Forgive me: I love you so much
My dear Tatiana.
A. S. Pushkin. Evgeny 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. Starting from Chapter III, Tatyana, along with Onegin, becomes the main character of the 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 a fertile soil on which the noble girl’s love 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 with 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 moves in high society, the 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 of her last meeting 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.
- 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
By creating the image of the 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 a 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 by social life. 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, examples are taken from her, she is now a 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.
In the novel “Eugene Onegin,” Pushkin created the image of his contemporary Tatiana and called her “sweet ideal,” that is, Tatiana is the bearer of all those qualities that, according to the poet, make a woman perfect. We will try to figure out what these qualities are and why Tatyana is Pushkin’s ideal.
Tatyana Larina - Pushkin's ideal
Where did those spiritual qualities come from that made Tatyana Pushkin’s sweet ideal? Already from the first pages of the novel, dedicated to Tatiana, we notice that Pushkin especially distinguishes her from other noblewomen, who at that time were carriers of French culture rather than Russian. Tatyana, despite the fact that she “expressed herself with difficulty in her native language,” is described by the poet as “Russian in soul.” She loves nature, the snowy Russian winter, and folk songs. Obviously, this was facilitated by the observance of Russian customs in the family of Tatiana, the nanny's fairy tale. Tatyana is a very impressionable girl, she believes in ancient legends, card fortune-telling, and prophetic dreams. But most girls of her age believe in this, and her sister, Olga, grew up in the same family, but not Olga, but Tatyana, is Pushkin’s favorite ideal.
So what was it about her that set her apart from others, and made her, according to the poet, a stranger in her own family? First of all, we see that Tatyana by nature is not at all flirtatious, she does not know how to flatter and pretend. As a child, she played little with children, did not fawn over her parents, and did not do needlework. But she read a lot, which made her inner world rich and her mind inquisitive. She looks for answers to emerging questions in books, judges them from novels about love and life. She is dreamy and somewhat detached from real life, because she believes that the heroes of the books actually lived and were not invented by the authors. Since Tatyana is a romantic person, I am sure that someday she will meet similar people. That is why, having met Onegin, she endows him with the traits of heroes from the novels she read and falls in love with him.
The best qualities of Tatyana Larina
We have already said that Tatyana Larina is a dreamy and poetic person, open and sincere. That's why she does what is considered unacceptable and even indecent among her contemporaries - she is the first to confess her love. Pushkin put Tatyana at such a level of spiritual development that even Onegin turned out to be much lower. At the same time, Tatyana’s character is surprisingly constant. After all, even many years later, having become a noble lady, she has hardly changed. Of course, with such rare spiritual qualities, she is very lonely internally, especially when she finds herself in the capital, in the center of a social life alien to her. However, she still does not change her moral convictions. The nobility of her nature is also manifested in her words about her husband, whom she does not love, but will be “faithful to him forever.” We can say that Tatyana is Pushkin’s moral ideal.
Now you know why Tatyana is Pushkin's ideal. Those spiritual qualities that Tatyana possesses will always be honored. Tatiana can serve as a model of femininity, fidelity, moral beauty for modern girls.
“Tatiana’s life is suffering, because her whole appearance, her feelings and thoughts are in conflict with the world around her. Pushkin knew how to touch on so much, to hint at so much that belongs exclusively to the world of Russian nature, to the world of Russian society,” noted Belinsky in a critical article. I think that everyone will agree with these words of criticism, because no one except Pushkin was able to so colorfully describe the life of Russian society at such an interesting stage of development. The novel by A. S. Pushkin had a huge influence on contemporary and subsequent literature. “Let time pass and bring with it new needs, new ideas, let Russian society grow and overtake Onegin: no matter how far it goes, it will always love this poem, will always fix its gaze on it, filled with love and gratitude.” .
Who is "Tatyana's sweet ideal" based on? There is still debate about this. Some literary scholars claim that this is Maria Raevskaya, who married Volkonsky and shared his fate in Siberia. Others claim that this is the wife of the Decembrist Fonvizin. Only one thing is clear: the image of Tatyana Larina is an artistic phenomenon of Russian literature. Pushkin’s characterization of Tatyana suggests that even in a magnificent social life, she managed to preserve her personality, dignity, naturalness, noble simplicity, which captivates even the prim, arrogant nobility.
Sweet with carefree charm,
She was sitting at the table
With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,
This Cleopatra of the Neva.
Tatiana's "careless charm" is a mask that she wears with amazing naturalness, because the harsh laws of the world require this. Openness of feelings, external manifestations of passions and experiences are inappropriate here. Tatyana understands this very well with her smart and sensitive heart. By accepting the rules of the game, she becomes a model of “impeccable taste,” ennobling even empty social conversation with her presence.
Light nonsense before the hostess
Sparkled without stupid affectation,
And meanwhile he interrupted
Reasonable talk without vulgar topics...
At first it may seem that Tatyana is satisfied with her luxurious life, her social success. But a frank conversation with Onegin convinces us that this is not so. In the magnificent princess lives the old Tatiana, yearning for a sweet country house, green oak groves, free fields. She calls social life “the rags of a masquerade,” which she would gladly give “for a shelf of books, for a wild garden.” But Tatyana understands perfectly well that her desire is unrealistic, for she herself has bound herself with a promise given to her unloved husband. And she must pay for this mistake herself, strictly fulfilling the role of a faithful wife and mistress of the house, suppressing her feelings for her loved one
In her last conversation with Evgeniy, Tatyana does not stoop to lie, she is still honest with him, but she cannot accept his love, since she is not capable of betraying her husband, who was “mutilated in battle” and who surrounded her with attention and care. Tatiana's answer produced a revolution in Onegin's soul.
She left. Evgeniy stands,
As if struck by thunder.
It is in this state that Pushkin leaves his hero “for a long time... forever.” The plot twist is brilliant. The frankness and “openness” of Tatyana’s words amaze the hero. She is not flirtatious or disingenuous. She reveals her soul to him in a few words. Tatyana lives not only with her heart, but also with her soul, and cannot betray the person who believes her and loves her. Duty, honor, virtue for her are higher than personal happiness, which now can only be built on the misfortune of a loved one. Loyalty to duty, loyalty to her husband despite a living feeling of love make the image of Tatyana unusually attractive. It is impossible not to admire Tatiana’s nobility, her courage and fortitude.
Why, after this conversation, Evgeny stands “as if struck by thunder”? Probably because only now did he discover the real Tatyana, for the first time saw her moral strength, her spiritual beauty, and immediately lost her, forever.
Despite Tatyana's spiritual evolution, she retained her individuality, her best qualities, but at the same time she forever lost the features of a naive girl who learned the world from books. Now she acquired a real, critical outlook on life, which revealed to her the emptiness and aimlessness of secular Petersburg, taught her to control her feelings, gave her the strength to love and hide her love and be faithful to marital duty. The great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky famously said this when discussing the motives of Tatiana’s action: “Can a person base his happiness on the misfortune of another? Happiness does not lie in the pleasures of love alone, but in the harmony of the spirit.” It is this “harmony of spirit” that constitutes the essence of Tatyana’s character and makes Pushkin’s heroine a “sweet ideal”, one of the most attractive and vibrant female images of Russian and world literature.
This line is very important - “without imitative undertakings.” Tatyana has no need to imitate anyone, she is a person in her own right, and this is the strength of her charm, which is why “the general who entered with her raised his nose and shoulders.” He was rightfully proud of his wife.
Tatyana is indifferent to social life. She sees the falsehood reigning in high society in St. Petersburg. 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... she strives with a dream to live 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 the manifestation of an independent female character, only in the field of personal, family, and social relationships. Subsequently, many Russian writers - Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Nekrasov, in their works, 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 Leo Tolstoy it is Natasha Rostova, for Lermontov it is Vera from “A Hero of Our Time”, for Pushkin it is 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.
In our modern reality, the appearance of “sweet femininity” has acquired a slightly different outline, the ideal is seen as a woman who is more businesslike, energetic, because she has to solve so many problems, but the essence of the soul of a Russian woman remains the same: pride, honor, tenderness - everything that is so Pushkin appreciated in Tatiana.
Just as Onegin was disgusted by his “hateful freedom,” so Tatyana is burdened by the tinsel of the “hateful life.”
Tatyana's fate is tragic. Life brought her a lot of disappointments, she did not find in life what she was striving for, but she did not change herself. This is a very integral, strong, strong-willed female character.
In the last stanza of the novel we read the lines: “And the one with whom Tatyana formed a sweet ideal... Oh, fate has taken away many, many.” A.S. Pushkin admires his heroine.
From whom was “Tatyana’s Dear Ideal” written? There is still debate about this. Some literary scholars claim that this is Maria Raevskaya, who married Volkonsky and shared his fate in Siberia. Others claim that this is the wife of the Decembrist Fonvizin. Only one thing is clear: the image of Tatyana Larina is among the most striking female images of Russian literature. The novel by A. S. Pushkin had a huge influence on contemporary and subsequent literature. “Let time pass and bring with it new needs, new ideas, let Russian society grow and overtake Onegin: no matter how far it goes, it will always love this poem, will always fix its gaze on it, filled with love and gratitude.” .
The novel ends very sadly, because I really want people who are truly close to each other to be happy. But in the tragic ending there is more truth and knowledge of life, which is not always quickly and accurately satisfying? our desires.
"Eugene Onegin" is a philosophical novel, a novel about the meaning of life. In it, Pushkin raises the problems of existence, reflects on what good and evil are. And if Onegin’s life is meaningless, he sows evil. death, indifference around her, then Tatyana is a whole, harmonious person, and she sees the meaning of her life in love, in fulfilling her duty to her husband. The heroine is not able to break the bonds of marriage with the man she married. No matter who he is, she will never hurt him. This once again proves her spiritual superiority over those around her, her fidelity and devotion to her husband. Having come to terms with the harsh laws of life that deprived a person of happiness, Tatyana is forced to fight for her dignity, showing in this fight uncompromisingness and her inherent moral strength. This is precisely where Tatyana’s high morality lies. The discovery of the character of a Russian woman like Tatyana, with her willingness to defend herself and her moral convictions, was a huge artistic victory for Pushkin.
Pushkin's novel ends very sadly, because I really want people who are truly close to each other to be happy. But in the tragic ending there is more truth and knowledge of life, which does not always quickly and accurately satisfy our desires. Is observing the fate and relationships of heroes purifying? Are you enriching us? our feelings and soul, since in the image of Eugene Onegin Pushkin reflected, although typical, but not at all ordinary, his contemporary, and the image of Tatyana Larina for many decades will remain the ideal of a Russian woman. The poet himself considered the image of Tatiana to be the “ideal” positive image of a Russian woman. Eras pass, fashions, hobbies, social conditions and laws change, but those spiritual qualities that make Tatyana Larina and other “Pushkin girls” sweet and attractive will always be honored: nobility, purity, fidelity.
Tatyana Larina opened a gallery of beautiful images of Russian women, morally impeccable, faithful to duty, seeking a meaningful life.
This is Olga Ilyinskaya in Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”, Turgenev’s heroines: Natalya from “Rudin”, Elena from “On the Eve”, the wives of the Decembrists, sung by Nekrasov.
I believe that “Tatyana’s sweet ideal” has not lost its freshness and purity in our time. The image of Pushkin’s heroine teaches modern girls loyalty to their chosen one, moral purity, and sacrifice in the name of love. I have no doubt that many young people today admire Tatiana’s gentle image for her bright mind, purity of soul, beauty of thoughts and actions. Tatyana Larina is a hostage to her own pride, her own sense of duty. She cannot step over herself, and Pushkin and her readers respect her for this. At the same time, despite the complex evolution of this image, as well as the image of Onegin, she remains perfection and the ideal of femininity, which no Onegin is worthy of.
Tatyana - Pushkin's sweet ideal
Plan
1. Pushkin and his heroine.
2. Tatyana - Pushkin’s sweet ideal
2.1. The youth of a girl.
2.2. Meeting Onegin.
2.3. Marriage.
3. Why is Tatiana’s image ideal?
In his immortal work, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin described a beautiful and delightful girl, whom he considered a role model for everyone. The name of this girl is Tatyana Larina. From the very first lines relating to the heroine, it becomes clear that she is the author’s favorite, his ideal, his crown of creation.
Pushkin describes the childhood and youth of his heroine. The way it grew and how it developed is not something remarkable or distinctive for the generally accepted noble life of that time. From an early age the girl was left to her own devices. Her parents hardly cared for her; Tatyana was raised by a serf nanny who sincerely loved her pupil, as well as the books that she enthusiastically read.
The young noblewoman loved solitude and nature, she liked to think and dream in silence. She dreamed about what she learned from the romance novels that shaped her inexperienced, unsophisticated soul. Due to her passion for books, Tatyana divided the world into good and bad, into noble heroes and dark villains. Reading about passion and love, the girl looked forward to experiencing these feelings herself and looked forward to the time when she would open her heart to her loved one. And the opportunity did not take long to arrive.
Tatyana met Onegin, who came to their village and disturbed her calm, established life. The young nobleman was significantly different from Larina’s usual environment. He was noble and exalted, proud and smart. The girl idealized him, endowing him with those non-existent knightly qualities that she wanted to see in her chosen one. It cannot be said that Eugene was an evil or bad person. No, he simply had arrogance and subjectivity, and was not ready for sincere, sincere feelings and impulses. And Tatyana fell in love, loved with all her heart, sincerely and sincerely.
Suffering from her new, hitherto unknown sensations, the girl decides to have a direct, frank conversation with the subject of her passion. She hates any pretense. It is very important for her to know the truth. Young Larina writes a letter to Evgeniy. How much love and tenderness there is in him, how much girlish shame and purity, how much self-respect and chastity! Onegin, who does not have any feelings for Tatyana, refuses her. This is the girl's first bitter disappointment. This is her first pain and first suffering. She worries, she grieves, she is tormented...
The main characters meet only a few years later. How dramatically their fate and their circumstances changed! Onegin became simpler and calmer, he realized what is important in life, what needs to be valued and what to fight for. Tatiana blossomed and matured. She got married, gained a high position in society, but remained the same gentle, same sincere girl that she was.
Under new circumstances, Evgeny could not help but fall in love with Tatyana. He was inflamed with passionate tenderness for her and wrote a crazy, fiery letter. How will the ideal heroine answer this? In a way that only an example of perfection can answer. Tatyana sincerely and sincerely admits that she loves Onegin, but at the same time firmly declares that she will not reciprocate his feelings. She will remain true to her life principles and to her unloved, old husband. This is the ideal image of Tatyana - she is unfeigned, smart, beautiful and pure. The girl is devoted to her views and beliefs. It will be a real reward for the one who possesses it.