Why the love of Odintsova and Bazarov did not work out. Explanation of Bazarov with Odintsova, declaration of love

26.10.2021

Lyubov Bazarova and Odintsova.

The novel "Fathers and Sons" is built on the relationship between fathers and children. But here, too, the author reveals different points of view about love. How small love can turn into big love. As an independent person who does not recognize women, an egoist, he may be defenseless in front of her. This novel shows what a person can do when he meets his soul mate.

In my opinion, Bazarov's love for Odintsova was unrequited. Undoubtedly, Odintsova was pleased with Bazarov's company, she liked to listen to his opinions, to argue with him. But she never admitted to herself or to him that she loved him. Maybe she is too proud and afraid of losing her independence, so she did not confess. Or maybe she didn't love at all. In my opinion, she did not let him go and did not bring him closer to her. She was afraid of losing his company, but she didn't want to hurt his heart either.

Before meeting with Odintsova, Bazarov held a negative point of view about love and marriage. He believed that no woman is worthy of being talked about in a male society, no woman is able to subjugate him. He did not understand love, did not recognize romance. It seemed to him that only weak-willed people are capable of romance. He considered himself free, with a strong character. By nature, he was a self-confident person, straightforward. He was never shy in front of women and considered it below his dignity.

When Bazarov met with Odintsova, everything changed. He began to be shy in front of women, which was clearly noticed by his friend Arkady. At first, he did not recognize his love, but he wanted to communicate with Odintsova, romance woke up in him (which is uncharacteristic for him).

Finally, he caught himself thinking that he loved this girl, and at some point he confessed to her. He couldn't even stop himself from hugging her. But she didn't answer him yes or no.

Before his death, Bazarov wanted to see Anna and she arrived. But even when he was dying, she did not confess her love to him.

I believe that Bazarov is worthy of respect. He was able to step over himself, through his principles and confess to Odintsova in love. At that moment, he left his pride, independence in front of women and opened his soul to her. But Odintsova could not. She didn't have the willpower to do it. It seems to me that these characters are very similar to each other. Both are independent, proud, selfish. But in the end, Bazarov changes his attitude towards Odintsova, but she does not. If she had thrown away her independence and pride, then I am sure that the end of this novel would not have been so sad.

I believe that Bazarov is worthy of respect. He was able to step over himself, through his principles and confess to Odintsova in love. At that moment, he left his pride, independence in front of women and opened his soul to her. But Odintsova could not. She didn't have the willpower to do it. It seems to me that these characters are very similar to each other. Both are independent, proud, selfish. But in the end, Bazarov changes his attitude towards Odintsova, but she does not. If she had thrown away her independence and pride, then I am sure that the end of this novel would not have been so sad.

Yevgeny Bazarov, the hero of I. Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons", is a nihilist who does not recognize anything, and even more so love, nevertheless recognized this feeling. The object of his love was Anna Odintsova. The first time he saw Anna at the governor's ball, she impressed him. “What is this figure? he said. “She doesn’t look like other women.” She also struck Arkady with the "dignity of her posture", he noticed that her eyes looked "calmly and intelligently", everything in her was beautiful. The nose, according to Arkady, is a little fat, but such a lovely woman,

He never met. He speaks to Anna, tells her about Bazarov, Odintsova invites them to her place in Nikolskoye. She is curious to meet a man who does not believe in anything. Bazarov, on the other hand, says that “this lady oh-oh-oh!” Evgeny is attracted by her beauty, but he denies the mind of beautiful women, thinking that “only freaks think freely between women.”
Anna is twenty-nine years old, "her character was free and rather resolute." She is the daughter of a swindler-gambler and an impoverished princess, received a brilliant upbringing, married an elderly man who was in love with her, who died six years later and left her a fortune. Now she is an independent, powerful, independent and intelligent woman.
Friends come to Anna. It lasts three hours, during which Bazarov talks about botany, medicine and homeopathy, Anna keeps up the conversation and finally invites friends to come again. She now impressed Bazarov as a frozen duchess, a "possessing person." Her appearance does not go unnoticed. "What a rich body," said Bazarov on the way. “At least now to the anatomical theater.” On the next visit, Yevgeny characterizes her as a "grated roll", "a woman with a brain." She liked him “by the absence of coquetry and by the very harshness of his judgments.
After marriage, Odintsova considered men "unkempt, annoying creatures," but Bazarov struck her imagination. When he was about to leave to see his parents, Anna suddenly turns pale for herself, “as if something had pricked her in the heart”, and persuades her not to leave.
Fifteen days in Nikolskoye Bazarov spent next to this woman and felt that he loved her. With a decisive confession, he answers the question of why he is tense and reserved. This is not youthful love, but a strong passion. Odintsova from this recognition "became scared and sorry for him." Eugene takes her impulse of pity for a reciprocal feeling, but she gets scared and says that he did not understand her. Bazarov leaves, and Odintsova decides for herself that peace is most important to her, therefore, to the words of Yevgeny before leaving, that she does not love him and will never love him, she is silent and thinks to herself that she is afraid of Bazarov.
The reader understands that Bazarov's rude phrases about Odintsova were caused by his embarrassment in front of her, disgust for beautiful words, and not cynicism.
The author argues with Bazarov's convictions, shows the inconsistency of his disbelief in love. In this story, Bazarov is higher than the "aristocrat" Odintsova, she is too cold and selfish for love. Odintsova is trying to charm Evgeny, pushing him to confess. But a change is taking place in Bazarov, he sees how his convictions are crumbling, he is looking for a reciprocal feeling in Anna. The loss of a loved one is a blow to him. Anna breaks up with him because she believes that they do not need each other and they have too much of the same.
Bazarov is forgotten at work, but he is destined for another meeting with his beloved. He dies in Odintsova's arms, rejected by her: “Well, thank you. It's royal. They say that kings also visit the dying.” He regrets on his deathbed that he did not kiss Anna then, and she kisses him on the forehead. For Bazarov, love was a test of his life values, and he withstood it with honor, without sacrificing his convictions.



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Nihilist Bazarov and love are incompatible things. But suddenly Odintsova appears in his life. After the ball, he realized that "something was not right." And after the first minutes of a closer acquaintance with Odintsova, he was bewitched by her beauty and intelligence. Anna Sergeevna was so smart that it was interesting for Bazarov to communicate with her, and so beautiful that he would like it. When one person is interested in another, when he likes him, love arises. This began to happen to him: he suddenly became verbose, "tried to keep his interlocutor busy." When friends returned home after this meeting, Eugene, still trying to get out of Odintsova's power, already recognizes her beauty and is ahead of Arkady's desire to go to Nikolskoye. Soon Bazarov realized that he had fallen in love. And he tried with all his might to eradicate in himself this chivalrous "feeling that tormented and infuriated him and which he would have refused with contemptuous laughter and cynical abuse if anyone had remotely hinted to him at the possibility of what was happening in him." Eugene struggled with himself: he "expressed indifference to everything romantic," but "indignantly recognized romance in himself." He scolded "in an undertone both her and himself" for what was happening between them, but the image of Odintsova appeared in his head every now and then. He said that it was necessary to put Toggenberg "in the yellow house with all the minnesingers and troubadours", but a few days later he himself took part in a jousting tournament, fighting a duel with Pavel Petrovich. The reason for all the suffering of Bazarov was the nihilist himself, his vulgar materialistic approach to life contradicted the wonderful feeling that suddenly arose in his soul. Eugene furiously understood that a man and a frog are not the same thing, that, despite the anatomy of the eye, there is a mysterious look that there was a man stronger than him, and, therefore, he is not a god, he should burn the pots. The night Evgeny spent with Odintsova showed his inability to open his soul and unleash his feelings, this, as he himself says, is not his part. Indeed, can such a material person as Bazarov afford such an unforgivable luxury as love, yes, he would rather torture and torment himself, but he would never allow himself this. The logical culmination of the relationship between him and Odintsova was, after all, the explanation he made. But how did he do it! It was not a passionate confession of a truly loving person who can no longer live without her. It was an angry and insane accusation of Odintsova because, with her beauty and intelligence, she made Bazarov fall in love with her. At that moment, in his soul he had not a slight "flutter of youthful timidity", but "a passion similar to malice and, perhaps, akin to it." Eugene, having lived all his life as a nihilist and mocking Arkady's loves, so disfigured his soul that he himself was no longer capable not only of a deep, strong, beautiful feeling, but also of at least some kind of love, except for this evil passion. Some time later, there was a new meeting between Odintsova and Bazarov. "Both are not the first youth", "both are smart." Odintsova noticeably aged and with the arrival of Arkady "got back into her rut, her real role, the role of aunt, mentor, mother." Bazarov "had come to his senses for a long time" and wanted to prove to himself and Arkady that "love ... after all, this feeling is feigned." But, despite his external cooling towards Odintsova, he was still drawn to her, and therefore Bazarov had to come to terms with the role of a father, but

Subject. Bazarov and Odintsova. Love intrigue in the novel and its role in revealing the ideological and aesthetic content of the novel. Women's images.

The relationship between E. Bazarov and A. Odintsova is one of the lines of the general conflict. In any Turgenev novel, the main character is led through love for a woman, through the most personal of all human feelings. Turgenev did this not only for the completeness and versatility of the image. In his novels, love is one of the main points of revealing the character of the hero. The inseparable unity of personal and social themes forms the basis of Turgenev's novel.

In Fathers and Sons, the love plot does not run through the entire novel, but occupies only one of the stages in the development of the action. Bazarov has a vulgar, simplistic approach to love. At the same time, criticizing Pavel Petrovich, Bazarov correctly says that you cannot put your life only on the card of female love, and even more so, you cannot become sour from failure and turn into an incapable person.

For the first time, Anna Sergeevna Odintsova appears at the governor's ball. She appears to Arkady in some kind of regal halo. Indeed, she is unusually pretty, besides, she "struck" Arkady with the "dignity of her posture", but most importantly, in all her appearance and behavior there was a deep calmness. As a result, the resulting chain of Anna Sergeevna's characteristics - calm, politely sympathetic, indulgent, cold, strict - the law leads the reader to the idea of ​​her possible indifference to everything that happens around her.

Next to Odintsova, Arkady is imbued with frank "happiness to be in her proximity, talking to her, looking into her eyes, into her beautiful forehead, into all her sweet, important and intelligent face." At the same time, in the presence of Anna Sergeevna, he experiences inexplicable timidity, reverence and "elegant humility", like a young page next to his mistress.

As for Bazarov, his frank cynicism in relation to Odintsova does not look like anything unexpected for a natural scientist (“What kind of figure is this? She doesn’t look like other women”; “... cold? This is the very taste. After all, you love ice cream?"). However, once next to Odintsova, Bazarov suddenly begins to feel embarrassed. In the hotel room, where she invited friends, he, unsuccessfully trying to hide his condition with swagger and verbosity, eventually also “blushed” when he heard an invitation to visit Nikolskoye, the estate of the “duchess”, as he dubbed Odintsova. Already on the street, Bazarov continues to scoff at Anna Sergeevna's "rich body", which, in his opinion, can be placed "at least now in the anatomical theater." But it is he who owns the absolutely exact psychological characteristics of the heroine - her coldness (“Look how she froze herself!”) And regality (“She would only wear a train at the back and a crown on her head”), associated with the above-mentioned indifference of Odintsova. And Bazarov, as it turns out, will need her warmth and humanity.)



The love story of Bazarov to Odintsova.

From the very beginning, there is little in common between Bazarov and Odintsova: she is the “duchess”, he is the “doctor”; she is cold and serene, he, as the love story for this woman will show, is indifferent and passionate.

How difficult it will be for him to feel for Odintsova! Something not Bazarov’s begins to happen in him: “something else has taken possession of him ... which he did not allow in any way.” Odintsova, on the other hand, belongs to those people who do not know anxiety: she was worried “occasionally”, and her blood “rolled quietly”: just some kind of “fish” woman! The hero is on the verge of a great personal drama. But Bazarov did not have the strength to leave this woman. He loved her, and hid his love, and dreamed ... of tenderness!

At the same time, Turgenev's hero understands a lot in Odintsova. So, he does not believe that she is "capable of getting carried away", except out of curiosity.

Anna Sergeevna really "was curious": in relations with Bazarov, she wanted to both "test him" and "explore herself." But in the end, Odintsova got scared. It is no coincidence that in the scene explaining the heroes, Turgenev repeats the word “fear” twice. Perhaps she was afraid of Bazarov's unbridledness, the unexpected rudeness of his feelings? This is how they try to explain the failed love of the hero. Although Bazarov's spontaneity can be regarded in the opposite way: as a manifestation of his deep sincerity.

Ultimately, Bazarov will be right not only that this woman "froze herself", but that she is undoubtedly the "queen".

The basis of Odintsova's life is material security, comfort and tranquility. Bazarov's intrusion into her life would mean the end of this tranquility. Odintsova does not respond to Bazarov's love. She just wanted to see at her feet an interesting, intelligent person who was not like the others.

Bazarov - a nihilist, was a man of an alien world to Odintsova. Politically, he was a person who did not believe in those foundations of life that seemed to her legitimate, familiar. By social status, Bazarov comes from the bottom. In material terms - a poor man, a future doctor, at best - a scientist. By nature, Turgenev's hero is sharp and straightforward. Bazarov's love for Odintsova is an event that shakes the foundations of his beliefs, casting doubt on his philosophical system. She was not afraid of Bazarov's harsh expression of feelings. Even if she had loved him, she would not have followed him into his "bitter life".

Odintsova came to him, dying of cholera, in the same way that royal persons visit cholera barracks and hospitals out of the highest generosity. She gave him a ritually impassive kiss befitting the situation and the behavior of royalty. And what is especially bitter is that Bazarov understood everything correctly in Odintsova’s behavior, welcoming her appearance with the phrase: “it’s royal.”)

The test of love becomes a milestone for the hero. Only love reveals in him a deep, significant, unusually powerful person in emotional experience, self-burning in his feelings and at the same time becoming even stronger. How much suffering Bazarov experiences during his last visit to Odintsova! Still secretly loving Anna Sergeevna, he at the same time understands that her parting impulse is driven by pity for him! And therefore, he seems to rise above his own feeling in order to have the strength to say: “I am a poor man, but I have not yet accepted alms. Farewell, and be healthy."

If it weren’t for the love that awakened emotional forces in Bazarov, could the reader know how convincing, penetrating and passionate a nihilist can be at the same time in expressing his attitude to the “fathers”: “Your brother, a nobleman, cannot go further than noble humility or noble boiling, but it's rubbish. You, for example, do not fight - and you already imagine yourself well done - but we want to fight. What! Our dust will eat your eyes out, our dirt will stain you, and you have not grown up to us ... "

In the loving Bazarov, a powerfully feeling soul awakens, concealing the abyss of passions, and therefore attracting to itself and becoming, as it were, a continuation of the elements of the night, a witness standing outside the window during his conversation with Odintsova.

But love not only reveals a lot in Bazarov. At the same time, she puts him face to face with the world and opens this world for him.

Bazarov is capable of love, of a great and deep feeling. According to M. M. Zhdanov, a comparison of Bazarov with Odintsova and Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov allows us to see the internal unity of the work, the connection of a love affair with the main conflict of the novel, proves the “triumph of democracy over the aristocracy” in the field of feelings.

Women's images

Anna Sergeevna Odintsova A young beautiful woman, a wealthy widow. Odintsova's father was a famous card sharper. She received an excellent upbringing in St. Petersburg, she is raising her younger sister, Katya, whom she sincerely loves, but hides her feelings. Odintsova is smart, reasonable, self-confident. She exudes calmness, aristocracy. Most of all, she appreciates peace, stability and comfort. Bazarov arouses interest in her, gives food to her inquisitive mind, but feelings for him do not take her out of her usual balance. She is incapable of strong passion
bauble A young woman of "non-noble origin", whom Nikolai Petrovich loves. Fenechka is kind, disinterested, simple-hearted, honest, open, she sincerely and deeply loves Nikolai Petrovich and her son Mitya. The main thing in her life is her family, so the persecution of Bazarov and the suspicions of Nikolai Petrovich offend her.
Katya Lokteva Younger sister of Anna Sergeevna Odintsova. Sensitive nature - loves nature, music, but at the same time shows firmness of character. Katya does not understand Bazarov, she is even afraid of him, Arkady is much closer to her. She tells Arkady about Bazarov: "He is predatory, and we are tame." Katya is the embodiment of the ideal of family life, which Arkady secretly aspired to, thanks to her Arkady returns to the camp of his fathers

The attitude of the writer to the protagonist of "Fathers and Sons" is very difficult. Where Bazarov stigmatizes exaggerated, abstract "principles" with mockery, he wins. And the author shares his position. But here Bazarov finds himself in an unusual situation for himself - he falls in love, that is, he enters that refined sphere, the existence of which he always denied. Not a trace remains of his confidence. The reader is a completely different person. Is it by chance that the denier of lofty feelings finds himself in their captivity? From the arrival at the Odintsov estate, Bazarov’s confusion begins, his internal state changes. Not without a grin, he thinks: “how meek I have become,” and after spending “fifteen days” on the estate, he began to have an unprecedented anxiety: “he was easily irritated, he spoke reluctantly.” Bazarov also considers the spiritual refinement of love feeling to be a romantic trait: “No, brother, all this is licentiousness and emptiness. We physiologists know what these relationships are.” Love for Odintsova is the beginning of a tragic retribution for the arrogant Bazarov: love splits his soul into two halves. From now on, two people live and work in it. One of them is a staunch opponent of romantic feelings, a denier of the spiritual nature of love. The other is a passionately and spiritually loving person, who for the first time encountered the true mystery of this lofty feeling: “He would easily cope with his blood, but something else infused into him, which he did not allow, over which he always mocked, which revolted all his heart. pride". More recently, he remarked to Odintsova: “Such a rich body! At least now in the anatomical theater. Now the time has come for excited reflections ... And as soon as Odintsova allows him frankness, he confesses in a passionate outburst: "So know that I love you stupidly, madly." Bazarov is captured by the feeling. "Passion throbbed in him, strong, heavy - a passion similar to malice and, perhaps, akin to it." And Odintsova, under the influence of "the outgoing life, the desire for novelty ... forced herself to reach a certain line" and calmly retreated. After his confession, Bazarov “did not sleep and did not smoke all night, and had hardly eaten anything for several days. His emaciated profile protruded gloomily and sharply from under his pulled cap.

In the outcome of these people's explanation, everything is indicative: the heterogeneity of experiences, the polarity of life attitudes, and finally, the main thing is the significance of what happened for their fate. Odintsova again goes into her cozy little world, and later enters into a profitable marriage “by conviction”. Bazarov painfully feels the loss, tries to talk to her again, forces himself to call love a “sham feeling”, but before his death he says goodbye to Odintsova, as if saying goodbye to the beauty of life itself, calling love a “form” of human existence. material from the site

Bazarov's experiences, their passion, integrity arouse our admiration. And in a love conflict, he looks like a person. Rejected, he won a moral victory over a selfish woman. We are witnessing another ability of Bazarov to deeply critical introspection and rethinking of previous beliefs. Everything that he rejected: daydreaming, love of philosophy, poetry - these, it turns out, are not idle occupations of aristocrats, as Bazarov thought, but an eternal property of human nature and culture. Life turned out to be more complicated than what “physiologists” know about it. For Bazarov, the time is coming for a reassessment of values, let's face it, a difficult time. All Turgenev's heroes are tested by love - a kind of test of viability. Love, according to Turgenev, is tragic because both weak and strong people are defenseless before its elemental power. Often love whimsically controls human destiny, but ideally it makes a person stronger, more beautiful. After the recognition of Bazarov by Odintsova, our attitude towards Turgenev's hero changes for the better, but, unfortunately, we understand that these people could not be together.

Almost like Pushkin, Bazarov says goodbye to Odintsova and speaks in the language of a poet: “Blow on the dying lamp and let it go out.” Lyubov Bazarova made him closer and more understandable to readers, but did not bring Odintsova closer to him ...

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