Pushkin named his novel after its protagonist, Eugene Onegin. But to the question of who is the author's favorite hero in the novel, everyone will answer the same way: Tatyana Larina. And this is beyond doubt. Our interest and attention seems to be riveted to Onegin and Tatyana. But there is another actor. In its significance and impact on the reader, it surpasses both Onegin and Tatyana. This face is the author himself. V. G. Belinsky noted that the personality of the poet in this work was reflected so fully and vividly that to evaluate the novel and its characters is to evaluate Pushkin himself.
There is not a single character, not a single scene, not a single description in the novel, to which Pushkin would not give his assessment. Thus, a sociable interlocutor appears before us, interested in the reader's trust. Each new entry of Pushkin into the story pleases, delights, amazes. In "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin departs from both classicism and romanticism. The poet is in the midst of a creative assimilation of the people. And without exaggerating, we can say that the element of nationality is embodied in the novel primarily in the image of the main character - Tatyana Larina.
After all, if not for Tatyana, we would never have heard the leisurely speech of her nanny, we would not have recognized another serf, Onegin's housekeeper Aksinya. Nor would they have heard that "Song of the Girls", which, in its mischievous content, contrasts sharply with the embarrassment of Tatyana herself.
Here is how the heroine first appears on the pages of the novel:
So, she was called Tatyana,
Nor the beauty of his sister,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy _
She would not attract eyes.
Something completely different captivates Tatiana Larina: thoughtfulness, daydreaming, love for nature, sincerity, integrity of nature.
... from heaven illuminated
rebellious imagination,
Mind and will alive.
And wayward head
And with a fiery and tender heart.
At the whole village nature, at the Russian spring, at the Russian winter, Pushkin looks with wide-open eyes of dear Tanya. Thanks to her, Epiphany fortune-telling by the moon, or some kind of “cute cat”, calling guests into the house with its purr, or “two-horned crescent of the moon in the sky on the left side”, or making a wish at the sight of a shooting star, or, finally, poetry Russian Christmas time with a strange song about a lost peasant paradise, no one knows where.
There the men are all rich,
They row silver with a shovel,
To whom we sing, that's good
And glory!..
Thanks to Tatyana, thanks to the fact that Pushkin shared a dream with her, Russian folklore enters the novel. The young lady is helped by Mikhail Ivanovich Toptygin himself. In addition, in a dream, the bear turns out to be almost related - in any case, nepotism with Onegin. And the reserved darkness of the forest is illuminated by smoky candles and bowls in a wretched hut. Tatyana dreams that she is in a hut. The demonic crazy evil spirits, which the reader will soon see in the stories of the young Gogol, this whole cackling gang will lay claim to the mortally frightened girl and will challenge her with her only betrothed.
But the daytime guests at the name day on Tatyana's day are not far from the ghosts of a recent dream! And in the eyes of the readers, the motley crowd in the Larins' house began to tingle:
Lay mosek, smacking girls,
Noise. laughter, crush at the threshold ...
Here is the "district fanatic Petushkov" - and in the memory of the heroine "another with a cock's head", or "a retired adviser Flyanov, a heavy gossip, an old rogue, a glutton, a bribe-taker and a jester", or, finally, a stray bird, "Monsieur Triquet, a wit, recently from Tambov, wearing glasses and a red wig" - they would all feel good in the company where there is a "crayfish riding a spider" or "a skull on a goose neck". All this is one company, not at all human.
Nobody listens, they scream
Laughing, arguing and squeaking.
Suddenly the doors are wide open. Lensky enters
And with him Onegin ...
Events on that memorable evening developed rapidly and inevitably led to disaster, to Lensky's jealousy, to a challenge to a duel. Tatyana's dream unexpectedly turned out to be prophetic:
... suddenly Eugene
Grabs a long knife, and instantly
Defeated Lensky...
In the change of events preceding the catastrophe, Pushkin gives a release - rhythmic and musical. "The whirlwind of the waltz is spinning noisily" ... The two-syllable iambic sounds at the pace of the three-bar waltz. These lines are full of sounds: crackling, thunder, rattling, the reader sees with his own eyes "jumps, heels, mustaches"...
There is also a love drama. Tatyana is waiting for Onegin to answer her message, but there is no answer. The lover, as is customary in sentimental novels, does not throw himself on her chest, but, on the contrary, reads a moral to Tatyana:
"Learn to control yourself!
Not every one of you, as I understand!
Inexperience leads to disaster!
Tatyana's love is hopeless. How could a young village girl attract an experienced socialite? Tatyana receives a good life lesson.
After Onegin's departure from the village, after the death of Lensky, Pushkin entrusts his heroine with one of the most important tasks in the novel: the solution of what Onegin is ultimately. True, Tatyana loves Onegin. She is careful towards her beloved, jealous of everything that surrounds him. The stronger her decision should sound:
A sad and dangerous eccentric,
Creation of hell or heaven.
This angel, this arrogant demon,
What is he? Is it an imitation
An insignificant ghost, or else
Muscovite in Harold's cloak,
Alien whims interpretation,
Full lexicon of fashionable words?..
Isn't he a parody?
This is derogatory for Onegin. But Tatyana has grown spiritually. She is no longer a girl. Her mother understood this too. “What to do? Tatyana is not a child…” and the matter tends to the decision to “attach” her eldest daughter as soon as possible, or to marry her one way or another. The passivity of the heroine herself is emphasized in every possible way: she does not have her own will.
And again Pushkin returns to his favorite to identify her with his muse.
And here she is in my garden
Appeared as a county lady
With a sad thought in my eyes,
With a French book in hand.
In different periods of life, the muse appeared to the poet in different ways. Now Pushkin sees his muse in the prosaic illumination of noon, in a village garden. The romantic ghosts of the poet dissipated. In the person of the county young lady, we recognize Tatyana Larina.
At the beginning of the last chapter of the novel, Pushkin fears for his muse and heroine when she first appears at a social event. But the fears are unfounded.
She was slow.
Not cold, not talkative.
Without an arrogant look for everyone,
No claim to success
Without these little antics
No imitations...
Tatyana in a new guise is beautiful. She is flawless. To complete her portrait, Pushkin had to resort to French, to the conditionally secular jargon of the environment to which Tatyana now belongs:
She seemed to be a true snapshot of Du сote il fаut…
Now she is the wife of an important metropolitan dignitary, enjoys success in society. And this means that the heroine is bound hand and foot by decency, "autocratic fashion", conventions that society imposes on people of the same circle.
Unexpectedly, Tatiana and Eugene meet again. And then a feeling awakens in Onegin!
There is no doubt: alas! Eugene
In love with Tatiana like a child;
In the anguish of love thoughts
And he spends day and night.
Onegin tries to visit Tatyana every day, he literally pursues her. She does not seem to notice him: if she speaks, then to pay tribute to ordinary secular courtesy. And our hero writes a passionate love letter to Tatyana, although he always considered this occupation empty and useless. Onegin, revealing his soul to Tatyana in a letter, is not at all like that metropolitan dandy who once, in the wilderness of a village garden, gave a cold rebuke to an ardent girl. He became not only older, but also richer spiritually, more meaningful, simply more humane. Eugene now executes himself:
I thought: liberty and peace
replacement for happiness. My God!
How wrong I was, how punished ...
But Onegin never receives a response letter. He writes another, third letter... There is no answer. Eugene falls into a kind of "sleep feelings". Pushkin ironically describes his condition:
How he looked like a poet
When I sat alone in the corner
And in front of him a fireplace burned
And he purred: Vepedetta
Il Idol mio and dropped
In the fire, then a shoe, then a magazine.
This description alone suggests that in the image of Onegin there are absolutely no features of the poet himself. The real mockery sounds in the lines:
Poems of Russian mechanism.
I hardly realized at that time
My clueless student.
Readers invariably ask themselves whether the high feeling really visited Onegin or is it just another whim of a spoiled person? According to Belinsky, this feeling of Yevgeny is the key to his rebirth to life. And what about Tatyana?
Undoubtedly, she still loves Eugene. No wonder she sheds tears while reading Yevgeny's letter. This is how he sees Tatyana, rushing to her house for a decisive last explanation. But now before him is not a girl, but a married woman, whose fate has already been decided.
Tatyana's answer made a revolution in Onegin's soul.
She left. Worth Eugene,
As if struck by thunder.
It is in this state that Pushkin leaves his hero "for a long time ... forever." Brilliant plot twist. The frankness and "openness" of Tatyana's words amaze the hero. She does not flirt and does not dissemble. She reveals her soul to him in a few words. Loyalty to duty, fidelity to her husband in spite of a living feeling of love make the image of Tatyana unusually attractive.
Life has taught Tanya that people are not at all who they say they are. And even more so in the light! Both feelings and people - everything here is not real, but imaginary, apparent. After all, she herself is only outwardly surrounded by brilliance and radiance, but in reality she is alone. In the cold empty Petersburg rooms, she dreams of a village where a shelf with her favorite books has remained, where an old wild garden has remained, where her beloved nanny is buried. But she perfectly understands that all this remained in her youth. The choice is made, and it is necessary to live according to it.
And happiness was so possible
So close!.. But my fate
Already decided.
Onegin also had a choice. And he had already made up his mind once. "You can't step into the same water twice," says ancient wisdom. And Tatyana urges him not to be a slave of passion. She paints him a true picture of the situation, appeals to his nobility.
I know there is in your heart
And pride and direct honor.
And life proves that Tatyana is right. What would await her if she agreed to have a relationship with Eugene? The break with her husband, his shame, the uncertainty of her own position and complete dependence on Onegin. How long could they be happy? The answer, perhaps, can be found in Leo Tolstoy. His heroine Anna Karenina left everything for her beloved Vronsky. But her life soon ended tragically. The laws of secular society imposed a very rigid pattern of behavior on those who belonged to it.
Pushkin himself became a victim of those relations that reigned in the world. He had to give his life to protect his honor and the honor of his wife. It becomes clear why Tatyana is so close and understandable to Pushkin! At the very end of the novel, the poet admits:
Many, many days have passed
Ever since young Tatyana
And with her Onegin in a vague dream
Appeared to me for the first time -
And the distance of free romance
I'm through the magic crystal
Haven't made a clear distinction yet.
The ambiguity that Pushkin speaks of is in the very nature of creativity. The poet and his work depend on how life develops further, what it dictates. Gorky draws the meaning and lesson of the whole novel. There is nothing heroic in his heroes. They are not role models at all, they are snatched by the poet from life itself. The feeling of real life, the feeling of history became the main thing in the late work of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. This feeling was the "magic crystal" that was given to Pushkin in his hands, like no one else.
- this is a work where the author himself is felt in every line. In this work, through his heroes, Pushkin shows himself, including the author conveys to us his ideal, the sweet ideal of female beauty, which we see in the image of amazing.
Why Tatyana is a cute ideal
Creating the image of the main character, the writer revives his ideas and dreams about an earthly angel, about an ideal woman. For Pushkin, it is Larina who is the representative of the female half, whose beauty will save the world. This is the woman who deserves admiration, respect and love. That is why Tatyana is the dear ideal of the poet.
Let's see how Tanya Larina appears before us, what is she like, Pushkin's dream and the ideal girl in his understanding?
While working on our essay, let's turn directly to the work of the writer. As we see from the novel, Tatyana immediately distinguishes herself from other representatives of the nobility. She is not like the others. She loves solitude, prefers to think independently, has a natural mind, and most importantly, the heroine has a wonderful inner world. She is not as beautiful as her sister, but at the same time she is much more interesting and mysterious.
How does the cute ideal appear in Tatyana's novel?
The girl grows up in the village, in a family that did not really care about her upbringing. She is closest to a nanny who told her a lot of interesting tales. Already in childhood, she was distinguished by her thoughtfulness, seriousness and desire to retire, preferring to be alone with a book than to amuse herself with her sister's friends. Tatyana is a straightforward, natural girl who has not been spoiled by social life. The heroine believes in divination, prophetic dreams, she is pure, impressionable and sentimental. As the writer writes about Tatyana, that very sweet ideal of hers, she was timid, silent and wild. He compares her to a forest fallow deer and writes that her friend is thoughtfulness. Despite the fact that she loved to read foreign novels, the girl had a Russian soul and respected Russian customs and traditions.
Tanya believes in sincere love. She is waiting for her man, who would look like the heroes of those very novels that she loved to reread several times. And here he is, appeared in the form of Eugene. The heroine fell in love and was not afraid to write him a letter. But Onegin did not appreciate the girl's act, did not understand what exactly Tatyana was for him, as a chance to be reborn with the help of love. He refused her, giving a cold rebuff, advising her to be careful with her feelings and confessions, which, due to her inexperience, could lead to trouble.
Years have passed. Tatyana has changed. She now shines at balls, they take examples from her, she is now a married woman in the form of a luxurious impregnable goddess. However, although she happens to be at balls, she does not have affectation, she is still just as sweet and charming. Now Eugene was able to see all her beauty, but too late. The heroine is given to another and will be faithful to him until the end of her life, despite the feelings that still smoldered in her heart. And at this moment we see her spiritual strength, for which the writer loved the created image of Tatyana. For this, he calls the heroine a sweet ideal.
Forgive me: I love so much
My dear Tatyana.
A. S. Pushkin. Eugene Onegin
"Eugene Onegin" is the first realistic novel in the history of Russian literature. Giving a description of the novel, V. G. Belinsky noted that "in "Eugene Onegin" the soul of the poet was embodied." The image of Tatyana Larina in the novel is all the more significant because it expresses the lofty ideals of Pushkin himself. Starting from chapter III, Tatyana, along with Onegin, becomes the main character in the events.
The author tells about her childhood, about the nature surrounding her, about her upbringing. Her life in the countryside, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a letter to Onegin, a "wonderful dream", dreams and deeds - everything attracts the author's attention. Tatyana grew up and was brought up in the village. The atmosphere of Russian customs and folk traditions was a fertile ground on which the love of a noble girl for the people grew and strengthened.
She is very close to her nanny, who reminds us a lot of Pushkin's nanny, Arina Rodionovna. "Russian soul", according to the poet, Tatyana loves "the darkness of Epiphany evenings", believes in "traditions of the common people's antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling, and predictions of the moon." Tatyana thinks about "settlers", helps the poor. All this attracts the author himself in Tatyana. The dreamy and impressionable girl is fascinated by the novels of Richardson and Rousseau. Reading books awakens Tatyana's thoughts, books open up an unfamiliar and rich world for her, develop her imagination. She differed from the local young ladies in the depth of her thoughts and feelings, and therefore was alien to them. “I am alone here, no one understands me,” she writes to Onegin. But, despite her passion for foreign literature, Tatyana, unlike Onegin and Lensky, has always been connected with everything Russian, native. There is no affectation, sly coquetry, sentimental sensuality of the heroines of books in it. She is full of sincerity and purity in her feelings. She is attracted by the eccentricity of Eugene. All the heroes of the read novels "clothed themselves in a single image, Merged into one Eugenia." She shows courage, breaking the traditional rules for girls, and is the first to declare her love in a letter to Onegin:
My whole life has been a pledge
Faithful goodbye to you.
She wants to build her life not according to the rules adopted in the landlord environment. She dreams of having a person nearby who can be trusted, who will understand and appreciate her. Such a person, it seemed to her, she found in Eugene Onegin. She fell in love with him "not jokingly", seriously, for life. Her touching letter to him breathes deep feeling and moral depth. She lives first of all with her sensitive heart. Tatyana is experiencing a tragedy:
Onegin rejected the love of a "village girl". But Tatyana continues to love him. She visits Onegin's house, reads books, notes in them, trying to understand him.
Three years later they met. She rotates in high society, the wife of an honored man. But Tatyana remains the same girl, dear to the author's heart. Contempt for the vulgarity of the world, for the luxury of the surrounding life, for the pettiness of interests are heard in her words:
Now I'm happy to give
All this rags of masquerade
All this brilliance, and noise, and fumes
For a shelf of books, for a wild garden,
For our poor home.
It is her judgments about mental squalor, the limited interests of the noble society that completely coincide with the author's assessments. Pushkin looks at noble Moscow through the eyes of Tatyana, shares her opinion about the "emptiness" of the world, "where change is not visible" and "everything is the old model."
In the scene of the last meeting with Onegin, her high spiritual qualities are revealed: moral impeccability, truthfulness, fidelity to duty, determination. Yes, she still loves Onegin, but her whole nature, brought up on the traditions of folk morality, does not allow her to build her happiness on the grief of another person. In her struggle of feelings and duty, duty wins:
But I'm given to someone else
I will be faithful to him forever.
The fate of Tatyana is no less tragic than the fate of Onegin. But her tragedy is different. Life has broken, distorted Onegin's character, turned him into "smart uselessness", according to Herzen's definition. Tatyana's character has not changed, although life has brought her nothing but suffering.
In lyrical digressions, Pushkin admits that Tatyana is his ideal of a Russian woman, that in her he expressed his attitude to secular and rural life. In it, according to the poet, the best qualities of the Russian character are harmoniously combined.
“Tatyana's life is suffering, because her whole appearance, her feelings and thoughts are in conflict with the world around her. Pushkin knew how to touch on so many things, to hint about so many things that belong exclusively to the world of Russian nature, to the world of Russian society,” Belinsky noted in a critical article. I think that everyone will agree with these words of criticism, because no one, except Pushkin, could describe the life of Russian society at such an interesting stage of development so colorfully. The novel by A. S. Pushkin had a huge impact on contemporary and subsequent literature. “Let time pass and bring with it new needs, new ideas, let Russian society grow and overtake Onegin: no matter how far it may go, it will always love this poem, it will always stop its gaze full of love and gratitude” .
From whom is Tatyana's dear ideal drawn? 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 an artistic phenomenon of Russian literature. Pushkin's characterization of Tatyana suggests that even in a magnificent secular life she managed to preserve her personality, dignity, naturalness, noble simplicity, which captivates even the stiff, arrogant nobility in her.
Sweet carefree charm,
She was sitting at the table
With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,
This Cleopatra of the Neva.
Tatyana's "careless charm" is a mask that she wears with amazing naturalness, for this is required by the harsh laws of the world. Openness of feelings, external manifestations of passions and experiences are inappropriate here. Tatyana understands this very well with her smart and sensitive heart. Accepting the rules of the game, she becomes a model of "impeccable taste", ennobling even an empty secular conversation with her presence.
Before the hostess, light nonsense
Sparkled without stupid affectation,
And interrupted him meanwhile
Reasonable sense without vulgar topics ...
At first it may seem that Tatyana is satisfied with her luxurious life, her social success. But a frank conversation with Onegin convinces us that this is not so. The former Tatyana lives in the magnificent princess, longing for a sweet village house, green oak forests, free fields. She calls secular life "rags of a masquerade", which she would gladly give "for a shelf of books, for a wild garden." But Tatyana understands perfectly well that her desire is unfulfilled, for she herself bound herself with a promise given to her unloved husband. And she must pay for this mistake herself, strictly fulfilling the role of a faithful wife and mistress of the house, suppressing her feelings for her loved one.
In the last conversation with Yevgeny, Tatyana does not humiliate herself to a lie, she is still honest with him, but she cannot accept his love, since she is also unable to betray her husband, who is "mutilated in battles" and who surrounded her with attention and care. Tatyana's answer made a revolution in Onegin's soul.
She left. Worth Eugene,
As if struck by thunder.
It is in this state that Pushkin leaves his hero "for a long time ... forever." Brilliant plot twist. The frankness and "openness" of Tatyana's words amaze the hero. She does not flirt and does not dissemble. She reveals her soul to him in a few words. Tatyana lives not only with her heart, but also with her soul, and cannot betray a person who believes in her and loves her. Duty, honor, virtue for her are higher than personal happiness, which now can only be built on the misfortune of a loved one. Loyalty to duty, fidelity to her husband in spite of a living feeling of love make the image of Tatyana unusually attractive. It is impossible not to admire Tatyana's nobility, her courage and fortitude.
Why, after this conversation, Eugene stands "as if struck by thunder"? Probably because only now he discovered the real Tatyana, for the first time he saw her moral strength, her spiritual beauty and immediately lost, forever.
Despite Tatyana's spiritual evolution, she retained her individuality, her best qualities, but at the same time she forever lost the features of a naive girl who learns the world from books. Now she acquired a real, critical outlook on life, which revealed to her the emptiness and aimlessness of secular Petersburg, taught her to control her feelings, gave her the strength to love and hide her love and be faithful to her marital duty. The great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky remarkably said this when discussing the motives of Tatyana’s act: “Can a person base his happiness on the misfortune of another? Happiness is not only in the pleasures of love, but in the harmony of the spirit.” It is this "harmony of the spirit" that makes up the essence of Tatyana's character and makes Pushkin's heroine a "sweet ideal", one of the most attractive and vivid female images of Russian and world literature.
This line is very important - "without imitative inventions." 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. Tatyana is beautiful both externally and internally, she has a penetrating mind, because, having become a secular lady, she quickly assessed the aristocratic society in which she fell. Her exalted soul demands an outlet. Pushkin writes: “It is stuffy for her here ... she aspires with a dream to life in the field.”
She had the opportunity to drink the bitter cup of a young lady taken to the “bride fair”, having survived the collapse of her ideals. She had the opportunity in Moscow and St. Petersburg salons, at balls, to carefully observe people like Onegin, to better understand their originality and selfishness.
Tatyana is that determined Russian woman who could follow the Decembrists to Siberia. The thing is that Onegin is not a Decembrist. In the image of Tatyana Larina, Pushkin showed the manifestation of an independent female character, only in the field of personal, family, secular relations. Subsequently, many Russian writers - Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Nekrasov in their works raised the question of the rights of the Russian woman, the need for her to enter the wide arena of social and political activity. Every writer has books where he shows his ideal of a woman. For Leo Tolstoy it is Natasha Rostova, for Lermontov it is Vera from A Hero of Our Time, for Pushkin it is Tatyana Larina. In our modern reality, the image of "sweet femininity" has acquired a somewhat different outline, a woman is more businesslike, energetic, she has to solve many problems, but the essence of the soul of a Russian woman remains the same: pride, honor, tenderness - everything that Pushkin so valued in Tatyana.
In our modern reality, the image of “sweet femininity” has acquired a slightly different canvas, the ideal is a woman who is more businesslike, energetic, because she has to solve so many problems, but the essence of the soul of a Russian woman remains the same: pride, honor, tenderness - everything that is so appreciated Pushkin in Tatyana.
Just as Onegin disliked his "hateful freedom", so Tatyana is burdened by the tinsel of "hateful life".
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.
In the last stanza of the novel we read the lines: “And the one with whom Tatyana’s sweet ideal was formed ... Oh, much, much fate has taken away.” A. S. Pushkin admires his heroine.
From whom is 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. The novel by A. S. Pushkin had a huge impact on contemporary and subsequent literature. “Let time pass and bring with it new needs, new ideas, let Russian society grow and overtake Onegin: no matter how far it may go, it will always love this poem, it will always stop its gaze full of love and gratitude” .
The novel ends very sadly, because I really want people who are really close to each other to be happy. But in the tragic ending there is more truth and knowledge of life, which is far from always quickly and accurately satisfying? our desires.
"Eugene Onegin" is a philosophical novel, a novel about the meaning of life. In it, Pushkin raises the problems of being, reflects on what good and evil are. And if Onegin's life is meaningless, he sows evil. death, indifference around her, then Tatyana is a whole, harmonious person, and she sees the meaning of her life in love, in fulfilling her duty to her husband. The heroine is not able to break the bonds of marriage with the man she married. Whoever he was, she would never hurt him. This once again proves her spiritual superiority over others, her loyalty, devotion to her husband. Having come to terms with the harsh laws of life that deprived a person of happiness, Tatyana is forced to fight for her dignity, showing her uncompromisingness and her inherent moral strength in this struggle. This is precisely the high morality of Tatyana. The discovery of such a character of a Russian woman as Tatyana, with her readiness to defend herself and her moral convictions, was a tremendous artistic victory for Pushkin.
Pushkin's novel ends very sadly, because I really want people who are truly close to each other to be happy. But in the tragic ending there is more truth and knowledge of life, which does not always quickly and accurately satisfy our desires. Do you cleanse the observation of the fate and relationships of the heroes? enrich us? our feelings and soul, because in the image of Eugene Onegin Pushkin portrayed a typical, but not at all ordinary contemporary of his, and the image of Tatyana Larina remained the ideal of a Russian woman for many decades. The poet himself considered the image of Tatyana an "ideal" positive image of a Russian woman. Eras pass, fashion, hobbies, social conditions and laws change, but those spiritual qualities that make Tatyana Larina and other "Pushkin girls" sweet and attractive will always be honored: nobility, purity, fidelity.
Tatyana Larina opened a gallery of beautiful images of Russian women, morally impeccable, faithful to duty, looking for a meaningful life.
Such is Olga Ilyinskaya in Goncharov's novel Oblomov, Turgenev's heroines: Natalya from Rudin, Elena from On the Eve, the wives of the Decembrists, sung by Nekrasov.
I believe that "Tatiana's dear ideal" in our time has not lost its freshness and purity. The image of Pushkin's heroine teaches modern girls fidelity to the chosen one, moral purity, sacrifice in the name of love. I have no doubt that many young people today admire Tatiana's gentle image for her bright mind, purity of soul, beauty of thoughts and deeds. Tatyana Larina is a hostage of her own pride, her own sense of duty. She cannot step over herself, and Pushkin and her readers respect her for this. At the same time, despite the complex evolution of this image, as well as the image of Onegin, she remains the perfection and ideal of femininity, which not a single Onegin is worthy.
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin created the image of his contemporary - Tatyana and called her "sweet ideal", that is, Tatyana is the bearer of all those qualities that, according to the poet, make a woman perfect. What are these qualities and why Tatyana is Pushkin's ideal, we will try to figure it out.
Tatyana Larina - Pushkin's ideal
Where did those spiritual qualities come from that made Tatyana Pushkin's sweet ideal? Already from the first pages of the novel, dedicated to Tatyana, we notice that Pushkin highlights her among other noblewomen, who at that time were carriers of French rather than Russian culture. Tatyana, despite the fact that "she expressed herself with difficulty in her native language," is described by the poet as "Russian in soul." She loves nature, snowy Russian winter, folk songs. Obviously, this was facilitated by the observance of Russian customs in the family of Tatyana, the nanny of the fairy tale. Tatyana is a very impressionable girl, she believes in the legends of antiquity, in card fortune-telling, in prophetic dreams. But after all, most girls of her age believe in this, and her sister, Olga, grew up in the same family, but not Olga, but Tatyana, Pushkin's favorite ideal.
So what was it about her that distinguished her from others, and made, according to the poet, a stranger in her own family? First of all, we see that Tatyana is by nature not at all coquettish, does not know how to flatter and pretend. As a child, she played little with children, did not caress her parents, did not do needlework. But she read a lot, which made her inner world rich, and her mind inquisitive. She looks for answers to emerging questions in books, judges by novels about love and life. She is dreamy and somewhat detached from real life, because she believes that the characters in the books actually lived, and were not invented by the authors. Since Tatyana is a romantic nature, she is sure that someday she will meet similar people. That is why, having met Onegin, she endows him with the features of heroes from the novels she has read and falls in love with him.
The best qualities of Tatyana Larina
We have already said that Tatyana Larina is a dreamy and poetic nature, open and sincere. Therefore, she does what is considered unacceptable and even indecent among her contemporaries - the first confesses her love. Pushkin put Tatyana on such a level of spiritual development that even Onegin turned out to be much lower. At the same time, Tatyana's character is surprisingly constant. After all, even after many years, becoming a noble lady, she has not changed much. Of course, with such rare spiritual qualities, she is very lonely internally, especially when she finds herself in the capital, in the center of social life alien to her. However, she still does not change her moral convictions. The nobility of her nature is also manifested in the words about her husband, whom she does not love, but will be "faithful to him for a century." We can say that Tatiana is Pushkin's moral ideal.
Now you know why Tatyana is Pushkin's ideal. Those spiritual qualities that Tatyana possesses will always be honored. Tatyana can serve as a model of femininity, fidelity, moral beauty for modern girls.
