Roman I.S. Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" is a novel relevant for its time. He touched on issues that worried the Russian public in the 60s of the 19th century. Turgenev showed the advantages and disadvantages of the new movement that dominated the minds of young people of that time. But the novel of this great writer would not be included in the golden fund of the Russian classical literature, if I limited myself only to contemporary issues.
In "Fathers and Sons" Turgenev decided eternal problems: the problem of relationships between different generations, the problem of happiness, the problem of love.
The love theme is very widely developed in the novel. It is a measure of the vitality of heroes. This feeling tests them “for strength” and reveals the true essence of a person. According to Turgenev, love plays a colossal role in life. This feeling is the meaning of life, without it life is meaningless. The ability of heroes to experience love is for a writer one of the main qualities in a person and in his heroes.
The main love line of the novel is connected with the characters of Evgeny Bazarov and Anna Sergeevna Odintsova. The nihilist Bazarov denied love as a relationship of souls. He sincerely believed that love was an invention of romantics. Between people there is only habit, mutual sympathy and relationships between bodies. In my opinion, this attitude of the protagonist towards love is connected with his attitude towards women. All his life, Evgeniy Vasilyevich believed that a woman is a being of the second order. It is created for the entertainment of men. And although the hero preached, along with others, the ideas of female feminism, it seems to me that he still did not take women seriously.
Thus, Bazarov’s life was subordinated to reason and rationalism. But everything in his life changed in an instant. To test his hero and show the absurdity of his beliefs, Turgenev bets life path the hero's obstacle is love. Bazarov, convinced of the strength of his nature, of his difference from others, suddenly... fell in love. He fell in love passionately and furiously, as passionate and furious was his nature: “Odintsova extended both hands forward, and Bazarov rested his forehead against the glass of the window. He was out of breath; his whole body was apparently trembling. But it was not the trembling of youthful timidity, it was not the sweet horror of the first confession that took possession of him: it was passion that beat within him, strong and heavy - a passion similar to anger and, perhaps, akin to it...”
As we see, Bazarov's love is contradictory. She is mixed with anger at herself: she fell in love like a fool, like a simple little man! But the hero can’t help himself. He will carry his feeling for Madame Odintsova until the end of his life, and before his deathbed he will want to see Anna Sergeevna, dear to him: “Farewell,” he said with sudden force, and his eyes flashed with a final sparkle. “Goodbye... Listen... I didn’t kiss you then... Blow on the dying lamp and let it go out...”
I wonder how it behaves when last meeting with Bazarov his beloved is Anna Sergeevna Odintsova. She is afraid of getting infected from Evgeniy Vasilyevich, and only a sense of decency forces her to come closer to him. Well, this woman didn’t love Bazarov? But it might seem that it was she who first began to show signs of attention to the hero. Yes, indeed, this is so. But first Odintsova became interested in Bazarov as an interesting and smart person. Then, feeling more than just sympathy for him, Anna Sergeevna got scared. She did not want to exchange her calmness and authority in society for strong, but unknown to her feelings. In her heart, Odintsova understands that she wants love, but her cold and dispassionate mind stops the heroine. That's why Odintsova is so unhappy. In the epilogue we learn that this heroine married again, but again out of convenience, and not out of love. Well, Odintsova made her choice in life.
Unhappy in love is the antipode, and in many ways, Bazarov's double - Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov. His whole life went to pieces because of an unhappy, fatal love, which Kirsanov cannot forget. Unrequited passion dried up the hero, turned him into a dead man, filling his life with “principles” and dogmas.
Another type of relationship is represented in the novel by the couple Arkady - Katya. Arkady, as a “student of Bazarov” and a “nihilist,” should also deny love. But his nature and upbringing take their toll. Arkady is a simple man who sees his ideal in his family, children, and household. He is a bit soft and easily influenced. From under one firm hand (Bazarov) Arkady falls into others (Katya). But the hero is happy, as is his wife. The scene of their declaration of love is beautiful. Turgenev wants to tell us: these are the moments for which life is worth living. And woe to those who have never experienced them: “He grabbed her big ones, beautiful hands and, gasping with delight, pressed them to his heart. He could barely stand on his feet and just kept repeating: “Katya, Katya...”, and she somehow innocently began to cry, quietly laughing at her own tears. Anyone who has not seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved being has not yet experienced to what extent, completely frozen with gratitude and shame, a person can be happy on earth.”
Happy in family life and Arkady's father, Nikolai Petrovich. He adored his first wife, and after her death he met Fenechka and fell in love with the girl with all his soul. Turgenev shows that true love above all prejudices. Despite the fact that Fenechka is a commoner and much younger than Nikolai Petrovich, these heroes are happy together. And there is direct evidence of this - their son Mitenka.
Turgenev depicts in his novel not only men who are unhappy in love, but also women. If a man without love “dries up” and goes into social activities or science, then the woman becomes unhappy and funny. She lives her life in vain, not fulfilling her natural destiny. An example of this is the image of the feminist Kukshina in the novel. This ugly and ridiculous woman was abandoned by her husband. She “shines” with her progressive views, but in reality she is looking for love, which she so lacks.
The theme of love is one of the leading themes of the novel by I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". All the writer’s characters experience this feeling to one degree or another, in the way they can or are able to. It is love that becomes for them the criterion that reveals the true essence of the heroes, gives them the meaning of life or makes them unhappy.

I. S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons” perfectly reveals the writer’s ability to guess “new needs, new ideas introduced into public consciousness.” The bearer of these ideas in the novel is the commoner democrat Evgeny Bazarov. The hero’s opponent in the novel is the brilliant aristocrat Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov. However, this novel is not only about the clash of two ideologies, but also about the relationship between “fathers” and “children,” about family ties, about respect, trust, and love. In “Fathers and Sons” this theme is illustrated by the description of the Kirsanov and Bazarov families. In addition, Turgenev presents us with the love stories of the heroes - Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich, father and son of the Kirsanovs.

The most significant love stories in the novel are the two antagonistic heroes - Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov. Storyline Pavel Petrovich is his relationship with Princess R., his unsuccessful love. Moreover, Turgenev emphasizes that that period in Kirsanov’s life was the most vibrant, stormy, and eventful. Having settled on the estate, Pavel Petrovich leads a quiet, measured, monotonous life, having forgotten how to dream and love. He lives only with memories of long past events. In Kirsanov’s present, virtually nothing happens; he seems to freeze in his memories. And the author repeatedly emphasizes this vital immobility, the internal “fossilism” of Pavel Petrovich. His “beautiful, emaciated” head looks like a “dead man’s head”; life is “hard for Pavel Petrovich... harder than he himself suspects...”. Love “killed” Kirsanov, destroying his will to live, feelings, desires.

And, on the contrary, Bazarov appears to us as a “spiritual dead man” at the beginning of the novel. Pride, pride, heartlessness, dryness and harshness towards people, nature, the entire surrounding world - Turgenev immediately reveals these traits in the hero. Meanwhile, some kind of anxiety is noticeable in Bazarov’s behavior. What is behind the hero’s actions? “This anger is not an expression of damaged egoism or wounded pride, it is an expression of suffering, languor, produced by the absence of love. Despite all his views, Bazarov craves love for people. If this thirst manifests itself as malice, then such malice is only the other side of love,” wrote N. Strakhov. Meanwhile, the hero himself does not allow natural human needs to manifest themselves in his soul, considering them nonsense and romanticism. Bazarov is deprived of the fullness of life, life in all its diversity of manifestations. The living current of this life seems to pass by the hero, passes him by. Therefore, Bazarov is a “spiritual dead man” at the beginning of the novel.

Love for Odintsova “resurrects” the hero, awakening his dormant feelings, thirst for life and love, revealing to him the beauty of the world. However love story Bazarova is also unsuccessful: Anna Sergeevna Odintsova rejects his love. At the beginning of the novel, Bazarov condemns Pavel Petrovich in a conversation with Arkady: “... a man who put his whole life on the line female love and when this card was killed for him, he became limp and sank to the point that he was incapable of anything, such a person is not a man, but a male. You say he is unhappy: you know better; but not all the crap came out of him.” At the end of the novel, Bazarov himself finds himself in a similar situation.

Using the example of Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich, Turgenev shows two different attitudes towards nature-fate. Turgenev associated the image of nature with the image ancient fate, which is initially hostile to man: “the gaze of the eternal Isis will not warm motherly love to his brainchild, he freezes, squeezes the heart with indifferent cold.” In the face of fate, according to Turgenev, three paths are open to man: “the despair of pessimism, stoicism, the consolation of religion.” In the novel, Pavel Petrovich shows us the “desperation of pessimism,” which manifests itself both in his lifestyle and in his skepticism itself. At the beginning of the novel, Bazarov appears as a stoic, calm and imperturbable person who does not react in any way “to external and internal stimuli.” However, at the end of the novel, the hero comes to the same “desperation of pessimism” that controls the soul of Pavel Petrovich.

Thus, both heroes (Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich) are simply unhappy. However, this is not the objective fault of the heroes. Turgenev’s happiness is capricious and whimsical; it does not depend on the person, but the person depends on him.

It is characteristic that Turgenev unites “ideological opponents” in their interest in Fenechka. A peculiar love triangle: Bazarov-Fenechka-Pavel Petrovich. Secretly, Pavel Petrovich is attracted to Fenechka, who reminds him of Princess R. Bazarova, but she likes her as a young, beautiful woman. In addition, in this “courtship” one can also vaguely discern a strong resentment towards Odintsova, who rejected his feelings.

However, neither Pavel Petrovich’s feelings nor Bazarov’s interest are reciprocated by Fenechka. Bazarov’s unexpected persecution offends her, but Pavel Petrovich’s attention is just as hard for her: “They all scare me. “They don’t talk, but they look at you like that,” she complains about Kirsanov’s gaze. Fenechka herself loves Nikolai Petrovich, who is a little embarrassed by this love, and by his age, and by his feelings for Fenechka.

The culmination of all these relationships is a duel, which, paradoxically, reveals the best that is hidden in both “rivals”: ​​the chivalry of Pavel Petrovich, his repentance for his own arrogance, the ability to soberly assess the situation and the human vulnerability of Bazarov, his courage, nobility .

There is another parallel in the novel: Bazarov’s strong, all-consuming passion is shaded by Arkady’s innocent, poetically inspired feeling for Katya Odintsova. In contrast to Bazarov's failure, the story of young Kirsanov ends happily: he marries Katya Odintsova. However, this does not mean that it is fatal, tragic love Bazarova is contrasted with the “quiet, peaceful” feeling of Arkady. For Turgenev, the feelings of both heroes are equally valuable. Let us remember the scene of Arkady and Katya’s explanation. “He grabbed her big beautiful hands and, gasping with delight, pressed them to his heart. He could barely stand on his feet and just kept repeating: “Katya, Katya...”, and she somehow innocently began to cry, quietly laughing at her own tears. Anyone who has not seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved being has not yet experienced the extent to which “, completely frozen with gratitude and shame, a person can be happy on earth.” In these words there is regret for the tragic, broken destinies of Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich.

Love, like beauty, like art, was a certain higher power in Turgenev's worldview. Through love, art, and beauty, the writer “comprehended immortality.” These were the forces that resisted doom human life, the frailty of human existence.

In his marriage to Fenechka, Nikolai Petrovich also finds family happiness. A wonderful picture of a family dinner in the Kirsanovs’ house, drawn by Turgenev warmly and with love: Nikolai Petrovich, Fenechka and Mitya sitting next to him, Pavel Petrovich, Katya and Arkady... “Everyone was a little awkward, a little sad and, in essence, very good. Each served the other with amusing courtesy... Katya was the calmest of all: she looked around her trustingly, and one could notice that Nikolai Petrovich had already fallen in love with her.” With this scene, the writer once again reminds us that love, family, respect and trust are the eternal values, for which it is worth living.

The novel ends with a description of the rural cemetery where Evgeny Bazarov is buried. “No matter what passionate, sinful, rebellious heart hides in the grave, the flowers growing on it serenely look at us with their innocent eyes...” writes Turgenev. Man is mortal, but love, like nature, is eternal.

Olga VAKHRUSHEVA is a 10th grade student at Moscow school No. 57 (literature teacher - Nadezhda Aronovna SHAPIRO).

Love in the novel "Fathers and Sons"

Almost all the characters in Fathers and Sons experience or have experienced love. But for two - Pavel Petrovich and Bazarov - this feeling becomes fatal.

Hints of Bazarov's attitude towards love appear at the very beginning of the novel. During the trip from the station to the Kirsanovs’ estate, a emotional Nikolai Petrovich reads aloud an excerpt from “Eugene Onegin,” and Bazarov, sitting in another stroller, accidentally but very sharply interrupts him precisely on the word “love,” asking Arkady for matches. The fact that Bazarov interrupts Nikolai Petrovich precisely on the word “love” with such a prosaic request is alarming. As it turns out later, Bazarov really does not value love and poetry. (It’s interesting that the lines that Nikolai Petrovich did not have time to say: “what a languid excitement is in my soul, in my blood” and “Everything that rejoices and shines brings boredom and excitement to a soul that has been dead for a long time, and everything seems dark to it” - are quite suitable for describing, respectively, Bazarov’s future feelings (“his blood was on fire”) and Pavel Petrovich’s state.)

Almost immediately the confrontation between Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich comes to the fore. Bazarov does not respect the elder Kirsanov not only because of the “antagonism of their views”, not only because of the lordship, “lion habits”: Pavel Petrovich has sleek nails, white collars, living in the village, he wears patent leather ankle boots. (Turgenev will still laugh at these ankle boots and Pavel Petrovich at the end of the novel: the daughter of a city gardener married Peter because “he not only had a watch - he had patent leather ankle boots.”)

Bazarov cannot respect Pavel Petrovich (after Arkady’s story) also because the main content, the main tragedy of this man’s life is passion, and for Bazarov it is all “romantic nonsense, rot”, for him the relationship between a man and a woman is based only on physiology. Bazarov himself has never experienced love, so he cannot understand, respect, or at least be fair to the elder Kirsanov, and this is exactly what Arkady hopes for when he tells his friend his uncle’s story. The effect is the opposite: Bazarov begins to despise Pavel Petrovich even more.

But all of Bazarov’s ideas collapse when he meets Odintsova. (It’s interesting that Arkady and Bazarov go to Odintsova’s estate for the first time on the day of the angel Evgeny - it’s as if another life symbolically begins for him. “Let’s see how he (the angel) takes care of me,” says Bazarov. Thus, Odintsova appears in Bazarov’s life with the word “angel” and leaves his life with the same word: when Anna Sergeevna comes with the doctor, now to see the dying Bazarov for the last time, Vasily Ivanovich exclaims: “Wife! Wife!.. An angel from heaven is coming to us.” “- and repeats: “Angel! Angel!”) As soon as he saw it, Bazarov immediately became interested in Odintsova: “What kind of figure is this?<…>She’s not like other women.” (Here the “figure” of Odintsova is clearly contrasted with the “figure” of Kukshina.) But almost immediately he tries to put her in the ranks of ordinary, vulgar women! “Whoever she is - whether it’s just a provincial girl, or an “emancipe” like Kukshina...”

Bazarov would like to look at her like other women, but he cannot. That is why, trying to convince himself that Odintsov interests him only from the same point of view as others beautiful women, he says so many cynical things about her. That is why, trying to explain and exhaust his attraction to Odintsova only with physiology, he talks so much about her body: “Such a rich body! - continued Bazarov, - even now to the anatomical theater<…>only she has such shoulders as I haven’t seen for a long time.”

Having arrived with a friend in Maryino, Arkady is constantly surprised unusual things, what is happening to Bazarov, surprise is growing and growing, in the short chapter XV it is emphasized five times: first he says to Bazarov: “I am surprised at you!”, then “with secret surprise he notices that Bazarov was embarrassed” in front of Odintsova; he was “surprised” by the fact that Bazarov “tried to keep his interlocutor busy,” then the author says that “Arkady had to never cease to be surprised that day,” the last time Arkady was “surprised” when Bazarov blushed, saying goodbye to Odintsova. Arkady himself also fell in love with Odintsova. But if Bazarov, not understanding what is happening in him, tries to convince himself of the impossibility of love, then Arkady, on the contrary, “consciously” falls in love with Odintsova: “Arkady, who finally decided with himself that he was in love with Odintsova, began to indulge in quiet despondency."

Having fallen in love, Bazarov begins to realize with bitterness that his beliefs have nothing to do with reality: previously he considered everything romantic “nonsense,” but now “with indignation he recognized the romance in himself.” At the beginning of the novel, he laughed at Pavel Petrovich, captivated by the “mysterious gaze” of the princess, and, having fallen in love with Odintsova, he himself tells her: “maybe, for sure, every person is a mystery. Yes, although you, for example...” (Before that, he believed: “... All people are alike, both in body and soul.”)

In general, oddly enough, it turns out that Bazarov’s love story is very similar to the love story of Pavel Petrovich. Pavel Petrovich meets Princess R. at the ball, Bazarov also meets Odintsova at the ball.

Both Pavel Petrovich and Bazarov are unhappy in love. They both used to “be great hunters of women and female beauty.” But, having truly fallen in love, they change. “Pavel Petrovich, accustomed to victories, soon achieved his goal here (with Princess R.), but the ease of triumph did not cool him.” Bazarov soon realized that “you wouldn’t get any sense” from Odintsova, and “to his amazement, he didn’t have the strength to turn away.” For both Bazarov and Pavel Petrovich, love turns out to be a feeling far from simple attraction.

For both, love becomes torment. Over time, the elder Kirsanov “became even more painfully attached to the princess,” love “tormented and enraged” Bazarov.

The descriptions of Princess R. and Odintsova contain similar images. The princess sent Pavel Petrovich a ring with a sphinx, donated by Pavel Petrovich himself, “drew a cross-shaped line along the sphinx and told him to say that the cross is the answer.” The image of a cross and crossed lines also appears in Odintsova’s description: while talking with Bazarov, she “crossed her arms on her chest,” and from under the folds of her dress “the tips of her legs, also crossed, were barely visible.”

Arkady says about the princess: “What nested in her soul - God knows!” Odintsova, having finally decided to reject Bazarov, thinks: “...No, God knows where this would lead...”

At the beginning of the novel, Bazarov condemns Pavel Petrovich: “... A man who put his whole life on the card of female love, and when this card was killed for him, became limp and sank to the point that he was not capable of anything, such a person is not a man.” (It’s interesting that Bazarov plays cards with Odintsova and loses to her!) But, returning to the village to his parents for the last time, Bazarov loses weight, remains silent, “crushing” his father with his mood. “The fever of work” gave way to “dreary boredom and dull anxiety.” Thus, Bazarov becomes limp in exactly the same way as Pavel Petrovich. Love in both cases leads to a crisis, life and spiritual.

The unhappy love of Pavel Petrovich and Bazarov evokes one feeling - pity. Arkady, talking about Uncle Bazarov, says: “He is more worthy of pity than ridicule.” After Bazarov’s confession, “Odintsova became both scared and sorry for him”; when saying goodbye to Bazarov, who was leaving her house for the last time, she again “felt sorry” for him.

The scene of Bazarov's declaration of love to Odintsova is contrasted with their farewell on Bazarov's last visit to Nikolskoye. In the first, after Bazarov’s story about her feelings, “Odintsova extended both hands forward,” and a few moments later Bazarov “quickly turned around and grabbed her both hands.” And in the second, asking him to stay, “she extended her hand to him with sympathy,” but he understood everything and did not accept the hand. In the first scene, not understanding Odintsova’s gesture, the excited Bazarov rushed to her, and in the second, understanding the meaning of the outstretched hand, he refused it. (The way Bazarov waited for a conversation with Odintsova on his third visit to Nikolskoye is shown by the detail: “... it turned out that he had packed his dress so that he had it at hand.”)

Odintsova is trying to convince herself that she is not to blame for anything, that she “could not have foreseen” Bazarov’s love. But even from the words in which the author talks about the relationship between Bazarov and Odintsova, it becomes clear that this is not so: the reason for the change in Bazarov “was the feeling instilled in him by Odintsova.” The word “suggested” retains a connotation of intentionality; one cannot suggest anything to anyone without own desire for that.

Bazarov’s main feeling in his romance with Odintsova is anger: “he went into the forest and wandered through it, breaking branches and cursing in a low voice both her and himself,” “this passion beat in him, strong and heavy, a passion similar to anger and , perhaps, akin to her...” Bazarov has no interest in Odintsova, he is only interested in his passion.

Next to the theme of love is the theme of nature. The rapprochement of Arkady and Katya occurs against the backdrop of their love for nature: “Katya adored nature, and Arkady loved her.” Before Bazarov falls in love with Odintsova, he believes that nature is “masterful”; the aesthetic side of nature does not exist for him. Having fallen in love with Odintsova, Bazarov looks out the window and feels the “irritable freshness of the night.” The freshness is “irritable” precisely because Bazarov feels it, but did not feel it before, it “infuriates and torments” him.

Bazarov struggles with himself and suffers. By the end, he gives up almost all of his beliefs. Already loving Odintsova, he gets irritated when Arkady compares a dried leaf with a moth, and asks him not to speak beautifully. And, dying, he himself says beautifully: “...Blow on the dying lamp and let it go out.”

The theme of love in the novel comes very close to the theme of death. Here you can see another similarity between the love story of Pavel Petrovich and the love story of Bazarov. Unable to stop loving the princess even after her death, Pavel Petrovich lost everything; the narrator says that his “emaciated head lay on a white pillow, like a dead man’s head... Yes, he was a dead man.” Bazarov, having fallen in love with Odintsova, soon dies. Thus, in both cases, unhappy love leads to death, actual or mental, is no longer so important. (Bazarov cut himself during the autopsy, probably because he was inattentive. And the reason for his absent-mindedness and inattention was precisely unhappy love.)

When they meet, Bazarov and Odintsova seem to be placed in an equal position: neither he nor she have ever experienced love before. But Bazarov turns out to be capable of falling in love, but Odintsov is not. Bazarov suffers, but Odintsova cannot experience such strong feelings; this makes her feel only a slight sadness. Odintsova, undoubtedly, in the eyes of the reader loses to Bazarov, he is taller than her.

Bazarov's last wish is to see Odintsova, his last words about love. Passion became fatal for Bazarov; he fell in love with precisely the kind of love that he did not believe in the existence. Flowers (not burdock) grow on Bazarov’s grave - a symbol of “omnipotent love”, “eternal reconciliation” and “endless life”.

Love is the brightest and most beautiful feeling in every person’s life. But everyone treats him differently. It improved someone’s existence, but ruined someone’s entire future. So it is in the lives of the heroes of the novel “Fathers and Sons” by I.S. Turgenev, this feeling played an important role.

Evgeny Vasilyevich Bazarov is a young nihilist who came with his best friend to the Kirsanov estate. He denied all feelings, including love, which he considered some kind of nonsense. But everything changed when she herself knocked on his heart. During this trip, he met a young woman named Anna Sergeevna Odintsova, who was not only beautiful, but also very smart. Eugene fell in love with her, but tried to get rid of this feeling, which only complicated the whole matter. Because of this, Bazarov understood the entire surface of his worldview, which became a significant blow for him.

But for him best friend, Arkady Kirsanova, love became a truly wonderful feeling that put everything in its place. He had known a girl named Katya for many years, who was his close friend. But over time, it all grew into a wonderful and tender feeling that united two hearts.

The same thing happened with Arkady’s father, Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, whose new love helped him cope with a terrible blow and return to a full life. After the death of his parents, he immediately decided to get married, finding an outlet in family life. But it didn’t last long; his wife died a few years later. This accident unsettled Nikolai and he began to lead a closed life. Only after meeting a young and slightly naive girl named Fenechka did he begin to blossom again. It was her purity that helped Kirsanov see the colors in life and remember that he could still live and enjoy it. Fenechka, in turn, was able to discern in the elderly man a truly kind and open heart, in which she found a good place.

But in contrast to Nikolai Petrovich and Fenechka, the sad love story of his brother, Pavel Petrovich, is shown. Even in his youth, he met Princess R., with whom he fell madly in love. True, the object of his adoration did not reciprocate, which ruined the hero’s entire life. At first she showed interest in him, but then she completely stopped paying even a drop of attention to him. After this personal tragedy, Pevel closed himself off and could never open up to anyone again. new love, which might have saved him. But nevertheless, he had already begun to be attracted to Fenechka, who personified home comfort and tranquility.

Thus, love, a bright feeling that can change the life of any person, greatly influenced the fate of all the heroes of the novel by I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". She gave someone peace and joy, for example, Nikolai Kirsanov and his son Arkady. But in contrast to them, the nihilist Bazarov and Arkady’s uncle, Pavel Petrovich, are shown, whose fate changed for the worse after sad love.

The novel “Fathers and Sons” touches on issues that worried the public in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to different views on life, the author also raises the topic of love. It is she who shows us the real essence of the heroes and tests them. The ability to love for a writer is one of the important human qualities.

The main love line of the novel is connected with the relationship between Evgeny Bazarov and Anna Odintsova. Being a fighter for everything new, the guy did not find true pleasure in art, romance and love. He believed that love was invented by the romantics. People are connected only by sympathy. Perhaps the reason for this was his relationships with female representatives. He believed that they were created solely for entertainment, so they should not be taken seriously. However, very soon things happened in his life dramatic changes. Ivan Sergeevich provides Bazarov with the opportunity to become convinced that his thoughts are wrong. Along the way, the main character develops a tender feeling - love. Evgeniy falls passionately and truly in love. “He was out of breath; his whole body was apparently trembling,” this is how the writer writes about Bazarov’s condition. He loves Anna, but these feelings are quite contradictory. Until the end of his days, the young man keeps these reverent feelings within himself and before his death he wants to see Anna Odintsova. However, upon meeting, the girl’s behavior is very strange. She is overcome by the fear of becoming infected by Bazarov, but in order to look decent in the eyes of others, she still approaches him. Did she really not love Eugene? But it was she who began to show signs of sympathy, and then became afraid of her own feelings. The heroine is unhappy, because she exchanged unknown feelings for authority in society.

Bazarov's antipode is Pavel Petrovich, who also suffered because of love. In his case, it was an unrequited feeling that deprived him of real life.

Different, but no less interesting story love attracts the attention of readers. Relationship between Arkady and Katya. The young man dreamed of love and a happy family, but he is easily influenced by other people. Describing their relationship, Turgenev draws our attention to the wonderful moments that are worth loving and living for. Just like his son, Arkady’s father is happy in his family life. He was crazy about his first wife, and then fell in love with Fenechka with all his heart. Despite the significant age difference, they are happy and really love each other. The couple had a baby named Mitenka.