(310 words) Eugene Onegin from novel of the same name in the verses of A. S. Pushkin is typical image young man, representing the generation of the 20s of the XIX century wandering in their moods. This hero, like many of his contemporaries who really existed, did not accept his time and internally felt the inevitable inevitability of changes in society.
The youth of that era differently realized the coming change of times. Some organized themselves into social movements in order to be among the first to be in the ranks of the reformers. Others, like Eugene Onegin, on the contrary, did not take any decisive action. Those who simply succumbed to painful anguish, increasingly opposing themselves to the world, were the majority.
What are the main features of Onegin? What is he looking for? In everything that Evgeny is guided by, it is impossible to find virtues - of course, he keeps himself perfectly, shows the necessary tact, does not miss the opportunity to show his education, but continues to remain cold and aloof. At the same time, it would be wrong to consider him a purely negative character, since he is rather unhappy because of his selfishness. From childhood, lacking parental warmth, Onegin too soon got fed up with the uncomplicated games of secular society. Even in his youth, he comes to the conclusion that in love there is only an insidious pretense, and in friendship - a hypocritical falsehood. Any environment is unpleasant for Eugene, criticism and condemnation clearly appear behind his most courteous behavior. But everything else is also alien to him. A life built on ancient Russian traditions also quickly plunges him into painful languor. Onegin cannot refuse destructive egoism and contempt for people, like many representatives of his generation. His image absorbed the main problems of the nobility of that time: the inability to realize their potential, destructive idleness, infantilism and impracticality.
Onegin feels his uselessness and at some moments even enjoys his position. For example, in a conversation with Tatyana, he clearly relishes his inability to get ordinary and even banal happiness, which a young girl draws in her dreams. The hero sees in his anguish the romantic seal of being chosen: he, unlike everyone else, understands the frailty of life, and the majority blindly rotates in a kaleidoscope of days. Perhaps this false sense of superiority destroys him, because the craving for ordinary, earthly happiness seized him too late. Such is the fate of many of his fellow tribesmen: idealizing their artificial sad image, they broke away from real life and sunk into themselves.
Interesting? Save it on your wall!The similarities between Onegin and Pechorin are hard to miss, just as one cannot ignore the differences in their characters. Both of them are "superfluous people" of their time. Even V. G. Belinsky, comparing these two images, noted: “Their dissimilarity among themselves is much less than the distance between Onega and Pechora ... Pechorin is the Onegin of our time.”
Despite the difference in eras in which the images were created - Onegin in the era of Decembrism, freethinking, in the era of dreams and hopes for a speedy transformation social order, Pechorin - during the cruel Nikolaev regime that followed the defeat of the Decembrist uprising - both of them are dissatisfied with life, do not find application for their remarkable strengths and are therefore forced to waste time. Both do not like the social order, but both of them are passive, do not take any action in order to change it. AND Pushkin's Onegin, and Lermontov's Pechorin personify spiritual crisis noble intelligentsia, who expressed their dissatisfaction with life by refusing to social activities and, finding no use for her powers, wasted her life fruitlessly.
Both Onegin and Pechorin belong to the same social milieu. Both of them are educated. Both at first accepted life as it was, enjoyed it using privileges high society to which they belonged, but both of them gradually came to the denial of light and deep dissatisfaction with the life of society and their own too. Both began 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 souls for gossip and malice. Idleness, lack of high interests vulgarize their existence. “But sooner the feelings in him cooled down,” Pushkin says about his hero. We read about the same thing in Lermontov, where the author reports that his hero very early "was born in despair, covered with courtesy and a good-natured smile." The fact that both heroes are smart, educated people, undoubtedly, even more exacerbates their conflict with society, because these qualities allow you to see all the negative sides, all the vices. This understanding, as it were, elevates Onegin and Pechorin above the young people of their generation, they do not fit into their circle. The heroes are related by the fact that they both succeeded in the “science of tender passion”, and the fact that neither one nor the other was able to surrender to love with all their hearts, with all their souls. The great, all-consuming passion, because of which many were ready to give their lives, could not touch our heroes: in their relations with women, as with the light, there was coldness and cynicism. Onegin considered love to be "satiated pride", which is unworthy of him. Pechorin's love was to achieve power over the beloved. He could only take, but was not able to give. He never allowed himself to fall in love without a reciprocal feeling. To seek someone's love for him is the height of meanness: “. „When I met a woman, I always accurately guessed whether she would love me ... I never became a slave of my beloved woman; on the contrary, I have always acquired an invincible power over their will and heart., whether because I never really value anything ... ". Not knowing how to love, Onegin and Pechorin did not value the love of others - hence Onegin's coldness towards Tatyana, and unrequited love Bela and Princess Mary to Pechorin.
He who cannot truly love is incapable of true friendship, and vice versa. So, Onegin kills his friend Vladimir Lensky, although, as an older man and wiser by experience, he could dissuade the poet, blinded by jealousy, passionately in love. But he did not do this - disappointed with life, despising his own existence, he was not able to appreciate the life of others enough. Not found common language, having met after many years, and Pechorin with Maxim Maksimych. Kind, gentle and ingenuous, Maxim Maksimych could not explain Pechorin's cruelty, could not understand that he was directing the actions of his former colleague. Yes, it could not be otherwise: the old soldier was like everyone else, he was part of the society that Lermontov's hero despised, with which he, an outstanding personality, was simply bored. No wonder he always strove for people who could argue with him. Personal freedom, independence for both heroes is the best that can be in life, to which they are ready to prefer everything else. No wonder Onegin, recalling the past, writes in a letter to Tatyana:
* Your hateful freedom
* I didn't want to lose.
Pechorin, on this occasion, declares: “Twenty times my life, I will even put my honor at stake, but I will not sell my freedom.” Realizing that life is wasted, Lermontov's hero does not value it at all. Freedom is in the first place for him, honor is in the second place, and only in the last place is life. The meaning of Pechorin's behavior, his actions, we find in the hero's diary in the story "Princess Mary". Reading it, you realize that Pechorin is a victim of his time. He lost faith in people, in ideas, and this is the result of the era that came after the defeat of the Decembrist uprising, an era of moral poverty, vulgarity and cowardice. All this can be attributed to Onegin. Very well said, comparing the two heroes, V. G. Belinsky: “There is a difference in the roads, but the result is the same.” Despite the outward dissimilarity, despite the difference in characters, both of them are “superfluous people”, who were ahead of their time and therefore did not find a common language with their contemporaries, who failed to manifest and realize themselves.
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I liked his features, Involuntary devotion to dreams, Inimitable strangeness And sharp, chilled mind. I was embittered, he is sullen; We both knew the game of passions, The life tormented us both; In both hearts...
The letters of Tatyana and Onegin stand out sharply from the general text. Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". Even the author himself gradually highlights them: an attentive reader will immediately notice that there is no longer a strictly organized “Onegin stanza”, but a noticeable ...
The plan of the eighth chapter: Onegin appears in St. Petersburg secular society; The narrator tells where Onegin went after killing Lensky in a duel; Onegin meets Tatyana at a social event, a characteristic of St. Petersburg society; Onegin fell in love with Tatyana; ...
Young noble intellectual early XIX century, Eugene Onegin is smart, noble, able to deeply and strongly feel. He was able to immediately appreciate Tatyana with her discreet external beauty and rich inner world. Onegin is tactful in relations with Lensky:
He is a cool word
I tried to keep in my mouth
And I thought: it's stupid to disturb me
His momentary bliss.
Deep and sincere repentance of Onegin, who killed a friend in a duel: "He could have discovered feelings, and not bristle like a beast; he had to disarm a young heart ..."
Onegin's mind also manifested itself in the fact that he early realized the worthlessness of secular society and felt like a stranger and an extra person in high society living rooms. It was hard for him and
It's hard to see in front of you
One dinner is a long row,
Look at life as a rite
And follow the orderly crowd Go,
Not sharing with her
Neither common opinions, no passions.
But the wonderful makings of Onegin are suppressed social conditions, the environment in which he grew up and lived. It is no coincidence that Pushkin in the first chapter of the novel places short description the life of the protagonist. From this description, we learn who brought up Eugene and how, what he was taught, how he spent his time when the time came for "rebellious youth."
Onegin's upbringing, as Pushkin showed, the range of his reading, the sphere of his interests - all this is devoid of national foundations. It is not for nothing that foreign vocabulary prevails in the hero's biography, conveying the peculiarity of high-society culture, far from the national Russian origins.
Onegin's predominant state is boredom. Nothing could dispel his yearning laziness. The thirst for monotonous pleasures in the absence of a real, living thing has taken root in Onegin's psychology, and he is unable to overcome it. "Hard work was sickening to him," Pushkin notes. And since, according to the author, the creative forces of the individual could manifest themselves only in labor, the result of Onegin's life is bleak:
Having lived without a goal, without labor
Until the age of twenty-six
Languishing in the idleness of leisure,
No service, no wife, no business,
Couldn't do anything.
Love also passed by, for the hero's feelings were impoverished - he suppressed in himself the involuntary excitement experienced at the sight of Tatyana and upon receipt of her letter. Only later, shocked by the murder of Lensky and meeting Tatyana again, Onegin gained the ability to do great and strong feeling. In the very first chapters, Onegin is deprived of the very ability to love. His attitude towards love is entirely rational and feigned. It is sustained in the spirit of learned secular "truths", the main objective whom - to enchant and seduce, seem to be in love, and not actually be it:
How early could he be hypocritical,
Hold hope, be jealous
disbelieve, make believe
To seem gloomy, to languish...
This "science of tender passion" is a necessary accessory secular salons and living rooms.
And finally, Onegin's friendship with Lensky ended tragically. In motivating Onegin's behavior, Pushkin constantly confronts the impulses of his soul with the habitual rules of behavior inspired by the secular environment... No matter how Onegin's noble mind protested against the duel, the social conventions formed by the world nevertheless prevailed. Observing the unspoken law of honor established by secular society, Eugene kills Lensky in a duel.
Pushkin in the novel traces the socio-psychological content of the image of Onegin. Onegin's character was formed in certain social conditions, in a certain historical era. Consequently, Onegin is deduced in the novel as a national-historical type of Russian life, ultimately generated by the autocratic-serf way of life. His skepticism and disappointment are a reflection of the general "malaise of the newest Russians" that seized a significant part of the noble intelligentsia at the beginning of the century. Pushkin condemns not so much the hero as the secular environment that shaped him as a person. The Onegins are doomed to inaction. They are no longer capable of selfless love, not for friendship. This is where the idea of a public trial arises and the accusation falls rather not on the hero, but on the socio-historical way of Russian life.
Pushkin is a great Russian poet, founder of Russian realism, creator of Russian literary language. One of his greatest works is the novel "Eugene Onegin".
Onegin is a secular St. Petersburg young man, a capital aristocrat.
Describing his hero, Pushkin speaks in detail about his upbringing and education. Onegin received the typical for the aristocratic youth of that time home education and the upbringing of a French tutor:
Monsieur I "Abbe, poor Frenchman
So that the child is not exhausted
Taught him everything jokingly
I did not bother with strict morality,
Slightly scolded for pranks
And in Summer garden drove for a walk.
Having become a young man, Onegin leads a life typical of the youth of that time: balls, restaurants, theater visits. But Eugene Onegin, by his nature, stands out from the general mass of young people. Pushkin notes his “involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and a sharp, chilled mind”, a sense of honor, nobility of soul. This could not but lead Onegin to disappointment in the life and interests of secular society.
When Eugene takes over the blues, he tries to do some useful activity. Nothing came of his attempt to write!
Onegin locked himself at home.
Yawning, he took up the pen.
I wanted to write - but hard work
He was sick; Nothing
It did not come out of his pen.
Later, having left for the estate, which he received from his uncle, Onegin tries to set up the peasants:
Yarem he is an old corvée
I replaced it with a light quitrent ...
But all his activities as a landowner were limited to this reform.
Even such strong feelings as love and friendship could not save Eugene Onegin from spiritual emptiness. He rejected Tatyana's love, since he valued "liberty and peace" above all.
Onegin killed his friend Lensky, as secular prejudices got the better of the hesitation that he experienced after receiving a challenge to a duel.
It seems to me that Pushkin condemns his hero: he behaved selfishly towards the people around him, although Onegin later realized this. He can be called a hero of his time, because Eugene, like the hero of Lermontov's work Pechorin, was above the society in which he was. Very few people could understand him. I think that's why Eugene Onegin was the way he is.
"Eugene Onegin" - the first Russian realistic novel and the only novel in verse in Russian literature.
The complexity of the image of E. Onegin can be traced throughout the novel. This lies at least in the fact that we see how much Onegin is different at the beginning and at the end of the novel. At the beginning of the novel, this is a young womanizer who goes from ball to ball. But even during this period, we observe his complexity: he went to the theater not to watch magnificent productions, not to see the brilliant Istomina on stage. Onegin - "an honorary citizen backstage" - is more interested in meetings and intrigues with "charming actresses" than the stage, art, he likes to point "a double lorgnette at the boxes of unfamiliar ladies." The complex, contradictory nature of Onegin does not fit into the usual schemes: the hero is not a model, not a villain, he constantly deceives the reader's expectations. Without responding to Tatyana's feelings, he did not, however, become a "fatal seducer", did not start a complete love game, did not deceive her trust. His rebuke was cruel, but it was neither low nor dishonorable. “In that terrible hour, you acted nobly,” Tatyana will tell him. But the same Onegin thoughtlessly insulted Lensky, did not dare to refuse a duel, killed a friend ...
Now I want to express my opinion about the end of the novel. I think the novel could have continued. The fact is that Pushkin treated people similar to Onegin with some degree of contempt. It even seems to me that Pushkin probably loved some girl who looked like Tatiana, and this girl was probably conquered by some person who looked like Yevgeny. And based on all this, I believe that the end of the novel could not be happy. After all, when the first readers of the novel reproached Pushkin for ending the novel like that, he answered them: “You advise others for Onegin ...”
The complexity of Onegin's image lies in the fact that he did not fall in love with Tatiana immediately, but later, when she had already married the prince. And why this happened, we read in the novel. Yes, I remember most of all those lines when Pushkin gives an explanation of why Eugene fell in love with Tatyana:
But an indifferent princess, But an impregnable goddess.
And especially the following lines:
What is given to you does not attract, The serpent certainly calls you To itself, to the mysterious tree: Give you the forbidden fruit. And without it, you won't have paradise.
I think that it is Eugene Onegin, and no one else, who is the hero of his time. He is in the novel a man who was killed by upbringing and social life, whom no one could understand.
This is my opinion about Eugene Onegin, the hero of his time.
"Eugene Onegin" was created by Pushkin as the first book in Russia that realistically describes the life of the nobles. In this novel, a complex image of the secular dandy Eugene Onegin is created in verse.
Onegin - who is he?
The young man, despising the society around him, nevertheless follows the rules set by him. He does not try to change elite, with indifference and boredom looks at everything around. His upbringing and natural composure do not allow him to speak in St. Petersburg drawing rooms with an accusation of society.
He expresses his protest with contemptuous silence. The author in the image of Eugene creates a type of "suffering" egoist. This person has an extraordinary mind, which does not allow him to experience the pleasure of life, he is dissatisfied with himself and other people. However, he will never dare to transform himself and environment to change the situation: "Hard work was sickening to him."
Friends then enemies
Arriving in the village, Eugene enjoys a quiet life for only a couple of days, and then satiety and boredom come again. He feels that here, too, he will be useless and worthless, superfluous, as elsewhere. Only one person from the village environment becomes close to him - this is the young poet Lensky.
Onegin and Lensky are sincerely friends, as they are similar. Both were representatives of the thinking intelligentsia from the nobility, both are higher in outlook and interests than the nobility from the provinces. And both friends do not understand what they want from life. Yevgeny's friendship with Lensky reveals the real essence of Onegin - he is actually not a "parody", not some kind of "fashion fad", but smart and good man. Together with Lensky, he discusses questions of philosophy, remaining together with him alien and incomprehensible to the nobility. Friends are doomed to loneliness, because in their development and aspirations they are much better than others, possessing good education having a deep mind and feelings. Society takes revenge on them, who despise its rules, takes revenge by destroying this friendly union. The stupid laws of the code of honor force Onegin to kill his only friend.
Unrequited feelings
Consider the image of Tatyana. Onegin and Larina are close in many ways - they like to read, they are smart, they know how to reason, they do not like secular society, they have honesty. The difference between these two personalities lies in the fact that Eugene, who grew up far from the village, is indifferent to ordinary people and nature, while Tatyana is attached to them with all her heart.
If Onegin had responded to Tatyana's feelings, it is not known whether he would have been able to change. He is not able to love, so his selfishness and frivolity led to a break with Tatyana. Knowing how to read well in people's souls, Onegin from the first moment was able to appreciate the personality of the girl. But the circumstances were such that Eugene, because of his own selfishness and fear of breaking the rules of the world, which he despises, pushed Tatyana away.
After for long years Quest Evgeny, seeing Larina again, belatedly gains feelings for her. However, he already understands that time has passed, he himself destroyed his happiness. Tatyana still loves Onegin, but the family is for her more important than love. As a result, Eugene again feels unnecessary, a stranger. human feelings are weak in the face of public opinion. Tatyana and Evgeny share this opinion, although they were very close in their inner world.
Pushkin created the image of a man who is a symbol of that time. This is a personality that was destroyed by the education system and the surrounding society.
ONEGIN IS A HERO OF HIS TIME. In the novel "Eugene Onegin" A. S. Pushkin gave the image of that part of the educated youth of the 20s of the XIX century, which, critical of secular society forced to live in it. Loneliness, inability to live, inability to apply one's mind, education to socially useful work - this is what characterizes Onegin. It was for this that Belinsky called Onegin "smart uselessness", "an extra person."
Onegin received a typical upbringing and education for the noble circle of that time. They taught him "everything in jest", did not bother with "strict morality" and, when he finally entered an independent life, he "could absolutely speak and write in French; he danced the mazurka easily and bowed at ease,” in conversation he could “touch everything lightly.” For secular life, this was quite enough, "and the world decided that he was smart and very nice." Onegin plunges headlong into secular life, full of entertainment: balls, theaters, lunches, dinners, love interests. Life flowed aimlessly and was "monotonous and motley."
Nevertheless, for his circle, Onegin was a fairly educated person. He read Adam Smith, knew ancient literature, writings of contemporary Western writers. Pushkin himself notes the originality of his hero. Onegin was distinguished from many by "involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and a sharp, chilled mind." Naturally, such a person could not long be satisfied with the aimless and empty life of the world.
"Free, in color best years”, Onegin is disappointed in secular life and falls into a blues: "nothing touched him, he did not notice anyone." He tries to find a point of application of his strength, tries to read, to write, but "nothing came out of his pen." Nothing came out of it and could not come out, because Onegin was not prepared for work all his previous life: "he was sick of hard work."
Onegin leaves for the countryside and becomes the full owner of "factories, waters, forests, lands." He is pleased that "the former path has changed to something." In the village, he tries to do something useful, to introduce something new into the life of the peasants: “He replaced the corvée with an old quitrent with a yoke.” But this was done without any purpose, in order to “just pass the time”, and therefore the hero’s activity does not bring him satisfaction and remains unfinished. Neighbors-landowners surrounding Onegin are alien to him in spirit, limited and busy talking about "haymaking, about wine, about the kennel, about their relatives." His life here is filled with the same boredom and consciousness of his uselessness as in St. Petersburg.
His relationship with Lensky develops tragically. An empty quarrel with a friend leads to a duel. On the fateful morning before the duel, he was a "ball of prejudice", a slave to secular conventions. It is from here that the breakdown in his life begins, a hasty flight from the village, a restless wandering around native land and an ever growing sense of inferiority and worthlessness: “Why am I not wounded by a bullet in the chest? Why am I not a frail old man ... I am young, life is strong in me, what can I expect? Longing, longing! .. ”In such spiritual confusion and at the end of the novel he reveals his soul to Tatyana in a letter to her, Onegin now does not at all look like that metropolitan dandy who, in the wilderness of a village garden, “gave Tatyana a deuce for behavior”! He became not only older, but also richer spiritually, more meaningful, deeper, simply more humane. In an explanation with Tatyana, he says: “I want to hug your knees. And, sobbing at your feet, Pour out prayers, confessions, penalties, Everything that I could express ... "This open sobbing confession defines the answer to the question:" Isn't he a parody?
No, Onegin is not a parody, not an accidental fashionable phenomenon, but a living sad fate, conditioned by everything. way of life noble society. At the end of the novel, Pushkin will confirm the outcome of the hero's life: He lived without a goal, without labor Until the age of twenty-six, languishing in the inactivity of leisure, Without service, without a wife, without work, He did not know how to do anything. And the meaning of the whole novel seems all the more bitter. The hero of the novel is not a “hero” at all, but only a sad example snatched from the thick of life by the poet.
