The ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin". The image of Tatyana Larina
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin managed to present all the diversity of the life of contemporary Russia, portray Russian society "in one of the most interesting moments of its development", create typical images of Onegin and Lensky, in whose person the "main, that is, the male side" of this society was represented. “But the feat of our poet is almost higher in that he was the first to reproduce, in the person of Tatyana, a Russian woman,” Belinsky wrote.
Tatyana Larina is the first realistic female image in Russian literature. The heroine's worldview, her character, her mental make-up - all this is revealed in the novel in great detail, her behavior is psychologically motivated. But at the same time, Tatyana is the poet's "sweet ideal", the "novel" embodiment of his dream of a certain type of woman. And the poet himself often talks about this on the pages of the novel: “Tatyana's letter is in front of me; I sacredly protect him ... "," Forgive me: I love Tatyana my dear so much! Moreover, the attitude of the poet himself was embodied to a certain extent in the personality of the heroine.
Readers immediately felt these author's accents. Dostoevsky, for example, considered Tatyana, and not Onegin, the main character of the novel. And the opinion of the writer is quite reasonable. This is a whole, uncommon, exceptional nature, with a truly Russian soul, with a strong character and spirit.
Her character remains unchanged throughout the novel. In various life circumstances, Tatyana's spiritual and intellectual outlook expands, she gains experience, knowledge of human nature, new habits and manners characteristic of a different age, but her inner world does not change. “The portrait of her in childhood, so masterfully painted by the poet, is only developed, but not changed,” wrote V. G. Belinsky:
Dika, sad, silent,
Like a forest doe is timid,
She is in her family
Seemed like a stranger girl ...
A child by herself, in a crowd of children
Didn't want to play and jump
And often all day alone
She sat silently by the window.
Tatyana grew up as a thoughtful and impressionable girl, she did not like noisy children's games, fun entertainment, she was not interested in dolls and needlework. She liked to daydream alone or listen to her nurse's stories. Tatyana's only friends were fields and forests, meadows and groves.
Characteristically, when describing village life, Pushkin does not portray any of the "provincial heroes" against the backdrop of nature. Habit, "prose of life", preoccupation with household chores, low spiritual demands - all this left its mark on their perception: local landowners simply do not notice the surrounding beauty, just as Olga or old Larina does not notice it,
But Tatyana is not like that, her nature is deep and poetic - it is given to her to see the beauty of the world around her, it is given to understand the "secret language of nature", it is given to love God's light. She loves to meet the “dawn sunrise”, thoughts are carried away to the twinkling moon, walk alone among the fields and hills. But especially Tatyana loves winter:
Tatyana (Russian soul.
I don't know why.)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter
Frost in the sun on a frosty day,
And the sleigh, and the late dawn
Shine of pink snows,
And the darkness of Epiphany evenings.
The heroine thus introduces the motif of winter, cold, ice into the narrative. And then winter landscapes often accompany Tatyana. Here she is telling fortunes on a clear frosty night at baptism. In a dream, she walks “in a snowy meadow”, sees “immovable pines”, covered with tufts of snow, bushes, rapids covered by a snowstorm. Before leaving for Moscow, Tatyana is "terrified of the winter journey." V. M. Markovich notes that the “winter” motive here is “directly close to that harsh and mysterious sense of proportion, law, fate, which made Tatyana reject Onegin’s love.”
The deep connection of the heroine with nature is preserved throughout the story. Tatyana lives according to the laws of nature, in full harmony with her natural rhythms: “The time has come, she fell in love. Thus, the fallen grain of Spring is revived by fire into the earth. And her communication with the nanny, faith in the "traditions of the common folk antiquity", dreams, fortune-telling, signs and superstitions - all this only strengthens this mysterious connection.
Tatyana's attitude to nature is akin to ancient paganism, in the heroine the memory of her distant ancestors, the memory of the family, seems to come to life. “Tatyana is all native, all from the Russian land, from Russian nature, mysterious, dark and deep, like a Russian fairy tale ... Her soul is simple, like the soul of the Russian people. Tatyana from that twilight, ancient world where the Firebird, Ivan Tsarevich, Baba Yaga were born ... ”- wrote D. Merezhkovsky.
And this “call of the past” is expressed, among other things, in the inextricable connection of the heroine with her family, despite the fact that there she “seemed like a stranger girl”. Pushkin depicts Tatyana against the background of her family's life history, which acquires an extremely important meaning in the context of understanding the fate of the heroine.
In her life story, Tatyana, not wanting this, repeats the fate of her mother, who was taken to the crown, "without asking her advice", while she "sighed for another, Whom in her heart and mind she liked much more ...". Here Pushkin seems to anticipate Tatyana's fate with a philosophical remark: "The habit has been given to us from above: It is a substitute for happiness." It may be objected to us that Tatyana is deprived of a spiritual connection with her family (“She seemed like a stranger in her own family”). However, this does not mean that there is no inner, deep connection, that same natural connection that is the very essence of the heroine's nature.
In addition, Tatyana was raised by a nanny from childhood, and here we can no longer talk about the absence of a spiritual connection. It is to the nanny that the heroine confides her heartfelt secret, handing over a letter for Onegin. She sadly recalls her nanny in St. Petersburg. But what is the fate of Filipievna? The same marriage without love:
“But how did you get married, nanny?” —
So, apparently, God ordered. My Vanya
Younger than me, my light,
And I was thirteen years old.
For two weeks the matchmaker went
To my family, and finally
Father blessed me.
I cried bitterly from fear
They untwisted my braid with weeping,
Yes, with singing they led to the church.
Of course, the peasant girl here is deprived of freedom of choice, unlike Tatyana. But the very situation of marriage, the perception of it, are repeated in the fate of Tatyana. Nyanino “So, apparently, God ordered” becomes Tatyanin “But I am given to another; I will be faithful to him forever.
In shaping the inner world of the heroine, a fashionable passion for sentimental and romantic novels also played an important role. Her very love for Onegin manifests itself "in a bookish way", she appropriates "someone else's delight, someone else's sadness." Familiar men were uninteresting to Tatyana: they "represented so little food to her exalted ... imagination." Onegin was a new man in the "village wilderness". His secrecy, secular manners, aristocracy, indifferent, bored look - all this could not leave Tatyana indifferent. “There are beings whose fantasy has much more influence on the heart than how people think about it,” wrote Belinsky. Not knowing Onegin, Tatyana presents him in the images of literary heroes well known to her: Malek-Adel, de Dinar and Werther. In essence, the heroine loves not a living person, but an image created by her “rebellious imagination”.
However, gradually she begins to discover the inner world of Onegin. After his stern sermon, Tatyana remains at a loss, offended and bewildered. She probably interprets everything she hears in her own way, understanding only that her love was rejected. And only after visiting the "fashion cell" of the hero, looking into his books, which store the "mark of a sharp fingernail", Tatyana begins to comprehend Onegin's perception of life, people, fate. However, its discovery does not speak in favor of the chosen one:
What is he? Is it an imitation
An insignificant ghost, or else
Muscovite in Harold's cloak,
Alien whims interpretation,
Full lexicon of fashionable words?..
Isn't he a parody?
Here, the difference in worldviews of the characters is especially clearly exposed. If Tatyana thinks and feels in line with the Russian Orthodox tradition, Russian patriarchy, patriotism, then Onegin's inner world was formed under the influence of Western European culture. As V. Nepomniachtchi notes, Yevgeny’s office is a fashionable cell, where instead of icons there is a portrait of Lord Byron, on the table there is a small statue of Napoleon, the invader, conqueror of Russia, Onegin’s books undermine the foundation of the foundations - faith in the Divine principle in man. Of course, Tatyana was amazed, having discovered for herself not only the unfamiliar world of someone else's consciousness, but also a world that was deeply alien to her, hostile at its core.
Probably, the ill-fated duel, the outcome of which was the death of Lensky, did not leave her indifferent. A completely different, non-bookish image of Onegin formed in her mind. Confirmation of this is the second explanation of the heroes in St. Petersburg. Tatyana does not believe in the sincerity of Eugene's feelings, his persecution offends her dignity. Onegin's love does not leave her indifferent, but now she cannot answer his feelings. She got married and devoted herself entirely to her husband and family. And an affair with Onegin in this new situation is impossible for her:
I love you (why lie?),
But I am given to another;
I will forever be faithful to him ...
A lot of things were reflected in this choice of the heroine. This is the integrity of her nature, which does not allow lies and deceptions; and the clarity of moral ideas, which excludes the very possibility of causing grief to an innocent person (husband), thoughtlessly disgracing him; and book-romantic ideals; and faith in Fate, in the Providence of God, implying Christian humility; and the laws of popular morality, with its uniqueness of decisions; and unconscious repetition of the fate of mother and nanny.
However, in the impossibility of the unity of the heroes, Pushkin also has a deep, symbolic subtext. Onegin is the hero of "culture", of civilization (moreover, of Western European culture, alien to Russian people at its very core). Tatyana is a child of nature, embodying the very essence of the Russian soul. Nature and culture are incompatible in the novel—they are tragically separated.
Dostoevsky believed that Onegin now loves in Tatyana “only his new fantasy. ... He loves fantasy, but he is a fantasy himself. After all, if she goes after him, then tomorrow he will be disappointed and look at his passion mockingly. It has no soil, it is a blade of grass carried by the wind. She [Tatiana] is not like that at all: she, both in despair and in the suffering consciousness that her life has perished, still has something solid and unshakable on which her soul rests. These are her childhood memories, memories of her homeland, the rural wilderness, in which her humble, pure life began ... "
Thus, in the novel "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin presents us with "the apotheosis of the Russian woman." Tatyana amazes us with the depth of her nature, originality, "rebellious imagination", "living mind and will." This is a solid, strong personality, able to rise above the stereotypical thinking of any social circle, intuitively feeling the moral truth.
Pushkin is a poet whose work is extremely accessible to human understanding. The clarity of images and the harmony of his works have an educational value. His lyre awakens good feelings in people. No matter what he describes, no matter what he talks about, in his lines one can feel love for people and life.
"Eugene Onegin" is one of the poet's iconic works. The form of this work is unusual and complex. This is a novel in verse, there were no earlier creations of this kind in Russian literature.
"Eugene Onegin" is a source of ideas about the Russian life of the Pushkin period. One of the central figures of the novel is Tatyana, the daughter of the landowners Larins.
Showing the image of Tatyana, the only whole nature in the novel, Pushkin demonstrates a real phenomenon in Russian life.
“…Reverie, her friend
From the most lullaby days
Rural Leisure Current
Decorated her with dreams ... "
Tatyana lives among ordinary people who are unfamiliar with the noise and bustle of the big world. They are naive and sweet in their own way.
Tatyana is drawn to someone whom she has not yet met, but who would be smarter, better, kinder than those around her. She takes her neighbor, the landowner Eugene Onegin, for such a person. Over time, sweet Tatyana falls in love with him.
He is indeed smarter than her surroundings, more knowledgeable and reasonable. He is capable of good deeds (he eased the plight of his serfs):
“At first our Evgeny conceived
Establish a new order.
Old yoke from corvee
I replaced the quitrent with a light one, -
And the slave blessed fate ... "
But Onegin is far from ideal. Tatiana hasn't recognized it yet. He is an idle gentleman, lazy, spoiled by life, half-educated, not knowing what to do, because he has no spiritual strength for a fruitful life, and longing gnaws at him from an empty life.
Tatyana writes a letter to him, in which she declares her love. But Onegin cannot cope with his egoism, he does not accept her spiritual impulses.
After Onegin's departure from the village, Tatyana has a habit of being at his house, reading books. She learned a lot and understood a lot. Onegin is not what she imagined him to be. He is a selfish, selfish person, not at all the hero to whom her tender soul was eager.
After the expiration of time, Onegin meets Tatyana again in St. Petersburg. She is the wife of an old general. And then Onegin looked at her in a new way. In wealth and nobility, she seems completely different. Love flared up in his soul. This time she herself rejected him, knowing his selfishness, knowing the emptiness of his soul and not wanting to break the word she had given her husband.
This soul, good Tatyana, knew how to love deeply. Having parted with Onegin and realizing that he was not the hero of her novel, she nevertheless continued to love him and suffered from this. Tatyana did not become the general’s wife of her own free will, her mother “begged” for this. She did not part with her love: in her soul she loved Onegin.
The soul of Tatyana is the soul of the best Russian women, no matter how different their fates, thoughts, deeds.
The genius of Pushkin lies in the fact that he offered the society to take a fresh look at the fate of the Russian woman. He prescribed a character hitherto unfamiliar to Russian literature. The firmness of nature, strength, simplicity, naturalness, loyalty to one's word, decency - these traits determined the integrity and strength of the character of the heroine. Tatyana's firm principles were unshakable throughout the story. She was disgusted by hypocrisy, insincerity, idle talk, everything that she called "rags of a masquerade."
From childhood, Tatyana was close to the people, to folk poetry. Her soul mate is the nanny to whom she confided her secrets. Throughout the story, Tatyana's inner world does not change. No external circumstances will force her to deviate from the true path, they will not "break her spiritual warehouse." The admiration and love of the poet in the novel is given to Tatyana in full.
Conclusion
Pushkin combined two epochs in himself: he had certain features of the present and some echoes of the past, in the midst of which his own upbringing passed; on the other hand, a completely new period began with him, the period of modern literature.
With his novel Eugene Onegin, Pushkin taught everyone who wrote after him how simply and sincerely to portray the strength and suffering of a Russian woman. Pushkin raised the importance of the Russian woman in our minds. He created the ground for those high ideals of a woman that we see in subsequent works by other authors.
The image of Tatyana is one of the most captivating and deep in the history of Russian literature. Tatyana opens a gallery of portraits of beautiful women with a truly Russian character. She is the spiritual predecessor of the poetic, original, selfless "Turgenev's women". A. S. Pushkin put his ideas about female virtue, spirituality, inner beauty into this image, and like the mythical Pygmalion in Galatea, he sincerely fell in love with his heroine:
Forgive me: I love so much
My dear Tatyana.
Just as sincerely, he empathizes with the spiritual anxiety, anxieties and disappointments of his beloved creature:
Tatiana, dear Tatiana!
With you now I shed tears ...
Why is this image attractive, does the author impose his subjective enthusiastic attitude towards the heroine? The poet does not idealize the heroine, does not paint an image of the perfect, classical beauty of popular novels:
Nor the beauty of his sister,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She would not attract eyes.
Tatyana's appearance is not described in the novel anymore, but A. S. Pushkin recreates the features of her character and behavior in great detail:
Dika, sad, silent,
Like a forest doe is timid,
She is in her family
Seemed like a stranger girl.
From childhood, Tatyana was distinguished by thoughtfulness, contemplation, seriousness, daydreaming, detachment from childish games and amusements, she was captivated by her bewitching poetry by the naive and mysterious stories of the nurse (“... terrible stories in winter in the darkness of nights captivated her heart more”), romantic songs of courtyard girls, wonderful pictures of nature (“She loved to predict the sunrise on the balcony ...”), sentimental novels of foreign writers about love ny experiences of the characters (“She liked novels early; they replaced everything for her ...”). The girl lives in an organic connection with the world of nature and the people's world, that is, a natural and harmonious life, drawing spiritual strength from the elements of nature and folk art.
Tatyana (Russian soul,
I don't know why.)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter.
In these lines, the organic community of the Russian soul and Central Russian nature is emphasized, the inextricable connection between the “mist of Epiphany evenings” and the “traditions of the common folk antiquity” - short winter days and the absence of peasant suffering contributed to communication on long dark evenings, fortune-telling, telling, to the sound of a spinning wheel, mysterious stories passed down from generation to generation, expressing sacred awe before the formidable and mysterious world.
And so this spiritualized, immersed in her inner world, subtly feeling girl (a type of character that modern psychologists call an “introvert”) meets a brilliant young man, so unlike the people around her - educated, mysterious, detached from everyday troubles, with traces of high experiences and disappointments - and, of course, falls in love without memory with all the passion of a self-focused nature:
The time has come, she fell in love.
So the fallen grain into the ground
Springs are animated by fire.
For a long time her imagination
Burning with grief and longing,
Alkalo food fatal...
Now all her thoughts are, “...and days and nights, and a hot lonely dream, everything is full of them...”
Now with what attention is she
Reading a sweet novel
With what lively charm
Drinking seductive deception!
imagining a heroine
To my beloved creators...
How accurately and subtly the poet conveys the confusion of an inexperienced soul, and the heat of her secret thoughts, and the hope for reciprocity, and embarrassment, and shame, and despair! Only this girl of crystal purity and boundless honesty, with the conviction of the sanctity of traditional folk ideas about girlish honor and the rules of decency, and at the same time, thirsting for high feelings ennobling life, could write such a sincere, at the same time chaotic and harmonious letter, perfectly expressing both the depth of love and the abyss of conflicting thoughts, feelings, doubts. The depth of feelings is amazingly touchingly conveyed by the poet, each word seems to be the only true expression of the slightest movement of the soul, it goes from the heart of the author to the heart of the reader:
Another! .. No, no one in the world
I wouldn't give my heart! It is in the highest predestined council ...
That is the will of heaven: I am yours;
My whole life has been a pledge
Faithful goodbye to you;
I know you were sent to me by God
Until the grave you are my keeper ...
Tatyana's chosen one, highly appreciating the "souls of trusting confession", her sincerity and purity, did not reciprocate, and "alas, Tatyana withers, turns pale, goes out and is silent ..." Onegin's murder in a duel over a trifling occasion of her sister's fiancé, a visit to a lover abandoned by the owner's house, an inspection of his library, although "and in cruel loneliness her passion burns stronger", forced Tatyana take a more critical, objective look at the chosen one of your heart.
She is painfully looking for an answer to the question: what is Eugene Onegin? - and her impartial assumptions testify to the spiritual development, the maturity of the girl, the harmony of the soul and mind. Tatyana is given in marriage to a general, and the heroine passively, limply repeats the life path of her mother, nanny, fulfilling her Christian, daughter, female duty. Having become a brilliant secular lady, Tatyana suddenly arouses a painful feeling of almost hopeless love in Onegin, who is even more disillusioned with life, tired of “arming both speech and eyes with feigned coldness ...” Onegin writes her a letter that is not inferior in intensity of feelings and screaming sincerity to Tatyana’s letter to him. The young woman is deeply touched, although she reproaches Onegin for the unnaturalness and untimeliness of his feelings. With bitterness and emotion, she recalls her first love, as the brightest and most significant thing that she had in her life:
And happiness was so possible
So close!..
But my destiny
It's already been decided."
Tatyana, as sincerely as in her youth, confesses her love to Onegin, but just as insincerely as sincerely, she rejects his love:
I love you (why lie?),
But I am given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
What prevents the heroine, who finally aroused a reciprocal feeling in her lover, from finding happiness, fulfilling her cherished dream, fulfilling what her heart aspires to?
Of course, not the fear of philistine condemnation of the world - after all, Tatyana admits that she is ready to give “all this rags of a masquerade, all this brilliance, and noise, and fumes” for a solitary life in the wilderness, where she once met great love. Tatyana lives not only with her heart, but also with her soul, and cannot betray a person who believes in her and loves her. Duty, honor, virtue for her are higher than personal happiness, which now can only be built on the misfortune of a loved one.
This outcome is dictated by the heroine's faith in the sanctity of the foundations of folk morality, consecrated for centuries, which she honored from childhood. Tatyana's act also expresses the poet's view of the vocation, the ideal of a real Russian woman: selfless, devoted, faithful.
One of the largest works of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". The poet devoted about nine years to its creation. He painted unusually lively and memorable images of Onegin, Tatyana, Olga, Lensky, which brought fame to the author and made the novel immortal. Russian classical literature was distinguished by a deep interest in female characters. The best poets and writers tried to comprehend and portray a woman not only as an object of adoration, love, but above all as a person.
A. S. Pushkin was the first to do this. Belinsky considered the creation of the image of Tatyana Larina, the truth of a Russian woman, a feat of the poet. The author endows his heroine with a simple name: “Her sister was called Tatyana” and explains it this way: “The sweetest-sounding Greek names, such as, for example, Agathon, Filat, Fedora, Thekla and others, are used among us only among commoners.” He explains this in the novel in the following lines:
For the first time with such a name
Gentle pages of a novel
We will sanctify.
So what? it is pleasant, sonorous:
But with him, I know, inseparable
Remembrance of old
Or girlish!
We first meet Tatiana at her parents' estate. About the father of the heroine, Pushkin says with irony: “There was a kind fellow, belated in the last century,” and the mother shows all the worries about the household. The life of the family proceeded peacefully and calmly. Often, “to grieve, and to slander, and to laugh about something” neighbors came to the Larins. Tatyana was brought up in such an atmosphere. She “believed in the legends of the common folk antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling”, she was “disturbed by signs”,
„.scary stories
In winter in the dark of nights
They captivated her heart more ...
Tatyana is a simple provincial girl, she is not beautiful, but her thoughtfulness and daydreaming distinguish her from other people (“she loved to warn the sunrise on the balcony”), in whose company she feels lonely, since they are not able to understand her.
Dika, sad, silent,
Like a forest doe is timid,
She is in her family
Seemed like a stranger girl.
She did not caress her parents, played little with children, did not do needlework, was not interested in fashion:
But dolls even in these years
Tatyana did not take it in her hands;
About the news of the city, about fashion
Didn't have a conversation with her.
The only entertainment that brought pleasure to this girl was reading books:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her;
She fell in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Rousseau.
Tatyana lives by the pages of the books she has read, imagines herself in the place of their heroines. And this romance of book stories is the reason for the creation of the ideal of her chosen one.
What, according to Pushkin, is beautiful in this heroine? First of all, this is the height of her morality, her spiritual simplicity combined with the depth of her inner world, naturalness, the absence of any falsehood in her behavior. The author emphasizes that this girl is devoid of coquetry and pretense - qualities that he did not like in women. Before us is a personality, an image no less significant than Onegin.
She is naturally endowed with “a rebellious imagination, a living mind and will, and a wayward head, and a fiery and tender heart.” Tatyana subtly feels the beauty of nature:
Tatyana (Russian soul,
I don't know why.)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter...
V. G. Belinsky said: “Tatyana’s whole inner world consisted in a thirst for love.” And he was right in his statement: For a long time her imagination,
Burning with grief and longing,
Alkalo fatal food;
Long hearted languor
It pressed her young breast;
The soul was waiting ... for someone
And I waited ... Eyes opened,
She said it's him!
And it is clear why Pushkin's heroine falls in love with Onegin. She is one of those “girls” for whom love can be either a great happiness or a great misfortune. In Onegin, the girl with her heart, and not her mind, immediately felt a kindred spirit. In a fit of her heart, she decides to write a letter of revelation to her lover, a declaration of love:
I am writing to you - what more?
What else can I say?
Now I know in your will
Punish me with contempt.
But Onegin could not appreciate the depth of feelings of Tatiana's passionate nature. This brings the girl into mental turmoil. And even after she visited Onegin’s village house and read his favorite books, where “Onegin’s soul involuntarily expressed itself,” when she realized who fate had sent her, she continues to love this person.
In the first chapters, the reader is presented with the image of a naive girl, sincere in her pursuit of happiness. But two years have passed. Tatyana is a princess, the wife of a respected general. Has she changed?
Yes and no. Of course, she “entered her role”, but did not lose the main thing - simplicity, naturalness, human dignity:
Oma was slow
Not cold, not talkative
Without an arrogant look for everyone,
No claim to success
Without these little antics
No imitations."
Everything is quiet, it was just in it ...
This line is very important - “without imitative undertakings”. Tatyana has no need to imitate anyone, she is a person in herself, and this is the strength of her charm, which is why "the general who entered with her raised his nose and shoulders." He was rightfully proud of his wife.
Tatyana is indifferent to secular life. She sees the falseness that reigns in the highest Petersburg society. Just as Onegin disliked his “hateful freedom”, so Tatyana is burdened by the tinsel of “hateful life”.
Perhaps the most important thing in Tatyana's character and behavior is a sense of duty, responsibility to people. These feelings take precedence over love. She cannot be happy bringing misfortune to another person, her husband, who is “mutilated in battles”, is proud of her, trusts her. She will never make a deal with her conscience.
Tatyana remains true to her duty and when meeting with Onegin she says:
I love you (why lie?),
But I am given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
The fate of Tatyana is tragic. Life brought her many disappointments, she did not find in life what she was striving for, but she did not betray herself. This is a very solid, strong, strong-willed female character.
Tatyana is the ideal of a woman for the poet, and he does not hide it: “Forgive me: I love my dear Tatyana so much ...” In the last stanza of the novel we read the lines: “And the one with whom Tatyana’s dear ideal was formed ... Oh, much, much fate took away.” A. S. Pushkin admires his heroine.
From whom was “Tatyana’s dear ideal” written? There are still disputes about this. Some literary scholars claim that this is Maria Raevskaya, who married Volkonsky and shared his fate in Siberia. Others claim that this is the wife of the Decembrist Fonvizin. Only one thing is clear: the image of Tatyana Larina is among the most striking female images of Russian literature.
Belinsky called the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" "the most sincere work" of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. And the author himself considered this novel to be his best creation. Pushkin worked on it with great enthusiasm, giving all his soul, all himself to creativity. And, of course, the images of the main characters of the novel are very close to the author. In each of them, he reflected some features inherent in himself. Images from the novel became almost familiar to Pushkin.
The image of Tatyana is closest to the author, who, in essence, is the ideal of a Russian woman for Pushkin. This is how he imagined a true Russian woman - sincere, fiery, trusting and, at the same time, possessing spiritual nobility, a sense of duty and a strong character.
In the portrait of Tatyana, Pushkin does not give an external appearance, but rather her inner portrait: "... Wild, sad, silent ...". This is an atypical image that attracts not with its beauty, but with its inner world.
Pushkin emphasizes the difference between Tatyana and Olga:
Nor the beauty of his sister,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She would not attract the eyes, - he says about Tatyana and then repeats more than once that Tatyana is ugly. But the image of this meek, thoughtful girl attracts the reader and the author himself with its charm and unusualness.
In the second chapter of the novel, we meet a girl whose favorite circle of life is nature, books, the village world with stories and tales of a nurse, with her warmth and cordiality.
Thought, her friend
From the most lullaby days
Rural Leisure Current
Decorated her with dreams.
Reading the novel, one can notice that in those stanzas where Tatyana is discussed, a description of nature is necessarily present. It is not for nothing that Pushkin conveys Tatyana's state of mind many times through images of nature; by this he emphasizes the deep connection that exists between a village girl and nature. For example, after Onegin’s harsh sermon, “youngness fades to sweet Tanya: this is how the shadow of a barely born day dresses the storm.”
Tatyana's farewell to her native places, native fields, meadows is accompanied by a tragic description of autumn: "Nature is quivering, pale, Like a victim magnificently removed." The whole inner world of Tanya is in tune with nature, with all its changes. Such closeness is one of the signs of a deep connection with the people, which Pushkin greatly appreciated and respected. The children's song, consoling Tanya, affection for "Filipovna gray-haired", fortune-telling - all this again tells us about Tanya's living connection with the elements of the people.
Tatyana (Russian soul,
I don't know why.)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter.
Loneliness, alienation from others, gullibility and naivety allow the "tender dreamer" to present Onegin as the hero of the novel, to appropriate "someone else's delight", "someone else's sadness".
But, seeing soon that the hero of her dreams is not at all what she imagined him to be, she tries to understand Onegin. The girl writes an ardent, passionate letter to Onegin and receives a harsh sermon in response. But this coldness of Eugene does not kill Tanya's love, the "strict conversation" in the garden only revealed to Tanya Onegin's cruelty, his ability to mercilessly respond to sincere feelings. Probably, the birth of “that indifferent princess” that so struck Onegin later begins already here. But, meanwhile, even the death of Lensky did not destroy the deep feeling that Tatiana had for Onegin:
And in the cruel loneliness
Her passion burns stronger
And about distant Onegin
Her heart speaks louder.
Onegin left, and, it seems, forever. But Tatyana, before visiting his house, continues to refuse when others woo her. Only after visiting the “young cell”, seeing how and how Eugene lived, she agrees to go to the “bride market” in Moscow, because she begins to suspect something terrible for herself and for her love:
What is he? Is it an imitation?
An insignificant ghost, or else -
Muscovite in Harold's raincoat?
Alien whims interpretation,
Words fashionable lexicon?
Isn't he a parody?
Although Evgeny's inner world is not limited to the books he has read, Tanya does not understand this and, drawing erroneous conclusions, is disappointed in love and in her hero. Now she faces a boring road to Moscow and the noisy bustle of the capital.
In the "county young lady" Tatyana, "everything is outside, everything is free." In the eighth chapter, we meet the "indifferent princess" "legislator of the hall." The former Tanya, in whom "everything was quiet, everything is simple," has now become a model of "impeccable taste", a "true ingot" of nobility and sophistication.
But it cannot be said that now she is really an “indifferent princess”, incapable of experiencing sincere feelings, and that there is no trace of the former naive and timid Tanya. There are feelings, but now they are well and firmly hidden. And that “careless charm” of Tatyana is a mask that she wears with art and naturalness. Light has made its own adjustments, but only external ones, Tatyana's soul has remained the same. That gullible girl still lives in her, loving the "Russian winter", hills, forests, the village, ready to give "all this brilliance, and noise, and children for a shelf of books, for a wild garden ...". Now the impetuosity and recklessness of feelings has been replaced in her by self-control, which helps Tanya to endure the moment when the embarrassed, "awkward" Eugene is left alone with her. But still, Tatyana's main advantage is her spiritual nobility, her truly Russian character. Tatyana has a high sense of duty and dignity, which is why she found the strength to suppress her feelings and say to Onegin:
I love you (why lie?)
But I am given to another;
And I will be faithful to him forever.
Pushkin admired the image, so skillfully created by himself. He embodied in Tatyana the ideal of a real Russian woman.
The writer saw the wives of many Decembrists who, out of their love and sense of duty, went to Siberia for their husbands. This is how he endowed his heroine with such spiritual nobility. The image of Tatyana is the deepest and most serious in the novel. The height, spirituality, depth of Tatyana Larina allowed Belinsky to call her "genius nature."
"Eugene Onegin" - a novel in verse. If not the best, then one of the best works of the great Russian classic. A.S. Pushkin for the first time reveals Tatyana Larina, who is an ideal for him, which he gently, lovingly sings.
It is believed that the prototype of the heroine was a real woman who left after her husband exiled to Siberia.
The ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin"
Pushkin calls his heroine a simple and at the same time very common name - Tatyana. Her character is sincere, folk, natural, but nevertheless she cannot be called a simpleton. The sincerity of the heroine is combined with the extraordinary depth of her soul.
She is a great lover of books, brought up on them and the stories of her nanny, different from her surroundings. Tatyana is not used to caressing with her parents and playing with other children, like all her peers. She appears before the readers as a girl somewhat removed from the whole society. For Pushkin, this is the ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
She loves nature and lives according to its rhythms and laws, feeling her unity with her.
Public opinion is not so important for a girl. But she lives in a world of ideals, sincere sincerity, high spiritual morality and purity.
She likes more village life, closeness to nature, which she feels and loves. Then, having married, living in St. Petersburg and leading a secular life, she will longingly recall the life that she had in her beloved village.
A.S. Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin": heroes and their love
Pushkin describes in his novel two vivid images of the main characters. This is Tatyana Larina, Eugene Onegin, who are opposed to each other and at the same time attracted. The pure and sincere soul of the girl comes into contact with a young man who has already seen a lot in his lifetime and is disappointed in life. Onegin's spiritual emptiness and Larina's soul filled to the brim are dramatically revealed in the novel.
It would seem that love should work miracles, and a strong and sincerely in love Tatyana will definitely be able to change everything. Eugene Onegin, however, rejects her after her confession and leaves her completely at a loss. Was it love or passion? Tatyana, being a dreamy girl, fell in love not with a real person, but with an image she invented, which she painted in her dreams.
The young man, who attracted her with his detachment and mystery, with those features that were inherent in herself, nevertheless turned out to be not the same romantic hero from her dreams and dreams. He turned out to be empty, disappointed and even corrupted by the secular life of the capital. But, despite this, noble nobility lived deep in him, and Tatyana did not become deceived. Eugene Onegin left, leaving the girl in complete disarray.
He had a chance to change and find the soulfulness that he once had. But this was too complicated and incomprehensible for him, and the young man, or "young old man," as critics sometimes called him, decided to simply retire and continue his usual way of life.
Much later, Tatiana Larina and Eugene Onegin would meet in St. Petersburg. And then the fire of passion will burn not her, but Onegin. Tatyana, in turn, becoming a high society lady, will not lose her ability to love. However, this time she will already reject Eugene - not in order to take revenge or follow the norms accepted in society.
She loves him, no matter what, and does not hide it from him. But she continues to be guided in life by her high spiritual and moral principles and cannot break the vow given to her husband destined by fate. At the same time, she understands that she is not driven by Onegin, but by passion and selfish pride. How else can she answer? Decide on an extramarital affair? By doing so, she would not only defile her love, but also betray herself, sacrificing her inner rules of life.
V.G. Belinsky about Tatyana
The ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin" was described in detail by V.G. Belinsky, calling it the image of the truth of a Russian woman, and the novel a real encyclopedia of Russian life.
Tatyana in his perception is a deep and strong woman, without the suffering contradictions of complex souls, which sometimes they themselves are unable to understand. It is whole, unified and pure nature. And it doesn’t matter who she is today: a secular lady or a simple girl from the village. Wherever she is, a high spiritual integrity does not leave her, and whatever happens to her and happens, she is guided by the values \u200b\u200bliving inside her.
Tatiana and Olga
Tatyana - the ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin", is the complete opposite of her sister Olga. The latter is a windy girl with a careless and narrow-minded disposition. Her image in its entirety is revealed in a dismissive attitude towards the young man who fell in love with her - Lensky, who, because of her frivolous behavior, challenges Onegin to a duel and dies there.
Tatyana cannot be spiritually friendly with her windy sister, she needs depth and meaningfulness of her own and other people's thoughts and actions, which Olga cannot give her.
nature image
Tatyana is able to contemplate beauty, feel harmony, understand the language of nature and love the world around her. She loves to meet the sunrise and think about the moon, walk through the fields and meadows, admire the beautiful natural landscapes, especially in winter, and even
Its image is close to pagan, when people lived in unity with the surrounding world, with nature, without separating themselves from it and finding in nature all the answers to their questions. Tatyana believes in superstitions, omens, divination and dreams. And this belief further strengthens her connection with nature.
social image
The social life of the girl weighs. Her deep inner nature opposes falsehood, but she is forced to come to terms with it and live as fate ordered her. By the end of the novel, the naive village girl has learned to put on a secular cold mask and walk in it, like all the people around. But, despite this, she does not lose her essence and spiritual qualities.
Favorite quotes
Those who read, taught and studied at school the novel "Eugene Onegin", quotes from it can be remembered all their lives. Thanks to the wonderful and light syllable of the great Russian poet, the poems are remembered quickly and for a long time: “Wild, sad, silent, like a timid deer in the forest ...”
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" quotes characterizing the image of Tatyana, vividly and simply depicting Russian, remaining in the memory of young people, help in understanding the mysterious Russian soul and a deeper understanding of themselves.
