(250 words) Love in Karamzin’s novel “Poor Lisa” plays a major role, because it was this feeling that became the driving force behind the plot. The author wanted to show his estate that the peasant women know how to love, that is, they are the same people as the nobles. The deep and sincere emotions in this work are an equal sign uniting the common people and the elite. But noble gentlemen are far from the greatest values in this equation, because the greatness of the soul and heart is demonstrated by the commoner Lisa, and not by the wealthy and spoiled Erast.
Initially, love erased the class differences between the rich and the poor. Erast came to Lisa every evening, his hypocritical environment disgusted him, and in the girl from the outskirts he saw purity and spontaneity. But for him, as it turned out, this was just another unusual adventure. The heroine, on the other hand, loved the young man with all her heart, she still had no one, but her first feelings became the meaning of life for her. She did not surrender to him not from depravity, but because of untouched virtue. Lisa could not even think that a loved one could be abandoned and deceived for the sake of material well-being. In her natural world of flowers, fogs and forests, there was no place for cunning. Naivety ruined the peasant woman in the same way as Erast — sophistication. He is used to the fact that love comes and goes, and no one is sad about this for a long time. Therefore, when he found out that Lisa was no more, his conscience was awakened. He blamed himself for her death for the rest of his life.
Thus, the test of love in the story “Poor Liza” showed who is who: the peasant is a naive, but honest and rich person, but the noble is an intelligent, experienced, but spoiled and vicious person.
