Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin
One day the hare did something wrong to the wolf. He was running, you see, not far from the wolf’s den, and the wolf saw him and shouted: “Bunny! stop, honey! But the hare not only did not stop, but even accelerated his pace. So the wolf caught him in three leaps and said: “Because you didn’t stop at my first word, here’s my decision for you: I sentence you to be deprived of your belly by being torn to pieces. And since now I’m full, and my wolf is full, and we have enough reserves for another five days, then sit under this bush and wait in line. Or maybe... ha ha... I’ll have mercy on you!”
The hare sits on its hind legs under a bush and does not move. He thinks about only one thing: in so many days and hours, death must come. He will look in the direction where he is wolf's den, and from there a glowing wolf's eye looks at him. And another time it’s even worse: a wolf and a she-wolf will come out and start walking past him in the clearing. They will look at him, and the wolf will say something to the wolf in a wolf’s way, and both will burst into tears: ha-ha! And the wolf cubs will immediately follow them; playfully, they will run up to him, caress him, chatter their teeth... And his, the hare’s, heart will just skip a beat!
He had never loved life as much as he did now. He was a thoughtful hare, he looked for a daughter from a widow, a hare, and wanted to get married. It was to her, to his bride, that he ran at that moment when the wolf grabbed him by the collar. Waiting for tea, his now fiancée, thinking: he cheated on me with his scythe! Or maybe she waited and waited and with someone else... she fell in love... Or maybe it was like this: the poor thing was playing in the bushes, and then a wolf... and gobbled her up!..
The poor guy thinks this and chokes on his tears. Here they are, a hare's dreams! He planned to get married, bought a samovar, dreamed of drinking tea and sugar with a young hare, and instead of everything - where did he end up! How many, I mean, hours are left until death?
And so he sits one night and dozes. He dreams that he has a wolf with him as an official special assignments he did it, and while he was running around auditing, he went to visit his hare... Suddenly he heard, as if someone was pushing him in the side. He looks around and it’s his fiancée’s brother.
“Your bride is dying,” he says. - I heard what one is above you trouble has befallen, and withered away overnight. Now he only thinks about one thing: am I really going to die without saying goodbye to my beloved!
The condemned man listened to these words, and his heart was torn to pieces. For what? what did he do to deserve his bitter fate? He lived openly, did not start revolutions, did not go out with weapons in his hands, ran according to his needs - is this really death for this? Death! Think about it, what a word! And it’s not just him who will die, but also her, the little gray bunny, whose only fault is that she loved him, the crooked one, with all her heart! So he would fly to her, take her, a little gray bunny, by the ears with his front paws and would still be kind to her and stroke her head.
Let's run! - the messenger was saying meanwhile. Hearing this word, the condemned man seemed to be transformed for a moment. He completely gathered himself into a ball and laid his ears on his back. Just about to hide - and the trace is gone. He shouldn’t have looked at the wolf’s den at that moment, but he did. And the hare's heart began to sink.
“I can’t,” he says, “the wolf didn’t tell me.”
Meanwhile, the wolf sees and hears everything and quietly whispers to the wolf like a wolf: the hare must be praised for his nobility.
Let's run! - the messenger says again.
I can not! - repeats the convict.
What are you whispering and plotting there? - how a wolf suddenly barks.
Both hares died. The messenger has also been caught! Convincing the guards to escape - what, I mean, is the penalty for this according to the rules? Oh, to be a gray bunny without a groom and without a brother - the wolf and the wolf will eat both of them!
The obliques came to their senses - and in front of them both the wolf and the she-wolf were chattering their teeth, and in the darkness of the night both of their eyes glowed like lanterns.
We, your honor, nothing... so, between ourselves... a fellow countryman came to visit me! - the condemned man babbles, and he himself dies of fear.
That’s “nothing”! I know you! Don't put your finger in your mouth either! Tell me, what's the matter?
“So and so, your honor,” the fiancée’s brother interceded here, “my sister, and his fiancée is dying, so she asks, is it possible to let him say goodbye to her?”
Hm... it’s good that the bride loves the groom,” says the wolf. - This means that they will have a lot of hares, and there will be more food for the wolves. The wolf and I love each other, and we have a lot of wolf cubs. How many of them go by their own free will, and four of them still live with us. Wolf, and wolf, let the groom go and say goodbye to the bride?
But it’s scheduled for the day after tomorrow...
I, your honor, will come running... I’ll turn around in an instant... I have this... that’s how holy I’ll come running! - the condemned man hurried and, so that the wolf had no doubt that he could turn around in an instant, he suddenly pretended to be such a fine fellow that the wolf himself fell in love with him and thought: “If only I had soldiers like that!”
And the wolf became sad and said:
Here you go! the hare loves his hare so much!
There is nothing to be done, the wolf agreed to let the oblique go on leave, but so that he would turn around just in time. And his fiancée kept his brother as an amanat.
“If you don’t come back in two days by six o’clock in the morning,” he said, “I’ll eat it instead of you; and if you come back, I’ll eat them both, and maybe... ha-ha... and have mercy!
The scythe shot out like an arrow from a bow. He runs, the earth trembles. If he encounters a mountain on the way, he will take it with a bang; the river - he doesn’t even look for a ford, he just swims and scratches; swamp - he jumps from the fifth bump to the tenth. Is it a joke? V Far Far Away kingdom I need to catch up, go to the bathhouse, and get married (“I’ll definitely get married!” he repeated to himself every minute), and back so that he can get to the wolf for breakfast...
One day the hare did something wrong to the wolf. He ran, you see,
not far from the wolf’s lair, and the wolf saw him and shouted: “Zainka! stop, honey! But the hare not only did not stop, but even accelerated his pace. So the wolf caught him in three leaps, and said: “Because you didn’t stop at my first word, here’s my decision for you: I sentence you to be deprived of your belly by being torn to pieces. And since now I’m full, and my wolf is full, and we have enough reserves for another five days, then sit under this bush and wait in line. Or maybe... ha-ha... I’ll have mercy on you!”
The hare sits on its hind legs under a bush and does not move. He thinks about only one thing: “In so many days and hours, death must come.” He will look in the direction where the wolf’s lair is located, and from there the luminous wolf’s eye looks at him. And another time it’s even worse: a wolf and a she-wolf will come out and start walking past him in the clearing. They will look at him, and the wolf will say something to the wolf, and both will burst into tears: “Ha-ha!” And the wolf cubs will immediately follow them; playfully, they will run up to him, caress him, chatter their teeth... And his, the hare’s, heart will just skip a beat! He had never loved life as much as he did now. He was a thoughtful hare, he looked for a daughter from a widow, a hare, and wanted to get married. It was to her, to his bride, that he ran at that moment when the wolf grabbed him by the collar. Waiting for tea, his now bride thinks: “He cheated on me with his scythe!” Maybe, waited - waited, and with someone else... she fell in love... Or maybe it was like this: she was playing, poor thing, in the bushes, and then a wolf... and gobbled her up!..
The poor guy thinks this and chokes on his tears. Here they are, bunny dreams! He planned to get married, bought a samovar, dreamed of drinking tea and sugar with a young hare, and instead of everything - where did he end up! How many hours, I mean, are there left until death?
And so he sits one night and dozes. He dreams that the wolf has made him an official on special assignments, and while he is running around on audits, he is visiting his hare... Suddenly he hears as if someone had pushed him in the side. He looks around and it’s his fiancée’s brother.
“Your bride is dying,” he says. “I heard what trouble had befallen you, and suddenly withered away.” Now he thinks only about one thing: “Am I really going to die without saying goodbye to my beloved!”
The condemned man listened to these words, and his heart was torn to pieces. For what? what did he do to deserve his bitter fate? He lived openly, did not start revolutions, did not go out with weapons in his hands, ran according to his needs - is this really what death is for? Death! Think about it, what a word! And it’s not just him who will die, but also her, the little gray bunny, whose only fault is that she loved him, the crooked one, with all her heart! So he would fly to her, take her, a little gray bunny, by the ears with his front paws, and would still be kind to her and stroke her head.
- Let's run! - the messenger said meanwhile.
Hearing this word, the condemned man seemed to be transformed for a moment. He completely gathered himself into a ball and laid his ears on his back. Just about to hide - and the trace is gone. He shouldn’t have looked at the wolf’s den at that moment, but he did. And the hare's heart began to sink.
“I can’t,” he says, “the wolf didn’t order.”
Meanwhile, the wolf sees and hears everything, and quietly whispers to the wolf: the hare must be praised for his nobility.
- Let's run! - the messenger says again.
- I can not! - repeats the convict.
– What are you whispering there, plotting? - how a wolf suddenly barks.
Both hares died. The messenger has also been caught!
The main character of Saltykov-Shchedrin's fairy tale “The Selfless Hare” is an ordinary forest hare. He was hurrying to his bride when a wolf called out to him. The hare did not stop when he called, and the wolf, having caught up with the oblique one, decided to punish him by condemning him to be eaten. But since both the wolf and his family were full, he ordered the hare to sit under a bush and wait for his time to come.
The hare did not dare to disobey the wolf and obediently waited under the bush for his death. At night, the bride's brother came to him and said that she, having learned about the fate of the hare, was so upset that she was dying. The future relative began to persuade the hare to run away, but he replied that he could not disobey the wolf.
At that moment, a wolf approached them, and with him a she-wolf. They began to find out what the hares were talking about. And they told them about poor condition hare's bride The wolves decided to release the hare to the bride so that he would marry her, and then return back. And the wolves left the bride’s brother sitting under a bush, and said that if the hare did not return, they would eat him.
The hare started running as fast as he could towards the bride. He was in a hurry to make it back on time. The path was long and difficult, but the hare flew faster than the wind. When he met his bride, she was so happy that her illness instantly disappeared. But the hare told about the promise made to the wolf, and the wedding had to be hastened. Having completed all the necessary tasks, the hare set off on the way back. The way back was much more difficult; many obstacles arose that delayed the hare. And he realized that he was late.
From last bit of strength he ran to the lair of the wolf, who was already ready to tear the bride’s brother to pieces. But, seeing that the hare had returned, the wolf said approvingly that hares know how to keep their word. However, after these words, he ordered both hares to sit under a bush and wait for him to have mercy on them. That's how it is summary fairy tales.
The main idea of the fairy tale “The Selfless Hare” is that selflessness and obedience are not in every life situation have a positive effect. Trying to negotiate with a predator is not the best idea. The hare should have run away from the wolf when there was such an opportunity, but he could not overcome his fear of the predator and relied on him goodwill. He told his bride that perhaps the wolf would have mercy on him, but this did not happen. The fairy tale teaches you to objectively assess the degree of danger and promptly take action. right decisions. The fairy tale teaches that you need to be able to properly build relationships with a person who is stronger than you.
What proverbs fit the fairy tale “The Selfless Hare”?
The wolf's teeth feed, and the hare's legs carry.
You can’t be faster than a hare, but even that one gets caught.
A talented publicist, satirist, artist, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, in his works, tried to direct the attention of Russian society to the main problems of his time. Mikhail Evgrafovich describes in an allegorical form social types Russia, its political mores. A writer who occupied high places in his professional life government posts, dreaming of the prosperity of the Fatherland, most of all hated rigidity, lawlessness, tyranny of the authorities and slavish obedience of the people.
The fairy tale “The Selfless Hare” is a satire on “the country of slaves, the country of masters.” The image of a hare is an allegory. It's not hard to understand that we're talking about about a man. With sarcasm, Saltykov-Shchedrin describes the fears, dreams, hopes and experiences of the hare. It turns out that a hare can love. He knows how to be faithful and honest. It turns out that both the hare and his bride know what happiness is? They know how to rejoice in such a way that “this cannot be said in a fairy tale or described with a pen.”
One problem - the hare is captured by the wolf. The wolf is a tyrant, tormentor and executioner. He mocks the hare and does not allow him to live freely. The image of a wolf is personification Russian authorities: officials, landowners.
Through the irony and sarcasm one can hear the bitter reproach of the author and the hares - the people and the wolves - the authorities: how can you live like this? Is this life? After all, life is God's gift, value! The meaning of life is happiness, joy. You can't live in slavery! Slavery is destructive for both the slave and the master.
Let's listen to the title of the fairy tale, even the title of the fairy tale - a combination of incompatible disharmony, an oxymoron. A slave, a coward, cannot be selfless; he has no self-esteem.
So, satirical meaning fairy tales “The Selfless Hare” - in a truthful depiction of the relationship between the people and the authorities. In folk and literary fairy tale good always defeats evil, in the Saltykov-Shchedrin fairy tale this is impossible, therefore it, the fairy tale, is sarcastic and ironic.
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