Masha Mironova is the true love of Pyotr Grinev and the moral ideal of the writer. The image of Masha Mironova in the story by A.S.
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In the name of love.
The novel "The Captain's Daughter" tells the story of the dramatic events of the 70s of the 18th century, when the discontent of peasants and residents of the outskirts of Russia resulted in a war led by Emelyan Pugachev. Initially, Pushkin wanted to write a novel dedicated only to the Pugachev movement, but censorship was unlikely to let it through. Therefore, the main storyline becomes the love of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev for the daughter of the captain of the Belogorsk fortress, Masha Mironova.
In "The Captain's Daughter" several storylines develop simultaneously. One of them is the love story of Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova. This love line continues throughout the novel. At first, Peter reacted negatively to Masha due to the fact that Shvabrin described her as “a complete fool.” But then Peter gets to know her better and discovers that she is “noble and sensitive.” He falls in love with her, and she also reciprocates his feelings.
Grinev loves Masha very much and is ready to do anything for her. He proves this more than once. When Shvabrin humiliates Masha, Grinev quarrels with him and even shoots himself. When Peter is faced with a choice: to obey the general’s decision and stay in the besieged city or to respond to Masha’s desperate cry “you are my only patron, stand up for me, poor one!”, Grinev leaves Orenburg to save her. During the trial, risking his life, he does not consider it possible to name Masha, fearing that she will be subjected to a humiliating interrogation - “it occurred to me that if I named her, the commission would demand her to answer; and the idea of entangling her among vile accusations villains and bring her herself to a confrontation..."
But Masha’s love for Grinev is deep and devoid of any selfish motives. She does not want to marry him without parental consent, thinking that otherwise Peter “will not have happiness.” From a timid “coward,” she, by the will of circumstances, is reborn into a decisive and persistent heroine who managed to achieve the triumph of justice. She goes to the empress's court to save her lover and defend her right to happiness. Masha was able to prove Grinev’s innocence and his faithfulness to his oath. When Shvabrin wounds Grinev, Masha nurses him, “Marya Ivanovna never left my side.” Thus, Masha will save Grinev from shame, death and exile, just as he saved her from shame and death.
For Pyotr Grinev and Masha Mironova, everything ends well, and we see that no vicissitudes of fate can ever break a person if he is determined to fight for his principles, ideals, and love. An unprincipled and dishonest person who has no sense of duty often faces the fate of being left alone with his disgusting actions, baseness, meanness, without friends, loved ones and just close people.
The storyline of the heroes' love is built according to the canons of a fairy tale: two young lovers overcome all obstacles on the path to happiness. Just as in a fairy tale, good always triumphs over evil, young people at the end of the novel unite for marriage and a long, happy life. This became possible thanks to many fortunate circumstances introduced by the author into the narrative, but the main reason for their connection has a moral basis. The fact is that Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev throughout the entire novel did not commit a single reprehensible act, did not utter a single false word. This is the moral law of life, reflected both in the plot of folk love and in the plot of the love of Masha and Grinev.
Masha’s first test took place even before Grinev’s appearance in the fortress: Shvabrin proposed to the girl and was refused. Masha rejects the very possibility of becoming Shvabrin’s wife: “... when I think that I will have to kiss him under the aisle in front of everyone... No way! not for any well-being!” Shvabrin tries to prevent Grinev’s sympathy for Masha: after Grinev’s arrival at the fortress, he slandered the Mironov family and exposed Masha to Grinev as “a complete fool.”
When Shvabrin noticed this sympathy of Grinev for Masha, he tried to destroy the nascent feeling by slandering the girl, declaring that he knew “her character and customs from experience.” The best characteristic of Grinev is not only that he immediately calls Shvabrin a liar and a scoundrel, but also that he never for a moment doubted his beloved girl. This episode marks the beginning of Shvabrin’s hatred for Grinev, so in a duel he tries to stab Grinev to death, vilely taking advantage of the situation. However, Grinev’s serious injury led to the fact that Peter and Masha opened their feelings to each other.
The next stage in the development of the storyline of love and trials of Masha and Grinev begins with Andrei Petrovich Grinev’s ban on his son marrying Masha. Shvabrin’s denunciation to Grinev’s father looks especially undignified after Grinev sincerely forgave Shvabrin for the wound he inflicted. Grinev understands Shvabrin’s goal: to remove his rival from the fortress and break off his relationship with Masha. A new test begins with the uprising: Shvabrin’s machinations become more and more threatening. By forcing Masha to marry him, he thereby wants to gain power over her. And Grinev’s last meeting with Shvabrin at the trial shows that he wants to drag Grinev with him to his death at all costs: he slanderes his opponent, accusing him of treason. Shvabrin did not mention Masha’s name at the trial not out of pride or remnants of love for her, as the noble Grinev assumed, but because this could lead to Grinev’s acquittal, and Shvabrin could not allow this.
Why does Shvabrin so stubbornly want to marry Masha, why does he destroy her alliance with Grinev in every possible way? The vital, psychological reasons for this behavior are obvious. They are convincingly, with realistic accuracy, conveyed by Pushkin both in the depiction of the situations in which the heroes find themselves, and in the description of the characters’ characters.
On the one hand, Grinev, Masha and Shvabrin are ordinary characters in the novel, just like the others. On the other hand, their images have symbolic meaning. Masha is an example of spiritual purity and moral height; philosophically, she embodies goodness. Shvabrin does not commit a single good deed, does not utter a single truthful word. Shvabrin's soul is gloomy, he does not know good, his image in the novel expresses evil. The author’s idea, which he wants to convey to the reader through a plot about love, is that Shvabrin’s desire to marry Masha means the desire of evil to gain a foothold in people’s lives. Grinev receives in the novel the high status of a hero representing all people. It is a person who must make a choice between good and evil, to save good, just as Grinev saved Masha. And evil seeks to prevent this, so Shvabrin is trying with all his might to separate Grinev and Masha. This is the meaning of the moral and philosophical parable that underlies the love line of the novel. Thus, Pushkin argues that the resolution of historical and personal conflicts lies in the moral sphere and depends on the spiritual choice of a person.
"" is the greatest work of Russian literature. Although the main theme of the story is devoted to the bloody peasant uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, the love story plays an important role in it. In my opinion, it was thanks to Masha Mironova that Grinev grew from a “green” youth to a real officer.
The first meeting of the heroes of the story took place in the Belogorsk fortress. It is worth noting that Masha was an ordinary modest and quiet girl who did not make much of an impression. The author describes her as follows: “...a girl of about eighteen, chubby, ruddy, with light brown hair, smoothly combed behind her ears, which were on fire.”
In addition, from the stories of his friend, Grinev imagined Masha as a simple “fool”. The girl’s mother said that her daughter was a real “coward”, because she was frightened by a cannon salvo and almost died.
But as the plot of the work develops, Grinev’s opinion about Masha changes. He sees her as a very smart and educated person. The young people begin to get closer and tender feelings arise between them.
It should be noted that the main characters were forced to fight for their happiness. So, Masha, showing the strength of her character, refuses to marry Peter without the blessing of his parents. She is even ready to give way to another, one that suits Grinev’s parents, just so that her beloved can live happily.
After the Belogorsk fortress is captured by the rebels, Masha loses her parents and they are publicly executed. The traitor Shvabrin becomes the commandant of the fortress, who dreams of realizing his plan and marrying the girl. He locks Masha up, makes her sit on bread and water, and forces her to accept his offer. But the girl is adamant. She remains faithful to her beloved. Masha is even ready to give up her life so as not to marry Shvabrin.
Somehow, miraculously, the girl manages to convey to Peter the news that she is in such trouble. Grinev, without thinking for a minute, goes to the fortress and saves Masha. After this, the young people finally understand that they truly love each other. Grinev brings Masha to her parents' house. Now she is accepted as her own daughter.
Later, fate tests the young people again. Based on the false letter, Grinev is sent to trial. To help her beloved, Masha decides to go to Catherine II herself. The Empress listens to the girl’s words and has mercy on Peter.
I think that, using the example of Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev, he wanted to show us what the relationship between a man and a woman should be like. A relationship where love, respect and self-sacrifice reign.
Story by A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" reveals many themes. One of the most important is the theme of love. At the center of the story are the mutual feelings of the young nobleman Pyotr Grinev and the captain's daughter Masha Mironova.
The first meeting of Peter and Masha
Masha Mironova represents the ideal of A.S. Pushkin, expressing fortitude, honor and dignity, the ability to defend one’s love, to sacrifice much for the sake of feelings. It is thanks to her that Peter gains true courage, his character is tempered, and the qualities of a real man are cultivated.
At the first meeting in the Belogorsk fortress, the girl did not make much of an impression on Grinev; she seemed to the young man a simpleton, especially since his friend Shvabrin spoke very unflatteringly about her.
The inner world of the captain's daughter
But very soon Peter realizes that Masha is a deep, well-read, sensitive girl. A feeling is born between young people, which imperceptibly develops into true, all-conquering love, capable of overcoming all the difficulties encountered along its path.
Trials on the path of heroes
For the first time, Masha shows her steadfastness and reasonableness of character when she does not agree to marry Petya without the blessing of her lover’s parents, because without this simple human happiness will be impossible. For the sake of Grinev’s happiness, she is even ready to give up the wedding.
The girl’s second ordeal falls during the capture of the fortress by Pugachev’s rebels. She loses both parents and is left alone surrounded by enemies. Alone, she withstands Shvabrin’s blackmail and pressure, preferring to remain faithful to her lover. Nothing - neither hunger, nor threats, nor serious illness - can force her to marry another person, despised by her.
Happy ending
Pyotr Grinev finds an opportunity to save the girl. It becomes obvious that they will be together forever, that they are destined for each other. Then the young man’s parents accept her as their own, recognizing the depths of her soul and inner dignity. After all, it is she who saves him from slander and reprisals before the court.
This is how they save each other. In my opinion, they act as a guardian angel for each other. I think that for Pushkin, the relationship between Masha and Grinev is the ideal of a relationship between a man and a woman, headed by love, mutual respect and absolute devotion.
The last major work of A.S. Pushkin’s novel “The Captain’s Daughter” was short in volume but incredibly deep in meaning. The classic himself, who devoted more than one year to writing it, admitted in his diaries that the work became his philosophical and creative testament, in which he was able to reflect all the thoughts that worried him.
The novel itself primarily contains Christian didacticism. He refers the reader to the Gospel of Matthew, to the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ and to his covenant to be a true righteous man, to do nothing for show and to carry love for his neighbor in his heart, to remain merciful even with the enemy, to take care of honor and dignity. This has been noted many times by literary scholars.
Historian G. Fedotov, for example, called “The Captain’s Daughter” the most Christian work in the entire history of Russian literature. He noted that this is a story about “quiet righteousness.” There is no doubt that the heroine of the novel, Masha Mironova, becomes the bearer of this righteousness.
Despite the fact that the main semantic load falls on the idea of Christian love, Pushkin does not lose sight of romantic love. This is perhaps the most striking and interesting storyline in the work, which makes “The Captain’s Daughter” so attractive even to the modern reader.
The main character of the story, Petrusha Grinev, grew up as a teenager: he chased pigeons, listened to the stories of the poultry woman and rudely scolded his uncle Savelich. Tired of his son’s sloppiness, Grinev Sr. sends him to “serve, smell gunpowder” to the provincial Belogorsk fortress. Surprisingly, it is there that colossal historical events will unfold, which will play an important role in the life of Petrusha and other heroes. And it is here, in the Belogorsk fortress, that a spoiled but honest, noble young man will be lucky enough to meet his true love.
At first, Marya Ivanovna, the daughter of Captain Mironov, the girl who will be able to win Grinev’s heart, will not attract his attention. She was not pretty, had poor health and a sensitive heart. The mother, Vasilisa Egorovna, called her daughter a coward to her face and warned her that she was afraid of a gun shot.
It is interesting that the heroes, who initially appear not in the most favorable light, ultimately unite and change each other for the better. Their souls desperately grow stronger, and the love that arose between them leads them to true happiness and salvation.
The love line in the novel “The Captain's Daughter” is complicated by dramatic twists and turns. Thus, for the first time Masha shows her character when she finds herself marrying her lover without the blessing of his parents. She tells Grinev that without their approval, he, Petrusha, will not be happy. This reveals the amazing nobility of the heroine, ready to sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of the happiness of her loved one.
Later, the trials will become much more terrible: Masha Mironova’s parents die at the hands of vile rebels, and the girl herself is miraculously saved by the priest - in this episode the Christocentric motifs of Pushkin’s works also appear. Grinev finds himself separated from his beloved. Soon she is captured and finds herself in the clutches of the traitor Shvabrin. He demands the girl’s consent to marry him, but Masha, observing Christ’s commandment from the Sermon on the Mount “do not commit adultery in your heart,” remains faithful to another. The nobility of her soul appears in the episode where she frantically admits that she is ready to die rather than sell herself to save her body.
The captain's daughter has to seek protection from the rebel Pugachev himself, despite her previous “cowardice.” Love for Grinev enormously changed the character of Masha Mironova. Against her will, she had to become courageous, strong and brave, devoted to her lover. When he needs help, it is she, a weak woman, who goes to the capital to do everything in her power to save Pyotr Andreich.
It’s interesting that love in “The Captain’s Daughter” takes on a tinge of... belligerence! Alexander Sergeich takes his heroes through many difficult tests and subjects them to the need to make difficult moral choices. And in the conditions of historical drama, the senseless and merciless Russian rebellion, Masha and Peter seem to deserve spiritual cleansing. The author seems to be arranging for them the circles of Hell and Purgatory in order to ultimately lead the heroes through pain and suffering to heavenly life on earth.
It seems that in this novel A.S. Pushkin creates a somewhat exaggerated image of an ideal relationship between a man and a woman - a relationship where harmony, mutual respect and selfless devotion to each other reign, the willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of a loved one. The historical background against which this love story unfolds is needed only in order to more strikingly show the contrast between base feelings - the thirst for power, cruelty, etc. - and true love, which every person on earth should strive for.
