What feelings Tatyana's love caused. Composition "Tatiana's Love (based on the work" Eugene Onegin ")

What is love? Love is a feeling of selfless, heartfelt affection. This very feeling manifests itself between our heroes: Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina, only each at a different time, so they did not have reciprocity.

The theme of love in the work "Eugene Onegin" is one of the leading themes. And it was immediately clear that the protagonist would have love, which, it seems to me, he did not understand.

But let's get back to the piece. From the first lines we get to know the main character - Eugene Onegin. Our hero is such a person who, already in his youth, became acquainted with the secular world and managed to cool off to it. The fact that Onegin has lost interest in him is good, it would seem that now he will think about marriage and family, but that was not the case, because at the same time he stopped believing in sincere friendship and love. What kind of family is this !? After a while we get to know other heroes - Vladimir Lensky, Olga Larina and, most importantly, Tatyana Larina. The main character was the embodiment of the female ideal for the author, her appearance and soul was close to the poet's muse, therefore her character is revealed to us both as a unique individuality and as a type of Russian girl living in a provincial noble family. Tatiana is a romantic person. She loves to read books, experiences various feelings and adventures with their heroes. She is attracted by everything mysterious, mysterious (which is in Eugene Onegin, don’t you?). Since childhood, Tatiana is close and familiar with the life of nature, which has become the world of her soul, a world infinitely close. From childhood, when communicating with nature, the girl was brought up the integrity and naturalness of nature, which she keeps in herself throughout her life.

In the plot of the work, such events begin to develop that Eugene Onegin is forced to move to the village, where he meets Lensky, and then with the Larins family. At the moment of meeting with the Larins' family, Eugene Onegin recognizes Tatiana, who immediately falls in love with the main character and then the author remarks: "It's time to come, she fell in love." At this very moment, the girl's feelings are manifested and the ideal images of the book heroes begin to come to life in her mind: "They put on a single image In one Onegin they merged." Tatiana begins to suffer greatly, not to sleep at night. She kept thinking about Eugene Onegin, so she decided to tell him about her feelings and wrote a letter, in response to which she expected reciprocity, but this did not happen. Tatiana's confession, saturated with such love and sincerity, was not heard by Onegin. Eugene, "alien to lofty feelings", was not able to answer the girl. This letter alienated him from Tatiana. Well, after an explanation in the garden, Tatyana's name day and a duel with Lensky, Onegin simply leaves for St. Petersburg and then travels. It seems to me that here Onegin is simply running away from his problems, running away from Tatiana, from love. Perhaps he was scared of something or was simply afraid of his feelings, because they could be real. But he did not act like a real man who would have stayed in the village, figured out everything, first of all - in himself, talked to Tatyana, no, he did not do that, but only ran away.

Well, Tatyana at this time together with her mother goes to Moscow. An endless number of balls were held there, at which the heroine was very bored and wanted to return to the village, but at one of these, an important general draws attention to the girl, whom she eventually marries. Yes, now they can condemn Tatyana that she conveyed her feelings by marrying another. What was she left with? She did not know when Eugene would return and whether he would return at all? She also did not know Onegin's feelings for herself. Before her there was an unknown, Tatiana did not know what to expect from this man, so she married a general.

Well, the day has come when, at one of the balls, the general introduces his wife - that is, our Tatyana - to Eugene Onegin. And here our main character irrevocably falls in love with Tatiana, who no longer reciprocates herself, not because she no longer loves him, but because she has a conjugal duty to her. And now Eugene finds himself in Tatyana's place and burns out from unrequited love. So, in conclusion, I want to say that Eugene Onegin is a philosophical novel, a novel about the meaning of life. Moreover, it is easy to read it, you need to be able to understand the meaning between the lines.

Updated: 2017-03-12

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Love in the understanding of Onegin and Tatiana.

(after A. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin")

In my essay, I want to understand and understand what love means for Onegin and Tatiana. I would like to understand why Eugene and Tatiana did not stay together, and, in general, is it possible.

Eugene Onegin is an extraordinary figure. He is successful in society, popular with the ladies, but, nevertheless, he felt bored and left for the village. In this complex spiritual phenomenon, called Eugene Onegin, there are two main centers. One of them is indifference, coldness, the other center is described in the first chapter "but in what he was a true genius" - and further follows the characterization of Eugene as a "genius of love". In the beginning, it can be mistaken for the irony, grin, Don Juanism of the hero. We see a free, fashionable, passionate rake, an apostate of fashionable pleasures, an enemy and waste of order.

He sees no sense in anything, is indifferent to everything except self-esteem and independence. The feeling of love is alien to him, only "the science of tender passion" is familiar to him. It is difficult to imagine that in a few years this callous character will comprehend a selfless, spontaneous, poetic feeling. In the meantime, he sees in girls only potential brides planning how to spend his fortune after the wedding. He perceived Olga and Tatiana in the same way. He was surprised to learn that his friend (Lensky) was in love with Olga:

When I was like you, poet

Olga has no life in her features

Exactly in the Madonna of Vendice

She is round, red in face,

Like that stupid moon

In this stupid sky.

He admitted that if he was a poet, he would choose Tatiana. He is not a poet, but he notices the personality, the singularity of the heroine. She attracted his interest with her mystery, elusiveness, spirituality, depth. But he only singled her out of the two sisters, nothing more. The girl did not arouse any other interest in him. But his soul, incapable of deep feelings, was touched by Tatyana's letter:

But, having received Tanya's message,

Onegin was vividly moved:

The language of girlish dreams

In it he revolted the thoughts with a swarm.

After reading the letter, Onegin felt the excitement of his soul, for a long time, and perhaps never, he had never known a real deep feeling that would have worried him so much. “Perhaps an old feeling of ardor took possession of him for a minute,” but Eugene returned from the clouds to the ground, overwhelmed his feelings, decided that they did not suit each other, did not dare to try his luck. The hero is endowed with intelligence, therefore he acts rationally, consciously, but love and reason are different things. There are times when you need to "cast aside" the calculation, the head, and live with the heart. Eugene's heart is “chained” and it is very difficult to break them.

After Lensky's death, we do not see the hero, he leaves, and comes back completely different, the opposite. We do not know what happened to the hero during his journey, what he thought, he understood, why he “removed the fetters from his heart,” but we see another person who is able to feel and love, experience and suffer. Perhaps he realized that he had done the wrong thing, rejecting Tatyana, that in vain he had decided not to try to live the fabulous, airy life that Lensky admired so much, but nothing can be returned, and the image of Tanya “melts” in Onegin's memory.

His meeting with Tatiana in St. Petersburg was a surprise to him:

"Really, - thinks Eugene: - is she really? .." Both heroes have changed over these 2 years. Tatiana follows Eugene's advice:

"Learn to rule yourself,

not everyone, like me, will understand

inexperience leads to trouble. "

Eugene becomes sensual and vulnerable. He falls in love: he counts the hours before meeting Tanya, seeing her, he is speechless. The hero is overwhelmed with feelings, he is gloomy, awkward, but this does not touch Tatyana's soul:

He's barely awkward

The head answers her

Its full of gloomy thought.

He looks gloomily. She

sitting, calm and free.

In all the actions of Eugene, inexperience is visible, he never loved the way it was now. His youth - the time of love - he lived the life of an adult, strict indifferent man. Now that this time has passed, and the time has come for a real adult life, love makes him a boy, inexperienced and insane.

In the anguish of loving thoughts

He spends both day and night.

He is happy if he throws it on her

Boa fluffy on the shoulder,

Or touches hotly

Her arms, or spread

Before her is a motley regiment of liveries,

Or he will raise a handkerchief for her.

Onegin enjoys every minute of his life spent next to Tatyana. Does not pay attention to his appearance, painful condition:

Onegin begins to turn pale:

She can't see it, or it's not a pity,

Onegin dries - and barely

He's not sick with consumption.

With each of his actions, Eugene wants to deserve attention, Tatiana's tender look, but she is insensitive and cold. She hid all her feelings far, far away, she “bound her heart with chains,” as Onegin once did. Tanya's current life is a masquerade. She has a mask on her face that looks quite natural, but not for Eugene. He saw her as none of the people around her now. He knows a gentle and romantic, naive and in love, sensitive and vulnerable Tanya. The hero hopes that all this could not disappear without a trace, that under this mask the real face of the girl is hidden - the village Tatiana, who grew up on French novels and dreams of great and pure love. For Eugene, all this was very important, but gradually the hope melted away, and the hero decided to leave. On the last explanation with Tatiana, he "looks like a dead man." His passion is similar to Tanya's suffering in Chapter 4. When the young man came to her house, he saw the real Tanya without a mask and pretense:

... Simple maiden

with dreams, with the heart of the old days,

now resurrected in her again.

We all see that the village Tanya is alive, and her behavior is just an image, a cruel role. Now let's move to the village and try to understand what love means for Tanya at the beginning and at the end of the novel.

Tatiana, like Onegin, was a stranger in the family. She did not like noisy games, feasts, never fondled her parents. Tanya lived in another, parallel world, the world of books and dreams.

She liked novels early;

They replaced everything for her:

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

from others, deep concentration on the inner movements of the soul makes love for Tatyana more imperious. In Onegin, she saw all the best sides of literary heroes, she fell in love with the image created by writers, society and Tatyana herself. She lives a dream, believes in a happy ending to the novel called life. But dreams dissipate when Eugene answers her letter, flirts with Olga, kills a friend. Then Tatiana understands that dreams and reality are different things. The hero of her dreams is far from humanity. The world of books and the world of people cannot exist together, they must be separated. After all these events, Tatyana does not suffer, does not try to forget her lover, she wants to understand him. To do this, the girl visits Eugene's house, in which she learns other, secret sides of Onegin. Only now Tanya begins to understand, comprehend the actions of the hero. But she understood him too late, he left, and it is not known whether they will see each other again. Perhaps the girl would have lived with dreams of meeting, studying his soul, spending time in his house. But an event happened that changed Tanya's life. She was taken to Petersburg, given in marriage, separated from her native nature, books, the country world with the stories and tales of the nanny, with her warmth, naivety, cordiality. All that, with which she was separated, made up the favorite circle of the heroine's life. In St. Petersburg, no one needs her, her provincial views seem strange and naively funny there. Therefore, Tanya decides that the best thing in this case would be to hide under a mask. She hides her affections, becomes a model of "impeccable taste", a faithful snapshot of nobility, sophistication. But I am sure that Tanya constantly recalls that serene life, full of hopes and dreams. She remembers her beloved quiet nature, she remembers Eugene. She does not try to "bury" the village Tanya, but simply does not show her to those around her. We see that internally Tanya has not changed at all, but now she has a husband, and she cannot recklessly surrender to love.

Reflecting on what love means for Tatiana at the end of the novel (since we already understood that in the beginning love played a big role in the heroine's life), I came to this conclusion. Tanya has remained the same, so sometimes she allows herself to think, dream about another life, full of love and tenderness. But she, who grew up in the spirit of the patriarchal nobility, cannot break the marriage bond, cannot build her happiness on the misfortune of her husband. Therefore, she surrenders to the will of fate, rejects love and lives in a world full of lies and pretense.

At the beginning of the novel, when the characters' happiness seems so close, Onegin rejects Tatiana. Why? Simply because he is not only cruel, but also noble. He realizes that happiness will be short-lived and decides to reject Tanya immediately, rather than gradually torment her. He sees the hopelessness of their relationship, so he decides to leave without starting a relationship. At the end of the novel, the situation changes, the hero lives with his love, it means a lot to him. But now the final word is for the heroine. But she also refuses the relationship. Again, why? The girl was brought up according to ancient customs. Cheating on her husband, leaving him is impossible for her. For this act, everyone would condemn her: family, society, and, first of all, herself. We see different characters of heroes, upbringing, worldview, different attitudes towards love. To unite them, you need to change all these qualities, all these data, but then we will not see Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina, but completely different heroes, with different qualities. But who can guarantee that these people will be drawn to each other, as our heroes?

Love in the understanding of Onegin and Tatiana.

(after A. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin")

In my essay, I want to understand and understand what love means for Onegin and Tatiana. I would like to understand why Eugene and Tatiana did not stay together, and, in general, is it possible.

When I was like you, poet

Olga has no life in her features

Exactly in the Madonna of Vendice

She is round, red in face,

Like that stupid moon

In this stupid sky.

But, having received Tanya's message,

Onegin was vividly moved:

The language of girlish dreams

In it he revolted the thoughts with a swarm.

After reading the letter, Onegin felt the excitement of his soul, for a long time, and perhaps never, he had never known a real deep feeling that would have worried him so much. “Perhaps the old feeling of ardor took possession of him for a minute,” but Eugene returned from the clouds to the ground, overwhelmed his feelings, decided that they did not suit each other, did not dare to try his luck. The hero is endowed with intelligence, therefore he acts rationally, consciously, but love and reason are different things. There are times when you need to "cast aside" the calculation, the head, and live with the heart. Eugene's heart is “chained” and it is very difficult to break them.

His meeting with Tatiana in St. Petersburg was a surprise to him:

"Really, - thinks Eugene: - is she really? .." Both heroes have changed over these 2 years. Tatiana follows Eugene's advice:

"Learn to rule yourself,

not everyone, like me, will understand

inexperience leads to trouble. "

He's barely awkward

The head answers her

Its full of gloomy thought.

He looks gloomily. She

sitting, calm and free.

In the anguish of loving thoughts

He spends day and night.

He is happy if he throws it on her

Boa fluffy on the shoulder,

Or touches hotly

Her arms, or spread

Before her is a motley regiment of liveries,

Or he will raise a handkerchief for her.

Onegin enjoys every minute of his life spent next to Tatyana. Does not pay attention to his appearance, painful condition:

Onegin begins to turn pale:

She can't see it, or it's not a pity,

Onegin dries - and barely

He's not sick with consumption.

... Simple maiden

with dreams, with the heart of the old days,

now resurrected in her again.

Tatiana, like Onegin, was a stranger in the family. She did not like noisy games, feasts, never fondled her parents. Tanya lived in another, parallel world, the world of books and dreams.

She liked novels early;

They replaced everything for her:

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

(1)

Onegin could not stand the test of friendship. And in love? From the first chapter of the novel it is clear that in his youth Onegin did not yet love - he only amused himself with skillful play. But maybe he was loved? Hard to say. Almost certainly, Tatyana's love, for all her romance, is the first true love that Onegin met in his life. Did Onegin understand this? This question cannot be answered with “yes” or “no”.

But, having received Tanya's message,

Onegin was vividly moved:

The language of girlish dreams

In him he revolted the thoughts with a swarm;

It is clear from these lines that Onegin understood a lot. After all, at first glance, he noticed that Tatyana was an outstanding person, he felt interest in her and undoubted sympathy. But Yevgeny was too devastated, too lazy spiritually, too blind, for all his insight, to understand that such a jewel as Tatyana's love would not come across on the road every day. And, what is especially important, having lost the freshness of the first feeling in his youth, he has not yet gained the right to true love. It is not for nothing that the author in Chapter I does not use the word "love", but replaces it with the phrase "sentimental ardor of old." Onegin's appearance is unusually clearly revealed in the scene of the explanation with Tatiana (IV class). Onegin himself calls this monologue "confession", the author - "sermon" (this is how Eugene preached "). Tatiana took this "confession" as a "lesson": moreover, in her last monologue she recalls Onegin's "taunting ... abuse". Obviously, all these assessments are equally true. Onegin's monologue is a confession because the hero of the novel honestly, sincerely reveals his soul in him - chilled, devastated, hardened "in the deadening ecstasy of light." But at the same time it is also a sermon, for Onegin takes the pose of a mentor and reads the moral of the girl in love with him. And Tatyana's expression "the sharpness of your abuse" is most likely associated with the memory of Yevgeny's last edifying words:

You will love again: but ...

Learn to rule yourself;

Not everyone will understand you like me;

Inexperience leads to trouble. "

Onegin himself felt how insulting these words were for poor Tanya,
therefore, before pronouncing them, he addressed her:
Listen to me without anger ...
Saying to Tatiana: “You will love again,” Onegin is based on his personal experience. He had not yet met a woman who could fall in love with one person for life.
Onegin's suggestion that Tatyana is still able to turn to someone with the same ardent, trusting confession, no doubt, is offensive and insulting to her.
Onegin himself did not know how to deeply love and never experienced the suffering associated with the feeling of love (if he was comforted in an instant, he was cheated on - he was glad to rest "), so he could not imagine how much one could suffer from unrequited love. That is why Onegin's monologue was distinguished by brilliance, grace, eloquence. These features of refined, freely flowing speech show a high intelligence and nobility, but enhance the impression of coldness and indifference.
It is curious that immediately after the depiction of Tatyana's meeting with Onegin, Pushkin begins to talk about friendship, kinship, loyalty and unexpectedly concludes:

Whom to love? Whom to believe?

Who won't betray us one?

Who measures all things, all speeches

Helpfully for our yardstick?

Who does not sow slander about us?

Who cares for us?

To whom is our vice not a problem?

Who will never get bored?

Of course, this is not the poet's conviction, but a subtle mockery of egoism, which has taken such deep roots in people like Onegin. Onegin could not get out of the egoistic world of his disappointment, his boredom and respond to Tatyana's lively, sincere call. True love, the first and, obviously, the only one appeared later, when Onegin went through difficult trials: the tragic death of Lensky, the sorrowful wanderings in Russia taught him a lot. The complex evolution of the hero is revealed in Chapter VIII. After the tragic death of Lensky, we part with Onegin for a long time.

Onegin's new appearance on the pages of the novel is accompanied by a dispute, which reveals the author's point of view in relation to Onegin of his secular enemies. It is important for the author to express his opinion about the hero, who has changed, has become closer and dearer to him.

But who is in the crowd of the chosen

Is it silent and hazy?

He seems to be a stranger to everyone.

Faces flicker in front of him ...

This chain of questions is a testament to how Eugene has changed and how tragically alone he is. In the very tone one cannot but feel a bitter, saddened sympathy for Eugene. So, exactly he, - the poet says with excitement. But then a completely different voice is heard - someone from the secular crowd:

How long has it been brought to us?
Is he still the same il subdued?
Or is he portraying the same eccentric?
Tell me, how did he come back?
What will he present to us so far?
What will appear now? Melmot.
The words "brought in", "pacified", "writhes", "flaunts" express spiteful ridicule and ill will. And Pushkin gives a merciless, destructive rebuke to the vulgar - "the good fellow", ardently defends Onegin from the attacks of "proud insignificance." And then the poet makes it clear that this is the lot of a whole generation:

But it's sad to think it's in vain

Youth was given to us,

That they cheated on her every hour

That she deceived us ...

Thus, it would be fair in Chapter VIII to see in Onegin a person, if not ripe, then ripening for activity higher than fussing with oneself and one's longing. He was accelerated by a new meeting with Tatiana. Pushkin conveys Onegin's deep excitement, peering at an unfamiliar lady, so unlike everyone else:

"Really," - thinks Eugene, -
Is she really? But for sure ... No ... "
Showing how Onegin's fascination with this new Tatiana is gradually emerging, Pushkin emphasizes: Eugene amazes and admires exactly what has appeared in her.

A spasm seized Onegin's throat. Where did his secularity, his unchanging eloquence go! And the author asks: What's wrong with him? what a strange dream he is in! Annoyance? vanity ?. Undoubtedly, the feeling that took possession of Onegin is sincere and strong. Pushkin first used the word "love" in relation to Onegin. In this suddenly flared up love there is no game, no calculation, no pretense. And yet Onegin's new feeling for Tatiana, with all his strength and tension, is not yet that great, genuine love that purifies and ennobles a person. Sympathizing with his hero with all his heart, showing his sincere heartache, Pushkin, however, shows us both egoism and Onegin's vanity. How Tatiana has changed! Not simplicity, artlessness, not Tatyana's mind and heart amaze him, but the ability to play a role. He is tormented by the thought that he once did not see in a simple girl the possibility of turning her into a brilliant aristocrat. And he does not understand how blind he is now, not seeing in the "indifferent princess" still "in love, poor and simple" Tatiana.

Onegin's new feeling is complex, contradictory, multifaceted: in this feeling, as well as in the personality of the hero, both the bad and the good, and the truly human and superficial, habitual, unworthy of man are intertwined.

This duality is reflected in Onegin's letter. Onegin's letter reveals with amazing clarity the dialectic of his sick, suffering soul. Where does he start? With offensive suspicions and false excuses. After all, you still need to remain blind in order to write to Tatyana:

What wicked fun
Perhaps I am giving a reason ...

Having met you by chance,
Noticing a spark of tenderness in you,
I didn't dare to believe her ...
The beginning of the letter is reminiscent of Onegin's "cold" sermon, where feelings are hidden under beautiful phrases. So, instead of "love" Onegin says "a spark of tenderness", instead of "was killed" - "the unfortunate victim Lensky fell." However, further in the letter, the living truth of unbearable heartache grows, without any falsity:

I know: my century has already been measured;

But to prolong my life,

I must be sure in the morning

That I will see you in the afternoon ...

Eugene stopped choosing words to express his feelings; he speaks simply, strongly. Onegin's mouth also breaks down the vernacular, rude, but accurately conveying what he wanted to express:
… For you
I trudge everywhere at random ...
Bitterness, fatigue, humiliation are expressed in this one word "trudge". The ending of the letter is also significant. She echoes Tatyana's letter, as if Onegin wants to remind her of the past, to awaken old feelings and at the same time to show that he now feels the same as she did before:

But so be it: I'm on my own

You can't resist anymore;

Everything is decided: I am in your will,

And surrender to my destiny.

Onegin's insincere, pitiful excuses deeply hurt Tatyana. She now understands Onegin much more clearly; from her dreams, a romantic raid slept. Eugene is no longer surrounded for her by an aura of brilliant mystery; but she loves him, loves the best that she sees in him, and her spring, and young dreams of happiness ... How bitter it is for her to see
secular courtship of Onegin! And even his sincere passion, expressed in the letter, is offensive. What does he want from her? What does he offer her? Dirt of secular connection, lies, vulgar evasions in front of a deceived husband? ..

Only now Onegin begins to understand that he did not know Tatyana and is unworthy of her. The experience of previous years did not help him: he met such a woman for the first time. Now a new stage of his spiritual development begins. “He denied the light again,” he began to read again, reflect on life, on his fate. A hard winter, spent alone, in anguish, in thought - the completion of Onegin's spiritual break. Before Yevgeny's mind's eye - the most difficult, painful of all his memories - the terrible collapse of his friendship. Zaretsky's voice forever engraved in Onegin's memory. The feeling of guilt and deep remorse, the image of a deceased friend evokes memories of the indirect culprits of his death:

Then he sees the forgotten enemies,
Slanderers and evil cowards ...
This is a memory of the secular rabble, of the Zaretskys, for whose sake Lensky was killed. In his memory, both secular false friends - "a circle of despicable comrades", and "objects" of his deceitful, empty youthful love game - "a swarm of young traitors" flicker into his memory. The circle of memories is completed by the only dear thing that still remains in life - Tatiana:

That is a country house - and by the window
She sits ... and that's all she is! ..
But this is no longer a "princess", not a "legislator of the hall." This is the old Tanya. This is how the epiphany came. Pushkin ends the story of Onegin's renunciation of the world with humorous, friendly-ironic stanzas:

He's so used to getting lost in this

That I almost turned my mind

Or did not become a poet.

To admit: I would borrow it!

Speaking about Onegin in simple, rude words, often using vernacular, the poet restrainedly conveys his joy in connection with his revival and deep sympathy for his grief. Purified by suffering, Onegin became more human, more sincere, simpler and was finally able to understand and love Tatiana with all the purity, strength and tenderness of which a person is only capable. The feeling of renewal, awakening to a new life is created with the help of a spring landscape:

Spring lives him: for the first time

Your chambers are locked

Where he hibernated like a marmot,

Double windows, firewood ...

But traces of the endured suffering were imprinted on his face: "He is walking, looking like a dead man." And finally, that new understanding of Tatiana, which was born in Onegin's soul during this long winter. In Pushkin's tone, tenderness and deep compassion for Onegin and Tatiana. They are not happy. The tragedy of this scene is further enhanced by the fact that Onegin has now risen to true love, has become on a par with Tatyana, but he must silently listen to her bitter, insulting words, realizing that they are plucked out by mental pain, intolerable grief. Shocked Eugene "as if struck by thunder." Painting the emergence of Onegin's love, Pushkin spoke of the "storm of a cold autumn." But now the “storm of sensations” into which Onegin is “immersed in his heart” is still a blessed storm, a storm of renewal.

2 / 5. 1

All of us at school were forced to read Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin". But at this age, most children hardly think about the deep meaning of this work, looking at the relationship between Onegin and Tatiana through the prism of their sensory experience. However, many critics cannot understand the author's ideas, preferring to limit themselves to a superficial analysis of exclusively the actions of the characters, without focusing on the spiritual component.

Antithesis

At first glance, it may seem that the two central characters of "Eugene Onegin" are opposed to each other. Tatyana Larina is a highly moral, spiritual person, she is pure in spirit and body. And Onegin is a Petersburg dandy who is already familiar with passion and its consequences. They are attracted to each other, like charges of the same name, a certain mutual understanding arises between them, because both have outgrown their environment and are looking for truth in something else, incomprehensible and even frightening.

Features of education

Comparison of Onegin and Tatiana can be started by considering the conditions in which they grew up. Pushkin's favorite was born in a rich house, albeit in the wilderness. In infancy and childhood, she was looked after by a nanny chosen by her parents from among the peasants who lived nearby. She sang lullabies, told fairy tales and, of course, read prayers over the girl. This tied Tatiana to the people more than one could imagine. By nature, brooding and silent, the girl spent little time with her peers, avoided noisy games and fun. She was more interested in books, contemplation of nature and reflections. The youngest daughter of the Larins lived according to folk customs, got up early to catch the dawn, believed in signs and performed traditional rituals, despite her religiosity.

Onegin, on the other hand, grew up in European society. His nanny was replaced by a tutor, who raised the boy according to his idea of a socialite. Having matured early, Eugene plunged headlong into a brilliant and noisy life, acquiring the status of a young rake. Education and love for popular authors gave him charm and promised the ladies' favor. He quickly understood all the subtleties of sensual love and learned to manipulate them. Became skeptical about the manifestation of humanity, kindness, compassion. He criticized and questioned everything that happened to him and around him, as advised by European authors.

The world through the window

The characterization of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin cannot do without mentioning nature. Describing panoramic views, Pushkin does it as if looking from the window of a room belonging to the main character. Any landscape in the novel reflects the state of mind of the girl. As the plot develops, not only the season and the weather on the street change, but also the part of the day that Tatyana spends thinking about her chosen one.

Byronic and Sentimental Literature

You can also trace the differences between Eugene and Tatiana in the books they read. For Onegin, Byron was an example to follow, ironically and skeptically looking at the world. This is how the ideal man seemed to the young man. Selfish, charming, slightly sarcastic and sarcastic. European literature of that time cultivated a similar way of thinking.

Tatyana Larina, on the contrary, draws attention to sentimental novels that show the value of sincerity, kindness and responsiveness. Of course, they are somewhat naive for a girl who will rotate in high society, but the nobility and honor brought up thanks to them helped her for many years to keep herself unchanged under the influence of circumstances.

It is about the hero from the sentimental novel that the girl dreams of. And when Onegin, despised and persecuted from everywhere, appears in their lands, she takes him for the ideal that she has been waiting for so long.

Letter

Tatyana's letter to Onegin reflects the sublime love that the girl had for her chosen one. It is in him that you can well trace the characteristics of a girl's character: sincerity, gullibility, impressionability. She has no reason to doubt her choice. For a young beauty, an alliance with a person like Eugene is not only the fulfillment of a cherished desire and a long-awaited reunion with a loved one, but also an opportunity for spiritual growth and self-improvement.

Onegin, on the contrary, sees in Tatiana in love only a naive, enthusiastic simpleton who was inspired by his stories and appearance. He does not take her feelings seriously, although he suspects that it will not pass so easily. Secular "love games" ahead of time made his heart immune to such signs of attention. Perhaps, if not for the rich life experience in this field, everything could have turned out differently for the couple.

Tatyana's letter to Onegin is permeated with feelings that the girl can no longer keep to herself. She admits that the gap in upbringing, education and experience between them is huge, but she hopes to one day overcome it in order to be closer to her beloved.

Refusal

As you know, Eugene refused Larina, arguing that he was not worthy of her, since he does not feel such exalted feelings and does not want to offend her with the invariability of his motives. According to most critics, it is Onegin's refusal that causes rejection from the reader. It was perhaps the noblest deed in his entire life, but the luminaries of literature look at this situation a little differently. They believe that fear prompted the young rake to refuse, reason prevailed over the feelings that the "Russian soul" Tatiana awakened in him.

Meetings

Onegin and Tatiana meet three times in the novel. For the first time - when Eugene comes to the Larins' estate. The second - when he is forced to explain with Tatyana about her letter, and the last - at her name day, a year after the tragic events. And each such meeting changes something in Onegin's soul, does not allow him to stay away, brush aside feelings and emotions. Fearing what is happening to him, the rake prefers to leave and throw the image of the girl out of his head than to be close to her and change.

Duel

It is the relationship between Onegin and Tatiana that makes the character of the work somewhat gloomy. The main character is angry: at himself, at Larina, at Lensky's best friend, at the fate that brought him to this estate, at his uncle, who died at the wrong time. This pushes him to reckless actions, for example, flirting with Olga. Of course, a duel was necessary, but killing each other was not necessary. However, the events were put together in such a way that, due to the ever-growing hateful feelings, Vladimir had to withdraw to another world.

The last ball

The comparison between Onegin and Tatiana continues throughout the entire last scene of the novel. The ball in honor of the name day in the Larins' estate seems to copy the girl's nightmare about her wedding with Yevgeny. A man who is sick, dissatisfied, oppressed by remorse is surrounded by grotesque characters that contrast so much with his inner world that it seems as if they are mocking him.

Unable to endure these torments, Onegin leaves, motivating this by the fact that he was possessed by a desire to wander.

Petersburg

Very little time passed, and the main characters meet again, now at a social event in St. Petersburg. The relationship between Onegin and Tatiana remained practically unchanged. They have become more complex, but the inner heat still continues to pulsate in both. Larina got married, became a princess and now holds her head high. Now there is no longer a trace of that country girl who passionately confessed her feelings to the young rake.

The situation turns against Eugene, as he realizes that he is in love and suffers from it. He writes letters to the subject of his adoration, tries to return everything back, but the girl is adamant. This is how Pushkin sees this situation. Onegin has feelings for Tatiana, but now she is trying to avoid a relationship. Ultimately, the girl refuses a man in a secret relationship, arguing that she has taken an oath to be faithful to another man, despite the fact that she still loves Eugene. This puts the final point in the novel, but, according to some critics, the ending still remains open.

The relationship between Onegin and Tatiana was difficult, they were stained with the blood of a friend, refusals and confessions ... But in the end, their love continued to live even when they signed her death warrant together.