Material to direction "MIND AND FEELINGS"
Feelings and mind
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There are no feelings without reason, and reason without feelings. Are they enemies, friends, antibodies? When they are united, it is an explosion. All knowledge without feelings is, alas, dead. |
What good is it that we are so intelligent? Feelings whisper to us: “Give everything to love ...”, So what's more important? Almighty, tell me... There are no feelings without reason and no reason without feelings. Alexander Evgenievich Gavryushkin |
Interpretation of concepts according to the Ozhegov dictionary
Intelligence
The highest stage of human cognitive activity, the ability to think logically and creatively, to generalize the results of knowledge.
Feeling
1. A state in which a person is able to realize, perceive the environment.
2. Emotion, experience.
Interpretation of concepts according to Ushakov's dictionary
Intelligence - the ability to think logically, comprehending the meaning ( meaning for oneself, someone or something) and the connection of phenomena, to understand the laws of development of the world, society and consciously find appropriate ways to transform them. || Consciousness of something, views, as a result of a certain worldview.
Feelings - the ability to perceive external impressions, to feel, to experience something. sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste. || A state in which a person is able to be aware of his surroundings, owns his spiritual and mental abilities. || The inner, mental state of a person, that which is included in the content of his spiritual life "It can be simpler:" Feelings are the attitudes of a person experienced in various forms to objects and phenomena of reality.
Essay abstracts
Mind and feelings.
Can be distinguished two directions on which to discuss this topic.
1. The struggle in a person of reason and feelings, requiring a mandatory choice: act in obedience to surging emotions, or still not lose your head, weigh your actions, be aware of their consequences both for yourself and for others.
2. Reason and feelings can be allies, blend harmoniously in a person, making him strong, self-confident, able to emotionally respond to everything that happens around.
Reflections on the topic: "Mind and feelings"
· It is human nature to choose: to act wisely, considering each step, weighing your words, planning actions, or obey your feelings. These feelings can be very different: from love to hate, from malice to kindness, from rejection to acceptance. Feelings are very strong in a person. They can easily take possession of his soul and consciousness.
· What choice to make in this or that situation: to submit to feelings, which are often selfish, or to listen to the voice of reason? How to avoid internal conflict between these two "elements"? Everyone must answer these questions for himself. And a person also makes a choice on his own, a choice on which not only the future, but life itself can sometimes depend.
· Yes, mind and feelings often oppose each other. Whether a person can bring them into harmony, make sure that the mind is supported by feelings and vice versa - it depends on the will of the person, on the degree of responsibility, on the moral guidelines that he follows.
· Nature has rewarded people with the greatest wealth - the mind, gave them the opportunity to experience feelings. Now they themselves must learn to live, being aware of all their actions, but at the same time remaining sensitive, able to feel joy, love, kindness, attention, not to succumb to anger, enmity, envy and other negative feelings.
· One more thing is important: a person who lives only by feelings is, in fact, not free. He subordinated himself to them, to these emotions and feelings, whatever they may be: love, envy, anger, greed, fear, and others. He is weak and even easily controlled by others, by those who want to take advantage of this human dependence on feelings for their own selfish and selfish purposes. Therefore, feelings and reason must exist in harmony, so that feelings help a person to see the whole gamut of shades in everything, and the mind - to respond correctly, adequately to this, not to drown in the abyss of feelings.
· Learning to live in harmony between your feelings and your mind is very important. A strong personality, living according to the laws of morality and morality, is capable of this. And there is no need to listen to the opinion of some people that the world of the mind is boring, monotonous, uninteresting, and the world of feelings is comprehensive, beautiful, bright. The harmony of mind and feelings will give a person immeasurably more in the knowledge of the world, in self-awareness, in the perception of life in general.
· Reason sometimes contradicts the dictates of the heart. And the task of a person is to find the right path, not to embark on the wrong path. How often a person commits cruel and vile deeds, obeying the dictates of reason. At the same time, if you listen to the dictates of your heart, you will never commit a wrong deed.
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F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment" |
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Rodion Raskolnikov kills an old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta solely in order to test his theory. And his theory is the result of long painful reflections. The work of the mind in this case can be considered be attributed as the cause of the mistake. Raskolnikov ranks himself among the "strong" personalities. In his opinion, it is these individuals who have the right to cross any line that separates the crime from the norm. However, having committed a crime, having “crossed over” this very line, Raskolnikov begins to realize that he does not belong to the circle of the “chosen ones”. Punishment follows crime. Raskolnikov experiences the strongest mental anguish. It becomes clear that if he had acted not at the behest of his mind, but had listened to the voice of his heart, then the crime would not have been committed. Raskolnikov puts himself above other people. Only the human mind, divorced from feeling, can "suggest" such a decision. People who consider it important to follow the dictates of the heart are not able to put themselves above others. Raskolnikov takes as a basis only the result of mental reflections. And he seems to completely forget that in addition to the mind, a person has a soul, a conscience. After all, the voice of the heart is the voice of conscience. Raskolnikov only later realized how wrong he was. The voice of his heart was suppressed by a cold mind obsessed with a cruel idea. Raskolnikov goes against his conscience, thereby drawing a line between himself and those around him. Now he no longer has a place in the world of normal people who have not committed a crime. Such punishment clearly proves how important it is to listen to your soul, to your conscience. From the point of view of the writer himself, one cannot live by reason, one must live as the soul commands. After all, the mind in a person is only twenty percent, and the rest is the soul. Therefore, the mind must obey the soul, and not vice versa. In this case, a person will be able to observe Christian laws, to measure each of his actions with them. In Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" we see the spiritual revival of Raskolnikov. He realizes how wrong and misanthropic his theory was. This means that the heart triumphs over the mind. Raskolnikov completely changes, he acquires the meaning of life. |
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"The Tale of Igor's Campaign" |
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The protagonist of "Words ..." is Prince Igor Novgorod-Seversky. This is a brave, brave warrior, a patriot of his country. Brothers and squad! His cousin Svyatoslav, who ruled in Kyiv, in 1184 defeated the Polovtsy - the enemies of Rus', the nomads. Igor could not participate in the campaign. He decided to undertake a new campaign - in 1185. There was no need for it, the Polovtsy did not attack Rus' after the victory of Svyatoslav. However, the desire for glory, selfishness led to the fact that Igor spoke out against the Polovtsy. Nature seemed to warn the hero about the failures that would haunt the prince - a solar eclipse occurred. But Igor was adamant. And he said, full of military thoughts, Ignoring the sign of heaven: "I want to break the spear In an unfamiliar Polovtsian field … Reason receded into the background. Feelings, moreover, of an egoistic nature, took possession of the prince. After the defeat and escape from captivity, Igor realized the mistake, realized it. That is why the author sings glory to the prince at the end of the work. This is an example of the fact that a person endowed with power must always weigh everything, it is the mind, and not feelings, even if they are positive, that should determine the behavior of a person on whom the lives of many people depend. |
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A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" |
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The heroine Tatyana Larina has strong, deep feelings for Eugene Onegin. She fell in love with him as soon as she saw him in her estate. My whole life has been a pledge About Onegin: He no longer fell in love with beauties, However, Eugene realized how beautiful Tatyana is, that she is worthy of love, and he fell in love with her much later. A lot has happened over the years, and most importantly, Tatyana was already married. And happiness was so possible The meeting after a long separation at the ball showed how strong Tatyana's feelings are. However, she is a highly moral woman. She respects her husband, understands that she must be faithful to him. I love you (why lie?), In the struggle of feelings and reason, win the mind. The heroine did not tarnish her honor, did not inflict a spiritual wound on her husband, although she deeply loved Onegin. She refused love, realizing that, having tied the knot of her life with a man, she simply must be faithful to him. |
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L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace" |
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How beautiful is the image of Natasha Rostova in the novel! As the heroine is spontaneous, open, how she longs for true love. (“Catch moments of happiness, force yourself to love, fall in love yourself! Only this one is the real thing in the world - the rest is all nonsense” - the words of the author) She sincerely fell in love with Andrei Bolkonsky, she is waiting for the year to pass, after which their wedding should take place. However, fate has prepared a serious test for Natasha - a meeting with the handsome Anatole Kuragin. He simply charmed her, feelings flooded over the heroine, and she forgot about everything. She is ready to flee into the unknown, just to be close to Anatole. How Natasha blamed Sonya, who told her family about the upcoming escape! Feelings were stronger than Natasha. The mind just went silent. Yes, the heroine will repent later, we feel sorry for her, we understand her desire to love. However, how cruelly Natasha punished herself: Andrey released her from all obligations. (And of all the people I loved and hated no one more than her.) Reading these pages of the novel, you think about many things. It is easy to say what is good and what is bad. Sometimes feelings are so strong that a person simply does not notice how he is rolling into the abyss, succumbing to them. But still, it is very important to learn to subordinate feelings to reason, and not to subordinate, but simply to coordinate, to live in such a way that they are in harmony. Then many mistakes in life can be avoided. |
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I.S. Turgenev "Asya" |
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25-year-old N.N. travels carelessly, however, without a goal and a plan, meets new people, and almost never visits sights. This is how I. Turgenev's story "Asya" begins. The hero will have to endure a difficult test - a test of love. This feeling arose in him for the girl Asya. It combined cheerfulness and eccentricity, openness and isolation. But the main thing is her dissimilarity to the rest. Perhaps this is due to her former life: she lost her parents early, lived at first almost in poverty, and then, when Gagin took her to be raised, in luxury. Experiencing certain feelings for Gagin, Asya realized that she really fell in love with N.N., and therefore behaved unusually: either closing herself, trying to retire, or wanting to draw attention to herself. It is as if reason and feeling are fighting in her, understanding that she owes a lot to Gagin, but at the same time, the inability to drown out her love for N.N. Unfortunately, the hero turned out to be not as decisive as Asya, who confessed her love to him in a note. N.N. also experienced strong feelings for Asya: “I felt some kind of sweetness - it was sweetness in my heart: it was as if they poured me honey there.” But for too long he thought about the future with the heroine, postponing the decision for tomorrow. And there is no tomorrow for love. Asya and Gagin left, but the hero could not find a woman in his life with whom he would connect his fate. The memories of the ace were too strong, and only a note reminded of her. So the mind became the reason for the separation, and the feelings were not able to lead the hero to decisive actions. “Happiness has no tomorrow, it has no yesterday, it does not remember the past, does not think about the future. He only has the present. - And it's not a day. And a moment. » |
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A.N. Ostrovsky "Dowry" |
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The heroine of the play Larisa Ogudalova.
She is a dowry, that is, when she gets married, her mother is not able to prepare a dowry, which was customary for a bride. Larisa's family is of average income, so she does not have to hope for a good match. So she agreed to marry Karandyshev - the only one who offered her to marry. She does not feel any love for her future husband. But a young girl wants to love! And this feeling was already born in her heart - love for Paratov, who once charmed her, and then just left. Larisa will have to experience the strongest internal struggle - between feeling and reason, duty to the person she marries. Paratov seemed to bewitch her, she admires him, gives in to a feeling of love, a desire to be with her beloved. She is naive, believes the words, thinks that Paratov loves her just as much. But what a bitter disappointment she had to experience. It is in the hands of Paratov - just a "thing." The mind still wins, insight comes. True, later. " A thing... yes, a thing! They are right, I am a thing, not a person ... Finally, a word has been found for me, you have found it ... Every thing must have an owner, I will go to the owner. |
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I.A. Bunin "Dark alleys" |
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Sometimes relationships between people are complicated. Especially when it comes to such a strong feeling as love. What to give preference to: the strength of feelings that have gripped a person, or listen to the voice of reason, which suggests that the chosen one is from another circle, that she is not a couple, which means that there can be no love. So the hero of I. Bunin's novel "Dark Alleys" Nikolai in his youth experienced a great feeling of love for Nadezhda, who was from a completely different environment, a simple peasant woman. The hero could not connect his life with his beloved: the laws of the society to which he belonged were too oppressive. Yes, and how many more in life there will be, these Hopes! ( ... it always seems that somewhere there will be something especially happy, some kind of meeting ...) In the end - life with an unloved woman. Gray days. And only many years later, when he saw Nadezhda again, Nikolai realized that such love was given to him by fate, and he passed her by, past his happiness. And Nadezhda was able to carry through her whole life this great feeling - love. .(Youth passes for everyone, but love is another matter.) So sometimes fate, the whole life of a person, depends on the choice between reason and feeling. |
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M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" |
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Love. It's an amazing feeling. It makes a person happy, life takes on new shades. For the sake of love, real, all-encompassing, a person sacrifices everything. So the heroine of the novel by M. Bulgakov, Margarita, for the sake of love, left her outwardly prosperous life. Everything seemed to be fine with her: a husband holding a prestigious position, a large apartment, at a time when many people huddled in communal apartments. (Margarita Nikolaevna did not need money. Margarita Nikolaevna could buy anything she liked. Among her husband's acquaintances there were interesting people. Margarita Nikolaevna never touched a stove. Margarita Nikolaevna did not know the horrors of living in a joint apartment. In a word ... was she happy? Not one minute! ) But there was no main thing - love .. there was only loneliness (And I was struck not so much by her beauty as by the extraordinary, unseen loneliness in her eyes! - the words of the Master). because her life is empty.) And when love came, Margarita went to her beloved .(She looked at me in surprise, and I suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, realized that I had loved this particular woman all my life! - the master will say ) What played a major role here? Feelings? Of course yes. Intelligence? Probably he, too, because Margarita deliberately abandoned a prosperous outwardly life. And she no longer cares that she lives in a small apartment. The main thing is that he is nearby - her Master. She helps him finish the novel. She is even ready to become a queen at Woland's ball - all this for the sake of love. So both reason and feelings were in harmony in Margarita's soul. (Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no real, true, eternal love in the world? May the liar be cut off his vile tongue!) Do we condemn the heroine? Here everyone will answer in their own way. But still, life with an unloved person is also wrong. So the heroine made a choice, choosing the path of love, the strongest feeling that a person can experience. |
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- I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"
- I.A. Bunin "Clean Monday"
- A.M. Gorky "Old Woman Izergil"
literary works
1. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"
Compare reasonable Sonya and Natasha living with feelings. The first of them did not make a single fatal mistake in her life, but she could not keep her happiness either. Natasha was wrong, but her heart always showed her the way.
2. L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"
The people and their feelings, insensitive heroes (Anatole, Helen, Napoleon)
3. A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin"
"Sharp, chilled mind and the inability to strong Onegin's feelings. Onegin- a cold, rational person. Tatyana Larina with a delicate sensitive soul. This spiritual disharmony became the cause of the drama of failed love.
4. M.Yu. Lermontov "Mtsyri" (The mind and feeling of love for the homeland of poor Mtsyri)
5. I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" Reason and feelings of Evgeny Bazarov.
6. A. de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince" (everything in the Prince - both mind and feelings);
7. F. Iskander “The Dream of God and the Devil” “I wanted to understand,” God sighed, “whether the mind itself can develop conscience. I put only a spark of reason into you. But it did not develop conscience. a mind not washed by conscience becomes malignant. That's how you appeared. You are an unsuccessful project of man." (Fazil Iskander "Dream of God and the Devil")
8. M.Yu. Lermontov "Hero of Our Time" (insensitive Grigory Pechorin and philanthropic Maxim Maksimych)
The theme of confrontation between reason and feelings is one of the most ancient moral problems revealed in literature and art. Even the philosophers and playwrights of the ancient era wondered what was above everything - the call of duty or the command of the heart. For centuries, this topic has remained relevant, rethought and discussed in works of art. The novel "Eugene Onegin" is no exception, in which this theme is dominant.
The conflict of mind and feelings in the novel "Eugene Onegin" manifests itself in two storylines - relationships with and with. Friendship and love are the most valuable things in a person's life, and many difficult situations in these relationships are difficult to resolve rationally, detached from emotions. Vladimir Lensky is the complete opposite of Onegin, but this is precisely what becomes their basis:
First, mutual differences
They were boring to each other;
Then they liked it; Then
Riding every day
And soon they became inseparable.
Onegin is a bored person; at 26, he believes that he has seen and experienced everything in life - this makes him cynical, indifferent and almost unemotional. Onegin is guided solely by reason and rationality. Lensky, on the contrary, is open to life and to people. He is a poet, and therefore his worldview is mainly emotional, sensual. He gives himself entirely to love for Olga Larina, and does not pay attention to Eugene's mockery about this. Unfortunately, in the end, both were let down by their life beliefs - their stubbornness led to the death of Lensky in a duel. Onegin, although he understood in his heart that this duel was pointless and realized that he had offended his friend in vain, nevertheless did not ask for forgiveness: friendly sympathy could not overcome pride. Lensky, stubborn in his vehemence and jealousy, did not pay attention to Onegin's attempts to postpone or disrupt the duel, and also did not make an attempt at reconciliation - and was killed.
Throughout the novel, his characters experience changes in life, change and develop. So, Tatyana and Onegin at the beginning of the work and Tatyana and Onegin in the last chapters are diametrically opposed personalities. Tatyana is going through a stage of growing up: the unhappy love that happened in girlhood tempers her will and makes her stronger. A simple, tender and vulnerable girl turns into a restrained, impregnable and well-controlled woman. Onegin is amazed at the sight of such a change, and most of all he is embarrassed by the coldness with which she speaks to him when they meet:
Hey! not that she shuddered
Ile suddenly turned pale, red...
Her eyebrow did not move;
She didn't even purse her lips.
Although he could not look more diligently,
But also the traces of the former Tatyana
Could not find Onegin.
From such an unexpected treatment, Onegin is embarrassed - in her presence he cannot utter a word. The protagonist loses his head - like a boy, he falls in love with the new Tatyana, and all his bile, skepticism, steadfastness suddenly disappear, and only love remains. But his feelings for her are now as hopeless as her feelings for him once were. Tatyana, despite the preserved feeling for Eugene, acts at the behest of reason.
Reason and feeling are the two most important components of a person's inner world, influencing his aspirations and actions. Some people tend to be led by emotions, others are guided by cold reason, logic; in the third, both components coexist peacefully, complementing each other. But there is another type of people whose mind and feelings are constantly in a complex confrontation, which constitutes the internal conflict of the personality.
It also happens that a certain situation in a person’s life completely changes his inner world, and this leads to the rejection of the strongest feelings in favor of the mind or, conversely, the rejection of the dictates of cold reason in favor of warm human emotions. The question of what could cause such a revolution worried writers of various cultures and eras and was repeatedly considered on the pages of world classics.
K.G. devotes his story “Telegram” to the topic of the dispute between reason and feeling. Paustovsky. The main characters of the story are Katerina Petrovna and Nastya, her daughter and the only relative. Separated by kilometers of roads, they have not seen each other for three years: Nastya does not come to her mother. Katerina Petrovna understands that her beloved daughter is not up to her now, and writes to Nastya very rarely, although she thinks about her all day long. In response, Nastya only sends money to her elderly mother once every two or three months, without accompanying them with heartfelt letters. She explains this by her employment: the girl works as a secretary in the Union of Artists and takes her work very responsibly. Katerina Petrovna's last letter, in which she, feeling an imminent death, asks her "beloved" daughter to come, comes at an inopportune moment. Nastya at this time is organizing an exhibition of a young sculptor. After reading the letter, the girl decides to stay in the city. She listens exclusively to the voice of reason, which says that the successful organization of the exhibition is an opportunity to show oneself, a chance to get a promotion, and a trip to Zaborye is crowded trains, mother's tears and rural boredom. Feelings wake up in the girl only when she receives a telegram from the watchman, who writes that Katerina Ivanovna is dying. Nastya does not immediately realize that so imperceptibly, in the hustle and bustle, she has lost the most precious thing. All these exhibitions and the attention of strangers are worthless, because only a lonely old mother truly loved her. In Zaborye, the girl arrives too late. Katerina Petrovna never waited for her, and now Nastya will be haunted by a severe sense of guilt for the rest of her life.
We also see the confrontation between the two most important components of the human inner world in the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". Its main character, Tatyana Larina, at the beginning of the work appears to readers as an emotional, dreamy girl who is fond of French novels and imagines herself to be their heroine. It is no coincidence that she falls in love with Eugene Onegin, so peculiar, so different from others, seeing in him that ideal, the idea of which she made up from the books she read. Driven by feelings, Tatyana writes him a letter with a declaration of love, despite the fact that for the girls of that time it was bad form. The answer to recognition is moralizing, a lesson in controlling emotions, which Tatyana perfectly learns. Yielding to her mother's persuasion, she marries a rich man whom she does not love, and at the end of the novel she appears before Onegin as a cold, self-confident secular lady. Eugene falls in love with the transformed Tatyana and confesses his love to her, but the girl rejects him. Tatyana still loves Onegin, but her mind is already leading her, not her feelings, and she will never sacrifice her honor and the honor of her husband.
So, reason and feeling do not always coexist peacefully in a person, often these contradictory components enter into confrontation, resulting in an intrapersonal conflict. In such a situation, it is very important for a person to make the right decision, to make the right choice, which you will not have to regret later.
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Tatyana Larina symbolizes the image of a Russian girl. It is difficult to understand the soul of a Russian without being a Russian. It is Tatyana who appears before us as a symbol of the mysterious Russian soul.
From childhood, she was distinguished by her dissimilarity to others. Her originality, sometimes wildness, seems to some to be pride, affectation. But it's not. A meek disposition, but the strength of character is manifested and even more emphasized against the background of Olga's sister. It would seem that a young girl in a noble family can worry. Is it inherent in such a greenhouse environment deep thoughts, the ability to reason and analyze. Ease, carelessness should have become her companions, but everything turned out differently. The desire to study, self-development made the girls a strong character, deeply thinking, empathizing. Frequent solitude contributed to deep immersion in oneself and self-knowledge.
The first feeling that flooded over Tatiana completely swallowed her up. She was ready to meet love. Reading novels contributed to this. And so, the image of a person who corresponded to her fictional character appeared in reality.
Tatyana, a pure and open person, went towards the feeling. She accepted it and decided on a difficult but necessary step - recognition.
Busting girlish pride, I dared to take the first step. What did she get in return? Condescension on the part of the brilliant Onegin to a provincial girl, a humane act of refusal. First love often breaks youthful hearts. But this defeat made Tatyana stronger. The feeling did not fade away, but only lurked somewhere in the depths of the soul. Nothing could stop her from loving Yevgeny, neither his indifference, nor cruelty, nor cynicism, nor the murder of Lensky. You can’t love for something, you can love in spite of. Only then is it love.
Tatyana is a sensual but proud person. She did not humiliate herself and ask for Onegin's love. She tried to pull away and forget. Only she herself knows what was going on in the soul, what a struggle between the mind and the heart raged. The mind allowed the provincial savage girl to turn into a sedate lady, the hostess of the salon. An unloved husband, even for a second, cannot doubt the tenderness and fidelity of his wife.
The power of love, its beauty is most colorfully revealed in tragedy. Tatyana is not destined to be with Onegin. Love is alive in her heart, and perhaps only intensified over time. But, alas. A sacrifice of love for the sake of honor and the promised oath at the altar.
Man and society (how does society affect a person?) How does fashion affect a person? How do social factors influence personality formation?
Onegin's personality was formed in the St. Petersburg secular environment. In the prehistory, Pushkin noted the social factors that influenced the character of Eugene: belonging to the highest stratum of the nobility, the usual upbringing for this circle, training, the first steps in the world, the experience of a “monotonous and motley” life, the life of a “free nobleman”, not burdened by service, - vain, carefree, full of entertainment and love stories.
The conflict between man and society. How does society affect a person?
The character and life of Onegin are shown in motion. Already in the first chapter, you can see how a bright, outstanding personality suddenly appeared from a faceless, but requiring unconditional obedience crowd.
Onegin's seclusion - his undeclared conflict with the world and with the society of noble landowners - only at first glance seems to be a whim caused by "boredom", disappointment in the "science of tender passion." Pushkin emphasizes that Onegin's "inimitable strangeness" is a kind of protest against social and spiritual dogmas that suppress a person's personality, depriving him of the right to be himself.
The emptiness of the hero's soul was the result of the emptiness and lack of content of secular life. he is looking for new spiritual values, a new path: in St. Petersburg and in the countryside, he diligently reads books, communicates with a few people who are close in spirit (the author and Lensky). In the village, he even tries to change the order, replacing the corvee with a light quitrent.
Dependence on public opinion. Is it possible to become free from public opinion?
Often a person finds himself in the deepest dependence on public opinion. Sometimes you have to go a long way to free yourself from the shackles of society.
The search for new life truths of Onegin dragged on for many years and remained unfinished. freed from old ideas about life, but the past does not let him go. It seems that he is the master of his life, but this is only an illusion. All his life he has been haunted by mental laziness and cold skepticism, as well as dependence on public opinion. However, it is difficult to call Onegin a victim of society. By changing his lifestyle, he took responsibility for his own destiny. His further failures in life can no longer be justified by dependence on society.
In relations with Tatyana, he showed himself as a reasonable, rational person. listened to the voice of his mind. Even in the first chapter, the author noted in Evgeny a “sharp mind” and an inability to have strong feelings. It was this trait of his that became the cause of failed love. does not believe in love, and therefore is not able to love. The meaning of love for him is exhausted by the "science of tender passion" or the "home circle" that limits the freedom of man.
In Chapter 8, Pushkin showed a new stage in the spiritual development of Onegin. Having met Tatyana in St. Petersburg, he was completely transformed. There was nothing left of the former cold and rational person in him, he turned into an ardent lover, not noticing anything, except for the object of his love (they began to resemble Lensky more). for the first time he experienced a real feeling, but it turned into a new love drama: now Tatyana could not answer his belated love. As before, in the foreground in the characterization of the hero is the relationship between reason and feeling. Now the mind is defeated -
