony between reason and feeling. Everyone who listens to the promptings of the mind and at the same time does not deny feelings, gets the opportunity to live a full life.

4. Mind and feeling

Probably, every person at least once in his life faced a choice: to act based on rational judgments and logic, or to succumb to the influence of feelings and act as the heart tells. I think that in this situation, you need to make a decision based on both reason and feeling. That is, it is important to find a balance. Because if a person will rely only on reason, he will lose his humanity, and the whole meaning of life will be reduced to achieving goals. And if he is guided only by feelings, he can make not only stupid and thoughtless decisions, but also become a kind of animal, and it is precisely the presence of intelligence that distinguishes us from him.

The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view. For example, in the epic novel by L.N. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" Natasha Rostova, guided by feelings, almost made a big mistake in her life. A young girl who met Mr. Kuragin in the theater was so impressed by his courtesy and manners that she forgot about her mind, completely surrendering herself to impressions. And Anatole, taking advantage of this situation, pursuing his selfish motives, wanted to steal the girl from the house, thereby ruining her reputation. But due to a combination of circumstances, his evil intent was not put into practice. This episode of the work is a vivid example of what rash decisions can lead to.

In the work of I.S. Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons", the main character, on the contrary, rejects any manifestations of feelings and is a nihilist. According to Bazarov, the only thing a person should be guided by when making a decision is reason. Therefore, even when at one of the receptions he met the charming, moreover, intellectually developed Anna Odintsova, Bazarov refused to admit that she interested him and even liked him. But still, Eugene continued to communicate with her after, because he liked her company. After some time, he even confessed his feelings to her. But remembering his life views, he decides to stop communicating with her. That is, in order to remain true to his convictions, Bazarov loses true happiness. This work makes the reader realize how important the balance between feelings and reason is.

Thus, the conclusion suggests itself: every time a person makes a decision, he is guided by reason and feeling. But, unfortunately, he cannot always find a balance between them, in which case his life becomes inferior.

5. Mind and feeling

Each person throughout his life makes decisions, guided by the mind or feelings. I believe that if you rely only on feelings, then you can make stupid and rash decisions that will lead to negative consequences. And if you are guided only by reason, then the whole meaning of life will be reduced only to achieving your goals. This will lead to the fact that a person can become callous. Therefore, it is very important to try to find harmony between these two manifestations of the human personality.

The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view. So in the work of N. M. Karamzin “Poor Lisa”, the main character faces a choice: mind or feelings. A young peasant woman, Liza, fell in love with the nobleman Erast. This feeling was new to her. At first, she sincerely did not understand how such an intelligent person could turn his attention to her, so she tried to keep her distance. As a result, she could not resist the surging feelings and gave herself entirely to them, without thinking about the consequences. At first, their hearts were full of love, but after a while there comes a moment of oversaturation, and their feelings fade. Erast becomes cold towards her and leaves her. And Lisa, unable to cope with the pain and resentment from the betrayal of her beloved, decides to commit suicide. This work is a prime example of what rash decisions can lead to.

In the work of I.S. Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons", the main character, on the contrary, rejects any manifestations of feelings and is a nihilist. Evgeny Bazarov makes decisions, relying only on reason. This is his position throughout his life. Bazarov does not believe in love, so he was extremely surprised that Odintsova could attract his attention. They began to spend a lot of time together. He was pleased with her company, because she is charming and educated, they have many common interests. Over time, Bazarov began to surrender more and more to feelings, but he realized that he could not afford to contradict his life convictions. Because of this, Eugene stopped communicating with her, thus he could not know the true happiness of life - love.

Thus, the conclusion suggests itself: if a person does not know how to make decisions, guided by both reason and feeling, then his life is inferior. After all, these are two components of our inner world that complement each other. Therefore, they are incredibly powerful together and insignificant without each other.

6. Mind and feeling

Reason and feelings are two forces that equally need each other, they are dead and insignificant without each other. I fully agree with this statement. Indeed, both reason and feelings are two components that are an integral part of every person. Although they perform different functions, the connection between them is very strong.

In my opinion, both reason and feelings are part of the personality of every person. They must be in balance. Only in this case, people will be able not only to objectively look at the world, to protect themselves from stupid mistakes, but also to know such feelings as love, friendship and sincere kindness. If people trust only their mind, then they lose their humanity, without which their life will not be full and will turn into a banal achievement of goals. If you follow only sensual impulses and do not control emotions, then the life of such a person will be filled with ridiculous experiences and reckless actions.

In support of my words, I will cite as an example the work of I.S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”. The main character, Evgeny Bazarov, relied only on reason all his life. He considered him the main adviser in the choice of solutions to certain problems. In his life, Eugene never succumbed to feelings. Bazarov sincerely believed that it was possible to live a happy and meaningful life, relying only on the laws of logic. However, at the end of his life, he realized the importance of feelings. Thus, Bazarov, due to his wrong approach, lived an inferior life: he did not have true friendship, did not let his soul in the only love, could not experience peace of mind or spiritual solitude with anyone.

In addition, I will cite as an example the work of I.A. Kuprin "Garnet bracelet". The main character, Zheltkov, is so blinded by his feelings. His mind is clouded, he completely succumbed to feelings, and as a result, love leads Zheltkov to death. He believes that this is his destiny - to love madly, but unrequitedly, that it is impossible to escape from fate. Since the meaning of Zheltkov's life was in Vera, after she rejected the attention of the protagonist, he lost his desire to live. Being under the influence of feelings, he could not use his mind and see a different way out of this situation.

Thus, the importance of reason and feelings cannot be overestimated. They are an inseparable part of each and the predominance of one of them can lead a person down the wrong path. People who rely on one of these forces, as a result, must reconsider their life guidelines, since the longer they go to extremes, the more negative consequences their actions can lead to.

7. Mind and feeling

Feelings play a big role in the life of every person. They help us feel all the beauty and charm of our world. But is it always possible to completely surrender to feelings?

In my opinion, surrendering without a trace to sensual impulses, we can spend a huge amount of time and energy on unreasonable experiences, make many mistakes, not each of which can be corrected later. Reason also allows you to choose the most successful path to achieve your goals, make fewer mistakes on the path of life. But doing things, guided solely by logic and rational judgments, we risk losing our humanity, therefore it is very important that both components are always in harmony, because if one of them begins to prevail, a person’s life becomes inferior.

In support of my position, I want to cite as an example the work of I. S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”. One of the main characters is Yevgeny Bazarov, a man who has been guided by reason all his life, trying to completely ignore his feelings. Due to his life approach and overly rational point of view, he cannot get close to anyone, as he is looking for a logical explanation in everything. Bazarov is convinced that a person should bring specific benefits, like chemistry or mathematics. The hero sincerely believes: "A decent chemist is 20 times more useful than any poet." The area of ​​feelings, art, religion do not exist for Bazaars. In his opinion, these are inventions of aristocrats. But over time, Eugene is disillusioned with his life principles when he meets Anna Odintsova - his true love. Realizing that not all of his feelings are controllable and that the ideology of his whole life may be about to crumble to dust, the protagonist leaves for his parents to plunge into work and recover from the unfamiliar emotions experienced by him. Further, Eugene, having made an unsuccessful experiment, becomes infected with a deadly disease and soon dies. Thus, the main character lived an empty life. He rejected the only love, did not know true friendship.

An important figure in this work is Arkady Kirsanov, a friend of Evgeny Bazarov. Despite the strong pressure from his friend, Arkady's desire for logical explanations of his actions, the desire for a rational understanding of everything that surrounds him, the hero did not exclude feelings from his life. Arkady always treated his father with love and tenderness, defended his uncle from the attacks of his comrade, the nihilist. Kirsanov Jr. tried to see the good in everyone. Having met Ekaterina Odintsova on his life path and realizing that he fell in love with her, Arkady immediately reconciled with the hopelessness of his feelings. It is thanks to the harmony between reason and feeling that he gets along with the life around him, finds his family happiness and prospers in his estate.

Thus, if a person is guided solely by reason or feelings, his life becomes inferior and meaningless. After all, mind and feelings are two integral components of human consciousness that complement each other and help us achieve our goals without losing humanity and without depriving ourselves of important life values ​​and emotions.

8. Mind and feeling

Each person throughout his life faces a choice of what to do: trust his own mind or surrender to feelings and emotions.

Relying on our own mind, we reach our goal much faster, but suppressing feelings, we lose humanity, change our attitude towards others. But surrendering without a trace to feelings, we run the risk of making many mistakes, not each of which can later be corrected.

There are many examples in world literature that confirm my opinion. I.S. Turgenev in the novel "Fathers and Sons" shows us the main character - Evgeny Bazarov, a man whose life is built on the denial of all possible principles. Bazarov is trying to find a logical explanation for everything, while considering any manifestations of feelings as nonsense. When Anna Sergeevna appears in his life - the only woman who could make a big impression on him, and with whom he fell in love, Bazarov realizes that not all feelings are subject to him and that his theory is about to crumble. He cannot stand all this, cannot come to terms with the fact that he is an ordinary person with his weaknesses, which is why he leaves for his parents, closes himself in himself and completely devotes himself to work. Because of his wrong priorities, Bazarov lived an empty and meaningless life. He did not know true friendship, true love, and even facing his death, there was too little time left to make up for what he had lost.

As a second argument, I want to cite as an example Arkady, a friend of Yevgeny Bazarov, who is his complete opposite. Arkady lives in complete harmony between reason and feelings, which does not allow him to commit rash acts, but at the same time he respects old traditions, allows feelings to be present in his life. Humanity is not alien to him, because he is open, kind to others. He imitates Bazarov in many ways, this will cause a conflict with his father. But having rethought a lot, Arkady begins to look more and more like his father: he is ready to make compromises with life. The main thing for him is not the material basis in life, but spiritual values.

Each person throughout his life chooses what he will become, what is closer to him: mind or feelings. But I believe that a person will live in harmony with himself and with those around him only if he manages to balance the "element of feelings" and "cold mind" in himself.

9. Mind and feeling

Each person in his life faced a choice of what to do: submit to a cold mind or surrender to feelings and emotions. Guided by reason and forgetting about feelings, we quickly achieve our goal, but at the same time we lose humanity, change our attitude towards others. Surrendering to feelings ignoring the mind, we can spend a lot of mental strength in vain. Also, if we do not analyze the results of our actions, we can do a lot of stupid things, not all of which can be corrected.

There are many examples in world fiction that confirm my opinion. I.S. Turgenev in the work "Fathers and Sons" shows us the main character, Evgeny Bazarov - a man whose whole life is built on the denial of all kinds of principles. He is always looking for a logical explanation in everything. But, when a young beautiful woman appears in the life of the hero - Anna Andreeva, who made a strong impression on him, Bazarov realizes that he cannot control his feelings and that he, like ordinary people, has weaknesses. The protagonist tries to suppress the feeling of love in himself and leaves for his parents, completely devoting himself to work. During the autopsy of a typhoid patient, the hero becomes infected with a deadly disease. Only while on his deathbed, Bazarov realized all his mistakes and gained invaluable experience that helped him live the rest of his life in harmony between mind and feelings.

The bright opposite of Evgeny Bazarov is Arkady Kirsanov. He lives in complete harmony between reason and feelings, which prevents him from committing rash acts. But at the same time, Arkady respects ancient traditions, allows feelings to be present in his life. Humanity is not alien to him, because he is open, kind to others. Arkady imitates Bazarov in many ways, and this is the main reason for the conflict with his father. Over time, rethinking everything, Arkady begins to look more and more like his father: he is ready to make compromises with life. The main thing for him are spiritual values.

Thus, every person throughout his life should try to find harmony between the “element of feelings” and the “cold mind”. The longer we suppress one of these components of the human personality, the more internal contradictions we will eventually come to.

1. Experience and mistakes

Probably, the main wealth of each person is experience. It consists of knowledge, skills and abilities that a person acquires over the years. The experiences we receive throughout life can influence the formation of our views and worldview.
In my opinion, it is impossible to gain experience if you do not make mistakes. After all, it is they who give us knowledge that allows us not to commit such wrong actions in the future. A person commits wrong deeds throughout his life, regardless of age. The only difference is that at the beginning of life they are more harmless, but they are committed much more often. A person who has lived for a long time makes fewer and fewer mistakes, as he draws certain conclusions and does not allow the same actions in the future.

In support of my position, I want to cite as an example the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". The protagonist, Pierre Bezukhov, is very different from people who belonged to high society with an unattractive appearance, fullness, and excessive softness. No one took him seriously, and some treated him with disdain. But as soon as Pierre receives an inheritance, he is immediately accepted into high society, he becomes an enviable groom. Having tried the life of a rich person, he realizes that this is not his, that in high society there are no people similar to him, close to him in spirit. Having married Helen, under the influence of Kuragin, and having lived with her for a certain time, the main character realizes that Helen is just a beautiful girl, with an icy heart and a cruel disposition, with whom he cannot find his happiness. After that, he begins to be attracted by the ideology of the Masonic Order, in which equality, brotherhood, and love are preached. The hero develops a belief that there should be a kingdom of goodness and truth in the world, and the happiness of a person lies in striving to achieve them. After living for some time under the laws of brotherhood, the hero realizes that Freemasonry is useless in his life, since Pierre's ideas are not shared by the brothers: following his ideals, Pierre wanted to alleviate the fate of the serfs, build hospitals, shelters and schools for them, but finds no support among other Masons. Pierre also notices hypocrisy, hypocrisy, careerism among the brothers and, in the end, is disappointed in Freemasonry. Time passes, the war begins, and Pierre Bezukhov rushes to the front, although he does not understand military affairs. In the war, he sees how many people suffer at the hands of Napoleon. And he gains a desire to kill Napoleon with his own hands, but he fails, and he is captured. In captivity, Pierre meets Platon Karataev, and this acquaintance plays an important role in his life. He realizes the truth he was looking for: that a person has a right to happiness and should be happy. Pierre Bezukhov sees the true value of life. Soon, Pierre finds long-awaited happiness with Natasha Rostova, who was not only his wife and mother of his children, but also a friend who supported him in everything. Pierre Bezukhov went a long way, made many mistakes, but each of them was not in vain, he learned a lesson from each mistake, thanks to which he found the truth that he had been looking for for so long.

As another argument, I want to cite the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment". The main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, is a romantic, proud and strong personality. A former law student who he left due to poverty. Soon Raskolnikov kills the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta. Because of his act, the hero is experiencing a spiritual upheaval. He feels like a stranger to those around him. The hero has a fever, he is close to suicide. Nevertheless, Raskolnikov helps the Marmeladov family, giving her the last money. The hero seems to be able to live with it. It awakens pride. With the last of his strength, he confronts investigator Porfiry Petrovich. Gradually, the hero begins to realize the value of ordinary life, his pride is crushed, he is ready to come to terms with the fact that he is an ordinary person, with all the weaknesses and shortcomings. Raskolnikov can no longer be silent: he tells Sonya about his crime. He then confesses to everything at the police station. The hero is sentenced to seven years hard labor. Throughout his life, the main character made many mistakes, many of which were terrible and irreversible. The main thing is that Raskolnikov was able to draw the right conclusion from his experience and change himself: he comes to rethink moral values: “Did I kill the old woman? I killed myself." The protagonist realized that pride is sinful, that the laws of life do not obey the laws of arithmetic, and that people should not be judged, but loved, accepting them as God created them.

Thus, mistakes play an important role in everyone's life, they teach us, help us gain experience. You need to learn to learn from your mistakes so as not to make them in the future.

2. Experience and mistakes

What is experience? How is it related to errors? Experience is precious knowledge that a person learns throughout his life. Errors are its main component. However, there are times when, while doing them, he does not always gain experience in the way that he does not analyze them and does not try to understand what he was wrong about.

In my opinion, experience cannot be gained without making mistakes and without analyzing them. Correction of errors is also quite an important process by which a person is fully aware of the essence of the problem.

In support of my words, I will cite as an example the work of A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter". The main character, Aleksey Ivanovich Shvabrin, is a dishonest nobleman who uses any means to achieve his goals. Throughout the work, he commits heinous, vile deeds. Once he was in love with Masha Mironova, but he was refused for his feelings. And, seeing the benevolence with which she meets attention from Grinev, Shvabrin tries in every possible way to denigrate the name of the girl and her family, as a result of which Peter challenges him to a duel. And here Alexei Ivanovich behaves unworthily: he wounds Grinev with a dishonorable blow, but this act did not bring him relief. More than anything, Shvabrin is afraid for his own life, so when the rebellion begins, he immediately goes over to the side of Pugachev. Even after the suppression of the uprising, while in the courtroom, he commits his last mean act. Shvabrin tried to denigrate the name of Pyotr Grinev, but this attempt was also a failure. Throughout his life, Alexei Ivanovich committed many vile deeds, but he did not draw conclusions from one of them and did not change his worldview. As a result, his whole life was empty and full of malice.

In addition, I will cite as an example the work of L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". The main character, Pierre Bezukhov, made many mistakes throughout his life, but they were not empty and each of them contained the knowledge that further helped him live. Bezukhov's main goal was to find his life path. Disappointed in Moscow society, Pierre joins the Masonic order, hoping to find answers to his questions there. To share the thoughts of the order, he tries to improve the situation of the serfs. In this, Pierre sees the meaning of his life. However, seeing careerism and hypocrisy in Freemasonry, he becomes disillusioned and cuts ties with it. Again, Pierre finds himself in a state of melancholy and sadness. The war of 1812 inspires him, he strives to share the hard fate of the country with everyone. And, having gone through the pain of the war, Pierre begins to understand the true logic of life and its laws: “What he had previously sought and not found in Freemasonry was re-opened to him here, in a close marriage.”

Thus, using the knowledge gained in the course of correcting mistakes, a person will eventually find his own way and live a happy and joyful life.

3. Experience and mistakes

Probably, the main wealth of every person can be considered experience. Experience is the unity of skills and knowledge acquired in the process of direct experiences, impressions, observations, practical actions. Experience affects the formation of our consciousness, worldview. Thanks to him, we become who we are. In my opinion, experience cannot be gained without making mistakes. A person commits wrong deeds and actions throughout his life, regardless of age. The only difference is that at the beginning of life, there are much more mistakes and they are more harmless. Often, young people, spurred on by curiosity and emotion, take action quickly without much thought, without realizing the further consequences. Of course, a person who has lived for more than a dozen years does much less wrong deeds, he is more inclined to constantly analyze the environment, his own actions and deeds, can predict possible consequences, so every step of adults is measured, thought out and unhurried. Based on his experience and wisdom, an adult can predict any action a few steps ahead, he sees a much more complete picture of the environment, various hidden dependencies and relationships, and that is why the advice and instructions of elders are so valuable. But no matter how wise and experienced a person is, it is impossible to avoid mistakes at all.

In support of my position, I want to cite as an example the work of I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The main character, Yevgeny Bazarov, did not listen to his elders all his life, he ignored the centuries-old traditions and experience of generations, he believed only what he could personally verify. Because of this, he was in conflict with his parents, and felt like a stranger to those close to him. The result of such a worldview was too late awareness of the true values ​​of human life.
As another argument, I want to cite the work of M.A. Bulgakov “Heart of a Dog” as an example. In this story, Professor Preobrazhensky turns a dog into a man, interferes with the natural course of nature with his act and creates Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov - a man without moral principles. Subsequently, realizing his responsibility, he realizes what a mistake he made. What became for him an invaluable experience.

Thus, we can conclude that mistakes happen in a person's life. Only by overcoming obstacles, we come to the goal. Mistakes teach, help gain experience. You need to learn to learn from your mistakes and avoid them in the future.

4. Experience and mistakes




In support of my position, I want to cite as an example the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". The protagonist, Pierre Bezukhov, is very different from people who belonged to high society with an unattractive appearance, fullness, and excessive softness. No one took him seriously, and some treated him with disdain. But as soon as Pierre receives an inheritance, he is immediately accepted into high society, he becomes an enviable groom. Having tried the life of a rich person, he realizes that this is not his, that in high society there are no people similar to him, close to him in spirit. Having married Helen, under the influence of Kuragin, and having spent time with her, he realizes that Helen is just a beautiful girl, with an icy heart and a cruel disposition, with whom he cannot find his happiness. After that, he begins to listen to the ideas of Freemasonry, believing that this is what he was looking for. In Freemasonry, he is attracted by the ideas of equality, brotherhood, love, the hero develops a belief that there should be a kingdom of goodness and truth in the world, and a person’s happiness lies in striving to achieve them. After living for some time under the laws of brotherhood, the hero realizes that Freemasonry is useless in his life, since his ideas are not shared by the brothers: following his ideals, Pierre wanted to alleviate the fate of the serfs, build hospitals, shelters and schools for them, but does not find support among other Masons. Pierre also notices hypocrisy, hypocrisy, careerism among the brothers and, in the end, is disappointed in Freemasonry. Time passes, the war begins, and Pierre Bezukhov rushes to the front, although he is not a military man and does not understand this. In the war, he sees how many people suffer at the hands of Napoleon. And he gains a desire to kill Napoleon with his own hands, but, unfortunately, he does not succeed and he is captured. In captivity, he meets Platon Karataev and this acquaintance plays an important role in his life path. He realizes the truth he was looking for: that a person has a right to happiness and should be happy. Pierre Bezukhov sees the true value of life. Soon, Pierre finds long-awaited happiness with Natasha Rostova, who was not only his wife and mother of his children, but also a friend who supported him in everything. Pierre Bezukhov went a long way, made many mistakes, but nevertheless came to the truth, which he had to understand, having passed the difficult trials of fate.

Another argument, I want to cite as an example the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment". The main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, is a romantic, proud and strong personality. A former law student who he left due to poverty. After that, Raskolnikov kills the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta. After the murder, Raskolnikov is experiencing a spiritual upheaval. He feels like a stranger to all people. The hero has a fever, he is close to insanity and suicide. Nevertheless, he helps the Marmeladov family, giving her the last money. The hero seems to be able to live with it. It awakens pride and self-confidence. With the last of his strength, he confronts investigator Porfiry Petrovich. Gradually, the hero begins to realize the value of ordinary life, his pride is crushed, he is ready to come to terms with the fact that he is an ordinary person, with all the weaknesses and shortcomings. Raskolnikov can no longer be silent: he confesses his crime to Sonya. After that, he goes to the police station and confesses everything. The hero is sentenced to seven years hard labor. There he realizes the essence of mistakes and gains experience.

Thus, we can conclude that mistakes in human life happen, only overcoming obstacles, we come to the goal. Mistakes teach us, help us gain experience. You need to learn to learn from your mistakes and avoid them in the future.

5. Experience and mistakes

Throughout his life, a person not only develops as a person, but also accumulates experience. Experience is knowledge, skills and abilities that accumulate over time, they help people make the right decisions and find a way out of difficult situations. I believe that experienced people are those people who, having made a mistake, do not repeat it twice. That is, a person becomes wiser and more experienced only when he is able to realize his mistake. Therefore, many mistakes committed by young people are the result of their impulsiveness and inexperience. And adults are much less likely to make mistakes, because they, first of all, analyze the situation and think about the consequences.

The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view. In the work of F. M. Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment", the main character commits a crime in order to test his theory in practice, while not thinking about the consequences. After killing the old woman, Rodion Raskolnikov realizes that his beliefs are wrong, realizes his mistake and feels guilty. In order to somehow get rid of the pangs of conscience, he begins to take care of others. So the main character, walking down the street and seeing a man who was crushed by a horse and who needs help, decides to do a good deed. Namely, he brought the dying Marmeladov home so that he could say goodbye to his relatives. Then Raskolnikov helps the family in organizing the funeral and even gives money to cover expenses. In providing these services, he asks for nothing in return. But, despite his efforts to atone for his guilt, his conscience continues to torment him. Therefore, in the end, he confesses that he killed the pawnbroker, for which he was sent into exile. Thus, this work convinces me that a person accumulates experience by making mistakes.

I also want to cite as an example the tale of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin “The Wise Gudgeon”. Minnow from a young age wanted to succeed in life, but he was afraid of everything and hid in the bottom mud. As the years passed, the minnow continued to tremble with fear and hide from real and imagined danger. In his entire life he did not make friends, did not help anyone, never once stood up for the truth. Therefore, already in old age, the minnow began to be tormented by conscience for the fact that he had existed in vain. Yes, but I realized my mistake too late. Thus, we can conclude: the mistakes that are made by a person give him invaluable experience. Therefore, the older a person is, the more experienced and wiser he is.

6. Experience and mistakes

Throughout his life, a person develops as a person and accumulates experience. Mistakes play a big role in its accumulation. And subsequently acquired knowledge, skills and abilities help people avoid them in the future. Therefore adults are wiser than young people. After all, people who have lived for more than a dozen years are able to analyze the situation, think rationally and think about the consequences. And young people are too quick-tempered and ambitious, not always able to control their behavior and often make rash decisions.

The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view. So in Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov had to make many mistakes and face the consequences of wrong decisions before finding true happiness and the meaning of life. In his youth, he wanted to become a member of Moscow society, and, having received such an opportunity, he took advantage of it. However, he felt uncomfortable in it, so he left it. After that, he married Helen, but could not get along with her, as she turned out to be a hypocrite, and divorced her. Later he became interested in the idea of ​​Freemasonry. Entering it, Pierre was glad that he had finally found his place in life. Unfortunately, he soon realized that this was not the case and left Freemasonry. After that, he went to war, where he met Platon Karataev. It was the new comrade who helped the main character understand what the meaning of life is. Thanks to this, Pierre married Natasha Rostova, became an exemplary family man and found true happiness. This work makes the reader convinced that by making mistakes, a person becomes wiser.

Another striking example is the work of F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment" to the main character, who also had to go through a lot before gaining knowledge and skills. Rodion Raskolnikov, in order to test his theory in practice, kills an old percenter and her sister. Having committed this crime, he realizes the seriousness of the consequences and fears arrest. But, despite this, he is experiencing pangs of conscience. And in order to somehow mitigate his guilt, he begins to take care of others. So, walking in the park, Rodion saves a young girl whose honor they wanted to desecrate. And also helps a stranger who was run over by a horse to get home. But upon the arrival of the doctor, Marmeladov dies from blood loss. Raskolnikov organizes the funeral at his own expense and helps his children. But all this cannot alleviate his torment, and he decides to write a sincere confession. Only this helps him find peace.

Thus, a person throughout his life makes many mistakes, thanks to which he acquires new knowledge, skills and abilities. That is, over time, accumulates invaluable experience. Therefore, adults are wiser and smarter than youth.

7. Experience and mistakes

Probably, the main wealth of every person is experience. It consists of knowledge, skills and abilities that a person acquires over the years. The experiences we get during our lifetime can influence the formation of our views and worldview.

In my opinion, it is impossible to gain experience if you do not make mistakes. After all, it is mistakes that give us knowledge that allows us not to commit such wrong actions and deeds in the future.

In support of my position, I want to cite as an example the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". The main character, Pierre Bezukhov, is very different from people who belonged to high society, unattractive appearance, fullness, excessive softness. No one took him seriously, and some treated him with disdain. But as soon as Pierre receives an inheritance, he is immediately accepted into high society, he becomes an enviable groom. Having tried the life of a rich person, he realizes that it does not suit him, that in high society there are no people like him, close to him in spirit. Having married a secular beauty, Helen, under the influence of Anatole Kuragin, and having lived with her for some time, Pierre realizes that Helen is just a beautiful girl, with an icy heart and a cruel disposition, with whom he cannot find his happiness. After that, the hero begins to listen to the ideas of Freemasonry, believing that this is what he was looking for. In Freemasonry, he is attracted by equality, brotherhood, love. The hero develops a belief that there should be a kingdom of goodness and truth in the world, and the happiness of a person lies in striving to achieve them. After living for some time under the laws of brotherhood, Pierre understands that Freemasonry is useless in his life, since the ideas of the hero are not shared by the brothers: following his ideals, Pierre wanted to alleviate the lot of the serfs, build hospitals, shelters and schools for them, but does not find support among other Masons. Pierre also notices hypocrisy, hypocrisy, careerism among the brothers and, in the end, is disappointed in Freemasonry. Time passes, the war begins, and Pierre Bezukhov rushes to the front, although he is not a military man and does not understand military affairs. In the war, he sees the suffering of a huge number of people, from the army of Napoleon. He has a desire to kill Napoleon with his own hands, but he fails, and he is captured. In captivity, he meets Platon Karataev and this acquaintance plays an important role in his life path. He realizes the truth he has been searching for so long. He understands that a person has the right to happiness and should be happy. Pierre Bezukhov sees the true value of life. Soon, the Hero finds long-awaited happiness with Natasha Rostova, who was not only his wife and mother of his children, but also a friend who supported him in everything. Pierre Bezukhov has come a long way, made many mistakes, but nevertheless came to the truth, which could be found only after passing through the difficult trials of fate.

As another argument, I want to cite the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment". The main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, is a romantic, proud and strong personality. A former law student who he left due to poverty. After completing his studies, Rodion Raskolnikov decides to test his theory and kills an old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta. But, after the murder, Raskolnikov is experiencing a spiritual upheaval. He feels like a stranger to those around him. The hero develops a fever, he is close to suicide. Nevertheless, Raskolnikov helps the Marmeladov family, giving her the last money. It seems to the hero that his good deeds will allow him to alleviate the pangs of conscience. It even awakens pride. But this is not enough. With the last of his strength, he confronts investigator Porfiry Petrovich. Gradually, the hero begins to realize the value of ordinary life, his pride is crushed, he is ready to come to terms with the fact that he is an ordinary person, with his weaknesses and shortcomings. Raskolnikov can no longer be silent: he confesses his crime to his girlfriend, Sonya. It is she who puts him on the right path, and after that, the hero goes to the police station and confesses everything. The hero is sentenced to seven years hard labor. Following Rodion, Sonya, who fell in love with him, goes to hard labor. In hard labor, Raskolnikov is ill for a long time. He painfully experiences his crime, does not want to come to terms with it, does not communicate with anyone. It is Sonechka's love and Raskolnikov's own love for her that resurrects him to a new life. As a result of long wanderings, the hero still understands what mistakes he made and, thanks to the experience gained, realizes the truth and finds peace of mind.

Thus, we can conclude that mistakes happen in people's lives. But, only after passing difficult trials, a person comes to his goal. Mistakes teach us, help us gain experience. You need to learn to learn from your mistakes and avoid them in the future.

8. Experience and mistakes

The one who does nothing is never wrong.I fully agree with this statement. Indeed, making mistakes is inherent in all people and it is possible to avoid them only in case of inaction. A person who stays in one place and does not receive invaluable knowledge that comes with experience excludes the process of self-development.

In my opinion, making mistakes is a process that brings a useful result to a person, that is, provides the knowledge necessary for him to solve life's difficulties. Enriching their experience, people improve each time, thanks to which they do not do wrong things in similar situations. The life of a person who does nothing is dull and dull, because it is not motivated by the task of improving himself, to know the true meaning of his life. As a result, such people waste their precious time on inaction.
In support of my words, I will cite as an example the work of I.A. Goncharov "Oblomov". The main character, Oblomov, leads a passive lifestyle. It is important to note that such inaction is a conscious choice of the hero. The ideal of his life is a calm and peaceful existence in Oblomovka. Inaction and a passive attitude to life devastated a person from the inside, and his life became pale and boring. In his heart, he has long been ready to solve all problems, but the matter does not move beyond desire. Oblomov is afraid to make mistakes, which is why he chooses inaction, which is not the solution to his problem.

In addition, I will cite as an example the work of L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". The main character, Pierre Bezukhov, made many mistakes in his life and, in this regard, received invaluable knowledge, which he used in the future. All these oversights were committed for the sake of knowing your destiny in this world. At the beginning of the work, Pierre wanted to live a happy life with a beautiful young lady, however, having seen her true essence, he was disappointed in her and in the whole of Moscow society. In Freemasonry, he was attracted by the ideas of brotherhood and love. Inspired by the ideology of the order, he decides to improve the life of the peasants, but does not receive approval from his brothers and decides to leave Freemasonry. Only when he went to war, Pierre realized the true meaning of his life. All his mistakes were not made in vain, they showed the hero the right path.

Thus, a mistake is a stepping stone to knowledge and success. It is only necessary to overcome it and not stumble. Our life is a high ladder. And I want to wish that this staircase led only up.

9. Experience and mistakes

Is the saying "Experience is the best teacher" true? After thinking about this question, I came to the conclusion that this judgment is correct. Indeed, throughout his life, a person, making many mistakes and making wrong decisions, draws conclusions and gains new knowledge, skills and abilities. Thanks to this, a person develops as a person.

The literature convinces me of the correctness of this point of view. So the protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace", Pierre Bezukhov, made many mistakes before he found true happiness. In his youth, he dreamed of becoming a member of Moscow society, and soon got such an opportunity. However, he soon left it, because he felt like a stranger there. Later, Pierre met Helen Kuragina, who charmed with her beauty. Not having time to know her inner world, the hero married her. He soon realized that Helen was just a beautiful doll with a cruel hypocritical disposition, and filed for divorce. Despite all his disappointments in life, Pierre continued to believe in true happiness. So, having joined the Masonic society, the hero was glad that he had found the meaning of life. The ideas of brotherhood interested him. However, he quickly noticed the careerism and hypocrisy among the brothers. Among other things, he realized that it was impossible to achieve his goals, so he severed his connection with the order. After some time, the war began, and Bezukhov went to the front, where he met Platon Karataev. The new comrade helped the protagonist understand what true happiness is. Pierre overestimated life values ​​and realized that only his family would make him happy. Having met Natasha Rostova, the hero saw kindness and sincerity in her. He married her and became an exemplary family man. This work makes the reader realize that mistakes play a huge role in gaining experience.

Another striking example is the main character of the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment", Rodion Raskolnikov. In order to test his theory in practice, he killed old money-lender and her sister, without thinking about the consequences. After the deed, his conscience tormented him, and he did not dare to confess to the crime, as he was afraid of exile. And in order to somehow mitigate his guilt, Rodion began to take care of those around him. So, walking in the park, Raskolnikov saved a young girl, whose honor they wanted to desecrate. And also helped a stranger who was run over by a horse to get home. Upon arrival of the doctor, the victim died from blood loss. Rodion organized the funeral at his own expense, and helped the children of the deceased. But nothing could ease his suffering, so the hero decided to write a sincere confession. And only after that Raskolnikov was able to find peace.

Thus, experience is the main wealth that a person accumulates throughout his life and allows him to avoid many mistakes. Therefore, it is impossible to disagree with this statement.

1. Honor and dishonor

In our cruel age it seems that the concepts of honor and dishonor have died. There is no special need to keep girls honored - striptease and viciousness are paid dearly, and money is much more attractive than some kind of ephemeral honor. I recall Knurov from A.N. Ostrovsky’s “Dowry”: “There are boundaries beyond which condemnation does not cross: I can offer you such an enormous content that the most evil critics of someone else’s morality will have to shut up and open their mouths in surprise.”

Sometimes it seems that men have not dreamed for a long time to serve for the good of the Fatherland, to protect their honor and dignity, to defend the Motherland. Probably, literature remains the only evidence of the existence of these concepts.

The most cherished work of A.S. Pushkin begins with the epigraph: “Take care of honor from a young age,” which is part of a Russian proverb. The whole novel "The Captain's Daughter" gives us the best idea of ​​honor and dishonor. The protagonist Petrusha Grinev is a young man, practically a youth (at the time of his departure for the service he was “eighteen” years old, according to his mother), but he is filled with such determination that he is ready to die on the gallows, but not tarnish his honor. And this is not only because his father bequeathed him to serve in this way. Life without honor for a nobleman is the same as death. But his opponent and envious Shvabrin acts quite differently. His decision to go over to the side of Pugachev is determined by fear for his life. He, unlike Grinev, does not want to die. The outcome of the life of each of the characters is natural. Grinev lives a decent, albeit poor, life as a landowner and dies surrounded by his children and grandchildren. And the fate of Alexei Shvabrin is understandable, although Pushkin does not say anything about it, but most likely death or hard labor will cut short this unworthy life of a traitor, a man who has not preserved his honor.

War is a catalyst for the most important human qualities; it shows either courage and courage, or meanness and cowardice. We can find proof of this in V. Bykov's story "Sotnikov". Two heroes are the moral poles of the story. The fisherman is energetic, strong, physically strong, but is he courageous? Having been taken prisoner, under pain of death, he betrays his partisan detachment, betrays its location, weapons, strength - in a word, everything in order to eliminate this center of resistance to the Nazis. But the frail, sickly, frail Sotnikov turns out to be courageous, endures torture, and resolutely ascends the scaffold, not for a second doubting the correctness of his act. He knows that death is not as terrible as remorse from betrayal. At the end of the story, Rybak, who escaped death, tries to hang himself in the toilet, but cannot, because he does not find a suitable tool (the belt was taken from him during his arrest). His death is a matter of time, he is not a completely fallen sinner, and living with such a burden is unbearable.

Years pass, in the historical memory of mankind there are still examples of deeds of honor and conscience. Will they become an example for my contemporaries? I think yes. The heroes who died in Syria, rescuing people in fires, in disasters, prove that there is honor, dignity, and there are bearers of these noble qualities.

2. Honor and dishonor

Each newborn is given a name. Together with the name, a person receives the history of his family, the memory of generations and the idea of ​​honor. Sometimes the name obliges to be worthy of its origin. Sometimes by your actions you have to wash away, correct the negative memory of the family. How not to lose dignity? How to protect yourself in the face of danger? It is very difficult to be prepared for such an ordeal. There are many similar examples in Russian literature.

In the story of Viktor Petrovich Astafyev "Lyudochka" there is a story about the fate of a young girl, yesterday's schoolgirl, who came to the city in search of a better life. Growing up in a family of a hereditary alcoholic, like frozen grass, she has been trying all her life to keep honor, some kind of feminine dignity, trying to work honestly, build relationships with people around her, not offending anyone, pleasing everyone, but keeping her at a distance. And people respect her. Her landlady Gavrilovna respects her for reliability and diligence, respects the wretched Artyomka for strictness and morality, respects her in her own way, but for some reason she is silent about this, her stepfather. Everyone sees her as a person. However, on her way she meets a disgusting type, a criminal and a bastard - Strekach. The person is not important to him, his lust is above all. The betrayal of Artyomka's "friend-boyfriend" turns into a terrible ending for Lyudochka. And the girl with her grief is left alone. For Gavrilovna, this is not a particular problem: “Well, they plucked the plonba, think about it, what a misfortune. This is not a flaw, but now they take any marriage, ugh, now for these things ...”

The mother generally pulls away and pretends that nothing happened: an adult, they say, let her get out herself. Artyomka and "friends" call to spend time together. But Lyudochka does not want to live like this, with a soiled, trampled honor. Seeing no way out of this situation, she decides not to live at all. In her last note, she asks for forgiveness: "Gavrilovna! Mom! Stepfather! What's your name, I didn't ask. Good people, I'm sorry!"

The very fact that Gavrilovna, and not her mother, is in the first place here, testifies to many things. And the worst thing is that no one cares about this unfortunate soul. In the whole world - no one ...

In the epic novel "Quiet Flows the Don" by Sholokhov, each heroine has her own idea of ​​honor. Daria Melekhova lives only in the flesh, the author says little about her soul, and the characters in the novel do not perceive Daria at all without this base beginning. Her adventures both during the life of her husband and after his death show that honor does not exist for her at all, she is ready to seduce her own father-in-law, just to satisfy her desire. It is a pity for her, because a person who has lived his life so mediocrely and vulgarly, who has not left any good memory of himself, is insignificant. Daria has remained the embodiment of a base, lustful, dishonest female inside.

Honor is important to every person in our world. But especially women's, girlish honor remains a hallmark and always attracts special attention. And let them say that in our time morality is an empty phrase, that “they will marry anyone” (according to Gavrilovna), it is important - who you are for yourself, and not for those around you. Therefore, the opinions of immature and narrow-minded people are not taken into account. For everyone, honor has been and will be in the first place.

3. Honor and dishonor

Why is honor compared to clothing? “Take care of your dress again,” a Russian proverb demands. And then: ".. and honor from a young age." And the ancient Roman writer and poet, philosopher, author of the famous novel "Metamorphoses" (A.S. Pushkin wrote about him in the novel "Eugene Onegin") claims: "Shame and honor are like a dress: the more shabby, the more careless you treat them" . Clothing is external, and honor is a deep, moral, internal concept. What common? They are greeted by clothes ... How often behind the external gloss we see a fiction, and not a person. It turns out that the proverb is true.

In N.S. Leskov’s story “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”, the main character Katerina Izmailova is a young beautiful merchant’s wife. She got married "... not for love or any attraction, but because Izmailov was courting her, and she was a poor girl, and she did not have to sort out suitors." Life in marriage was torment for her. She, not being a woman gifted with any talents, even faith in God, spent her time empty, loitering around the house and not knowing what to do with her idle existence. The impudent and desperate Seryozha, who suddenly turned up, completely captured her mind. Having surrendered to his power, she lost all moral guidelines. The murder of the father-in-law, and then the husband, became something ordinary, unpretentious, like a cotton dress, shabby and out of use, fit only for a doormat. So it is with feelings. They turned out to be rags. Honor is nothing compared to the passion that possessed her completely. Finally dishonored, abandoned by Sergei, she decides on the most terrible act: suicide, but in such a way as to take away from life the one that her former lover found to replace. And they were both swallowed up by the terrible icy haze of the winter freezing river. Katerina Izmailova remained a symbol of stupid immoral dishonor.

Katerina Kabanova, the main character in A.N. Ostrovsky's drama The Thunderstorm, treats her honor in a completely different way. Her love is a tragic feeling, not vulgar. She resists her thirst for true love until the last second. Her choice is not much better than Izmailova's. Boris is not Sergei. He is too soft-spoken, indecisive. He cannot even seduce the young woman he loves. In fact, she did everything herself, because she also loved a handsome, non-locally dressed young man who spoke differently from the capital. Barbara pushed her to this act. For Katerina, her step towards love is not a dishonor, no. She makes a choice in favor of love, because she considers this feeling sanctified by God. Having given herself to Boris, she did not think of returning to her husband, because it was a dishonor for her. Life with an unloved person would be a dishonor to her. Having lost everything: love, protection, support, Katerina decides to take the last step. She chooses death as deliverance from sinful living next to the vulgar, sanctimonious philistines of the city of Kalinov, whose customs and principles never became her family.

Honor must be preserved. Honor is your name, and the name is your status in society. There is a status - a worthy person - happiness smiles at you every morning. But there is no honor - life is dark and dirty, like a dark cloudy night. Take care of honor from a young age ... Take care!

1. Victory and defeat

Probably, there are no people in the world who would not dream of victory. Every day we win small victories or suffer defeats. In an effort to succeed over yourself and your weaknesses, getting up in the morning thirty minutes earlier, doing sports, preparing lessons that are poorly given. Sometimes such victories become a step towards success, towards self-affirmation. But this is not always the case. Seeming victory turns into defeat, and defeat, in fact, is a victory.

In Woe from Wit, the protagonist A.A. Chatsky, after a three-year absence, returns to the society in which he grew up. Everything is familiar to him, he has a categorical judgment about every representative of secular society. “Houses are new, but prejudices are old,” concludes a young, ardent man about the renewed Moscow. The Famus society adheres to the strict rules of Catherine’s time: “honor by father and son”, “be poor, but if there are two thousand family souls, that is the groom”, “the door is open for invited and uninvited, especially from foreigners”, “not that so that novelties are introduced - never", "judges of everything, everywhere, there are no judges over them."

And only subservience, servility, hypocrisy rule over the minds and hearts of the "chosen" representatives of the top of the noble class. Chatsky with his views is out of place. In his opinion, “ranks are given by people, but people can be deceived”, it is low to seek patronage from those in power, it is necessary to achieve success with the mind, and not with servility. Famusov, barely hearing his reasoning, plugs his ears, shouting: "... on trial!" He considers young Chatsky a revolutionary, a "carbonari", a dangerous person, and when Skalozub appears, he asks not to express his thoughts aloud. And when the young man nevertheless begins to express his views, he quickly leaves, not wanting to be responsible for his judgments. However, the colonel turns out to be a narrow-minded person and catches only arguments about uniforms. In general, few people understand Chatsky at Famusov's ball: the owner himself, Sofia and Molchalin. But each of them makes their own verdict. Famusov would forbid such people to drive up to the capital for a shot, Sofya says that he is “not a man - a snake”, and Molchalin decides that Chatsky is just a loser. The final verdict of the Moscow world is madness! At the climax, when the hero delivers his keynote speech, no one in the audience listens to him. You can say that Chatsky is defeated, but it's not! I.A. Goncharov believes that the comedy hero is the winner, and one cannot but agree with him. The appearance of this man shook up the stagnant Famus society, destroyed Sophia's illusions, and shook Molchalin's position.

In I.S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”, two opponents collide in a heated argument: a representative of the younger generation, the nihilist Bazarov, and nobleman P.P. Kirsanov. One lived an idle life, spent the lion's share of the allotted time in love with a famous beauty, a socialite - Princess R. But, despite this lifestyle, he gained experience, experienced, probably, the most important feeling that overtook him, washed away everything superficial, knocked down arrogance and self-confidence. This feeling is love. Bazarov boldly judges everything, considering himself a "self-broken", a person who made his name only with his own work, mind. In a dispute with Kirsanov, he is categorical, harsh, but observes external decency, but Pavel Petrovich cannot stand it and breaks down, indirectly calling Bazarov a “dumbass”: “... before they were just idiots, but now they suddenly became nihilists.”

Bazarov's external victory in this dispute, then in a duel, turns out to be a defeat in the main confrontation. Having met his first and only love, the young man is not able to survive the defeat, he does not want to admit the collapse, but he cannot do anything. Without love, without sweet eyes, such desired hands and lips, life is not needed. He becomes distracted, cannot concentrate, and no denial helps him in this confrontation. Yes, it seems that Bazarov won, because he is so stoically going to death, silently fighting the disease, but in fact he lost, because he lost everything for which it was worth living and creating.

Courage and determination in any struggle are essential. But sometimes you have to reject self-confidence, look around, re-read the classics, so as not to make a mistake in the right choice. After all, this is your life. And when defeating someone, think about whether this is a victory!

2. Victory and defeat

Victory is always welcome. We wait for victory from early childhood, playing catch-up or board games. Whatever the cost, we need to win. And the one who wins feels like the king of the situation. And someone is a loser, because he doesn’t run so fast or just the wrong chips fell out. Is it really necessary to win? Who can be considered the winner? Is victory always an indicator of true superiority.

In Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's comedy The Cherry Orchard, the center of the conflict is the confrontation between the old and the new. The noble society, brought up on the ideals of the past, has stopped in its development, accustomed to getting everything without much difficulty, by right of birth, Ranevskaya and Gaev are helpless in the face of the need for action. They are paralyzed, unable to make decisions, to move. Their world is collapsing, flying into hell, and they are building rainbow-colored projectors, starting an unnecessary holiday in the house on the day the estate is auctioned. And then Lopakhin appears - a former serf, and now - the owner of a cherry orchard. Victory intoxicated him. At first he tries to hide his joy, but soon the triumph overwhelms him and, no longer embarrassed, he laughs and literally shouts: “My God, Lord, my cherry orchard! Tell me that I am drunk, out of my mind, that all this seems to me ... "

Of course, the slavery of his grandfather and father may justify his behavior, but in the face, according to him, of his beloved Ranevskaya, this looks at least tactless. And then it is already difficult to stop him, like a real master of life, the winner demands: “Hey, musicians, play, I want to listen to you! Everyone come and watch how Yermolai Lopakhin will hit the cherry orchard with an ax, how the trees will fall to the ground!”

Maybe, from the point of view of progress, Lopakhin's victory is a step forward, but somehow it becomes sad after such victories. The garden is cut down without waiting for the departure of the former owners, Firs is forgotten in the boarded-up house... Does such a play have a morning?

In the story of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" the focus is on the fate of a young man who dared to fall in love with a woman not of his circle. G.S.Zh. long and devotedly loves Princess Vera. His gift - a garnet bracelet - immediately attracted the attention of a woman, because the stones suddenly lit up like “charming deep red live fires. "Just like blood!" Vera thought with unexpected anxiety. Unequal relationships are always fraught with serious consequences. Anxious forebodings did not deceive the princess. The need at all costs to put in place the presumptuous villain arises not so much for the husband as for Vera's brother. Appearing in the face of Zheltkov, representatives of high society a priori behave like winners. Zheltkov’s behavior strengthens them in his confidence: “his trembling hands ran around, fiddling with buttons, pinching his blond reddish mustache, touching his face needlessly.” The poor telegraph operator is crushed, confused, feels guilty. But as soon as Nikolai Nikolaevich recalls the authorities, to whom the defenders of the honor of his wife and sister wanted to turn, Zheltkov suddenly changes. No one has power over him, over his feelings, except for the object of adoration. No power can forbid to love a woman. And to suffer for the sake of love, to give one's life for it - this is the true victory of the great feeling that G.S.Zh. was lucky to experience. He leaves silently and confidently. His letter to Vera is a hymn to a great feeling, a triumphant song of Love! His death is his victory over the petty prejudices of pitiful nobles who feel themselves masters of life.

Victory, as it turns out, can be more dangerous and more disgusting than defeat if it violates eternal values ​​and distorts the moral foundations of life.

3. Victory and defeat

Publilius Sir - a Roman poet, a contemporary of Caesar, believed that the most glorious victory is a victory over oneself. It seems to me that every thinking person who has reached the age of majority should win at least one victory over himself, over his shortcomings. Perhaps it is laziness, fear or envy. But what is victory over oneself in peacetime? So petty struggle with personal flaws. And here is the victory in the war! When it comes to life and death, when everything around you becomes an enemy, ready to end your existence at any moment?

Alexei Meresyev, the hero of Boris Polevoy's Tale of a Real Man, withstood such a struggle. The pilot was shot down on his plane by a fascist fighter. The desperately bold act of Alexei, who entered into an unequal struggle with the whole link, ended in defeat. The downed plane crashed into the trees, softening the blow. The pilot who fell on the snow received serious foot injuries. But, despite the unbearable pain, he, overcoming his suffering, decided to move towards his own, taking several thousand steps a day. Each step becomes torture for Alexei: he “felt that he was weakening from tension and pain. Biting his lip, he continued walking. A few days later, blood poisoning began to spread throughout the body, and the pain became unbearable. Unable to stand up, he decided to crawl. Losing consciousness, he moved forward. On the eighteenth day, he reached the people. But the main test was ahead. Alexei had both feet amputated. He was discouraged. However, there was a man who was able to restore his faith in himself. Alexei realized that he could fly if he learned to walk on prostheses. And again, torment, suffering, the need to endure pain, overcoming one's weakness. The episode of the pilot's return to duty is shocking, when the hero tells the instructor, who made a remark about shoes, that his feet will not freeze, since they are not. The surprise of the instructor was indescribable. Such a victory over oneself is a real feat. It becomes clear what the words mean, that the strength of the spirit ensures victory.

In the story of M. Gorky "Chelkash" two people are in the center of attention, completely opposite in their mentality, goals in life. Chelkash is a tramp, a thief, a criminal. He is desperately bold, bold, his element is the sea, true freedom. Money is rubbish for him, he never seeks to save it. If they are (and he gets them, constantly risking his freedom and life), he spends them. If not, don't be sad. Another thing is Gabriel. He is a peasant, he came to the city to work, to build his own house, to get married, to start a household. In this he sees his happiness. Having agreed to the scam with Chelkash, he did not expect that it would be so scary. It is clear from his behavior how cowardly he is. However, when he sees a wad of money in the hands of Chelkash, he loses his mind. Money made him drunk. He is ready to kill the hated criminal, just to get the money he needs to build a house. Chelkash suddenly feels sorry for the unfortunate, unlucky failed murderer and gives him almost all the money. So, in my opinion, the Gorky tramp conquers in himself the hatred for Gavrila that arose at the first meeting, and takes the position of mercy. It seems that there is nothing special here, but I believe that to conquer hatred in oneself means to win not only over oneself, but also over the whole world.

So, victories begin with small forgiveness, honest deeds, with the ability to enter into the position of another. This is the beginning of a great victory, whose name is life.

1. Friendship and enmity

How difficult it is to define such a simple concept as friendship. Even in early childhood, we make friends, they somehow appear by themselves at school. But sometimes the opposite happens: former friends suddenly become enemies, and the whole world exudes hostility. In the dictionary, friendship refers to personal disinterested relationships between people based on love, trust, sincerity, mutual sympathy, common interests and hobbies. And enmity, according to linguists, is relations and actions imbued with hostility, hatred. How does the complex process of transition from love and sincerity to hostility, hatred and enmity take place? And to whom does love happen in friendship? To friend? Or to yourself?

In Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's novel A Hero of Our Time, Pechorin, reflecting on friendship, claims that one person is always the slave of another, although no one admits this to himself. The hero of the novel believes that he is not capable of friendship. But Werner shows the most sincere feelings towards Pechorin. Yes, and Pechorin gives Werner the most positive assessment. It seems that more is needed for friendship? They understand each other so well. Starting an intrigue with Grushnitsky and Mary, Pechorin gets the most reliable ally in the person of Dr. Werner. But at the most crucial moment, Werner refuses to understand Pechorin. It seems natural to him to prevent a tragedy (on the eve he predicted that Grushnitsky would become Pechorin's new victim), but he does not stop the duel and allows the death of one of the duelists. Indeed, he obeys Pechorin, falling under the influence of his strong nature. But then he writes a note: "There is no evidence against you, and you can sleep peacefully ... if you can ... Goodbye."

In this "if you can" one hears a disclaimer, he considers himself entitled to reproach the "friend" for such an offense. But he no longer wants to know him: “Goodbye,” sounds irrevocably. Yes, a real friend would not have acted like that, he would have shared the responsibility and prevented the tragedy, not only in thoughts, but in deeds. So friendship (although Pechorin does not think so) turns into hostility.

Arkady Kirsanov and Yevgeny Bazarov come to the Kirsanov family estate to rest. This is how the story of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons" begins. What made them friends? Common interests? Common cause? Mutual love and respect? But both of them are nihilists and do not take feelings for truth. Maybe Bazarov goes to Kirsanov only because it is convenient for him to travel half the way at the expense of a friend on the way home? .. In his relationship with Bazarov, Arkady discovers some new character traits in a friend every day. His ignorance of poetry, lack of understanding of music, self-confidence, boundless pride, especially when he claims that “no matter what the gods burn pots,” speaking of Kukshina and Sitnikov. Then love for Anna Sergeevna, with which his "friend-god" does not want to reconcile. Pride does not allow Bazarov to recognize his feelings. He would rather give up friends, love, than admit himself defeated. Saying goodbye to Arkady, he throws: “You are a nice fellow; but all the same, a soft liberal barich ... ”And although there is no hatred in these words, hostility is felt.

Friendship, true, real, is a rare phenomenon. The desire to be friends, mutual sympathy, common interests - these are just the prerequisites for friendship. And whether it will develop to become time-tested depends only on patience and the ability to give up oneself, on self-love, in the first place. To love a friend is to think about his interests, and not about how you will look in the eyes of others, whether this will offend your pride. And the ability to get out of the conflict with dignity, respecting the opinion of a friend, but without compromising one's own principles, so that friendship does not turn into hostility.

2. Friendship and enmity

Among the eternal values, friendship has always occupied one of the very first places. But everyone understands friendship in their own way. Someone is looking for benefits in friends, some additional privileges in obtaining material benefits. But such friends before the first problem, before trouble. It is no coincidence that the proverb says: "friends are known in trouble." But the French philosopher M. Montaigne argued: "In friendship there are no other calculations and considerations, except for itself." And only such friendship is true.

In F. M. Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment", the relationship between Raskolnikov and Razumikhin can be considered an example of such friendship. Both are law students, both live in poverty, both are looking for additional income. But at one fine moment, infected with the idea of ​​​​a superman, Raskolnikov drops everything and prepares for the “case”. Six months of constant soul-searching, searching for ways to deceive fate knock Raskolnikov out of the usual rhythm of life. He does not take translations, does not give lessons, does not go to classes, in general, does nothing. And yet, in a difficult moment, the heart leads him to a friend. Razumikhin is the exact opposite of Raskolnikov. He works, spins all the time, earning a penny, but these pennies are enough for him to live and even for fun. Raskolnikov seemed to be looking for an opportunity to get off the “path” he had embarked on, because “Razumikhin was also remarkable because no failures ever embarrassed him and no bad circumstances seemed to be able to crush him.” And Raskolnikov is crushed, brought to an extreme degree of despair. And Razumikhin, realizing that a friend (although Dostoevsky insistently writes "friend") in trouble no longer leaves him until the trial itself. And at the trial, he acts as the defender of Rodion and cites evidence of his spiritual generosity, nobility, testifying that "when he was at the university, from his last means he helped one of his poor and consumptive university comrades and almost supported him for six months." The sentence for double murder was reduced by almost half. Thus, Dostoevsky proves to us the idea of ​​God's providence, that people are saved by people. And let someone say that Razumikhin did not lose by getting a beautiful wife, a friend's sister, but did he think about his own benefit? No, he was completely absorbed in caring for a person.

In I.A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”, Andrey Stolz turns out to be no less generous and caring, who has been trying all his life to pull his friend Oblomov out of the swamp of his existence. He alone is able to lift Ilya Ilyich from the sofa, to give movement to his monotonous philistine life. Even when Oblomov finally settles with Pshchenitsyna, Andrei makes several more attempts to get him off the couch. Upon learning that Tarantiev, with the manager of Oblomovka, actually robbed a friend, he takes matters into his own hands and puts things in order. Although this does not save Oblomov. But Shtolz honestly fulfilled his duty to his friend, and after the death of an unlucky childhood friend, he takes his son to be raised, not wanting to leave the child in an environment that is literally covered in the mire of idleness, philistinism.

M. Montaigne argued: "In friendship there are no other calculations and considerations, except for itself."

Only such friendship is true. If a person who is called a friend suddenly starts, fawning, asking for help or starts settling scores for the service rendered, they say, I helped you out, and what did I do for me, give up such a friend! You will lose nothing but an envious look, an unfriendly word.

3. Friendship and enmity

Where do enemies come from? It has always been incomprehensible to me: when, why, why do people have enemies? How is enmity, hatred born, what in the human body directs this process? And now you already have an enemy, what to do with him? How to treat his personality, actions? To follow the path of retaliatory measures, according to the principle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? But what will this enmity lead to? To the destruction of personality, to the destruction of good on a global scale. Suddenly all over the world? Probably, everyone in one way or another met with the problem of confrontation with enemies. How to overcome hatred towards such people?

V. Zheleznyakov's story "Scarecrow" shows the terrible story of a girl's collision with a class that declared a boycott on a person, on false suspicion, without understanding the justice of their own sentence. Lenka Bessoltseva - a compassionate girl with an open soul - having got into a new class, she found herself alone. Nobody wanted to be friends with her. And only the noble Dimka Somov stood up for her, extended a helping hand. It became especially scary when the same reliable friend betrayed Lena. Knowing that the girl was not to blame, he did not tell the truth to the frantic, embittered classmates. I was afraid. And he allowed her to poison for several days. When the truth was revealed, when everyone found out who was to blame for the unfair punishment of the entire class (cancellation of the long-awaited trip to Moscow), the anger of the schoolchildren now fell on Dimka. Thirsty for revenge, classmates demanded that everyone vote against Dimka. One Lenka refused to declare a boycott, because she herself went through all the horror of persecution: “I was at the stake ... And they chased me down the street. And I will never chase anyone ... And I will never poison anyone. At least kill!" With her desperately courageous and selfless act, Lena Bessoltseva teaches the whole class nobility, mercy and forgiveness. She rises above her own resentment and treats her tormentors and her traitor friend equally.

In A.S. Pushkin’s little tragedy “Mozart and Salieri”, the complex work of the consciousness of the recognized greatest composer of the eighteenth century, Salieri, is shown. The friendship of Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was based on the envy of a successful, hardworking, but not so talented composer, recognized by the whole society, rich and successful to a younger, but so sparkling, bright, extremely talented, but poor and not recognized person during his lifetime. Of course, the version of the poisoning of a friend has long been debunked, and even a two-hundred-year-old veto on the performance of Salieri's works has been lifted. But the story, thanks to which Salieri remained in memory (largely because of Pushkin's play), teaches us not to always trust friends, they can pour poison into your glass, only out of good intentions: to save justice for the sake of your noble name.

Friend-traitor, friend-enemy... where is the boundary of these states. How often is a person able to move into the camp of your enemies, change his attitude towards you? Happy is he who has never lost friends. Therefore, I think that Menander was still right, and friends and enemies should be judged equally, so as not to sin against honor and dignity, against conscience. However, mercy must never be forgotten. It is above all laws of justice.

Do I need to analyze my mistakes? In order to reveal the set topic, it is necessary to define the definitions of the main concepts. What is experience? And what are errors? Experience is the knowledge and skills that a person has received in each of life situations. Errors - incorrectness in actions, deeds, statements, thoughts. These two concepts, which cannot exist without each other, are tightly connected. The more experience, the less mistakes you make - this is a common truth. But you can't gain experience without making mistakes - that's the harsh reality. Every person in his life stumbles, makes mistakes, does stupid things. You can’t do without it, it’s the ups and downs that teach us to live. Only by making mistakes and learning from problematic life situations can we develop. That is, it is possible and even necessary to be mistaken and go astray, but the main thing is to analyze mistakes and correct them.

Very often in world fiction, writers touch on the topic of mistakes and experience. So, for example, in the epic novel “War and Peace” by L.N. Tolstoy, one of the main characters, Pierre Bezukhov, spent all his time in the company of Kuragin and Dolokhov, leading an idle lifestyle, not burdened by worries, sorrows and thoughts. But, gradually realizing that panache and secular promenade are empty and aimless pursuits, he realizes that this is not for him. But he was too young and ignorant: to draw such conclusions, one must rely on experience. The hero can not immediately understand the surrounding people, and very often makes mistakes in them. This is clearly manifested in the relationship with Helen Kuragina. Later, he realizes that their marriage was a mistake, he was deceived by "marble shoulders". Some time after the divorce, he joins the Masonic lodge and, apparently, finds himself. Bezukhov is engaged in social activities, meets interesting people, in a word, his personality acquires integrity. A beloved and devoted wife, healthy children, close friends, an interesting job are the components of a happy and fulfilling life. Pierre Bezukhov is exactly the person who, through trial and error, finds his meaning of existence.

Another example can be found in the story "The Enchanted Wanderer" by N.S. Leskov. The main character Ivan Severyanych Flyagin had to drink the bitter cup of trial and error. It all started with an accident in his youth: the mischief of a young postilion cost the life of an old monk. Ivan was born the “promised son” and from birth was destined to serve God. His life leads from one trouble to another, from test to test, until his soul is cleansed and brings the hero to the monastery. For a long time he will die and not die. Many he had to pay for his mistakes: love, freedom (he was a prisoner in the Kirghiz-Kaisak steppes), health (he was recruited). But this bitter experience, better than any persuasion and demands, taught him that one cannot escape fate. The vocation of the hero from the very beginning was religion, but a young man with ambitions, hopes and passions could not consciously accept the rank, which is required by the specifics of the church service. Faith in a priest must be unshakable, otherwise how will he help his parishioners find it? It was a careful analysis of his own mistakes that could lead him to the path of true service to God.

1. I.A. Goncharov "Oblomov"

The protagonist of the novel Ilya Oblomov, starting his career, commits a misstep in the service and sends an important dispatch instead of Astrakhan to Arkhangelsk. Then he suddenly falls ill, in the medical certificate issued by the doctor, it is testified: "Thickening of the heart with an expansion of the left ventricle thereof", caused by daily "going to office". This mistake led to the subsequent eternal lying on the couch, from which even all the attempts of Stolz do not save. So a mistake in the service became fatal for Oblomov.

2. M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don"

Grigory Melekhov, being a young, strong Cossack, chooses the most beautiful young Cossack girl Aksinya for lovemaking. It's a common thing for a Cossack village. But the problem lies in the amazing origin of the entire Melekhov family, in its genesis. And Aksinya, who had never known love, for the first time understood the charm of this feeling. In the village, the Cossacks were embarrassed to look into Aksinya's shameless eyes. But his father's order to marry Natalya becomes fatal for Gregory. All his life he will rush between two women, in the end he will destroy both.

3. E.I. Zamyatin "We"

The protagonist of the novel, D-503, is a cog in the mechanism of the United State. He lives in a world where there is no love (it is replaced by "pink coupons"). The meeting with I-330 strikes the hero's imagination. He falls in love. By law, he must report to the guardians about the crime into which his girlfriend is dragging him. But he hesitates and loses time. The mistake becomes fatal for I-330.

4. V.F. Tendryakov "Bread for the dog"

Volodya Tenkov finds himself at the most terrible time in the years of the great turning point in the very center of the battle. On the one hand, these are well-fed representatives of the nomenklatura of the party leadership, where there are pies, borscht and delicious kvass. On the other hand, people thrown to the sidelines of life. Former "fists" today are "shockets" and "elephants", causing pity for the boy. Trying to help them becomes a mistake. Rescues a child sick with mercy, an old sick dog.

5. V. Bykov "Sotnikov"

The protagonist of the story - Sotnikov - experienced a shock in his life. He, disobeying his father's prohibition, took his nominal pistol, which suddenly fired. It was hard for the boy to confess this to his father, but he did it not of his own free will, but at the request of his mother. When the boy told his father about his crime, he forgave him, but asked if he himself decided to do it? The child was not ready to answer this question and cowardly said: “Yes.” The poison of lies forever burned Sotnikov's soul, reminding him of a childhood mistake. This offense became decisive in the life of Sotnikov.

Arguments on the topic: "Experience and mistakes"

A word about Igor's regiment"

A work of ancient Russian literature, "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" is also relevant in our 21st century. It raises so many problems, so much material for reflection to the modern reader! Experience and mistakes. The hero of the "Word ..." - Prince Igor - makes a terrible mistake: he goes to the Polovtsy with a small retinue, and most importantly, there was no need for his campaign, since the Kyiv prince Svyatoslav defeated the Polovtsy for a long time, having driven them away from raids for a long time to Russia. VCL.

Igor, guided primarily by his own selfish interests (he wanted to prove to all the princes that he was brave, and his squad was also capable of defeating the enemy: “I want to break a spear in an unfamiliar Polovtsian field ...”), destroys the squad, he himself is captured, and Polovtsy, sensing the weakness of the Russian army, resumed their raids again. The price of Igor's mistake is great. Yes, he gained experience in military operations, he realized that it was necessary for the prince to think over his actions several steps ahead. However, the lives of warriors can not be returned.

The author is trying to convey to the princes - people dressed in power - that the fate of warriors is in their hands, that, first of all, intelligence, insight, foresight should be characteristic of them in order to make fewer mistakes in their actions, and accumulate experience by victories, thoughtful actions.

A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit"

The brilliant work of A. S. Griboedov strikes with the variety of topics, problems, the brightness of the characters, the importance of every detail. The theme of experience and mistakes also found its place in the play. Sophia, a young girl brought up on French love novels, does not see or understand that Molchalin's feelings are false. She is still inexperienced, she cannot understand where the true feeling is, and where there is only a game of love, and even with far-reaching goals (Molchalin dreams of marrying Sophia in order to enter high society, move up the career ladder). “At my age, one should not dare to have one’s own opinion,” is the principle of Molchalin.

And Chatsky, and Lisa, and even Famusov unraveled Molchalin, only Sophia is blinded by her love and sees only positive qualities in her lover. ("... compliant, modest, quiet ..."). Well, as she says herself, “happy hours are not observed.”

An epiphany will come, she will understand her mistake, but it will be too late. What a pity that the heroine did not appreciate Chatsky's feelings - sincere, real.

Who knows, maybe this bitter experience in the future will lead to the fact that she will lose faith in love altogether. But while she loves, not realizing that she is going to the abyss, because she has chosen such a low and vile person.

L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"

Favorite characters of the novel "War and Peace"! How beautiful they are! Natasha Rostova, Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov. The author showed them so real that they became friends for readers - their feelings and thoughts are so close and understandable. Heroes don't always follow a straight path. Each of them makes their own mistakes in life. But that's the beauty of it, that they are aware of them, trying to correct them. They improve, strive to become better - and this attracts readers so much. Recall Andrei Bolkonsky at the beginning of the novel. How much selfishness and selfishness in him, how he dreams of glory - at any cost, having chosen Napoleon as almost an idol. But the wound at Austerlitz, the clear realization of the finiteness of life and the infinity of nature - all this helped Andrei realize how petty his dreams were, how insignificant. (“What a beauty! How did I not notice this before? We are nothing compared to a clear, blue, endless sky.”)

It will be difficult for him to find his own way - from disappointment in life to the desire to be needed by everyone. (“No. Life is not over at the age of 31, Prince Andrei suddenly decided completely, without fail. Not only do I know everything that is in me, it is necessary that everyone knows this ...”)

And in the end, the hero is with the people, defending his homeland, heroically fighting near Borodino, having received a mortal wound. Through mistakes to understanding the highest meaning of life, which lies in love for loved ones, people, country - this is the way Tolstoy's hero goes.

F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

A whole theory is created by Raskolnikov, the hero of the novel by F. Dostoevsky, according to which a person has the right to kill people if he has a great goal. (Power is given only to those who dare to bend down and take it.")

He wants to check who he is, whether he can decide the fate of people. (“Am I a trembling creature or do I have a right?”)

However, I realized that I could not do it. The mistake, the ill-conceivedness of his theory, its cruelty and inhumanity - all this became a lesson for the hero. The hero crossed the line, alienated himself from people by a crime - the murder of an old pawnbroker and her set ("Everything has a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to go back") True, he did not immediately realize his mistake. Sonya Marmeladova helped him in this. It was her love that resurrected the hero, he realized the horror of what he had done and went on a different path, gaining bitter experience ("They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of another.")

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin "Gentlemen Golovlyov"

How many mistakes do the heroes of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's story “Lord Golovlyovs” make in their lives! It was these mistakes that made their lives miserable. Golovleva's mistakes are in the wrong choice of moral values. She believed that money is the main thing, she did not give children moral education. And when they grew up, she threw out a “piece” for each - part of the inheritance and thought that this was the end of her maternal mission. And in response I received indifference and coldness of children. She dies alone, abandoned and forgotten by everyone.

Judas Golovlev. "Iudushka, Blood-drinking", - this is exactly what he called his son - Porfiry Petrovich¸ his mother. What a low figure! All his life he dodged, adapted, sought benefits. He alienated everyone from himself, he does not need anyone, because Judas subordinated his life to one thing - money. For their sake, for the sake of his fortune, he is ready for anything. So, Porfiry persuaded his mother to deprive his older brother, Stepan, of his inheritance; he is completely indifferent to the fate of his other brother, Pashka (this can be seen when he stands at the bedside of his dying brother, as if he is reading a prayer, but there is so much indifference and joy in him, because now he will get the entire inheritance), and he prepared for his mother a wordless life attachments; he refuses to help his children - Volodenka and Petenka, dooming them to death. There is no sympathy, no pity in the soul of this man.

And what kind of life did Judas come to? To the boring, lonely one: “A series of sluggish, ugly days stretched out, one after another drowning in a gray, gaping abyss of time”) And was it worth making so many mistakes in life for this?

But he also has an epiphany at the end of his life. And even he is able to understand what a mistake his life was. (. He became afraid; he needed to freeze the feeling of reality in himself to such an extent that there was not even this emptiness.)

And he goes to his mother at his mother's grave to ask for her forgiveness. It's too late. On the way, the hero dies, also lonely, abandoned by everyone, unhappy. Heavy work. The complex fate of people was shown by the author. But everything said is true. This is how a person’s life can end if he chooses the wrong moral guidelines, if he moves away from loved ones and close people, subordinating himself to hoarding. For what? A bitter experience of disappointment is sure to await every such person. After all, the main thing in life is people who love you, care for you, who need and care about you. And if they are not there, then life has been lived in vain and life experience will turn out to be a house of cards, because it, this mushroom, is false, and the road along which a person walked leads to disappointment and loneliness.

Arguments on the topic: "Friendship and enmity"

A.S. Pushkin "Dubrovsky"

The plot of A.S. Pushkin's story "Dubrovsky" is based on the enmity between old old friends - Kirila Petrovich Troekurov and Andrei Gavrilovich

Dubrovsky. They once served together. Dubrovsky was a proud, resolute, good conversationalist. For this, Troekurov appreciated him and even missed him when he did not see his friend for a long time.

Much brought the heroes together: age, similar fates - both were widowed early and had one child each. Even the neighbors were often jealous of their friendly relations. “Everyone envied the harmony that reigned between the arrogant Troekurov and his poor neighbor, and were surprised at the courage of this latter, when he directly expressed his opinion at the table with Kiril Petrovich, not caring whether it contradicted the opinions of the owner”

But was this friendship lasting? After all, it would seem that such a small misunderstanding led to enmity. Troekurov’s servant, one of the kennels, inadvertently insulted Dubrovsky when he was inspecting Troekurov’s kennel: “... it would not be bad for another and nobleman to exchange the estate for any local kennel. He would have been better fed and warmer.” Dubrovsky was much poorer than Troekurov, he was hurt by such humiliation.

It was enough just to apologize - and the conflict would have been settled. However, both landlords were stubborn. Nobody wanted to give in. And a lawsuit began, which lasted for a long time, more and more alienating former friends from each other. As a result - madness and death of Dubrovsky.

How easily friendship turned into a deadly enmity. Why did it happen? Most likely, there was no true friendship, there was only its appearance. True friendship will never be destroyed over trifles. The lordly arrogance of one, irascibility, unwillingness to give in to the other - this was enough for friendship to fall apart like a house of cards. Friendship is based on stronger relationships, the desire for mutual understanding. But that didn't happen between the characters.

N. V. Gogol "Taras Bulba"

N.V. Gogol in the story "Taras Bulba" raises many important issues and topics. There is also the theme of fellowship.

Fellowship and friendship are two similar concepts. However, partnership includes, in addition to mutual understanding and support, the desire to be with a friend in difficult and happy moments, and also joint activities. Often this is a struggle for justice, a struggle with enemies. Partnership is a more voluminous concept that includes friendly relations.

The protagonist of the work, Taras Bulba, before the decisive battle, addresses his comrades-in-arms with a speech about partnership. He recalls the entire history of the country, when even in ancient times it was attacked by enemies. In difficult times, people shook hands with each other, were able to "be related by kinship by soul, and not by blood." A partnership began to form.

“There were comrades in other lands, but there were no such comrades as in the Russian land,” Bulba emphasizes.

He condemns those who adopt the "busurman" traditions", puts wealth in the foreground, can sell his own. The life of such people will be bitter, Taras believes. “And someday it will wake up, and it will hit, wretched, on the floor with its hands, grab itself by the head, loudly cursing its vile life, ready to atone for the shameful deed with torment.”

“Let them all know what partnership means in the Russian land!”

Such a speech inspired his comrades, they boldly went to the enemy, many died, like Taras Bulba himself, his son Ostap, but remained faithful to the partnership to the end, did not betray their friends, fought with the enemies to the end.

Bitter is the fate of those who embarked on the path of betrayal. It was a shame that the son of Taras Andriy went over to the side of the enemy. Bulba kills him, a traitor to his comrades, to the Motherland, although it was very hard on his father's soul.

The work of N.V. Gogol is of great educational importance even today. It teaches you how to be a person, what moral values ​​to prioritize in your life, how important it is to be able to make friends and remain a decent person in any situation.

I. A. Goncharov "Oblomov"

Andrey Stolz and Ilya Oblomov are the two main characters of I.A. Goncharov's novel Oblomov. In many ways, they are different in character, and in views, and in actions. However, the heroes are drawn to each other, Stolz happily comes to Oblomov, and he meets him with no less pleasure.

Even in school goals, they spent a lot of time together, were inquisitive children, dreamed of an active and interesting life. “... they were connected by childhood and school - two strong springs, then Russian, kind, fat caresses, abundantly wasted in the Oblomov family on a German boy, then the role of the strong that Stoltz occupied under Oblomov both physically and morally ... "

Oblomov gradually faded away, desire and interest disappeared in him, and Stolz, on the contrary, moved forward, actively worked, strived for something.

No one was able to return Oblomov to an active life. Even such an active, energetic nature as Stolz could not do this. He wants to help his friend to the end: “You must live with us, close to us: Olga and I decided so, and so it will be.

What have you become? Come to your senses! Have you prepared yourself for this life, to sleep like a mole in a hole? You remember everything ... ". But Oblomov does not want to change anything in his life. Even friendship was not omnipotent if the person himself did not want to change.

In life, a person makes his own choice. It is impossible to hope that someone will radically change your life without your own efforts. Yes, friends help a person, support him. But still, it is the person himself who must take decisive action, move forward. Readers come to this conclusion after reading the novel.

A. M. Gorky "Childhood"

Alexey Peshkov - the main character of A. M. Gorky's story "Childhood" - was left without parents early. Life in the house of his grandfather Kashirin was difficult. "A strange life" here began to remind him of a "harsh tale", "well told by a kind, but painfully truthful genius." Constant hostility surrounded the boy in the house. "Grandfather's house is filled with a hot fog of mutual enmity of everyone with everyone." Relations between adults - Alyosha's uncles - and between their children were far from being related and friendly. The uncles were waiting for their share of the inheritance, they always quarreled, and the children did not lag behind them. Constant complaints, denunciations, the desire to hurt another, the pleasure experienced from the fact that someone feels bad - this is the situation in which the hero lived. There was no question of any friendship with cousins.

However, even here there were people to whom Alyosha was drawn. This is the blind-sighted master Grigory, whom the boy sincerely regrets, and the apprentice Tsyganok, to whom his grandfather prophesied a great future (Tsyganok died when he carried an unbearable cross to the grave of the boy’s grandfather’s wife), and the Good Deed, who taught him to read.

A true friend for Alyosha was his grandmother, Akulina Ivanovna, a kind, intelligent, cheerful woman, despite her hard life, despite the fact that she was always beaten by her husband. Her eyes burned with "an inextinguishable, cheerful and warm light." It was as if he had slept before her, “hidden in the dark,” and she woke him up, brought him into the light, immediately became a lifelong friend, the closest, most understandable and dearest person.

There was a lot of hostility around the boy. But a lot of kindness and understanding. It was friendly relations with people that did not allow his soul to harden. Alyosha became a kind, sensitive, compassionate person. Friendship can help a person in difficult times to preserve the best moral human qualities.

Everything starts from childhood. It is so important during this period that children are surrounded by kind, decent people, because in many respects it depends on them how the child will grow up. This conclusion leads the reader to this conclusion.

N. V. Gogol "Dead Souls"

The work "Dead Souls" is still interesting and relevant. It is no coincidence that performances are staged on it, multi-part feature films are created. Philosophical, social, moral problems and themes are intertwined in the poem (this is the genre indicated by the author himself). The theme of victory and defeat also found its place in it.

The protagonist of the poem is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov. He clearly followed the instructions of his father: “Take care and save a penny ... You will change everything in the world with a penny.” Since childhood, he began to save it, this penny, carried out more than one dark operation. In the city of NN, he decided on a grandiose in scale and almost fantastic enterprise - to redeem the dead peasants according to the Revision Tales, and then sell them as if they were alive.

To do this, it is necessary to be invisible and at the same time interesting to everyone with whom he communicated. And Chichikov succeeded in this: “... knew how to flatter everyone”, “entered sideways”, “sat obliquely”, “answered with a tilt of his head”, “put a carnation in his nose”, “brought a snuffbox, at the bottom of which there are violets”.

At the same time, he himself tried not to stand out very much (“not handsome, but not bad-looking, neither too fat nor too thin, one cannot say that he is old, but not so that he is too young”)

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov at the end of the work is a real winner. He managed to fraudulently amass a fortune and left with impunity. It seems that the hero clearly follows his goal, goes along the intended path. But what awaits this hero in the future, if he chose hoarding as the main goal of life? Is not the fate of Plyushkin prepared for him too, whose soul was completely at the mercy of money? Everything can be. But the fact that with each acquired "dead soul" he himself morally falls - this is undoubtedly. And this is defeat, because human feelings in him were suppressed by acquisitiveness, hypocrisy, lies, selfishness. And although N.V. Gogol emphasizes that people like Chichikov are “a terrible and vile force,” the future does not belong to them, yet they are not the masters of life. How actual the words of the writer addressed to the youth sound: “Take with you on the road, leaving the soft youthful years in the harsh hardening courage, take with you all human movements, do not leave them on the road, you will not raise them later!”

I. A. Goncharov "Oblomov"

Victory over yourself, over your weaknesses and shortcomings. It is worth a lot if a person reaches the end, to the goal that he has set. Ilya Oblomov, the hero of the novel by I. A. Goncharov, is not like that. Sloth celebrates victory over his master. She sits so firmly in it that it seems that nothing can make the hero get up from his sofa, simply write a letter to his estate, find out how things are going there. And yet the hero tried to make an attempt to overcome himself, his unwillingness to do something in this life. Thanks to Olga, love for her, he began to transform: finally, he got up from the sofa, began to read, walked a lot, dreamed, talked with the heroine. However, he soon abandoned this venture. Outwardly, the hero himself justifies his behavior by the fact that he will not be able to give her what she deserves. But, most likely, these are just another excuse. Laziness clouded him again, returned him to his beloved sofa. ("... There is no rest in love, and it keeps moving somewhere forward, forward ...") not striving for anything. (Stolz's words: “It began with the inability to put on stockings and ended with the inability to live.”)

Oblomov discussed the meaning of life, understood that it was impossible to live like this, but did nothing to change everything: “When you don’t know what you live for, you live somehow, day after day; you rejoice that the day has passed, that the night has passed, and in a dream you will plunge into the boring question of why you lived this day, why you will live tomorrow.

Oblomov failed to defeat himself. However, the defeat did not upset him so much. At the end of the novel, we see the hero in a quiet family circle, he is loved, taken care of, as once in childhood. This is the ideal of his life, that's what he achieved. Also, however, having won a "victory", because his life has become what he wants to see it. But why is there always some kind of sadness in his eyes? Maybe for unfulfilled hopes?

E. Zamyatin "We"

The novel "We", written by E. Zamyatin, is a dystopia. By this, the author wanted to emphasize that the events depicted in it are not so fantastic, that something similar can happen under the emerging totalitarian regime, and most importantly, a person will completely lose his “I”, he will not even have a name - only a number.

These are the main characters of the work: he is D 503 and she is I-330

The hero has become a cog in a huge mechanism of the United State, in which everything is clearly regulated. He is completely subordinate to the laws of the state, where everyone is happy.

Another heroine of I-330, it was she who showed the hero the "unreasonable" world of wildlife, a world that is fenced off from the inhabitants of the state by the Green Wall.

There is a struggle between what is allowed and what is forbidden. How to proceed? The hero experiences feelings previously unknown to him. He follows his beloved. However, in the end, the system defeated him, the hero, part of this system, says: “I am sure that we will win. Because the mind must win." The hero is calm again, he, having undergone an operation, having regained calm, calmly looks at how his woman is dying under a gas bell.

And the heroine I-330, although she died, remained undefeated. She did everything she could for a life in which everyone decides for himself what to do, whom to love, how to live.

Victory and defeat. They are often so close in a person's path. And what choice a person makes - to victory or defeat - depends on him too, regardless of the society in which he lives. To become a single people, but to keep one's "I" - this is one of the motives of the work of E. Zamyatin.

A word about Igor's regiment"

The protagonist of "Words ..." is Prince Igor Novgorod-Seversky. This is a brave, brave warrior, a patriot of his country.

His cousin Svyatoslav, who ruled in Kyiv, in 1184 defeated the Polovtsy - the enemies of Russia, the nomads. Igor could not participate in the campaign. He decided to undertake a new campaign - in 1185. There was no need for it, the Polovtsy did not attack Russia after the victory of Svyatoslav. However, the desire for glory, selfishness led to the fact that Igor spoke out against the Polovtsy. Nature seemed to warn the hero about the failures that would haunt the prince - a solar eclipse occurred. But Igor was adamant.

Reason receded into the background. Feelings, moreover, of an egoistic nature, took possession of the prince. After the defeat and escape from captivity, Igor realized the mistake, realized it. That is why the author sings glory to the prince at the end of the work.

This is an example of the fact that a person endowed with power must always weigh everything, it is the mind, and not feelings, even if they are positive, that should determine the behavior of a person on which the lives of many people depend.

I. S. Turgenev "Asya"

25-year-old N.N. travels carelessly, however, without a goal and a plan, meets new people, and almost never visits sights. This is how I. Turgenev's story "Asya" begins. The hero will have to endure a difficult test - a test of love. This feeling arose in him for the girl Asya. It combined cheerfulness and eccentricity, openness and isolation. But the main thing is that she is different from the rest. Perhaps this is due to her former life: she lost her parents early, the 13-year-old girl was left in the arms of her older brother, Gagin., Asya realized that she really fell in love with N.N., and therefore led himself unusually: either closing himself, trying to retire, or wanting to draw attention to himself. Mind and feeling seem to be fighting in it, the inability to drown out the love for N.N.

Unfortunately, the hero turned out to be not as decisive as Asya, who confessed her love to him in a note. N.N. also experienced strong feelings for Asya: “I felt some kind of sweetness - it was sweetness in my heart: it was as if they poured me honey there.” But for too long he thought about the future with the heroine, postponing the decision for tomorrow. And there is no tomorrow for love. Asya and Gagin left, but the hero could not find a woman in his life with whom he would connect his fate. The memories of Asya were too strong, and only a note reminded of her. So the mind became the reason for the separation, and the feelings were not able to lead the hero to decisive actions.

“Happiness has no tomorrow, it has no yesterday, it does not remember the past, does not think about the future. He only has the present. - And it's not a day. And a moment. »

A. I. Kuprin "Olesya"

"Love knows no bounds." How often do we hear these words, and repeat them ourselves. However, in life, unfortunately, not everyone is able to overcome these boundaries.

How beautiful is the love of the village girl Olesya, who lives in the bosom of nature, far from civilization, and the intellectual, city dweller Ivan Timofeevich! The strong, sincere feeling of the heroes is tested: the hero must decide to marry a village girl, and even a sorceress, as she is called around, to connect life with a person who lives according to other laws, as if in another world. And the hero could not make a choice in time. Reason had held him too long. Even Olesya noticed insincerity in the character of the hero: ““ Your kindness is not good, not cordial. You are not master of your word. Love to take over people, but you yourself do not want to, but obey them.

And in the end - loneliness, because the beloved is forced to leave these places, to run away with Manuilikha from superstitious peasants. Beloved did not become her support and salvation.

The eternal struggle of reason and feelings in man. How often does it lead to tragedy. Save love without losing your head, understanding the responsibility for your loved one - this is not given to everyone. Ivan Timofeevich could not stand the test of love.

School essays on this topic, as an option for preparing for the final essay.

Composition: Pride

Pride is considered the root of every evil, the root of every sin, as opposed to humility, which is the path to grace. There are different forms of pride. The first form of pride refers to the belief that you are superior to others, or at least inclined towards equality with all people, and are in search of superiority.

Here is something very simple, but very powerful. Our tendency to feel superior to others, or at least equal, but this also hides an attitude of superiority. This is a complex. When we are often tormented by thoughts, we are embarrassed, the thought appears that someone refused me that he offended me or did not understand me or is smarter than me or looks better than me - and we begin to feel competition, jealousy or conflict . At the root of this problem lies our need to be better than others, higher, or at least to make sure that no one can be something better than us, something stronger than us. Something very simple that we don't understand. Rising, a proud man lowers his neighbor. Such an elevation is really of no value, as it is completely conditional. The very idea of ​​becoming better at the expense of the other is simply absurd, such pride is actually negligible.

This can only be overcome if there is room for love. If love is real and takes place, this is clearly understood by how easily we overcome the attitude of winning over the other in order to show that we are superior to him, not wanting to convince the other at any cost, not expecting him to necessarily identify with our opinion. If we do not have this attitude, we are not free, because we are slaves to the need to identify the other with our idea, our opinion, our theory. If we do not have this need, we are free.

Pride is a general concept, but when it comes to practical manifestations that affect us personally, we get irritated and stop seeing what is happening to us. We must respect everyone. Not everyone is equally capable by nature, character, everyone has different conditions. They are also relative, they change. Everyone is potentially ideal, just often far from this ideal. So pride just doesn't make sense.

Why can pride be a negative feeling?

Pride is common to many people. In what cases can such a quality turn into a negative one? Another writer from France, Adrian Decourcelles, called pride a slippery slope, and at the bottom of a person there he meets vanity and arrogance. So pride easily transforms into pride, the bearer of which is not able to rejoice in the success of others, but is entirely and completely focused on his own.

It is well described in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Rodion simply reveled in pride and even created his own theory. Being confident in his exclusivity, the hero of the novel talked about the uselessness of some people, doubting the expediency of their life. The result of his worldview was the murder of an old woman.

Humility, often perceived as weakness, goes very well with strength, as Pushkin clearly demonstrated in The Captain's Daughter.

Masha Rodionova, who endured a lot of suffering, was not broken. For the girl, Grinev's parents were authority. When they did not want to bless the couple for the wedding, Masha humbly reacted to the decision of adults, eventually winning universal respect, including Empress Catherine herself. That is, humility is the strength of man.

Thus, we have carried out a detailed comparative analysis of the above two terms. It would seem that despite the fact that these are complete opposites, they have a huge number of similar parameters by which they can be compared. I expressed my point of view and by no means claim to be the ultimate truth.

What is the difference between pride and pride?

Pride. Pride. What do these concepts mean? What is the difference between pride and pride? Many poets and writers have thought about these questions. I believe that pride is a feeling associated with the awareness of one's own dignity, independence. Pride is the highest measure of pride, arrogance. It is very important to have a sense of this illusory line between pride and pride.

To prove my thoughts, I will give an example from fiction. In the work of A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" Tatyana, one of the heroines, is presented as a lady from a secular society. She is accompanied by the same general who is very proud of his wife.

The woman combined amazing traits of character. Being around her is easy, because she constantly remains herself and does not try to deceitfully put herself in the best light. Tatyana sincerely confesses her feelings to Onegin and does not want to dissemble in this. The woman appreciates Eugene's pride, but they are not destined to be together, because her heart is given to another.

To clarify my point of view, I will give another example from fiction. The work of M. A. Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don" shows the tragic situation in which Natalya Korshunova found herself. Her life lost its meaning due to the lack of mutual love and fidelity on the part of her husband Gregory. And when she found out about the renewed infidelities of her beloved husband, she, being pregnant, came to the conclusion that she did not want to have any more children from him. Her pride and insults from her husband were the reason for this decision. Natalya did not want a child from a traitor. The abortion, which was made by the village grandmother, was unsuccessful, and the heroine died.

Summarizing the above, we can conclude that pride is a positively colored emotion that expresses the presence of self-esteem. And pride is excessive pride, which is accompanied by arrogance and arrogance.

The theme of humility and rebellion in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky

The plot of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment", at first glance, is rather banal: in St. Petersburg, a poor young man kills an old money-lender and her sister Lizaveta. However, the reader soon becomes convinced that this is not a simple crime, but a kind of challenge to society, the "masters of life", due to injustice, a beggarly state, hopelessness and spiritual impasse of the hero of the novel, Rodion Raskolnikov. To understand the cause of this terrible atrocity, we must remember history. The time in which the characters of the work lived was the sixties of the nineteenth century.
Russia at that time was going through an era of serious reforms in all spheres of life, which were supposed to modernize its political and social system in order to preserve the absolute power of the monarch.
It was then that the first women's gymnasiums appeared in the country, the course of real schools, and all classes got the opportunity to enter universities. Rodion Raskolnikov was one of those young people. He is a commoner and a former student. What was the student body then?
These were advanced youth, people, as already mentioned, from various social strata of Russian society. In a word, an environment in which the "fermentation of minds" was already beginning: the young people of that time were looking for ways of social and moral renewal of Russia. Revolutionary thought and "rebellious" moods were ripening in the universities.
Rodion Raskolnikov, pursuing the absolutely merciful goals of freeing dozens of spiritually rich people from material poverty, formulates his theory, according to which he divides all people into "trembling creatures" and "having the right." The first are the silent, humble crowd, and the second are those who are allowed everything. He refers himself and a few other "chosen ones" to "exceptional" personalities, and all the rest to those who "humbled themselves."
"Everything is in the hands of a man, and everything - he carries it past his nose solely from cowardice," Raskolnikov thinks.
If the world is so terrible that it is impossible to accept it, to come to terms with social injustice, then it means that we must separate ourselves, rise above this world.
Either obedience or rebellion - there is no third way!
And such circles and waves went from his thoughts that all the rot, all the stench, lurking at the bottom of the soul, climbed up and were exposed.
Raskolnikov decides to cross the line that separates the "great" people from the crowd. And murder becomes this very feature for him: this is how a young man mercilessly judges this world, judges with his personal "punishing sword". Indeed, according to Rodion's thoughts, the murder of a worthless old woman, from whom only harm to people, is not evil, but rather a blessing. Yes, everyone will say thank you for this!
However, the unplanned murder of the unfortunate "humble" Lizaveta for the first time makes Raskolnikov doubt the correctness of his theory, and then the tragic throwing of the hero begins.
His "rebellious" mind enters into an irresolvable dispute with the spiritual essence. And a terrible tragedy of PERSONALITY is born.
The theme of humility and the theme of rebellion collide on the pages of the novel in all their insoluble contradiction, turning into a painful argument about a man who had been leading Dostoevsky with himself all his life. The "rebellious" worldview of Raskolnikov and the "humble" thoughts of Sonya Marmeladova reflected the author's own bitter reflections on human nature and social reality.
"Thou shalt not kill," one of the commandments says.
Rodion Raskolnikov violated this commandment - and deleted himself from the world of people.
“I didn’t kill an old woman, I killed myself,” the hero admits to Sonya Marmeladova. Having committed a crime, he transgressed the formal law, but could not transcend the moral law.
The tragedy of the "rebel" Raskolnikov is that, having made an attempt to escape from the world of evil, he is mistaken and suffers a terrible punishment for his atrocity: the collapse of an idea, remorse and pangs of conscience.
Dostoevsky rejects the revolutionary transformation of the world, and the theme of "humility" sounds quite victorious and convincing at the end of the novel: Raskolnikov finds peace of mind in faith in God. He suddenly discovers the truth: merciful goals cannot be achieved through violence.
Only in hard labor does the hero realize that not violence, but love for people can change the world.

Dostoevsky's novel remains relevant today. We, too, live in an era of change. The degree of public life is increasing every year.
The theme of humility with the surrounding reality and the theme of rebellion against social injustice wanders in the minds of modern Russians.
Perhaps someone is ready to take up the axes. But is it worth it?
After all, ideas can be a destructive force, both for the person himself and for society as a whole.