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For a long time we did not remember our Eugene Onegin :-))) Did you miss it, I suppose, huh? :-)))
Last time we stopped with you right here: Shall we continue? :-)))
Let's go..... :-))))
He listened to Lensky with a smile.
The poet's passionate conversation,
And the mind, still unsteady in judgments,
And eternally inspired look -
Everything was new to Onegin;
He is a cool word
I tried to keep in my mouth
And I thought: it's stupid to disturb me
His momentary bliss;
And without me the time will come;
Let him live for now
Let the world believe in perfection;
Forgive the fever of youth
And youthful fever and youthful delirium.
D. Belyukin. "Vladimir Lensky"
Between them everything gave rise to disputes
And it got me thinking:
Tribes of past treaties,
The fruits of science, good and evil,
And age-old prejudices
And fatal secrets of the coffin.
Fate and life in turn
Everything was judged by them.
The poet in the heat of his judgments
Reading, forgetting, meanwhile
Fragments of northern poems,
And condescending Eugene,
Although I didn't understand them much,
Diligently listened to the young man.
Kyukhlya
That's a modern piece, right? Nothing changes - until now everything is the same, everything is the same, everything is about the same :-)))
Although, for the sake of fairness, these lines are not just the symbolism of the word, they are also a reflection of the numerous disputes that Pushkin once had with his friend Wilhelm Küchelbecker, thereby Küchley. And these disputes were not simple, but, as they say, about .... Under the "Tribes of the Past Treaties" is meant the treatise of J.-J. Rousseau, On the Social Contract. The essence of this work is the affirmation of the emergence of a social union through a free agreement, which finds its expression in a contract (pacte social); sovereignty belongs to the people; it is expressed in the legislature; executive branch only applies the law. Violation of this principle leads to tyranny and violates the social contract. Revolutionary ideas that in turn led to the French Revolution. The younger and hotter Lensky supports Rousseau's position, while Evgeny is more pessimistic.
"Fruits of the Sciences" is again the same Rousseau. This is his reasoning of the Dijon Academy: did the development of sciences and arts contribute to the improvement of morals
But "Good and Evil" and "prejudices of the ages" - this is already from the works of another thinker and student of Rousseau-Weiss. He has a work called "On Prejudices". In this particular case, Onegin and Lensky are arguing about religious superstitions.
Briefly summarizing, we can say that in a few lines the author gave a hint of the fashionable and serious political and religious disputes that took place in those years.
And, finally, by "excerpts from the northern poems" is meant, first of all, the poem "Ossian, the son of Fingal" by D. MacPherson, the work of Milton, Klapstock. But also other poems of the Scots and Scandinavians, imbued with romanticism and complacency. Once again, Lensky is shown as a young and romantic idealist.
But let's go further....
But more often occupied by passions
The minds of my hermits.
Away from their rebellious power,
Onegin spoke about them
With an involuntary sigh of regret.
Blessed is he who knew their worries
And finally lagged behind them;
Blessed is he who did not know them,
Who cooled love - separation,
Enmity - slander; sometimes
Yawned with friends and wife
Jealous without worrying flour,
And grandfathers faithful capital
I did not trust the insidious deuce.
When we run under the banner
Gracious silence.
When passions go out the flame
And we become funny
Their self-will, or impulses
And belated comments
The humble are not without difficulty.
We like to listen sometimes
Rebellious language of foreign passions,
And he stirs our hearts.
So exactly an old invalid
Willingly tends to hear diligently
I will tell the stories of young mustaches,
Forgotten in his hut.
D. Belyukin "Onegin in St. Petersburg"
Very cool lines. Everything is very much in the topic so far :-)) Very much. However, the author does not shy away from passion, which term he repeats in the text constantly. As if it is shown that Eugene, although more experienced, but the passions in him have not yet cooled down.
But fiery youth
Can't hide anything.
Enmity, love, sadness and joy
She's ready to chat.
In love, being considered a disabled person,
Onegin listened with an air of importance,
How, heart confession loving,
The poet expressed himself;
Your trusting conscience
He casually exposed.
Eugene easily recognized
His love is a young story,
Emotional story,
Not new to us for a long time.
Favorite newspaper of Nicholas II
Disabled here in the sense in which the term was used in the 19th century - a veteran. Although it turned out to be ambiguous, yes :-)))
Ah, he loved, as in our summers
They no longer love; as one
The mad soul of a poet
Still love is condemned.
Always, everywhere one dream,
One habitual wish
One familiar sadness.
Nor the cooling distance
Not long years of separation
Nor is this clock given to the muses,
Nor foreign beauty,
No noise of fun, no science
Souls have not changed in him,
Warmed by virgin fire.
In general, an idealist, a romantic, and ... a virgin. Though well educated and talented. This is our Lensky :-)
To be continued....
Have a nice time of the day.
Literature helps us learn to distinguish good from evil, to understand people. "Eugene Onegin" undoubtedly reveals to the reader the secrets of the human soul.
The novel by A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" strikes not only with the perfection of form, beauty and ease of language, but also with the variety of issues that are raised in this work.
The author speaks of such important issue like a perception of life. A. S. Pushkin writes about two ailments, disappointments in life and an idealistic escape from reality, which were characteristic of the 20s of the 19th century. They are reflected in the images of Onegin and Lensky. These heroes are the best people of the era who are trying to find the meaning of life. They are not satisfied with either the empty secular life or the primitiveness of village everyday life.
Evgeny and Vladimir are brought together by what distinguishes them from the environment of the local nobles: intelligence, breadth of interests and education. These traits determined the mutual interest of the heroes, laid the foundation for their friendship.
But Lensky and Onegin differ from each other in many ways, as indicated by
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What do the heroes of A. S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" read and argue about?
A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” is a unique work in terms of coverage of Russian reality in the first decades of the 19th century. It is difficult to find a sphere of life that would not interest the poet. A. Pushkin recreated the whole historical era, painted a complete picture of the life of various strata of Russian society. Not a single detail escaped the attention of the poet: from the novel, as from an encyclopedia, you can find out how people dressed and what was in fashion in early XIX century, get acquainted with the repertoire of theaters and the menu of famous restaurants. A true and detailed depiction of modernity was necessary to solve the main problem - to explain the nature of the new man. Among the numerous main and secondary factors that shape the worldview and value system of the heroes, A. Pushkin especially highlights the circle of reading and topics of conversation in which characters novel.
Each of the characters has its own library. The selection of literature depends on the intellectual needs and characteristics of the cultural environment in which the characters move. Eugene Onegin - Russian European, man extraordinary mind and extraordinary abilities. Although A. Pushkin speaks very ironically about the nature of the upbringing and the degree of education of his hero, it is difficult to accuse Onegin of ignorance. He replenished his knowledge, tried to keep pace with the century, listened to the disturbing questions of the present and assimilated the ideas that penetrated into Russian society from the pages of European books. In the first chapter, the poet notices that Onegin "left the books", but Tatyana, getting acquainted with his library, saw that "many pages kept the mark of a sharp fingernail" and "pencil features" of Eugene. Among the works that Onegin was “excluded from disgrace” were Byron’s poems, novels by French romantic writers, “which reflected the age and modern man portrayed quite well." In the heroes of these works, Eugene found similarities with himself. Getting to know them helped him understand himself.
Onegin was interested economic problems era of the victory of the bourgeoisie over feudalism, so his "sharp, chilled mind" preferred Adam Smith, an authoritative scientist among the advanced nobility, who considered the breaking of serfdom a priority in Russia. The hero was not indifferent to social problems either, he entered into heated “courageous” disputes about French politicians and enlighteners, “about the Carbonars, about the Guys.” Participation in such conversations characterizes Onegin as a person attentive to all topical issues of his time, to new trends in European philosophical and social thought.
Once in the village, Eugene could only find a worthy interlocutor in the person of Lensky. Both heroes, against the everyday background of the provincial nobility, should have felt lonely. Despite the serious differences between Onegin and Lensky, they had common cultural interests, common topics for conversations. Pushkin talks about heated arguments between friends:
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Onegin and Lensky: comparative characteristics
Lensky and Onegin are opposed to each other throughout the novel, which is deliberately and frankly emphasized by the author himself:
They agreed. Wave and stone
Poetry and prose, ice and fire
Lensky is a romantic, an idealist. He poeticizes his beloved Olga, friendship with Onegin, and in general life, which he sees only in perfect light. He is pleasant in communication, obliging with the ladies and free to keep with the men. Studying in Germany radically influenced his worldview. His head is full of philosophical dogmas of German romanticism, which he does not think to doubt. He sees poetry as his vocation, he chose his beloved as his muse. However, he does not have sufficient insight, sobriety and at least some life experience, therefore he does not notice Olga’s easy recklessness, Olga’s close mind and his too mediocre, imitative rhymes, perceiving them as quite serious literary work.
Lensky has a lot vital energy, ardent imagination and enthusiastic attitude to the world, he is cheerful and harmonious. Not yet fully matured, he is childishly quick-tempered, spontaneous and firmly convinced of his rightness regarding any issue and, like an adult, is serious in his intentions, bold in decisions.
Onegin, his complete opposite, is devoid of any idealism, his cold mind is rather pessimistic and sarcastically negative. He, unlike Lensky, is fed up with the world around him, he cares and touches little, he hardly finds sources of pleasure, and even suffers from the dullness of life. Having received in childhood jerky knowledge from different areas, he continued his studies already at balls and receptions, learned the skillful art of communicating with ladies, the art of seduction, witty small talk and acquired a delicate taste and the ability to recognize newfangled trends.
This life experience, although very specific, shaped his character and outlook. He is not able to admire coquettes, seeing their feigned seriousness and emptiness, he cannot admire life, knowing how much deceit and pretense are around. All this led to absolute laziness of body and mind, to complete indifference to everything in the world, to cruelty and coldness of heart.
It would seem that two such different young people could become good friends.
Why did they become friends? Perhaps such different views on life provided a huge field for discussions and disputes, and, as you know, when they gathered in the evenings, they stayed up late in conversations. Contributed certainly and a narrow village circle of friends. With whom else to talk in the wilderness, what else to do in the evening. At the same time, both young people, due to their youth, had a common need - the need to reason and reflect, whether these are the romantic thoughts of Lensky or the arrogantly mocking views of Onegin. Finding an interlocutor who can understand what you are talking about, dispute or agree with you, is no less important, if not more important, than finding your like-minded person.
Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" strikes not only with the artistic perfection of form, beauty and lightness of language, but also with the variety of problems that worried Russian society in the 20s of the 19th century. Depicting all groups of the nobility, the poet makes an unmistakable diagnosis of the two most common diseases of the century - disappointment and idealistic departure from reality. They are embodied in the images of Onegin and Lensky - the best people era. These heroes are not satisfied with either the cold brilliance of an empty secular life, or the squalor and primitiveness of village everyday life. Both of them strive for something higher, trying to find the meaning of life.
What brings these characters together? Probably, what distinguishes them from the usual landlord environment: intelligence, education, breadth of interests, nobility. It was these traits inherent in the heroes that aroused their mutual interest and laid the foundation for their friendship.
They agreed. Wave and stone
Poetry and prose, ice and fire
Not so different from each other.
The dissimilarity of the characters of Lensky and Onegin only increased mutual sympathy, gave depth to their communication. The conversations of friends are not at all like the usual “eternal conversation about rain, about flax, about the barnyard” among rural landowners. Their inquisitive and inquisitive mind seeks to know the meaning of life, touching all spheres of human existence.
Between them everything gave rise to disputes
And it got me thinking:
Tribes of past treaties,
The fruits of the sciences, good and evil, And age-old prejudices, And fatal coffins of mystery, Fate and life in their turn - Everything was subjected to their judgment. Pushkin emphasizes here that the disputes of his heroes affect philosophical, economic, political, and moral issues that worried the progressive people of that time. A cursory list of the topics of disputes between Onegin and Lensky contains an indication of specific authors who raise these issues in their writings.
Among the Russian intelligentsia, the treatise of the French philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The Social Contract" was very popular, which dealt with one of the most topical problems of the state system - the relationship between power and the people, who had the right to overthrow the government that violated the agreement between the union of power and the community of free citizens. Serfdom in Russia created not only political, but also economic difficulties, from which progressive-minded nobles tried to find a way out, introducing improved farming techniques on their estates, using machine technology. The owner of factories and waters, Onegin, and the wealthy landowner Lensky could not help thinking about this issue, which Pushkin calls "the fruits of science."
"Good and evil", that is, ethical problems, also found themselves in the center of attention of young Russian intellectuals. Theoretical moral principles are refracted in the characters of friends, determining not only their views, but also their actions.
The history of the relationship between Onegin and Lensky shows a huge difference between them, sets off the opposite not only of characters, but also of their relationship to reality, to the people who surround them. Even Lensky's penchant for poetry, the desire to express his moods and dreams in poetry speaks of the romantic mood of his thoughts and feelings. In the pretty empty Olga, he sees the ideal. Belinsky remarked that Lensky "decorated her with virtues and perfections, attributed to her feelings and thoughts that were not in her." And friendship with Onegin means a lot to Vladimir. Such a conclusion allows us to draw Pushkin's words about what Lensky's idea of friendship, honor, nobility was:
He believed that friends are ready For his honor to accept the chains And that their hand will not falter To break the vessel of the slanderer. This means that his relationship with people was determined by faith in eternal friendship, in the only love that is predetermined for him by fate, in a noble freedom-loving idea that "someday will illuminate us and give the world bliss." Here, Lensky's connection with the Decembrist moods clearly emerges, giving reason to assume that he could get closer to the progressive noble intelligentsia, which was preparing the uprising on December 14, 1825, and become the poetic voice of his people. Precisely because faith in love, friendship and freedom was for Lensky the essence and purpose of life, he took Onegin's unsuccessful joke as a betrayal of his beloved girl and a betrayal. best friend. And he rushes into a duel to defend the purity of his romantic ideas from Onegin's skepticism.
The death of Lensky is symbolic, it involuntarily leads to the idea that an idealist, romantic, dreamer, who does not know reality, must perish in a collision with her.
And the skeptic, realist Onegin remains to live. He cannot be reproached for idealism and ignorance of reality. No, he knows life and people very well, accurately determining their inner essence at the first meeting. But what gives Onegin this knowledge? Nothing but boredom, spleen, disappointment, the consciousness of one's superiority over people. And this is a dangerous path leading to disunity with the world, to selfish loneliness. Therefore, it seems that Onegin cannot become either happy or useful to society. This is his tragedy, which the brilliant artist saw with his sensitive eyes.
This means that the images of Onegin and Lensky are a reflection of two different paths taken by the best noble intelligentsia of the first quarter of the 19th century. And they could end either in death or life's dead end.
Lensky and Onegin: comparative characteristics. Onegin and Lensky, table
Ah, dear Alexander Sergeevich! Has your pen written something more perfect than the living and eternal novel "Eugene Onegin"? Haven't you invested a large part of yourself, your frantic inspiration, all your poetic passion in it?
But didn't you, O immortal classic, lie when you said that Onegin has nothing in common with you? Are the traits of his character peculiar to you? Isn't it your "spleen" on it, isn't it your disappointment? Is it not your "black epigrams" he draws to his enemies?
And Lensky! Really, how he looks like you, young lover! On you - the other, on that you, whom you no longer dared to openly open to the world ...
Lensky and Onegin. Comparative characteristics of both of them - yours, O immortal Alexander Sergeevich, a colorful and lively portrait on the wall of poetry. Do you agree with the idea of such audacity?
However, be that as it may, allow, in view of your silence, every admirer of your genius to draw their own conclusions, letting their own imagination fly.
We will compare and contrast the two bright heroes of "Eugene Onegin", barely touching the facets of your personality directly. In order to avoid obtrusive parallels between you, sir, and the characters of your poem, we will make every effort to make a dry statement of their striking characteristics.
Characteristics of Onegin and Lensky
So, Onegin. Handsome, smart, stately. In the description of his Petersburg daily routine, dear Alexander Sergeevich, we find your lines about at least three hours he spends at the mirrors in preening. You even compare it to a young lady dressed like a man, hurrying to the ball. Perfume, lipstick, fashion haircut. Dandy, pedant and dandy. Always elegant in clothes. And, by the way, it will be said, nails, sir ... He, like you, sir, spends a lot of time at the dressing table, caring for them.
Alas, all the actions he performs on himself in order to be attractive are just a tribute to secular habit. He has long cooled down to the opposite sex, disappointed in love. He does not want to please women at all. Not! Love has long been replaced by the "art of seduction", which, however, does not bring any satisfaction.
Social events have long lost all taste for him. He often goes to balls, but out of inertia, out of boredom and nothing to do. The secular social circle is boring to him. Everything is disgusting, tired! But, not knowing another life, he continues to drag out his usual way of life. No friends, no love, no interest in life.
Onegin's way of thinking, worldview - you, Alexander Sergeevich, expose everything to the merciless "Russian blues", or depression. Immeasurable inner emptiness, lack of dreams, boredom, joylessness. At the same time, the liveliness of a cold, sober mind, the absence of cynicism, nobility.
You emphasize its prosaic nature by the inability to “distinguish the polecat from the iambic”, and his preference for Scott Smith, with his political economic books, only confirms the presence of non-poetic exact thinking.
What evil muse visited you, Alexander Sergeevich, when you brought together your so different heroes in friendly bonds? Could the relationship between Lensky and Onegin not lead to tragedy? Your Lensky...
Handsome, but beautiful differently than Onegin. You endow him with natural beauty of facial features, long, dark, curly hair. With the inspirational look of the poet and a lively, warm heart, open to the world.
Vladimir Lensky is sensitive to the perception of nature and the universe as a whole. “Suspicious of miracles” in everything, he understands and feels the world in his own way. Idealist, the right word!
The eighteen-year-old dreamer, in love with life, firmly believes in the existence of his soulmate, who is waiting for him and languishing. In faithful, devoted friendship and "sacred family", as you, venerable Alexander Sergeevich, deigned to call the Holy Trinity.
Describing the relationship between Onegin and Lensky with your own pen, you compare them with the union of water and stone, fire and ice, poetry and prose. How different they are!
Lensky and Onegin. Comparative characteristics
It was your pleasure, Lord of the Muses, to play these two beautiful youths in a sad game that to this day prompts the reader to sprinkle tears on the pages of your great novel. You make them related by friendship, at first “from nothing to do”, and after a closer one. And then brutally...
No, better in order. So, they get closer: Lensky and Onegin. A comparative description of these two heroes, so characteristic of your time, Alexander Sergeevich, can be complete only when describing their friendship.
So, contradictions occur, as states English proverb. At first, they are boring to each other due to the dissimilarity of judgments. But after a while this difference turns into a magnet that attracts opposites. Each thesis becomes the cause of lively disputes and discussions between friends, each dispute turns into a subject of deep reflection. Perhaps none of them took the position of a comrade, but they also retained interest, respect for the flow of someone else's thought. Listening to Lensky, Onegin does not interrupt his youthfully naive judgments, poems and ancient legends. Being a disappointed realist, he is in no hurry to reproach Vladimir for idealizing people and the world.
Daily joint horse rides, dinners by the fireplace, wine and conversations bring young people together. And, at the same time, over time, similarities between Onegin and Lensky are revealed. Endowing them with such bright features, you, master of the pen, pull them out of the usual circle of rural communication, with boring conversations about the kennel, their own relatives and other nonsense. The education of the main characters, which is one of the few common features for both of them, makes them yawn in the circle of rural nobility.
Onegin is five or six years older than Lensky. This conclusion can be reached based on what you said, dear Alexander Sergeevich, he was twenty-six years old at the end of the novel. When, on his knees, he wept for love at her feet. at Tatyana's feet. But no. Everything is in order.
Oh, great connoisseur of the human soul, oh, subtlest psychologist of deepest feelings! Your pen is dead soul Onegin is a bright, pure ideal of a young maiden - Tatyana Larina. Her young, tender passion pours out before him in a frank letter, which you attribute to him to keep for life as evidence of the possibility of sincerity and beauty of feelings in which he no longer believed. Alas, his hardened, moping heart was not ready to reciprocate. He tries to avoid meeting Tatyana after a conversation with her in which he denies her high feelings.
In parallel with this discordant love, you develop Vladimir Lensky's feelings for Tatiana's sister, Olga. Oh, how different these two loves are, like Lensky and Onegin themselves. A comparative description of these two feelings would be superfluous. The love of Olga and Vladimir is full of chaste passion, poetry, youthful inspiration. The naive Lensky, sincerely wishing his friend happiness, tries to push him into Tatyana's arms, inviting him to her name day. Knowing Onegin's dislike for noisy receptions, he promises him a close family circle, without unnecessary guests.
Oh, how much effort Eugene is making to hide his furious indignation when, having agreed, he ends up at a provincial ball with many guests, instead of the promised family dinner. But more than that, he is outraged by Tatyana's confusion when he sits on the place prepared for him in advance ... opposite her. Lensky knew! Everything is set up!
Onegin, really, did not want what your, Alexander Sergeevich, inexorable pen prepared for when he took revenge on Lensky for his deceit! When he drew his beloved Olga into his arms in a dance, when he whispered freedom in her ear, he portrayed a gentle look. Cynically and short-sightedly appealing to the jealousy and contempt of the young poet, he obediently followed the fate you had destined for both of them. Duel!
Both have already moved away from stupid insults. Both had difficulty finding a reason to duel. But no one stopped. Pride is to blame: no one intended to pass for a coward by refusing to fight. The result is known. A young poet is killed by a friend's bullet two weeks before his own wedding. Onegin, unable to indulge in memories and regrets about the death of the only person close to him, leaves the country ...
Upon his return, he will fall in love with Tatyana, who has matured and flourished, only now a princess. Kneeling before her, he will kiss her hand, pray for love. But no, it’s too late: “Now I have been given to another and I will be faithful to him for a century,” she will say, weeping bitterly. Onegin will be left completely alone, face to face with memories of love and a friend killed by his own hand.
Duels of the creator of Onegin and quite appropriate parallels
You have been reproached, dear Alexander Sergeevich, for insufficient grounds for a duel between your heroes. Funny! Didn't your contemporaries draw parallels between these two young men and yourself? Haven't they noted the similarities between such opposite Onegin and Lensky with your contradictory, dual nature? This boundary bifurcation into Lensky - an inspired poet, a superstitious lyricist - and a secular rake, a chilled, tired Onegin. didn't they find it? To one you give your fiery genius, love, cheerfulness and, without suspecting it, your own death. Unhappy love, wanderings, alienation and, in the end, a long trip abroad, which you yourself dreamed about, are given to another. The characterization of Onegin and Lensky is a comprehensive disclosure of yourself, isn't it? And if such an obvious resemblance of both heroes to you, dear classic, was exposed by your contemporaries, did they not know what easy, insignificant reasons for dueling were enough for you yourself? And how many times in every week of your life have you started to play with death, fearlessly and indifferently looking at the cold barrel in the hands of your enraged opponent?
Onegin and Lensky meet in the village. As Pushkin writes, they agreed "From nothing to do." What brings these characters together? Probably, what distinguishes them from the usual landlord environment: intelligence, education, breadth of interests, nobility. It was these traits inherent in the heroes that aroused their mutual interest and laid the foundation for their friendship.
They agreed. Wave and stone
Poetry and prose, ice and fire,
Not so different from each other.
The dissimilarity of the characters of Lensky and Onegin only increased mutual sympathy, gave depth to their communication. The conversations of friends are not at all like the usual "eternal conversation about rain, about flax, about the barnyard" among rural landowners. Their inquisitive and inquisitive mind seeks to know the meaning of life, touching all spheres of human existence.
Between them everything gave rise to disputes
And it got me thinking:
Tribes of past treaties,
The fruits of science, good and evil,
And age-old prejudices
And the coffins of the mystery are fatal,
Fate and life in turn -
Everything was judged by them.
Pushkin emphasizes here that the disputes of his heroes touch upon philosophical, economic, political, and moral problems that worried the progressive people of that time.
The history of the relationship between Onegin and Lensky shows a huge difference between them, sets off the opposite not only of characters, but also of their relationship to reality, to the people who surround them. Even Lensky's penchant for poetry, the desire to express his moods and dreams in poetry speaks of the romantic mood of his thoughts and feelings. In the pretty empty Olga, he sees the ideal. Belinsky noted that Lensky "decorated her with virtues and perfections, attributed to her feelings and thoughts that were not in her." And friendship with Onegin means a lot to Vladimir. Such a conclusion allows us to draw Pushkin's words about what Lensky's idea of friendship, honor, nobility was:
He believed that friends are ready For his honor to accept the chains And that their hand will not falter To break the vessel of the slanderer. This means that his relationship with people was determined by faith in eternal friendship, in the only love that is predetermined for him by fate, in a noble freedom-loving idea that "someday will illuminate us and give the world bliss." Here, Lensky's connection with the Decembrist moods clearly emerges, giving reason to assume that he could get closer to the progressive noble intelligentsia, which was preparing the uprising on December 14, 1825, and become the poetic voice of his people. Precisely because faith in love, friendship and freedom was for Lensky the essence and purpose of life, he took Onegin's unsuccessful joke as a betrayal of his beloved girl and a betrayal of his best friend. And he rushes into a duel to defend the purity of his romantic ideas from Onegin's skepticism.
The death of Lensky is symbolic, it involuntarily leads to the idea that an idealist, romantic, dreamer, who does not know reality, must perish in a collision with her.
This means that the images of Onegin and Lensky are a reflection of two different paths taken by the best noble intelligentsia of the first quarter of the 19th century. And they could end either in death or life's dead end.
In his novel "Eugene Onegin" Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin created two characters whose images are completely opposite to each other, but at the same time similar. These characters are Vladimir Lensky and Eugene Onegin, after whom the work is named.
To characterize their relationship with each other, it is necessary to analyze the personality of each of these people.
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Personalities of Onegin and Lensky
Onegin
Eugene is a man of the world. He received a standard education for that time, befitting an aristocrat, but there is something that his teachers forgot or did not want to teach - moral principles. Already matured Onegin could often be found at a ball or watching some theatrical performance. However, despite his close contact with society, Onegin does not feel like a part of it. He is antisocial and does not feel any emotions towards people. Upon learning of his uncle's illness, Eugene seems sad, but he reluctantly visits his relative, thereby showing his indifference even towards close people.
The character constantly bathed in female attention, which subsequently began to cause him a feeling of disgust, which did not allow Eugene to immediately see something new in Tatyana and give way to feelings. Pushkin called his character a product of modern society at that time. In his lines, the poet compares this character with ice.
Lensky
Vladimir Lensky is the antipode of Eugene. He immediately appears as a cheerful young man who believes in the triumph of good in this world. In addition to a cheerful disposition, Vladimir has a developed mind and excels in literature and philosophy, including foreign ones. However, he is black and white in aristocratic society. He is not interested in either the rich or the topics that they usually discuss: money, homeland, and so on. Perhaps it is this isolation from society that will subsequently play a role and lead to friendship between him and Eugene.
Unlike his friend, the young poet is open to sympathy and kindness to all living things, which is combined with another feature of his character - a strong inner core on which all his convictions are attached. In his lines, Alexander Sergeevich compares it with a flame.
similarity in character
The characters of these characters are very different from each other. So why did they get close? Below you can see the main features of their characters and positions in society, one way or another bringing them together.
- They are both kind of outcasts.
- Experiencing boredom surrounded by people of their status.
- Were educated.
- They had an interest in literature and philosophy, which would later lead to long conversations between them.
- Both have their own inner core.
Character Differences
No one person can be similar in everything to another. These two characters of Pushkin A.S. are no exception. Below are their differences from each other.
- Views of the world.
- Morality.
- Evgeny's revenge and Vladimir's naivete.
- Intelligence. Although both cannot be called fools, Vladimir is rather well educated than smart.
Relations between Onegin and Lensky
The friendship of two opposites arose by chance, "there is nothing to do." Characters, values, life experiences - all this was completely different in most aspects, but fate had other plans for these two. Having met under other conditions, the friendship of Onegin and Lensky would not have taken place. They hardly paid any attention to each other.. Forced to endure the obsessive society of neighbors in the wilderness, Eugene and Lensky became close. Young Vladimir was pleased with the society and with all his heart he wanted to make friends with this man.
The poet passionately shared his thoughts and worldview with his new friend. Yevgeny was the ideal listener for Lensky, as he mostly listened, occasionally asking questions, but only to the point. The young poet was pleased with society and with all his heart he wanted to make friends with this man.
However, despite the above, it is difficult to call Onegin and Lensky true friends to the grave.
They were connected by chance and nothing more. After all, no friend will kill another. A conflict occurred between them, which led to a duel, and as a result, the death of Lensky. The reason for the conflict is trifling - Vladimir persuaded Yevgeny to go to Tatyana's name day, where the events that led to the duel took place.
Wanting to take revenge on the poet for being in the boring society of the Larin family, Eugene began to embarrass Olga, Vladimir's beloved, in every possible way, giving her compliments and dancing only with her. By his actions, he made another person nervous - Tatiana, who was in love with Eugene.
Offended by such behavior of Olga and Onegin, whom he considered a friend, the poet challenged the latter to a duel. Shortly before her Lensky realized the triviality of their conflict. Before his death, he hoped that Onegin would not shoot, but he fired anyway, putting an end to this story.
In the end, Eugene also suffered, although his wounds were not material. A broken heart will be restored, but life can not be returned.
