How are Onegin Lensky similar and different. Two destinies, two loves

They came together. Wave and stone,

Poetry and prose, ice and fire

Not so different from each other.

A.S. Pushkin, "E.O."

Pushkin - great poet and a writer of the 19th century. He enriched Russian literature with many wonderful works. Pushkin's most important work was his novel "E.O." The novel in verse "E.O." rightly considered an "encyclopedia of Russian life." The author reflected in it the life of the noble youth of the 19th century, showed the features of Russia at that time.

Central figures novel are two completely different but at the same time similar characters, Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky. Onegin receives a typical aristocratic education. Pushkin writes: “At first Madame went after him, then Monsieur changed her.” They taught him everything jokingly, but Onegin still received the knowledge that he needed in a secular society. Pushkin characterizes Eugene as follows:

He is completely French

Could speak and write

Easily danced the mazurka

And bowed at ease;

What do you want more? The world decided

That he is smart and very nice.

In his mind, Onegin is much higher than his peers. He knew a little classic literature, had an idea about Adam Smith, read Byron, but, nevertheless, all these hobbies do not awaken romantic, fiery feelings in Yevgeny's soul, like Lensky's. Eugene spends his best years, like most young people of his circle, on balls, theaters, love affairs. Very soon he begins to understand that this life is empty, that nothing is worth behind the “external tinsel”, boredom, slander, envy reign in the world , people spend internal forces on trifles, senselessly burning your life. A sharp, chilled mind and "oversaturation with the pleasures of the world" led Onegin to lose interest in life, he falls into a deep blues:

The blues was waiting for him on guard,

And she ran after him

Like a shadow or faithful wife.

Out of boredom, Eugene tries to look for the meaning of life in some activity: he reads a lot, tries to write, but these attempts are unsuccessful. In the village where Eugene goes for an inheritance, he makes another attempt to occupy himself with something:

Yarem he is an old corvée

I replaced the quitrent with a light one;

And the slave blessed fate.

But in his corner pouted,

Seeing in this terrible harm,

His prudent neighbor...

But the aversion to work, the habit of freedom and peace, lack of will and unwillingness to work led to the fact that Onegin became a real egoist, thinking only about himself, about his desires and pleasures, unable to pay attention to the feelings, interests and sufferings of people, capable of easily offend, offend, cause grief to a person, without even noticing it. However, Eugene is not a narcissistic egoist, but, as V. G. Belinsky said, “a suffering egoist.” He understands that he is superfluous in this senseless society, but, as neither tries, nor can he completely free himself from the influence of light. Onegin was not satisfied with an empty, meaningless life. But he had neither the strength nor the desire to break with this life, he continues to treat everyone and everything except his own passively and indifferently calmness. Having received a challenge to a duel, knowing full well his wrong and the senselessness of this duel, Onegin nevertheless accepts the challenge and kills his best friend Vladimir Lensky. The murder of Lensky turned Onegin's whole life upside down. He is no longer able to stay in those places where everything reminded him of his terrible crime, "where the bloodied shadow appeared to him every day." And, exhausted by remorse, Onegin rushes around the world. But, despite the cruelty, this test helped Eugene change internally, become more responsive to the feelings of the people around him, his heart opens up for love. But here, too, Onegin expects the collapse of all his hopes for happiness. His misfortune is a retribution for his aimlessly lived life.

In the novel, in contrast to Onegin, the image of Vladimir Lensky is given. Lensky plays a significant role in understanding Onegin's character. Lensky is a nobleman, he is younger than Onegin in age. He was educated in Germany:

He is from foggy Germany

Bring the fruits of learning

The spirit is ardent and rather strange...

Spiritual world Lensky is the complete opposite of Onegin's worldview. Lensky is "an admirer of Kant and a poet", a hopeless romantic who lives in a world of beautiful dreams and dreams. Feelings dominate his mind, he believes in sincere and pure love, in friendship, in the decency of people. Lensky looks at life through rose-colored glasses, he naively finds soul mate in Olga, who is the most ordinary empty girl who quickly forgot her fiancé who died in a duel.

What can these people have in common at first glance? different people? They both belong to the nobility, both are smart, educated, both despise the empty social life and both cost much more internal development than the people around them. Lensky's romantic soul, not spoiled by life, is looking for beauty everywhere. Pushkin writes about Lensky: listened to Lensky's ardent speeches with the smile of an elder, he tried to restrain his irony. Pushkin writes: “And I thought it was stupid for me to interfere with his momentary bliss, and without me the time will come, let him live for the time being and believe in the perfection of the world. Forgive the fever young years and youthful fever, and youthful delirium. For Lensky, friendship is an urgent need, while Onegin is friends “for the sake of boredom”, although he is attached to Lensky in his own way. But, contrary to friendly feelings, Onegin is forced to kill Lensky. cowardice. Because of a false sense of honor, he destroys an innocent soul. Who knows what the fate of Lensky would have been if he had survived. Perhaps he would have become a Decembrist, or perhaps just a layman. The author himself thought that

He would have changed a lot.

I would part with the muses, get married,

In the village, happy and horned,

I would wear a quilted robe.

I think Lensky's death is quite logical, he died, as his romanticism would have died over time. According to A.I. Herzen, Lensky was only capable of quickly flaring up and fading away. most likely, in the future Lensky was waiting ordinary life, which would have cooled his ardor and turned him into a simple landowner who

Drank, ate, missed, got fat, sickly,

And finally in your bed

I would die among the children,

Crying women and doctors.

I think that Onegin was inwardly deeper than Lensky. First of all, only deep and thinking people are able to experience dissatisfaction with life and themselves. Throughout the whole novel, I feel only pity for Eugene, because the realization of mistakes comes to him too late. I think Onegin is just a victim of a soulless society, from the floor of influence which Eugene could not get out.

Pushkin portrayed reality exactly as it was at that time, showed that in such a society rotting from within, only mediocre people, whose interests are petty and limited, can be happy. Such exalted people as Onegin and Lensky are unhappy in this life. They either die like Lensky, or continue to live with a devastated soul like Onegin. Wealth and high position in society, inherited by them, do not make their lives easier and do not make them happy. Society and upbringing do not give them the opportunity for personal happiness, the realization of mistakes comes to them too late. But these mistakes cannot be blamed on the heroes themselves. They were made such by society. The environment that surrounded them from birth shaped their characters. According to Pushkin, it was the environment that made these beautiful, intelligent and noble people unhappy in essence and in their inclinations.

Ah, dear Alexander Sergeevich! Has your pen written something more perfect than living and eternal romance"Eugene Onegin"? Have you invested in it? most himself, his violent inspiration, all his poetic passion?

But didn't you, O immortal classic, lie when you said that Onegin has nothing in common with you? Are the traits of his character peculiar to you? Isn't it your "spleen" on it, isn't it your disappointment? Is it not your "black epigrams" he draws to his enemies?

And Lensky! Really, how he looks like you, young lover! On you - another, on that you whom you no longer dared to open to the world clearly ...

Lensky and Onegin... Comparative characteristics of both of them - yours, O immortal Alexander Sergeevich, a colorful and lively portrait on the wall of poetry. Do you agree with the idea of ​​such audacity?

However, be that as it may, allow, in view of your silence, every admirer of your genius to draw their own conclusions, letting their own imagination fly.

We will compare and compare two bright heroes"Eugene Onegin", barely touching the facets of your personality directly. In order to avoid obtrusive parallels between you, sir, and the characters of your poem, we will make every effort to make a dry statement of their striking characteristics.

So, Onegin. Handsome, smart, stately. In the description of his Petersburg daily routine, dear Alexander Sergeevich, we find your lines about at least three hours he spends at the mirrors in preening. You even compare it to a young lady dressed like a man, hurrying to the ball. Perfume, lipstick, fashion haircut. Dandy, pedant and dandy. Always elegant in clothes. And, by the way, it will be said, nails, sir ... He, like you, sir, spends a lot of time at the dressing table, caring for them.

Alas, all the actions he performs on himself in order to be attractive are just a tribute to secular habit. He has long cooled down opposite sex disappointed in love. He does not want to please women at all. No! Love has long been replaced by the "art of seduction", which, however, does not bring any satisfaction.

Social events have long lost all taste for him. He often goes to balls, but out of inertia, out of boredom and nothing to do. The secular social circle is boring to him. Everything is disgusting, tired! But, not knowing another life, he continues to drag out his usual way of life. No friends, no love, no interest in life.

Onegin's way of thinking, worldview - you, Alexander Sergeevich, expose everything to the merciless "Russian blues", or depression. Immeasurable inner emptiness, lack of dreams, boredom, joylessness. At the same time, the liveliness of a cold, sober mind, the absence of cynicism, nobility.

You emphasize its prosaic nature by the inability to “distinguish the polecat from the iambic”, and their preference for Scott Smith, with his political economic books, only confirms the presence of non-poetic exact thinking.

Whether business Lensky!

What an evil muse visited you, Alexander Sergeevich, when you brought together in your friendly bonds so different heroes? Could the relationship between Lensky and Onegin not lead to tragedy? Your Lensky...

Handsome, but beautiful differently than Onegin. you endow it natural beauty facial features, long, dark, curly hair. With the inspirational look of the poet and a lively, warm heart, open to the world.

Vladimir Lensky is sensitive to the perception of nature and the universe as a whole. “Suspicious of miracles” in everything, he understands and feels the world in his own way. Idealist, the right word!

The eighteen-year-old dreamer, in love with life, firmly believes in the existence of his soulmate, who is waiting for him and languishing. In faithful, devoted friendship and "sacred family", as you, venerable Alexander Sergeevich, deigned to call the Holy Trinity.

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Describing the relationship between Onegin and Lensky with your own pen, you compare them with the union of water and stone, fire and ice, poetry and prose. How different they are!

Lensky and Onegin. Comparative characteristics

It was your pleasure, Lord of the Muses, to play these two beautiful youths in a sad game that to this day prompts the reader to sprinkle tears on the pages of your great novel. You make them related by friendship, at first “from nothing to do”, and after a closer one. And then brutally...

No, better in order. So, they get closer: Lensky and Onegin. A comparative description of these two heroes, so characteristic of your time, Alexander Sergeevich, can be complete only when describing their friendship.

So, contradictions occur, as states English proverb. At first, they are boring to each other due to the dissimilarity of judgments. But after a while this difference turns into a magnet that attracts opposites. Each thesis becomes the cause of lively disputes and discussions between friends, each dispute turns into a subject of deep reflection. Perhaps none of them took the position of a comrade, but they also retained interest, respect for the flow of someone else's thought. Listening to Lensky, Onegin does not interrupt his youthfully naive judgments, poems and ancient legends. Being a disappointed realist, he is in no hurry to reproach Vladimir for idealizing people and the world.

similarity of heroes

Daily joint horse rides, dinners by the fireplace, wine and conversations bring young people together. And, at the same time, over time, similarities between Onegin and Lensky are revealed. Endowing them with such bright features, you, master of the pen, pull them out of the usual circle of rural communication, with boring conversations about the kennel, their own relatives and other nonsense. The education of the main characters, which is one of the few common features for both of them, makes them yawn in the circle of rural nobility.

Two destinies, two loves

Onegin is five or six years older than Lensky. Such a conclusion can be reached, proceeding from the precious Alexander Sergeevich, indicated by you, at the age of twenty-six at the end of the novel ... When, bending his knees, he wept for love at her feet ... at Tatyana's feet ... But, no. Everything is in order.

Oh, great connoisseur of the human soul, oh, subtlest psychologist of deepest feelings! Your pen is dead soul Onegin is a bright, pure ideal of a young maiden - Tatyana Larina. Her young, tender passion pours out before him in a frank letter, which you attribute to him to keep for life as evidence of the possibility of sincerity and beauty of feelings in which he no longer believed. Alas, his hardened, moping heart was not ready to reciprocate. He tries to avoid meeting Tatyana after a conversation with her in which he denies her high feelings.

In parallel with this discordant love, you develop Vladimir Lensky's feelings for Tatiana's sister, Olga. Oh, how different these two loves are, like Lensky and Onegin themselves. A comparative description of these two feelings would be superfluous. The love of Olga and Vladimir is full of chaste passion, poetry, youthful inspiration. The naive Lensky, sincerely wishing his friend happiness, tries to push him into Tatyana's arms, inviting him to her name day. Knowing Onegin's dislike for noisy receptions, he promises him a close family circle, without unnecessary guests.

Revenge, honor and duel

Oh, how much effort Eugene is making to hide his furious indignation when, having agreed, he ends up at a provincial ball with many guests, instead of the promised family dinner. But more than that, he is outraged by Tatyana's confusion when he sits on the place prepared for him in advance ... opposite her. Lensky knew! Everything is set up!

Onegin, really, did not want what your, Alexander Sergeevich, inexorable pen prepared for when he took revenge on Lensky for his deceit! When he drew his beloved Olga into his arms in a dance, when he whispered freedom in her ear, he portrayed a gentle look. Cynically and short-sightedly appealing to the jealousy and contempt of the young poet, he obediently followed the fate you had destined for both of them. Duel!

In the morning at the mill...

Both have already moved away from stupid insults. Both had difficulty finding a reason to duel. But no one stopped. Pride is to blame: no one intended to pass for a coward by refusing to fight. The result is known. A young poet is killed by a friend's bullet two weeks before own wedding. Onegin, unable to indulge in memories and regrets about the death of the only person close to him, leaves the country ...

Upon his return, he will fall in love with Tatyana, who has matured and flourished, only now a princess. Kneeling before her, he will kiss her hand, pray for love. But no, it’s too late: “Now I have been given to another and I will be faithful to him for a century,” she will say, weeping bitterly. Onegin will be left completely alone, face to face with memories of love and a friend killed by his own hand.

Duels of the creator of Onegin and quite appropriate parallels

You have been reproached, dear Alexander Sergeevich, for insufficient grounds for a duel between your heroes. Funny! Didn't your contemporaries draw parallels between these two young men and yourself? Haven't they noted the similarities between such opposite Onegin and Lensky with your contradictory, dual nature? This boundary bifurcation into Lensky - an inspired poet, a superstitious lyricist - and a secular rake, a chilled, tired Onegin ... did they not discover? To one you give your fiery genius, love, cheerfulness and, without suspecting it, your own own death. Unhappy love, wanderings, alienation and, in the end, a long trip abroad, which you yourself dreamed about, are given to another. The characterization of Onegin and Lensky is a comprehensive disclosure of yourself, isn't it? And if such an obvious resemblance of both heroes to you, dear classic, was exposed by your contemporaries, did they not know what easy, insignificant reasons for dueling were enough for you yourself? And how many times in every week of your life have you started to play with death, fearlessly and indifferently looking at the cold barrel in the hands of your enraged opponent?

What is he, a contemporary of Pushkin? When you read, or rather, enjoy reading Pushkin's masterpiece, it seems that Alexander Sergeevich wrote about himself.

He calls his protagonist "my good friend", among Onegin's friends there are friends of Pushkin himself, and Pushkin himself is invisibly present everywhere in the novel. However, it would be too primitive to say that Onegin is a self-portrait. Pushkin's soul is too complex and incomprehensible, too multifaceted and contradictory to be reflected in one "typical representative" of the "golden age". This is probably why he lived his short life in the novel. bright life the young idealist Lensky is also part of the poet's soul. Onegin and Lensky, both beloved by the author, so similar and different, close and distant, like the poles of one planet, like two halves of one soul ... How youth inevitably ends, how inevitably the maturity of the mind comes, and with it conformism, so inevitable for Pushkin in the novel, the death of a young romantic.

Eugene Onegin receives a typical aristocratic upbringing. Pushkin writes: “At first, Madame went after him, then Monsieur replaced her.” They taught him everything jokingly, but Onegin nevertheless received the minimum knowledge that was considered mandatory in the nobility. Pushkin, making sketches, seems to recall his youth:

* We all learned a little
* Something and somehow,
* So educate, God bless,
* It is not surprising for us to shine ...

* He is perfectly French
* Could speak and write;
* Easy mazurka danced
* And bowed at ease;
* What do you want more?
* Light decided
* That he is smart and very nice.

In his mind, Onegin is much higher than his peers. He knew some classical literature, had an idea about Adam Smith, read Byron, but all this does not lead to romantic, fiery feelings, like in Lensky, or to a sharp political protest, like in Griboedov's Chatsky. A sober, "chilled" mind and satiety with the pleasures of the world led to the fact that Onegin loses interest in life, he falls into a deep blues:

* The blues was waiting for him on guard,
* And she ran after him,
* Like a shadow or a faithful wife.

Out of boredom, Onegin tries to look for the meaning of life in any activity. He reads a lot, tries to write, but the first attempt did not lead to anything. Pushkin writes: "But nothing came out of his pen." In the village where Onegin goes to collect his inheritance, he makes another attempt at practical activity:

* He is a yoke of ancient corvée
* I replaced the quitrent with an easy one;
* And the slave blessed fate.

* But in his corner he pouted,
* Seeing terrible harm in this,
* His prudent neighbor...

But the lordly aversion to work, the habit of freedom and peace, lack of will and pronounced egoism - this is the legacy that Onegin received from the "high society".

In contrast to Onegin, another type of noble youth is given in the image of Lensky. Lensky plays an essential role in understanding Onegin's character. Lensky is a nobleman, he is younger than Onegin in age. He was educated in Germany: He is from foggy Germany He brought the fruits of learning, The spirit is ardent and rather strange ...

The spiritual world of Lensky is associated with a romantic worldview, he is "an admirer of Kant and a poet." Feelings dominate his mind, he believes in love, in friendship, in the decency of people, he is an irreparable idealist who lives in a world of beautiful dreams. Lensky looks at life through rose-colored glasses, he naively finds his soul mate in Olga, the most ordinary girl. Onegin was indirectly the cause of Lensky's death, but in fact he dies from rough contact with cruel reality. What do Onegin and Lensky have in common? Both belong to a privileged circle, they are smart, educated, in their inner development, they stand above those who surround them, the romantic soul of Lensky is looking for beauty everywhere. Onegin went through all this, tired of hypocrisy and debauchery secular society. Pushkin writes about Lensky: “He was an ignoramus dear at heart, he was cherished by hope, and a new brilliance and noise of the world.” Onegin listened to Lensky's ardent speeches with the smile of an elder, he tried to restrain his irony: “And he thought: it's stupid for me to interfere with his momentary bliss; and without me the time will come; let him live for the time being and believe in the perfection of the world; let us forgive the fever of youth and youthful fever and youthful delirium. For Lensky, friendship is an urgent need of nature, while Onegin is friends "for the sake of boredom", although in his own way he is attached to Lensky. Not knowing life Lensky embodies a no less common type of advanced noble youth, just like Onegin disappointed in life.

Pushkin, opposing two young people, nevertheless notes common traits of character. He writes: “They got along. Wave and stone, poetry and prose, ice and fire are not so different from each other. "Not so different." How to understand this phrase? In my opinion, what unites them is that they are both egocentric, they are bright individuals who are focused only on their supposedly unique personality. "The habit of counting everyone as zeros, and as ones - yourself" sooner or later had to lead to a break. Onegin is forced to kill Lensky. Despising the world, he still cherishes his opinion, fearing ridicule and reproach for cowardice. Because of a false concept of honor, he destroys an innocent soul. Who knows what the fate of Lensky would have been if he had survived. Perhaps he would have become a Decembrist, or perhaps just a layman. Belinsky, analyzing the novel, believed that Lensky was waiting for the second option. Pushkin writes: “In many ways he would have changed, parted with the muses, married, happy in the village and would wear a quilted robe with horns.”

I think Onegin was, after all, internally deeper than Lensky. His "sharp, cool mind" is much more pleasant than Lensky's sublime romanticism, which would quickly disappear, as flowers disappear in late autumn. Only deep natures can experience dissatisfaction with life, Pushkin is closer to Onegin, he writes about himself and about him: L was embittered, he is gloomy, We both knew the game of passions, The life tormented us both, In both hearts the heat died down.

Pushkin openly admits his sympathy for him, many digressions in the novel are devoted to this. Onegin suffers deeply. This can be understood from the lines: “Why am I not wounded by a bullet in the chest? Why am I not a frail old man, like this poor farmer? I am young, my life is strong; what should I expect? melancholy, melancholy!..” Pushkin embodied in Onegin many of those traits that would later appear in individual characters of Lermontov, Turgenev, Herzen, Goncharov and other writers. And such romantics as Lensky cannot withstand the blows of life: they either reconcile with it or perish.

Onegin and Lensky are one of the main characters in the work "Eugene Onegin" by A.S. Pushkin. They represent a new, progressive, modern noble society that adheres to liberal views. Both heroes have both similarities and differences in their origin, education and the way they fight the current system, but they are united by a common ideals. Unlike many nobles of that time, they understand the meaninglessness of an idle existence. This is what caused them sad story. For Onegin, life turned into a drama, and for Lensky it ended in death.

Eugene Onegin received the usual for his time versatile home education, but it was not strict:
Monsieur I "Abbe, poor Frenchman,
So that the child does not suffer,
I taught him everything in jest.

However, Onegin knew French, several phrases in Latin, read ancient and economic literature:
Branil Homer, Theocritus;
But read Adam Smith...

Eugene also built a successful line of behavior in society, which covered his not very good education:
He had a lucky talent
No compulsion to speak
Touch everything lightly
With a learned air of a connoisseur
Keep silent in an important dispute
And make the ladies smile
The fire of unexpected epigrams.

Eugene Onegin led a life typical of the metropolitan aristocracy: balls, restaurants, theaters, walks along Nevsky Prospekt, love affairs, but he stands out among the youth of his time. The young man possessed critical thinking and nobility of soul, which was not inherent in most of his peers.
Onegin was aware of the senselessness and idleness of his life. As a thinking person, he was bitterly aware of the emptiness of light. Gradually, the melancholy begins to hit him:

No: early feelings in him cooled down;
He was tired of the light noise;
The beauties didn't last long
The subject of his habitual thoughts;
Treason managed to tire;
Friends and friendship are tired ...

Attempts to combat the blues were unsuccessful. He did not know how to work systematically and his anger, gloom, loneliness more and more declared themselves.

Finding himself in an inherited estate, Onegin made life easier for the peasants:
Yarem he is an old corvée
I replaced the quitrent with a light one

But that was the end of his reform efforts. The conversations of the neighbors-landlords, exposing the narrowness of outlook and the primitiveness of thinking, burdened him. He preferred proud solitude to them.
Acquaintance with the young poet Vladimir Lensky, who stood out among the local nobles, helped to temporarily distract from the sad thoughts hovering in Onegin's head. Lensky seemed to be the complete opposite of his neighbor, but in fact, inexperience and ardor, inexperience and impetuosity - all this was inherent in Eugene when he was younger, but age cooled the impulses of the heart.
Vladimir Lensky, who received an education abroad, decided to get to know Onegin better:
But Lensky, not having, of course,
There is no hunting bond of marriage,
With Onegin wished cordially
Acquaintance shorter to reduce.
In conversations with Vladimir, Onegin understands that he dreams of the happiness of all mankind and believes in the sacred bonds of true friendship:
He believed that friends were ready
For his honor, accept shackles ...
What are the chosen by fate,
People sacred friends;

Lensky was close in spirit to the Decembrists, his social ideals were just as humane and noble, but his high ideals were very vague and indefinite, embodied in his poetry.
The cold mind, spiritual satiety and longing of Onegin did not prevent him from admiring the sincerity of the young poet, the ardor of his feelings, the ardor of his convictions. Eugene was not so sincere. Perhaps Onegin even slightly envied his friend's honesty, since he himself had already lost his ardor:
He listened to Lensky with a smile.
The poet's passionate conversation,
And the mind, still in unsteady judgments,
And eternally inspired look, -

However, Vladimir soon fell in love with Olga, Tatyana Larina's sister. She seems perfect to him, but a stupid quarrel that flared up between friends led to a duel. Unfortunately, due to fear public opinion were forced to shoot. Lensky was killed.
But what awaited them if the duel had not taken place? It is quite possible that Lensky would become a real poet, and even become one of the Decembrists. Onegin could not become a fighter for a just reorganization of society, he was waiting for the path of non-resistance to evil by violence, since the skepticism with which he was infected paralyzed his will and aspirations.

COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMAGES OF ONEGIN AND LENSKII. The source of the development of society at all times was dissatisfaction, dissatisfaction of people with their own lives and social foundations. On the threshold of the nineteenth century in Russia, among the advanced noble youth, unconsciously, gradually, dissatisfaction with the surrounding reality began to be felt. Typical representatives this circle are Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky - the heroes of the novel by A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin".

Home common feature Onegin and Lensky is their dissatisfaction noble society, although they received an upbringing typical of the nobility of that time. Cut off from Russian culture, brought up by French tutors, they did not have any serious goal in life. Therefore, Onegin soon became disillusioned with the idle fuss of the world: “although he was an ardent rake, he finally stopped loving scolding, and a saber, and lead "," to life "has completely cooled off", Lensky was also alien to secular interests: "he did not like the feasts, he fled from the noisy conversation."

In the countryside, living among limited, self-satisfied landowners and being spiritually superior to those around them, they became friends, although they represented opposite human natures. Onegin in best years fell into a blues, was "indifferent to everything." Lensky is a lyrical nature, possessing "freedom-loving dreams", always "enthusiastic speech", he was "an admirer of Kant and a poet." Lensky considered poetry to be his element, while in Onegin Pushkin emphasizes "a sharp, chilled mind."

In Lensky, the poet notes love for nature, "the noble aspiration of feelings and thoughts of the young, high, tender, daring", "thirst for knowledge and work and fear of vice and shame." On Onegin’s arrival in the village, “for two days, secluded fields seemed to him new, the coolness of a gloomy oak forest, the murmur of a quiet stream, on the third - a grove, the hills no longer occupied him”, “hard work was sickening to him”, and when he, “ yawning, he took up the pen, ”it didn’t work out for him. Being by nature an outstanding person, Onegin cannot apply himself to anything in the society in which he is forced to live, and he himself suffers from this.

In Onegin, Pushkin highlights the ability to understand people, to be critical of them. He immediately understood Olga's mediocrity and at first glance appreciated Tatyana's originality, distinguishing her from the rest. The poet shows Lensky as a person who lacks knowledge and understanding of reality. “A dear ignoramus with a heart,” Pushkin characterizes him in this way. Lensky idealizes Olga, simple girl. Her behavior after the ball is taken for treason. This circumstance leads to an unreasonable duel and his death. But if Lensky behaved in connection with the duel like a sentimental youth with an impractical attitude to life; then Onegin, being sober thinking person, "loving the young man with all my heart", had to prove himself "a ball of prejudices .., but a husband with honor and mind." But Onegin turned out to be below the prejudices of the society that brought him up, he turned out to be an egoist and, frightened by the “whisper, laughter of fools”, killed a friend. Onegin's false concept of noble honor pushed him to kill Lensky. Belinsky called Onegin a suffering egoist, an unwilling egoist, since his egoism is due to the upbringing he received in a noble society.

In the images of Onegin and Lensky, Pushkin showed a characteristic path, inner life a whole layer of young people in Russia of that time. Smarter, more sensitive, more conscientious, they could not find a calling in life and faded away.

For us now, I mean my generation, it is not at all easier to find a calling in life. In the current society of chaos and disorder, it is very difficult not to make a mistake. It seems to me that every person is destined to create something in his life, to leave a mark, otherwise why are we humans created?

You must always remember this and strive for your calling. Yes, it is difficult, it may be impossible, but I will try not to back down.