Bezhin meadow - the connection between man and nature. Essay on the topic: Description of nature in the story Bezhin Meadow, Turgenev

Composition

“Notes of a Hunter” is a book about the Russian people, the serf peasantry. However, Turgenev's stories and essays also describe many other aspects of Russian life at that time. From the first sketches of his “hunting” cycle, Turgenev became famous as an artist with an amazing gift for seeing and drawing pictures of nature. Turgenev's landscape is psychological, it is associated with the experiences and appearance of the characters in the story, with their way of life. The writer was able to translate his fleeting, random “hunting” encounters and observations into typical images that give a general picture of Russian life in the serf era. Such an extraordinary meeting is described in the story “Bezhin Meadow”.

In this work, the author speaks in the first person. He actively uses artistic sketches that emphasize the state, character of the characters, their internal tension, experiences, and feelings. Nature and man seem to be in harmony, and this harmony is present throughout the entire story.

First, the author describes a wonderful hot July day when the hero went hunting for black grouse. Everything was perfect: the weather, the day was wonderful, and the hunt was a great success. It began to get dark, the hero decided to go home, but realized that he was lost. And nature seemed to begin to behave differently: the smell of dampness began to be felt, dew appeared, darkness spread everywhere, the night was approaching like a thundercloud, bats were flying through the forest. Nature seems to understand a person, perhaps sympathizes with his experiences, but cannot help in any way. After long wanderings, the hunter comes out onto a wide plain - Bezhin meadow, where village children sat in silence around a fire and grazed a herd of horses. They told each other scary stories. The hunter joined the guys. Under the guise of being asleep, he listens to their terrible stories without bothering the children with his presence.

The stories are truly scary and creepy. The feeling of anxiety and the accompanying stories of these guys are enhanced by various sounds: rustling sounds, splashes, screams.

The story about the mermaid is accompanied by a “lingering, ringing, almost moaning sound”; it was an incomprehensible night sound, arising in deep silence, rising and standing in the air and slowly spreading and fading gradually. The story about the drowned man was interrupted by the dogs, who rushed from their place, rushed away from the fire barking and disappeared into the darkness. The story of the parents' Saturday was supplemented by an unexpectedly arriving white dove, circling in one place and also unexpectedly disappearing into the darkness of the night. This dove was mistaken by the boys for a “righteous soul” flying to heaven. The guys fantasize, instill fear, and nature assists them in this, complementing the already terrible pictures.

Gradually, a sweet oblivion fell on the heroes, turning into drowsiness; even the dogs dozed, and the horses lay with their heads hanging. The description of the night fits perfectly with this moment: a narrow and small month, a magnificent moonless night; the stars, leaning towards the dark edge, everything was completely silent all around; “everything was sleeping in a deep, motionless, pre-dawn sleep.”

The hunter woke up; it began to turn white in the east. The sky brightened, a breeze blew, dew fell, the dawn turned red, everything began to wake up, sounds and voices began to be heard... A new day has come, full of cheerfulness, hope and faith.

“Bezhin Meadow” amazes with its simplicity and sincerity, richness of content. S. Turgenev does not create carefully developed and identified human characters, but confines himself to sketches, sketches, portrait sketches, but in describing the landscape, I. S. Turgenev is an insightful and perspicacious artist, able to notice and perfectly describe all the movements, sounds and smells of nature. Despite the fact that I. S. Turgenev is a realist, his works contain features of romance, and poetic integrity is due to the unity of artistic manner inherent in Turgenev’s paintings.

George Sand said about the works of I. S. Turgenev: “What a masterful painting!” And it’s impossible to disagree with this, because you really see, hear, feel, experience with the characters, live their lives, enjoy the smell of a summer July night.

Other works on this work

We see in the story how at night familiar places became mysterious, incomprehensible: now everything around was vague, gloomy, deaf. This is how the hunter perceived nature. The very sequence of descriptions of morning, afternoon, evening, night, to some extent, prepares an understanding of the reasons for the stories around the fire and explains their credibility. Two more descriptions of nature will be in the story: the children’s journey into the night and the bright flame of a fire in the middle of the night. The boys talk passionately around the fire, and next to them nature continues to live its life. A pike splashed - it’s clear

And it doesn’t frighten you, the star began to roll – also understandable and familiar. A sharp, painful cry sounded twice over the river. a strange whistle sounded somewhere in the sky. As soon as it was said that the herons were screaming, the sandpipers were whistling, the boys calmed down and the reader’s alertness decreased. If there is no explanation, the mysterious leaves us in tense anticipation.
Everyone will understand this very clearly if they follow more closely the latest story, which is happening right here, almost before the eyes of the peasant children. So they were frightened by a painful cry, Pavlusha calmed them down - it was a heron screaming. Here again everyone peacefully looks at the starry sky and sits silently by the fire. It is at these moments that Pavlusha takes a small pot and goes to the river for water. It can be assumed that the state of lyrical mood, delight in the beautiful world of nature and fear of mysterious evil spirits gave results. It was hard not to think about the merman when you go to the river, and about the boy who recently drowned in it, because they were just talking about him around the fire. This is the logic of the guys’ conversation after Pavlusha left. Approximately the same logical move was repeated by Pavlusha himself. The guys talked about the drowned Vasya, and Pavlusha heard his voice.
Pavlusha was able to recognize and understand a little more in the world around him than his comrades, but his way of perceiving this world around him was approximately the same. True, he is interested in why the brownie coughed, he is in no hurry to mistake the dove for the soul of a righteous man, but he does not object to this, he himself assumes that the groans from the buzzer are the complaints of the soul of a drowned man, and immediately reflects: “And then, they say, there are such tiny frogs that scream so pitifully.” He tries to explain everything that is incomprehensible, but explanations most often have to be drawn from traditional folk ideas, known to his interlocutors.
So the last event brings two narrators together - the enthusiastic and mysterious Ilyusha, and the inquisitive, thinking and poetic Pavlusha. Pavlusha, and not anyone else, becomes the only active hero of the story that happened before our eyes. Man and nature are a problem that has found a place on the pages of many works. In this story we see how, subordinate to the forces of nature, a peasant boy sought to understand everything around him, spending his sober mind and imagination on understanding his surroundings, in order to survive in this complex world.
Students clearly understand in what poetic images the forces of nature, incomprehensible to their ancestors, were embodied. Beautiful mermaids, terrible water mermaids, invisible brownies and goblin are familiar to them from fairy tales and superstitions, from illustrations and paintings.
“The morning has begun.” For many, these words were a symbol and pledge of the author’s faith in the coming awakening of the dark people. However, the writer’s position is much more complicated: the people will be freed from ignorance, but they will retain all the brightness and poetry of their worldview. Turgenev is not a stern moralist creating an allegorical picture, but a man passionately in love with nature and the people of his native land. But there is also a tragic postscript in the story, which still causes different interpretations. Why did the fate of Pavlusha, brave, intelligent, sympathetic, end so tragically? The inevitability of the death of the best people in the conditions of a fortress village - this is the idea that the ending of the story suggests. The author's thoughts about the fate of a person and its inextricable connection with the world in which this person lives are inaccessible to students in an abstract form. But the statement - the best perished under serfdom - has long become almost an axiom for them.

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In 1851 I.S. Turgenev presented his story “Bezhin Meadow” to the general public. From the first pages of the work, we begin to understand how sensitive the narrator is to the natural phenomena around us; he examines and paints in detail the sun, clouds, monitors the gusts of wind, and notes that these are the weather conditions suitable for harvest work.

I was touched by the fact that the author, being a realist, demonstrates to the reader the subtle spiritual organization of the narrator; notes of romanticism are inherent in every paragraph of the work. I believe that an ecstatic description of landscapes plays an important role for every reader, because if you take a closer look at something so seemingly everyday and natural, at what we see every day, then the soul will rejoice from looking at the beautiful, from feeling that we are a single mechanism with nature.

The narrator, after a successful hunt for black grouse, got confused on the way home; dusk was already gathering, and he felt uneasy. Nature seemed to understand his feelings and made this clear with its echoes. The hawk and quail uttered their calls, the bats scurried back and forth, creating horror. My heart sank with excitement; night was quickly approaching. And then the narrator came across the so-called Bezhin meadow, where he saw several boys guarding a herd. These were five village children: Fedya, Ilyusha, Kostya and Vanya.

They allowed the narrator to take a nap near the fire. Pretending to be deeply asleep, he listened with genuine surprise to the horror stories and fables that the youths shared with each other. The story told by Kostya about an angry mermaid is unexpectedly accompanied by some incomprehensible laughter in the distance. After Ilyusha’s story about a talking lamb, the dogs, for no apparent reason, run away with a heart-rending howl. The natural environment seems to react in such a strange and incomprehensible way to the boys’ stories.

The night in the story is fraught with something not fully understood, frightening and at the same time attractive. With what love the onset of early morning is described, the wealth of details imbues the narrative with uniqueness. The tranquility of nature is in harmony with the emotional state of the narrator.

In my opinion, the story “Bezhin Meadow” is significant in the study of Russian literature, because it teaches us to love nature and the beauty that surrounds us, to admire them, to appreciate that we have been given such great gifts - to contemplate and feel.

We all just need to realize that happiness can lie in basic things, you just have to look up at the sunset sky, or smile at the rising sun, or enjoy the pleasant rustle of the wind.

In the article we will talk about the cycle of stories by I.S. Turgenev - “Notes of a Hunter”. The object of our attention was the work “Bezhin Meadow”, and especially the landscapes in it. A brief description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” awaits you below.

About the writer

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is one of the greatest Russian writers.

This writer, playwright and translator was born in 1818. He wrote in the genre of romanticism, turning into realism. The last novels were already purely realistic, while the haze of “world sorrow” was present in them. He also introduced the concept of “nihilist” into literature and, using the example of his heroes, revealed it.

About the story "Bezhin Meadow"

The story “Bezhin Meadow” is part of the “Notes of a Hunter” cycle. The history of the creation of this cycle of independent stories is interesting. Together they create an amazing border of landscapes, excitement, anxiety and harsh nature (and the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” is an amazing reflection of human feelings in the mirror of the surrounding world).

When the writer returned to Russia after a trip abroad, the Sovremennik magazine began its long journey in 1847. Ivan Sergeevich was offered to publish a short work on the pages of the issue. But the writer believed that there was nothing worthy, and in the end he brought the editors a short story “Khor and Kalinich” (in the magazine it was called an essay). This “essay” had the effect of an explosion; readers began to ask Turgenev in numerous letters to him to continue and publish something similar. So the writer opened a new cycle and began to weave it from stories and essays, like precious beads. A total of 25 stories were published under this title.

One of the chapters - "Bezhin Meadow" - is known for its amazing pictures of nature and the atmosphere of the night. The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” is a real masterpiece. The meadow and forest, the night sky, and the fire seem to live their own lives. They are not just background. They are full-fledged characters in this story. Beginning with a description of early morning and dawn, the story will guide the reader through a hot summer day, and then through a mystical night in the forest and meadow with the mysterious name “Bezhin.”

Description of nature in the story "Bezhin Meadow". Summary.

On a very nice July day, the hero of the story went hunting for black grouse. The hunt was quite successful, and with a backpack full of game, he decided that it was time to go home. Climbing the hill, the hero realized that in front of him were places completely foreign to him. Deciding that he had “turned too right”, he walked down the hill in the hope that he would now rise from the right side and see familiar places. Night was approaching, and the path was still not found. Wandering through the forest and asking himself the question “So where am I?”, the hero suddenly stopped in front of an abyss into which he almost fell. Finally, he realized where he was. A place called Bezhin Meadow stretched out before him.

The hunter saw lights nearby and people near them. Moving towards them, he saw that they were boys from nearby villages. They grazed a herd of horses here.

It is worth mentioning separately about the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow”. She surprises, enchants, and sometimes frightens.

The narrator asked to stay with them for the night and, in order not to embarrass the boys, pretended to be asleep. The guys started telling scary stories. The first is about how they spent the night at the factory and there they were scared by a “brownie”.

The second story is about the carpenter Gavril, who went into the forest and heard the call of a mermaid. He got scared and crossed himself, for which the mermaid cursed him, saying that “he will kill himself all his life.”

The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” serves not only as a decoration for these stories, it complements them with mysticism, charm, and mystery.

So, until dawn, the boys recalled terrible stories. The author really liked the boy Pavlusha. His appearance was completely unremarkable, but he looked very smart and “there was strength in his voice.” His stories did not frighten the boys at all; a rational, wise answer was ready for everything. And when, in the midst of the conversation, the dogs barked and rushed into the forest, Pavlusha rushed after them. Returning, he calmly said that he expected to see a wolf. The boy's courage amazed the narrator. The next morning he returned home and often remembered that night and the boy Pavel. At the end of the story, the hero sadly says that Pavlusha, some time after they met, died - he fell from his horse.

Nature in the story

Pictures of nature occupy a special place in the story. The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” by Turgenev begins the story.

The landscape changes somewhat when the hero realizes that he is lost. Nature is still beautiful and majestic, but it evokes some kind of elusive, mystical fear.

When the boys slowly carry on their childish speeches, the meadow around seems to listen to them, sometimes supporting them with eerie sounds or the flight of a dove that has come from nowhere.

The role of the description of nature in the story "Bezhin Meadow"

This story is famous for its landscapes. But he doesn’t talk about nature, but about the story of the main character, about how he, having gotten lost, went to Bezhin Meadow and stayed the night with the village boys, listening to their scary stories and watching the children. Why are there so many descriptions of nature in the story? Landscapes are not just an addition, they set you in the right mood, captivate you, and sound like music in the background of the story. Be sure to read the entire story, it will surprise and enchant you.

In his story “Bezhin Meadow” I. S. Turgenev devotes a lot of space to the description of nature. Nature is like one of the characters in it, perhaps the most important thing. Thus, the author wanted to emphasize the uniqueness and beauty of the expanses of the Russian outback. The story begins with a description of nature and ends with it. This story from the series “Notes of a Hunter” is literally permeated with artistic landscape sketches. When we read it, buckwheat fields, the aromas of wormwood, and most importantly, the dry and fresh air of the July night come to life before our eyes.

In the story, the narrator Ivan Petrovich got lost in the Tula province while hunting black grouse. But what pictures open before him? It is unlikely that another author could describe the surrounding nature in such a way. A cauldron-shaped hollow with gentle sides, a vaguely clear sky, white grass like a smooth tablecloth, a wide river encircling the plain in a semicircle, steel reflections of water, frequent aspen trees, purple fog - all these and other epithets are applicable to Russian nature in the work “Bezhin Meadow”.

It turned out to be a wonderful day for the hunter. He even managed to fill his bag with black grouse. The only thing that bothered me was that he was lost. But soon he came to a huge plain, above which there was a cliff. And under that cliff he noticed a campfire, several people and grazing horses. The hunter went down to ask the guys for a place to stay for the night. As it turned out, they were no more than twelve to fourteen years old, and the youngest Vanka was seven years old. The boys grazed horses in the meadow and whiled away the night by the fire.

Along the way, they told each other scary stories. The hunter also listened to them out of the corner of his ear and observed the guys, their habits, and characteristic behavior out of interest. The strongest in spirit was Pavlusha - an outwardly unprepossessing boy, but full of strong determination. He was not the oldest of them, but all the other guys turned to him with questions. Even the animals obeyed him. He himself had natural courage. He could go after a wolf without a weapon, go alone to the river in the middle of the night for water.

According to the narrator, it was a wonderful evening surrounded by village boys. The atmosphere was somehow amazing and inviting. The air with the “smell of a Russian summer night” seemed fresh and languid. The guys kept telling scary stories, and at key moments nature, as if listening to their words, sent them small surprises. For example, a drawn-out sound from silence, the restless barking of dogs, a white dove flying up to the fire out of nowhere, the sharp cry of a heron, etc. All these pictures convey the anxiety and tension of the children, emphasizing their mood.

The starry sky plays an important role in the story, and little Vanya even calls the beauty of the night sky “God’s little stars.” A description of nature accompanies the entire story, and even at the end the author helps the reader to experience the unusually bright and beautiful landscape. Through the eyes of the narrator, we see a new, fresh day with cool dew and “streams of young hot light.” He meets familiar boys again. Rested, they rush past him in a cheerful herd.