Evgeny Onegin is a hero of his time.
Pushkin is a great Russian poet, the founder of Russian realism, the creator of Russian literary language. One of his greatest works is the novel “Eugene Onegin”.
Onegin is a secular St. Petersburg young man, a metropolitan aristocrat.
Describing his hero, Pushkin talks in detail about his upbringing and education. Onegin received a home education typical of aristocratic youth of that time and the upbringing of a French tutor:
... Monsieur I'Abbe, a wretched Frenchman
So that the child does not get tired
I taught him everything jokingly,
I didn’t bother you with strict morals,
Lightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for a walk in the Summer Garden.
Having become a young man, Onegin leads a life typical of young people of that time: balls, restaurants, visiting theaters. But Evgeny Onegin, by his nature, stands out from the general mass of young people. Pushkin notes his “involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and sharp, chilled mind,” a sense of honor, nobility of soul. This could not but lead Onegin to disappointment in life and interests secular society.
When Evgeniy is overcome by the blues, he tries to do something useful activity. Nothing came of his attempt to write!
... Onegin locked himself at home.
Yawning, he took up the pen.
I wanted to write, but it’s hard work
He felt sick; Nothing
It did not come from his pen.
Later, having left for the estate that he received from his uncle, Onegin tries to start organizing the peasants:
He is the yoke of the ancient corvée
I replaced it with a light quitrent...
But all his activities as a landowner were limited to this reform.
Even such strong feelings as love and friendship could not save Eugene Onegin from spiritual emptiness. He rejected Tatyana’s love, since he valued “freedom and peace” above all else.
Onegin killed his friend Lensky, as secular prejudices prevailed in the hesitations that he experienced after receiving a challenge to a duel.
It seems to me that Pushkin condemns his hero: he behaved selfishly towards the people around him, although Onegin later realized this. He can be called a hero of his time, because Eugene, just like the hero of Lermontov’s work Pechorin, was above the society in which he was located. Very few people could understand him. I think that is why Eugene Onegin was the way he is.
Pushkin is a great Russian poet, the founder of Russian realism, the creator of the Russian literary language. One of his greatest works is the novel “Eugene Onegin”.
Onegin is a secular St. Petersburg young man, a metropolitan aristocrat.
Describing his hero, Pushkin talks in detail about his upbringing and education. Onegin received a home education typical of aristocratic youth of that time and the upbringing of a French tutor:
Monsieur I "Abbe, poor Frenchman
So that the child does not get tired
I taught him everything jokingly,
I didn’t bother you with strict morals,
Lightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for a walk in the Summer Garden.
Having become a young man, Onegin leads a life typical of young people of that time: balls, restaurants, visiting theaters. But Evgeny Onegin, by his nature, stands out from the general mass of young people. Pushkin notes his “involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and sharp, chilled mind,” a sense of honor, nobility of soul. This could not but lead Onegin to disappointment in the life and interests of secular society.
When Evgeniy is overcome by the blues, he tries to engage in some useful activity. Nothing came of his attempt to write!
Onegin locked himself at home.
Yawning, he took up the pen.
I wanted to write, but it’s hard work
He felt sick; Nothing
It did not come from his pen.
Later, having left for the estate that he received from his uncle, Onegin tries to start organizing the peasants:
He is the yoke of the ancient corvée
I replaced it with a light quitrent...
But all his activities as a landowner were limited to this reform.
Even such strong feelings as love and friendship could not save Eugene Onegin from spiritual emptiness. He rejected Tatyana’s love, since he valued “freedom and peace” above all else.
Onegin killed his friend Lensky, as secular prejudices prevailed in the hesitations that he experienced after receiving a challenge to a duel.
It seems to me that Pushkin condemns his hero: he behaved selfishly towards the people around him, although Onegin later realized this. He can be called a hero of his time, because Eugene, just like the hero of Lermontov’s work Pechorin, was above the society in which he was located. Very few people could understand him. I think that is why Eugene Onegin was the way he is.
Essays on literature: Eugene Onegin - a hero of his time Young noble intellectual early XIX century, Eugene Onegin is smart, noble, capable of feeling deeply and strongly. He was able to immediately appreciate Tatyana with her discreet external beauty and rich inner world. Onegin is tactful in his relations with Lensky: He tried to keep the cooling word in his mouth and thought: it’s stupid for me to interfere with His momentary bliss. The repentance of Onegin, who killed a friend in a duel, is deep and sincere: “He could have discovered his feelings, and not bristled like an animal; he should have disarmed the young heart...” Onegin’s mind was also manifested in the fact that he early realized the worthlessness of secular society and felt feeling like a stranger and extra person in high society living rooms. It was hard and unbearable for him to see before him just a long row of dinners, to look at life as a ritual, and to follow the orderly crowd, without sharing with it neither common opinions nor passions. But Onegin’s wonderful inclinations are suppressed by social conditions, the environment in which he grew up and lived. It is no coincidence that Pushkin places in the first chapter of the novel brief description life of the main character. From this description we learn who raised Eugene and how, what he was taught, how he spent his time when the time came for his “rebellious youth.”
Onegin's upbringing, as Pushkin showed, his reading circle, his sphere of interests - all this is devoid of national foundations. It is not for nothing that foreign language vocabulary predominates in the hero’s biography, conveying the peculiarity of high society culture, far from national Russian origins. Onegin's predominant state is boredom. Nothing could dispel his melancholy laziness. The thirst for monotonous pleasures in the absence of a real, living matter has taken root in Onegin’s psychology, and he is unable to overcome it.
“He was sick of persistent work,” notes Pushkin. And since, according to the author, the creative powers of the individual could only manifest themselves in work, the outcome of Onegin’s life is joyless: Having lived without a goal, without work, Until the age of twenty-six, Languishing in the inactivity of leisure, Without service, without a wife, without business, Nothing to do I couldn't. Love also passed by, because the hero’s feelings became impoverished - he suppressed the involuntary excitement experienced at the sight of Tatyana and upon receiving her letter. Only later, shocked by the murder of Lensky and meeting Tatyana again, Onegin gained the ability to have great and strong feelings. In the very first chapters, Onegin is deprived of the very ability to love. His attitude towards love is entirely rational and feigned. It is in the spirit of acquired secular “truths”, the main goal of which is to charm and seduce, to seem in love, and not actually be one: How early he could be a hypocrite, harbor hope, be jealous, disbelieve, make believe, seem gloomy, languish. .. This “science of tender passion” is a necessary accessory of secular salons and living rooms. And finally, Onegin’s friendship with Lensky ended tragically.
In the motivations for Onegin’s behavior, Pushkin constantly pits the impulses of his soul against the usual rules of behavior instilled by the secular environment... No matter how Onegin’s noble mind protested against the duel, social conventions shaped by the world still prevailed. Observing the unspoken law of honor established by secular society, Evgeniy kills Lensky in a duel. In the novel, Pushkin traces the socio-psychological content of the image of Onegin. Onegin's character was formed in certain social conditions, in a certain historical era. Consequently, Onegin is presented in the novel as a national-historical type of Russian life, ultimately generated by the autocratic-serf system.
His skepticism and disappointment are a reflection of the general “illness of modern Russians,” which gripped a significant part of the noble intelligentsia at the beginning of the century. Pushkin condemns not so much the hero as the secular environment that shaped him as a person. Onegins are doomed to inaction. They are no longer capable of selfless love, nor for friendship. This is where the idea of a public court arises and the blame falls not on the hero, but on the socio-historical way of Russian life. Pushkin is a great Russian poet, the founder of Russian realism, the creator of the Russian literary language. One of his greatest works is the novel "Eugene Onegin".
Onegin is a secular St. Petersburg young man, a metropolitan aristocrat. Describing his hero, Pushkin talks in detail about his upbringing and education. Onegin received a home education typical of aristocratic youth of that time and the upbringing of a French tutor: ... Monsieur I "Abbe, a wretched Frenchman, So that the child would not be exhausted, Taught him everything in jest, Didn't bother him with strict morals, Scolded him slightly for pranks And walked in the Summer Garden drove. Having become a young man, Onegin leads a typical life for young people of that time: balls, restaurants, visiting theaters. But Eugene Onegin, by his nature, stands out from the general mass of young people.
Pushkin notes his “involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and sharp, chilled mind,” a sense of honor, nobility of soul. This could not but lead Onegin to disappointment in the life and interests of secular society. When Evgeniy is overcome by the blues, he tries to engage in some useful activity. Nothing came of his attempt to write! ... Onegin locked himself at home.
Yawning, he took up the pen. He wanted to write, but the persistent work was sickening to him; nothing came from his pen. Later, having left for the estate that he received from his uncle, Onegin tries to start organizing the peasants: He replaced the ancient corvée with an easy rent with a yoke... But all his activities as a landowner were limited to this reform. Even such strong feelings as love and friendship could not save Eugene Onegin from spiritual emptiness.
He rejected Tatyana’s love, since he valued “freedom and peace” above all else. Onegin killed his friend Lensky, as secular prejudices prevailed in the hesitations that he experienced after receiving a challenge to a duel. It seems to me that Pushkin condemns his hero: he behaved selfishly towards the people around him, although Onegin later realized this. He can be called a hero of his time, because Eugene, just like the hero of Lermontov’s work Pechorin, was above the society in which he was located. Very few people could understand him. I think that is why Eugene Onegin was the way he is. "Eugene Onegin" is the first Russian realistic novel and the only novel in verse in Russian literature.
The complexity of the image of E. Onegin can be traced throughout the entire novel. This lies at least in the fact that we see how very different Onegin is at the beginning and at the end of the novel. At the beginning of the novel, he is a young womanizer who goes from ball to ball.
But even during this period we observe his complexity: he did not go to the theater to watch magnificent productions, not to see the brilliant Istomina on stage. Onegin - an “honorary citizen of the scenes” - is more interested in meetings and affairs with “charming actresses” than the stage, art, he likes to point “a double lorgnette at the boxes of unfamiliar ladies.” The complex, contradictory character of Onegin does not fit into the usual patterns: the hero is not a model, not a villain, he constantly deceives the reader’s expectations. Without responding to Tatyana’s feelings, he did not, however, become a “fatal seducer”, did not start a complete love game, and did not deceive her trust. His rebuke was cruel, but it was neither base nor dishonorable. “In that terrible hour, you acted nobly,” Tatyana will tell him. But the same Onegin thoughtlessly insulted Lensky, did not dare to refuse the duel, killed his friend... Now I want to express my opinion about the end of the novel. I think the novel could have been continued.
The fact is that Pushkin treated people like Onegin with some degree of contempt. It even seems to me that Pushkin probably loved some girl similar to Tatyana, and this girl was probably conquered by some person similar to Evgeniy. And based on all this, I believe that the end of the novel could not be happy. After all, when the first readers of the novel reproached Pushkin for ending the novel this way, he answered them: “You advise others for Onegin...” The complexity of the image of Onegin also lies in the fact that he did not fall in love with Tatyana immediately, but later, when she had already married the prince. And why this happened, we read in the novel. Yes, I remember most of all those lines when Pushkin gives an explanation of why Eugene fell in love with Tatiana: But as an indifferent princess, But as an unapproachable goddess. And especially the following lines: What is given to you does not attract you, the serpent certainly calls you To himself, to the mysterious tree: Give you the forbidden fruit. And without him, heaven is not heaven for you.
I think that it is Eugene Onegin, and no one else, who is the hero of his time. He is in the novel a man who was killed by his upbringing and social life, which no one could understand. This is my opinion about Eugene Onegin, the hero of his time.
A young noble intellectual of the early 19th century, Eugene Onegin is smart, noble, and capable of feeling deeply and strongly. He was able to immediately appreciate Tatyana with her discreet external beauty and rich inner world. Onegin is tactful in his relations with Lensky:
He's a cooling word
I tried to keep it in my mouth
And I thought: it’s stupid to bother me
His momentary bliss.
The repentance of Onegin, who killed a friend in a duel, is deep and sincere: “He could have discovered his feelings, and not bristled like an animal; he should have disarmed the young heart...”
Onegin’s intelligence was also manifested in the fact that he early realized the worthlessness of secular society and felt like a stranger and an extra person in high society drawing rooms. It was hard for him and
It's unbearable to see in front of you
There's a long row of dinners alone,
See life as a ritual
And follow the decorous crowd,
Without sharing with her
No common opinions, no passions.
But Onegin’s wonderful inclinations are suppressed by social conditions, the environment in which he grew up and lived. It is no coincidence that Pushkin in the first chapter of the novel contains a brief description of the life of the main character. From this description we learn who raised Eugene and how, what he was taught, how he spent his time when the time came for his “rebellious youth.”
Onegin's upbringing, as Pushkin showed, his reading circle, his sphere of interests - all this is devoid of national foundations. It is not for nothing that foreign language vocabulary predominates in the hero’s biography, conveying the peculiarity of high society culture, far from national Russian origins.
Onegin's predominant state is boredom. Nothing could dispel his melancholy laziness. The thirst for monotonous pleasures in the absence of a real, living matter has taken root in Onegin’s psychology, and he is unable to overcome it. “He was sick of persistent work,” notes Pushkin. And since, according to the author, only in work could the creative powers of the individual manifest themselves, the outcome of Onegin’s life is bleak:
Having lived without a goal, without work
Until twenty-six years old,
Languishing in idle leisure,
Without work, without wife, without business,
I didn't know how to do anything.
Love also passed by, because the hero’s feelings became impoverished - he suppressed the involuntary excitement experienced at the sight of Tatyana and upon receiving her letter. Only later, shocked by the murder of Lensky and meeting Tatyana again, Onegin gained the ability to have great and strong feelings. In the very first chapters, Onegin is deprived of the very ability to love. His attitude towards love is entirely rational and feigned. It is in the spirit of acquired secular “truths”, the main goal of which is to enchant and seduce, to appear to be in love, and not to actually be one:
How early could he be a hypocrite?
To harbor hope, to be jealous,
To dissuade, to make believe,
Seem gloomy, languish...
This “science of tender passion” is a necessary accessory for secular salons and living rooms.
And finally, Onegin’s friendship with Lensky ended tragically. In the motivations for Onegin’s behavior, Pushkin constantly pits the impulses of his soul against the usual rules of behavior instilled by the secular environment... No matter how Onegin’s noble mind protested against the duel, social conventions shaped by the world still prevailed. Observing the unspoken law of honor established by secular society, Evgeniy kills Lensky in a duel.
In the novel, Pushkin traces the socio-psychological content of the image of Onegin. Onegin's character was formed in certain social conditions, in a certain historical era. Consequently, Onegin is presented in the novel as a national-historical type of Russian life, ultimately generated by the autocratic-serf system. His skepticism and disappointment are a reflection of the general “illness of modern Russians,” which gripped a significant part of the noble intelligentsia at the beginning of the century. Pushkin condemns not so much the hero as the secular environment that shaped him as a person. Onegins are doomed to inaction. They are no longer capable of selfless love or friendship. This is where the idea of a public court arises and the blame falls not on the hero, but on the socio-historical way of Russian life.
Pushkin is a great Russian poet, the founder of Russian realism, the creator of the Russian literary language. One of his greatest works is the novel “Eugene Onegin”.
Onegin is a secular St. Petersburg young man, a metropolitan aristocrat.
Describing his hero, Pushkin talks in detail about his upbringing and education. Onegin received the home education and upbringing of a French tutor, typical of aristocratic youth of that time:
Monsieur I "Abbe, poor Frenchman
So that the child does not get tired
I taught him everything jokingly,
I didn’t bother you with strict morals,
Lightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for a walk in the Summer Garden.
Having become a young man, Onegin leads a life typical of young people of that time: balls, restaurants, visiting theaters. But Evgeny Onegin, by his nature, stands out from the general mass of young people. Pushkin notes his “involuntary devotion to dreams, inimitable strangeness and sharp, chilled mind,” a sense of honor, nobility of soul. This could not but lead Onegin to disappointment in the life and interests of secular society.
When Evgeniy is overcome by the blues, he tries to engage in some useful activity. Nothing came of his attempt to write!
Onegin locked himself at home.
Yawning, he took up the pen.
I wanted to write, but it’s hard work
He felt sick; Nothing
It did not come from his pen.
Later, having left for the estate that he received from his uncle, Onegin tries to start organizing the peasants:
He is the yoke of the ancient corvée
I replaced it with a light quitrent...
But all his activities as a landowner were limited to this reform.
Even such strong feelings as love and friendship could not save Eugene Onegin from spiritual emptiness. He rejected Tatyana’s love, since he valued “freedom and peace” above all else.
Onegin killed his friend Lensky, as secular prejudices prevailed in the hesitations that he experienced after receiving a challenge to a duel.
It seems to me that Pushkin condemns his hero: he behaved selfishly towards the people around him, although Onegin later realized this. He can be called a hero of his time, because Eugene, just like the hero of Lermontov’s work Pechorin, was above the society in which he was located. Very few people could understand him. I think that is why Eugene Onegin was the way he is.
“Eugene Onegin” is the first Russian realistic novel and the only novel in verse in Russian literature.
The complexity of the image of E. Onegin can be traced throughout the entire novel. This lies at least in the fact that we see how very different Onegin is at the beginning and at the end of the novel. At the beginning of the novel, he is a young womanizer who goes from ball to ball. But even during this period we observe his complexity: he did not go to the theater to watch magnificent productions, not to see the brilliant Istomina on stage. Onegin - “an honorary citizen of the scenes” - is more interested in meetings and affairs with “charming actresses” than the stage, art, he likes to point “a double lorgnette at the boxes of unfamiliar ladies.” The complex, contradictory character of Onegin does not fit into the usual patterns: the hero is not a model, not a villain, he constantly deceives the reader’s expectations. Without responding to Tatyana’s feelings, he did not, however, become a “fatal seducer,” did not start a complete love game, and did not deceive her trust. His rebuke was cruel, but it was neither base nor dishonorable. “In that terrible hour, you acted nobly,” Tatyana will tell him. But the same Onegin thoughtlessly insulted Lensky, did not dare to refuse the duel, and killed his friend...
Now I want to express my opinion about the ending of the novel. I think the novel could have been continued. The fact is that Pushkin treated people like Onegin with some degree of contempt. It even seems to me that Pushkin probably loved some girl similar to Tatyana, and this girl was probably conquered by some person similar to Evgeniy. And based on all this, I believe that the end of the novel could not be happy. After all, when the first readers of the novel reproached Pushkin for ending the novel this way, he answered them: “You advise others for Onegin...”
The complexity of Onegin’s image also lies in the fact that he did not fall in love with Tatyana right away, but only later, when she had already married the prince. And why this happened, we read in the novel. Yes, I remember most of all those lines when Pushkin gives an explanation of why Evgeny fell in love with Tatyana:
But an indifferent princess, But an unapproachable goddess.
And especially the following lines:
What is given to you does not attract you, the serpent certainly calls you To himself, to the mysterious tree: Give you the forbidden fruit. And without him, heaven is not heaven for you.
I think that it is Eugene Onegin, and no one else, who is the hero of his time. He is in the novel a man who was killed by upbringing and social life, whom no one could understand.
This is my opinion about Eugene Onegin, the hero of his time.
(310 words) Evgeny Onegin from novel of the same name in the poems of A. S. Pushkin - this is a typical image young man, representing the generation wandering in its moods of the 20s of the 19th century. This hero, like many of his contemporaries who really existed, did not accept his time and internally felt the inevitable inevitability of changes in society.
The youth of that era understood the coming change of times in different ways. Some were organized in social movements to be one of the first to be among the replacement reformers. Others, like Evgeny Onegin, on the contrary, did not take any decisive action. Those who simply succumbed to painful melancholy, increasingly opposing themselves to the world, were the majority.
What are the main features of Onegin? What is he looking for? It is impossible to find virtue in everything that Eugene is guided by - of course, he behaves perfectly, shows the necessary tact, does not miss the opportunity to show his education, but continues to remain cold and detached. At the same time, it would be wrong to consider him a purely negative character, since he is rather unhappy because of his selfishness. Since childhood, experiencing a lack of parental warmth, Onegin too early became fed up with the simple games of secular society. Even in his youth, he comes to the conclusion that in love there is only an insidious pretense, and in friendship there is a hypocritical falsehood. Any environment is unpleasant for Evgeniy; criticism and condemnation clearly appear behind his most polite behavior. But everything else is also alien to him. Life, built on ancient Russian traditions, also quickly plunges him into painful languor. Onegin cannot give up destructive egoism and contempt for people, like many representatives of his generation. His image absorbed the main problems of the nobility of that time: the inability to realize one’s potential, destructive idleness, infantility and impracticality.
Onegin feels his uselessness and at some moments even enjoys his position. For example, in a conversation with Tatyana, he clearly relishes his inability to obtain ordinary and even banal happiness, which the young girl pictures in her dreams. The hero sees in his melancholy the romantic stamp of chosenness: he, unlike everyone else, understands the frailty of existence, while most blindly revolve in a kaleidoscope of days. Perhaps this false sense of superiority is what destroys him, because the craving for ordinary, earthly happiness took hold of him too late. This is the fate of many of his fellow tribesmen: idealizing their artificial sad image, they broke away from real life and got lost in themselves.
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