The image of Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin" by A.S. Pushkin. Firstly, because the poet in his work created the inimitable, unique character of the Russian woman. And secondly, this image embodies an important principle of Alexander Sergeevich - the principle of realistic art. Pushkin in one of his articles explains and analyzes the causes of the emergence of "literary monsters" by the emergence and development of romantic literature, which replaced classicism. Let us consider in more detail the image of Tatyana in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
Pushkin's main idea
The poet agrees that the depiction is not of morality, but of the ideal - the general trend of contemporary literature to him - is inherently correct. But, according to Alexander Sergeevich, neither the idea of the past about human nature as some kind of "pretentious pomposity", nor today's image of vice triumphant in the hearts, are inherently deep. Pushkin, thus, affirms new ideals in his work (stanzas 13 and 14 of the third chapter): according to the author’s intention, the novel, built primarily on a love conflict, should reflect the most stable and characteristic signs of the lifestyle that several generations of a noble family in Russia adhered to. .
Therefore, Pushkin's heroes speak natural language, their experiences are not monotonous and schematic, but many-sided and natural. Describing the feelings of the characters in the novel, Alexander Sergeevich checks the veracity of the descriptions by life itself, relying on his own impressions and observations.
Contrasting Tatyana and Olga
Taking into account this concept of Alexander Sergeevich, it becomes clear how and why the image of Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin" is compared with the character of another heroine, Olga, when the reader gets acquainted with the first one. Olga is cheerful, obedient, modest, sweet and simple-hearted. Her eyes are blue like the sky, her curls are linen, her waist is light, while she does not stand out from a number of similar provincial young ladies in the novel "Eugene Onegin". The image of Tatyana Larina is built on contrast. This girl is not as attractive in appearance as her sister, and the hobbies and behavior of the heroine only emphasize her originality, unlike the others. Pushkin writes that in her family she seemed like a strange girl, she was silent, sad, wild, timid, like a doe.
Name Tatyana
Alexander Sergeevich gives a note in which he indicates that names such as Thekla, Fedora, Filat, Agrafon and others are used among us only among commoners. Then, in the author's digression, Pushkin develops this idea. He writes that the name Tatyana will for the first time consecrate the "tender pages" of this novel. It merged harmoniously with the characteristic features of the girl's appearance, her character traits, manners and habits.
The character of the main character
The village world, books, nature, scary stories that the nanny told on dark winter nights - all these unpretentious, sweet hobbies gradually form the image of Tatyana in the novel "Eugene Onegin". Pushkin notes what was most dear to the girl: she loved to meet the “dawn sunrise” on the balcony, to watch the dance of stars disappear in the “pale sky”.
Books played a big role in shaping the feelings and views of Tatyana Larina. Novels replaced everything else for her, provided an opportunity to find her dreams, "secret heat." Passion for books, acquaintance with other, fantastic worlds that were filled with all sorts of colors of life, was not just entertainment for our heroine. Tatyana Larina, whose image we are considering, wanted to find in them what she could not find in the real world. Perhaps that is why she suffered a fatal mistake, the first failure in life - love for Eugene Onegin.
Perceiving the environment alien to her poetic soul, Tatyana Larina, whose image stands out among all the others in the work, created her own illusory world, where love, beauty, kindness, and justice ruled. Only one thing was missing to complete the picture - a unique, single hero. Therefore, Onegin, shrouded in mystery, thoughtful, seemed to the girl the embodiment of her secret girlish dreams.
Tatiana's letter
Tatyana's letter, a touching and sweet declaration of love, reflects the whole complex range of feelings that swept over her restless, immaculate soul. Hence such a sharp, contrasting opposition: Onegin is "unsociable", he is bored in the countryside, and the members of Tatyana's family, although they are "innocently glad" for the guest, do not shine with anything. From this comes the praise of the chosen one, excessive, conveyed, among other things, with the help of the girl’s description of the indelible impression that she received at the first meeting with the hero: she always knew him, but fate did not give the lovers a chance to meet in this world.
And then came this wonderful moment of recognition, meeting. "I instantly found out," Tatyana writes. For her, whom none of those around her understands, and this brings suffering to the girl, Eugene is a savior, a savior, a handsome prince who will revive her, disenchant Tatiana's unfortunate heart. It would seem that dreams have come true, but reality sometimes turns out to be so cruel and deceptive that it is impossible even to imagine.
Evgeny's answer
The tender confession of the girl touches Onegin, but he is not yet ready to bear responsibility for other people's feelings, fate, hope. His advice is simple in everyday life, reflecting the life experience he has accumulated in society. He urges the girl to learn to control herself, since inexperience leads to trouble and not everyone will understand her the way Eugene understood.
New Tatiana
This is just the beginning of the most interesting, as the novel "Eugene Onegin" tells us. The image of Tatyana is significantly transformed. The girl turns out to be a capable student. She learned to "rule herself", overcoming mental pain. In the careless and stately, indifferent princess, it is now difficult to recognize that former girl - in love, timid, simple and poor.
Have Tatyana's life principles changed?
Is it fair to assume that if significant changes took place in Tatyana's character, then the life principles of the heroine also changed significantly? If we interpret Tatyana's behavior in this way, then in this we will follow the inflamed passion for this impregnable goddess Eugene Onegin. Tatyana accepted the rules of this game that was alien to her, but her sincerity, moral purity, inquisitiveness of mind, directness, understanding of duty and justice, the ability to courageously, with dignity to meet and overcome the difficulties that arise on the way did not disappear.
The girl replies to Onegin's confession that she loves him, but is given to another, and the century will be faithful to him. These are simple words, but how much resentment, bitterness, mental pain, suffering are in them! The image of Tatyana in the novel is vital and convincing. He evokes admiration and sincere sympathy.
Depth, height, spirituality of Tatyana allowed Belinsky to call her "genius nature." Pushkin himself admired this image created so skillfully. In Tatyana Larina, he embodied the ideal of a Russian woman.
We examined this difficult and interesting image. Tatyana Onegina was not in the novel, and could not be, according to Pushkin. The characters' attitudes to life were too different.
A.S. Pushkin is a great poet and writer of the 19th century. He enriched Russian literature with many remarkable works. One of them is the novel "Eugene Onegin". A.S. Pushkin worked on the novel for many years, it was his favorite work. Belinsky called it "an encyclopedia of Russian life", since it reflected the whole life of the Russian nobility of that era as in a mirror. Despite the fact that the novel is called "Eugene Onegin", the system of characters is organized in such a way that the image of Tatyana Larina acquires no less, if not more importance. But Tatyana is not just the main character of the novel, she is also the beloved heroine of A.S. Pushkin, which the poet calls "sweet ideal". A.S. Pushkin is madly in love with the heroine, and repeatedly admits this to her:
... I love my dear Tatyana so much!
Tatyana Larina is a young, fragile, contented sweet lady. Her image stands out very clearly against the background of other female images inherent in the literature of that time. From the very beginning, the author emphasizes the absence in Tatyana of those qualities that the heroines of classical Russian novels were endowed with: a poetic name, unusual beauty:
Nor the beauty of his sister,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She would not attract eyes.
Since childhood, Tatyana had a lot of things that distinguished her from others. In the family, she grew up as a lonely girl:
Dika, sad, silent,
Like a forest doe is timid,
She is in her family
Seemed like a stranger girl.
Also, Tatyana did not like to play with children, was not interested in the news of the city and fashion. For the most part, she is immersed in herself, in her experiences:
But dolls even in these years
Tatyana did not take it in her hands;
About the news of the city, about fashion
Didn't have a conversation with her.
Something completely different captivates Tatyana: thoughtfulness, dreaminess, poetry, sincerity. She has read many novels since childhood. In them she saw a different life, more interesting, more eventful. She believed that such a life, and such people are not invented, but actually exist:
She liked novels early,
They replaced everything
She fell in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Rousseau.
Already by the name of his heroine, Pushkin emphasizes Tatyana's closeness to the people, to Russian nature. Pushkin explains the unusualness of Tatyana, her spiritual wealth by the influence on her inner world of the people's environment, the beautiful and harmonious Russian nature:
Tatyana (Russian soul, without knowing why)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter.
Tatyana, a Russian soul, subtly feels the beauty of nature. One more image is guessed, accompanying Tatiana everywhere and everywhere and connecting her with nature - the moon:
She loved on the balcony
Warn dawn dawn
When in the pale sky
Stars disappear dance ...
...with a foggy moon...
Tatyana's soul is pure, high, like the moon. Tatyana's "savagery" and "sadness" do not repel us, but on the contrary, make us think that she, like the lonely moon in the sky, is extraordinary in her spiritual beauty. Tatyana's portrait is inseparable from nature, from the overall picture. In the novel, nature is revealed through Tatyana, and Tatyana through nature. For example, spring is the birth of Tatyana's love, and love is spring:
The time has come, she fell in love.
So the fallen grain into the ground
Springs are animated by fire.
Tatyana shares with nature her experiences, sorrow, torment; only to her can she pour out her soul. Only in solitude with nature does she find solace, and where else should she look for it, because in the family she grew up as a “stranger girl”; she herself writes in a letter to Onegin: "... no one understands me ...". Tatyana is the one who so naturally falls in love in the spring; bloom for happiness, as the first flowers bloom in spring, when nature wakes up from sleep.
Before leaving for Moscow, Tatyana first of all says goodbye to her native land:
Farewell, peaceful valleys,
And you, familiar mountain peaks,
And you, familiar forests;
Forgive the cheerful nature ...
With this appeal, A.S. Pushkin clearly showed how difficult it is for Tatyana to leave her native land.
A.S. Pushkin also endowed Tatyana with a "fiery heart", a subtle soul. Tatyana, at thirteen years old, is firm and unshakable:
Tatyana loves not jokingly
And betrayed, of course
Love like a sweet child.
V.G. Belinsky noted: “Tatyana’s whole inner world consisted in a thirst for love. nothing else spoke to her soul; her mind was asleep"
Tatyana dreamed of a person who would bring content into her life. This is exactly what Evgeny Onegin seemed to her. She invented Onegin, fitting him to the model of the heroes of French novels. The heroine takes the first step: she writes a letter to Onegin, waiting for an answer, but there is none.
Onegin did not answer her, but on the contrary read the instruction: “Learn to rule yourself! Not every one of you, as I understand! Inexperience leads to trouble! Although it was always considered indecent for a girl to be the first to love, the author likes Tatiana's directness:
Why is Tatyana guilty?
For the fact that in sweet simplicity
She knows no lies
And he believes in his chosen dream.
Once in Moscow society, where “it’s not surprising to show off with upbringing,” Tatyana stands out for her spiritual qualities. Social life has not touched her soul, no, it's still the same old "dear Tatyana." She is tired of the magnificent life, she suffers:
She is stuffy here ... she is a dream
Strives for field life.
Here, in Moscow, Pushkin again compares Tatyana with the moon, which overshadows everything around with its light:
She was sitting at the table
With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,
This Cleopatra of the Neva;
And you would rightly agree
That Nina marble beauty
I couldn't outshine my neighbor
Even though it was stunning.
Tatyana, who still loves Yevgeny, firmly answers him:
But I am given to another
And I will be faithful to him forever.
This confirms once again that Tatyana is noble, steadfast, and faithful.
Highly appreciated the image of Tatyana and critic V.G. Belinsky: “The great feat of Pushkin is that he was the first in his novel to poetically reproduce the Russian society of that time and, in the person of Onegin and Lensky, showed its main, that is, male, side; but the feat of our poet is almost higher in that he was the first to poetically reproduce, in the person of Tatyana, a Russian woman. The critic emphasizes the integrity of the nature of the heroine, her exclusivity in society. At the same time, Belinsky draws attention to the fact that the image of Tatyana is a "type of Russian woman."
Tatyana appears in chapter II of the novel. The choice of the heroine's name and the author's thoughts on this matter, as it were, indicate a distinctive feature compared to other characters:
Her sister's name was Tatyana...
Gentle pages of a novel
For the first time with such a name
We will sanctify.
In these lines, the author introduces Tatyana to the reader for the first time. We are presented with the image of a simple provincial girl with very peculiar features. Tatyana is “wild, sad, silent”, “in her own family she seemed like a stranger girl”, “often she sat silently at the window all day long”. She did not play with her sister Olga's friends, "she was bored with their sonorous laughter and the noise of their windy joys." Larina grows thoughtful and lonely. The environment to which parents, relatives, guests belong, i.e. the society of local nobles is something alien to her, which has almost no effect on Tatyana. Other aspects of her being have a stronger influence on the formation of her personality. She is captivated by "terrible stories in the winter in the darkness of nights", i.e. fairy tales of a serf nanny. She loves nature, reads the novels of Richardson and Rousseau, which educate her sensitivity, develop her imagination.
The appearance of Onegin, who immediately struck Tatyana with his peculiarity, dissimilarity with others whom she saw around, leads to the fact that love flares up in Tatyana.
The girl in love again turns to books: after all, she has no one to trust her secret, no one to talk to.
Sincere and strong love involuntarily takes on the character of those passionate and strong feelings that the loving and suffering heroines of the books read are endowed with.
So, Tatyana was strongly influenced by the sentimental West, but the European novel. But this, of course, was not the main factor in the development of Tatyana.
A lot to understand the image of Tatyana is given by the episode of Tatyana's conversation with the nanny and the letter to Onegin. This whole scene - one of the best in the novel - is something amazing, beautiful, whole.
The nature of Tatyana's frank conversation with the old nanny is such that we see a great intimacy between them. The image of Filipyevna bears the beginnings of folk wisdom, her words reflect the experience of a long and difficult life of a simple Russian woman. The story is short and simple, but it contains imagery, expressiveness, purity and power of thought and a truly folk language. And we vividly imagine Tatyana in her room at night, and
On the bench
With a scarf on his gray head,
Before the young heroine
An old woman in a long jacket.
We begin to understand how much the nanny meant to Tatyana, the closeness to her; we note those purely Russian influences that will occupy the main place in the formation of Tatyana.
Tatyana perfectly understands the common language of the nanny, for her this language is her mother tongue. Her speech is figurative and at the same time clear, there are also elements of folk vernacular in it: “I feel sick”, “what needs me”, “yes tell him” ... etc.
Tatyana's letter to Onegin is a desperate act, but it is completely alien to the environment of a young girl. Larina was guided only by feeling, but not by reason. The love letter does not contain coquetry, antics - Tatyana writes frankly, as her heart tells her.
I am writing to you - what more?
What else can I say?
And following these simple and touching words, in which trembling and restrained excitement are heard, Tatiana, with increasing delight, with excitement already openly pouring out in the lines of the letter, reveals this “trusting soul” to Onegin. The central part of the letter is the image of Onegin, as he appeared to Tatyana in her imagination inspired by love. The end of the letter is as sincere as the beginning. The girl is fully aware of her actions:
I'm cumming! Scary to read...
But your honor is my guarantee,
I freeze with shame and fear ...
And I boldly entrust myself to her ...
The writing scene is over. Tatyana is waiting for an answer. Her condition, immersion in the feeling that had taken possession of her, was noted in scanty details:
The second meeting with Onegin and his cold "rebuke". But Tatyana does not stop loving.
Love insane suffering
Don't stop worrying
Young soul...
Chapter V opens with a landscape of a belated but suddenly come winter. It is noteworthy that a purely Russian landscape of a winter estate and a village is given through Tatiana's perception of it.
Waking up early
Trees in winter silver
Tatyana saw through the window
Forty merry in the yard
Whitewashed yard in the morning,
And softly padded mountains
And in direct connection with the pictures of native nature, the author's statement of the national, Russian appearance of the heroine is expressed:
Tatyana (Russian soul,
With her cold beauty
I don't know why.)
I loved Russian winter...
Poetic pictures of Christmas divination also connect Tatyana with the Russian, national, folk origin.
"... Tatyana, on the advice of the nanny" tells fortunes at night in the bath.
Russian national features are more and more clearly put forward in the development of the image of Tatiana.
In portraying Tatyana, Pushkin completely renounces all irony, and in this sense, Tatyana is the only character in the novel, in relation to whom, from the moment of its appearance to the end, we feel only the love and respect of the author. The poet more than once calls Tatyana "dear", declares: "I love Tatyana my dear so much."
Tatyana's dream is a fantastic combination of motifs from the nanny's fairy tales, pictures that arose in the game of Tatyana's imagination, but at the same time - and real life impressions. The artistic meaning of the dream in the story about Tatyana is an expression of the heroine's state of mind, her thoughts about Onegin (he is strong in her dream, but also formidable, dangerous, terrible), and at the same time - a premonition of future misfortunes.
All subsequent tragedies: the death of Lensky, the departure of Yevgeny, the imminent marriage of her sister - deeply touched Tatyana's heart. The impressions gained from reading books are replenished by the harsh lessons of life. Gradually, Tatyana gains life experience and seriously thinks about her fate. The image of Tatyana is enriched in the course of events, but by nature Tatyana is still the same, and her “fiery and tender heart” is still given over to the feeling that has taken possession of her once and for all.
Visiting Onegin's house, Tatyana "with a greedy soul" indulges in reading. Byron's poems and novels are added to the previously read sentimental novels.
Reading Onegin's books is a new step in Tatyana's development. She does not freely compare what she knows about Onegin with what she learns from books. A whole swarm of new thoughts, assumptions. In the last stanzas of Chapter VII, Tatyana is in Moscow society. She "... is not well at a housewarming party", she seems strange to the young ladies of the Moscow noble circle, she is still restrained, silent
At the end of the work, Tatyana appears to us as a lady of secular society, but Pushkin clearly distinguishes her from the circle into which her fate has led. Drawing her appearance at a social event, the poet simultaneously emphasizes Tatyana's aristocracy, in Pushkin's high sense of the word, and her simplicity.
She was slow
Without these little antics
Not cold, not talkative
No imitations...
Without an arrogant look for everyone,
Everything is quiet, it was just in her ...
Episodes of meetings with Onegin after many years of separation emphasize Tatyana's complete self-control. Larina turned into a secular lady, into an “indifferent princess”, “an impregnable goddess of the luxurious, regal Neva”. But her worldview has not changed, her principles and foundations have remained the same. It was these principles that prevailed over Tatyana's innermost feeling: over her love for Eugene. The whole essence of Larina's character is revealed in her last monologue:
...You must,
I know that there is in your heart
And pride and direct honor ...
I ask you to leave me;
And pride and direct honor ...
In our imagination, the image of Tatyana will forever remain something high, unshakable, pure and beautiful.
We also understand all the poet's love for his creation, when in the last stanza of the novel, saying goodbye to the heroes, he recalls "Tatiana's dear ideal."
One of the largest works of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". The poet devoted about nine years to its creation. He painted unusually lively and memorable images of Onegin, Tatyana, Olga, Lensky, which brought fame to the author and made the novel immortal. Russian classical literature was distinguished by a deep interest in female characters. The best poets and writers tried to comprehend and portray a woman not only as an object of adoration, love, but above all as a person.
A. S. Pushkin was the first to do this. Belinsky considered the creation of the image of Tatyana Larina, the truth of a Russian woman, a feat of the poet. The author endows his heroine with a simple name: “Her sister was called Tatiana” and explains it this way: “The most sweet-sounding Greek names, such as, for example, Agathon, Filat, Fyodor, Thekla and others, are used among us only among commoners.” He explains this in the novel in the following lines:
For the first time with such a name
Gentle pages of a novel
We will sanctify.
So what? it is pleasant, sonorous:
But with him, I know, inseparable
Remembrance of old
Or girlish!
We first meet Tatiana at her parents' estate. About the father of the heroine, Pushkin says with irony: “There was a kind fellow, belated in the last century,” and the mother shows all the worries about the household. The life of the family proceeded peacefully and calmly. Often, “to grieve, and to slander, and to laugh about something” neighbors came to the Larins. Tatyana was brought up in such an atmosphere. She “believed in the legends of the common folk antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling”, she was “disturbed by signs”,
„.scary stories
In winter in the dark of nights
They captivated her heart more ...
Tatyana is a simple provincial girl, she is not beautiful, but her thoughtfulness and daydreaming distinguish her from other people (“she loved to warn the sunrise on the balcony”), in whose company she feels lonely, since they are not able to understand her.
Dika, sad, silent,
Like a forest doe is timid,
She is in her family
Seemed like a stranger girl.
She did not caress her parents, played little with children, did not do needlework, was not interested in fashion:
But dolls even in these years
Tatyana did not take it in her hands;
About the news of the city, about fashion
Didn't have a conversation with her.
The only entertainment that brought pleasure to this girl was reading books:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her;
She fell in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Rousseau.
Tatyana lives by the pages of the books she has read, imagines herself in the place of their heroines. And this romance of book stories is the reason for the creation of the ideal of her chosen one.
What, according to Pushkin, is beautiful in this heroine? First of all, this is the height of her morality, her spiritual simplicity combined with the depth of her inner world, naturalness, the absence of any falsehood in her behavior. The author emphasizes that this girl is devoid of coquetry and pretense - qualities that he did not like in women. Before us is a personality, an image no less significant than Onegin.
She is naturally endowed with “a rebellious imagination, a living mind and will, and a wayward head, and a fiery and tender heart.” Tatyana subtly feels the beauty of nature:
Tatyana (Russian soul,
I don't know why.)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter...
V. G. Belinsky said: “Tatyana’s whole inner world consisted in a thirst for love.” And he was right in his statement: Long ago her imagination
Burning with grief and longing,
Alkalo fatal food;
Long hearted languor
It pressed her young breast;
Soul waiting... for someone
And I waited ... Eyes opened,
She said it's him!
And it is clear why Pushkin's heroine falls in love with Onegin. She is one of those “girls” for whom love can be either a great happiness or a great misfortune. In Onegin, the girl with her heart, and not her mind, immediately felt a kindred spirit. In a fit of her heart, she decides to write a letter of revelation to her lover, a declaration of love:
I AM I am writing to you- what more?
What else can I say?
Now I know in your will
Punish me with contempt.
But Onegin could not appreciate the depth of feelings of Tatiana's passionate nature. This brings the girl into mental turmoil. And even after she visited Onegin’s village house and read his favorite books, where “Onegin’s soul involuntarily expressed itself,” when she realized who fate had sent her, she continues to love this person.
In the first chapters, the reader is presented with the image of a naive girl, sincere in her pursuit of happiness. But two years have passed. Tatyana is a princess, the wife of a respected general. Has she changed?
Yes and no. Of course, she “entered her role”, but did not lose the main thing - simplicity, naturalness, human dignity:
Ohma was unhurried
Not cold, not talkative
Without an arrogant look for everyone,
No claim to success
Without these little antics
No imitations."
Everything is quiet, it was just in it ...
This line is very important - “without imitative undertakings”. Tatyana has no need to imitate anyone, she is a person in herself, and this is the strength of her charm, which is why "the general who entered with her raised his nose and shoulders." He was rightfully proud of his wife.
Tatyana is indifferent to secular life. She sees the falseness that reigns in the highest Petersburg society. Just as Onegin disliked his “hateful freedom”, so Tatyana is burdened by the tinsel of “hateful life”.
Perhaps the most important thing in Tatyana's character and behavior is a sense of duty, responsibility to people. These feelings take precedence over love. She cannot be happy bringing misfortune to another person, her husband, who is “mutilated in battles”, is proud of her, trusts her. She will never make a deal with her conscience.
Tatyana remains true to her duty and when meeting with Onegin she says:
I love you (why lie?),
But I am given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
The fate of Tatyana is tragic. Life brought her many disappointments, she did not find in life what she was striving for, but she did not betray herself. This is a very solid, strong, strong-willed female character.
Tatyana is the ideal of a woman for the poet, and he does not hide it: “Forgive me: I love my dear Tatyana so much ...” fate took away a lot. A. S. Pushkin admires his heroine.
From whom was “Tatyana’s dear ideal” written? There are still disputes about this. Some literary scholars claim that this is Maria Raevskaya, who married Volkonsky and shared his fate in Siberia. Others claim that this is the wife of the Decembrist Fonvizin. Only one thing is clear: the image of Tatyana Larina is among the most striking female images of Russian literature.
Tatyana Larina, one of the central characters of Pushkin's poem "Eugene Onegin", occupies an important place in this work, because it was in her image that the brilliant poet concentrated all the best female qualities that he had ever met in his life. For him, “Tatyana, dear Tatyana” is the concentration of ideal ideas about what a real Russian woman should be and one of the most beloved heroines, to whom he himself confesses his passionate feelings “I love my dear Tatyana so much.”
Pushkin describes his heroine with great tenderness and awe throughout the poem. He sincerely empathizes with her about unrequited feelings for Onegin and is proud of how nobly and honestly she acts in the finale, rejecting his love for the sake of duty to her unloved, but God-given spouse.
Characteristics of the heroine
We meet Tatiana Larina in her parents' quiet rural estate, where she was born and raised, her mother is a good wife and caring housewife, giving herself to her husband and children, her father is a "kind fellow", a little stuck in the last century. Their eldest daughter appears before us as a very small girl who, despite her young age, has unique, outstanding character traits: calmness, thoughtfulness, silence and some outward detachment that distinguish her from all other children and in particular from her younger sister Olga.
(Illustration for the novel "Eugene Onegin" by the artist E.P. Samokish-Sudkovskaya)
"Tatyana, Russian in soul" loves the nature surrounding the estate of her parents very much, subtly feels its beauty and experiences real pleasure from unity with it. The vast expanses of a secluded small Motherland are dearer and closer to her heart than the "hateful life" of the St. Petersburg high society, which she does not want to change for what has forever become a part of her soul.
Brought up, like Pushkin, by a simple woman from the people, from childhood she was in love with Russian fairy tales, legends and traditions, she was prone to mysticism, to mysterious and mysterious folk beliefs and ancient rituals. Already at an older age, she opens up the fascinating world of novels, which she read avidly, forcing her to experience dizzying adventures and various life vicissitudes with her heroes. Tatyana is a sensitive and dreamy girl living in her secluded little world, surrounded by dreams and fantasies, completely alien to the reality around her.
(K. I. Rudakova, painting "Eugene Onegin. Meeting in the garden" 1949)
Nevertheless, having met the hero of her dreams, Onegin, who seemed to her a mysterious and original person, who noticeably stands out from the surrounding crowd, the girl, casting aside timidity and insecurity, passionately and sincerely tells him about her love, writing a touching and naive letter, full of sublime simplicity and deep feelings. In this act, both her waywardness and openness are manifested, as well as the spirituality and poetry of a subtle girlish soul.
The image of the heroine in the work
Pure in soul, sincere and naive, Tatyana falls in love with Onegin, being very young and carries this feeling through her whole life. Having written this touching letter to her chosen one, she is not afraid of condemnation and anxiously awaits an answer. Pushkin is tenderly touched by the bright feelings of his heroine and asks readers for indulgence for her, because she is so naive and pure, so simple and natural, and just these qualities for the author of the poem, who has been burned more than once at the stake of his feelings, play a very important role in life. .
Having received the bitter lesson that Onegin taught her, who read her painful moralizing and rejected her feelings for fear of losing her freedom and tying the knot, she is very worried about her unrequited love. But this tragedy does not embitter her, she will forever keep in the depths of her soul these sublime bright feelings for a person with whom she will never be together.
Having met Onegin a few years later in St. Petersburg, already being a brilliant high-society lady with feelings and mind chained in an impenetrable armor of secular decency and deep in her soul hidden love for him, she does not revel in her triumph, does not want to take revenge on him or humiliate him. The inner purity and sincerity of her soul, the brilliance of which has not faded at all in the dirt of metropolitan life, does not allow her to stoop to empty and false secular games. Tatyana still loves Onegin, but she cannot tarnish the honor and reputation of her elderly husband and therefore rejects his ardent, but too late love.
Tatyana Larina is a person of high moral culture with a deeply conscious sense of her own dignity, her image is called by literary critics the “ideal image of a Russian woman”, which Pushkin created to sing the nobility, fidelity and great purity of their unstained dirt of the life of the Russian soul.
