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What feelings can a glance express? Is it possible to guess the intentions of a person by his eyes? How does the eye react to various emotions?

Human eyes, body and facial expressions are able to convey any emotion. However, if people have learned to control facial expressions and body movements in order to hide their true feelings, then it is almost impossible to control the expression of the eyes. They will tell and give out exactly what a person is feeling or thinking at the moment. No wonder there is a judgment that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.

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Direction of view
A lot can be understood by how often the interlocutor looks at you, as well as where exactly he directs his gaze. In psychology, several types of gaze are defined, each of which indicates the nature of relations between people. For example, a look directed at the "eye-bridge-forehead" area indicates business relationship level, he maintains a serious, working atmosphere while speaking. So-called social outlook characterizes more friendly, relaxed communication, while the interlocutor looks into the "eye-lip" area. If the interlocutor looks in the eyes and below - to the chest, this indicates his sexual interest and such a look is called intimate.

Knowing the above subtleties, accepted in our culture, you can understand how a person treats you - as a friend, an employee, or sees you as an attractive person of the opposite sex.

However, social norms of communication are different for different nations. For example, the Japanese consider it acceptable to direct their gaze to the neck area, and direct eye-to-eye contact is considered unacceptable. Therefore, in attempts to interpret the behavior of the interlocutor, it is always necessary not to forget about his national characteristics.

The direction of the gaze can also tell about the feelings of the listener or the interlocutor. So, if the speaker turns his eyes to the side during a conversation, this may signal that he:

• hides some information
• not sure what he says
• or even lying.

And if the listener diligently looks away, most often this means that he:

• does not completely agree with the speaker, doubts his words,
• does not want his feelings to be seen (shame, resentment, disagreement, etc.).

The most obvious example from life is children. When they are scolded, they almost always hide their eyes: they either lower them, or turn away completely.

Gaze duration
When making eye contact with strangers (on the street, in public transport, shops, etc.), a person usually looks away, since intent, open viewing in our culture is uncomfortable for everyone. Strangers look at each other furtively, and a long look is perceived as a challenge. It can mean both sympathy (from the opposite sex) and warning and even open aggression. Interestingly, in the animal kingdom, a long look at close range signals the same.

When communicating, direct gaze alternates with aversion of the eyes, this is comfortable for all participants in the conversation. In this case, it is most convenient for a person to look into the eyes of another for no more than 3 seconds. If the gaze lingers longer than this time, the interlocutor becomes uncomfortable and is perceived as a signal of danger. This method is used by experienced manipulators to unbalance a person, deprive him of his sense of confidence.

It happens that during a conversation, a person's gaze constantly moves, does not linger on anything. In such cases, they say that he has "shifting" eyes. Psychologists attribute this reaction to intense excitement, secrecy, cunning, dishonesty, shame, fear, or simply evidence of boredom.

Pupil size
Surprisingly, even the size of the pupils can tell a lot about the interlocutor. A person cannot consciously control changes in the pupils, which is why their reaction will betray his real feelings.

From joy, excitement, sexual interest in a person, the pupils dilate. In addition, dilated pupils are considered an indirect sign of trust in the interlocutor. Constricted pupils "speak" of hostility, fear, aggression, or irritation. Paying attention to the size of the interlocutor's pupils during a conversation, you can track his interest and real feelings for the subject of the conversation.

However, when trying to interpret human behavior, one should not forget about the natural constriction of the pupils in bright light and their dilation in the dark, as well as when taking certain medications :).

Iris color

We can say about the owners of blue eyes that they are dreamy, romantic, sentimental, while very vulnerable and touchy. Physiognomy specialists call green-eyed people assertive, purposeful, reasonable. Curiosity, restraint and constancy characterize gray-eyed personalities. Brown eyes indicate the presence in the character of energy, passion, enterprise, lust for power.

If the color of the iris is ambiguous and combines several shades - for example, gray-green, it means that their owner has features of both colors. Moreover, the severity of each trait in the character directly depends on the intensity of the color.

It is worth remembering how many figurative epithets exist in Russian to denote a look: incinerating, radiant, glassy, ​​clouded, slippery, happy. After all, a glance can convey too much information, including that which a person would like to hide from strangers. Knowing some of the subtleties of interpreting views, you can easily discover new facets of the interlocutor during a conversation, better understand the actions of people and build your communication more effectively.

It is worth remembering that there are exceptions to any rule. And, before you finally decide something about a person, make sure that his gaze is not the result of illness, the action of medications or a personal physiological feature.

The article uses materials from the sites: elitarium.ru, inminds.ru, nearyou.ru, woman.ru.

The expression "Eyes are the mirror of the soul" is very common among Russian-speaking people and has been widely used in the CIS countries for many years. But have you ever wondered why they say: "The eyes are the window of the soul"? Today we will try to give a short answer to this question within the framework of our article.

Everyone knows what properties mirrors have. It is with the help of this device that you can see the reflection of yourself with maximum accuracy. In addition, the mirror is capable of reflecting in itself and any other objects as if you were looking directly at them.

But that is why the eyes are compared to the mirror of the soul, the answer to this question is obvious to some, but to someone it is completely unclear.

Why do people say that eyes are the window to the soul

The fact is that you can understand a lot from the eyes of a person. For example, you can often guess by the eyes whether a person is sincere, or whether he is telling you a lie. What are his ideas, pure, or he planned to get some kind of benefit. Even in the eyes of a complete stranger, you can understand a lot. That is why people say that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.

By the eyes, one can easily understand joy and anger, a sense of success and disappointment, a person's sympathy and antipathy.

However, it is not always possible to understand a person's intentions from the eyes, because there are also such liars who, as they say, lie and do not blush. It can hardly be said about such people that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.

Class: 6

Lesson type: explanation of new material.

The purpose of the lesson: to introduce students to the construction of "Persuasive Text".

Introductory speech of the teacher with elements of conversation.

(Actualization of students' knowledge about the information text and about TOPs of speech (based on previously prepared material about the eyes).

Today in the lesson we will get acquainted with the structure of one of the types of tests - "persuasive text", which we need to build a speech utterance for exams in grades 9 and 11.

The topic of this text will be EYES, which we talked about in the last lesson.

In the previous lessons, we got acquainted with “INFORMATION TEXT”, which is based on the transmission of certain information and uses a set of rhetorical formulations (TOPs).

Collecting material about the eyes, we used the TOP “properties” and “functions”. Let's remember what “properties” (ie definitions) and “functions” (ie actions) we selected for the eyes.

Now let's see how the writers describe the eyes

Text No. 1

I understand that the combination of all parts of the face, the movement of all the muscles of the face can add up to this or that grimace, in this or that expression. Disgust, joyful smile, grief, surprise, fear, horror, and so on. But the eyes ... Pupils and whites. ... the eyes are now steel and cold, now honey and warm, now shining, now extinct, now sad, now cheerful, now with sunbeams jumping in them, now mischievous, with devils jumping in them, now calling. Now aloof, now admired, now dead, like autumn water in a ditch ... What illuminates them from the inside, where does this light come from and what is its nature?

V.A.Soloukhin "Pebbles in the palm of your hand"

Working with text # 1:

2. Write in a notebook those definitions that are not in our notes.

Text No. 2

Eyes can speak
Scream with happiness or cry
You can cheer up with your eyes
Drive crazy, start a fight ...
Words can deceive
With the eyes, this is impossible.
You can drown in a look

Do not know tired eyes,
What they see everywhere, they listen,

Their gaze, like a sword, pierces everything,

They are at the same time with the soul,
When the soul of love is full

A wave of happiness shines in them.

Working with text # 2:

Underline the words-functions of the eyes in the text.

Eyes can speak,
Screaming with happiness or cry,
Through the eyes can be encouraged,
Drive crazy, start a fight...
Words can deceive
With the eyes, this is impossible.
You can drown in a look
If you look carelessly ...
Do not know tired eyes,
What they see everywhere is listen,
Let the tear not touch them
Only let them shine with happiness.
Their gaze is like a sword pierces everything,
They are like an ancient healer
They are at the same time with the soul,
This is how our Creator created them.
When the soul of love is full
Eyes are as mysterious as eternity
In them the wave of happiness shines.

Final questions on texts:

• What is the theme of both texts? (eyes)
• What is the main point in the lyrics about the eyes? (that the eyes express the feelings of a person and are a reflection of his emotional experiences)
• Which floorboard will help us answer the question posed by V. Soloukhin? (“The eyes are the mirror of the soul.”)
• To what type of text can both of these works be attributed and why? (These works belong to informational texts, since they tell about the subject of speech, describe it from different sides.)

Working on new material

(explanation of new material: acquaintance with the structure of the persuasive text and its features).

[To explain the new material, children are given diagrams reflecting the structure of a persuasive text, and all the parameters of this diagram are analyzed.]

What do you think is the difference between the texts “INFORMATIVE” and “PERSUENT”?

The purpose of an informational text is to convey information that should arouse the reader's interest. Therefore, the main types of speech in such a text will be description and narration.

The purpose of a persuasive text is to make the reader believe the author who is proving his point of view. The main type of speech will be reasoning.

To build a persuasive text, you need

1. define and clarify theme,
2. select ways her disclosure,
3. arguments ( arguments) in favor of the thesis being defended
4. and other content elements.

Analysis of the scheme No. 1.

THESIS - a statement setting out an idea.

ARGUMENTS - proofs of the thesis, the main idea.

Scheme No. 1.

PERSUASIVE SPEECH.

Before work (writing an essay), it is very convenient to draw up a table containing the main elements of a persuasive text (see diagram number 2).

Scheme No. 2.

[After analyzing the elements of the structure of the persuasive text, we fill in the table on the topic “Eyes are the mirror of the soul”.]

Work on language material.

To select illustrations for the arguments, we turn to various excerpts from literary texts:

And dully, as from a handout,
When they throw a stone at her laugh,
Dog eyes rolled
Gold stars in the snow.
(S. Yesenin "Song of the Dog")

2. I looked at him from the side, and I felt something uncomfortable ... Have you ever seen eyes, as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such inescapable mortal melancholy that it is difficult to look in them? (M.Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man")

3. Princess Marya: Large, deep and radiant (as if rays of pure light sometimes came out of them in sheaves) ... (L. Tolstoy "War and Peace")

4. The look of Andrei Bolkonsky before his death: “deep, not out of himself, but looking into himself”. (L. Tolstoy "War and Peace")

5. "Only those who look at you with tenderness have beautiful eyes." (Coco Chanel)

6. Eyes are the greatest human weakness. They betray their master, almost always.

7. This is how a person works: he can restrain his facial expressions, mentally tie his hands, but his eyes ... That's what cannot be hidden. They reflect everything that happens inside. (Olga Annina)

[In a strong class, you can talk about the characters of the characters who have the described eyes and gaze: “What can you say about a person?”].

As a result of the conversation on the topic “Eyes are the mirror of the soul”, we fill in the table.

Work on the composition of the essay.

To create a persuasive text, we must prove our point of view using the composition of the essay-reasoning: thesis - proof - conclusion. At the same time, to create an interesting, captivating text, it is necessary to use the techniques of constructing an informational text.

Therefore, we can begin our text with the definition of eyes: “Eyes are ...”. (This will be an INTRODUCTION).

Then move on to the problematic issue and thesis.

For proof, we first name the argument, and then illustrate it with an example from a literary text. There must be at least two arguments (we named them in our table).

IN CONCLUSION, you need to summarize the reasoning and arguments. For this, you can also use the statements of famous people.

Homework.

Write an essay-reasoning on the topic “Eyes are the mirror of the soul”, relying on the structure of a persuasive text with elements of description (as examples - arguments, use disassembled excerpts from literary texts or your own examples; and as characteristics of eyes - TOPs “definition” and “function ”Selected in the previous lessons).

Shakespeare called our world a theater, and every person in it an actor. Argue - do not argue, but the lion's share of truth in the statement is. We do play roles every day. At work, we try to be businesslike, collected, strict, to show our competence and creativity. We politely assent to the authorities, fearing to argue with him, or we go ahead, like desperate gladiators. At home, we put on a benevolent face and listen to complaints from parents about health, from our soulmate about fellow careerists, children about boring lessons, annoying teachers and a lack of time for games. We smile and joke to cheer up our relatives when cats scratch their hearts. And nobody notices anything. Unless only someone close to you will carefully, intently look into your eyes.

Eyes to eyes

Speaking that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, the author (Leo Tolstoy) did not lie. A person can perfectly control himself: facial expressions, voice, gestures, gait. Can say something special in time or keep silent prudently. Can hide trembling intonations behind a laugh or a cough. And only to expel from the eyes a deep sadness, the fire of hatred or love, the cold of indifference and the ice of disappointment, he will not be able to. Yes, the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Remember Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man". The main character, a simple soldier with a very difficult, tragic fate, seems to be covered with ashes and filled with "inescapable longing." What a striking, telling detail! We still don't know anything about the hero, but after reading these words, we understand: he went through great trials, great suffering, great mental and physical pain.

Eyes as the main element of a psychological portrait

And why did Tolstoy decide that it is the eyes that are the mirror of the soul? Why not lips, for example? After all, they can also tell a lot about the character of a person to an experienced psychologist and physiognomist. But only by the eyes one can guess about the true state of the spirit of a person, the emotional mood. Whether he is lying or telling the truth, confident or worried, sad or at the peak of joy - all shades of emotions, without concealment, will tell us through the eyes - the mirror of the soul of our interlocutor. In the novel War and Peace, Princess Marya Bolkonskaya is outwardly completely ugly, sometimes even looks ugly. But in moments of special spiritual uplift, intense spiritual work, “beautiful radiant eyes” begin to shine on her face. And Tolstoy, the great psychologist and connoisseur of human nature, selects a comparison that is striking in strength and persuasiveness: they are so good that they become "more attractive than beauty." However, not only Lev Nikolaevich, creating a psychological portrait of the hero in a particular work, draws attention to the eyes, describing them in detail, choosing the most accurate, vivid, figurative epithets for them.

Take a closer look at the faces looking at us from the paintings of ancient and modern masters. What a rich gamut of experiences is reflected in the eyes, how much life is concentrated in them, thought processes! And what does the current art of photography focus on the viewer's attention on? On the expression on the face, on the mute, but in all understandable language, the eyes of the models! And even professional makeup specialists, stylists, explaining how to properly apply makeup on the face, advise to highlight with shadows, mascara, and other means, emphasize, first of all, these very eyes as the main decoration of the appearance. You can also cite a huge number of examples that emphasize that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. An essay on this topic is often asked to schoolchildren. On the one hand, it is easy to write it, like any creative work on a free topic. On the other hand, it is difficult, because it requires good literary erudition, a good, well-formed style, the ability to express one's thoughts correctly, competently, and succinctly.

Summary

What to wish our students? Be attentive to people, try to discern the human essence behind the outer shell, and learn to read the interlocutor by the eyes, like an open book. Indeed, sometimes one look will tell as much about a person as you don’t know about him in a month of communication.

They say the eyes are the mirror of the soul. But the mirror only reflects, does not capture images, and its reverse side was not found. Eyes, however, express, immerse themselves in themselves, let them pass through external pictures, and transmit everything that is learned into the inscrutable region of the soul, heart and consciousness. Eyes are created from nerves, they play with feelings, they light up with light when a healthy insides, or vice versa - grow shallow, dull, dead, when a disease is already nestled in a person and torments him every day. A glance is the intention of an action, a sign of an upcoming action or an ongoing experience. Superimposing on the retina of the eye, as on a screen, the gaze suddenly reveals a fiery, incinerating force, from which one becomes afraid or ashamed of oneself. Through a glance, as through a soundless scream, a person is freed from internal oppression. A look in conjunction with the word can lead to madness of the masses of the people.

So what is a gaze? He doesn't take pictures of what he blindly sees, does he? But the eyes also do not create a gaze, but only let it pass, strengthen or weaken it. The gaze comes from within through the gaze, like a condensed beam of energy, and its incomprehensible power is inaccessible to decoding, as an unconditional divine mystery; so is the word and the thought. You cannot scoop up a handful of eyes, measure it with a meter, weigh it on a rolling pin of scales, record its strength with an instrument, break it into fibers, transmit it over a distance. It is not clear how the look is synthesized, how the soul, heart and consciousness participate in its creation. But we are sure that gaze exists as a form of energy. It is precisely the look in the Russian poetic language that is given dozens of designations. The look can be thoughtful and sad, tender and hating, sad, dreary, joyful, loving, anxious, courageous and cowardly, charming, sensitive, honest, contemptuous. Everyone can continue this row. There is a direct and oblique look, a sincere and treacherous, combative and roguish, a look of inner harmony or decay. The gaze transfers a concentrated feeling from internal to external areas, a feeling that can no longer be held in a person, otherwise his chest or his head will burst from pressure. And vice versa: from the outside - into oneself.

(According to V. Lichutin)

What is a glance? It is on this problematic issue that the author of the text V. Lichutin proposes to ponder.

Reflecting on this problem, the writer notes that a glance is able to convey a variety of feelings, to free one from "inner oppression", to discover "a fiery, incinerating force, from which one is terribly or ashamed of oneself." The look can be different: "pensive and sad, tender or hating, sad, dreary, joyful ...". It is not for nothing, the author notes, that in the "Russian poetic language" he was given "dozens of designations." V. Lichutin also emphasizes that the eyes, the guides of the gaze, are something more than a “mirror of the soul”, because they not only reflect images like mirrors, but also “immerse themselves in themselves, pass through external pictures and transfer everything that is learned into the inscrutable region of the soul. , hearts and minds. "

The position of the writer is clear: the gaze is a "divine mystery" that exists as a form of energy. "A glance is the intention of an action, a sign of an impending action or an ongoing experience."

In fiction, there are many works that raise the problem of the extraordinary significance of the look. Thus, in M. Lermontov's poem "Mtsyri", the main character, after whom the work is named, is forced to humbly live in a monastery. However, his gaze never radiated humility. His eyes blazed with sincere pride, love of freedom, desire for freedom and disobedience. Not only in the verbal confession, but also in the gaze, one could see the spiritual and mental strength of the hero.

And in the work of the same name by M. Gorky "The Old Woman Izergil" the main character describes in detail the look of the characters of the legends in order to reveal the essence of their characters. So, Larra's eyes are sharp, cold and proud - the same as his nature. And Danko's gaze radiates vitality ... He is fearless, courageous and at the same time merciful ...

Thus, the gaze is a mysterious force, the expression of feelings and desires, the reflection of the external and internal ... The glance is great gift.