Love in the understanding of Onegin and Tatiana (by A. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin")

What feelings did Tatyana's love evoke in Onegin? and got the best answer

Answer from Liudmila Sharukhia [guru]
Eugene Onegin is smart, noble. However, all his wonderful qualities are suppressed by the environment in which he grew up, his feelings have become scarce, he squandered the best qualities of his soul, squandered on trifles. Unable to do an interesting job, Eugene was bored and spent his life in monotonous entertainment. In the circle of his acquaintances in the capital, he did not meet a girl capable of awakening a real deep feeling in his soul. And therefore, having arrived in the village and having experienced the involuntary excitement that Tatyana aroused in his soul, he extinguishes it in himself.
Tatyana understands less and less her chosen one, his actions. And in her favorite novels, she cannot find the answer. Once in Eugene's office, reading his books, the girl, it seems to her, finds the key to understanding his actions. A different world opens up to her, other people, in which she discovers a resemblance to Onegin. And Tatiana makes an erroneous conclusion about the reasons for this similarity:
A sad and dangerous freak
Creation of hell or heaven,
This angel, this arrogant demon,
What is he? Is it an imitation
An insignificant ghost ...
These discoveries only aggravate her hopeless situation: she cannot stop loving Eugene, but she is convinced that he is not worthy of her love. Now her fate becomes indifferent to her, and she agrees to marry a man whom her parents have picked up for her. Tanya becomes a noble lady, but she herself does not feel satisfaction and joy from this. Remaining internally the same "simple maiden", with the same aspirations, she is glad to give
All this rags of masquerade
All this shine and noise and fumes
For a shelf of books, for a wild garden ...
Having met Onegin again in Petersburg, seeing the feeling that flared up in his soul, she begins to understand that he is not such a nonentity, and realizes his mistake:
And happiness was so possible, So close !. ...
Continuing to love Eugene, Tatiana believes in possible happiness, but deliberately refuses it: "... I am given to another, I will be faithful to him for a century." Spiritual nobility, a sense of duty prevails over her love.
In the course of the novel, Onegin and Tatiana changed, their feelings, attitude towards life and each other became different. Tatyana lost her romantic dreaminess, Eugene got rid of indifference to simple human joys. Yet in this world there is no possibility of happiness for them. And in many respects they are to blame, their own mistakes, their inability to find the right path in life. Tatiana's illusions and Onegin's feigned indifference blocked their path to happy love.

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"Love is the creator of all that is good, sublime, strong, warm and light."
One of the remarkable poets who praised this wonderful feeling was A.S. Pushkin. According to Pushkin, love is a natural state of the human soul; this feeling, even if it is not mutual, brings joy, not suffering. The poet treats life with reverence, perceiving it as an amazing divine gift, and love as a kind of heightened sense of life. Just as life moves by its own laws, so love arises, blossoms and disappears. This theme is reflected in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
Tatiana is the main heroine of the novel, "a deep, loving, passionate nature." Native nature, interest in books, act on the formation of her character and views. She is read by French novels, which educate in her dreaminess, sensitivity, but at the same time high moral principles.
She liked novels early;
They replaced everything for her;
She falls in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Russo.
Tatiana is endowed with "a rebellious imagination ... And a fiery and tender heart." The desire for the ideal, created by her in the image of the noble heroes of the novels she had read, helped spark love for Onegin, who was not like other acquaintances in the boring circle of neighbors. Tatyana again turns to books: after all, she has no one to entrust her secret, no one to talk to. In novels, she seeks explanations and advice, and her imagination creates her own image of Onegin.
“The whole inner world of Tatiana was in the thirst for love, nothing else spoke to her soul, her mind was asleep ... For her, love could be either the greatest bliss, or the greatest disaster in life, without any conciliatory middle. With the happiness of reciprocity, the love of such a woman is an even, bright flame; otherwise - a stubborn flame, which will, perhaps, will not allow to break through, but which is the more destructive and burning, the more it is squeezed inside. "
Why is Tatyana more guilty?
For the fact that in sweet simplicity
She knows no deception
And believes the chosen dream?
For the fact that he loves without art,
Obedient to the attraction of feeling ...
Tatiana loves not jokingly
And surrenders unconditionally
Love is like a sweet child.
Tatiana gave her heart, her soul to Onegin for life. She could not imagine another person who could take possession of her feelings. There is a saying in Spain: "True love lasts until death." This phrase is very close to the feelings of the heroine.
Despite Onegin's rebuke, Tatiana continues to yearn and yearn, never ceasing to love him and think about him. After visiting the deserted estate of Eugene, the heroine came to the conclusion that he was not at all the hero she created in her imagination, not the person to whom she wrote the letter.
Has the riddle really been solved?
Is the word found?
Pushkin, recalling Radishchev's reasoning about "involuntary marriages", writes: "In general, the unhappiness of family life is a distinctive feature in the mores of the Russian people." This theme sounds throughout the novel, and becomes dominant in the finale. The last date scene resembles a distant first explanation in the garden. In the "indifferent princess" we see the former Tatiana, but already wiser by the sad experience of life, deeply feeling, faithful to moral principles.
I got married. You should,
I ask you to leave me;
I know there is in your heart
And pride and outright honor.
I love you (why dissemble?),
But I am given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
Tatiana rejects Onegin, because she cannot change herself, her views on life, her moral principles. This is how her last fateful decision, her rejection of love, of personal happiness, forever associated with Onegin for her, is conditioned.
“A woman cannot despise public opinion, but she can sacrifice it modestly, without phrases, without self-praise, realizing the greatness of her sacrifice, the whole weight of the curse that she takes upon herself, obeying another higher law - the law of her nature, and her nature is love and self-sacrifice. "

(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 Eugene 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 Tatiana is still capable of turning 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 the bitterness, sadness of 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 rebuff 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 into 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, the familiar, 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 the memory of the secular rabble, of the Zaretskys, for whose sake Lensky was killed. In his memory, both secular false friends - "a circle of contemptible 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 spent the winter 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 now, 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.

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She was a girl

she was in love.

Malvilatr

"Love is the creator of all that is good, sublime, strong, warm and light."

One of the remarkable poets who praised this wonderful feeling was A.S. Pushkin. According to Pushkin, love is a natural state of the human soul; this feeling, even if it is not mutual, brings joy, not suffering. The poet treats life with reverence, perceiving it as an amazing divine gift, and love as a kind of heightened sense of life. Just as life moves by its own laws, so love arises, blossoms and disappears. This theme is reflected in the novel "Eugene Onegin".

Tatiana is the main heroine of the novel, "a deep, loving, passionate nature." Native nature, interest in books, act on the formation of her character and views. She is read by French novels, which educate her dreaminess, sensitivity, but at the same time high moral principles.

She liked novels early;

They replaced everything for her;

She falls in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

Tatiana is endowed with "a rebellious imagination ... And a fiery and tender heart." The desire for the ideal, created by her in the image of the noble heroes of the novels she had read, helped spark love for Onegin, who was not like other acquaintances in the boring circle of neighbors. Tatyana again turns to books: after all, she has no one to entrust her secret, no one to talk to. In novels, she seeks explanations and advice, and her imagination creates her own image of Onegin.

“The whole inner world of Tatiana was in a thirst for love, nothing else spoke to her soul, her mind was asleep ... For her, love could be either the greatest bliss, or the greatest disaster in life, without any conciliatory middle. With the happiness of reciprocity, the love of such a woman is an even, bright flame; otherwise - a stubborn flame, which will, perhaps, will not allow to break through, but which is the more destructive and burning, the more it is squeezed inside. "

Why is Tatyana more guilty?

For the fact that in sweet simplicity

She knows no deception

And believes the chosen dream?

For the fact that he loves without art,

Obedient to the attraction of feeling ...

Tatiana loves not jokingly

And surrenders unconditionally

Love is like a sweet child.

Tatiana gave her heart, her soul to Onegin for life. She could not imagine another person who could take possession of her feelings. There is a saying in Spain: "True love lasts until death." This phrase is very close to the feelings of the heroine.

Despite Onegin's rebuke, Tatiana continues to yearn and yearn, never ceasing to love him and think about him. After visiting the deserted estate of Eugene, the heroine came to the conclusion that he was not at all the hero she created in her imagination, not the person to whom she wrote the letter.

Has the riddle really been solved?

Is the word found?

Pushkin, recalling Radishchev's reasoning about "involuntary marriages", writes: "In general, the unhappiness of family life is a distinctive feature in the mores of the Russian people." This theme sounds throughout the novel, and becomes dominant in the finale. The last date scene resembles a distant first explanation in the garden. In the "indifferent princess" we see the former Tatiana, but already wiser by the sad experience of life, deeply feeling, faithful to moral principles.

I got married. You should,

I ask you to leave me;

I know there is in your heart

And pride and outright honor.

I love you (why dissemble?),

But I am given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

Tatiana rejects Onegin, because she cannot change herself, her views on life, her moral principles. This is how her last fateful decision, her rejection of love, of personal happiness, forever associated with Onegin for her, is conditioned.

“A woman cannot despise public opinion, but she can sacrifice it modestly, without phrases, without self-praise, realizing the greatness of her sacrifice, the full weight of the curse that she takes upon herself, obeying another higher law - the law of her nature, and her nature is love and self-sacrifice. "

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Eugene has foreign tutors; Tatyana is a simple Russian peasant woman. Tatiana is the ideal image of a Russian woman. She dreams of real great love, of the only chosen one, and Onegin has a "science of tender passion", a chain of easy and soon boring victories. Tatiana has matured in the atmosphere of the provincial nobility, she does not know how to lie and pretend. Her love, natural and living, is why it is beautiful.

Onegin was frightened of genuine feelings, because he was used to secular falsehood, a game, and Tatyana's sincerity frightened, even pushed Eugene away. Therefore, the main character of the novel passed by what Tatyana's open heart offered him. And only in the last chapter, a bright feeling spontaneously flares up in Eugene Onegin's cold, long "lost sensitivity" heart. But even now he is fond of not that Tatiana, which she was in the village, "not this timid girl, in love, poor and simple." such Tatyana Onegin would have been neglected even now. He began to "languish with a thirst for love" for Tatiana, the brilliant, magnificent frame of the capital's drawing rooms, "the inaccessible goddess of the magnificent royal Neva", "an indifferent princess." Note that this captivating Tatiana is alien to herself. She herself is "stuffy here", in this new environment, in which she became so interesting to Onegin. She despises the "excitement of light", hates the tinsel surrounding her "hateful life", "all this noise, and shine, and fumes." All of her true being: sincerity and depth of feelings, loyalty to duty, spiritual nobility - is associated with her closeness to the natural, folk ... It is also significant that Tatiana, continuing to feel feelings for Onegin, calls his sudden love for her "shallow feeling." Here you can and agree with her and not. On the one hand, Eugene fell in love with Tatiana sincerely, tender love for the heroine made a revolution in him, returned that “sensitivity” to his heart, generated by disappointment in love, which breathed new strength into Onegin's usual life and filled it with meaning and content. On the other hand, Onegin's feelings are "shallow" already because they are just a drop in comparison with the sea of ​​feelings that Tatyana felt for Eugene. Tatiana's final monologue takes away this barely acquired meaning from the central character, extinguishing any hope for personal happiness. And by making the hero's personal drama absolutized, Pushkin leaves Onegin in a state of severe moral shock in the last scene.
Thus, despite the reciprocity of the heroes, the author divorces their paths in life, leaving no chance for happiness. This is the main tragedy of the main characters of the novel by A.S. Pushkin Eugene Onegin and Tatiana Larina.

The basis of Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" is the relationship between the two main characters - Eugene and Tatiana. If we trace this storyline throughout the entire work, we can conditionally distinguish two parts: Tatiana and Onegin; Onegin and Tatiana.

Determining in this division is the dominant role of the characters in the emergence and development of love feelings. At the beginning of the novel, we become witnesses to the acquaintance of Eugene and Tatiana. He is a wise man, tired of the bustle of the capital, quite confident in his righteousness, a young man. However, his confidence, as it turned out, has rather slippery ground:
... early feelings in him cooled down;
He was bored with the noise of the light;
The beauties were not long
The subject of his usual thoughts;
Managed to tire treason;
Friends and friendship are tired ...

All these are signs of the disease, which in English is called spleen, and in Russian - blues. According to the author, Onegin was calm about this state, in the sense that
He shot himself, thank God
Didn't want to try.
But he completely lost interest in life.

At this time, Onegin had an opportunity to change the current state of affairs: his father died, leaving behind huge debts, and his uncle was dying. Evgeny's decision ripened instantly: he left his father's estate to the creditors, and he himself moved to his uncle's estate, which was in the countryside, far from the bustle of the capital. Tatiana was not familiar with the bustle of the city. There were two teachers in her life: sweet romances and folk legends. Seeing the mysterious, unapproachable Onegin, Tatyana immediately fell in love. Indeed, the most romantic and courageous heroes of her favorite books are embodied in her chosen one by the “happy power of dreaming”:
Tatiana loves not jokingly
And surrenders unconditionally
Love is like a sweet child.

Tormented by love anguish, Tatiana decides to take a desperate step - to confess everything to the object of her worship. Let's turn to Tatyana's letter, which we like from the very first lines: it has such a surprisingly simple beginning. In the second part of the letter, Tatiana talks about her emotional experiences associated with the need for an unusual, great feeling, with a romantic dream of an ideal and extraordinary hero:
Why did you visit us?
In the wilderness of a forgotten village
I never knew you.
I would not know the bitter torment.

The girl, on the one hand, complains that fate sent her a troublemaker of her peace of mind, but, on the other hand, after reflecting on her possible fate (“I would have found a friend in my heart, if I had a faithful wife and a virtuous mother”), Tatiana resolutely rejects the possibility of marriage with one of the provincial suitors, because she could not fall in love with Petushkov or Buyanov. And Tatyana, with an unexpected, perhaps for her very frankness and boldness, speaks about who Onegin is for her: he was sent by God, he is her guardian angel to the grave, which she had known for a long time:
You appeared to me in dreams
Invisible, you were already nice to me
Your wonderful look tormented me
In my soul, your voice rang out.

But all this did not happen in a dream, it was all reality, because when Onegin first came to visit the Larins, Tatiana recognized him. The tone of the letter becomes more intimate and confidential. Everything that is best in her, Tatyana transfers to her chosen one. And one more important detail: Tatiana perceives Onegin as a defender. Here, in her own family, she feels lonely, no one understands her:
But so be it!
My fate From now on I entrust to you,
I shed tears in front of you,
I beg your protection.

Having received Tatyana's message, Onegin was touched by her sincerity, tenderness, but in his heart he was afraid that he would not justify these quivering hopes. Note: for a moment a feeling that vaguely resembles love flared up in him, but it immediately faded away. The selfishness and individualism of Onegin, so clearly revealed in the first explanation of the heroes, are mentioned by the poet in the epigraph to the novel: "Permeated with vanity, he possessed", moreover, a special pride that prompts them to confess with equal indifference

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 secular person. 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. 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 the 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, the couple could have turned out differently.

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 is 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 sick, dissatisfied, oppressed man with 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 last 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.