Appearance, habits of the heroine
Tatyana Larina is the main female character in the novel Eugene Onegin. Belinsky called the novel “an encyclopedia of Russian life.” The image of Tatyana, like the images of other heroes, was typical for Russia in the 20-30s. 19th century But Tatyana is a living woman with a unique strong character. Her actions, dictated by internal logic and circumstances, turn out to be unexpected even for the author: “My Tatiana got weird”.
Tatyana is not like her younger sister Olga, a cheerful beauty. The elder sister does not attract the eye with either beauty or freshness. In addition, she is uncommunicative and unkind: “Wild, sad, silent, like a timid forest deer”.
Tatyana does not resemble a traditional folklore, hard-working girl: she does not do embroidery, does not play with dolls, and is not interested in fashion and outfits. Doesn't like girls “playing and jumping in a crowd of children”, run in burners (an outdoor game), does not play pranks or play pranks.
Tatyana loves scary stories, is thoughtful, and watches the sunrise on the balcony. Since childhood, she has been inclined to escape reality into the world of dreams, imagining herself as the heroine of the novels of Richardson and Rousseau: "She fell in love with deceptions".
Character and its origins, character development
Tatyana grew up in the village and was a neighbor on the estate of Evgeniy Onegin. Her parents kept an antique patriarchal way of life. It is said about the father that he was late in the past century. This is probably why Tatyana received so much exotic name, with whom it is inseparable “memory of antiquity or maidenhood”. In her youth, Tatiana’s mother was fond of the same novels that her eldest daughter later read. In the village of the husband to whom Tatyana's mother was not given for love, she, in the end, “I got used to it and became happy”, forgetting his novel hobbies. The couple lived, keeping "Habits of a dear old man".
Tatiana is cut off from her environment. On the one hand, she - “Russian in soul, without knowing why”. Pushkin, according to the laws of realism, reveals why Tatyana is like this. She lived in "the wilderness of a forgotten village", raised by a nanny, "heart friend", in the atmosphere "legends of common folk antiquity". But the nanny, whose prototype was Pushkin’s nanny, does not understand Tatyana’s feelings.
On the other hand, Tatyana was brought up on foreign novels, “I didn’t speak Russian well”. She writes a letter to Onegin in French because “explained herself with difficulty in her native language”.
The novel traces the change in the life of Tanya, who was brought to the capital by her mother and liked "important general". Everything that happens in St. Petersburg is alien to her: “The excitement of the world hates; it’s stuffy here... she dreams of life in the field.”.
Onegin fell in love with a completely different Tatiana, not a timid girl, poor and simple in love, but an indifferent princess, the unapproachable goddess of the luxurious, royal Neva, "legislator hall". But internally Tatyana remains the same: “Everything was quiet, it was just there”. Dignity and nobility were added to simplicity. The heroine's appearance also changes. No one would call her beautiful, but her sophistication could not be overshadowed by the first beauty of St. Petersburg.
Onegin does not recognize the old Tatiana. She is indifferent, brave, calm, free, stern. There is no coquetry in Tatyana, which “does not tolerate high society”, confusion and compassion. She doesn't look like the girl who wrote “a letter where the heart speaks, where everything is outside, everything is free”.
The relationship between Tatyana and Onegin is the main plot line of the novel
After Onegin, who arrived in his village, visited the Larins, they began to propose him as Tatyana’s groom. She fell in love with Onegin simply because "the time has come". But, brought up in a healthy popular atmosphere, Tatyana is waiting great love, the only betrothed.
Onegin taught Tatyana the most important lesson in life, which she learned well: "Learn to control yourself". He acted nobly, but Pushkin sympathizes with Tatyana: “Now I’m shedding tears with you”, - and foresees her death at the hands of "fashion tyrant"(Onegin).
The lesson that Tatyana gives to Onegin, having become socialite, in turn, consists of the same wisdom: you cannot be "feelings of a petty slave". This should be preferred "cold, stern talk". But Onegin and Tatyana have different motives. He was never able to become "natural man", as Tatyana has always been. For her, life in the world is hateful, it "masquerade rags". Tatyana deliberately doomed herself to such a life, because when she got married, for her “all the lots were equal”. And although the first love still lives in the heroine, she sincerely and confidently remains faithful to her husband. Onegin does not fully realize that his love is excited by the desire to be noticed in society, to have "seductive honor".
- “Eugene Onegin”, analysis of the novel by Alexander Pushkin
- “Eugene Onegin”, a summary of the chapters of Pushkin’s novel
The image of Tatyana in the novel “Eugene Onegin” by A.S. has conceptual significance. Pushkin. Firstly, because the poet in his work created the unique, unique character of the Russian woman. And secondly, this image embodied an important principle of Alexander Sergeevich - the principle of realistic art. In one of his articles, Pushkin explains and analyzes the reasons for the emergence of “literary monsters” with the appearance and development romantic literature which replaced classicism. Let's take a closer look at the image of Tatyana in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
Pushkin's main idea
The poet agrees that the depiction of not a moral teaching, but an ideal - the general trend of contemporary literature - is correct in its essence. But, according to Alexander Sergeevich, neither the past idea of human nature as a kind of “cute pomposity”, nor today’s image of vice triumphant in the hearts are essentially deep-seated. Pushkin, thus, affirms new ideals in his work (stanzas 13 and 14 of the third chapter): according to the author’s plan, it is built primarily on love conflict the novel should reflect the most stable and characteristic signs of the way of life that was followed by several generations of the noble family in Russia.
Pushkin's heroes therefore speak in a natural language, their experiences are not monotonous and schematic, but multifaceted and natural. Describing the feelings of the characters in the novel, Alexander Sergeevich tests the veracity of the descriptions with life itself, relying on his own impressions and observations.
Contrast between Tatiana and Olga
Taking into account this concept of Alexander Sergeevich, it becomes clear how and why the image of Tatyana in the novel “Eugene Onegin” is compared with the character of another heroine, Olga, when the reader gets acquainted with the first. Olga is cheerful, obedient, modest, sweet and simple-minded. Her eyes are blue, like the sky, her curls are flaxen, her figure is light, yet she does not stand out in any way from a number of similar provincial young ladies in the novel “Eugene Onegin.” The image of Tatyana Larina is built on contrast. This girl is not as attractive in appearance as her sister, and the heroine’s hobbies and behavior only emphasize her originality and difference from the others. Pushkin writes that in her family she seemed like a strange girl, she was silent, sad, wild, timid, like a doe.
Name Tatyana
Alexander Sergeevich gives a note in which he indicates that names such as Thekla, Fedora, Filat, Agrafon and others are used among us only among common people. Then, in the author's digression, Pushkin develops this idea. He writes that the name Tatyana will sanctify the “tender pages” of this novel for the first time. It merged harmoniously with characteristic features the girl’s appearance, her character traits, manners and habits.
The character of the main character
Village world, books, nature, scary stories, which the nanny told on dark winter nights - all these simple, sweet hobbies gradually form the image of Tatyana in the novel "Eugene Onegin". Pushkin notes what was most dear to the girl: she loved to meet the “dawn of sunrise” on the balcony, to watch the dance of stars disappear on the “pale horizon.”
Books played a big role in shaping the feelings and views of Tatyana Larina. Novels replaced everything else for her, providing her with the opportunity to find her dreams, her “secret heat.” Passion for books, meeting others, fantasy worlds, which were filled with all sorts of colors of life, were not just entertainment for our heroine. Tatyana Larina, whose image we are considering, wanted to find in them what she could not find in real world. Perhaps that is why she suffered a fatal mistake, the first failure in her life - her love for Eugene Onegin.
Perceiving the alien surroundings as contrary to her poetic soul, Tatyana Larina, whose image stands out among all others in the work, created her own illusory world, where love, beauty, goodness, and justice ruled. To complete the picture, only one thing was missing - a unique, only hero. Therefore, Onegin, shrouded in mystery, thoughtful, seemed to the girl the embodiment of her secret girlish dreams.
Tatiana's letter
Tatyana's letter, a touching and sweet declaration of love, reflects the entire complex range of feelings that gripped her restless, immaculate soul. Hence such a sharp, contrasting opposition: Onegin is “unsociable”, he is bored in the village, and the members of Tatyana’s family, although “simply happy” to have a guest, do not shine in any way. This is where the excessive praise of the chosen one comes from, conveyed, among other things, through the girl’s description of the indelible impression that she received at the first meeting with the hero: she always knew him, but fate did not give the lovers a chance to meet in this world.
And then came this wonderful moment of recognition, meeting. “I recognized it instantly,” writes Tatiana. For her, whom no one around her understands, and this brings suffering to the girl, Eugene is a deliverer, a savior, a handsome prince who will revive her and disenchant Tatiana’s unfortunate heart. It would seem that dreams have come true, but reality sometimes turns out to be so cruel and deceptive that it is impossible even to imagine.
Evgeniy's answer
The girl’s tender confession touches Onegin, but he is not yet ready to bear responsibility for other people’s feelings, fate, and hope. His advice is simple in everyday life, reflecting life experience accumulated by him in society. He urges the girl to learn to control herself, since inexperience leads to trouble and not everyone will understand her the way Eugene understood.
New Tatiana
This is just the beginning of the most interesting thing that the novel “Eugene Onegin” tells us about. Tatiana's image is significantly transformed. The girl turns out to be a capable student. She learned to “control herself” by overcoming mental pain. In the careless and stately, indifferent princess it is now difficult to recognize that former girl - in love, timid, simple and poor.
Have Tatyana's life principles changed?
Is it fair to assume that if significant changes have occurred in Tatyana’s character, then life principles have the heroines also changed significantly? If we interpret Tatyana’s behavior in this way, then in this we will follow Eugene Onegin, who was inflamed with passion for this unapproachable goddess. Tatyana accepted the rules of this game that was alien to her, but her sincerity did not disappear, moral purity, inquisitive mind, directness, understanding of duty and justice, the ability to courageously, with dignity, meet and overcome difficulties that arise along the way.
The girl responds to Onegin’s confession that she loves him, but is given to another, and will be faithful to him forever. This simple words, but how much resentment, bitterness, mental pain, suffering they contain! The image of Tatyana in the novel is vital and convincing. He evokes admiration and sincere sympathy.
Tatyana's depth, height, and spirituality allowed Belinsky to call her a “genius.” Pushkin himself admired this image, created so skillfully. In Tatyana Larina, he embodied the ideal of a Russian woman.
We have considered this difficult and interesting image. Tatiana Onegina was not in the novel, and could not have been, according to Pushkin. The heroes' attitudes to life were too different.
In Alexander Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin,” of course, the main female character is Tatyana Larina. The love story of this girl was later sung by both playwrights and composers. In our article, the characterization of Tatyana Larina is constructed from the point of view of her assessment by the author and in comparison with her sister Olga. Both of these characters in the work are shown as completely opposite natures. Of course, we must not forget about love line novel. In relation to Onegin, the heroine also shows us certain sides of her character. We will analyze all these aspects further so that the characterization of Tatyana Larina is as complete as possible. First, let's get to know her sister and herself.
We can talk about the main character of the novel for a very long time and a lot. But Pushkin showed the image of her sister, Olga Larina, quite succinctly. The poet considers her virtues to be modesty, obedience, simplicity and cheerfulness. The author saw the same character traits in almost every village young lady, so he makes it clear to the reader that he is bored describing her. Olga has the banal feel of a village girl. But the author presents the image of Tatyana Larina as more mysterious and complex. If we talk about Olga, then main value for her is a cheerful, carefree life. Of course, Lensky’s love is present in her, but she does not understand his feelings. Here Pushkin is trying to show her pride, which is absent if we consider the character of Tatyana Larina. Olga, this simple-minded girl, is unfamiliar with complex spiritual work, so she took the death of her groom lightly, quickly replacing him with the “love flattery” of another man.
Comparative analysis of the image of Tatyana Larina
Against the backdrop of her sister’s rustic simplicity, Tatyana seems to us and the author to be a perfect woman. Pushkin states this quite directly, calling the heroine of his work a “sweet ideal.” Brief description Tatiana Larina is inappropriate here. This is a multifaceted character, the girl understands the reasons for her feelings and actions, and even analyzes them. This once again proves that Tatyana and Olga Larina are absolute opposites, although they are sisters and were brought up in the same cultural environment.
Author's assessment of Tatyana's character
What kind of main character does Pushkin present to us? Tatyana is characterized by simplicity, leisurely, and thoughtfulness. Special attention the poet pays attention to such a quality of her character as belief in mysticism. Signs, legends, changes in the phase of the moon - she notices and analyzes all this. The girl loves to tell fortunes, and also gives great value dream Pushkin did not ignore Tatyana’s love of reading. Brought up on typical women's fashion novels, the heroine sees her love as if through a book prism, idealizing it. She loves winter with all its disadvantages: darkness, twilight, cold and snow. Pushkin also emphasizes that the heroine of the novel has a “Russian soul” - this important point in order for Tatyana Larina’s characterization to be as complete and understandable as possible for the reader.
The influence of village customs on the character of the heroine
Pay attention to the time in which the subject of our conversation lives. This is the first half of the 19th century, which means that the characteristics of Tatyana Larina are, in fact, the characteristics of Pushkin’s contemporaries. The character of the heroine is reserved and modest, and reading her description given to us by the poet, we can note that we learn practically nothing about the girl’s appearance. Thus, Pushkin makes it clear that it is not external beauty that is important, but internal character traits. Tatyana is young, but looks like an adult and an established person. She did not like children's games and playing with dolls; she was attracted to mysterious stories and love suffering. After all, the heroines of your favorite novels always go through a number of difficulties and experience suffering. Tatyana Larina's image is harmonious, dim, but surprisingly sensual. Such people are often found in real life.
Tatyana Larina in a love relationship with Evgeny Onegin
How do we see the main character when it comes to love? She meets Evgeniy Onegin, already being internally ready for a relationship. She is “waiting for... someone,” Alexander Pushkin carefully points this out to us. But don’t forget where Tatyana Larina lives. Characteristics of her love relationship depends on strange village customs. This is manifested in the fact that Eugene Onegin visits the girl’s family only once, but people around are already talking about engagement and marriage. In response to these rumors, Tatyana begins to consider the main character as the object of her admiration. From this we can conclude that Tatyana’s experiences are far-fetched and artificial. She carries all her thoughts within herself, melancholy and sadness live in her loving soul.
Tatyana's famous message, its motives and consequences
And the feelings turn out to be so strong that there is a need to express them by continuing the relationship with Evgeniy, but he no longer comes. According to the etiquette requirements of those times, it was impossible for a girl to take the first step; it was considered a frivolous and ugly act. But Tatyana finds a way out - she writes a love letter to Onegin. Reading it, we see that Tatyana is a very noble, pure person, high thoughts reign in her soul, she is strict with herself. Eugene’s refusal to accept her love girl is, of course, discouraging, but the feeling in his heart does not go away. She tries to understand his actions, and she succeeds.
Tatyana after unsuccessful love
Realizing that Onegin prefers quick hobbies, Tatyana goes to Moscow. Here we already see a completely different person in her. She overcame the blind, unrequited feeling within herself.
But Tatyana feels like a stranger, she is far from his bustle, glitter, gossip and attends dinners most often in the company of her mother. Unsuccessful made her indifferent to all subsequent hobbies of the opposite sex. The integral character that we observed at the beginning of the novel “Eugene Onegin” is shown by Pushkin as broken and destroyed by the end of the work. As a result, Tatyana Larina remained the “black sheep” in high society, but her inner purity and pride were able to help others see a true lady in her. Her aloof behavior and at the same time unmistakable knowledge of the rules of etiquette, politeness and hospitality attracted attention, but at the same time forced her to remain at a distance, so Tatyana was above gossip.
The final choice of the heroine
At the end of the novel “Eugene Onegin,” Pushkin, completing the plot, gives his “sweet ideal” a happy family life. Tatyana Larina has grown spiritually, but even in the last lines of the novel she confesses her love to Eugene Onegin. At the same time, this feeling no longer has power over her; she makes a conscious choice in favor of loyalty to her lawful husband and virtue.
Onegin also pays attention to Tatyana, “new” to him. He doesn’t even suspect that she hasn’t changed, she just “outgrew” him and “got over” her former painful love. Therefore, she rejected his advances. This is what appears before us main character"Eugene Onegin". Her main character traits are strong will, self-confidence, and kind character. Unfortunately, Pushkin showed in his work how unhappy such people can be, because they see that the world is not at all what they would like. Tatyana has a difficult fate, but her desire for personal happiness helps her overcome all adversity.
The image of Tatiana is one of the most captivating and profound in the history of Russian literature. Tatyana opens a gallery of portraits of beautiful women with a truly Russian character. She is the spiritual predecessor of the poetic, original, selfless “Turgenev women”. A.S. Pushkin put into this image his ideas about female virtue, spirituality, inner beauty, and like the mythical Pygmalion in Galatea, he sincerely fell in love with his heroine:
Forgive me: I love you so much
My dear Tatiana.
Just as sincerely, he empathizes with the mental restlessness, anxieties and disappointments of his beloved creature:
Tatiana, dear Tatiana!
Now I'm shedding tears with you...
What is so attractive about this image? Isn’t the author imposing his subjective, enthusiastic attitude towards the heroine? The poet does not idealize the heroine, does not paint an image of the perfect, classical beauty of popular novels:
Not your sister's beauty,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
Tatyana’s appearance is not described further in the novel, but A. S. Pushkin recreates the features of her character and behavior in great detail:
Dick, sad, silent,
Like a forest deer is timid,
She is in her own family
The girl seemed like a stranger.
Since childhood, Tatyana was distinguished by thoughtfulness, contemplation, seriousness, daydreaming, detachment from childish games and amusements, she was captivated by the bewitching poetry of the nanny's naive and mysterious stories (“...scary stories in the winter in the dark of the night captivated her heart more”), romantic songs of the yard girls , wonderful pictures of nature (“She loved to predict the sunrise on the balcony...”), sentimental novels by foreign writers about the love experiences of heroes (“She liked novels early on; they replaced everything for her...”). The girl lives in an organic connection with the natural world and people's world, that is, a natural and harmonious life, drawing spiritual strength from the elements of nature and folk art.
Tatiana (Russian soul,
Without knowing why)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter.
These lines emphasize the organic community of the Russian soul and Central Russian nature, the inextricable connection of the “darkness of Epiphany evenings” with the “traditions of common folk antiquity” - short winter days and the absence of peasant suffering contributed to communication in long dark evenings, fortune telling, storytelling to the sound of a spinning wheel passed down from generation to generation. generation mysterious stories, expressing sacred awe before the formidable and mysterious world.
And this spiritualized, immersed in her inner world, a sensitive girl (a character type that modern psychologists call an “introvert”) meets a brilliant young man, so unlike the people around her - educated, mysterious, detached from everyday worries, with traces of high experiences and disappointments - and, of course, falls head over heels in love with all the passion of a self-focused nature:
The time has come, she fell in love.
So the grain fell into the ground
Spring is animated by fire.
Her imagination has long been
Burning with bliss and melancholy,
Hungry for the fatal food...
Now all her thoughts, “...days and nights, and a hot lonely dream, everything is full of them...”
Now with what attention she pays
Reads a sweet novel
With such living charm,
Drinks seductive deception!
Imagining a heroine
Your beloved creators...
How accurately and subtly the poet conveys the confusion of an inexperienced soul, and the heat of its secret thoughts, and the hope for reciprocity, and embarrassment, and shame, and despair! Only this girl of crystal purity and boundless honesty, with conviction in the sanctity of traditional folk ideas about girlish honor and the rules of decency and at the same time thirsty for high feelings that ennoble life, could write such a sincere, at the same time chaotic and harmonious, perfectly expressing the depth of love, and an abyss of contradictory thoughts, feelings, doubts, a letter. The depth of experience is conveyed by the poet in an amazingly touching way; every word seems to be the only true expression of the slightest movement of the soul, coming from the heart of the author to the heart of the reader:
Another!.. No, no one in the world
I wouldn't give my heart! It is destined in the highest council...
That is the will of heaven: I am yours;
My whole life was a pledge
The faithful's meeting with you;
I know you were sent to me by God,
Until the grave you are my keeper...
Tatyana's chosen one, highly appreciating the “gullible soul of confession,” her sincerity and purity, did not reciprocate her feelings, and “alas, Tatyana fades, turns pale, fades away and is silent...” Onegin’s murder in a duel over a trifle reason for his sister’s fiancé, a visit to his abandoned owner her lover’s house, an inspection of his library, even though “her passion burns stronger in cruel loneliness,” forced Tatiana to look more critically, objectively at the chosen one of her heart.
She painfully searches for an answer to the question: what is Eugene Onegin? - and her impartial assumptions indicate spiritual formation, the girl’s maturity, harmony of soul and mind. Tatyana is married off to a general, and the heroine passively, weakly repeats life path to his mother, nanny, fulfilling his Christian, filial, feminine duty. Having become a brilliant society lady, Tatyana suddenly arouses a painful feeling of almost hopeless love in Onegin, who is even more disillusioned with life, tired of “arming both speech and gaze with feigned coldness...” Onegin writes her a letter, not inferior in intensity of feelings and screaming sincerity to Tatyana’s letter to him. The young woman is deeply touched, although she reproaches Onegin for the unnaturalness and untimeliness of his feelings. With bitterness and tenderness she remembers her first love as the brightest and most significant thing she had in her life:
And happiness was so possible
So close!..
But my destiny
It’s already decided.”
Tatyana, as sincerely as in her youth, confesses her love to Onegin, but just as insincerely as sincerely, she rejects his love:
I love you (why lie?),
But I was given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
What prevents the heroine, who has finally awakened a reciprocal feeling from her lover, from finding happiness and fulfilling cherished dream, to realize what her heart strives for?
Of course, not the fear of the philistine condemnation of the world - after all, Tatyana admits that she is ready to give “all this rags of a masquerade, all this glitter, and noise, and fumes” for a solitary life in the wilderness, where she once met great love. Tatyana lives not only with her heart, but also with her soul, and cannot betray 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.
This outcome is dictated by the heroine’s faith in the sanctity of the foundations of folk morality, hallowed by centuries, which she has respected since childhood. Tatiana’s action also expresses the poet’s view of vocation, the ideal of a real Russian woman: selfless, devoted, faithful.
One of largest works Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin’s novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”. The poet devoted about nine years to its creation. He painted unusually vivid and memorable images of Onegin, Tatiana, Olga, Lensky, which brought fame to the author and made the novel immortal. Russian classical literature had a deep interest in female characters. The best poets and writers tried to comprehend and portray a woman not only as an object of adoration and love, but above all as a person.
A.S. Pushkin was the first to do this. Belinsky considered the creation of the image of Tatyana Larina, the true Russian woman, a feat of the poet. The author gives his heroine a simple name: “Her sister was called Tatyana” and explains it this way: “The sweetest sonorous greek names, such as, for example, Agathon, Filat, Fedora, Thekla and others, are used among us only among common people.” And he explains this in the novel with the following lines:
For the first time with such a name
Tender pages of the novel
We willfully sanctify.
So what? it is pleasant, sonorous:
But with him, I know, it’s inseparable
Memories of antiquity
Or girlish!
We first meet Tatiana at her parents' estate. About the heroine’s father, Pushkin says with irony: “He was a kind fellow, belated in the last century,” and the mother shows all her worries about the household. The life of the family proceeded peacefully and calmly. Often, “neighbors came to the Larins to complain, and to curse, and to laugh about something.” It was in such an atmosphere that Tatyana was brought up. She “believed in the legends of the common folk of antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling,” she was “disturbed by omens,”
„.scary stories
In winter in the dark of nights
They captivated her heart more...
Tatyana is a simple provincial girl, she is not a beauty, but her thoughtfulness and dreaminess set her apart from other people (“she loved to warn the sunrise on the balcony”), in whose company she feels lonely, since they are not able to understand her.
Dick, sad, silent,
Like a forest deer is timid,
She is in her own family
The girl seemed like a stranger.
She was not affectionate towards her parents, played little with children, did not do needlework, and was not interested in fashion:
But dolls even in these years
Tatyana didn’t take it in her hands;
About city news, about fashion
I didn’t have any conversations with her.
The only entertainment that brought pleasure to this girl was reading books:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her;
She fell in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Russo.
Tatyana lives in the pages of the books she has read, imagining herself in the place of their heroines. And this romance of book stories serves as the reason for creating the ideal of her chosen one.
What, according to Pushkin, is beautiful about this heroine? This is, first of all, the height of her morality, her spiritual simplicity combined with the depth of her inner world, naturalness, the absence of any falsehood in her behavior. The author emphasizes that this girl is devoid of coquetry and pretense - qualities that he did not like in women. Before us is a personality, an image no less significant than Onegin.
She is naturally gifted with “a rebellious imagination, a living mind and will, a wayward head, and a fiery and tender heart.” Tatyana subtly senses the beauty of nature:
Tatiana (Russian soul,
Without knowing why)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter...
V.G. Belinsky said: “Tatyana’s entire inner world consisted of a thirst for love.” And he was right in his statement: Her imagination has long been
Burning with bliss and melancholy,
Hungry for fatal food;
Long-time heartache
Her young breasts were tight;
The soul was waiting... for someone
And she waited... The eyes opened,
She said: it's him!
And it’s clear why Pushkin’s heroine falls in love with Onegin. She is one of those “girls” for whom love can be either great happiness or great misfortune. In Onegin, the girl, with her heart, and not her mind, immediately felt a kindred spirit. In a heartfelt impulse, she decides to write her lover a letter of revelation, a declaration of love:
I am writing to you - what more?
What more can I say?
Now I know it's in your will
Punish me with contempt.
But Onegin could not appreciate the depth of feelings passionate nature Tatiana. This leads the girl into mental turmoil. And even after she visited Onegin’s village house and read his favorite books, where “Onegin’s soul involuntarily expressed itself,” when she realized who fate had sent her, she continues to love this person.
In the first chapters, the reader sees the image of a naive girl, sincere in her desire for happiness. But now two years have passed. Tatiana is a princess, the wife of a respected general. Has she changed?
Yes and no. Of course, she “entered into her role,” but did not lose the main thing - simplicity, naturalness, human dignity:
Oma was leisurely
Not cold, not talkative,
Without an insolent look for everyone,
Without pretensions to success,
Without these little antics,
No imitative undertakings.”
Everything was quiet, it was just there...
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. Just as Onegin was disgusted by his “hateful freedom,” so Tatyana is burdened by the tinsel of the “hateful life.”
Perhaps the most important thing in Tatyana’s character and behavior is a sense of duty, responsibility to people. These feelings take precedence over love. She cannot be happy if she brings misfortune to another person, her husband, who is “maimed in battle,” is proud of her, trusts her. She will never make a deal with her conscience.
Tatyana remains true to her duty and when meeting Onegin she says:
I love you (why lie?),
But I was given to another;
I will be faithful to him forever.
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.
Tatyana is the ideal woman for the poet, and he does not hide it: “Forgive me: I love my dear Tatyana so much...” In the last stanza of the novel we read the lines: “And the one with whom Tatyana’s dear ideal was formed... Oh, a lot, Rock has taken away a lot.” 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 Russian literature.
The image of Tatyana Larina in Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”
Belinsky called Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” “the most sincere work” of Alexander Sergeevich. And the author himself considered this novel his best creation. Pushkin worked on it with great passion, devoting his whole soul to creativity, all of yourself. And, undoubtedly, the images of the main characters of the novel are very close to the author. In each of them he reflected some of his own characteristics. They became almost family to Pushkin. The author is closest to the image of Tatyana, who, in essence, is the ideal of a Russian woman for Pushkin. This is exactly how he imagined a true Russian woman: sincere, fiery, trusting and, at the same time, possessing spiritual nobility, a sense of duty and a strong character.
In the portrait of Tatyana Pushkin gives no appearance, but rather her inner portrait: “... Wild, sad, silent...”. This is an atypical image, attracting not with its beauty, but with its inner world. Pushkin emphasizes the difference between Tatyana and Olga:
Not your sister's beauty,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
If she wouldn’t attract anyone’s eyes, he says about Tanya and then repeats more than once that Tatyana is ugly. But the image of this meek, thoughtful girl attracts the reader and the author himself with its charm and unusualness.
In the second chapter of the novel we meet a girl whose favorite circle of life consists of nature, books, the village world with stories nanny's tales, with her warmth and cordiality.
Thoughtfulness, her friend
From the most lullabies of days,
The flow of rural leisure
Decorated her with dreams.
Reading the novel, you can notice that in those stanzas where we're talking about Tatyana, there must be a description of nature. No wonder Pushkin conveys many times state of mind Tanya through images of nature, he emphasizes the deep connection that exists between a village girl and nature. For example, after Onegin’s stern sermon, “dear Tanya’s youth fades: this is how the shadow of a barely born day dresses the storm.” Tanya’s farewell to her native places, native fields, meadows is accompanied by a tragic description of autumn:
Nature is tremulous, pale,
How the victim is lavishly decorated...
Tanya’s entire inner world is in tune with nature, with all its changes. Such closeness is one of the signs of a deep connection with the people, which Pushkin greatly valued and respected. The Song of the Girls, consoling Tanya, attachment to “Grey-haired Phillipyevna”, fortune-telling - all this again tells us about Tanya’s living connection with the folk element.
Tatyana (Russian soul,
Without knowing why)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter.
Loneliness, alienation from others, gullibility and naivety allow the “tender dreamer” to confuse Onegin with the hero of the novel, to appropriate for herself “someone else’s delight”, “someone else’s sadness”.
But, soon seeing that the hero of her dreams is not at all what she imagined him to be, she tries to understand Onegin. The girl writes an ardent, passionate letter to Onegin and receives a stern sermon in response. But this coldness of Eugene does not kill Tanya’s love; the “stern conversation” in the garden only revealed to Tanya Onegin’s hard-heartedness, his ability to ruthlessly respond to sincere feelings. Probably, the birth of “that indifferent princess” with whom Onegin is struck and wounded in the eighth chapter begins already here.
But, meanwhile, even Lensky’s death did not destroy the deep feeling that Tatyana felt for Onegin:
And in cruel loneliness
Her passion burns more intensely,
And about distant Onegin
Her heart speaks louder.
Onegin left, and, it seems, irrevocably. But Tatiana, before visiting his house, continues to refuse everyone who wooed her. Only after visiting the “young cell” and seeing how and how Evgeniy lived, she agrees to go to the “bride market” in Moscow, because she begins to suspect something terrible for herself and for her love:
What is he? Is it really imitation?
An insignificant ghost, or else -
Muscovite in Harold's cloak?
interpretation of other people's whims,
Fashion vocabulary words?
Isn't he a parody?
Although Eugene’s inner world is not limited to the books he read >
Tanya does not understand this and, making erroneous conclusions, becomes disappointed in love and in her hero. Now she faces a boring road to Moscow and the noisy bustle of the capital.
In the “district young lady” Tatiana, “everything is outside, everything is free.” In the eighth chapter we meet the indifferent princess”, “the legislator of the hall”. The old Tanya, in whom “everything was quiet, everything was simple,” has now become a model of “impeccable taste,” a “true ingot” of nobility and sophistication.
But it cannot be said that now she is truly an “indifferent princess”, incapable of experiencing sincere feelings, and that not a trace remains of the former naive and timid Tanya. The feelings are there, they’re just well and firmly hidden now. And that “careless charm” of Tatiana is a mask that she wears with art and naturalness. The light made its own adjustments, but only external ones; Tatiana’s soul remained the same. That trusting “girl” still lives inside her, loving the “Russian winter”, hills, forests, the village, ready to give “all this glitter, and noise, and child for a shelf of books, for a wild garden...”. Now the impetuosity and recklessness of feelings have been replaced in her by self-control, which helps Tanya withstand the moment when the embarrassed, “awkward” Evgeniy is left alone with her.
But still, Tatiana’s main advantage is the spiritual nobility of her truly Russian character. Tatiana has high feeling duty and self-respect, namelyso she found the strength to suppress her feelings and tell Onegin:
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