The Dreamer in the work White Nights as an example. Essay “The image of a dreamer in F.M. Dostoevsky’s story “White Nights.” Reflection of the mood in society in the work

The image of a dreamer is one of the central ones in the work of the young Dostoevsky. The image of the dreamer in the story “White Nights” is autobiographical: Dostoevsky himself stands behind him.

On the one hand, the author claims that ghostly life is a sin, it leads away from real reality, and on the other hand, he emphasizes the creative value of this sincere and pure life. “He is the artist of his own life and creates it for himself every hour according to his will.”

“I walked a lot and for a long time, so that I had already completely managed, as usual, to forget where I was, when suddenly I found myself at the outpost... It was as if I had suddenly found myself in Italy - so much did nature strike me, a half-sick city dweller who almost suffocated within the city walls... There is something inexplicably touching in our St. Petersburg nature, when

With the onset of spring, she will suddenly show all her power, all the powers given to her by heaven, she will become pubescent, discharged, adorned with flowers...”

In the dark corners of St. Petersburg, where the sun never shines, hides a poor dreamer, always embarrassed, feeling guilty, with ridiculous manners, stupid speech, reaching the point of self-destruction. The hero draws a self-portrait: a crumpled, dirty kitten, which, snorting, looks with resentment and at the same time enmity at nature and even at “the handout from the master’s dinner” brought by the compassionate housekeeper.

“White Nights” is a story about the loneliness of a man who has not found himself in an unfair world, about failed happiness. The hero has no selfish motives. He is ready to sacrifice everything for another and strives to ensure Nastenka’s happiness, not for a minute thinking about the fact that Nastenka’s love for him is the only thing he can get from life. The dreamer's love for Nastenka is selfless, trusting and as pure as the white nights. This feeling saves the hero from the “sin” of dreaming and quenches his thirst real life. But his fate is sad. He's lonely again. However, there is no hopeless tragedy in the story. The dreamer blesses his beloved: “May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and serene, may you be blessed for the moment of bliss and happiness that you gave to another, lonely, grateful heart!”

This story is a kind of idyll. This is a utopia about what people could be if they showed their best feelings. It's more like a dream about someone else, beautiful life than a reflection of reality.

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Municipal educational institution

"Volzhsky City Lyceum" of the Republic of Mari El

Lesson summary on the topic:

“Is Dreamer Happy?”

(based on the story “White Nights” by F.M. Dostoevsky, 9th grade)

Volzhsk

2011

Lesson objectives:

Educational: develop text analysis skills

Educational: develop emotional memory, attention, active, creative, associative thinking, oral speech, ability to analyze, compare, draw conclusions.

Educators: cultivate a love for the Russian language, careful attitude by the way; conscientiousness, curiosity, the ability to see, hear, and appreciate the beauty in the world around us.

Equipment:

• Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night”;
• Drawings by M. Dobuzhinsky for the story by F.M. Dostoevsky's "White Nights";
• Portrait of F.M. Dostoevsky
• Recording slow instrumental music;
• Magnetic board (statements about F.M. Dostoevsky printed on sheets of paper, the writer’s aphorisms, etc.)

Progress of the lesson.

Teacher's opening speech.

Hello guys, sit down. Please look at each other. Don't notice anything new? We are so accustomed to each other, to the image created by our stereotypes, that we probably never thought about the fact that every person is a mystery, an enigma. And today the great Russian writer F.M. will help us touch this secret. Dostoevsky. This is truly a brilliant writer. Suffice it to say that his novel “Crime and Punishment” is the very first in the cycle 10 great novels of the 20th century, prepared by Oxford experts.

1848 Dostoevsky is 26 years old. He seemed to himself already a very old man, who had seen everything and experienced everything: the death of his relatives, and unrequited, unspoken love (for A.Ya. Panaeva), and the game of inexplicable fate, and the burden of the short-term glory of a genius (Dostoevsky’s first story “Poor People” was very favorably received by critics), wounded by people's ridicule, and, finally, despair of loneliness, a feeling of terrible emptiness from misunderstanding. (“The Double” is ridiculed, “The Mistress” is scolded), and there is nothing ahead, and why write, and why live? It’s good that at this time next to you is a dreamer and friend, the poet Alexey Pleshcheev.

And the nights were wonderful... The famous St. Petersburg white nights...The peculiarity of the northern summer - the white night - has more than once attracted the attention of writers and poets. Let's try to feel the beauty of the white nights...

2) Poetic “five minutes”(Students read poems by Russian poets about white nights to a recording of instrumental music) (see appendix).

3) Continuation of the teacher’s words.

In 1848, the most poetic and lyrical of F.M.’s works was published in the magazine “Domestic Notes”. Dostoevsky "White Nights". Guys, let's write it down in your notebook:

F.M. Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)

Sentimental novel. From the memories of a dreamer.

A short story and such an unusual title. This is probably not a coincidence. Literary critic Yu. Mann defined the 7 words of the title as seven keys to the “artistic secret” of the story kept behind seven locks. With these keys we will begin our work on the work of F.M. Dostoevsky.

The writer defined the genre of his work as novel . The fact is that in the 40s of the 19th century. novel as literary genre meant, first of all, the invention of personal life ordinary people. It is not for nothing that the second meaning of the word novel is a love story.

Let's not forget the word "sentimental". What does it mean?

Student answer. Sentimental (from the French Sentiment - feeling), i.e., addressed to the image of the life of the heart in its subtlest manifestations. So, in the work what will be important is not what happens to the characters, but what they will feel, experience, and how they will perceive what is happening.

Dostoevsky called his work “White Nights”What do you think this name hides?The title combines romantic symbolism (night is the time of dreams, the time of poetry) with a precise indication of the St. Petersburg origin of the heroes and the St. Petersburg character of the story. And if you translate the title of the story into French, then it takes on an additional meaning – “sleepless nights”. On such nights it is not easy to fall asleep, it seems that something must happen.

4) Conversation with the class regarding the teacher’s questions.

• From the memories of the Dreamer. Guys, from what person is the story told? Why?

(Such a narration sounds like a confession, a spiritual confession).

• Does main character Name?

(No, He is simply named – Dreamer)

The image of the Dreamer is one of the central ones in the work of the young Dostoevsky. And later, in the 70s, Dostoevsky was going to write a great novel called “The Dreamer”. This topic worried Dostoevsky all his life. The image of the Dreamer in White Nights is autobiographical: the writer himself stands behind him.

• Guys, who is this? Dreamer ? Is being a dreamer good or bad? (children's answers).

Guys, famous critic Belinsky gave his interpretation of the image of the Dreamer.

(Speech with Belinsky’s message about the Dreamer).

So, according to Belinsky, daydreaming is boring and cloying. Dostoevsky himself was ambivalent about his hero

(performance with the opinion of Dostoevsky).

Teacher . So, on the one hand, F. M. Dostoevsky claims that ghostly life is a sin, since it leads away from real reality.

But on the other hand?

• Guys, what about the other side?

Write down the problematic question of our lesson in your notebook.?

(D/s: Write an essay - a discussion on this topic). (On the magnetic board under problematic issue hang it out)

Is the person a happy dreamer?

Guys, every person understands the word happiness in their own way, but there is a common thing that unites, it seems to me, the opinions of all people. Let's turn to sensible Ozhegov's dictionary : (written on the board)

Happiness – 1) feeling and state of complete and highest satisfaction;
2) Success and luck.

Happiness – first of all, a feeling of harmony, agreement with oneself.

Tell me What state of the hero’s soul does Dostoevsky indicate at the very beginning?

(answers: Loneliness)

Definitely a dreamer Lonely . Guys, can Loneliness be considered a state? Happy person? (No) (the answer is posted on the board). Infinitely lonely, embarrassed when he has to talk to people, the hero of the story is endowed with the ability to subtly feel the beauty and poetry of the unremarkable corners of the city.

Guys, how does a dreamer perceive the city?

(answers : He perceives the city poetically. Every building for him is a living being).

But most of all, the Dreamer remembered the story of One House. Let's read the passage. (Reading the passage (by heart) expressively, see appendix)

Guys, let's turn to the skill of Dostoevsky - the artist. What colors does the author use in the passage? ( pink ? Why?) “Guard, the house is being painted yellow!” Guys, which one of you doesn't like yellow ? Is there a word in the passage that could be placed on the same level as this word? (Bile).

Guys, literary critic V. Kozhinov noticed (V. Kozhinov speaks with the opinion student)

V. Kozhinov noted that during Dostoevsky’s life, yellow and bilious were written through O .

“This writing is somehow rougher and more expressive. It would be worthwhile to restore this outline now: it would emphasize the special meaning that Dostoevsky invested in this word.”

What significance did Dostoevsky put into it?

In Ozhegov's dictionary the meaning of the word gall – irritable, angry.

The Dreamer's heart does not accept anything bilious, evil, or ugly.

Is the Dreamer comfortable in his solitude?(The dreamer is lonely, but his soul is drawn to people.)

Hero , like all Dreamers, dreams of Love.

One day Fate sent him meet .

Walking on a sleepless night along the embankment of the Catherine Canal, the Dreamer met girl . Let's read the description of her appearance (reading passage).

Guys, what worries you in this passage, what seems illogical?

(answer: The girl was wearing a cute yellow hat).

Why do you think gall yellow appears next to the word " cute"? (guys answer).

What was the Dreamer's mood on the night he met Nastenka?(Good, cheerful).

Why?

The dreamer is intoxicated by the beauty of the St. Petersburg summer night. Having succumbed to her charm, the hero and the world around him perceive poetically. He feels harmony in everything, his mood is joyful, at such a moment even his unloved yellow color does not irritate him.

Does the hero know how to perceive and feel the beauty of the world around him?(Yes).

The ability to feel beauty is a gift, whether happy or not. happy person?

(Happy. (Attach a sheet with the desired answer to the board)).

The hero begins to meet with Nastenka.

Did the hero love anyone before her?(dream, ideal).

What attracted the hero to Nastenka?(that she is not the Mistress).

Guys, how do you understand the meaning of the word? Not the hostess? (answer).

The hero intuitively felt dreaminess, purity, and naivety in Nastenka.

He realized that love for Nastenka would save him from fruitless dreaming and quench his thirst for real life.

At one of the meetings, Nastenka asked the Dreamer to tell her his story.

What did the Dreamer answer?(I don't have a story).

Tell us briefly about the life of the Dreamer(answers).

What does the hero dream about?

What word can describe the existence of a Dreamer?(Unsettled life).

Do you think it doesunsettled lifeA dreamer a happy person?(No).

(Attach a sheet to the board: “unsettled life”).

What is Nastenka's story? What brings her closer to the Dreamer? (Loneliness, reading circle, dreams).

What does Nastenka dream about?(answers).

During one of the meetings, Nastenka told the Dreamer that she loved someone else.

How did the hero react to this message?(answer).

Do you think the Dreamer loved Nastenka?Support with examples from the text. (Loved, when you love, you wish the person well).

Guys, one of my favorite poets Veronica Tushnova has the following lines:

I smile but my heart cries

On lonely evenings

I love you, that means -

I wish you well.

In which of the Russian poets do we find a similar attitude towards love?(A.S. Pushkin “I loved you”).

The hero of White Nights has no selfish motives. He is ready to sacrifice everything for another and strives to arrange Nastenka’s happiness without thinking for a minute that Nastenka’s love for him is the only thing he can get from life: This feeling is selfless, trusting and as pure as white nights.

How did the love story between Nastenka and the Dreamer end?

Nastenka wrote a letter to the hero saying that she was marrying someone else. Let us turn to the skill of Dostoevsky, a psychologist. See how it changes state of mind hero after reading the letter (expressive reading).

What is the name of the technique used by Dostoevsky in the phrase young old woman . What is it for?(answers).

So, the hero experienced unrequited love

Is he happy? The answer is posted on the board. (No). Having experienced unhappy love, the hero returns to his terrible state again - Loneliness.

So is the Dreamer a happy person?

(Answers. Working with the signs that are posted on the magnetic board).

Yes, at first glance, the Dreamer seems to us to be a deeply unhappy person. However, there is no hopeless tragedy here. Let's read the last lines of the work: (reading).

“A whole minute of bliss, isn’t that enough for at least a human life?”

A dreamer knows how to appreciate every moment of life, every minute of happiness! ( last sheet posted on the board). And gratefully perceives life as God's Gift . And this is not given to everyone.

Happiness, according to Dostoevsky, is not luck in life, but a simple, sincere manifestation of life, even if sad or tragic - this is Dostoevsky’s thought. Guys, learn to see the beauty around you, appreciate happy moments, and then Dostoevsky’s well-known phrase “Beauty will save the world” acquires, in my opinion, additional meaning: The ability to see and hear this beauty will make humanity kinder, happier, more humane. I would like to finish the lesson with I. A. Bunin’s poem “Evening.” (reading).

“A person is unhappy because he does not know that he is happy”

(F. M. Dostoevsky).

Application .

A diagram is obtained on the magnetic board at the end of the lesson.

Poems about white nights.

(“poetic five-minute”).

Azure vault

In the mirror of waters

Shines, admiring its beauty:

Barely - barely

The Neva is noisy,

Worried on the granite shores...

(A. Komarov “Night”).

*****

Breathe with happiness

Voluptuousness

Intoxicating night

The night is silent

Blue

Northern sky daughter.

……………..

Shine with sapphire freshness

Sky, air and Neva

And, bathing in the peaceful moisture

The islands are turning green

(P. Vyazemsky “Petersburg Night”).

******

The city is sleeping, shrouded in darkness

The lights flicker a little...

It's far away, beyond the Neva,

I see the glow of dawn

In this distant reflection,

In these glimmers of fire

Awakening is lurking

Sad days for me...

(A. Blok)

*****

On a white night the month is red

Floats in the blue

Wanders ghostly-beautiful

Reflected in the Neva.

I see and dream

Execution of secret thoughts.

Is there goodness hidden in you?

Red moon, quiet noise?...

(A. Blok)

The leaves are hung on the board throughout the lesson, on the left side are signs of a happy person, on the right side are signs of an unhappy person. The results are compared at the end of the lesson.

Dostoevsky wrote many wonderful works and one of the most memorable works is Dostoevsky’s “White Nights”. The work will not leave anyone indifferent. Here, together with the heroes, you experience their feelings and try to take the side of one or another hero. However, there is neither goodies, nor negative. There is only a real feeling of love here and it is unpredictable. You can’t order your heart, that’s why we see just such an ending and, probably, such an ending is best. The dreamer will continue to live in his own world, among such familiar courtyards and streets of St. Petersburg, dreaming of his beloved. The heroine of the novel, who followed the call of her heart, will forge her happiness with her beloved.

“White Nights” Dostoevsky summary and analysis

The story itself “White Nights” by Dostoevsky and summary first introduces us to the hero of the work, the Dreamer. His name does not appear here, and his appearance is not described much. We only know that he is a minor official who has not made a single acquaintance during his eight years of living in St. Petersburg. But he knows the city itself very well. He lives in his own world and in his dreams is in love with the ideal girl he created. The author portrays him as a lonely eccentric, sensitive, selfless, sincere and open, he is timid with women, not touchy. One day he met a living and real girl, Nastenka, whom he saved from a drunkard. Very often in the work White Nights, Dostoevsky uses diminutive words to Nastenka. So she opened “her smart eyes” and “laughed with all her childish, uncontrollably cheerful laughter.”

Nastenka is a brunette with beautiful eyes, “pretty” with “black curls.” She lived with her grandmother and was waiting for her loved one, who left for a year, but promised to return, and we learn about this from her story. She talked a lot about him and constantly expected news from him, but there was nothing. Instead they every white night met a Dreamer who fell in love with a girl and she felt his love. In one of their regular meetings, Nastya said that she would forget her love if the Dreamer loved him and they decided to be together. But the Dreamer’s happiness did not last long, because Nastya met a tenant with whom she was in love. Her love turned out to be stronger, so she, having chosen a second man, left the Dreamer lonely and devastated.

Someone may condemn him for not fighting for the girl, but it seems to me that the Dreamer did the right thing, like a real man in love who understands that the girl gave her heart to another and only with him will she be happy, and with the Dreamer she will only exist. He only wished her happiness. Well, the Dreamer, he will definitely meet his woman, fall in love with her and will definitely gain his personal happiness, at least, I really want to believe in it.

This is a story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which was first published in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski in 1848. The writer dedicated his work to A.N. Pleshcheev, a friend of his youth. Perhaps this particular person is the prototype of the main character, since it is known that at this time he was thinking about his own version of the story, the hero of which is in the clouds. The characteristics of the dreamer from the story "White Nights" will be discussed in our article.

We are all dreamers

"White Nights", according to many researchers of the writer's work, is one of his most poetic and bright works. Dostoevsky himself, in addition, wrote that we are all, to some extent, dreamers. That is, the story in some sense can be called autobiographical. After all, Fyodor Mikhailovich, like the main character of the work, often recalled his dreams. He wrote that in his youthful fantasy he sometimes liked to imagine himself as either Marius, or Pericles, or a knight at a tournament, or a Christian during the reign of Nero, etc. The atmosphere of this work is romantic, as are the images of its main characters - a young girl and a commoner official. Both of them have a pure soul.

Meeting with Nastenka

The story consists of five parts. Moreover, four of them describe nights, and the final one describes morning. The young man, the main character, is a dreamer who has lived for eight years in St. Petersburg, but could not find friends in this city. He went out to one of the summer days for a walk. But suddenly it seemed to the hero that the whole city had gone to the dacha. Being a lonely person, the dreamer felt with great force his isolation from others. He decided to go on foot outside the city. Returning from a walk, the main character noticed a young girl (Nastenka) sobbing at the railing of the canal.

They started talking. These events begin the story "White Nights" by Dostoevsky.

Character of the main character

Having chosen the form of narration in the first person, the author of the work gave it the features of a confession and reflections of an autobiographical nature. It is characteristic that Dostoevsky did not name his hero. This technique strengthens the association with a close friend of the writer or the author himself. All his life, the image of a dreamer worried Fyodor Mikhailovich. He even wanted to write a novel of the same name.

The characteristics of the dreamer from the story "White Nights" are as follows. In the work, the main character is a strong, educated young man. However, he calls himself a lonely and timid dreamer. This character lives in romantic dreams that have replaced reality for him. Everyday worries and affairs are not interesting to him. He performs them only out of necessity and feels like a stranger in this world. The poor dreamer hides in the dark corners of St. Petersburg, where the sun never peeks. This person is always confused, he constantly feels guilty. The hero has ridiculous manners and stupid speech.

The external characteristics of the dreamer from the story "White Nights" are very meager. The author focuses on his So, we cannot say what he does, where he serves. This depersonalizes him even more. The dreamer lives without friends, and he has never dated girls. Because of this, the hero becomes an object of hostility and ridicule from others. He compares himself to a dirty, rumpled kitten, looking at the world with enmity and resentment.

I always get the feeling that main character is a little boy or a feverish teenager. The confused confessions and excessive emotions that he throws out chaotically seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the situation. He does not know the world at all, as the characterization of the dreamer from the story “White Nights” shows. If a girl decides to connect her life with this hero, tender sighs await her, but such a person will not invite her either to visit or to the theater - only a ban at home will make her a hostage to sentimentality. The characteristics of the dreamer allow us to draw the following conclusion.

The sinfulness of the dreamer's life, his creative powers

Fyodor Mikhailovich believes that such a ghostly life is sinful, since it takes a person away from the world of reality. He turns into a “strange creature” of some “neuter kind.” At the same time, the dreams of the main character also have creative value. After all, this man, as Dostoevsky notes, is an artist own life. He creates it according to his will every hour.

"The Extra Man"

The dreamer is a type of so-called extra person. However, his criticism is directed only inwards. He does not despise society, like Pechorin or Onegin. This hero feels strangers sincere sympathy. An altruistic dreamer is able to serve another person and come to his aid.

Reflection of the mood in society in the work

Many of Dostoevsky's contemporaries had a tendency to dream about something unusual and bright. Disappointment and despair reigned in society, which were caused by the defeat of the Decembrists. After all, the rise of the liberation movement, which occurred in the 60s, had not yet matured. Fyodor Mikhailovich himself was able to abandon empty dreams in favor of the ideals of democracy. However, the main character of "White Nights" never managed to escape from the captivity of dreams, although he understood the destructiveness of his own worldview.

Nastenka

Opposed to this hero-dreamer is Nastenka, an active girl. Dostoevsky created the image of a romantic and sophisticated beauty who is a hero, although a little naive and childish. What inspires respect from this girl is her desire to fight for her own happiness. However, Nastenka herself needs support.

Love experienced by a dreamer

Dostoevsky (“White Nights”) in his work describes the pure, sincere feeling of a dreamer. The hero has no selfish motives. He is ready to sacrifice everything for another, so he strives to ensure the happiness of this girl, without thinking for a minute that Nastenka’s love is the only thing he has in this life. The feeling of a dreamer is trusting, selfless. It is as pure as the white nights. Love saves the hero from his “sin” (that is, daydreaming), and allows him to quench his thirst for the fullness of life. However, his fate is sad. He is again a lonely man. F. Dostoevsky (“White Nights”), however, does not leave hopeless tragedy in the finale of the story. The dreamer blesses his beloved again.

This story is a kind of idyll. This is the author's utopia about what people could be if they showed better feelings. The work "White Nights", in which the dreamer is a generalized, typical character, is more a dream of a beautiful, different life than Dostoevsky's reflection of reality.

Dreamers from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

It is interesting to look at the main character’s ideas about happiness (the ideal of compassion and brotherhood) through the prism of Tolstoy’s work “After the Ball.” The characterization of the dreamer (“White Nights”) in the light of this story becomes especially clear. The endless isolation from life and sentimentality of Dostoevsky’s hero contrasts sharply with the deep emotions inherent in the young romantic from Tolstoy’s work. Unlike the first one, he makes serious decisions. The hero Fyodor Mikhailovich is completely immersed in his experiences. For him, somewhere on the side exists outside world. One’s own dreams are the only motive for performing a particular action, as shown by the dreamer (“White Nights”) and his “double” from the story “After the Ball.” Any sentimentality is an indicator of a lack of understanding of urgent needs, spiritual loneliness, a consequence of a feeling of alienation from the world that owns a person. F. Dostoevsky (“White Nights”) nevertheless sympathizes with the hero and does not condemn him.

Composition

I. Features of the genre and composition of the story by F. Dostoevsky

"White Nights".

II. The image of the narrator in the story.

1. A heart full of love.

2. Poet, dreamer, romantic.

3. Altruism of the hero.

4. Dreams and reality.

III. “The Petersburg Dreamer” in the perception of the modern reader.

I don’t know how to remain silent when my heart speaks.

F. Dostoevsky

F. M. Dostoevsky defined the genre of his work “White Nights” as “ sentimental novel" The narration in the work is conducted in the first person, on behalf of romantic hero, dreamer, idealist, man with wealth inner world.

From the first pages we recognize in the narrator a suffering, sublime soul. His heart is full of love, he gives it to people who do not know about his existence, “those whom he is accustomed to meeting in the same place, at a certain hour, for a whole year.” He admits: “They, of course, don’t know me, but I know them. I know them briefly; I have almost studied their faces - and I admire them when they are cheerful, and I mope when they become misty.” His tenderness also extends to inanimate objects that have become so familiar: “I am also familiar with houses. When I walk, everyone seems to run ahead of me into the street, look at me through all the windows and almost say: “Hello; How is your health?

Perhaps the difficult reality made him this way, from which he seeks salvation in his dreams. But most likely, we are dealing with a poet, a person who observes the world from a special angle, creating his own reality. He admits: “I create entire novels in my dreams.” A poet tends to romanticize life; he is able to see the ocean in a drop of water, and the promise of happiness in a fleeting smile. Our hero saw a beautiful stranger in a girl he met late in the evening and “guessed” an exalted nature. Fate provided the dreamer with a real gift: the opportunity to save a girl from a cheeky womanizer by showing knightly nobility. He, indeed, behaves like a knight: seeing a tear flash in the stranger’s eyes, he shows sincere sympathy for her. And, as has happened more than once, he falls in love with her - more precisely, with the portrait drawn in his imagination - as he fell in love more than once “with the ideal, with the one who dreams in a dream.”

The “Petersburg Dreamer” is a person inclined not only to contemplation, but also to activity. Having fallen in love at first sight with Nastenka, without knowing her at all, he tries to help her arrange her happiness with her loved one, although for him it will be a real disaster. And a catastrophe occurs: Nastenka, having already decided to connect her fate with him, leaves him, saying, of course, words of gratitude, writing in a chaotic, but quite romantic letter, corresponding to the nature of their relationship: “Oh, love me, don’t leave me, because I I love you so much at this moment, because I am worthy of your love, because I deserve it..."

It is believed that the “St. Petersburg dreamer” was unable to fully realize himself in his relationship with Nastenka. Is this true? In my opinion, it is in such an unhappy, but beautiful love story his romantic nature was to be realized. He says about himself: “I am a dreamer; I have so little real life,” but what is there for him? real life? Could he descend from the heights of poetry to the mortal, prosaic earth?

For the modern reader It is difficult to take seriously the hero - the narrator of the story "White Nights". His naivety, impracticality, and his sometimes too sweet speech are annoying. The annoyance comes from the fact that he does not know how, does not want to fight for his love. But... it’s impossible to stop reading. Do you think: are there such people in the world, or can they only exist “in the thirtieth unknown kingdom, and not here, in our serious, very serious time?” And, agreeing and internally protesting at the same time, you reread the last lines of the story: “My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is this really not enough for a person’s entire life?”