What kind of education did Onegin have? Abstract: Plan
Boredom is a disease, a cure
from which comes labor.
G. de Levis
Blues in the end
becomes
a habit, and a bad one at that.
Henri de Monterlac
Evgeny Onegin is the central character of the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin. The plot of the work is built around this image; the author talks about the fate of Onegin over the course of eight chapters.
Evgeny is a contemporary of Pushkin, his “good friend,” and many critics identify the author and his hero. But the poet himself constantly draws the line:
Always happy to notice the difference
Between Onegin and me
From the first pages of the novel, readers will learn about how Pushkin’s hero was brought up, what he was interested in, and what habits he had. Eugene's upbringing, according to the fashion of that time, was entrusted to French tutors. These people in their fatherland served as hairdressers, bakers, and tailors, so they were unlikely to be able to give the Russian “minds” a decent education. Therefore, talking about Onegin’s upbringing, Pushkin ironizes:
...the Frenchman is poor,
So that the child does not get tired,
I taught him everything jokingly,
I didn’t bother you with strict morals,
Lightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for a walk in the Summer Garden.
We see that the hero received a very superficial education, he could only “touch everything lightly,” but for the high society of that time this was quite enough.
In the first chapter, Pushkin describes in detail one day in the life of the hero. Onegin leads a lifestyle typical of secular youth: he visits the theater, restaurants, and balls. But is he happy? We see that he is not: he is bored in the theater, he is not interested in Onegin’s ballet, that’s why he yawns. The friends and women surrounding him in St. Petersburg are fed up:
Until the morning his life is ready,
Monotonous and colorful
And tomorrow is the same as yesterday...
Trying to realize himself in life, Onegin tries to write, but “nothing came out of his pen,” reading also does not bring pleasure to the hero: “he read and read, but all to no avail.” And then, in order to escape from the monotony of social life, Evgeny goes to the village:
Two days seemed new to him
Lonely fields
The coolness of the gloomy oak forest,
The babbling of a quiet stream;
On the third grove, hill and field
He was no longer interested...
And here he finds no use for his powers, although he begins with transformations in the lives of serfs:
He is the yoke of the ancient corvée
I replaced it with a light quitrent.
And the slave blessed fate.
But the village is even more boring for Evgeniy than St. Petersburg. And then Pushkin introduces Onegin to new heroes.
Vladimir Lensky is the complete opposite of Onegin, he is a fan of Kant’s idealistic philosophy, a poet, a romantic. Pushkin needs the image of Lensky in order to show how far these heroes are from each other:
Everything gave rise to disputes between them,
And it led me to think:
Tribes of past treaties,
The fruits of science, good and evil...
Lensky's romanticism seems ridiculous to Onegin, an absurd fantasy. Vladimir is cut off from reality, he doesn’t know life at all, his head is in the clouds. Onegin, although cold and calculating, lives with his mind, not his heart. Both Evgeny and Pushkin himself ironize and laugh at the eccentric Lensky. However, Vladimir seems to make up for what he lacks in Evgeniy’s soul. And that's why the heroes are friends.
Pushkin also introduces female characters into the novel. A special place in the development of the plot is occupied by the love of Onegin and Tatyana. Evgeniy considers Olga, her sister, an empty coquette, an anemone, and chooses Tatyana. This heroine grew up in a village alone with nature, and therefore knows how to feel subtly and empathize. However, Onegin rejects the love of a sweet village noblewoman only because he considers himself not created for family life and is afraid of losing his freedom. And at the same time, he does not want to be a burden for Tatyana, to make her unhappy:
Marriage will be torment for us.
Such an act can be considered noble. Onegin cannot change himself, his habits, and Tatyana is too pure and innocent a person for him, so he is afraid to tie himself to her with the “tie of Hymen.”
Onegin cannot resist the customs of the society in which he grew up. At that time, men defended their honor in duels. By tragic accident, he kills his friend, Vladimir Lensky. But I believe that in his soul Onegin regrets this act. He is depressed, rejected by the world. To get rid of suffering, the hero goes on a trip. But a few years later we reappear in St. Petersburg. This is no longer the same person we meet at the beginning of the novel. Life's trials have changed the character of the hero; he realizes his own mistakes and tries to correct them. Years later, Onegin realizes that he really loves Tatyana, but now she rejects him. From a provincial noblewoman, Tatyana turned into an important married lady. And although in her soul she remains the same, family duty is higher than love for her, she listens to the voice of reason. At this point the plot of the novel is completed, Onegin is left alone with himself. And I think this is a very tragic image. Onegin's tragedy is that his life, his fate, is “spoiled by the light.” He is trying to find a use for his powers and be useful to society. But it is precisely the spiritual emptiness of the surrounding world that makes the hero selfish and weak-willed. He himself suffers and suffers from this, but cannot change, become different. Onegin is capable of feeling and suffering, but his inner world seems to be fenced off from those around him by a thick wall, and therefore he is perceived as a cold, calculating egoist.
The image of Onegin opens a gallery of portraits of “superfluous people” in Russian literature. Following him will appear Lermontov's Pechorin, Turgenev's Rudin, Goncharov's Oblomov... The fate of these heroes is also “spoiled by the light”, education, and they suffer from the fact that they cannot find a use for themselves and be useful to society. But this is not only their personal tragedy, it is also the tragedy of the society in which they exist.
Tasks and tests on the topic “The image of Onegin in A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin””
- SPP with adverbial adverbs (adverbial comparisons, manner of action, measure and degree) - Complex sentence 9th grade
Lessons: 3 Assignments: 7 Tests: 1
Evgeny Onegin is the main character in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin".
Onegin was born in St. Petersburg, into an aristocratic family. His parents died early, he had no sisters or brothers. Eugene was raised by tutors who were not really involved in his education. He liked to read some novels, but they were very few.
He often attended social balls, where he walked all night long. I got up late in the morning and was going to rest again. Onegin is not accustomed to work. He also didn’t treat women seriously. He loved to flirt, but he quickly became bored with the monotonous behavior of girls. And thus, by the age of twenty-six, Eugene became bored with everything that surrounded him, everything seemed uninteresting to him.
He grew up a selfish person who does not understand that he can hurt someone. At the same time, Evgeniy was a very charming person. This is how he met Tatyana Larina, who fell in love with the young man very much.
Tatyana sent him a letter in which she talks about her feelings. But Onegin treated her like other girls. The young man knew Tatyana very well. She was very reserved and pure. Such an act was very important for her and this girl would never do it just like that. But Evgeny Onegin still rejects her, because he is bored by all this.
He begins to court the fiancee of his friend Lensky. After which he challenges Onegin to a duel. Considering that Evgeny could refuse, he still agrees because of fear of rumors in society and kills his friend.
The young man takes his death seriously and leaves to travel to other lands with the desire to forget all this and not remember.
A.S. Pushkin wrote this novel for eight years. Therefore, you can see the life growth of the characters.
During his travels, Evgeniy has changed a lot. He realized that he really fell in love with Tatyana. Here they change places. Onegin comes to her and confesses his feelings to her. He sees that the girl has changed a lot: from a reserved girl she has become a confident woman. Tatyana admits that she still loves Evgeniy, but says that she will not betray her husband by refusing the main character.
Evgeny Onegin is not a negative character, but not a positive one either. Pushkin portrayed not a hero, but a real person with his pros and cons. But Evgeny himself is to blame for his life situations.
Option 2
At the beginning of the novel, Onegin behaves like a young guy, then throughout all the events he becomes older, this can be seen in the character, behavior and behavior of the main character.
Based on the events that took place. His character changes, losing friends, experiencing betrayal. Lies and malice of people. Onegin looks at life with completely different eyes.
The main character was raised as a real aristocrat, and accordingly, he spends his leisure time in the same way, attending balls. Social events. He goes for walks. He is educated, has all the manners and rules of behavior necessary for high society.
Onegin seems to be a member of high society and at the same time far from it. This is expressed in his emotional impulses. And in denying the correctness of the secular and political way of life.
The main character leaves high society and goes to live in the village. But since he was brought up in the rules of high society, life in the village becomes incomprehensible and very difficult for him.
Onegin did not find peace for his soul in this bustle of meeting Tatyana. It is this girl, from a simple village family, who loves and believes in kindness.
But no matter what, Onegin did not fall in love with her. And only Tatyana became the reason for a quarrel with Lensky. As a result, the death of a friend in a duel greatly knocks Onegin out of the rut of life. In sadness and sorrow, he leaves for the city. In city life, Onegin tries to forget the past, but nothing comes of it.
Soon, at the ball, Onegin meets Tatyana. She looked graceful, elegant, and charming. A girl from a simple family. In this family, the main ideal is the mother. Even the father always tries to help the mother in everything.
Trying to improve relations with Tatyana, Onegin receives a rebuff. This upset the main character even more. As a result, all these incidents greatly influenced the development of the protagonist’s personality. This made him a strong and confident man who began to understand his feelings well and began to understand what true love and friendship are. From a secular slob, Onegin turned into a responsible young man who could be safely relied on in any matter.
The author wrote the novel itself over eight years. And throughout the novel, you can perfectly see the development of Onegin from adolescence to a self-confident man. Likewise, in the novel you can feel the one-sided love of girls who, in the first steps of their lives, make mistakes in choosing their ideal for life.
But, despite this, time puts everything in its place and changes people to suit its conditions. It is life that teaches people to correct mistakes that are made at a young age.
Essay about Evgeny Onegin
Pushkin wrote his Eugene Onegin from young people living in the early 19th century. Secular lions, or rather lion cubs, aristocrats. So they frolic and have fun for their own pleasure. Their favorite pastime is doing nothing, dancing at balls, visiting theaters, although they could very well make a dizzying career.
The family lived in abundance. Little Onegin had a nanny, then a French tutor. The teachers didn’t particularly bother with science, but they taught everything so as not to disgrace themselves in the world.
He did not lift anything heavier than a hand, groomed and cherished his hands, was diligently lazy and engaged in useless small talk. I didn’t like to read and didn’t want to, so I started to write something, but I also gave up. After all, writing is a titanic work if you do it seriously.
Just like a woman, he moped, got bored, flattered, flirted, pretended to be in love. So he “wasted” his life in the capital. “He lives without a goal, without work” - this is how Pushkin characterizes Onegin.
The village quickly tired of Evgeniy. He didn't know what to do, what to do. It was enough for him to be happy and touched by nature for a couple of days. There was no one here to chat and make eyes. The peasants worked from dawn to dusk. Onegin's only merit is that he replaced work with a cash tax. He doesn’t know how to manage a household and doesn’t want to learn. And he returned to his usual occupation - doing nothing, being lazy.
He imagined himself to be a hero, decided that he was superior to everyone around him and that he could despise them. “We regard everyone as zeros and ourselves as ones, we all look at Napoleons...” This is how Pushkin sees Onegin.
His neighbors thought he was strange, he avoided them - he ran away from them through the back porch of the house. But something like a friendship began with Lensky. But it turned out to be unreal and short-lived. The young people, who cannot compromise, quarreled. And the matter ended with a duel and the death of Lensky.
A beautiful young girl fell in love with him, but he rejected her love. Hanging around the world without a goal or purpose, fortunately there is plenty of money. True, he begins to think about his worthless, empty life.
Having met Tatyana for the second time in the capital, he suddenly woke up and was inflamed with love for her. But she rejected him - she is married. Marriage is sacred to her.
The great critic Belinsky gave a clear definition to people like Onegin as “suffering egoists.” Some young people in our time imagine themselves to be Napoleons, other people are nothing to them, they waste their lives aimlessly, squander their parents’ money, rush through the streets in expensive cars, and violate traffic rules. Only, as you know, for every Napoleon there is a Kutuzov.
Essay 4
At the very beginning of the novel, we learn that Eugene was raised French and, accordingly, received a French education. He knows economics, knows how to behave during a conversation, knows a lot about fashion, takes care of himself, is pedantic, and spends a lot of time in front of the mirror. Onegin’s views on life did not coincide with his father, since his son’s were more modern and philosophical. Evgeniy is smart, he speaks French and Latin well, and knows how to dance the mazurka. He has a lot of foreign things in his office; he is alien to Russian society. In the theater, the hero pays attention to young actresses, goes to balls only to look at women and their legs, in general, he had a frivolous attitude towards the weaker sex.
Onegin is not keen on metropolitan life, since he is more attracted to everything foreign. He is smart, with his own dreams and goals, but he is a person who is not able to act, work, or trust people. He is disappointed in everything, the blues have taken possession of him, but there is still hope for a change in life, a desire to change places appears.
In the village, Evgeniy is bored at first, reads books, replaces corvée with quitrent, and does not find a common language with his neighbors, since he is smarter and more educated. There he meets Lensky, they become friends “out of nothing to do.” They are attracted to each other's foreign upbringing, but are otherwise completely different. This is a fragile friendship that is doomed to collapse. Subsequently, the friends meet in a duel, where Lensky dies.
After meeting Tatyana, the girl falls in love with Onegin, since for her he is the hero of a French novel, an ideal, but does not receive reciprocity in response to her love letter, since Eugene feels his unpreparedness and spiritual poverty. He honestly tells the girl about his negative traits and uncertainty about the effectiveness of their marriage.
A few years later, the main character meets Larina at one of the balls and realizes that he loves her, but it turns out to be too late: Tatyana is married and is not going to leave her husband. So, Onegin understands that he has missed his happiness.
In his novel, Pushkin tried to show the young people of his time, to show the unacceptability of such a way of life, to call on people to change their way of life.
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The novel “Eugene Onegin” is the great creation of the brilliant Pushkin. The immortal work reflects Russian life in the first decades of the 19th century with all the force of the author’s realism. The poet describes all aspects of Russian reality, all layers of the nation, and shows typical representatives of the noble society of that era. This typical image in the novel is the main character - Eugene Onegin, in whom the features of a “suffering egoist”, “superfluous person” are clearly visible.
Onegin is a child of secular society; he received the upbringing and education typical of a young nobleman. The main character of the novel speaks perfect French, dances well and bows gracefully, which is quite enough in high society. Onegin is considered an intelligent and sweet person. Pushkin ironically remarks:
We all learned a little bit
Something and somehow
So upbringing, thank God,
It's no wonder for us to shine.
Evgeniy leads the life of a darling of fate, a sybarite. He spends time at endless balls, evenings, visits restaurants, theaters. The young nobleman perfectly mastered the “science of tender passion,” but the author notes that love intrigues occupied Onegin’s “yearning laziness.” The monotony and diversity of life in secular society gradually bores the main character. He becomes disillusioned with the emptiness and purposelessness of such an existence:
But early his feelings cooled down,
He was tired of the noise of the world...
Onegin differs from other representatives of secular Petersburg. He is smart and talented, capable of correctly assessing life and the people who surround him. No wonder Pushkin speaks with great sympathy about his hero. Evgeniy is the author’s “good... friend”. What is so sweet to Pushkin about the nature of the main character? The poet writes:
I liked his features
Involuntary devotion to dreams,
Inimitable strangeness
And a sharp, chilled mind.
It is these qualities that do not allow Onegin to continue to lead an idle life. However, the tragedy of the hero is that he well understands the wrongness of such a life, but does not know how to live. Evgeniy is trying to change the sluggish passage of time, he is trying to engage in useful activities in order to somehow shake himself up. The main character begins to read books and engages in writing, but this does not lead to anything good. Pushkin reveals the truth to us:
... but persistent work was sickening to him...
Life in high society destroys in a person the habit of work, the desire to act. This is what happens with Onegin. His soul simply withered under the influence of the light. Evgeniy is frankly bored in any company. He does everything “out of boredom,” “just to pass the time.” This is what explains Onegin’s friendship with Lensky and the implementation of reforms on the protagonist’s estate. Evgeny values his peace most of all, so he does not want to reciprocate Tatyana Larina when the girl herself confesses her love to the hero. Onegin sees that Tatyana is an original and deep nature, but the egoist in Eugene is stronger than Pushkin’s “good friend”. Onegin inflicts a spiritual wound on “sweet Tanya”, he arouses the jealousy of the naive and ardent Lensky, and the reason for everything is the “longing laziness” of the protagonist. He is an egoist, but a suffering egoist. Onegin's actions and behavior bring misfortune not only to those around him, but also to himself. He lived too long in high society and absorbed all the vices of that society, “living without a goal, without work until he was twenty-six years old.” Evgeny tried to leave, to break with secular Petersburg, but he failed to achieve this. A child of light, he cannot rise above the wretched landed nobility surrounding the hero and prefers to shoot with Lensky so as not to become an object of ridicule. Realizing that he needs to make peace with Vladimir, Evgeniy nevertheless fires a fatal shot for the young poet. After the murder of Lensky, Evgeny suffers, but the fear of gossip and slander turned out to be stronger than the feeling of his own wrong. Onegin was afraid of the opinions of those people whom he himself despised, at whom he laughed in conversations with Lensky. Selfishness also lies at the basis of Evgeny’s attitude towards Tatyana Larina. The hero of Pushkin's novel did not want to respond to the feelings of the naive girl, even realizing that she was worthy of love. Onegin did not want to change his habits:
No matter how much I love you,
Once I get used to it, I’ll stop loving it immediately.
However, Evgeny falls passionately in love with Tatiana when she becomes a noble lady, a representative of the capital's society, and Larina understands well what is the reason for Onegin's feelings for her. This is the love of an egoist, brought up in secular St. Petersburg and well aware of the “science of tender passion.”
The image of Onegin opens a gallery of “superfluous people” in Russian literature of the 19th century. Without him, Pechorin, rightly called the “younger brother” of Pushkin’s hero, would have been impossible; there are features of Evgeniy in Oblomov and Rudin. Eugene Onegin is a typical hero of the era of the twenties, a “suffering egoist” that society made him that way.
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Composition. THE IMAGE OF EUGENE ONEGIN IN A. S. PUSHKIN’S NOVEL “EVGENE ONEGIN”:
Evgeny Onegin is a very extraordinary hero. He is interesting to me as a person who stands out sharply from the rest of the crowd. Pushkin creates the image of a “superfluous man.” The poet portrays Onegin as being very similar to himself in his childhood upbringing (Pushkin was raised by a nanny, and Onegin was not raised by his parents), but very often their views on life did not coincide. Pushkin writes the novel in such a way that, although he is not a hero, he is constantly present next to Onegin and compares him with himself.
As a child, Onegin’s father was reluctant to educate him, and he hired “poor” madames and monseirs, who did not teach the boy anything, but only slightly scolded him for “slightly pranks.” How are the stages of the hero’s life shown in the work? Onegin is a secular young man, a metropolitan aristocrat, who received a typical education for that time under the guidance of a French tutor in the spirit of literature, divorced from the people's soil.
We all learned a little Something and somehow...
And it’s no wonder that Onegin grew into an egoist, thinking only about his desires and pleasures. Thanks to his upbringing and society, the good in his soul remained in him. He received a superficial education, but he himself, although without any pleasure, delved into reading books. As it turns out later, he reads not only fiction, but also philosophical books. And this was very beneficial for him, because, having met with Lensky, who graduated from one of the best universities in the world at that time, he could argue even with him on such serious topics as philosophy and politics.
Onegin moves in high society. At first he lives like all secular people: he goes to balls, goes to theaters, but he does this without pleasure, as something obligatory, he even ceased to be interested in what is happening on stage:
“...then on stage
He looked in great absentmindedness,
He turned away and yawned.”
(Although Pushkin calls the theater a “magical land.”)
But in his views and demands for life, he stands much higher not only than his neighboring landowners in the village, but also representatives of the St. Petersburg society, and therefore he was soon tired of this meaningless, empty life:
But he completely lost interest in life.
Like Child Harold, gloomy, languid
He appeared in living rooms... In the village, Onegin behaves humanely towards the peasants, but he does not think about their fate, he is more tormented by his own moods, the feeling of the emptiness of life
Onegin would like to part with such a life, but he has neither the strength nor the desire to do so. At the same time, his selfishness and inattention to the feelings of others constantly lead to the fact that, without wanting it, he causes harm to those people with whom fate confronts him. Having received Tatyana's love letter, he feels that he cannot answer her in kind and refuses her, but refuses politely in a soft form, regardless of her feelings. But, in my opinion, it was better than if he reassured her, promising her to answer the same, knowingly not loving her. He decides to take revenge on Lensky because Vladimir told Onegin that at Tatyana’s name day there would be no one except her family and friends. he hurts Tatiana and Lensky on Tatiana's name day by openly courting Olga. Pushkin shows Onegin as an egoist, but he is a “suffering egoist,” and not smug and in love with himself. He apparently understands that the main source of his melancholy is the lack of work and social activity. But his mind does not allow him to follow the paved road along which many young nobles walked, wanting to find a “useful” occupation for themselves. He could not go to serve as an officer or official, because he understood that this meant supporting the system, because of which he felt sad. And the only work for him remains the fight against the evil of Russian life at that time - serfdom and tsarist autocracy. But this is precisely what he was not capable of due to his upbringing and living conditions, which killed all interest in work in him:
“He was sick of persistent work.” Onegin did not belong to the noble revolutionaries, but the fact that he felt uncomfortable in the then situation suggests that he stood significantly higher than the noble youth. Pushkin says that Onegin was “more tolerable than others.”
Although he knew people, of course
And in general he despised them -
But (there are no rules without exceptions)
He distinguished others very much
And I respected someone else’s feelings,
That is, he saw in others and appreciated that living thing that no longer remained in him.
Almost throughout the entire novel, Onegin’s actions, thoughts, and speeches remain unchanged, belonging to an intelligent man, embittered by society (he has an evil, sharp tongue, he speaks evilly of everything around him), disappointed in everything and incapable of any strong feelings and experiences. . But the events that Pushkin talks about in the last chapters make a strong impression on Onegin. And we see that he reveals character traits that he did not even suspect in himself. The duel with Lensky gives him the opportunity to understand what his selfishness has led him to, his inattention to people, his concern only for himself. Onegin kills his friend Lensky, succumbing to class prejudices, frightened by the “whispers, the laughter of fools.” He is no longer so arrogant, not an egoist, standing above all life’s impressions, he is horrified by his senseless act:
Doused with instant cold,
In the anguish of heart remorse...
The murder of Lensky turned his whole life upside down. In a depressed state of mind, Onegin leaves the village and begins wandering around Russia. These wanderings give him the opportunity to take a more complete look at life, reevaluate his attitude to the surrounding reality, and understand how fruitlessly he wasted his life. Now Onegin can no longer ignore the feelings and experiences of the people he encounters. Now he can feel and love. He was influenced by the reality of life of the Russian people, which he saw during his travels. After his experience, Onegin changes, becoming a completely different person. But, despite the wanderings, egoism and pride in Onegin did not diminish. This is “rebirth.” Onegin returns to the Capital and encounters the same picture of the life of secular society. His love for Tatyana, now a married woman, flares up in him. Having written a letter to Tatyana, Onegin does not think about her feelings, he thinks only about himself. But Tatyana unraveled the selfishness and selfishness underlying feelings for her, and rejects Onegin’s love.
The image of Onegin is an image that incorporates common features typical of a whole layer of youth of that time. These are young people, provided with work, but who received a poor, disorderly education and upbringing, who lead an empty, meaningless life with entertainment at balls, at parties, and on holidays. But unlike the rest of the strata, that is, the ruling class, which takes its idleness calmly, these young people are more intelligent, they have at least some share of conscience, they experience dissatisfaction with the environment, with that social system, and are dissatisfied with themselves, but after all, they, just like Onegin, thanks to their upbringing, cannot break with such a life. Pushkin characterizes very well the boredom and feelings characteristic of these people:
It's unbearable to see in front of you
There's a long row of dinners alone,
Look at life as a ritual
And after the decorous crowd
Go without sharing with her
No common opinions, no passions.
Although the entire novel is a story about Eugene Onegin as an individual, here he is shown as a typical representative of the noble youth of that time.
The novel "Eugene Onegin" was created by Pushkin over a period of 8 years (from 1823 to 1831). If the first chapters of the novel were written by a young poet, almost a youth, then the final chapters were written by a person with considerable life experience. This “growing up” of the poet is reflected in the novel. The main character - Eugene Onegin - just like the poet himself, grows up, gets smarter, gains life experience, loses friends, gets mistaken, suffers. How are the stages of the hero’s life shown in the work? With the title of the novel, Pushkin emphasizes the central position of Onegin among other heroes of the work.
Onegin is a secular young man, a metropolitan aristocrat, who received a typical upbringing for that time under the guidance of a French tutor in the spirit of literature, divorced from national and popular soil. He leads the lifestyle of the “golden youth”: balls, walks along Nevsky Prospect, visiting theaters. Although Onegin studied “something and somehow,” he still has a high level of culture, differing in this respect from the majority of noble society. Pushkin's hero is a product of this society, but at the same time he is alien to it. His nobility of soul and “sharp, chilled mind” set him apart from the aristocratic youth, gradually leading to disappointment in the life and interests of secular society, to dissatisfaction with the political and social situation: “No, his feelings cooled down early. He was tired of the noise of the world...”
The emptiness of life torments Onegin, he is overcome by melancholy and boredom, and he leaves secular society, trying to engage in socially useful activities. The lordly upbringing and lack of habit of work (“he was sick of persistent work”) played their role, and Onegin does not complete any of his undertakings. He lives “without purpose, without work.” In the village, Onegin behaves humanely towards the peasants, but he does not think about their fate, he is more tormented by his own moods, the feeling of the emptiness of life. Having broken with secular society and being cut off from the life of the people, he loses touch with people. He rejects the love of Tatyana Larina, a gifted, morally pure girl, having failed to unravel the depths of her needs and the uniqueness of her nature. Onegin kills his friend Lensky, succumbing to class prejudices, frightened by the “whispers, the laughter of fools.” In a depressed state of mind, Onegin leaves the village and begins wandering around Russia. These wanderings give him the opportunity to look at life more fully, reevaluate his attitude to the surrounding reality, and understand how fruitlessly he wasted his life. Onegin returns to the Capital and encounters the same picture of the life of secular society.
His love for Tatyana, now a married woman, flares up in him. But Tatyana unraveled the selfishness and selfishness underlying feelings for her, and rejects Onegin’s love. Through Onegin’s love for Tatyana, Pushkin emphasizes that his hero is capable of moral rebirth, that this is a person who has not cooled down to everything, the forces of life are still boiling in him, which, according to the poet’s plan, was supposed to awaken in Onegin the desire for social activity. The image of Evgeny Onegin opens up a whole gallery of “extra people”. Following Onegin, the images of Pechorin, Oblomov, Rudin, and Laevsky were created. All these images are an artistic reflection of Russian reality.
Tasks and tests on the topic "The image of Eugene Onegin in the novel by A. S. Pushkin Eugene Onegin"
- SPP with adverbial adverbs (adverbial comparisons, manner of action, measure and degree) - Complex sentence 9th grade
- Aspect, reflexivity and transitivity of verbs - Verb grade 5
Lessons: 3 Assignments: 7 Tests: 1
