The simplicity and clarity of Pushkin's works do not at all reduce their significance and
values. What, for example, is the poem that Pushkin wrote in his youth, “Gypsies”? The summary consists in the fact that a young man from the capital's upper world is disappointed in life, he was bored with the emptiness, pretense and hypocrisy of his environment. Alexei wanted to be among nature, natural, sincere people. He goes into a gypsy camp and lives in it, roaming and sharing the difficult fate of a free people. For two years, Aleko is among the gypsies, he enjoys the will and love of the beautiful Zemfira. But heavy forebodings torment him. In dreams, he sees his wife's betrayal.
Summary. Pushkin. Poem "Gypsies"
The poem is decorated with descriptions of gypsy life, nature. This does not convey the summary. Here, as in any other work of Pushkin, philosophical depth is hidden behind seeming simplicity. Once, Zemfira's father, an old gypsy, told Aleko the story of his love. His beautiful wife Mariula left him a little daughter and left the camp with another. Aleko is amazed: why did not the deceived husband take revenge on the unfaithful wife and her lover? The old gypsy wisely believes that love cannot be held back by force.
Pushkin. "Gypsies" - an essay on the problems of society
The poem brings the reader to a comparison of a society living according to the rules adopted by him, with a free people, recognizing only the laws of nature. Which ones are stronger and more correct? Can a person from a civilized society not obey generally accepted norms? Waking up one of the nights, Aleko sees that Zemfira is not nearby. He goes to look for her and overhears her conversation with a young gypsy. Zemfira said that she did not love her husband, that he was bored with her. Aleko, in a fit of jealousy, kills with a dagger a young rival and a traitor's wife.
A.S. Pushkin. Gypsies. Summary. The ending
With this tragic denouement, Pushkin ends his story, summing up in the form of the end of Aleko's free existence. Tabor, seeing the killer and his two victims in the morning, made his decision. Having buried Zemfira and her young lover, the gypsies drove Aleko out of the camp and left. He could not live in harmony with nature. Alex wanted freedom for himself, but when he was faced with the choice of Zemfira, he regarded it as a crime. He, even being in a gypsy camp, continued to live according to the unfair laws and rules adopted in his society. After all, there some enjoy freedom due to the lack of freedom of others.
Conflict of a secular man with the laws of nature. Pushkin. Gypsies. Summary of the poem and its essence
Such a sentence of his time was made by a young poet. The poem with its lyrical digressions immerses the reader in the romantic world of free people - nomadic gypsies. They are simple and wise, they are free and recognize the right of others to freedom. That is why they accepted Aleko as a brother. But he could not understand the way of their thoughts, their rules of life. The old man's story about Mariul and Aleko's reaction to him were the forerunners of subsequent tragic events.
Afterword
A straightforward plot and an amazing depth of generalizations are available only to such a master as Pushkin was. “Gypsies” (the summary, of course, does not give a complete impression of the poem) is a work that has become a powerful contribution of the young poet to world romantic literature.