(447 words) Russian literature is full of great classical works. In each of them, in turn, there are bright characters that do not leave readers indifferent. The authors, especially reverently, prescribe the fate of women in their writings. With great difficulty, you can recall the heroines of Russian novels, whose fates can be called easy. However, despite the trials that life grants them, they pass them in completely different ways.
This is especially evident in the examples of Aksinya and Natalia from the novel “Quiet Don”. Both women are extremely unhappy. Aksinya was raped as a child by her own father, Natalya in adulthood is faced with her brother's sinful passion. Both are experiencing a series of misfortunes because of love for Grigory Melekhov. However, this is where their similarities end.
Aksinya is an image of a slutty and arrogant woman who hides it all under the struggle for love. Indicative of her conversation with Grigory's father, Pantelei Prokofievich:
“- What are you to me, father-in-law? What are you teaching me! Go teach your fat ass! But I’ll want your Grishka - I’ll eat no bones and I won’t keep an answer! .. Here you go! Have a bite! Well, I love Grishka. Well? Hit me, what? .. Will you write to your husband? .. Write a heck to a punish ataman, and Grishka is mine! ”
She, without a twinge of conscience, is rude to people who are older than her, and goes on about passion. In addition, if at first the behavior of this heroine can really be justified by the fact that she loves Gregory and goes for everything for her love, then alas, after she cheated on him with Listnitsky, all her words and oaths no longer seem so sincere. Moreover, it becomes clear that this woman does not know what love is. Aksinya is driven by passions and is not capable of real feelings for either her husband Stepan or Gregory.
Natalya is very different from her. The girl fell in love with Gregory at first sight and immediately told her father that she would not marry anyone else. Despite the fact that Gregory could not love her in response, this woman was happy to be near him and, as she could, tried to earn his love. She was a faithful and devoted wife to him, but her tender heart could not stand the series of betrayals from her beloved, because of which she tried to commit suicide, but even this does not cast doubt on her love. On the contrary, such an act suggests that without Melekhov the world is not nice to her. She is the embodiment of a real Cossack woman who is faithful to her family, traditions and loved one. She is a meek, judicious and obedient woman. She does not re-read the people she must respect, unlike Aksinya.
And if “Quiet Don” was a Christ-centered novel, then Aksinya would be the Cossack embodiment of the biblical Lilith, and Eve would serve as a prototype of Natalia. But Sholokhov is far from Dostoevsky and religious references. He is a realist. That is why he shows that love for people like Melekhov can destroy any woman. And it doesn’t matter at all what her past and character are.
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