Test based on Leo Tolstoy's story "After the Ball". What event is described in Leo Tolstoy's story "After the Ball"? Mark how the hero's love story ended
Russian language and literature teacher - Z. V. Pankova
MBOU "Poselskaya secondary school"
Bichursky district, Republic of Buryatia
Test: Leo Tolstoy "After the ball" - grade 8
1. Mark the correct statement.
A. A plot is a story about the life of a hero
B. The plot is the actions and events from the life of the heroes
B. The plot is the actions and events in the life of the characters, taking place in space and time
2. Mark the scene of the story.
A. Petersburg
B. Moscow
V. Provincial town
G. County town
3. Mark from whose person the story is being told.
B. Colonel
V. Ivan Vasilievich
G. Engineer Anisimov
4. Note what feelings the hero of the story experiences at the ball.
A. Love for Varenka
B. Love for Varenka and her father
V. Love for the whole world, because he loves Varenka
5. Mark how the hero's love story ended.
A. Safely
B. Love began to decline
V. Hero abruptly broke off relations with his beloved
6. Mark the topic of conversation among the assembled listeners.
A. A person cannot himself understand that the whole thing is in the environment.
B. For personal improvement, it is necessary first of all to change the conditions in which people live.
B. There are events that drastically change a person's whole life.
7. Note what the type of composition of the story is.
A. Story within a story
B. First-person narration
8. Mark the correct ratio of episodes by volume.
A. The description of the ball and the description of the execution occupy the same place.
B. The description of the ball takes more pages than the description of the execution
9. Note why the author needs the image of a storyteller.
A. To add credibility to the story
B. Because the story in the first person makes it possible to convey the feelings and thoughts of the characters
B. Both options are correct.
10. Note whether the narrator draws conclusions about what he saw on the parade ground.
A. No, he does not want to reason
B. Yes, he is indignant, opposes arbitrariness
V. No, he does not draw conclusions, but his whole future life depends on what he saw
11. Mark the most accurate definition of the concept of "antithesis".
A. Antithesis is a comparison of different concepts
B. Contrasting concepts
B. Stylistic figure of contrast, sharp opposition
12. Mark the correct statement.
A. In the story of Leo Tolstoy protests against the Nikolaev reality
B. In the story of L.N. Tolstoy declares a person's moral responsibility for what is happening
V. In the story of Leo Tolstoy calls for the fight against arbitrariness
13. Mark the time of the action in the story.
A. Reign of Alexander I
B. Reign of Nicholas I
C. Reign of Alexander II
A. From the lips of those present at the ball
15. Note what feelings the hero of the story experiences after the scene on the parade ground.
A. Resentment
B. Powerlessness
V. Toscu
16. Note the state of the hero of the story after the events on the parade ground.
A. Colonel's behavior is incompatible with the hero's feeling of love
B. What happened convinced the hero of the impossibility of love
C. What happened is not understood by the hero, but he cannot love the heroine after what he saw
17. Mark the correct option.
A. The key episode in the story is the ball scene
B. The key episode in the story is the description of the execution
18. Note how the author's image manifests itself in the story.
Answers:
1 - B
2 - B
3 - B
4 - B
5 B
6 - B
7 - A
8 - B
9 - B
10 - B
11 - B
12 - B
13 - B
14 - B
15 - B
16 - B
17 - B
18 - B
The story "After the Ball" is quite short, but there are many described events in it.
First there is a description of the ball, the hero is in love with the young and lovely Varenka, he is also fascinated by her father, the colonel, who impressed him as a deeply decent and kind person. All evening the narrator thought only of Varenka, dreamed of marrying a beautiful girl. Thoughts about the girl overwhelmed our hero so much that he could not fall asleep.
He went out into the street and was walking, when suddenly a completely different scene appeared before his eyes: Varenka's good-natured and polite father severely punished the soldier, it was how shocking the hero was that his love for Varenka had vanished.
L. Tolstoy's story "After the Ball" tells us about the emotional experiences of a young man Ivan Vasilyevich, who was in love with the colonel's daughter. The military leader and his daughter Varenka so impressed the young man at first that he decided to marry her. The state of love and admiration for the girl's father was especially acute during the ball, which was staged on the occasion of Maslenitsa on the eve of Forgiveness Sunday. These days precede the beginning of Great Lent.
At the ball, father and daughter were joyful, sweet and welcoming. After the ball, the young man could not sleep and witnessed the punishment of a soldier who was guilty. It was very harsh and even cruel, but even such cruelty did not satisfy the colonel and he hit the already beaten soldier. This scene struck Ivan Vasilyevich to the depths of his soul, and he turned away from both his father and his daughter. This is how the story ends.
The first is the ball, where Ivan Vasilyevich dances with Varenka, admires her, is in love with her, feeds on this love. Then Vari's dance with her father and admiration for this family.
Second, the scene that the hero sees after the ball, on a morning walk (he could not sleep from an excess of feelings). That colonel, whom everyone admired, dear, charming old man turned into a tyrant when he punished the fugitive Tatar.
This whole story, by the way, has a real prototype, as it really happened with Lev Nikolaevich's brother.
A young man in love with the charming Varenka sees her father at the ball and he makes a pleasant impression on him. It seems to him that this person is kind and noble. But after the ball, he sees the execution of a soldier who was beaten with gauntlets. In this scene, Varenka's father, the colonel, appears completely different. He is indifferent and cruel. Realization of this leads the young man into a state of shock. After that, love for Varenka faded away.
The great L.N. Tolstoy wrote his famous story "After the Ball" in 1903, but it was published much later, in 1911, after the writer's death. The history of the creation of "After the Ball" by Tolstoy suggests that this work is based on real events that happened to the writer's brother, Sergei Nikolaevich. Leo Tolstoy, being a university student, lived with his brothers Nikolai, Sergei, Dmitry and sister Maria in Kazan. There, his brother Sergei fell head over heels in love with Varenka, the daughter of the military mayor A.P. Koreysha, whose estate was located next door.
The history of the creation of "After the Ball" (L. N. Tolstoy)
Sergei Nikolaevich very often stopped by to visit them and more than once attended them at social receptions and balls. But something will happen that once and for all will turn him away from the outlined grandiose plans, extinguish his love and desire to marry his sweet beloved.
One night after the ball Sergei Nikolaevich became an unwitting witness of how the fugitive soldier was being punished, and Varenka's father himself supervised this terrible execution.
The story of the creation of "After the Ball" is quite intriguing, and therefore it is still better to familiarize yourself with the full content of the work itself in order to understand all the subtleties and essence of the event that happened. This incident shocked the writer himself, who then, many years later, nevertheless decided to describe it in his work "After the Ball".
History of the creation of "After the Ball": a summary
L.N. For a long time Tolstoy did not know what name to come up with for him. At first there were several options: "Daughter and Father" or "A Story about the Ball and Through the Line", but in the end it turned out "After the Ball".
Here the author is concerned with the problem of what influences the environment or circumstances? And can he manage himself, or is it something else that leads him. The history of the creation of "After the Ball" speaks for itself, but let's try to plunge even deeper into the analysis of this work.
Genre and creative method
So, "After the Ball" Leo Tolstoy presented as written in a small volume. It describes one episode from the life of the protagonist, from which he received a huge shock, which played a large role in his further destiny.
The story "After the Ball" depicts the era of government. And the author hints that after many years, in real life, nothing has changed in Russia. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was an idealist, he always spoke out against oppression and violence against the people. His story and almost all the work of this great artist of the word is associated with Russian
The story of the creation of "After the Ball" describes his serious suffering and torment in this regard, up to the renunciation of the Christian faith, which he served for a long time. Tolstoy could not come to terms with reality. He did not want to accept the world as cruel and unjust.
Main subject
The work "After the Ball" reveals the bleak side of the tsarist soldier and his twenty-five years of service in the Russian army, where there was complete lack of rights, constant drill and unbearable punishment in case of failure to comply with any order of the chief. But the main problem still became the issues of moral education of a person and that, under the influence of which it is formed. Is it all influenced by chance or some kind of social condition? The story of the creation of "After the Ball" describes an example of how one event turns the whole life of the protagonist, who immediately threw away all the class prejudices of that time. A young man, who, like everyone else at this age, is very enthusiastic, impressionable, suddenly, because of the feeling of injustice that has surged over him, suddenly changes his fate.
Idea
The systems of images and composition help to reveal the idea of the story "After the Ball". The main characters here are the narrator Ivan Vasilyevich himself, the old colonel and his daughter Varya.
The history of the creation of "After the Ball" by Tolstoy says that in the image of Colonel Tolstoy decided to expose social conditions that distort the true nature of a person who is instilled with the wrong concept of duty.
In the story, all the images and actions are described in a very contrasting way: a magnificent ball and a scene of terrible punishment, the graceful figure of a slender Varenka and the body of a soldier, reminiscent of a bloody mess. Or Varenka's father, who at first looked like a sweet and charming old man, and then turned into an evil despot, demanding a decent fulfillment of his orders.
Conflict
At the heart of the conflict, on the one hand, lies the duplicity of the mayor Pyotr Vladislavovich, and on the other, the disappointment of the narrator Ivan Vasilyevich. At first, in his story, he pours the brightest compliments to the mayor, describing him as a handsome, stately, sweet, kind and fresh old man who attracted each of the guests. But after the ball, the picture was depressing, the colonel's face was seized by a cruel grimace, Ivan Vasilyevich saw him hitting a small soldier in the face with his glove, who was trying to soften his blow on the back of an already tormented emaciated fugitive Tatar.
The history of the creation of the work "After the Ball" says that in the image of Ivan Vasilyevich a person is presented who cannot love only one person, he wants to love the whole world and accept it completely. Therefore, love for Varenka, because of the act of her father, immediately turns to ashes. Because of cruelty and injustice, there is no harmony, and as a result, everything collapses. Of course, a young man is not able to change anything, but he can only agree or disagree with the terms of the evil in which he will have to participate in the future. This is what the logic of the young Ivan Vasilyevich was based on, which is why he renounced his love.
History of creation... What is happening in the story is directly related to the events that took place in the family of Leo Tolstoy. In his student years, the writer lived with his brother Sergei in Kazan. The brother was in love with Varvara - the daughter of a high-ranking military man Koreish.
He often visited the family of his chosen one. However, one day he saw how, under the leadership of this chief, the regiment mocked a soldier. And then Sergei was disappointed in his love and left Varvara.
This story so deeply sunk into the soul of the writer that he carried it through his entire life, until at an advanced age he made it the basis for his story. At first the story was called "Daughter and Father", then - "And you say." In the end, Tolstoy settled on the title by which the story is known today.
Plot... Compositionally, the story is divided into two parts. The first part depicts a downright idyllic picture. The main character is in love with Varenka, the general's daughter; the general arranges a magnificent ball, at which the hero is also present. He meets the father of his beloved, whom he really liked.
The general is handsome, healthy and vigorous, despite his advanced age. And most importantly, he loves his daughter so much that for the sake of her well-being he saves on himself; for example, he orders shoes for himself from a simple army shoemaker, instead of buying new ones. The second part is in sharp contrast to the first.
The next morning, the hero sees how the general, this wonderful man in soul and body, carries out a cruel reprisal against a Tatar soldier who tried to escape. When the soldier carrying out the execution did not hit the offender hard enough, the general began to beat him. This seemed to the hero so wild that his feelings for Varenka were completely extinguished. Apparently, the general only seemed kind and loving, and in the "working environment" showed his true face.
Problematic... The story has several layers of meaning. And the general's hypocrisy and depravity is only the topmost layer, a kind of tip of the iceberg. At first the ball - light and luxury, smiles and good mood, beautiful music. And in the morning - a gray misty sky, the beat of a drum and a flute, a stern colonel. Two different scenes - the ball and the parade ground, where the image and characteristics of Varenka's father are revealed. He was an ideal, loving father, but turned into a cruel officer.
The narrator is amazed at this behavior, as if he had received his sight, having seen the behavior of a person in different situations. He is even more disgusted that the colonel pretended not to recognize him. Having witnessed the vile scene, he is ashamed and sick.
It is characteristic that the story depicts the time of the writer's youth - the years of Nicholas I. Apparently, Leo Tolstoy wanted to hint by creating his work that many decades after the events described, nothing had changed in society. Did the hero give up love after parting with Varenka? Obviously not. On the contrary, he parted with her for love, because he realized that there could no longer be any love in a relationship with her.
The genre of the work."After the Ball" is a short prose work, a story. At first glance, it continues the traditions of 19th century Russian realism. However, the very deep symbolism of the story, coupled with some superficiality and "pamphlet" of the external plan, makes it related to the literature of a new era. The description of a long love story fits into just a few pages, and the sharp contrast between the first and second parts of the composition only strengthens the symbolic meaning of the story.
The meaning of the name... It is noteworthy that the story is called "After the Ball". This already introduces some intrigue in the first half of the work, which describes the ball itself. The event itself, which the author focuses on, takes place in the final part of the story, but only it contains its main idea: everything that happened before the event that happened after the ball turned out to be just vanity.
Heroes... There are three main characters in the story. First, the narrator himself is Ivan Vasilievich. This is a young man, in love, not devoid of compassion and decency. True love for him is an all-encompassing feeling. Thus, Leo Tolstoy depicted himself in the image of Ivan Vasilievich.
Secondly, this is the general. Happy loving father, good family man. For a long time, the general arouses admiration, Ivan Vasilyevich really worships him. However, in the end, the true essence of this society is revealed.
Varenka, the beloved of the storyteller. She personifies the Christian virtues - faith, hope and love. At some point, these Christian attitudes turn out to be devoid of real meaning, which is expressed in the extinction of the narrator's love for Varenka.
Municipal educational institutionLebyazhenskaya secondary school
Literature lesson in grade 8
Leo Tolstoy's skill in the story "After the Ball". Composition. Techniques for depicting the inner state of the heroes.
Teacher Sycheva Tatiana Vladimirovna
Lesson objectives:
Teach children to determine the meaning of plot elements, composition, pictorial and expressive means of language, characteristics of heroes in different scenes.
Develop reader's imagination, historical thinking.
To foster the ability to assess human actions, conflicts from the standpoint of morality.
Lesson equipment: a computer, a multimedia projector, cards for group work, individually oriented plans, a calendar-thematic plan for passing the topic.
1. Psychological attitude (2 min)
1) Glad to see you all, I was preparing for our meeting, you, I hope, too. We welcome our guests, we will be grateful if they will help us in our work.
2. Declaring a topic
3. Look at the plan for passing this topic, determine where we are now. Let's define for ourselves the objectives of this lesson. (students answer)
2. Lecture with elements of conversation(10 min)
L. Tolstoy's work is one of the brightest pages in the history of Russian literature. What is Tolstoy's genius? In the words of M. Gorky, we can say that Tolstoy told us about Russian life almost as much as all the rest of our literature. Over 200 works were written by Tolstoy. Each of them is a reflection of an entire era of Russian reality.
As a child, Tolstoy was surrounded by a warm family atmosphere. Here they valued family feelings and willingly gave shelter to loved ones. The game of "ant brothers", invented by little Levushka, remained forever a mystery that he wanted to solve in order to make all people happy.
Life in Yasnaya Polyana, work on self-education and self-improvement led him to the idea of correcting the world around him through self-improvement. Therefore, Tolstoy reads a lot, keeps a diary, analyzing all his thoughts and actions, the negative aspects of his character, believing with utmost sincerity that the main stimulus for changing life is introspection, everyone's transformation of his own personality. Thus began the unparalleled spiritual labor that Tolstoy was engaged in all his life. It was in Yasnaya Polyana that he did a lot of pedagogy, taught peasant children to read and write, wrote the "ABC", which later taught several tens of generations of Russian children.
Tolstoy led an active life. Even in his youth, he participated in the war in the Caucasus and in the defense of Sevastopol, tried to carry out reforms on his estate, which the authorities were just beginning to think about. He wrote a lot, read Russian and foreign literature, was fond of philosophy and history.
Having lived a long, fruitful life, Tolstoy put forward Christian love as the basis of human community, which he understands as the loving relationship of one person to another, regardless of racial, national, and religious differences. In order for such love to prevail on earth, it is necessary that people educate themselves in the spirit of such love. Tolstoy's heroes often argue and argue with their opponents on the topic of self-education and changing life for the better.
About the story "After the Ball"
In the story "After the Ball," one can hear the roll call of two epochs - the one that L. Tolstoy directly depicts (40s of the 19th century, the time of Nicholas 1), and the one that is invisibly present, causing the posing of questions (90s). In the story, the writer reconstructs the past to show that his horrors live in the present, only slightly changing forms. Studying this story, we must give a correct assessment of the heroes, the events drawn by the great thinker.
- Why is this work a story in its genre?
Slide 5
- While working on the story, Tolstoy thought for a long time about its title. There were options: "A story about the ball and through the line", "Daughter and father", "Father and daughter", "And you say ..." and, finally, "After the ball." Try to understand the logic of the writer: how does he justify the name change? Why did you stop at the latter?
What impression did this story make on you?
Indeed, this story makes a very deep impression on the readers. I propose to devote our lesson to solving the question: with the help of what does Tolstoy achieve such an impact on the reader? What determines the depth of impression that this story leaves?
Slide 6
- What unusual things did you notice in the construction of the story?
(it starts suddenly, the conversation is about the moral values of human existence: "... that for personal improvement it is necessary first to change the conditions among which people live ...", "what is good what is bad ..." and ends suddenly without conclusions.
Slide 7
- What compositional technique does Tolstoy use?
(antithesis, story within story)
Slide 8
- What period of Russian history are we talking about? What do you know about this time?
(the time of Nicholas 1, who was called Nikolai Palkin).
Let us recall one more work about this time:
In Leskov's story "The Man on the Watch," the fate of the sentry is tragic, who left his post to save a drowning man. He was severely punished for this and perceives this punishment as a natural consequence of his act. We see that the laws invented by people are at odds with the higher laws: to provide assistance to a dying person is the highest necessity, and the commanders of the guilty soldier do not see it.)
What events are described in the story?
(ball at the governor's leader, the hero's love, disappointment, shock from the cruelty of what happened after the ball)
How to explain that in the scene of the ball the hero perceives everything around him with enthusiastic affection?
(he is in love, he is fascinated by the festive atmosphere of a dinner party, the closeness of his beloved girl, a feeling of happiness, youth and beauty)
(although the ball scene is described in more detail and takes up more pages, after the ball an event occurs that changed the hero's life)
Slide 13
3. Group work (15 min)
2 groups of 5 people work on a card for a lesson - to observe the text and write out the keywords from the episode.
The first group - the episode "At the ball", the second - "After the ball"
4.Fixing new material (5 min)
1) Performances from groups - according to sections of the table (for comparison, listen to extracts from each group)
2) Formulation of the conclusion: the episode of the ball and the events after the ball are opposed to each other. A contrasting image of characters, circumstances, events is an important technique for achieving the idea of \ u200b \ u200bthe story. The episodes are organically linked to each other. The contrast helped to show the turning point in the hero's soul.
5. Individual work according to individually oriented plans. (10 min)
6. Summing up. (1 minute)
Ask me any questions you have while working with IEP.
What's the hardest part about working on this topic?
7. Homework: (2)
Level 1: Prepare one of the scenes of the story for a detailed retelling
Level 2: Make a story plan (hard)
Level 3: Prepare an oral description of one of the heroes with the introduction of a portrait, dialogue, descriptions
