Mother's love and father's love.What is the difference? In his book The Art of Love, the American philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm offers the following insight into the love of the mother and father for their child. Nature is wise. All arranged in silence. Maternal love is inherently unconditional. Mother loves her child for everything: for a smile, for the first step, for the first word. All that her child has done is talent and achievement. Any of his pranks - this is a fleeting punishment and no less rapid forgiveness. The relationship between the child and the father is completely different. If the mother's world is the south with its infinite warmth, then the father is quite the opposite pole, where the weather is changeable, and the climate is severe, but in the north it is fair. It is a world of law and order, a world of overcoming, logic, duty and honor.
Father's love is not born with the first crybaby, you need to earn it. However, once won, it can be lost. The main virtue in it is obedience, and obstinacy and disobedience is the gravest sin. For the latter, in the eyes of his father, inevitable payoff must follow. What should it be? What is punishment and who or what has the right to determine the degree of its severity? We read the summary of the work "Matteo Falconet". The questions are raised in it.
Prosper Merimee, Matteo Falcone: summary
South-eastern coast of Corsica.If you go to the north-west, deep into the island, then in three or four hours on foot the terrain will begin to change. Thus begins the short story, and we will try to convey the very brief content of Matteo Falcone in our article. After passing through winding trails, meeting on the road fragments of rocks, overgrown ravines, at the end of the path every traveler went to the vast thickets of poppies. For a long time poppies were considered the native side of Corsican herders and all those hermits and outcasts who once turned out to be outlawed. If a person has killed or committed some other serious crime, he certainly went to poppies. It was enough to take along a good gun, gunpowder, bullets and a good brown cloak with a hood that at night would become a warm waterproof blanket or litter, and milk, cheese and chestnuts would be given to the shepherds.
Since ancient times the Corsican farmer, coming to newland, burned part of the forest to create fields. It was believed that the harvest would only become richer in that land that was fertilized with the ashes of the burnt trees. However, the roots of the plants destroyed by fire remain untouched and next spring give new "fruits", more frequent, and in a few years reach incredible sizes. Here this turbulent vegetation from the tangled, as horrible, branches of trees and shrubs and called poppies.
Matteo Falcone
What will he tell about the main character of the short storythe content of Matteo Falcone? Prosper Merimee presents it quite ambiguously. Not far away, literally half a mile from poppies, lived a rich man for those times. He lived righteously and honestly. The only source of his income was the numerous families owned by the family, who were herding shepherds in the district. His name was Matteo Falcone. He was a man of kind, generous, direct and just man. He lived peacefully with the people in the district. However, everyone knew that he could be both a faithful friend and a dangerous enemy. It was said that, before moving to these places, he brutally dealt with the rival, shooting him at the instant when the "offender" shaved in front of the mirror. Accuracy - this is another "virtue" Matteo. He easily hit the target in complete darkness.
We continue the summary.Matteo Falcone lived in a big house with his wife Giuseppa, who gave him three daughters first, which led him to indescribable frenzy, and finally the son of Fortunato, the long-awaited successor of the Falcone family. By the age of ten the boy was sufficiently developed, intelligent and infinitely happy with his father.
Fortunato
Autumn has come.One fine morning Matteo and his wife decided to go to poppies to check their herds. Son decided not to take, because the times were troubled, and it was necessary to guard the house. No sooner said than done. Parents set out on their journey, and Fortunato stayed at home.
Several hours passed.The boy lay quietly under the still hot rays of the sun, looking into the blue distance and dreaming about how he would spend the next weekend visiting his uncle corporal. Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted. Nearby the sounds of gunfire were heard, and a few minutes later a man appeared on the road leading to Matteo's hut. In rags, with a beard grown, he could barely move his legs. It was clear that he was wounded and did not manage to get to the cherished place of all the bandits - poppies.
Contract
Summary "Matteo Falcone" continues.The fugitive turned out to be a certain Jannetto Sanpiero, who was hiding from justice, but was ambushed in the city. He deftly slipped away from the very nose of the “yellow collars,” but not much ahead of them because of a severe wound in the leg. He knew that this was the house of the fair Matteo Falcone, who would never, under any circumstances, deny the help of an outcast, even if it was a deliberate criminal, otherwise he would break the eternal and immutable law of the Corsicans.
Однако Фортунато не спешил помогать повстанцу.He was cute and dodgy, he acted with prudence and complete composure. Why help some vagabond, risk his life for him, if you do not get anything from this? He can not kill a boy, since his gun is unloaded, and with a dagger he can not keep up with the agile boy. The son looked a little like his father - a man of honor, a hospitable, but a hot Corsican. He was much inferior in character and character. However, no matter what, nothing can be done about it, time goes by and life is more expensive than money. Giannetto Sanpiero pulled out a five-franc coin, and only then, at the sight of silver shine, the happy boy allowed him to hide in a haystack.
The arrival of the soldiers
Less than five minutes, as on the threshold of the houseSoldiers appeared in brown with yellow collars led by Sergeant Teodoro Gamba, who was a distant relative of the Falcone family. From the first seconds of Teodoro, a thunderstorm of bandits and a rather active person, I realized that Fortunate was a little rogue and a crook. He has seen and knows where the wanted person is hiding, but he will not say anything. How to be? The sergeant decided to intimidate him with two dozen strikes with his saber flat. But it was not there. The boy brazenly laughed in response, knowing for sure that Gamba could not use force on him or take him away, chain him in shackles and throw him in prison for harboring a criminal. Firstly, they were relatives, and in Corsica, more than anywhere else, family ties are honored, and secondly, Matteo Falcone was too respected in those places to quarrel with him.
The sergeant was in difficulty, but decided not to give in, but to play a different game. The power of affection and bribery has never let him down. He pulled an expensive silver watch out of his pocket. The boy's eyes sparkled ...
Inevitable temptation
Голубой циферблат, длинная серебряная цепочка, polished lid of incredible brilliance ... The sergeant realized that he had hit the nail on the head. For the right to possess this invaluable treasure, son Matteo will surrender Gianneto. The commander of the soldiers spoke without stopping, gently assuring his nephew of the sincerity of his intentions and not forgetting to bring the clock closer and closer, almost touching the boy's white, like chalk, cheeks. Fortunato's eyes were relentlessly watching Gumbo's slightest movement of his hand, he was breathing heavily from the outbreak of fighting inside - between duty, honor and a passionate desire to have an inaccessible treasure. After a brief bout, the latter won, the boy raised his left hand and pointed at the hay with his index finger. Immediately the soldiers rushed to the shock, and he became the sole owner of the watch. From now on, he could walk through the streets with his head held high and boldly answer the question about what time it was ...
Traitor's house
The bandit hiding in the hay was quickly disarmed andtied up. Lying on the ground, Jannetto rather squeamishly and scornfully, than angry, looked at his son Matteo. In response, he threw to him the received silver coin, realizing that he no longer has the right to it. Suddenly, on the turn, a figure of Matteo Falcone and his wife appeared. They stopped for a moment at the sight of the soldiers. What could bring them here? Having rummaged in his memory and not having found any serious misconduct in the past in the past decade, Falcone, however, took a second gun at the sight and boldly moved forward. We continue the summary of "Matteo Falcone". Prosper Merimee subtly, slowly, brings the reader to a tragic denouement. Every sound, every movement is symbolic and weighty.
Gambe, too, felt somehow uncomfortable.Overcoming fear and doubt, he went to meet him, deciding to openly tell about what happened. Upon learning that they had covered Jannetto Sanpiero, Giuseppa was delighted because he had taken their milch goat last week. But, having heard the whole story of the capture of the fugitive, the main hero of which was their son Fortunato, the couple Falcona became indignant. From now on, the home of Matteo Falcone is the house of the traitor, and the child is the first traitor in the family.
Pay
Continuing the summary of the story “MatteoFalcone ", go to the moment of the highest voltage in the development of the plot. Falcone, snatching the watch from the boy's hands, with incredible strength threw them against a stone. Dial shattered. Fortunato wept bitterly, begging his father to forgive him. The father was silent and did not take his lynx eyes off his face for a long time. Finally, raising his gun on his shoulder, he abruptly turned and walked quickly along the path leading to the poppies. The boy followed him. Giuseppa screamed, kissed her son and returned to the house. The only thing she could do was fall on her knees in front of the icon and pray fervently.
Father and son together went down into the ravine.Matteo ordered the boy to stand at the big stone and read aloud all the prayers that he knew. At the end of each he firmly pronounced "amen." The boy said the words of the last prayer completely soundlessly and, sobbing, again began to ask for mercy and beg his father to forgive him. Matteo raised his gun, took aim, calmly said the last phrase: “God forgive you,” and pulled the trigger. Summary Matteo Falcone does not end there.
Alarmed by the shot, Giuseppa ran to the ravine.She could not believe what had happened, but her boy was dead. Matteo went to meet her: “I will bury him now. He died a Christian ... I must tell my son-in-law ... that he should move in with us to live. "
Summary Matteo Falcone: Conclusion
Could Matteo Falcone do otherwise?Yes and no. He could regret the boy for his immaturity, for the fact that he had been tempted to understand that he was still a small stupid child and, perhaps, simply could not resist the temptation. On the other hand, Fortunato not only failed to meet his father’s hopes, but most importantly, he violated the main law of the island, betrayed the very nature of the Corsican highlander - hospitality and readiness to come to the aid of the persecuted. It’s not for nothing that the author at the very beginning gives a detailed description of the area where the subsequent events took place, and tells us what the poppies are. The surrounding nature affects the person and imposes his own seal on him. Today you helped a person escape justice, and tomorrow the Corsican’s stern and temperiness, similar to the thick and impassable thickets of maca, can play a bad joke with you, and then you will find yourself in the place of the persecuted. Therefore, before Matteo Falcone did not have a choice: to kill or spare. Only one blood flowed in his veins: for betrayal there is no forgiveness or exile, only death.
Once again I want to remind you that the article dealt withabout the Prosper Merimee's novel "Matteo Falcone". Summary can not convey all the subtlety and depth of feelings of the main characters, so reading the work is simply necessary.
