Literary arguments published in this article are taken from works studied in the school curriculum.
They are grouped into 4 topics:
1. Heroes who make a choice, succumbing to feelings.
2. Heroes for whom feelings are alien.
3. Awakening the feeling.
4. The clash of reason and feelings.


List of works:

3. N.V. Gogol "Taras Bulba"
4. IS Turgenev "Asya", "Fathers and Sons"
5. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"
6. IABunin "The Sunny Impact"

8. M.Yu.Lermontov "The Hero of Our Time"
9. FM Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment"
10. AP Chekhov "About Love"

1. Heroes who make a choice, succumbing to feelings

1. N.M. Karamzin "Poor Liza"

The main heroine of the novel is NM. Karamzin "Poor Lisa" is a peasant girl whose central character is sensitivity, that is, the ability to sympathize, to discover in "the bends of the heart" the "tender feelings", and also the ability to enjoy contemplation of one's own emotions. She trusts the movements of her heart, she lives "gentle passions". Her story is about how a man seduces a girl, and then throws. Acquainted with the young nobleman Erast, tired of the windy social life, Lisa   completely surrenders to his love: "they only lived and breathed." The heroine loves fiery, passionate and forever. But gradually she begins to notice what is happening in the beloved change. He explains his cooling by the fact that he needs to go to war. However, in the army, Erast does not so much fight with the enemy as he plays cards. Subsequently, to fix his affairs, the hero marries an elderly rich widow. The act of the beloved became for Lisa a collapse of hopes, loss of the meaning of life. She can not cope with her own grief and is drowning in the pond. So   fervor and fervor lead the girl to death.

2. Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Onegin"

  Vladimir Lenski   - a young nobleman, an enthusiastic youth, a romantic poet and dreamer who is not afraid to talk about his feelings. Lensky passionately in love with Olga, sees in her a romantic heroine of books, consisting only of poetic features. At some point he goes on about his jealousy, can not cope with the feelings that gripped him and initiates a duel with fellow Onegin, on which he dies.

3. N.V. Gogol "Taras Bulba"

Andriy   - the youngest son of the old Cossack Taras Bulba. His image is fanned by a romantic halo. Unlike his stern brother, he has more lively and developed feelings. He is dreamy, passionate, ardent, easily lends itself to spiritual impulses. Andrii is sensitive to the beauty of nature, he treats the mother with awe, he is attracted by the music of bullets and guns. He is not alien to the pleasure in which he plunges with his head. The most important thing for him is the love of a woman. An irresistible passion for the beautiful pannochka captured Andria with its mighty wing. Because of her, he betrayed his homeland, crossed over to her sworn enemies, completely without thinking about the consequences of his deed. The fate of the young Cossack is tragic: having submitted to the power of love, he dies with the name of a beautiful Polish woman on the lips at the hands of his father, who could not forgive the betrayal of his own son.
4. IS Turgenev "Asya"

Asya - the main heroine of the story of the same name IS Turgenev, a young girl, dreamy, vulnerable, sincere. She is a deep person, every feeling experiences with all her heart. Acquaintance with Mr. N.N. first awakens love in Ace. Previously uncharted sensation inspires the heroine, gives her new strengths, illuminates life with a new meaning. She is extremely open to her feelings, but at the same time does not know how to express it, how to behave with a loved one. The writer shows how the love of Asi develops and what strength, spiritual upsurge she achieves. Falling in love for the first time, the girl does not hide this and makes her choice - she admits to her chosen one. Unfortunately, Mr. N.N. Asya could not adequately respond to her fervent feelings. Therefore, the first love of the heroine is unhappy.


5. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"

Natasha Rostova   - the central female image of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. This ardent, sincere, addicted nature with a rich, broad soul. She is able to enjoy life, feel deeply, suffer, experience. For Natasha, the main thing in life is love, which manifests itself in romance, passion and is necessarily accompanied by the flights of the soul, impulses, insanities. That's why she can not stand the separation from her fiance, Andrei Bolkonsky, and is genuinely addicted to secular brush Anatol Kuragin, who seemed to her "a noble knight capable of putting life for love." Naivety and inexperience do not allow Natasha to discern in Anatole a selfish person who lives one minute, who knows neither shame nor conscience. Sincere and trustful, Rostov has become accustomed to believing everything, so she does not even dare to think that behind the warm assurances of love, behind Anatoly's tender smile lies lies deception. Natasha does not listen to Sonya, who claims that Kuragin is an ignoble person, hates Mary Dmitrievna, who prevented her from escaping with her lover. The love story of the heroine of L.Tolstoy ends sadly: trying to poison herself, she remains alive, having realized, though late, her delusion about Kuragin and is deeply repenting for it before God.

6. I.Bunin "Sunstroke"

  The heroes of I.Bunin's story "Sunstroke" are on the occasion of a sudden flare-up of passion. Lieutenant and young woman, whose names are not named by the writer, get acquainted on one of the Volga steamers. Contrary to common sense, they suddenly leave the ferry and go to the hotel, where they spend the night. Heroes are in the grip of the feelings that gripped them, they are blinded by passion, happy and completely do not think about the consequences of their actions. And the consequences were very sad: after parting with a stranger the lieutenant suddenly realizes that he was overtaken by love, but the bitter insight and realization that this meeting was the first and last and that this relationship has no future makes him suffer. So rash actions instead of the expected happiness brought the hero only pain and disappointment.
7. AI Kuprin "The Garnet Bracelet"

The hero of the story isZheltkov G.S. , a small official of the control chamber, poora young man "about thirty-five years old", quite a pleasant appearance.   Despite its low social position, it can not be called a "poor spirit"; on the contrary, it is endowed with a refined taste and the ability to love selflessly and unselfishly. For eight years, Yolk   unrequitedly in love with Princess Vera Nikolaevna Shein. His feelings he revealed in letters. The love of Vera Nikolaevna for Zheltkov is a huge happiness sent to him by God, the only joy and consolation, she filled his life with meaning, so when her beloved husband and Vera Nikolaevna herself asked Zheltkov to give up her feelings and leave the city, he preferred death. The act of the hero indicates that he is capable of a high feeling, which was stronger than the fear of death.

10. AI Kuprin "The Garnet Bracelet"

The main character of the story is the young princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, the woman is beautiful, kind and honest. She leads a drowsy, monotonous lifestyle, which is based on familiar and convenient connections. All the emotions of the heroine have long been blunted.She "was strictly simple, with all cold and a little patronymic, amiable, independent and regally calm." In the life of Vera Nikolaevna there is no real love. Her husband is associated with a deep sense of friendship, respect, and habit. The royal calm of the princess is violated by a secret admirer - a modest and poor Yoltkov who is in love with Vera Nikolaevna passionately and unrequitedly. He makes the heroine experience the awakening of a new spiritual mood. With the tragic development of the plot, Vera Nikolaevna's inner tension grows, and her soul comes to life. The most intense moment is the farewell to the deceased Zheltkov, their only "date." It is at this moment that Vera realizes that she has lost true love. Returning home, the heroine hears the sounds of the second sonata of Beethoven, Zheltkov's favorite melody, and cries. The tears of the princess are evidence of the revival of her soul.

11. M.Yu.Lermontov "The Hero of Our Time"

  Grigory A. Pechorin   - a young officer, the personality is complex and contradictory. He is intelligent, uncommon, brilliantly educated, but internally devastated, disappointed in life, in people. Pechorin   feels in itself immense forces, but squanders them into trifles, on love adventures, without doing anything useful. Moreover, Pechorin makes the people around him unhappy."I have long been living not with my heart, but with my head," he says of himself. Indeed, all his actions are characterized by cold rationality.Pechorin forbade himself to feel, because his real impulses of the soul did not find a response in others. Analyzing his attitude towards women, we can conclude that the hero is not able to truly love. After all, they   for him - only a way to dispel boredom, an opportunity to show their selfish authority. Pechorin studies their behavior, comes up with new twists and turns in the game, ruthlessly shatters hopes.   But it turns out that even in this cold heart there is a place for real feeling.This is evidenced by the attitude of Pechorin to Vera, the only woman who accepted him as she is, and who understands him subtly and knows how lonely and unhappy he is. The love for Vera is clearly manifested at the moment when, after her departure, Pechorin rushes after him and drives his horse to death in order to catch up and stop his beloved. But as soon as Pechorin's soul wakes up genuine feelings, he not only worries that an outsider will see them, but he himself is afraid of them. Then he kills the better half of his soul and hides it deeply, so that no one sees.

4. The clash of the mind and the senses

12. Igor Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"

  In the novel IS. Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" author deliberately confronts feelings and reason, leading the reader to the idea that any theory has the right to exist if it does not contradict life itself. Evgeny Bazarov   - a young man, a future doctor, a nihilist by conviction, has a sharp analytical mind, sharp in his judgments and assessments. Eugene is sure that life can be subordinated to a fictitious theory. Putting forward the rationalization of the idea of ​​changing society, the old way of life, preferred exact sciences, capable of benefiting the state, society, humanity. At the same time he denied all the spiritual components of human life - art, love, romance, marriage, beauty and aesthetics of nature. Such a denial and unrequited love for Anna Sergeyevna leads the hero to the collapse of his theory, disappointment and moral devastation. Bazarov only in the face of death gets rid of his intolerance and for the first time truly feels that life is broader and more diverse than his ideas about it.


13. FMDostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment"

  The struggle of reason and feelings is shown in the novel F.M. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.   The protagonist of the novel is Rodion Raskolnikov, a former student of the law faculty. Self-love and beggarly existence give rise to some kind of idea in the head of Raskolnikov, the essence of which is to subdivide people into ordinary and rightful people. Thinking about his great destiny, the hero prepares for a crime. Rodion believes that in this life he must assert himself through murder, having carried out his main desire. So would a strong man do. A well-thought-out theory does not cause the hero to doubt his or her competence, but the pains of conscience that persecute him after the crime is committed prevent him from living peacefully. Having crossed the moral line, depriving a person of life, Raskolnikov is on the verge of insanity.

14. A.Chekhov "About Love"

The story of AP Chekhov "About Love" is a story about how the mind prevented the main character from finding happiness. ABOUThaving finished the institute, Alyokhinsettled in the estate he inherited from his father. There he meets Dmitry Luganovich, and later with his wife - Anna Alekseyevna. Alyokhin found Anna Alekseevna Luganovich a beautiful, kind, intelligent woman, he was fascinated by her beauty and soon realized that she was experiencing special feelings for her. The hero almost every day was with the Luganovichs. It turned out, that Anna Alexeevna is not indifferent to him. But neither he nor she wanted to confess to each other in feelings, because they understood that this could destroy their own life and the life of their beloved: Anna Alexeyevna thought about her husband and children, and Alyokhin about what he could give her. At the end of August, Dmitri and his children had to leave for one of the western provinces, and Anna Alekseevna inCrimea , according to the doctor's recommendations. On the train, Alyokhin and Anna Alekseevna confess to each other in love and then part forever.

January 5, 2010

Roman A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" was created more than seven years and was completed in 1833. In the center of the novel "the hero of time" Eugene Onegin is a young man belonging to the secular society of Petersburg. He received a typical home education, his first steps in secular society were also typical: balls, theaters, red tape for women - in a word, a vanity, carefree, full of entertainment life. But Onegin quickly became bored with such a life, and he entered into an undeclared conflict with the secular society of Petersburg, and then with the village landlords.

In the village, "where Eugene missed", he attracted only two people Lensky and Tatiana Larina. Onegin's arrival in the village violated the peaceful course of her life. Tatyana's personality manifests itself in the sphere of family and love relations. Her character is dynamic. Pushkin, characterizing her heroine, points to the circle of her reading - she is carried away by sentimental novels, which were "replaced" by her. And Tatiana, expecting to meet in the life of one of the heroes of the novel, drew attention to Onegin and fell in love with him. Her relationship with Onegin is based on a book model - she writes him a letter in which she reveals her feelings.

In his relationship with the heroine, Onegin behaved nobly, he appreciated her feelings, but could not reciprocate. "Sharp chilled mind" became the cause of the drama of unfulfilled love.

When, after the duel with Lensky, Onegin mastered "the longing of heart pangs," he was able to discover a world of new feelings. In the eighth chapter, Onegin meets Tatyana Larin in St. Petersburg, and realizes that she is deeply in love with her. There is not a trace left of the former cold, rational person. Eugene first experienced this feeling and it turned into a new drama for him. Tatiana could not reciprocate him, because she could not break the moral law: she was "given to another."

The relationship between Onegin and Tatiana was so absurdly tragic because they are different people. Onegin lived for a long time with his mind, and Tatyana with feelings, then everything changed a little - feelings came to Eugene, and over Tatyana, due to her moral principles, takes the upper hand.

All of us at school were forced to read Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin". But at this age, most children hardly think about the deep meaning of this work, looking at the relationship of Onegin and Tatiana through the prism of their sensory experience. However, many critics can not understand the ideas of the author, preferring to confine oneself to a superficial analysis of the actions of the characters solely, not focusing on the spiritual component.

Antithesis

At first glance, it may seem that the two central characters of "Eugene Onegin" are opposed to each other. Tatiana Larina is a highly moral, spiritual person, she is pure in spirit and body. And Onegin is a Petersburg dandy, experienced in the already familiar with passion and its consequences. They are attracted to each other like charges of the same name, a certain mutual understanding arises between them, because both have outgrown their environment and are searching for the truth in something else, incomprehensible and even frightening.

Features of Education

A comparison of Onegin and Tatiana can begin with considering the conditions under which they grew up. Lyubimitsa Pushkin was born in a rich house, albeit in the wilderness. In infancy and childhood, she was cared for by a nanny chosen by parents from nearby peasants. She sang lullabies, told tales and, of course, read prayers over the girl. This tied Tatiana to the people more than one could imagine. By nature pensive and silent, the girl spent little time with her peers, avoided noisy games and amusements. She was more interested in books, contemplation of nature and reflection. The youngest daughter of the Larins lived according to folk customs, got up early to catch the dawn, believed in signs and performed traditional rituals, despite the religiousness.

Onegin grew up in European society. Nanny was replaced by a tutor, who brought up the boy according to his idea of ​​a secular man. Early growing up, Eugene plunged into a brilliant and noisy life, acquiring the status of a young rake. Education and love of the popular authors gave him charm and promised favors for women. He quickly understood all the subtleties of sensual love and learned to manipulate them. Became skeptical about the manifestation of humanity, kindness, compassion. He criticized and questioned everything that happened to him and around him, as advised by European authors.

The world through the window

Characteristics of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin can not do without a mention of nature. Describing panoramic views, Pushkin does this, as if looking out of the window of the room belonging to the main heroine. Any landscape in the novel reflects the spiritual state of the girl. As the plot develops, not only the time of the year and the weather on the street, but also that part of the day that Tatiana spends in reflections about her chosen one.

Byronic and sentimental literature

To trace the differences between Eugene and Tatiana, you can also read the books they read. For Onegin, Byron was an example for imitation, ironically and skeptically looking at the world. This is how the ideal man seemed to the boy. Selfish, charming, a bit sarcastic and sarcastic. European literature of that time cultivated a similar way of thinking.

Tatiana Larina, on the contrary, draws attention to sentimental novels that show the value of sincerity, kindness and responsiveness. Of course, they are somewhat naive for a girl who will revolve in a high society, but the nobility and honor brought up by them for many years helped her to keep herself unchanged under the influence of circumstances.

It is about the hero of the sentimental novel that the girl dreams. And when Onegin, despised and driven from all sides, appears at their edges, she takes him for an ideal that has been waiting for so long.

Letter

Tatyana's letter to Onegin reflects that lofty love that the girl had for her chosen one. It is in him that you can well follow the characteristics of the girl's character: sincerity, gullibility, impressionability. She has no reason to doubt her choice. For a young beauty, an alliance with a man like Eugene is not only the fulfillment of a cherished desire and the long-awaited reunion with a loved one, but also the possibility of spiritual growth, self-improvement.

Onegin, on the contrary, sees in Tatyana in love only a naive, enthusiastic little girl who was inspired by his stories and appearance. He does not take her feelings seriously, even though he suspects that it will not pass so easily. Secular "games of love" ahead of time made his heart unresponsive to such signs of attention. Perhaps, if it were not for a rich life experience in this field, the couple could have formed differently.

Tatyana's letter to Onegin is permeated with feelings that the girl can no longer keep within herself. She admits that the abyss in education, education and experience between them is huge, but hopes to someday overcome it in order to be closer to the beloved.

Renouncement

As you know, Eugene refused Larina, explaining this by the fact that he is not worthy of it, since he does not feel such exalted feelings and does not want to insult her with the immutability of his motives. According to most critics, it is Onegin's refusal that provokes rejection from the reader. This was, perhaps, the most noble act in his entire life, but the luminaries of literature look at this situation somewhat differently. They believe that fear prompted the young rake to give up, reason prevailed over the feelings that "Russian soul" Tatyana aroused in him.

Meetings

Onegin and Tatiana in the novel meet thrice. The first time - when Eugene comes to the estate Larins. The second is when he is forced to explain to Tatyana about her letter, and the last one on her birthday, a year after the tragic events. And every such meeting changes something in Onegin's soul, does not allow him to stay away, to brush aside feelings and emotions. Afraid of what happens to him, the rake prefers to leave and throw out the girl's image from his head, than to be near her and change.

Duel

It is the relationship between Onegin and Tatiana that makes the character of the work somewhat gloomy. The protagonist is angry: to himself, to Larin, to Lensky's best friend, to the fate that brought him to this estate, to his uncle, who died so badly on time. This pushes him to reckless actions, for example, to flirt with Olga. Of course, a duel was necessary, but it was not necessary to kill each other. However, the events were summed up in such a way that, because of the growing hatred, Vladimir had to withdraw to another world.

The last ball

Comparison of Onegin and Tatiana continues throughout the last scene of the novel. The ball in honor of the name-day in the estate of the Larins seems to copy the girl's terrible dream of her wedding with Eugene. A sick, dissatisfied, depressed conscience, a man is surrounded by grotesque characters, which are so contrasted with his inner world that it seems as though they are mocking him.

Unable to endure these torments, Onegin leaves, motivating it by the fact that he was seized by the desire to change places.

St. Petersburg

A very short time has passed, and the main characters meet again, now at a social event in St. Petersburg. Relations between Onegin and Tatyana practically did not change. They became more complicated, but the inner heat still continues to pulsate in both. Larina got married, became a princess and now holds her head high. Now there is no trace of the village girl, who passionately confessed her feelings to the young woman.

The situation turns against Eugene, as he realizes that he is in love, and suffers from this. He writes letters to the subject of his adoration, tries to bring everything back, but the girl is adamant. So this situation sees Pushkin. Onegin has feelings for Tatiana, but now she tries to avoid relations. In the end, the girl refuses to the man in a secret connection, explaining this by giving an oath to be true to another man, despite the fact that she still loves Eugene. This puts the last point in the novel but, according to some critics, the finale still remains open.

Relations between Onegin and Tatiana were complicated, they were tainted with the blood of a friend, with refusals and confessions ... But as a result, their love continued to live even when they together signed her a death sentence.

Mind and feeling -   The direction involves thinking about mind and feeling as the two most important components of the inner world of a person that affect his aspirations and actions. Reason and feeling can be considered both in harmonic unity and in a complex confrontation that constitutes an internal conflict of the individual.
  The theme of the mind and feelings is interesting for writers of different cultures and ages: the heroes of literary works often face a choice between the dictates of the senses and the clue of the mind.

Reasoning on the mind and feeling

School essays on this topic, as an option to prepare for the final composition.

Reason and feelings are two components of the human soul, which very often come into conflict with each other. Cold mind. Hot feelings. This is how we define these concepts. What should be more developed in a person?
  I think that the mind and feelings should go hand in hand. After relying only on the mind or only on the feelings, the person commits mistakes, which bring pain to him and his associates.
The heroes of many literary works make such mistakes. For example, Rodion Raskolnikov, the protagonist of the novel "Crime and Punishment" by F. M. Dostoevsky, commits a terrible murder, subjecting himself to the inhuman theory that he created, logically dividing all people into "creatures of trembling" and "having the right". A terrible, erroneous theory, built on cold logical conclusions, excluding feelings, made him a criminal.
  An example of how the power of feelings can lead to a fatal mistake is Natasha Rostov, the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. After parting with Andrei Bolkonsky, who has postponed her father's request for a year, she feels lonely, not necessary to the groom's family. Of course, she succumbs to Anatoly Kuragin's charm and, accepting his courtship for true love, decides to escape from home. Only native people save her from shame and keep from escaping. And only then she realizes that the true feeling of love is for Bolkonsky.
  But Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, the hero of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, is an example of a man in whom reason and feelings are in harmony. Guided by the feeling of love for Russia, towards the Russian people, painfully reflecting on the fate of Moscow, everything is calculated ahead, it takes a difficult decision to surrender the capital to the French. This wise decision saved many Russian soldiers from ruin, and Russia from shameful enslavement.
  So, we came to the conclusion that in a person both feelings and reason must be strong. Feelings give us experience of spiritual joys and sufferings, and reason relies on them and helps a person make wise decisions worthy of a real person.

Two forces, equally needing each other

  "Reason and feelings are two forces that need each other equally." Is the statement of Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky true? I think yes. After going on the occasion of their emotions, people often make many rash acts, after which they awaken conscience and shame. Thanks to the senses and the mind, we can exist. They are inseparable and make up harmony. But in the works of Russian and foreign writers there are examples of confrontation between these forces.
For example, in the drama of Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky "The Thunderstorm," the main heroine has a struggle between the soul and the mind. Katerina is madly in love with Boris Wild and looks forward to meeting him. This tells us about the manifestation of feelings, but the mind cries to her that they can not be together, because she has a husband. When Boris leaves, Katerina understands that their relationship is hopeless and jumps from the cliff into the water. The heroine commits an act provoked by a high feeling-love. The rashness of her absurd desire led her to create irreparable stupidity.
For the second example, I'll take the image of Natasha Rostova from Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace. The heroine of this work is engaged to Andrei Bolkonsky and is waiting for the wedding, which is to take place in a year. All this time the prince spends on war in the distance from his bride, and Natasha is at home with Anatol Kuragin. The girl faces a difficult choice: on the one hand, she must be true to her future husband (mind), and on the other, new sensations that only Kuragin (feelings) can give her. Rostov chooses the second. In this situation Natasha was guided by curiosity. This feeling and an impatient, restless nature are pushing the girl to make the wrong choice. Later, the mind returns to her and she understands what a big mistake she made.
Thus, it can be concluded that Vissarion Grigoryevich's statement is still true. After all, even the strongest and most insane feelings are followed by reason. This tells us that they are indivisible and perfectly complement each other.

Reason: The Mind and Feelings

What is worth listening to: to the mind or to the feeling? Long-standing theme of arguments and arguments. Some people say, feelings are what the soul says to you, others, that the mind is above all. I will be unequivocal, for me the most important thing is cold sanity. After all, spontaneous decisions often lead not to the best.
  Let's try to understand more deeply the question: does the mind have superiority over feelings?
  Take the novel "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. One of the main characters, Bazarov. This young man, who calls himself a "nihilist," lives exclusively by reason, every action is justified. He is fine. He never makes decisions on emotions. With one exception. Bazarov falls in love with Odintsov, regardless of his principles. He submits to the feeling of love. And as a result, Bazarov suffers because of his feelings. He perfectly mastered and subordinated his mind to the law, but as soon as the feelings entered, everything collapsed.
  Also consider the story "Taras Bulba", written by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The son of Taras Bulba Andrii meets his love. He is ready to do everything for his feelings. And does it. Andrius betrays his father, brother, Cossacks and his homeland. He goes with the sword against his people, and all because of his feelings for the beloved clouded consciousness. Andrii lives with feelings. In the end, Andria kills her own father. Yes, maybe he did not deserve it, but if you think with your head and throw back feelings, this could be avoided.
  Let's summarize, from the above we can conclude. Reason is above all. Relying on the senses, one can ruin oneself, and the mind will not allow it.

Reason: The Mind and Feelings

Mind and feeling. These are two important aspects of the inner world of man, two opposites. Often they come into conflict, causing a complex conflict in the human soul. How to proceed? To hear the voice of reason or give oneself up to the senses? What awaits a person who will act in one way or another?
  The answers to these questions can be found in the works of Russian literature. Here Lisa, foolishly fallen in love with the treacherous Erast, desperately rushes into the river, Tatiana Larina, who unconcernedly confessed in her first sincere feeling to Onegin, listens to his rebuke, Katerina goes to the gate for a date with Boris, then to pay for her short-lived happiness with mental suffering and death . Different heroines, different characters, unites them one: after giving into the power of feelings, they are unhappy. Why did it happen? None of them asked herself what this spiritual impulse would lead to, did not try to understand what her chosen one was: having plunged headlong into her senses, they forget about everything in the world; only a thoughtful reader sees Eraste's light-mindedness and windyness, knows the shortcomings of Onegin, feels the insignificance of Boris and gets the opportunity, after experiencing the fate of heroines, to draw important conclusions for himself.
  Perhaps, those heroes of Russian literature who listen to the voice of reason and are not susceptible to feelings are right? Through the cold indifference of Pechorin, who confesses that "for a long time already lives not with the heart, but with the head" feelings break through, but the actions of the hero, committed by reason, cause the suffering of people who love him. Yes, and Pechorin does not produce the impression of a happy man, the reader sees his impotence and spiritual inferiority.
  If the predominance of either feelings or reason makes a person suffer, then the way out, the path to happiness can only be found in the harmony of these forces. Confirmation of this idea can be found in the story of A. P. Chekhov "Lady with a Dog": Gurov and Anna Sergeevna have no illusions caused by reckless feelings. They know that their love is not a passing fad, that it will not be easy for them to maintain their relations, but they are ready for difficulties, therefore they are worthy of happiness.
  In doing things, every person should remember that the mind must help the senses, restrain their impulses, and the senses must protect the mind from selfish, rational decisions.

The struggle in the human mind and feelings requires a mandatory choice: to act, obeying the surging emotions, or still not to lose one's head, weigh their actions, to realize their consequences, both for themselves and for others. The theme of mind and feelings is interesting for many writers. Reading works of fiction, you can meet many examples, when the heroes have an internal conflict: the feelings are against the mind. Literary characters very often face a choice between the dictates of the senses and the clue of the mind.
So in the play "On the Floor" by M. Gorky, the heroes - Actor, Ash, Nastya, Natasha, Ticks, Baron - are trying to break free from the "bottom" of life, but they feel their own impotence before the constipations of this "prison". They have a sense of despair of their destiny and a craving for a dream that gives at least some hope for the future. The Baron - this past wealth, about which he thinks and dreams to return. The actor - his former service to art, Natasha - the expectation of some extraordinary event that will turn her whole life, Nastya - a fictional novel with a student. All the characters of the play are prepared for the appearance of Luke with his "gospel mirages". Luke supports all illusions and sows new ones. Dying Anne, he paints a tender death-comforting, quiet afterlife; In Nastya, he strengthens the belief in the existence of a student, the Frenchman Gaston and his fatal love. Ashes Luke inspired belief in a happy, free, rich country - Siberia, advised there to move. This was also a lie; in tsarist Russia, immigrants in Siberia fell into a plight, they died thousands, completely ruined, and returned back. In Satin, Luke supports the idea of ​​the illusion of wandering freedom, imaginary freedom. But the strongest argument against Luke's preaching is the fate of the Actor. Luke assured him of the existence of a beautiful free hospital for alcoholics. The actor believed most of Luke's tales, and he is going to go on a quest to find a marble hospital. The bearer of the idea of ​​a comforting deception in the play is Luke. The principle of his attitude towards man is the idea of ​​compassion. Practical expression of it becomes a comforting deception, consoling an illusion in whose name it is possible to sacrifice a terrible, oppressing person with the truth of life. The philosophy of non-resistance, the psychology of obedience, Gorky contrasted the truth about the free Man, rejecting the humiliating person's compassionate lie. Gorky put his thoughts on this in the mouth of Satin. He talks about the great possibilities of man and mankind who, with their own hands, will create the life of the future with their own thoughts: "Man is the truth ... there is only a man, yet the rest is the work of his hands and his brain! Human! - It's great! This sounds proudly! ".
Nature has rewarded people with the greatest wealth - reason, gave them the opportunity to experience feelings. Yes, mind and feelings often confront each other. Can a person bring them into harmony, make the mind reinforced by feelings and vice versa - it depends on the will of the person, on the degree of responsibility, on the moral guidelines that it follows.

Reason: What should be stronger in a person: the mind or feelings?

  "What should be stronger in a person: the mind or feelings?" I think that everything should be in harmony. The mind in time stops the person from recklessness, and the feelings allow you to enjoy life, to reveal all of its beautiful sides.
If a person follows only a clear and well-developed plan of action, without paying attention to their feelings, will he be happy? How can he truly and truly fall in love? I can assume that no. Mind and feelings should go hand in hand, because they are tantamount to and inseparable.
In the correctness of this point of view I am convinced by fiction. In the drama of AN Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm", the main heroine torments herself with thoughts of love. Katerina falls in love with Boris Wild and looks forward to meeting him. Feelings inspire her, but her mind screams to her that she is married and we must dispel the dreams of a happy life with a new lover. When Boris leaves, Katerina realizes that their relationship has no continuation, they are hopeless. The main heroine decides to sin - suicide. She jumps from the cliff, giving in to feelings, love and despair. The rashness of her act led her to ridiculous and vicious stupidity. Catherine discarded common sense and submitted to heartbreak.
  As a second argument, let us turn to the work of N. A. Karamzin "Poor Liza." Young, naive peasant Liza, who lived with a sick mother, fell in love with the rich beautiful Erast. The main heroine could not imagine life without him, all her thoughts were occupied by him. They had a great time, Erast cared for her, but he was taken into the army. Lisa was looking forward to his return with impatience, she was very hard to part with him. He was happy to see him passing by. But when he learned that he was engaged, she despaired of the foolhardy act of taking care of herself. Grief and a broken heart killed her, she did not think reasonably of her position and her actions. Who will take care of her sick mother now? Feelings, like an anchor, pulled her to the bottom.
  All my arguments, based on the reader's experience, convince us that the concepts of mind and feelings are inseparable. Any act entails a deliberate decision based on heart thoughts. A person should try to find a balance, a golden mean between two opposing forces, reason and feelings.

Only one's mind, as a wise guardian, must believe all his life. (Pythagoras).

Should the mind prevail over the feeling? What can dispassionate mind, cold calculation? On this occasion, Pythagoras wrote: "Only one's mind, as a wise trustee, must believe all his life," certainly he is right, because reason is given to man for the creation of great deeds, it is he who helps us to realize our actions, actions, helps to make the right decision and to achieve uncontentable heights, that's why people differ from animals, which, unlike us, are only subject to instincts.

About how the mind prevailed over feelings is told in Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin". Tatiana Larina was a very sensible girl from early childhood. Taking the decision, the heroine relied on the mind. In relation to Eugene Onegin, she never allowed feelings to take over. It is rationality in the behavior of the heroine that allowed her years later to make the only true decision. Feelings to Eugene continued to live in Tatyana's soul, but she was "given another" and understood that she would never be happy with Onegin. The choice made with a "cold head" helped Tatyana Larina avoid suffering.

Also, to confirm this statement, one can refer to A. Griboedov's comedy "Woe from Wit". In it we meet with such a hero as Molchalin. He is a very clever man, because he was counting on everything in advance: one must arrange for the owner of the house, Famusov, and other rich people to fall in love with the owner's daughter in order to be protected by her. In his soul, only the calculation, that "cold power", which can deceive people's feelings - the fatherly feelings in Famusov and love in Sophia - lives. Mulchalin himself is indifferent to their experiences, he does everything only out of self-interest, with the benefit for himself. How bitterly to realize Famusov that his faithful servant, it turns out, wanted to deceive him. How painful Sophia, when she finds out that the lover does not love her.

Summarizing the above, we can say that the mind and feelings are the two opposite elements on which the person relies in solving various issues. "Cold mind", "cold calculation" can lead to both tragedy and new discoveries and knowledge.

Internal conflict: feelings against the mind.

  "There are feelings that fill and darken the mind, but there is a mind cooling the movements of the senses."
(M. Prishvin).

Mikhail Prishvin believes that mind and feeling are two components of the inner world of each person. Is it so? To understand this, we need to understand the meaning of each of these concepts.
Feelings are a kind of reaction to various events or phenomena. Human life is impossible without them.
Feelings are the basis of the mind.
The mind sets tasks, classifies and systematizes the data, draws conclusions and makes decisions based on its calculations.
But in order to implement his decisions, he uses emotions or feelings.
Let us recall works of fiction in which an inner conflict is revealed: feelings against reason.
In the love tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" W. Shakespeare shows how much can be a strong human feeling. "Romeo and Juliet" is a story of the bright and faithful love of young people who have won the long-standing hostility of families.
In love with Romeo and Juliet there are no barriers: they are not afraid of either life with its sensual side, or death.
But the love feelings in the play are surrounded by enmity. Juliet dies, barely having experienced the happiness of love. No one can replace her poisoned Romeo. Love does not recur, and without it life loses meaning for Juliet. She knew that Romeo was dead, convinced of her death, and decided to share his fate. She saw it as her duty.
Flushing feelings between the two heroes and their death is a triumph, a victory of the feeling that reconciles hostile families.
I will give one more example, where love and reason form the inner world of heroes.
This is the story of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin "Olesya". Unlike the educated Ivan Timofeevich, the girl grew up outside of society and civilization, but by nature she was endowed with spiritual wealth and inner beauty, which attracted the main character. Olesya combines two forces: feeling and reason, while Ivan Timofeevich is driven only by feelings. He does not think about how his "forest" wife will accept the society and how Olesya will cope with life in the city. The main character is in love with a girl, and this love dwarfs his mind. However, despite the fact that Olesya is driven by a reasonable understanding of the situation, she commits an act provoked by a high feeling of love - this is a visit to a church where she was mocked and expelled by the villagers.
After this spiritual impulse, the mind returns to the girl, and she is forced to leave these places, to flee together with Manuelicha from superstitious peasants.
Olesya's perfect act shows us her true feelings and intentions: she understood that the love of the forest witch will bring much suffering and loneliness not only to her, unable to survive in urban conditions, but also to her lover.
We are once again convinced that the mind and feelings are two forces that need each other in the same way. The moment of love is beautiful, but the mind gives a long life and strength to the senses.
Concluding my work, I want to refer to the words of the famous British poetess Bronte: "A feeling without reason is not a very nutritious food; but the mind, not relaxed by feeling, is bitter and dry food and is not suitable for human consumption. " In other words, without a balance of internal rational and emotional parts, there is no way to fully live and enjoy life. For reason and feelings are inextricably linked in any action.
I believe that a person needs to learn the strong feelings in order to develop the nobility and ability to understand people around people.

Reason: Mind and feelings.

"Enlightened mind ennobles moral feelings: the head should bring up the heart."
  (Schiller).
Indeed, the mind must elevate the senses, otherwise the feelings may be undeveloped and lose all interest and desire to love. Society in the modern world relies more on the mind than on feelings. The reason for this may not be the constancy of the senses, so, using the mind, the person calculates his actions about love. Undoubtedly, I agree with this statement, in confirmation I will bring works from world literature.
So, in VG Rasputin's story "Live and Remember," the main heroine of Nastyona did not succumb to feelings and did not betray her husband - Andrei, who was a deserter and was hiding in the forest. How many Nastyona were not persuaded by her parents, she still did not reveal the secret where he was hiding, because Nastyona knew, if her parents find out, they can not keep a secret and tell her neighbors. In this example, it is very clearly visible that despite the desire to reveal a secret, Nastyona acts not by the voice of the heart, but by the voice that is in her head and this indicates that at that time Nastenya's mind exalted feelings.
LN Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" is the antipode of VG Rasputin's novel "Live and Remember," because Anna Karenina, the main character of the novel, gives in to feelings as opposed to Nastyona and does not think about the consequences that await her. Anna does not think that the son will stay with her husband Alexei Alekseevich when she decides to be with her lover-Vronsky. In her position, at that time, the law was on her husband's side, so she had no chance. Anna lost and authority in the light, which is not unimportant in her position. At that moment, she simply left her mind to the side and followed her heart, and this should not be, because the mind must improve feelings, and not be absent. You need to think with your head, and do not completely immerse yourself in your feelings.
Thus, the senses must of course be present in life, but they must be in moderation, otherwise the senses will fill the mind, which must control and improve them. Also, feelings should not be in the first place, because there are things more important than love.

Reason: How should we live: by reason or heart?

How should we live-reason or all the same feelings? This question will always be relevant. I believe that everything should be in harmony. Both mind and heart must be interconnected forces in man. After all, if one thing is elevated, will it lead a person to happiness?

If a person is accompanied only by a cold calculation, will he be happy? I think not. Of course, he can achieve great heights by following his mind, but he will not be happy in love.

There are many works that prove this. I would like to dwell on the story of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin "The Dark Alley". This work, in my opinion, proves this most clearly. The protagonist-Nikolai Alekseevich lived his whole life with his mind. Blindly following his reason, he lost everything. Having abandoned his love for Hope, he condemned himself to suffering. His wife left him, and his son grew rascal. And even after all this, he does not even allow himself to dream about what life would be like with Nadezhda if he went against his mind.

However, if feelings will rise, then man will also be unhappy. Following only your heart, not giving a sensible assessment of this or that situation, you can make a lot of mistakes, and sometimes it can lead to tragic consequences.

An example is the work of Nikolai Alekseevich Karamzin "Poor Lisa." The story describes the story of a young, affectionate peasant Liza, who lived alone with her sick mother, and the wealthy nobleman Erast. Liza really loved and sincerely fell in love with Erast, she could not imagine life without him. Therefore, when he was drafted into the army, she was very unhappy with separation from her beloved. She woke up every day with the thought of Erast and of their happiness on his return. Therefore she was happy when she saw him, passing by. But after learning that he was engaged, Lisa could not reconcile with it. She could not overcome the grief she felt at that moment. And despite the fact that at home her sick mother was waiting for her, she succumbed to this feeling and rushed into the water, and could not save her.

Thus, generalizing all of the above, we can conclude that the mind and heart should live in harmony with each other. A person should try to keep a balance between these two opposing forces. Otherwise, a person will simply be unhappy.

Reason: The Mind and Feeling

From a long time in man, reason and feelings play very different roles.
  Although some go hand in hand, but the mind warns a person, in contrast to the feeling.
  Feelings lead a person no matter what, no matter what behind this wall.
  And the mind weighs all the pros and cons. But this does not mean that feelings are always deceiving us, far from it.
  Just as without reason, and without feelings, a person would simply turn into an animal.
  And as we observe and animals have feelings.
  The contradictions between reason and feeling as they were and will be.
  Why? The explanation is very simple.
  Man, no matter how he wanted to, can not manage his chuvsvami, if they are sincere.
  And the mind as usual, if it is not obscured by feelings, will contradict feelings.

Reasoning on the topic: Feelings and emotions

People often say: "I feel ...". For example, I feel love for my girlfriend, I feel anger at a boor, I feel sad when friends do not call or write for a long time. This is so, for example - usually friends always call me on time or I call them myself. Just feeling so much, they are so diverse!
What are feelings? The feeling, as I read in the dictionary, is an emotional process, it is a subjective attitude of a person to another person, to an object, to an object. Feelings are not controlled by consciousness, reason. How often do we face the fact that the mind tells us one thing and the feelings are quite different. For example, it can be seen that this girl is a narcissistic liar who is only interested in going to restaurants and discos, but the guy still loves her. Often people are torn between logical arguments of reason and strong feelings. So far, everyone chooses for himself, to listen to - to feelings or to logic. And there is no universal recipe for what to do. Feelings are strong and weak, they are positive, neutral and negative. Love and hate are the strongest feelings that a person has. A strong feeling that someone feels affects even the body of this person. From love and joy, the eyes shine, straightening up the posture, the face shines. From anger and anger, facial features are distorted. Despondency lowers the shoulders. Anxiety gathers wrinkles on the forehead. Fear makes you tremble, cheeks burn. For a few days of joy and happiness, a person is transformed. And if you look at the person who has long experienced hatred, envy, jealousy - and what a terrible impression it will produce. As if his soul was crouched. How to distinguish feelings and emotions, because these two emotional processes are so closely related? Emotions, unlike feelings, do not have an object. For example, I'm afraid of a dog - this feeling, but just fear - it's an emotion. Probably, a person's behavior depends more on feelings than on his reasonable considerations. No wonder so often we are advised not to succumb to their feelings and emotions. We try to suppress them if they are negative, but they still break out into the light. They control us, we control them, turning anger into repentance, hatred for love, envy of admiration.

Reason: What is stronger in a person: mind, feelings or intuition?

It is not uncommon for people to hear about the fact that they doubt between certain specific desires, choosing what exactly to give preference - to the mind or feelings. Most often, those who have problems on the personal front face the most with this choice - one wants to be with the heart together with someone, but the mind suggests that, most likely, there is no need to expect anything good from such an alliance. Sometimes, in such cases, the third, least understood and comprehensible element of human consciousness comes to the aid of man - intuition. So what predominates in a person during decision-making - mind, feelings or intuition? What is stronger? Answering this question, it is first of all necessary to say that a person is a very individual creature. On the one hand, we all have two arms, two legs, a head and the rest of the body, on the other hand, differences in the thoughts, the psyche, the mental and mental organization of some people are simply impressive. But in fact there is nothing to be surprised at here - just people are different, it's worth taking as a fact. It is for this reason that we can always find examples of those for whom the mind or feelings are more important and even those who always rely on intuition. However, even recognizing that people are different and each is something special, it is necessary to recognize that it is sometimes possible to divide people into some categories. For example, every day you can observe that women and men are absolutely different creatures that have not so much in common. Regarding the topic, it can be said that often women are guided by feelings and intuition, but men in most cases prefer to use the mind. Although, of course, there are exceptions and they should also be noticed. Perhaps there are other examples where certain categories of people prefer other means of perceiving reality-feelings, mind or intuition. I think that a person should be harmonious and perceive the world in different ways, depending on the situation. Of course, in most cases you should use the mind - so you will do better in serious matters with serious people, get their respect and recognition. But you can not refrain from using other means of perception. A person will quickly get tired if only the mind is used, forgetting about feelings and intuition. It is important to give yourself the freedom to experiment in life, sometimes even at the cost of mistakes. It is also sometimes very important to use intuition, especially in cases where a person is not helped by reason and feelings or when he can not choose between them. In general, while trying to sum up the results, I want to say that, probably, the mind is usually the strongest. This is good and normal, thanks to this the world around and develops. But a person is not for nothing given feelings and intuition, sometimes they can be given free will and used in plenty.

Arguing: Self-respect

Each person must necessarily have a sense of self-worth - first of all, a sense of self-esteem, an understanding of his role in life, the ability to remain a good person in any situation, which follows his principles.
But this feeling does not appear from the very birth. It should be brought up in the child from childhood by its parents, kindergarten teachers, teachers in the school. They explain to the child how to behave in society, what you can do and what you can not do. They tell him what is good and what is bad. They intelligibly explain what it means to be merciful, honest, brave and help those who are in trouble.
A person who has developed self-esteem will try to study well, that he has excellent grades, and along with the accumulation of knowledge, self-respect constantly grew. Such a person will never laugh at a comrade who stumbled and fell, but calmly gives his hand to rise. A man full of self-esteem will never enter into a quarrel and prove his rightness, choking with a cry, and all the arguments will lead calmly and carefully. And if a person with this quality is wrong, he will certainly ask for forgiveness.
My parents, who from the very childhood told me that I was the best, kind and good, brought up my dignity. But because of this I did not start to bully my nose, but on the contrary, now I try to become even better, so that my parents would be proud of me. I try to study well, help with my classmates' education, help my parents around the house, read books to develop spiritually, be polite to everyone, and also closely follow my appearance and manners. But most importantly, in any even the most difficult situation, I try not to lose my temper and be the best in everything.