An essay on the theme of Good and Evil in Gogol's story "Portrait". Abstract - Good and evil in the story of N
Theme:"Research on the influence of good and evil on
the talent and fate of the heroes in the story
N.V. Gogol "Portrait"
Target:
To instill in students the skill of research work with primary sources, reference literature.
In the course of research work, consider the influence of good and evil on the talent and fate of the heroes of the story.
To uncover artistic features images of heroes using computer and audio tools.
To contribute to the formation of an active moral position, the ability to conduct a discussion, the skill of working in a group.
Equipment: computer, projection screen, multimedia
projector, tape recorder, story texts,
Explanatory dictionary.
Lesson steps:
Activation of the topic.
Research work on the topic.
Psychological relief (health-preserving technologies).
Summing up the lesson.
Discussion of the results of the work.
Homework of choice (Designing drafts of the essay).
Board decoration:
Investigation of the influence of good and evil on the fate and talent of the heroes of the story by N.V. Gogol "Portrait »
Talent is the most precious
gift of God - do not destroy him ...
The true purpose of talent is
serve good .
N.V. Gogol
During the classes:
1. Organizational moment
Method -
conversation
2. Updating the topic.
Today we have a final lesson on the story of N.V. Gogol's "Portrait", which is included in the collection "Petersburg Tales".
There are many problems in the story, let's pay special attention to one of them - good and evil. We'll do a little research to help you write your essay.
You have read the work, disassembled each part. In today's lesson, we will summarize your knowledge and bring it into a system, thus preparing for writing an essay.
Let us first recall the composition of the story (definition of composition).
What is the peculiarity of constructing a work? (The parts are not in chronological order.)
What heroes are covered in each part?
What connects them? (Portrait) Is he the hero of the story? (Yes, it affects the fate of the heroes).
3... Research work on the topic.
Research work literature lessons can be carried out in many directions. In the lesson we will try to use them.
You are divided into three groups, each of which, using the example of the characteristics of the heroes, will consider the influence of good and evil. In the groups, choose 1 artist who will depict the heroes with a pencil, 1 organizer each - I work in writing on the texts on the content of the story, 2 people - analysts. They draw up a plan for the work, analyze the work of groups. Highlighting the most active learners with
Method - story, slide show number 1
Demonstration of slide number 2
Work in groups according to directions: characteristics of the heroes. Creation of artistic portraits.
Method - discussion + slideshow
What hero do we learn at the beginning of the story? (I work with the 1st group, the rest also participate in the discussion)
What does Chartkov look like? (An old greatcoat, a non-dapper dress, a tightly and heavily worn robe.)
What is his home?
Was the artist talented? Before answering this question, let us listen to the archivist. He was given the task: “Find the definition of the word“ talent ”from several encyclopedic sources - Prove the answer.
(Young Chartkov was an artist with talent, his brush responded with observation, busy with his work, he could forget drinking, and food, and the whole world).
Retell the moment of the unexpected appearance of money. What feelings and thoughts visit Chartkov? What is he listening to?
The artist begins to work to order, because wants to get rich quick.
When Chartkov realizes that his talent has died? Prove with words from the text. (His brush was gripping and dull)
What does the hero feel? (Envy). What intention was born in his soul?
Is Chartkov's death natural? Why? (Evil begins to lead him).
Where in modern world you can meet people
like Chartkov?
Demonstration of slide number 3
Archivist's report
2. Tell the story of the artist who created the portrait of the usurer
What work was an example of his spiritual revival? (Nativity of Christ)
What happened to his talent? Was evil able to take possession of his soul? The artist managed to preserve and exalt his talent.
Where in the modern world can you find people like the artist B.'s father?
Demonstration of slide number 4
3. - What did we learn about the portrait at the beginning of the story?
What amazed everyone? (Eyes).
Let's turn to the second part.
Tell us about the person in the portrait? What feeling does the moneylender represent? (Evil). Prove.
Good exists alongside evil. Having passed it through yourself, you involuntarily become infected with it. To reflect the spiritual world, one must have tremendous strength of mind and purity of heart, otherwise evil will subdue a person. Man, portraying evil, as it were, gives him the opportunity to influence our world, opens a window for him and thereby commits a sin. The artist does not serve his vanity, and not even his talent. He serves God.
Showing influence on the fate and talent of heroes,
Gogol uses the technique of science fiction. What does it mean? (Compare 2 versions of the ending of the story). In the first edition of the story, the ending was as follows: after the story of the history of the terrible portrait, the image of the usurer disappears from the canvas before everyone's eyes. In the second edition, the portrait is stolen during the story.
Just like almost 200 years ago, in the modern world, people are tempted by evil, power and money reign.
Diagram on a chalkboard drawn up by an archivist
We have verbally characterized the heroes of the story. Now let's listen to the artists. What is the main detail in the look? Prove.
Visually compare the images you create with those of professional artists.
Slideshow
№ 5-14
4. Psychological relief.
Let's get some rest. Close your eyes. Listen to 2 excerpts from classical works... Which character characterizes each passage? Prove.
5. Summing up the lesson.
How does the story solve the problem of the influence of good and evil on the talent and fate of the heroes? Refer to the epigraph.
Thus, people are always faced with a certain choice. And, choosing, a person is mistaken. If he realizes his mistake and corrects himself - this is good, spiritual rebirth begins. If pride does not allow him to be corrected, then his fall is final - this is evil.
Listening to audio recordings
Method - Conversation
6. Discussion of the results of the work.
- Analysts submit plans for the work and evaluate the group work, individual results are handed over to the teacher.
7. Optional homework.
Mark
Theme of the essay
"3"
The story of N.V. Gogol's "Portrait". Theme, idea, composition, heroes of the work.
"4", "5"
1. The path from talent to death. Chartkov's characteristic.
2. The path from talent to purification. Characteristics of the artist. Who painted the portrait.
3. Evil in N.V. Gogol "Portrait"
* task of increased difficulty
Persuade Chartkov to go down the right path and keep his talent. Make a conversation algorithm with the hero. (quest dialogue)
Slide show
№ 15
Written work (preparation of drafts of the essay).
Grishina Marina Anatolievna
The story "Portrait" was finished by N.V. Gogol by 1841. The writer reflects on the high secret of art, the spiritual death of the artist. This story raises many problems. One of the most important problems is the struggle between good and evil. It is successfully revealed due to the fact that the work consists of two parts, in each of which there is an artist.
The first part tells about the painter Chartkov.
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He is very talented but poor. After acquiring a strange portrait in an art gallery, unusual things happen to him: the revival of the usurer depicted in the portrait, an incomprehensible dream. In this dream, Chartkov sees a lot of money, which gives us the right to say about his thirst for fame and wealth. In the soul of the protagonist there is a secret evil, an ill-wisher. He soon discovers money that has fallen out of that picture. With their help, he becomes rich, and then famous. With the acquisition of fame, Chartkov loses the most important thing - his individuality. He no longer draws from the heart, but according to accepted standards, stereotypes. Once, at an exhibition of the work of his longtime friend, he noticed the magnificence of his work. At that moment, he realizes that he has traded his talent for money. Soon Chartkov dies, shaken by this thought.
The second part of the story tells about another, completely opposite in spirit artist, not inclined to ambition. A moneylender came to him with a request to paint his portrait. The artist began to work on it, but the process of execution went badly. Upon completion of the portrait, he began to be passed from hand to hand, and everyone to whom he fell became doomed to misfortune. The artist realized that he had committed a sin, became a hermit and went to a monastery. Having healed his soul by painting an icon, he bequeathed to his son to find and destroy that ill-fated portrait. In this way he tried to atone for his sin.
Summing up the above, we can say that good and evil in the story "Portrait", of course, are interconnected and are the main theme of the work. The first is manifested here as the atonement for sin, the desire for repentance and the absence of ambition that darkens life. And the second manifests itself on the way from talent to death due to greed and envy, the desire to become richer and gain fame, no matter what.
Updated: 2019-02-10
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Good and evil in the story of N.V. Gogol "Portrait"
Gogol called his story "Portrait". Is it because the portrait of the usurer played fateful role in the fate of his heroes, artists, whose fates are juxtaposed in two parts of the story? Or because the author wanted to give a portrait modern society and a talented person who dies or is saved despite hostile circumstances and humiliating properties of nature? Or is it a portrait of art and the soul of the writer himself, trying to escape the temptation of success and prosperity and purify his soul by serving art?
Probably, in this strange story of Gogol, there is a social, moral and aesthetic meaning, there is a reflection on what a person, society, and art are. Modernity and eternity are so inextricably intertwined here that the life of the Russian capital of the 30s of the 19th century goes back to biblical reflections on good and evil, on their endless struggle in human soul.
Nikolai Gogol's story "Portrait" consists of two interrelated parts.
The first part of the story tells about a young artist named Chartkov. Seeing in the shop a strange portrait of an old man with piercing eyes, Chartkov is ready to give up the last two-kopeck piece for him. Poverty does not take away from him the ability to see the beauty of life and enthusiastically work on his sketches. He reaches for the light and does not want to turn art into anatomical theater and expose the "disgusting person" with a knife-brush. He rejects artists whose "nature itself ... seems low and dirty", so that "there is nothing illuminating in it." Chartkov buys a portrait and takes it to his poor house. At home, he examines the portrait better, and sees that now not only the eyes, but also the whole face are alive, it seems as if the old man is about to come to life. The young artist goes to bed, and he dreams that the old man crawled out of his portrait, and shows a bag in which there are many parcels of money. The artist discreetly hides one of them. In the morning, he actually discovers money. And what happens to the main character next? As soon as the money, miraculously dropped out of the portrait frame, gives Chartkov the opportunity to lead a scattered social life, enjoy prosperity, wealth and fame, and not art, become his idol. Chartkov hires a new apartment, orders a commendable article about himself in the newspaper and begins to paint fashionable portraits. Moreover, the similarity of portraits and
customers - minimal, as the artist embellishes faces and removes flaws. Money flows like a river. Chartkov himself wonders how he could earlier attach so much importance to similarity and spend so much time working on one portrait. Chartkov became fashionable, famous, he was invited everywhere. The Academy of Arts asks him to express his opinion on the works of one young artist. Chartkov was going to criticize, but suddenly he sees how magnificent the work of the young talent is. He realizes that he once traded his talent for money. But the shock experienced by Chartkov from beautiful picture does not awaken him to a new life, because for this it was necessary to abandon the pursuit of wealth and fame, to kill the evil in himself. Chartkov chooses a different path: he begins to expel talented art from the world, buy and cut magnificent canvases, and kill good. And this path leads him to madness and death.
What was the reason for these terrible transformations: the weakness of a person before temptations or the mystical witchcraft of a portrait of a usurer who gathered the evil of the world in his scorching gaze?
Evil touches not only the success of Chartkov, who is subject to temptations, but also the father of the artist B., who painted a portrait of a usurer who looked like a devil and who himself became an evil spirits. And "a strong character, an honest straight person", having painted a portrait of evil, feels "incomprehensible anxiety", aversion to life and envy of the successes of his talented students. He can no longer paint good, his brush is guided by "impure feeling", and in the painting intended for the temple "there is no holiness in the faces."
Seeing self-interest, insignificance, "earthiness" of people, the writer is indignant and preaches. The artist, the father of the narrator of the second part B., redeeming the evil he committed by painting a portrait of the usurer, goes to a monastery, becomes a hermit and reaches the spiritual height that allows him to paint the nativity of Jesus. Having taken monastic vows, he bequeathed to his son to find and destroy the portrait. He says: "He who contains talent must be the purest soul of all."
The proximity of the first and second parts in Gogol's "Portrait" is intended to convince the reader that evil can take over any person, regardless of his moral nature. And it will always be so. After all, the portrait disappears. Evil walks around the world, finding new victims ...
Good and evil in the story of N.V. Gogol "Portrait"
Gogol called his story "Portrait". Is it because the portrait of the usurer played a fatal role in the fate of his heroes, artists, whose fates are juxtaposed in two parts of the story? Or because the author wanted to give a portrait of modern society and a talented person who dies or is saved despite hostile circumstances and humiliating properties of nature? Or is it a portrait of art and the soul of the writer himself, trying to escape the temptation of success and prosperity and purify his soul by serving art?
Probably, in this strange story of Gogol, there is a social, moral and aesthetic meaning, there is a reflection on what a person, society, and art are. Modernity and eternity are so inextricably intertwined here that the life of the Russian capital of the 30s of the 19th century goes back to biblical reflections on good and evil, on their endless struggle in the human soul.
Nikolai Gogol's story "Portrait" consists of two interrelated parts.
The first part of the story tells about a young artist named Chartkov. Seeing in the shop a strange portrait of an old man with piercing eyes, Chartkov is ready to give up the last two-kopeck piece for him. Poverty does not take away from him the ability to see the beauty of life and enthusiastically work on his sketches. He reaches for the light and does not want to turn art into anatomical theater and expose the "disgusting person" with a knife-brush. He rejects artists whose "nature itself ... seems low and dirty", so that "there is nothing illuminating in it." Chartkov buys a portrait and takes it to his poor house. At home, he examines the portrait better, and sees that now not only the eyes, but also the whole face are alive, it seems as if the old man is about to come to life. The young artist goes to bed, and he dreams that the old man crawled out of his portrait, and shows a bag in which there are many parcels of money. The artist discreetly hides one of them. In the morning, he actually discovers money. And what happens to the main character next? As soon as the money, miraculously dropped out of the portrait frame, gives Chartkov the opportunity to lead a scattered social life, enjoy prosperity, wealth and fame, and not art, become his idol. Chartkov hires a new apartment, orders a commendable article about himself in the newspaper and begins to paint fashionable portraits. Moreover, the similarity of portraits and
customers - minimal, as the artist embellishes faces and removes flaws. Money flows like a river. Chartkov himself wonders how he could earlier attach so much importance to similarity and spend so much time working on one portrait. Chartkov became fashionable, famous, he was invited everywhere. The Academy of Arts asks him to express his opinion on the work of one young artist. Chartkov was going to criticize, but suddenly he sees how magnificent the work of the young talent is. He realizes that he once traded his talent for money. But the shock that Chartkov experienced from the beautiful picture does not awaken him to a new life, because for this it was necessary to abandon the pursuit of wealth and fame, to kill evil in himself. Chartkov chooses a different path: he begins to expel talented art from the world, buy and cut magnificent canvases, and kill good. And this path leads him to madness and death.
What was the reason for these terrible transformations: the weakness of a person before temptations or the mystical witchcraft of a portrait of a usurer who gathered the evil of the world in his scorching gaze?
Evil touches not only the success of Chartkov, who is subject to temptations, but also the father of the artist B., who painted a portrait of a usurer who looked like a devil and who himself became an evil spirits. And "a strong character, an honest straight person", having painted a portrait of evil, feels "incomprehensible anxiety", aversion to life and envy of the successes of his talented students. He can no longer paint good, his brush is guided by "impure feeling", and in the painting intended for the temple "there is no holiness in the faces."
Seeing self-interest, insignificance, "earthiness" of people, the writer is indignant and preaches. The artist, the father of the narrator of the second part B., redeeming the evil he committed by painting a portrait of the usurer, goes to a monastery, becomes a hermit and reaches the spiritual height that allows him to paint the nativity of Jesus. Having taken monastic vows, he bequeathed to his son to find and destroy the portrait. He says: "He who contains talent must be the purest soul of all."
The proximity of the first and second parts in Gogol's "Portrait" is intended to convince the reader that evil can take over any person, regardless of his moral nature. And it will always be so. After all, the portrait disappears. Evil walks around the world, finding new victims ...
Good and evil in the story of N.V. Gogol "Portrait"
Gogol called his story "Portrait". Is it because the portrait of the usurer played a fatal role in the fate of his heroes, artists, whose fates are juxtaposed in two parts of the story? Or because the author wanted to give a portrait of modern society and a talented person who dies or is saved despite hostile circumstances and humiliating properties of nature? Or is it a portrait of art and the soul of the writer himself, trying to escape the temptation of success and prosperity and purify his soul by high service to art?
Probably, in this strange story of Gogol, there is a social, moral and aesthetic meaning, there is a reflection on what a person, society, and art are. Modernity and eternity are so inextricably intertwined here that the life of the Russian capital of the 30s of the 19th century goes back to biblical reflections on good and evil, on their endless struggle in the human soul.
Nikolai Gogol's story "Portrait" consists of two interrelated parts.
The first part of the story tells about a young artist named Chartkov. Seeing in the shop a strange portrait of an old man with piercing eyes, Chartkov is ready to give up the last two-kopeck piece for him. Poverty does not take away from him the ability to see the beauty of life and enthusiastically work on his sketches. He reaches for the light and does not want to turn art into anatomical theater and expose the "disgusting person" with a knife-brush. He rejects artists whose "nature itself ... seems low and dirty", so that "there is nothing illuminating in it." Chartkov buys a portrait and takes it to his poor house. At home, he examines the portrait better, and sees that now not only the eyes, but also the whole face are alive, it seems as if the old man is about to come to life. The young artist goes to bed, and he dreams that the old man crawled out of his portrait, and shows a bag in which there are many parcels of money. The artist discreetly hides one of them. In the morning, he actually discovers money. And what happens to the main character next? As soon as the money, miraculously dropped out of the portrait frame, gives Chartkov the opportunity to lead a scattered social life, enjoy prosperity, wealth and fame, and not art, become his idol. Chartkov hires a new apartment, orders a commendable article about himself in the newspaper and begins to paint fashionable portraits. Moreover, the similarity of portraits and
customers - minimal, as the artist embellishes faces and removes flaws. Money flows like a river. Chartkov himself wonders how he could earlier attach so much importance to similarity and spend so much time working on one portrait. Chartkov became fashionable, famous, he was invited everywhere. The Academy of Arts asks him to express his opinion on the works of one young artist. Chartkov was going to criticize, but suddenly he sees how magnificent the work of the young talent is. He realizes that he once traded his talent for money. But the shock that Chartkov experienced from the beautiful picture does not awaken him to a new life, because for this it was necessary to abandon the pursuit of wealth and fame, to kill evil in himself. Chartkov chooses a different path: he begins to expel talented art from the world, buy and cut magnificent canvases, and kill good. And this path leads him to madness and death.
What was the reason for these terrible transformations: the weakness of a person before temptations or the mystical witchcraft of a portrait of a usurer who gathered the evil of the world in his scorching gaze?
Evil touches not only the success of Chartkov, who is subject to temptations, but also the father of the artist B., who painted a portrait of a usurer who looked like a devil and who himself became an evil spirits. And "a strong character, an honest straight person", having painted a portrait of evil, feels "incomprehensible anxiety", aversion to life and envy of the successes of his talented students. He can no longer paint good, his brush is guided by "impure feeling", and in the painting intended for the temple "there is no holiness in the faces."
Seeing self-interest, insignificance, "earthiness" of people, the writer is indignant and preaches. The artist, the father of the narrator of the second part B., redeeming the evil he committed by painting a portrait of the usurer, goes to a monastery, becomes a hermit and reaches the spiritual height that allows him to paint the nativity of Jesus. Having taken monastic vows, he bequeathed to his son to find and destroy the portrait. He says: "He who contains talent must be the purest soul of all."
The proximity of the first and second parts in Gogol's "Portrait" is intended to convince the reader that evil can take over any person, regardless of his moral nature. And it will always be so. After all, the portrait disappears. Evil walks around the world, finding new victims ...
