Progress of relations with Onegin evolution. spiritual evolution of Eugene Onegin

A novel is a large-scale work about the fate of a specific person. A. S. Pushkin reveals the character of the main character, Eugene Onegin, in various ways: through an internal monologue, a portrait, actions, and attitude towards others. The events taking place in the novel cover long period time (at the beginning of the novel Onegin is eighteen years old, at the end - twenty-six). The author shows the evolution of the hero. The reader sees the changes that have occurred in Onegin. In the first chapter, he is a spoiled young man who “has his hair cut in the latest fashion, dressed like a London dandy,” “a learned fellow, but a pedant,” idly killing time in endless entertainment. Still very young, he already masterfully plays with feelings:

How early could he be a hypocrite?

To harbor hope, to be jealous,

To dissuade, to make believe,

Seem gloomy, languish,

Be proud and obedient

Attentive or indifferent!

How languidly silent he was,

How fieryly eloquent

How careless in heartfelt letters!

Breathing alone, loving alone,

How he knew how to forget himself!

How quick and gentle his gaze was,

Shy and impudent, and sometimes

Shined with an obedient tear!

The list of his “skills” goes on and on. However, no useful thing the young man never got to work (“Yawning, he took up the pen, wanted to write - but the persistent work was sickening to him; nothing came out of his pen...”). “Young rake” - this is the (very successful) definition the author gives to the hero. But the worst thing is that, fed up with secular life, having learned its laws, Onegin loses the ability to sincerely love and empathize with others. The hero is very clearly characterized by his internal monologue at the very beginning of the novel, when he goes to the village to visit his dying uncle:

But, my God, what boredom

To sit with the patient day and night,

Without leaving a single step!

What low deceit

To amuse the half-dead,

Adjust his pillows

It's sad to bring medicine,

Sigh and think to yourself:

When will the devil take you!

Not a drop of compassion for his relative, he goes to receive an inheritance: And he already yawned in advance, Preparing for the sake of money, For sighs, boredom and deception...

After two days, Evgeniy also became bored with the village. Yielding to the persuasion of Lensky, his “nothing to do” friend, Onegin meets the Larin family. Tatyana Larina attracted his attention, but nothing more. The love of a provincial girl only makes him want to read her a “sermon” that he is not suitable for her as a husband and that Tatyana must learn to “control herself,” because “inexperience leads to trouble.”

Onegin also does not pass the test of friendship: having decided to take revenge on Lensky for the irritation he experienced at the sight of numerous guests On Tanya's name day, he begins to court Olga, provoking a duel with Lensky. Onegin could have prevented this duel (especially since he understands that he was wrong), but the fear of public opinion is stronger than remorse.

Onegin is forced to leave the village (“He left his village, the forests and the solitude of the fields, where a bloody shadow appeared to him every day...”). He goes traveling.

In the eighth chapter we meet our hero again. Several years have passed, he, as before, is lonely, unable to find something to do to his liking (“languishing in the inactivity of leisure, without Service, without a wife, without business, I could not do anything”), he comes to St. Petersburg. Seeing Tatyana at the ball in a new capacity, in the image of a “legislator of the hall,” Onegin is amazed and... falls in love. Now he is suffering, looking forward to meeting her, tormented by jealousy. In all other respects, our hero has not changed, but the author shows that Onegin truly loves! What are the lines from his letter:

No, I see you every minute

Follow you everywhere

A smile of the mouth, a movement of the eyes

To catch with loving eyes,

Listen to you for a long time, understand

Your soul is all your perfection,

To freeze in agony before you,

To turn pale and fade away... that's bliss!

The critic D.I. Pisarev, however, believes that Onegin, declaring his love to Tatyana, “is only achieving an affair.” Tatyana herself speaks about this when last meeting with him:

So what now

Are you following me?

Why do you have me on your radar?

Is it not because in high society

Now I must appear;

That I am rich and noble,

That the husband was maimed in battle,

Why is the court caressing us?

Isn't it because it's my shame

Now everyone would notice

And I could bring it in society

Do you want a tempting honor?

But I agree with the opinion of V. G. Belinsky, who believes that Onegin feels “a strong and deep passion” for Tatyana. The letter written to Tatyana suggests that its author has ceased to be a skeptic and is beginning to feel.

The novel in verse by A.S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” is one of his most famous works. It reflected the whole historical era, presented through the hero’s story, reflected the secular society of that time with all its shortcomings. It was a consumer society, incapable of high moral feelings. Everything was consumed: from food to sights and even feelings. Every day of a monotonous life, devoid of any meaning, passes in consumption.

Such a life is not for Onegin, he is above all this. He is a progressive personality who has outstripped society in development. However, society has never understood or accepted people who are different from the majority, who think more modernly and progressively, such people become “superfluous”.

Eugene Onegin received what was typical for aristocratic youth of that time home education under the leadership of a French tutor, not very deep, but enough for “the world to decide that he is smart and very nice.”

The first chapter shows Onegin in St. Petersburg, where he, like many other young people noble origin, indulges in entertainment. Onegin is a metropolitan dandy, busy with the “play of passions,” and it seems that he is deprived of the ability to love. But Eugene, by his nature, stands out from the crowd with his “involuntary devotion to dreams,” “inimitable strangeness and a sharp, cooled mind,” a sense of honor and nobility of soul. For this reason, Onegin becomes disillusioned with secular society and is overcome by the “Russian blues.”

Having left secular society, he tries to engage in some useful activity, but “he was sick of persistent work.” Onegin tries to relieve boredom by reading, but he failed. In the end, having received the news that his uncle is dying, Evgeniy goes to the village “preparing for money for boredom, sighs and deception.”

However, Onegin did not find his uncle alive. Having inherited an estate, Evgeniy settles in the village, hoping to relieve his boredom. Onegin replaced the “yoke of the ancient corvée” with “light quitrent,” which made the life of the peasants much easier and was an advanced step for that time. This was the end of his participation in the life of the peasants. On the third day, the blues overcame him again. Onegin was frankly bored in the village, and his friendship with Lensky, the complete opposite of Eugene, was forced, which the author emphasizes with the lines “there is nothing to do, friends.” Life experience Onegin's cold, skeptical mind leads him to deny reality, to a critical attitude towards it. As much as Lensky was delighted with life, Onegin was so disappointed in it; As much as Lensky is romantic, Onegin is so pragmatic. This dissimilarity brought the heroes together, but it also led to the death of Lensky. Onegin treated him in a fatherly manner and before the duel he hesitated, “blamed himself in many ways,” understood that “he was wrong,” that he had to show himself “not an ardent boy, a fighter, but a husband with honor and intelligence” and apologize to Lensky, explain the reason for his behavior, thereby preventing a duel. But fear public opinion, the orders and foundations of the same secular society, which Onegin despised so much, they did not allow him to do this. Lensky was killed. Remorse forces Onegin to leave the village and go traveling.

In the end, Evgeniy, having never found his place in life, returns to St. Petersburg. There he meets Tatyana, and for the first time a real, deep feeling covers Onegin. But Tatyana has already married a general, a friend of Evgeniy, and cannot be with Onegin. Evgeniy is left alone.

The image of Onegin evolves throughout the novel. Onegin “leaves” the novel completely different from how Pushkin portrays him in the first chapters. If at the beginning of the novel Onegin is presented as a strong, proud man who knows his worth, then at the end we see him deprived of any prospects in life, deprived of strength and energy, despite his youth, position and intelligence. However, Pushkin left the ending of the novel open, and further fate Onegin remains unknown...

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Onegin's theme in the novel is the theme of spiritual awakening, growing up, spiritual evolution.

The world of Onegin in the first chapter is secular Petersburg, brilliant, festive, but still somewhat artificial, far from true Russianness. It is no coincidence that Pushkin describes in such detail the everyday culture of noble St. Petersburg: Onegin’s office, his clothes, his lifestyle, and then in equal detail he describes Onegin’s office on his estate - a portrait of Lord Byron, a figurine of Napoleon. Onegin of the first chapter reflects a “Byronic hero” quite typical for the first half of the 19th century, endowed, however, with individual traits, even in its very skepticism, reflecting the eternal Russian longing for a more meaningful, spiritualized life.

Onegin at the beginning of the novel is a man who does not know all the complexity of life, but simplifies it. Neither true love There is no true friendship in Onegin's world. Emphasizing the typicality of his hero, Pushkin recreates in detail one day of his life: the morning began with reading notes with an invitation to a ball, then a walk along the boulevard, lunch in a fashionable restaurant, in the evening - a theater, a ball, and only at dawn Onegin returns home. It is no coincidence that the author uses verbs of movement - swift, but meaningless: “jumped”, “rushed”, “flew”, “galloped headlong”, “took off like an arrow”. Onegin is not able to belong to anything deeply, his life rushes, but rushes aimlessly, its diversity and completeness are replaced by diversity, flickering:

He will wake up at noon. And again

Until the morning his life is ready,

Monotonous and colorful.

And tomorrow is the same as yesterday.

With all the saturation external life Onegin, his inner life was empty, it is no coincidence that Pushkin emphasizes: “languishing with spiritual emptiness.” It is this “spiritual emptiness,” the unawakenedness of spiritual life that is the reason for Onegin’s indifference to poetry and reading books (“he wanted to write, but he was sick of persistent work; nothing came of his pen,” “he read and read, but to no avail”). .

One of the central motifs in the first chapter of the novel is the mask motif: the author compares his hero either with Chaadaev or with the windy Venus, but Onegin’s main mask is disappointment, which Pushkin calls in the English manner “spleen”, but the following Russian translation immediately reveals the author’s irony : “The Russian melancholy took possession of him little by little.” On the one hand, “spleen” is a mask that Onegin wears even not without some pleasure, on the other hand, it is true, deep disappointment in the life that was destined for him.

Onegin would have been of little interest to Pushkin if this aimless life had satisfied the hero. In Onegin, on the one hand, dependence on the opinion of the world, subordination general style life, on the other - “an inimitable strangeness, involuntary before dreams” A ity and a sharp, cool mind.” Onegin is not satisfied with what satisfied many; he is indifferent to pleasures social life, knows the value of momentary heartfelt affections. Onegin, "free, in color best years, among brilliant victories, among everyday pleasures,” still was not happy. The reason is that he could not consider “brilliant victories” and “everyday pleasures” the meaning of life; his soul was waiting for something more.

The first impetus for Onegin’s spiritual awakening was a meeting with Lensky: the sincerity and inspiration of the young poet reminded Onegin of his true feelings. Onegin responded with a slight smile to the enthusiasm and some naivety of Lensky, who “was ignorant at heart,” but Onegin’s nobility was reflected in the fact that he “tried to keep the cool word in his mouth” and did not destroy Lensky’s dreams with the coldness of his skepticism.

However, in to a greater extent Onegin was struck by something completely unusual for him spiritual world and the appearance of Tatyana Larina. Tatiana's letter surprised Onegin with the depth of thought and feeling, sincerity, openness and at the same time simplicity and naivety: “But, having received Tanya’s message, Onegin was keenly touched,” “perhaps the old ardor of feelings took possession of him for a minute.” Pushkin emphasizes that in relation to Tatyana Onegin acted nobly, he did not allow himself to play sincere feelings: “But he did not want to deceive the gullibility of an innocent soul.”

At first glance, having distinguished Tatiana from Olga, Onegin still did not fully understand Tatiana’s love. Onegin was so accustomed to loneliness and unhappiness that he passed by his real happiness, which was sent to him in Tatyana’s love. “Accept my confession,” Onegin says to Tatyana during their explanation in the garden, but the author will call Onegin’s words more accurately – not a confession, but a sermon (“this is how Eugene preached”). The real reason Onegin will reveal his “sermon” later, in a letter to Tatyana: “I did not want to exchange my hateful freedom.” And he adds bitterly:

I thought: freedom and peace

Substitute for happiness. My God!

How wrong I was, how I was punished!

“Liberty”, “peace”, “hateful freedom” - such an understanding of the meaning of life turned out to be erroneous, and this error destroyed possible happiness.

The situation that destroyed Onegin’s previous worldview was the duel with Lensky. Onegin, not sharing the morality of secular society, still could not oppose anything to it, he turned out to be a slave of public opinion, the only thing he was enough for was that he neglected some of the rules of the duel (he was late, invited his servant as a second), thereby revealing his attitude towards her. Onegin understood the absurdity of this duel, but still, unlike the author, he was unable to rise above this situation, to overcome himself. The murder of Lensky in a duel was a shock, after which Onegin perceives the world and himself differently. Unable to go where he was with the friend he killed, Onegin leaves to wander. The chapter about Onegin's journey was not included in final version novel, however, it can be assumed that Pushkin’s hero looks at the world in a new way, trying to understand his place in it, to discover true human values.

IN last chapter before us is already a different person in many ways: Pushkin speaks with particular warmth about the new, changed Onegin. Now the hero understands that “freedom” and “peace” cannot replace happiness, that you need to live for the sake of love, mutual understanding, you need to appreciate those who love and understand you, which is why the whole meaning of life for Onegin was concentrated in love for Tatyana. The drama of unattainable happiness that Onegin lives through makes him suffering, but also more spiritual. It is impossible to imagine that Pushkin would say about his hero in the first chapter: “gloomy, awkward,” “enters the princess with trepidation.” Now “dreams, desires, sorrows were pressing deep into the soul.” Onegin would never give up these “sorrows”, because this is what full life, which was only now revealed to him.

Now Onegin is no longer attracted by secular pleasures, he is in no hurry to join the motley carousel of the life of noble Petersburg, which is why he becomes a “stranger”, an “eccentric” for everyone: having met Tatyana at the ball and seeing her coldness, Onegin locks himself in his office for the whole winter, immerses himself in reading books, discovers a special world of love and suffering, his feelings are ready to pour out into poetic creativity:

And exactly: by the power of magnetism

Poems of Russian mechanism

I almost realized at that time

My stupid student.

However, Tatyana cannot change her ideas about duty and honor, because even in a letter to Onegin she dreamed of “being a faithful wife and virtuous mother.” Onegin loves and is loved, but this, it turns out, can no longer change anything in his fate. Last explanation The characters end with Tatyana’s words: “I ask you to leave me; I know: in your heart there is both pride and direct honor.” There is honor in Onegin’s heart, and she will not allow him to remind Tatyana of himself anymore. This is truly a separation forever. Loving and beloved, Onegin remains a lonely eccentric, strange and alien to everyone. The purpose of life, its meaning, acquired at the cost of hard thinking, mistakes, and search, turned out to be unattainable. Duty and honor close the path to happiness; in “an evil moment for him,” we, together with the author, part with Onegin.

The novel was completed in 1831 - after the Decembrist uprising, which became a life-changing era for Pushkin’s generation, and the fate of Onegin on the pages of the novel was not brought to the fatal point of the twenty-fifth year - the hero still has to do this. So history itself separated the author and his hero. Not so significant, Onegin will appear on Senate Square or not, what matters is that the personality has taken shape. Pushkin, with his characteristic harmony of worldview, does not limit himself to one side of life: the heroes are given not only losses, but also gains, not only sadness, but also joy. Tatiana and Onegin were not given happiness, but they were given love - this is already a lot. Both Tatyana and Onegin remained true to themselves, did not change their idea of duty and honor - this is what is associated with the special enlightenment of the novel, the fate of the main characters of which develops dramatically. This enlightenment is based on faith in man, in the good beginning in him, on faith in “independence,” which, according to Pushkin, is “the key to greatness.”

The main character of the novel “Eugene Onegin” opens a significant chapter in poetry and in the entire Russian culture. Onegin was followed by a whole string of heroes, later called “superfluous people”: Lermontov’s Pechorin, Turgenev’s Rudin and many other, less significant characters, embodying a whole layer, an era in the socio-spiritual development of Russian society. Pushkin traced the origins of this phenomenon: in superficial education, in a disorderly and imitatively perceived European culture, in the absence of spiritual and social interests, in the way of life of the nobility filled with conventions and prejudices, in the habit of idleness and inability to systematic work. These are extraordinary individuals, rising above the average level of personality, critically perceiving reality, painfully searching for meaning life and their purpose in it, disappointed and spiritually devastated, people who do not find use for their remarkable abilities, inevitably experiencing personal drama.

Evgeny Onegin received typical

aristocratic youth of his time were home-schooled and raised under the guidance of a French tutor, who “taught him everything jokingly, did not bother him with strict morals, slightly scolded him for pranks and Summer garden took me for a walk. “And yet Onegin knew Latin well enough “to parse epigraphs and talk about Juvenal,” ancient literature, modern political economy, history:

Onegin was, in the opinion of many (decisive and strict judges), a learned fellow, but a pedant... Despite the irony of the author’s assessment of the hero’s shallow level of education, as well as the world’s ideas about this level: “What do you need more? The world decided that he was smart and very nice,” Pushkin pays tribute to his fairly high intellectual level and the range of his interests. Onegin's lifestyle is typical of the young metropolitan aristocracy: balls, restaurants, theaters, walks along Nevsky, love adventures- a complete set of pleasures that make up the philistine idea of a happy, carefree life.

Evgeniy was self-critical enough, demanding of himself, not to be aware of the artificiality, pretense of his behavior (“How early could he be a hypocrite, hide hope, be jealous, dissuade, make believe, seem gloomy, languish...”), a stultifying way of life (“ He wakes up at noon, and again until the morning his life is ready, monotonous and colorful."

No; early his feelings cooled down;

He was tired of the noise of the world;

The beauties didn't last long

The subject of his usual thoughts;

The betrayals have become tiresome;

Friends and friendship are tired... Here there is satiety with monotonous impressions, and a sincere, natural desire of a thinking person to break out of the circle of secular conventions, vulgarity, monotony into the expanse of a living, full-blooded life.

What prompted the hero to protest, albeit passively, against a soulless, albeit comfortable existence, which doomed him to loneliness, alienation, and coldness towards life?

The author emphasizes the merits that set Onegin apart from the philistine masses: “...Involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and a sharp, chilled mind,” “pride and direct honor,” “direct nobility of soul.” Onegin, on his village estate, despite the beautiful views, “golden meadows and fields”, the castle filled with the air of history, was bored, because he “yawned equally among the fashionable and ancient halls”, was alienated from the narrow-minded neighboring landowners, preferring to all this the loneliness of a confused but proud spirit . He made an exception only for the young poet, admirer of romanticism, inspired Vladimir Lensky. Both of them looked like “black sheep” in the eyes of their neighboring landowners; both were alienated from local society with endless conversations “about haymaking and wine, about the kennel, about their relatives,” although they were so different. Lensky loved passionately, selflessly. Onegin, faced with the sincere, deep love of an extraordinary girl, did not find enough mental strength to respond to this high feeling.

Why does Onegin reject Tatiana's love? He pays her sincere tribute:

When would a family picture

I was captivated for just one moment, ~~

That's right, except for you alone

I was looking for no other bride.

Onegin convinces Tatyana that he was not created for a measured and monotonous life filled with quiet joys. family life:

Yao I am not created for bliss;

My soul is alien to him;

Your perfections are in vain:

I am not worthy of them at all.

Believe me (conscience is a guarantee),

Marriage will be torment for us. And further he explains the reason for his inability to adapt to family life, to the present feeling of inner emptiness: There is no return to dreams and years; I will not renew my soul... I love you with the love of a brother And, perhaps, even more tenderly. Onegin is condescending and generous, straightforward and honest, and at the same time indecisive and even cruel. He nobly does not accept “the science of tender passion, which Na-

zone... in which he was a true genius,” but timidly refuses true love requiring enormous effort mental strength.

The murder of Lensky in a duel, provoked by Onegin’s selfish desire to annoy his friend, revealed another weakness of Eugene - the persistence in him of secular conventions, false ideas about noble honor, conventions so deeply despised by him, from which he fled from St. Petersburg. Onegin refused love, which could decorate his life, but now he has lost his only friend, sincere, trusting. The two people closest and dearest to him were rejected by him because of their invincible spiritual coldness, their inability to step over the insignificant and secondary in the name of the lofty.

Tatyana, having visited Onegin’s estate, re-reads books from his library and notices with fear that her chosen one prefers novels, “v. which reflected the century and modern man is depicted quite faithfully with his immoral soul, selfish and dry, his dreams immeasurably devoted, with his embittered mind seething in empty action.” And Tatyana, no matter how careful she is towards her beloved, no matter how jealous of everything that surrounds him, still doubted his human worth:

What is he? Is it really an imitation, an insignificant ghost, or even a Muscovite in Harold’s cloak, an interpretation of other people’s whims, a complete vocabulary of fashionable words?.. Isn’t he a parody?

No, Onegin is far from a parody, but a living person, and his fate, conditioned by all development noble culture, is as sad as Tatiana’s fate. For the first time in his life, having experienced a real feeling of love, Onegin reveals his soul in a letter to Tatyana. He became spiritually richer, deeper, more humane, more sensitive. How different he is at the end of the novel from the smart, cold aristocrat who explains in detail to Tatyana the reasons for refusing her love. Now he is in the position of a lover, sincere, defenseless, not afraid of ridicule.

Now he evokes compassion in the reader with his life drama, with his entire broken, distorted life:

If only you knew how terrible it is to languish with a thirst for love, to blaze - and with your mind to constantly subdue the excitement in the blood; To want to hug your knees And, sobbing, at your feet To pour out prayers, confessions, penalties, Everything, everything that I could express...

The main character of the novel “Eugene Onegin” opens a significant chapter in poetry and in the entire Russian culture. Onegin was followed by a whole string of heroes, later called “superfluous people”: Lermontov’s Pechorin, Turgenev’s Rudin and many other, less significant characters, embodying a whole layer, an era in the socio-spiritual development of Russian society. Pushkin traced the origins of this phenomenon: in superficial education, in a disorderly and imitatively adopted European culture, in the absence of spiritual and social interests, in the way of life of the nobility filled with conventions and prejudices, in the habit of idleness and inability to systematic work. These are extraordinary individuals, rising above the average level of personality, critically perceiving reality, painfully searching for the meaning of life and their purpose in it, disappointed and spiritually devastated, people who do not find use for their remarkable abilities, inevitably experiencing personal drama.

Eugene Onegin received a home education and upbringing, typical for aristocratic youth of his time, under the guidance of a French tutor, who “taught him everything jokingly, did not bother him with strict morals, slightly scolded him for pranks and took him for a walk in the Summer Garden. “And yet Onegin knew Latin well enough “to parse epigraphs and talk about Juvenal,” ancient literature, modern political economy, history:

Onegin was, in the opinion of many

(decisive and strict judges)

A small scientist, but a pedant...

Despite the irony of the author’s assessment of the hero’s shallow level of education, as well as the world’s ideas about this level: “What more do you need? The world decided that he was smart and very nice,” Pushkin pays tribute to his fairly high intellectual level and the range of his interests. Onegin's lifestyle is typical of the young metropolitan aristocracy: balls, restaurants, theaters, walks along Nevsky, love affairs - a full range of pleasures that make up the philistine idea of a happy, carefree life.

Evgeny was self-critical enough, demanding of himself, not to be aware of the artificiality, pretense of his behavior (“How early could he be a hypocrite, harbor hope, be jealous, dissuade, make believe, seem gloomy, languish…”), a stultifying way of life (“Wake up for noon, and again until the morning his life is ready, monotonous and colorful.”

No; early his feelings cooled down;

He was tired of the noise of the world;

The beauties didn't last long

The subject of his usual thoughts;

The betrayals have become tiresome;

I'm tired of friends and friendship...

Here there is both satiety with monotonous impressions and a sincere, natural desire thinking man to break out of the circle of secular conventions, vulgarity, monotony into the expanse of a living, full-blooded life.

What prompted the hero to protest, albeit passively, against a soulless, albeit comfortable existence, which doomed him to loneliness, alienation, and coldness towards life?

The author emphasizes the merits that set Onegin apart from the philistine masses: “...Involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and a sharp, chilled mind,” “pride and direct honor,” “direct nobility of soul.” Onegin, on his village estate, despite the beautiful views, “golden meadows and fields”, the castle filled with the air of history, was bored, because he “yawned equally among the fashionable and ancient halls”, was alienated from the narrow-minded neighboring landowners, preferring to all this the loneliness of a confused but proud spirit . He made an exception only for the young poet, admirer of romanticism, inspired Vladimir Lensky. Both of them looked like “black sheep” in the eyes of their neighboring landowners, both were alienated from local society with endless conversations “about haymaking and wine, about the kennel, about their relatives,” although they were so different. Lensky loved passionately, selflessly. Onegin, faced with the sincere, deep love of an extraordinary girl, did not find enough mental strength to respond to this high feeling.

Why does Onegin reject Tatiana's love? He pays her sincere tribute:

...If only for a family picture

I was captivated for just one moment,

That's right, except for you alone

I was looking for no other bride.

Onegin convinces Tatyana that he is not created for a measured and monotonous family life filled with quiet joys:

But I am not made for bliss;

My soul is alien to him;

Your perfections are in vain:

I am not worthy of them at all.

Believe me (conscience is a guarantee),

There is no return to dreams and years;

I will not renew my soul...

I love you with the love of a brother

And maybe even more tender.

Onegin is condescending and generous, straightforward and honest, and at the same time indecisive and even cruel. He nobly does not accept “the science of tender passion, which Nazon sang... in which he was a true genius,” but fearfully refuses true love, which requires enormous exertion of mental strength.

Tatyana, having visited Onegin’s estate, re-reads books from his library and notices with fear that her chosen one prefers novels, “v. which the century reflected and modern man is depicted quite correctly with his immoral soul, selfish and dry, dreams devoted immensely, with his embittered mind seething in empty action.” And Tatyana, no matter how careful she is towards her beloved, no matter how jealous of everything that surrounds him, still doubted his human worth:

Well, is he really imitation?

An insignificant ghost or else

Muscovite in Harold's cloak,

interpretation of other people's whims,

A complete lexicon of fashion words...

Isn't he a parody?

No, Onegin is far from a parody, but a living person, and his fate, conditioned by the entire development of noble culture, is just as sad as the fate of Tatiana. For the first time in his life, having experienced a real feeling of love, Onegin reveals his soul in a letter to Tatyana. He became spiritually richer, deeper, more humane, more sensitive. How different he is at the end of the novel from the smart, cold aristocrat who explains in detail to Tatyana the reasons for refusing her love. Now he is in the position of a lover, sincere, defenseless, not afraid of ridicule.

Now he evokes compassion in the reader with his life drama, with his entire broken, distorted life:

If only you knew how terrible

To yearn for love,

Blaze - and mind all the time

To subdue the excitement in the blood;

Want to hug your knees

And burst into tears at your feet

Pour out prayers, confessions, penalties,

Everything, everything that I could express...

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The letters of Tatiana and Onegin stand out sharply from the general text of Pushkin’s novel in verse, helping to better understand the characters, and even the author himself singles out these two letters: an attentive reader will immediately notice that...
Main character I. S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons” Evgeny Bazarov - One of the controversial, but most liked by readers, heroes. Many called him a man modern generation, reformer. So why...
COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF ONEGIN AND PECHORIN From the second half of the 19th century century, primarily thanks to fiction, the concept of “superfluous person” comes into use (this term was first used by A.S. Pushkin in ...
“Eugene Onegin” as an encyclopedia of Russian life I. The depth and versatility of Pushkin’s personality, reflected in the novel. II. “Eugene Onegin” is “a poetically reproduced picture of Russian society, taken in one of the most interesting...
The novel “Eugene Onegin” was created by Pushkin over the course of eight 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 man with...
“Fathers and Sons” is one of eternal books Russian literature. Controversy does not subside around it, and, obviously, not only because the new generation of readers perceives the author’s complex position differently, but...
The novel “The Golovlev Gentlemen” occupies an outstanding place among the works of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. The plot was based on tragic story of the landowner Golovlev family. The novel presents three generations of Golovlevs. Each one is different...
Evolution of the Fetov style. AFANASY AFANASIEVICH FET (1820-1892) A. A. Fet came to literature in the 1840s - a tragic time for Russian poetry. In 1837, Pushkin died; in 1839...
“...In the novel, with the exception of one old woman (Bazarov’s mother), there is not a single living person or living soul... And about moral character and moral qualities there is nothing to say about the hero; is not...
Prose about the war occupied a special place in post-war literature. It became not just a topic, but an entire continent, a continent in literature, where a solution was found almost based on specific life material...
The novel “Eugene Onegin” was created with amazing poetic skill, which was expressed both in the composition and in the rhythmic organization of the novel. The main character of A. S. Pushkin’s work is young, attractive, very intelligent...
The novel “Eugene Onegin” was created over the course of eight years. Pushkin began writing his novel when the social movement was gaining strength, during the heyday of freedom-loving ideas, and finished writing it during the terrible years...
Why does A. S. Pushkin call the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” a “free novel” (“And beyond free romance I'm through magic crystal still unclearly distinguished...")? A novel in verse by Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” before...
The only one with whom Onegin was friends was Lensky, who was educated and “gained the romantic spirit” in Germany: Pushkin, in one or two strokes, depicts a portrait of a romantic of the “German persuasion”, as we remember, it was Germany that was...
The idea of the novel. Stages of working on a novel. Reasons for the slow progress of work. Plan of the novel. "Onegin's Travels". The role of chapter 10 in the novel. Reasons for the destruction of chapter 10 (in which Onegin becomes a Decembrist). Historical events,...
The novel “Eugene Onegin” occupies central place in the works of Pushkin, This is his largest piece of art, which had the strongest influence on the fate of all Russian literature. The novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” was written...
Russian literature of the 1st half of the 19th century “What is the reason that the relationship between Onegin and Tatyana developed so absurdly tragically?” (G. A. Gukovsky). (Based on the novel by A. S. Pushkin “Eugene...
CLASSICS A. S. PUSHKIN EVGENY ONEGIN – THE HERO OF A. S. PUSHKIN’S NOVEL Evgeny Onegin... How many times have I heard these words, even before I read the novel. IN Everyday life This...
"Eugene Onegin" - realistic novel in verse, it presented the reader with authentic and living images of Russian people early XIX century. The work provides a broad artistic generalization of the main development trends...
The great Russian critic V. G. Belinsky admired A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin.” And he repeatedly emphasized that the novel has not only aesthetic, artistic value, but also historical. ""Eugene...
Cross-cutting themes Duel in Russian XIX literature century What is a duel? This is a duel during which opponents defend their honor or stand up for the honor of another person. Honor is moral dignity...
Pechorin - Onegin of our time. V. G. Belinsky Pushkin and Lermontov are people different destinies And different eras. Pushkin is only fifteen years older than Lermontov, a period that would seem short, but...
Pushkin's original intention for the novel Eugene Onegin was to create a comedy similar to Griboyedov's Woe from Wit. In the poet's letters one can find sketches for a comedy in which main character portrayed...

THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF EUGENE ONEGIN

Progress of relations with Onegin evolution. ﻿ spiritual evolution of Eugene Onegin

Progress of relations with Onegin evolution. spiritual evolution of Eugene Onegin