Summary. "Feast during the plague": struggle or obedience?

In the Middle Ages and later, people were terrified of the plague epidemics that hit cities and countries, because there was only one way to escape: run fast, far and long. Only religion, its rites and faith could help the survivors overcome the fear of death. This description of the attitude to the "pestilence", its brief content. Feast during the plague, no one dared to arrange. But there were numerous images of the "Triumph of Death".

Boldinskaya in the autumn

Before his son's marriage, his father gave him the village of Kistenovo, and the poet went to inherit. Kistenovo is a village near Boldino. He only counted for a month, and was delayed by three because of the epidemic of cholera that has arrived in Moscow. Pushkin called it plague for herself. You can not get to Moscow - around the quarantine. The poet is working fruitfully, but he is worried about the relatives and friends who remained in the "plague" Moscow. Under such circumstances, the poet makes a translation for him from the English "Plague Town", dedicated to the plague that raged in London in 1666, and, rethinking its contents, wrote his original work "Feast during the Plague," a brief summary of which will now be presented.

On the street. Behind the set table

In the plagued places there were only madmen. Their collection on the street behind a covered table describes Pushkin. The company of young people raises glasses in memory of the merry Jaxon, who two days ago enlivened the general conversation with jokes and witticisms. Now his armchair is empty - he was not spared by the plague. The chairman suggests Mary to sing something sad. She sings a plaintive song about places once flowering, where now there are only cemeteries. They are not empty and are constantly replenished. And if the death of a singer is meant, she asks her lover to take her away in the distance and leave these places until they are infected. And only then visit the ashes of the deceased girl. The chairman expresses Meri's gratitude for the song about her native places, which once visited the plague and where pathetic walls were heard. Louise enters into the conversation. She is against tearful songs. But at this time a wagon, laden with dead bodies, passes by them. Louise falls into oblivion. Mary brings her to life, and Louise complains that she thought the dead call her. Then Louise explains that these carts with the dead have the right to travel everywhere, and ask Chairman Walsingham to sing a violent song that should appear over the boiling bowl. This is the beginning of the story, which Pushkin tells, its brief content. The feast continues during the plague.

The Song of Walsingham

The chairman first turned to poetry last night and created the anthem of the Chumet. In a hoarse voice, he sings with inspiration. The lines of this hymn in Russia are snapped up for quotes. Many do not even know where they take these statements. We know Pushkin without reading, but it would be nice to read and think, and to think. But the essence of it is as follows. When the cold winter comes, everyone is hiding in warm houses to lit fireplaces and having fun with hot feasts. And now in all the windows a terrible Tsarina is knocking - the plague. How to escape from it? Yes, as well as from Winter, - lock yourself, light up the lights, pour glasses and start feasting, arranging balls. In battle and on the edge of a gloomy abyss, there is an inexplicable ecstasy. So when you meet with the plague, which threatens death and death, there is a strange pleasure - with a sinking heart to see who wins whom. And therefore we praise the Plague - we are not afraid of the darkness of the grave and amicably fill the glasses and feast. Courage mixed with fear, which must be overcome, is the meaning of the Walsingama song, its brief content. A feast during a plague is a courageous and desperate confrontation irresistibly beating all the living plague.

Appearance of the priest

The priest immediately, without preludes and introductions, begins with the curses of the people sitting at the table. He says that they are atheists and their songs are mockery, debauchery and mockery over the death and grief of the funeral. "I hate," he continues, "your enthusiasm." The earth is shaking from your chants over the graves of the deceased, and they do not let the old people and women give themselves to weeping over the buried ones. "Demons have settled in you, not otherwise, and drag you to their place." Such is the sincere preaching of the priest of the company of young people, its brief content. A feast during a plague is a blasphemy that does not lend itself to either understanding or description. But the youth are not at all embarrassed. They only suggest that he leave. But the priest broke up, like at the pulpit, he could not be stopped. He continues. He begs, reminding of the shed blood of Christ, to go home to all, ending this ugly feast. The chairman objects to him. He says that everyone has sorrow and grief in their homes, and youth needs joy. The priest, peering at the speaker, asks: "Is it really you, Walsingham, you who sobbed over your mother's corpse and could not tear himself away from her grave? Do you think that she does not see all this from heaven and does not cry because you do not want to hear holy words? "But Walsingam objected bitterly. He describes his despair at the sight of an empty house. "Only," he says, "the full cup will drown out and dull the consciousness of loneliness." "Let my behavior be illegal, but I'll stay at the feast and curse the one who will leave here." And you, old man, go away, you have no place here. " But the priest tries to irritate his spiritual wounds, reminding of his beloved, but deceased wife. This is how Pushkin describes the feast during the plague. The summary is reduced to overcoming the fear of death in three ways. The first is prayer and humility, the second is forgetfulness, and the third is Walsingham's song as the indestructibility of the human spirit in the face of terrible trials of fate.

conclusions

The position of Walsingham is most close to Pushkin. Walsingam, listening to the priest, at some point hesitates, especially when he was reminded of his wife, whom he loved immensely. But it was carried away by the hateful plague. Walsingham remains. Pushkin gives a remark, concluding the narrative: the chairman was deeply absorbed in thoughtfulness. This is the summary of the story "A feast during the plague" of Alexander Pushkin.