Read APChekhov - pleasure.Write about it - enjoyment.We yield to Him, offering the reader a work (summary) "The Bride" by Chekhov.
Somerset Maugham wrote that the only purpose of art works - is to entertain the reader.If it is at the same time to learn something or learn something, it's good, but not the main thing.In this classic of English literature worshiped Chekhov.But the Russian writer, in turn, could not subscribe to the words of his fan, because his work is always something to learn.To understand what teaches us to selected articles of his work, it is necessary to present a summary of the chapters of the story of Chekhov's "The Bride."
Chapter One
The provincial town is going to a dinner party, apparently after a final decision on the fate of Nadi.Nadia - a girl of 23 years, and 16 she wants to get married.Thank heavens, and found a suitable bride - Andrei Andreyevich (he is the son of the local priest of the cathedral).In the house reigns viscous atmosphere of general laziness.Nadia and her fiance are not working.Andrei Andreyevich graduated from the Faculty of Philology, but not something that is permanent, but in general one place and does not have a case.In addition to the young people present at the dinner Nadi grandmother, in whose hands the main capitals of the family.Nadina mom (wife of the late son's grandmother) also is a way of life completely idle and senseless: with his father Andrei says about astrology and occult practices, cry over books, early to bed and late to rise.And all of them think that they live perfectly normal.Another opinion on the matter adheres Sasha - a distant relative of Moscow.
He is not rich, so he has to work.Moscow guest arrives in a provincial town only care that improve their health, he was very ill, but he was disgusted with all the life that lead inhabitants of the house, and every year, coming, he speaks about it to Nadia, because he believes that only it among theall of them, and you can still save.The others are mired in sloth, like flies in amber.
first chapter ends with a detailed description of the evening, then all leaving their homes.
product (its summary) "The Bride" Chekhov begins with a picture quite safe, but then, in the course of the narrative, the dispensation of the heroes of everyday life gives a crack.
Chapter Two
Before the wedding is a month or a little less, but Nadia did not sleep at night, the reality seems to do it some depressing.Surprisingly, she tries to share his doubts with his mother, and it turns out that they have it not only speak the same language, but live as if on different planets.Nadia first detects total dependence on the mother's grandmother, her stupidity and her unhappiness.For the first time Sasha talks about the meaning, morality, and other "high subjects" fall on fertile ground girlish doubts about, and whether it is doing that is getting married.She is only implicitly and subconsciously think she makes a mistake.Nadja timidly starts to think about the possibility of teaching in another city.
At this point the story (and with it the summary) "The Bride" Chekhov gives the reader hope for some kind of intrigue, which under the pen of the master is about to reveal itself.It is good that the reader will not be deceived in their expectations.
Chapter Three
If the chapters in this story by Anton Chekhov had names, then this could be safely entitled "Vulgarity and disgust."
It Andrei Andreyevich and Nadia visiting the house that hired them.Son Father Andrew walks through the rooms and admires, and Nadia and sickened from it, and from these rooms, and his endless empty talk and false self-flagellation, and by false repentance for what he is a slacker.Nadia always want to go home, but she also understands that completely dislikes Andrei (maybe never liked), and even more: he hated her.
Returning home, she discovers that the preparation for the wedding of her disgust.All this fuss, the next dinner, showing only exorbitant pride granny, her disgusting!
distant relative - Sasha, apparently, also experiencing similar feelings, so he decides to leave, but asked to stay for some time, and it is inferior.
In this chapter, the work (summary) "The Bride" Chekhov does, though expected, but a sharp turn.It becomes obvious that the lives of the characters will not be the same, and that all plans for the future that have been before have not come true.
Chapter Four
decision to leave immediately visited Nadia.She happens to talk with his mother, in which she acknowledged that her fiancé does not like he did not understand why the mother had lived.The mother, in turn, tries to reason with the daughter, said that everything will be fine.Nadia does not want to hear it.Once again, it opens all the vulgarity of the existence of her relatives.She runs to Sasha and asked permission to go with him tomorrow.He was so happy that breaks into a dance.Young people agree: Nadia would go to see him off at the station, then go down with him in the car (ticket, he will buy it), then it will reach to Moscow, and there Peter explode without him.Northern Palmira meet its cool and new scientific knowledge.
Reassured she returned to her room and fell asleep.
This chapter is the most dynamic in the story, and all thanks to that has filigree pen Chekhov."Bride" (summary of the reports is quite an emotional moment) makes the reader tremble.
Chapter Five
quite small.It absorbs only a description of Nadine leaving home.Memorized heavy rain that accompanies runaway girl.She recalls a failed nest with Andrei Andreyevich, the memory of it will not sting and are not inconvenienced.Everything seems to be unimportant in comparison with the future of intoxicating free air.
In the fourth and fifth chapter of peaks and passes the story "The Bride."Chekhov (summary also does not allow it to hide) - the great master of his craft.
head of the sixth and final
It calms down and the story comes to a logical conclusion.Nadia, who lived about half a year in St. Petersburg, he was going home.Unrest there have already passed.And my mother and grandmother had come to terms with the fact that their child has grown, and Nadia miss them.She also drove to Moscow to see Sasha.He was very ill.He spoke about the same (about the importance of education and so on.), But his speech did not touch the girl's heart, and he seemed to be a distant relative of her terribly provincial.Nevertheless, she warmly thanked him for what he did to her.
Sasha also told her that he would soon go to the Volga.His whole appearance and able to speak about what he has not long to live.
Nagy made it safely home.Roads in the city it seemed wide, and at home - small.Grandmother and mother met it well.We wept.Nadia looked at the house and family is quite different eyes, as the ghosts of the past.The girl seemed that everything (house, others) bears the stamp of decay and disintegration.Nevertheless, she was there for some time (about a month).There it caught up with the news of the death of Sasha's, and then she left, not feeling special bitterness of loss, but anticipating the sweetness of the new, content-filled life.Such
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