One of the most famous works of A. Pushkin both in Russia and abroad is his novel in verse "Eugene Onegin", written in the period from 1823 to 1830 in the 19th century. In many ways, the novel's enduring popularity is facilitated by its status as an integral part of the compulsory school curriculum. To write a high-quality essay on the work, we advise you to read the novel, perhaps not at first in one gulp, in excerpts, but use quotations from Eugene Onegin in order to show that you really know the material.

Eugene Onegin. Explanation with Tatiana in the village

The story is told on behalf of the friend of the protagonist of the novel, who is Eugene Onegin, a native of St. Petersburg, 26 years old:

"... Onegin, my good friend, was born on the banks of the Neva ..."

"... having lived without a goal, without work, until twenty-six years ..."

Onegin was born into a noble family, gradually ruined through the fault of the head of the family, who sought to live beyond his means, but provided his son with a decent, by the standards of that time, upbringing:

"... His father lived in debt, gave three balls annually, and finally squandered."

"... first Madame followed him, then Monsieur replaced her."

"... fun and luxury child ..."

The result of Eugene's upbringing and training was his knowledge of languages ​​(French, Latin, Greek), history, the foundations of philosophy and economics, the rules of good manners, the ability to dance:

"He could express himself in French and wrote, danced the mazurka easily and bowed at ease"

"... a philosopher at the age of eighteen ..."

"He knew enough Latin to disassemble the epigraphs, talk about Juvenal, put vale at the end of the letter, but he remembered, though not without sin, two verses from the Aeneid."

"... days of the past, jokes from Romulus to the present day he kept in his memory"

"... I read Adam Smith and was a deep economist ..."

Eugene does not like poetry and does not understand, on occasion he can easily compose an epigram on the topic of the day:

“... He could not distinguish iamba from chorea, no matter how hard we fought. Scolded Homer, Theocritus ... "

"... He had a happy talent ... to excite the smile of the ladies with the fire of unexpected epigrams."

Onegin is distinguished by restlessness, in principle, he cannot do something for a long time:

"... hard work he was sick of ..."

"... Haircut in the latest fashion, like a dandy London dressed ..."

“... There was a pedant in his clothes, and what we called a dandy. He spent three hours at least in front of mirrors ... "

All these qualities of the character become the key to a favorable attitude towards him in the light:

"Onegin was in the opinion of many ... a small scientist, but a pedant ..."

"The light decided that he was smart and very nice"

A life full of entertainment quickly bores the protagonist, for some time love adventures remain Eugene's only passion, but they gradually bore him:

"But in what he was a true genius, what he knew more firmly than all sciences, what was for him the weariness and work, and torment, and joy, which took his yearning laziness all day, - was the science of tender passion ..."

"... Beauties were not for long the subject of his usual thoughts, they managed to tire of betrayal ..."

"... He did not fall in love with beauties, but dragged himself somehow ..."

"Similar to the English spleen, in short: the Russian blues took possession of him little by little ..."

Despite the fact that society, as a whole, bored the protagonist, he reckons with his rules, which ultimately cost Lensky's life, because, even realizing the meaninglessness and uselessness of the duel, Onegin cannot refuse it:

"... but wildly secular enmity is afraid of false shame ..."

“… But the whisper, the laughing of fools… And here is the public opinion! Spring of honor, our idol! "

At the time of the story, the young man is the last heir to the family, to the representatives of which he and his uncle belong:

"... The heir to all his relatives ..."

Despite the squandering fortune of his father, the material values ​​left in the family, apparently, are enough to provide the main character with a comfortable existence without the need to serve, to lead a secular lifestyle:

"Languishing in the inaction of leisure, without service, without a wife, without work, I could not do anything ..."

"... three houses are calling for the evening ..."

"... an honorary citizen of the wings ..."

Onegin is prudent enough. Having learned about the imminent death of his uncle, Onegin does not feel sympathy for him, but he is quite ready to pretend to be so in order to receive an inheritance:

"After reading the sad message, Yevgeny immediately galloped off to a meeting by mail and was already yawning in advance, getting ready, for the sake of money, for sighs, boredom and deceit."

His behavior in the light is becoming more aloof and impolite:

"... when did he want to destroy his rivals, how he sarcastically slandered ..."

"... to his caustic dispute, and to a joke, with bile in half, and the anger of gloomy epigrams ..."

"... he sulked and, indignant, vowed to enrage Lensky and take revenge in order ..."

Gradually, the opinion of society about Onegin is transformed:

"... cold and lazy souls ..."

"... this gloomy eccentric ..."

"... a sad and dangerous eccentric ..."

“Our neighbor is ignorant; crazy; he is a freemason ... "

"He does not fit the ladies to the handle ..."

He perceives himself as a gloomy and indifferent person, trying to even exaggerate, speaking about his own person:

“… Always frowning, silent, angry and coldly jealous! This is me "

"... Start crying: your tears will not touch my heart, but will only enrage him ..."

"... I, no matter how much I love you, getting used to it, I will immediately stop loving you ..."

However, there is a lot of ostentatiousness in this image. Onegin knows how to understand people and appreciate them:

"... even though he knew people, of course, and generally despised them, - but (there are no rules without exceptions) he was very different and respected the feeling out of nowhere ..."

"... my Eugene, not respecting the heart in him, loved both the spirit of his judgments, and common sense about this and that"

"I would have chosen another, if I was like you, a poet ..."

Even his "rebuff" to young Tatiana is caused by his unwillingness to inflict even more suffering on her than the pain of refusal:

"... but he did not want to deceive the credulity of an innocent soul ..."

He tries to be delicate with her and tries to warn the girl against careless impulses in the future, although there is still a share of imagination and narcissism in his words:

“Learn to rule yourself; not everyone will understand you like me; inexperience leads to trouble ... "

In fact, he is quite capable of experiencing compassion and tenderness:

"... her embarrassment, weariness in his soul gave birth to pity"

"... the gaze of his eyes was wonderfully gentle ..."

In relations with Lensky, realizing that they are too different for real friendship, Onegin for the time being spares the poet's feelings and does not try to ridicule his enthusiastic ideas about life:

"... He tried to keep the cooling word in his mouth ..."

There is nobility and self-esteem in his character, and those around him recognize this:

"... I know: in your heart there is both pride and direct honor"

"How with your heart and mind to be the feelings of a petty slave?"

"... in that terrible hour you acted nobly ..."

"... not for the first time he showed his souls a direct nobility ..."

As the work progresses, it becomes obvious that Eugene knows how to love and suffer:

"... Eugene is in love with Tatiana as a child ..."

"... Onegin dries up - and almost suffers from consumption"

“... He drives up every day; he chases after her like a shadow ... "

"... but he is stubborn, he does not want to be left behind, he still hopes, bothers ..."

Onegin can be really hard on himself:

"... alone with my soul I was dissatisfied with myself ..."

"... in a strict analysis, having summoned himself to a secret court, he accused himself in many ways ..."

"In anguish of heart pangs ..."

Knows how to admit his mistakes:

"... how wrong I was, how I was punished"

Tatiana Larina

A girl from a noble family living in the province:

"... in the wilderness of a forgotten village ..."

The family is not rich:

"... we do not shine with anything ..."

"... a simple, Russian family ..."

"... oh, my father, income is not enough ..."

"Neither the beauty of her sister, nor the freshness of her ruddy face would have attracted her eyes"

In childhood, she was very different from her peers and behavior:

"Dika, sad, silent, like a forest doe, fearful, she seemed like a stranger to her family."

"She did not know how to caress ..."

"The child herself, in the crowd of children did not want to play and jump ..."

“But even in those years Tatiana did not take dolls in her hands ...”

"And childish pranks were alien to her ..."

In her youth, she is dreamy and brooding:

"Thoughtfulness, her friend ... she adorned the flow of rural leisure with dreams"

"... terrible stories in winter in the dark of nights more captivated her heart ..."

"She liked novels early ..."

"She loved to warn the dawn of the sunrise on the balcony ..."

She acutely feels her dissimilarity:

"Imagine: I am here alone, no one understands me ..."

The girl is quite smart, albeit wayward:

"... With the mind and will of the living ..."

"... And a wayward head ..."

Tatyana has a very developed intuition, to the point that she has prophetic dreams:

"... suddenly Evgeny grabs a long knife, and Lensky is instantly defeated ..."

Romantic and enthusiastic, she fell in love with Onegin at first sight only because:

"It's time to come, she fell in love"

"The soul was waiting ... for someone"

Her letter to Eugene is written in French, in a very exalted tone, with pompous "bookish" turns:

"I know you were sent to me by God, until the grave you are my keeper ..."

"That in the above is destined advice ... That is the will of heaven: I am yours ..."

"Your wonderful look tormented me ..."

"Who are you, my guardian angel, or an insidious tempter ..."

In fact, she writes not to a living person, but to an invented image, and deep down she herself understands this:

"Perhaps this is all empty, a deception of an inexperienced soul!"

"But your honor is my guarantee ..."

However, one should give credit to her courage. She writes, despite the fact that she is endlessly scared:

"I freeze with shame and fear ..."

Over time, it turns out that the love that Tatyana feels for Eugene is not an easy, quickly passing love:

"... Tatiana loves not jokingly ..."

She not only cherishes unhappy love in her soul, but tries to understand Onegin's character, comes to his abandoned village house, reads his books:

"Is it possible to see the manor house?"

"Then I started reading books"

"... the choice of them seemed strange to her"

"And little by little my Tatiana begins to understand ... the one for whom she sigh is condemned by the fate of the imperious"

They woo her, but all the suitors are refused:

“Buyanov wooed: refusal. Ivan Petushkov, too. Husar Pykhtin was staying with us ... "

At the family council, it was decided to go to Moscow, to the "brides' fair," but Tatiana, even there, remains indifferent to social life:

"... Tanya, just like in a dream, hears their speeches without participation ..."

“... Tatiana looks and does not see, she hates the excitement of the light; she is stuffy here ...

Not everyone, and she herself seems to be an attractive bride:

"... they find her something strange, provincial and cutesy, and something pale and thin, but by the way, very not bad ..."

"Archival youths with a crowd of primly look at Tanya and speak unfavorably about her among themselves."

The girl does not at all strive for everyone's attention, but she is noticed:

"Some sad jester finds her ideal ..."

"... somehow Vyazemsky sat down with her ..."

"... the old man asks about her, straightening his wig"

"Meanwhile, some important general does not take his eyes off her."

She marries at the insistence of the family, without love, for a man she does not like too much:

"Who? is this general fat? "

Since the time of marriage, the secular manners of the already withdrawn Tatiana acquire a shade of even friendliness to everyone, beyond which it is impossible to look:

"... She was unhurried, not cold, not talkative ..."

"... sweet careless beauty ..."

Not participating in any intrigues, not competing with anyone, Tatyana commands respect from society, her husband is very proud of her:

“The ladies moved closer to her; the old women smiled at her; the men bowed below ... "

"... and everyone above, both nose and shoulders, was lifted by the general who entered with her ..."

During the time that has passed since the first meeting with Onegin, Tatiana learned, on his advice, to control herself:

"And whatever embarrassed her soul, no matter how much she was surprised, amazed, nothing changed her: she retained the same tone, her bow was just as quiet."

"... she sits calm and free"

Her true feelings will manifest themselves only in the final scene, when, in suffering, she expresses her pain to Onegin, reproaching him for the past and pointing out to him the real motives of his current feelings for her:

"The princess in front of him, alone, sits, not cleaned, pale, reading some letter and quietly pouring tears in a river"

“Why do you have me in mind? Is it not because I must now appear in the upper world; that I am rich and noble? ... Is it not because my shame would now be noticed by everyone, and could bring you a seductive honor in society? "

Now she already shows nobility of character. Recognizing that she continues to love Onegin, Tatyana reminds both him and herself that she must remain faithful to her husband:

“I love you (why dissemble?), But I am given to another; I will be faithful to him forever "

Vladimir Lensky

A young nobleman of 18 years of attractive appearance, rich in:

"... Almost at the age of eighteen ..."

"... Handsome man, in full bloom of years ..."

"... And the curls are black to the shoulders ..."

"... rich, handsome ..."

Parents died:

"... and in the same place, with the inscription of a sad father and mother, in tears, he honored the patriarchal ashes ..."

Philosopher and poet:

"... an admirer of Kant and a poet ..."

Enthusiastic nature, up to exaltation, not fully formed:

"... and the mind, still in its judgments, is unsteady, and the eternally inspired gaze ..."

"... freedom-loving dreams, an ardent and rather strange spirit, always an enthusiastic speech ..."

I came from Germany immediately to the village, as he does not accept the rules according to which the upper world exists:

"... he brought fruits of scholarship from foggy Germany ..."

"... I hate your fashionable light, my home circle is dearer to me ..."

Gullible and simple-minded:

"... his trusting conscience, he innocently bared ..."

Believes in friendship and loyalty:

"... he believed that his friends were ready to accept his shackles for the honor ..."

"... there are sacred friends chosen by the destinies of people ..."

Rural society is perceived as an enviable groom:

"... Lensky was accepted everywhere as a groom ..."

However, Vladimir from childhood was engaged to the youngest daughter of the Larins' neighbors, Olga, and at the time of the story he was in love with her and was going to marry her:

"And neighbors and friends, their fathers predicted wreaths for the children ..."

"... Holguin the adorer has arrived ..."

"Oh, he loved, as in our summer they no longer love ..."

"... he believed that his dear soul should unite with him, that, despondently languishing, she waits for him every day ..."

"... in two weeks a happy time was appointed"

His love is platonic:

"... he was an ignorant dear heart ..."

"... in the confusion of tender shame, he only dares sometimes, encouraged by Olga's smile, play with a developed curl or kiss the hem of his clothes ..."

"... and meanwhile, two, three pages ... he skips, blushing ..."

After being challenged to a duel, seeing Olga and realizing that she does not even understand what happened, Lensky forgives her and no longer takes revenge on Onegin, but only wants to save the bride from pernicious influence:

“... I will be her savior. I will not tolerate a corrupter tempting a young heart with fire and sighs and praises ... "

Olga Larina

Tatiana's younger sister:

"Are you in love with the smaller one?"

Adorable, chubby, blonde, blonde doll-like appearance:

"... full of innocent charm ..."

"... linen curls ..."

"... Eyes, like the sky are blue ..."

"She is round, with a red face ..."

"Oh, dear, how prettier Olga's shoulders are, what a breast!"

According to Onegin, she is beautiful, but absolutely uninteresting:

“Olga has no life in her features. Just like in the Madonna of Vendice "

The mind of the younger Larina is not particularly developed, she is simple-minded, to the point of stupidity:

"... how the life of a poet is simple-minded ..."

"Before this clarity of gaze, before this gentle simplicity, before this playful soul!"

Because of this, the girl cannot appreciate the nature of Lensky and his relationship to her:

"Vladimir would write odes, but Olga did not read them"

Olga is the bride of Vladimir Lensky, willingly spends time with him and encourages his courtship, but is unlikely to be capable of a strong feeling, which she talks about quite bluntly

"In her peace, they sit in the dark, two ..."

"They are in the garden, hand in hand, walking in the morning ..."

"... Emboldened by Olga's smile ..."

"He was loved ... or so he thought ..."

She is windy, does not know how to behave in society, compromises herself and her fiancé, flirting with another:

"... and a proud blush glowed in her face brighter"

"Coquette, windy child!"

"She knows the trick, she has already been taught to change!"

Sincerely does not understand the problematics of the situation:

"Olenka jumped from the porch to meet the poor singer, like a windy hope, playful, carefree, cheerful, well, exactly the same as she was."

"Why did the evening disappear so early?" Olenkin's first question was "

In the scene of farewell to the duel, Olga, looking into the face of Lensky, whose heart is breaking with longing, just asks "What's the matter with you?" and having received the answer "So", without further question, lets go of him.

After the death of the groom in a duel, the girl quickly falls in love with another and marries him:

"She didn't cry for a long time ..."

Eugene Onegin is portrayed by Pushkin as a "young rake". As a boy, Eugene grows up carefree and carefree, because his teacher, a Frenchman, teaches him everything "jokingly" so that "the child does not get exhausted." Therefore, Eugene did not receive a proper education. Having become a young man, he quickly becomes a frequenter of social events, because he could easily fit into the circles of high society, thanks to his knowledge of French and the ability to dance.

In communication with lovely ladies, Onegin quickly masters the "science of tender passion", deftly conquering the hearts of beauties:

How early could he be a hypocrite
Conceal hope, be jealous
Reassure, make you believe
To seem gloomy, to languish,
Be proud and obedient
Attentive il indifferent.

Onegin, thanks to his ability to charm women, constantly received invitations to various receptions in the world, taking several notes every day, in which he was invited to attend a social event.

Onegin is a well-groomed and fashionable young man who carefully monitors his appearance and his clothes, he spent a lot of time at the mirror, in his arsenal of cosmetics were:

Perfume in faceted crystal;
Combs, steel nail files,
Straight scissors, curves
And brushes of thirty kinds
And for nails and teeth.

Gathering for the next entertainment event, he preened himself in front of the mirror for a very long time and "came out of the toilet like a windy Venus ..."

Onegin was spoiled by female attention, he got used to a free and free lifestyle, when he easily got all the best. He was not used to responsibility, to obligations, all his connections with women were fleeting and frivolous. The constant carelessness, repeated every day, eventually disgusted Onegin, ceased to bring him satisfaction:

No: 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 betrayal;
Friends and friendship are tired.

It was in this state, when he was tired of entertainment, of betrayal and intrigue, Onegin went to the village, where he met Tatiana. And although Onegin was a "rake" and a "dandy", a narcissistic and spoiled woman's attention by a man who knew how to perfectly "play" on the strings of a woman's soul, he could skillfully pretend and be a hypocrite, he was able to treat Tatyana with respect and understanding. After her declaration of love for him, Onegin did not laugh at her, did not spread rumors, he tried to speak frankly with her, wishing her to love a more worthy man.

Onegin also shows his kind and understanding character towards his friend, Vladimir. He condescendingly and patiently listens to his romantic reasoning, without inserting his "cooling word", assuming that with age, Lensky's "bliss" will pass anyway:

And without me the time will come;
Let him live for the time being
May the world believe in perfection;
Forgive the fever of young years
And youthful fever and youthful delirium.

Before the duel with Lensky took place, Onegin feels guilty, his conscience torments him that he could not cool the poet's ardor. He realizes that his friend is too young, too hot. Onegin realizes that in vain he played such a cruel joke with his friend, laughing at his "tender and timid love." But he is still too proud to ask Lensky for forgiveness and prevent the duel, besides, he does not want to hear the "laugh of fools", because the refusal of the duel can be taken by society for cowardice.

Onegin, after all, is a very controversial person. Tatiana herself, thinking about him, says:

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, or else
Muscovite in Harold's cloak,
Interpretation of other people's quirks,
Fashionable words full of lexicon?
Isn't he a parody?

Such reasoning arose in Tatyana after studying the books she found in Onegin's house, these were works "in which the century was reflected and a modern man is depicted quite correctly ..."
Tatyana leafed through the pages and saw Onegin's marks on many of them, where his soul “involuntarily expresses itself”.

All this suggests that Eugene Onegin was still a thinking person, with a living and feeling soul, not completely corrupted by secular society.

Writing. IMAGE OF EVGENY ONEGIN IN AS PUSHKIN'S ROMAN "EVGENY ONEGIN" .:

Eugene Onegin is a very extraordinary hero. He is interesting to me as a person who stands out sharply from the rest of the mass of people. Pushkin creates the image of a "superfluous person". The poet portrays Onegin as being very similar to himself in his childhood upbringing (Pushkin was brought up by a nanny, and Onegin was not brought up by his parents), but very often their views on life did not coincide. Pushkin writes the novel in such a way that, although he is not a hero, he is constantly present next to Onegin and compares him to himself.

As a child, Onegin's father was reluctant to engage in his upbringing, and he hired "poor" madame and monseir, who did not teach the boy anything, but only slightly scolded for "slightly for pranks." How are the stages of the hero's life shown in the work? Onegin is a secular young man, a metropolitan aristocrat, who received a typical upbringing for that time under the guidance of a French tutor in the spirit of literature, torn from the soil of the people.

We all learned a little bit Something and somehow ...

And it is no wonder that an egoist grew out of Onegin, thinking only about his desires and pleasures. The good in his soul, thanks to his upbringing and society, remained in him. He received a superficial education, but he himself, although without any pleasure, delved into reading books. As it turns out later, he reads not only fiction, but also philosophical books. And this was very beneficial to him, because, having met with Lensky, who graduated from one of the best universities in the world at that time, he could even argue with him on such serious topics as philosophy and politics.

Onegin revolves in high society. At first he lives like all secular people: he goes to balls, goes to theaters, but he does this without pleasure, as something obligatory, he even ceased to be interested in what is happening on the stage:

“... then to the stage

In great distraction he looked,

He turned away and yawned. "

(Although Pushkin calls the theater "magic land".)

But in terms of his views and requirements for life, he is much higher than not only his neighbors-landowners in the countryside, but also representatives of the St. Petersburg world, and therefore he soon got tired of this empty, empty life:

But he completely lost interest in life.

Like Child Harold, sullen, languid

He appeared in the living rooms ... In the village Onegin behaves humanely towards the peasants, but he does not think about their fate, he is more tormented by his own moods, a feeling of emptiness of life

Onegin would like to part with such a life, but he has neither the strength nor the desire to do so. At the same time, his egoism, inattention to the feelings of others constantly lead to the fact that, not wanting this, he does evil to those people with whom fate confronts him. Having received Tatyana's love letter, he feels that he cannot answer her in kind and refuses her, but refuses politely in a mild form, disregarding her feelings. But, in my opinion, it was better than if he reassured her, promising to answer her in kind, knowingly not loving her. He decides to take revenge on Lensky for the fact that Vladimir told Onegin that at Tatyana's birthday there will be no one except relatives and friends. he hurts Tatiana and Lensky on Tatiana's birthday, openly courting Olga. Pushkin portrays Onegin as an egoist, but he is a “suffering egoist”, not smug and in love with himself. He, apparently, understands that the main source of his melancholy is the lack of work, social activity. But his mind does not allow him to follow the paved road along which many young noblemen walked, wanting to find themselves a "useful" occupation. He could not go to serve as an officer or an official, because he understood what it meant to maintain that system, because of which he got bored. And the only work for him remains the struggle against the evil of the then Russian life - serfdom and tsarist autocracy. But just for this he was not capable of due to his upbringing and living conditions, which killed in him any interest in work:

"He was sick of hard work." Onegin did not belong to the noble revolutionaries, but the fact that he felt uncomfortable in the atmosphere of that time suggests that he stood much higher than the noble youth. Pushkin says that Onegin was "more bearable than others."

Although he knew people, of course

And in general he despised them -

But (there are no rules without exceptions)

He was very different from others

And I respected the feeling out of nowhere,

That is, he saw in others and appreciated that living thing that no longer remained in him.

Almost throughout the entire novel, Onegin's actions, thoughts, and speeches remain unchanged, belonging to an intelligent person, embittered with society (he has an evil, sharp tongue, he speaks evil of everything around him), disappointed in everything and incapable of any strong feelings and experiences ... But the events that Pushkin talks about in the last chapters make a strong impression on Onegin. And we see that he discovers such character traits that he did not even suspect in himself. The duel with Lensky gives him the opportunity to understand what egoism has led him to, his inattention to people, concern only for himself. Onegin kills his friend Lensky, succumbing to class prejudices, frightened of "the whisper, the laughter of fools."

Doused with instant cold

In anguish of heart pangs ...

Lensky's murder turned his whole life upside down. In a depressed state of mind, Onegin leaves the village and begins wandering around Russia. These wanderings give him the opportunity to take a fuller look at life, overestimate his attitude to the surrounding reality, to understand how fruitlessly he wasted his life. Now Onegin can no longer ignore the feelings and experiences of people with whom he encounters. Now he can feel and love. He was influenced by the reality of the life of the Russian people, which he saw during his travels. After the experience, Onegin changes, becomes a completely different person. But, despite the wanderings, selfishness and pride in Onegin did not diminish. This is the "rebirth" Onegin returns to the capital and meets the same picture of the life of a secular society. Love for Tatyana, now a married woman, flares up in him. Having written a letter to Tatyana, Onegin does not think about her feelings, he thinks only of himself. But Tatiana unraveled the selfishness and selfishness underlying feelings for her, and rejects Onegin's love.

The image of Onegin is an image that absorbed the general features typical for a whole stratum of young people of that time. These are young people, provided with work, but received a poor, disorderly education and upbringing, who lead an empty, meaningless life with entertainment at balls, at a party, at holidays. But unlike other strata, that is, the ruling class, which takes its idleness calmly, these young people are smarter, they have at least some conscience, they are dissatisfied with the environment, from that social system and are dissatisfied with themselves, but nevertheless, just like Onegin, thanks to their upbringing, they cannot break with such a life. Pushkin very well characterizes the boredom and feelings inherent in these people:

It is unbearable to see in front of you

There is a long row of dinners alone,

To look at life as a rite of passage,

And after the decorous crowd

Go without sharing with her

No shared opinions, no passions.

Although the entire novel is a story about Eugene Onegin as an individual, here he is shown as a typical representative of the noble youth of that time.

The protagonist of the novel is a young landowner Eugene Onegin, a man with a complex, contradictory character. The upbringing that Onegin received was disastrous. He grew up without a mother. The father, a frivolous Petersburg master, did not pay attention to his son, entrusting him to the "poor" tutors. As a result, Onegin grew up as an egoist, a person who cares only about himself, about his desires and who does not know how to pay attention to the feelings, interests, suffering of other people. He is able to offend, offend a person without even noticing it. Everything beautiful that was in the soul of a young man remained undeveloped. Onegin's life is boredom and laziness, monotonous satisfaction in the absence of real, lively work.

The image of Onegin is not invented. In it, the poet summarized the features, typical images for young people of that time. These are people provided for at the expense of work and serfs who received a disorderly upbringing. But unlike most members of the ruling class, these young men are smarter, more sensitive, more conscientious, and nobler. They are dissatisfied with themselves, their surroundings, social structure.

Onegin, in terms of views and demands for life, stands above not only his rural neighbors, landowners, but also representatives of the St. Petersburg high society. Having met with Lensky, who graduated from the best university in Germany, Onegin could argue with him on any topic as an equal. Friendship with Lensky opens up in Onegin's soul, hidden behind a mask of cold selfishness and indifference, the possibilities of true, friendly relations between people.

Seeing Tatyana for the first time, not even talking to her, not hearing her voice, he immediately felt the poetry of the soul of this girl. In relation to Tatyana, as well as to Lensky, such a trait of his as benevolence was revealed. Under the influence of the events depicted in the novel, evolution takes place in Eugene's soul, and in the last chapter of the novel, Onegin is not at all the same as we saw him before. He fell in love with Tatiana. But his love does not bring happiness, neither to him, nor to her.

In the novel Eugene Onegin, Pushkin portrayed a frivolous young man who, even in love, cannot give himself advice. Escaping from the world, Onegin was unable to escape from himself. When he realized this, it was already too late. Tatiana doesn't believe him now. And this opens Onegin's eyes to himself, but nothing changes.

The image of Lensky in the novel "Eugene Onegin"

Another path followed by the noble intelligentsia of the 20s of the XIX century is revealed in the image of Lensky. This is the path of passion for philosophical teachings fashionable at that time and dreamy romantic poetry divorced from life:
There are many excellent inclinations in Lenskoye. Pushkin points to the inherent in Lensky "noble aspiration and feelings and thoughts of young, tall, gentle, daring", "thirst for knowledge and work and fear of vice and shame."
But Lensky lacks knowledge and understanding of reality. "A dear ignoramus with his heart", he perceives people and life as a romantic dreamer. Like Onegin, the society of the provincial nobility is alien to him with narrow interests, but he idealizes Olga, an ordinary girl. Misunderstanding of people, enthusiastic dreaminess lead Lensky to a tragic end at the very first encounter with reality.
Lensky is an educated, cultured person. In his conversations with Onegin, philosophical, social and scientific issues are raised. Pushkin notes his "freedom-loving dreams." Lensky is a poet, a sentimental romantic. In stanza X of the second chapter, Pushkin lists the main motives of Lensky's poetry, and in stanzas XXI and XXII of the sixth chapter, he cites his elegy as an example of romantic poetry.
The motives that Pushkin notes in Lensky's poetry are close to Zhukovsky and other poets - sentimental romantics of that time. The motives of "love, sadness, separation", the mysterious "something", the glorification of the "faded color of life", "foggy distance" and "romantic roses" are typical of Zhukovsky's poetry.
Romantics like Lensky cannot resist the blows of life: they either reconcile themselves with the prevailing way of life, or die at the first encounter with reality. Lensky died. But if he had remained alive, then most likely he would have turned into an ordinary landowner-philistine. He would hardly have become a major poet: this was not promised by the "languid and languid" poetry of Lensky.

Tatiana is the embodiment of everything Russian, national. This is a discreet and pure, but deep nature. She is not like all society girls. Her characterization is given as if from the opposite, Pushkin says what is not in it - there is no coquetry, coquetry, insincerity in it. Pushkin explains how such two dissimilar sisters were born in the same family. It turns out that since childhood Tatyana was different from her peers. She preferred solitude to games, reading to dolls, and she also surprisingly feels and understands nature. This sensitivity makes Tatiana closer to the common people than to the secular society. The basis of her world is folk culture. The episode with fortune-telling and Tatiana's sleep shows how much intuitive she has. At the same time, Tatiana is somewhat similar to Onegin - the desire for loneliness, the desire to understand herself and understand life. But she also has the features of Lensky - belief in perfect happiness, love, the creation of a cute image.

Characterization plan of a literary hero:
1. Where was Onegin born and lives, what is his position in society?
2. What kind of education did Onegin receive, was such an education an exception among the nobility?
3. What is Onegin doing, what is his hobby, what books does he read?
4. How did social life affect Onegin?
5. What couple of heroes are noted by the author of the novel, who became friends with him?
6. What is Onegin doing in the village?
7. What does Tatiana learn about Onegin in his house?
8. How does the author of the novel assess Onegin's response to Tatyana's letter?
9. Why did Onegin accept Lensky's challenge?
10. How does it feel after the duel and travel?
11. What does Onegin's meeting with Tatyana in high society bring?

Onegin is a young aristocrat from the capital of the 20s of the 19th century, who received a typical aristocratic upbringing under the guidance of tutors. They taught him "jokingly everything", "something and somehow", but Onegin still received the minimum of knowledge that was considered obligatory in the noble environment: he knew a little classical literature, Roman and Greek, superficially - history, even had an idea on the political economy of Adam Smith. Such an education, impeccable French, graceful manners, wit and the art of maintaining a conversation make him, in the opinion of society, a brilliant representative of the secular youth of his time. It took Onegin about eight years to socialize. But he was smart and stood well above the crowd that surrounded him. Unsurprisingly, he felt disgusted with his empty and idle life. The "harsh, chilled mind" and the satiety of the pleasures of the light led to Onegin's deep disappointment with life. Tired of boredom, Onegin tries to look for the meaning of life in any activity. He was attracted by literary work. But the attempt to write "yawning" out of boredom could not, of course, be crowned with success. The system of his upbringing, which did not accustom him to work, also avenged himself: "nothing came out of his pen."
Onegin starts reading. And this lesson did not give results: Onegin "read, read, but everything was useless," and closed the shelf of books with "funeral taffeta."

In the village where Onegin left Petersburg to receive an inheritance, he makes another attempt at practical activity. Onegin's character is revealed further in the following plot plan: friendship with Lensky, acquaintance with Tatyana Larina, duel with Lensky, travel, love for Tatyana and the last meeting with her. As the action of the novel develops, the complexity of Onegin's nature is revealed. Onegin appears in the novel as a bright, outstanding personality. This is a person who clearly stands out from the surrounding society, both by the endowment of nature and by spiritual needs.

“A sharp, chilled mind,” “involuntary devotion to dreams,” dissatisfaction with life — that is what created Onegin’s “non-imitative strangeness” and raised him above the environment of “selfish insignificance”. Following the characterization of Onegin in the first chapter, Pushkin recalls his dreams of freedom ("Will the hour of my freedom come?") And adds:

Onegin was ready with me
See foreign countries. "

These lines shed light on yet another important feature of Onegin's soul - his love of freedom. “Do you know? Yes and no ... "asks and answers Pushkin, as if doubting that the reader will correctly understand Onegin's complex social type. And the hero of the novel was really such a social type, some features of which Pushkin could reveal only by hints. "Oneginstvo" was widespread in Russia during the years when the novel was being written. An explanation of this phenomenon must be sought in the socio-political situation of the country. In the 1920s, the “beautiful beginning of the Aleksandrovs' days” had already passed, replaced by a reaction. Boredom and disappointment became the lot of the best people in Russian society. Noting precisely this, Pushkin wrote in 1828 about Prince P. Vyazemsky: "How could he keep his gaiety in Russia?" True, in the circles of the most advanced Russian society, a political movement was already brewing, which later led to the uprising of the Decembrists. But it was a secret movement that did not embrace all the progressive people. Most of the Russian intelligentsia had to either go to the service, i.e. join the crowd of "volunteer hoopers"; or stand aside from government policy and remain idle observers of public life.

Onegin chose the latter. Onegin's position is that of an idle person, but this position was a form of protest against official Russia. Onegin's tragedy was in his "spiritual emptiness", Ie. that he did not have a positive program, lofty goals that would fill his life with social content. His life is a life "without purpose, without work." Without taking the side of the government, Onegin does not participate in the fight against government reaction. He remains aloof from the acting historical forces, expressing dissatisfaction with life only in the "anger of gloomy epigrams." This passivity was also facilitated by some of his character traits: lordly aversion to work; the habit of "freedom and peace", lack of will and pronounced individualism (or "egoism", in the words of Belinsky). Onegin earned the right to be the protagonist of the novel, but life doomed him to the role of the main inactive person of history. The life of a wanderer and loneliness become Onegin's lot. Returning to Petersburg after a trip, he "seems like a stranger" to everyone. He turns out to be a "superfluous person" in his society. This was the name of people who, rising above the environment, turned out to be unadapted to the struggle of life and suffered a collapse both in public life and in personal life.

The novel ends with a scene of Onegin's meeting with Tatiana after three years of separation. How was Onegin's further fate? There is reason to believe that the shock experienced by Onegin could have served to revive him. Indeed, the surviving fragments of the tenth (burned) chapter of the novel suggest that the author intended to introduce Onegin into the circle of the Decembrists. But this new page in the hero's life was only outlined by the author, but not disclosed. In the novel, Onegin appears as a living symbol of the "extra people" of his era.

Let's summarize what we have read.

Eugene Onegin is a young man, a St. Petersburg aristocrat who received a superficial home education, divorced from the national soil.

The French governor did not care about the moral education of Eugene, did not accustom him to work, therefore the main occupation of Onegin, who entered adulthood, is the pursuit of pleasures.

The idea of ​​how he lived for eight years in St. Petersburg gives a description of one day of the hero. The lack of serious business and constant idleness bored the hero and led him, in his younger years, to disillusionment with social life. An attempt to get down to business does not bring results, since he does not know how to work.

Life in the village did not become a salvation for him, as a change of scenery without work
over oneself, internal spiritual rebirth did not save Onegin from the blues.

It is important to see how the hero manifests himself in friendship and love. We come to the conclusion that Onegin, who conquered the secular beauties, acted nobly in relation to Tatyana.

Her letter became for him an example of a different, spiritual attitude to love. He frankly admitted that he appreciates the purity and sincerity of the girl, but his feelings are devastated, he is not able to love, the ideal of family happiness is not for him:
Found my old ideal
I would probably choose you alone
In a friend of my sad days,
All the best as a pledge
And I would be happy ... as long as I could!
But I'm not made for bliss:
My soul is alien to him ...

These words indicate that Tatiana could be a good wife to him and he could be happy in family life, which he calls bliss (bliss is the highest degree of happiness).

Having visited Onegin's house, Tatiana begins to understand that she has fallen in love with a person who is in many ways mistaken. Perhaps he is a "Muscovite in a Harold's cloak."

In friendship with Lensky, Onegin shows condescension, but he cannot rise
over the prejudices of the world, which he despises, and kills the young poet.

Flared up love for Tatiana, who became a secular lady, "an indifferent princess",
"Unapproachable goddess", makes Onegin suffer. He reads a lot and learns to look at the world with "spiritual eyes", understands that his chosen life position has turned into a tragedy. Having not received an answer to his letter, he decides to explain himself with Tatyana, not understanding all the depth of her nature.

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