In the history of Russian literature, Pushkin’s important role is that he was the first to provide artistic examples of poetic reproduction of Russian reality, finding rich and varied material in it.
Pushkin revealed the novel “Eugene Onegin” to the world. In no other work before Pushkin was Russian life presented as fully as in the novel Eugene Onegin.
Plan for the essay “Tatyana’s Dear Ideal”
I. Introduction
The novel “Eugene Onegin” is the first realistic novel in verse about Russian life
II. Tatyana Larina – best image novel
1. Tatiana’s upbringing and education
2. Character traits
3. Love for Onegin
4. Why is Tatyana the poet’s “sweet ideal”?
5. My attitude towards Tatyana
III. Conclusion
General provisions, conclusions
Essay “Tatyana’s sweet ideal”
In the history of Russian literature, Pushkin’s important role is that he was the first to provide artistic examples of poetic reproduction of Russian reality, finding rich and varied material in it.
Pushkin revealed the novel “Eugene Onegin” to the world. In no other work before Pushkin was Russian life presented as fully as in the novel Eugene Onegin. The author showed us high society, a peasant village, the life and customs of his contemporaries. In the novel, he came into contact with the destinies of young people of the Decembrist era, he showed the relationship between men and women, society and the individual. He responded to everything like a sonorous echo.
Pushkin wrote a novel in verse - and this is his great merit. It’s easier to write about life in prose. Pushkin set his sights on creating a work “in which the century and modern man- in verse, which is much more difficult.
When reading any novel, the emphasis is often on female images. In the novel “Eugene Onegin” the image of Tatyana Larina is depicted most fully, completely, and with love.
The acquaintance with the seventeen-year-old provincial young lady Tatyana, the daughter of the landowners Larins, occurs in the second chapter of the novel. We immediately notice how warmly the author speaks of Tatyana. He talks about her in sweet and simple language.
What kind of Tatyana is she? Thoughtful, silent, calm, dreamy, enjoying pictures of nature:
"She loved on the balcony
To warn the dawn of the sunrise..."
Parents did not raise Tatyana. The girl's mother is the simple-minded landowner Larina. There is a lot of naive and rude things in her, but there is no malice. Tatyana's father is not stupid, but not entirely smart either. He himself “never read” absolutely anything, and did not care about “what secret volume his daughter had dozing under her pillow until the morning.”
It must be said that Tatyana “early liked novels, they replaced everything for her.” One of Tatiana’s favorite authors was the English writer Richardson, the founder of “sensitive” literature. Real life in his novels was presented extremely one-sidedly. Either the ideal is the attractive character of a virtuous person, or, in defiance of it, a gloomy villain. Both images are far from the realities of life. When reading novels of this kind, Tatyana formed a certain stereotype - life ideal, completely different from the type of reality. Tatyana, seeing that her ideas (gleaned from books) do not coincide with real life, withdraws into himself, turns away from reality. Later, Tatyana accepts Onegin as her ideal. It was he who seemed to her more perfect, smarter, kinder than others.
But for now Tatyana is not familiar with Onegin, and we will return to the issues of her upbringing. Tatyana's nanny (whose soul was truly good) is kind and simple. The author turns to the image of nanny Filipyevna in the third and final, eighth chapter. It is the nanny for Tatyana who is her soul mate. Although she is not of her class, an ordinary serf peasant woman. The image of the nanny is real, it is endowed with folk worldly wisdom.
In general, the motives of everything real, Russian are brought into the novel precisely with the image of Tatiana. In depicting the character of Tatyana, Pushkin was the first to artistically apply the principle of comprehensive realistic generalization.
The features of the nationality characteristic of Tatyana’s type are conveyed to us not only through direct descriptions and assessments, but also with the help of the author’s special ideas, for which landscape sketches and unique motifs were introduced that create a special mood. All this leads to a more correct perception of Tatiana’s image, closer to everything native, to national roots.
Tatyana knew how to love. And if such an integral nature as Tatyana falls in love, then with all her soul. Her love is Evgeny Onegin, a serious and intelligent man. But, unfortunately, he does not have sufficient willpower to decisively put an end to his former life (empty and aimless) and firmly take up his moral reworking. And not in words, but in deeds, show yourself as a worthwhile person.
Why did Tatyana pay attention to Onegin? The fact is that she immediately noticed his superiority over the people of the circle in which she moved. For a young provincial girl, not experienced in love affairs and endings, this was enough to discern in Onegin a person similar to the heroes of Richardson’s novels. Such a hero had subconsciously won her heart long ago.
Tatyana writes a letter to Onegin in which she confesses her feelings. This letter “drove all Russian readers crazy.” But not Onegin. He wasn't impressed. He couldn’t even imagine finding reciprocal feelings for the naive, provincial young lady. He rejected Tatiana's love.
Onegin disappeared from her life for a while.
But, as often happens, situations in life repeat themselves, only exactly the opposite. Time passes, and now Tatyana is the wife of the brave old general. Onegin meets her and is amazed at the changes that have occurred in her. Yes, Tatyana is unrecognizable. They bow lower to her, catch the gaze of her eyes, and pass by more quietly. Onegin sees that the world worships her. He falls in love with her.
Once Onegin taught her a lesson on the topic of love, now it’s Tatyana’s turn to give him a lesson in return.
“I love you (why lie?).
But I was given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.”
Onegin was left with nothing. His fate is complex, as is the fate of Tatyana. The best minds of the novel, the best people of their time, Tatiana and Onegin do not find happiness.
“And happiness was so possible,
So close…"
For Tatyana, happiness built on the misfortune of others is unacceptable. Her concept of honor does not give her the right to cross a dubious line.
Whatever events happen to Tatyana in the novel, nothing breaks her spiritual makeup, her inner world. She has a strong inner core, which sets her apart from other heroes of the novel. She is the poet’s “sweet ideal” from the beginning to the end of the novel.
In the novel, the ideal of a person is embodied by the author in a woman, in the “Russian soul” Tatyana. Why in it? Because it was she who turned out to be more responsible and wiser, more mature and serious than the other characters in the novel. She is able to remain faithful to her feelings, sincere and pure, and not succumb to temptation. Tatyana has ideas about life that are close to the people. She is characterized by realistic sobriety and high moral principles. Pushkin liked this understanding of life. They correspond to his idea of the ideal.
In addition, Tatyana is a woman. And a woman for a poet, as indeed for any great creative personality, is an incomprehensible happiness, a mysterious, wonderful riddle. This is an unattainable ideal. Creating and revealing the image of Tatiana became key to creative path poet.
What attracts me to the image of Tatiana? I am attracted by the spiritual purity, simplicity, and modesty of the heroine. I am impressed by her correct, rooted in the popular understanding of the world, idea of morality, morality, duty, honor. Just like her, I love watching the sunrise and reading books.
Conclusion
Pushkin embodied the correct attitude towards Russian reality in many of his works. But in none of them did he show so fully his era, his contemporaries. People are often in search of ideals. And great poets too. For Pushkin, Tatyana Larina became a “sweet ideal”. The poet’s love is given to her from the beginning to the end of the work.
Tatyana is a sweet ideal
(based on the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin")
Pushkin worked on the novel “Eugene Onegin” for many years; it was his favorite work. Belinsky in his article “Eugene Onegin” called the work “an encyclopedia of Russian life.” For the poet, the novel was, in his words, “the fruit of a mind of cold observations and a heart of sorrowful observations.” Among the many characters, the novel shows Tatyana Larina in close-up, whom the author calls his “sweet ideal.” In Russian literature, women are glorified especially impressively. The beauty of a woman brightens the world, filling it with special spirituality.
Pushkin singles out Tatyana from many representatives of noble society only because she is higher in development environment. The beauty of the surrounding nature, constant solitude, the habit of thinking independently, the natural mind formed inner world Tatiana, which, for all his intelligence, Onegin did not reach. She was alone in her family. Pushkin writes: “Wild, sad, silent, like a forest deer, timid, she seemed like a stranger in her own family.” Having met Onegin, in whom she felt an unusual person, Tatyana fell in love with him. Larina’s letter amazes with the power of feeling, the subtlety of her mind, and is full of modesty and beauty. Onegin did not see the main thing in Tatiana: Tatiana is one of those integral natures who can love only once. Onegin was touched by the letter, but nothing more. He says to Tatyana: “And no matter how much I love you, once I’ve gotten used to it, I’ll stop loving you immediately.”
The image of Tatyana grows in its significance throughout the novel. Having found herself in the highest aristocratic society, Tatyana, deep down in her soul, remained the same Russian woman, ready to exchange the “rags of a masquerade” for rural solitude. She is tired of the unbearable nonsense that occupies a woman of her circle, she hates excitement.
Tatiana's behavior and actions are contrasted with the fashionable arrogance of self-loving, indifferent ladies of high society and the cautious forethought of empty, provincial coquettes. Truthfulness and honesty are the main character traits of Tatyana. They manifest themselves in everything, both in the letter, and in the final scene of the explanation with Onegin, and in reflections alone with oneself. Tatyana belongs to those sublime natures who do not know calculations in love. They give all the strength of their hearts, and that is why they are so beautiful and unique.
In a society “where it’s easy to show off your upbringing,” Tatyana stands out for her knowledge and originality. Endowed with a “wayward head,” Tatiana shows dissatisfaction with life in the noble environment. Both the district young lady and the princess, the “stately legislator of the hall,” she is burdened by the pettiness and meager interests of those around her. Pushkin writes, admiring her qualities: “Involuntarily, my dears, I am embarrassed by regret. Forgive me, I love my dear Tatyana so much.” Tatyana is beautiful both externally and internally, she has a discerning mind, because, having become a society lady, she quickly assessed the aristocratic society into which she found herself. Her sublime soul requires an outlet. Pushkin writes: “She feels stuffy here, with a dream she strives for a life in the field.” She had the opportunity to drink the bitter cup of a young lady taken to the “bride fair”, having experienced the collapse of her ideals. She had the opportunity in Moscow and St. Petersburg salons and at balls to carefully observe people like Onegin, to better understand their originality and selfishness. Tatyana is that determined Russian woman who could follow the Decembrists to Siberia. The whole point is that Onegin is not a Decembrist. In the image of Tatyana Larina, Pushkin showed a manifestation of independent feminine character, only in the field of personal, family, social relations. Subsequently, many Russian writers Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Nekrasov in their works already raised the question of the rights of Russian women, the need for her to enter the wide arena of socio-political activity. Every writer has books where he shows his ideal woman. For L. Tolstoy it is Natasha Rostova, for Lermontov Vera from “A Hero of Our Time”, Pushkin Tatyana Larina. In our modern reality, the appearance of “sweet femininity” has acquired a slightly different outline, the woman is more businesslike, energetic, she has to solve many problems, but the essence of the soul of a Russian woman remains the same: pride, honor, tenderness - everything that Pushkin so valued in Tatyana.
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Forgive me: I love you so much
My dear Tatiana.
A. S. Pushkin. Eugene Onegin
"Eugene Onegin" is the first realistic novel in the history of Russian literature. Giving a characterization of the novel, V. G. Belinsky noted that “the soul of the poet was embodied in Eugene Onegin.” The image of Tatyana Larina in the novel is all the more significant because it expresses the lofty ideals of Pushkin himself. Beginning with Chapter III, Tatiana, along with Onegin, becomes the main actor events.
The author talks about her childhood, about the nature around her, about her upbringing. Her life in the village, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a letter to Onegin, a “wonderful dream,” dreams and actions - everything attracts the author’s attention. Tatyana grew up and was brought up in the village. The atmosphere of Russian customs and folk traditions was fertile soil on which the love of a noble girl for the people grew and strengthened.
She is very close to her nanny, who reminds us very much of Pushkin's nanny, Arina Rodionovna. “Russian in soul,” according to the poet’s description, Tatiana loves “the darkness of Epiphany evenings,” believes in “the legends of common folk antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling, and moon predictions.” Tatyana thinks about the “villagers” and helps the poor. All this attracts the author himself to Tatyana. A dreamy and impressionable girl is captivated by the novels of Richardson and Rousseau. Reading books awakens Tatiana's thoughts; books open up an unfamiliar and rich world to her and develop her imagination. She differed from the local young ladies in the depth of her thoughts and feelings and therefore was alien to them. “I’m alone here, no one understands me,” she writes to Onegin. But, despite her passion for foreign literature, Tatyana, unlike Onegin and Lensky, was always connected with everything Russian and native. There is no affectation, sly coquetry, or sentimental sensuality of book heroines in her. She is full of sincerity and purity in her feelings. She is attracted by Evgeniy’s originality. All the heroes of the novels we read “put on a single appearance, merged into one Eugene.” She shows courage, breaking traditional rules for girls, and is the first to declare her love in a letter to Onegin:
My whole life was a pledge
The faithful date with you.
She wants to build her life not according to the rules accepted in the landowner environment. She dreams of having a person nearby whom she can trust, who will understand and appreciate her. It seemed to her that she found such a person in Eugene Onegin. She fell in love with him “not in jest,” seriously, for the rest of her life. Her touching letter to him breathes deep feeling and moral depth. She lives primarily with her sensitive heart. Tatyana is experiencing a tragedy:
Onegin rejected the love of the “village girl.” But Tatyana continues to love him. She visits Onegin's house, reads books and notes in them, trying to understand him.
Three years later they met. She rotates in high society, wife of a distinguished man. But Tatyana remains the same girl, dear to the author’s heart. Contempt for the vulgarity of the world, for the luxury of the surrounding life, for the pettiness of interests is heard in her words:
Now I'm glad to give it away
All this rags of a masquerade,
All this shine, and noise, and fumes
For a shelf of books, for a wild garden,
For our poor home.
It is her judgments about mental squalor and limited interests of noble society that completely coincide with the author’s assessments. Pushkin looks at noble Moscow through the eyes of Tatyana, shares her opinion about the “emptiness” of the world, “where no change is visible” and “everything is like the old model.”
In the scene last date With Onegin, her high spiritual qualities are revealed: moral impeccability, truthfulness, loyalty to duty, determination. Yes, she still loves Onegin, but her integral nature, brought up in the traditions of folk morality, does not allow her to build her happiness on the grief of another person. In her struggle between feelings and duty, duty wins:
But I was given to someone else
I will be faithful to him forever.
Tatiana's fate is no less tragic than the fate of Onegin. But her tragedy is different. Life has broken and distorted Onegin’s character, turning him into “smart uselessness,” according to Herzen’s definition. Tatyana's character has not changed, although life has brought her nothing but suffering.
IN lyrical digressions Pushkin admits that Tatyana is his ideal Russian woman, that in her he expressed his attitude towards secular and rural life. In it, according to the poet, the best qualities of the Russian character are harmoniously combined.
Warm and reverent A.S. Pushkin treated his Tatyana. The image created by the author has both a soul and a heart and a true desire to live for the sake of love, which Tatyana thought about sublimely and tenderly before meeting her ideal.
Tatiana's reverent image is woven from love stories, a persistent belief in ideal relationships, and romantic femininity. The young lady does not have her head in the clouds, but she dreams and her dreams are beautiful, not affected by commercialism and selfishness. She is capable of loving and giving love, paying attention and compassion. She seems to be a quiet, modest and melancholy person. Everything in her image speaks of calm and, in general, “not life,” or rather, life without passions.
Tatyana did not bask in the attention of her parents and did not grow up as a spoiled child. She was assigned a simple serf peasant woman, a nanny, who imbued the child with spiritual simplicity, the concept of love and sincerity. Tatyana is a person passionate about literature, with her own inner experiences and plans for happiness.
Forgive me: I love you so much
My dear Tatiana!
Fateful meeting
Was there any doubt that it would be the author’s favorite who would fall under the spell of the protagonist and, of course, feel the first feelings in her life for a man. A gentle flower, unknown to the pain of indifference, falls in love with a man who is accustomed to go with the flow and, at times, not even be responsible for himself, let alone talk about responsibility for the experiences of a provincial young lady.
Proud and capricious, perhaps pretentious. In Tatyana's eyes, Onegin's indifference to all the movement taking place around him seemed to the girl like an article and restraint. The seriousness and masculinity inherent in the heroes of the novels that Larina read was projected onto the image she saw:
You barely walked in, I instantly recognized
Everything was stupefied, on fire
And in my thoughts I said: here he is!
The romantic soul could not even imagine that she would remain misunderstood in her sincere feelings and open heart. Everything that had accumulated tenderly in the young girl was expressed in poetry - declarations of love, but was rejected. Tatyana could not touch the soul of her loved one.
If we talk about the bad ending of the failed romance between Onegin and Larina, then, most likely, in this case, there really is a better outcome.
Broken heart or everything for the better
It’s enough to imagine the moment where Onegin reciprocated Tatyana’s feelings. What fate would await Tatyana in the role of the wife of a fatalistic man? Time has passed for a long time, after the separation of the proud gentleman and the simple provincial woman in love. Tatyana became respected and stately. She turned into a beautiful woman, alluring with her beauty and dignity.
Of course, the alien and shining attracted Eugene with enormous force. Remembering her lamentations addressed to him, the man takes a too late step towards the meeting and boomerangs what he himself gave in the past to those who wanted to be with him.
The ideal, feminine and morally stable image of sweet Tatiana is carefully carried by the author throughout the entire novel and is not affected by the temptations of passion. She remains an honest, loyal and forever beautiful woman - a dream.
I love you (why lie?),
But I was given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
And happiness was so close.
- this is a work where the author himself is felt in every line. In this work, through his heroes, Pushkin shows himself, including the author conveying to us his ideal, the sweet ideal of female beauty, which we see in the image of an amazing woman.
Why is Tatyana a sweet ideal
Creating an image main character, the writer revives his ideas and dreams about an earthly angel, about an ideal woman. For Pushkin, it is Larina who is the representative of the female half, whose beauty will save the world. This is the woman who is worthy of admiration, respect and love. That is why Tatyana is the poet’s sweet ideal.
Let's see how Tanya Larina appears before us, what is she like, Pushkin's dream and the ideal girl in his understanding?
While working on our essay, let's turn directly to the writer's work. As we see from the novel, Tatiana immediately stands out among other representatives of the nobility. She is not like others. She loves solitude, prefers to think independently, has a natural mind and, most importantly, the heroine has a wonderful inner world. She is not as beautiful as her sister, but at the same time she is much more interesting and mysterious.
How does the sweet ideal appear in Tatiana's novel?
The girl grows up in the village, in a family that did not really care about her upbringing. She is closest to her nanny, who told her a lot of interesting fairy tales. Already as a child, she was distinguished by her thoughtfulness, seriousness and desire to be alone, preferring to be alone with a book rather than having fun with her sister’s friends. Tatyana is a straightforward, natural girl who has not been spoiled Savor. The heroine believes in fortune telling, prophetic dreams, she is pure, impressionable and sentimental. As the writer writes about Tatyana, his very sweet ideal, she was timid, silent and wild. He compares her to a forest fallow deer and writes that her friend is thoughtfulness. Despite the fact that she loved to read foreign novels, the girl had a Russian soul and respected Russian customs and traditions.
Tanya believes in sincere love. She is waiting for her man, who would be like the heroes of those very novels that she loved to reread several times. And so he appeared in the form of Eugene. The heroine fell in love and was not afraid to write him a letter. But Onegin did not appreciate the girl’s act, did not understand that Tatyana was for him as a chance to be reborn with the help of love. He refused her, giving her a cold rebuke, advising her to be careful with her feelings and confessions, which could, due to her inexperience, lead to trouble.
Years have passed. Tatyana has changed. She now shines at balls, they take examples from her, she is now married woman in the image of a luxurious, unapproachable goddess. However, even though she goes to balls, she has no affectation, she is still just as sweet and charming. Now Evgeny was able to see all her beauty, but it was too late. The heroine was given to another and will be faithful to him until the end of her life, despite the feelings that were still smoldering in her heart. And at this moment we see her spiritual strength, for which the writer loved the created image of Tatyana. For this he calls the heroine a sweet ideal.