Creating the image of his time and the man of his era, Pushkin in the novel “Eugene Onegin” also conveyed his personal idea of the ideal of a Russian woman.
The poet's ideal is Tatiana. Pushkin speaks of her like this: “A dear ideal.” Of course, Tatyana Larina is a dream, a poet’s idea of what a woman should be like to be admired and loved.
When we first meet the heroine, we see that the poet distinguishes her from other representatives of the nobility. Pushkin emphasizes that Tatyana loves nature, winter, and sledding. It was the nanny’s fairy tales, Russian nature, and the ancient customs that were observed in the family that made Tatyana a “Russian soul.” Tatyana is in many ways similar to other girls: she believes in dreams, card fortune-telling, and ancient legends. But there was something that distinguished her from everyone else, that made her a stranger in her own family. She did not caress her parents, hardly played with children and did not do needlework. But she was very dreamy and lived a special inner life. There is no coquetry or pretense in her. Books played a big role in Tatiana's life. It was they who shaped her spiritual qualities and inner world. Inquisitive by nature, she seeks answers to questions that interest her from her mother, father, and nanny. But he receives no answers. She tries to find them in books. Tatyana judges life and love by the novels she has read. In them she sees a different life, different from the life of her circle. She thinks that all this was not invented by the author, but exists. And the heroine is sure that she, too, will meet such people and live such a life. It is not surprising that, having met Onegin, who is different from all the young people she knows, Tatyana mistakes him for the hero of the novel and falls in love. In general, Tatyana is a poetic, lofty, spiritual person. What attracts me to Tatyana is her openness and directness. Although at all times it was not customary for a girl to be the first to confess her love, it is difficult to condemn Tatyana for this. After all, she does this because she is innocent and sincere in nature.
It is difficult not to notice the constancy of Tatiana's character. This quality has been inherent in her since childhood. But even after becoming a noble lady, the heroine changes little. All changes are only external. In her heart she remains the same “dear Tatyana.” And in the capital, with her spiritual nobility, simplicity and depth of feelings, she remains internally lonely. But the heroine does not change her moral convictions. This is clearly visible in her response to Onegin. Yes, she remembers the past with longing and directly confesses her love for Onegin. But she is no longer the same Tatyana and therefore resolutely refuses happiness: “But I was given to someone else, I will be faithful to him forever.”
Tatyana's main qualities are spiritual nobility, sincerity, and a sense of duty. Time passes, everything changes in the world: fashion, hobbies, social laws - but in honor there will always be those qualities that make Tatyana Larina sweet and attractive.
Tatiana's image does not lose its freshness and purity in our time. The image of the heroine teaches modern girls fidelity, moral purity, femininity, and the beauty of thoughts and actions.
- A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” is an unusual work. There are few events in it, many deviations from the storyline, the narrative seems to be cut off halfway. This is most likely due to the fact that Pushkin in his novel poses fundamentally new tasks for Russian literature - to show the century and people who can be called heroes of their time. Pushkin is a realist, and therefore his heroes are not just people of their time, but also, so to speak, people of the society that gave birth to them, i.e. they are people of their own […]
- “Eugene Onegin” is a well-known work by A.S. Pushkin. Here the writer realized his main idea and desire - to give an image of a hero of the time, a portrait of his contemporary - a man of the 19th century. Onegin's portrait is an ambiguous and complex combination of many positive qualities and great shortcomings. The image of Tatiana is the most significant and important female image in the novel. The main romantic storyline of Pushkin's novel in verse is the relationship between Onegin and Tatyana. Tatiana fell in love with Evgeniy [...]
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website- Beauty is an eternal category. Reading works of literature, each of us admired, empathized, and sometimes could see ourselves in the image of famous heroines of books. For many writers, a woman is the embodiment of earthly beauty. Men wrote and will always write about women, creating ideal images or forever capturing in their lines women who are magical and, at the same time, quite real. So why not imagine yourself as one of the main heroines of a novel? Imagine yourself in the image that at different times was considered the ideal of beauty, both external and internal.
Perhaps you already associate yourself with one of the beautiful heroines, otherwise, this article will be the discovery of a new you in the guise of a literary heroine.
Tatyana Larina
She is silent, shy, loves to be sad by the window, does not like noisy games and girlish conversations of her friends. Therefore, in her family she seems like a “strange girl”; she does not know how to ask her family for affection. However, the heroine is familiar with the subtlest emotional impulses: they simply are not revealed to others. She is a romantic person. She loves reading books and vividly experiences various feelings and adventures with their characters. She is attracted to everything mysterious and enigmatic. When the heroine falls in love, the depth of her romantic nature is revealed. Yesterday's timid girl turns out to be unexpectedly brave. She is the first to confess her love, the first to write letters. Her love comes from the very heart, it is a pure, tender, shy feeling.
This image personifies the sensitivity, femininity, and dreaminess of the individual.
Bulgakovskaya Margarita
Margarita became a muse for the hero. It was she who, after reading the first pages of his novel, named her lover a master. Thanks to her, he wrote a magnificent novel of great artistic value. The heroine was always faithful to her love. All this time the heroine felt unhappy, she did not live, but existed. For a long time, the heroine kept what little she had left as a memory of her beloved.
For the sake of love, she will do anything, throwing away any fears and concerns.
The heroine, faithful in everything and always following her lover, shared his fate with her beloved from beginning to end. It was this image that became the embodiment of true devotion, all-consuming love, a captivating woman-inspiration.
Bulgakov's Margarita is undoubtedly a bright image, a unique one who loves freedom, and with an eternal dream: to leave the hated reality and stop being a captive of the framework and prohibitions of the society surrounding the heroine.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina - according to the plot, is a secular woman who occupies a high position in society. Differs from the rest in moral purity, inability to adapt to circumstances, and hypocrisy. She always felt the falseness of the surrounding relationships.
Her love was unhappy. Although the heroes turned a blind eye to the secular court, something still bothered them; they could not completely immerse themselves in love.
The tragic doom of love is associated not only with the harmful influence of society, but also with deep internal circumstances that are hidden in the souls of the heroes. She is a freedom-loving, spiritually gifted, intelligent and strong woman, but there was “something cruel, alien” in her feelings.
This is an image of a stately, powerful and at the same time soft and doubtful woman about her own principles and positions.
Turgenev girl
The heroine is an open, proud, passionate girl, striking at first glance with her unusual appearance, spontaneity and nobility. The tragedy of life explains her downside: she is shy and does not know how to behave in society. She early begins to think about the contradictions of life, about everything that surrounds her. The heroine radiates moral purity, sincerity, the ability to have strong passions and dreams of heroism.
She seems strange and unnatural precisely because she does not like the ordinary life of people in her circle. She dreams of an active, sublime and noble life. Her attention is attracted by simple people, she, apparently, both sympathizes and at the same time envies them. She understands the life of ordinary people as a kind of feat. She doesn't want her life to pass without a trace. But she feels how difficult it is to achieve this.
“Turgenev's girl” is a girl who has an independent, willful character, capable of performing a feat in the name of love and more.
Dream woman
Undoubtedly, our world is improving and modernizing. Views on the world change, the desire for the ideal is eternal. Images frozen on the pages of books excite our consciousness to this day. Feminine perfection, which many brilliant writers and poets tried to see and reveal, still excites us today. They searched for heroines, fantasized, sometimes this image remained only a dream, but someone still managed to find it. For the woman was revealing her real self. After all, it is impossible for a woman to be ideal and good for everyone... the main thing is to always remain yourself!
Close your eyes. Do you see? And in you there is a magical piece of a perfect woman, a woman of dreams.
Many Russian writers sought to create ideal images of their heroes in their works, even if there are no analogues of these heroes in real life. In general, this is logical and consistent, since every writer is a little dreamer who creates in his texts what he does not have in life. The great Russian writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was no exception to this rule, and therefore created the image of an ideal Russian woman. This image was realized in the author’s work called “Eugene Onegin”.
Tatyana Larina represents the real ideal of the poet Pushkin. He wasn’t even shy and right in his poem he called her a “sweet ideal.” In building this ideal image, the writer wanted to create it in a way that would appeal exclusively to him personally, but also in a way that could amaze and make any Russian person fall in love with him.
On the one hand, Tatyana has something in common with other Russian girls - she believes in and is interested in fortune telling by cards, her own dreams and some folk beliefs. Like many other girls of her circle, she was raised by nannies, and therefore knew many Russian fairy tales. She loved to spend time in nature, was interested in the customs of the old days and all that kind of stuff.
But at the same time, some of the girl’s features distinguished her from other representatives of the fair sex. She loved to dream too much, did not play with children and did not fawn over her parents. She had no interest in needlework either. Such character traits as deception and coquetry were also completely unusual for her. Along with daydreaming, Tatyana also had a trait that was that she was ready to devote a lot of time to her own inner world. This also correlates well with the fact that the girl loves to read; she draws all her basic knowledge about life not from reality, but from books.
At the same time, she is firmly convinced that sooner or later she will be able to live the way it is described in the novels she has read. Being a sincere, noble and straightforward person, Tatyana does not change for the worse with the passage of time. She grows up, takes a strong place in society, but does not deteriorate, remaining the same good and positive woman. Tatyana's directness and openness are manifested in her love experiences - the girl directly confesses her love, no matter what.
Tatyana Larina has all the best qualities that the author of the work “Eugene Onegin” Alexander Pushkin endowed her with. This girl is honest, open, noble, stable in her attitude towards things and life. At the same time, the most important thing about it is that it is almost completely devoid of any negativity. However, this is not surprising, since she is the ideal Russian woman.
Giving a characterization of the novel, V. G. Belinsky noted that “the soul of the poet was embodied in ““.” The image 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 favorable 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.
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.
The image of Tatyana Larina is contrasted with the image of Onegin. For the first time in Russian literature, a female character is contrasted with a male one; Moreover, the female character turns out to be stronger and more sublime than the male one. Pushkin paints the image of Tatyana with great warmth, embodying in her the best features of a Russian woman. The author in his novel wanted to show an ordinary Russian girl. He emphasizes the absence of extraordinary, out-of-the-ordinary features in Tatyana. But at the same time, the heroine is surprisingly poetic and attractive. It is no coincidence that Pushkin gives her the common name Tatyana. By this he emphasizes the simplicity of the girl, her closeness to the people.
In his draft in Mikhailovsky, Pushkin wrote: “Poetry, like a comforting angel, saved me, and I was resurrected in soul.” In this comforting angel we immediately recognize Tatyana, who, like a guiding star, is always next to the poet throughout the entire novel. The author calls his heroine a simple name: “Her sister was called Tatyana.”
Tatiana - Russian at heart
Tatyana is a simple provincial girl, she is not beautiful and does not amaze the imagination with the abundance of contrasting features in her character. From the first acquaintance, the heroine captivates the reader with her integrity, spiritual beauty, the absence of pretense, affectation, and that artificial touch that girls brought up in the “society” received.
The character of Tatyana Larina is revealed to us both as a unique individuality and as a type of Russian girl living in a provincial noble family. Tatyana is a simple provincial girl, not endowed with special beauty. The author in his work tries to show us as accurately as possible a simple Russian “provincial young lady” with her feelings and thoughts. Tatyana is in many ways similar to other girls. She also “believed in the legends of the common folk of antiquity, and dreams, and card fortune-telling,” she was “disturbed by omens.” But even from childhood, Tatyana had a lot that set her apart from others; she even “seemed like a stranger in her own family.” She did not caress her parents, played little with the children, and did not do needlework.
But dolls even in these years
Tatyana didn’t take it in her hands;
About city news, about fashion
I didn’t have conversations with her.
From an early age she was distinguished by her dreaminess and lived a special inner life. The author emphasizes that the girl was devoid of coquetry and pretense - qualities that he so disliked in women.
From Pushkin’s description, one can understand that the heroine’s appearance is devoid of any beautiful features that writers of classical and sentimental works endowed the characters with:
Not your sister's beauty,
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She didn't attract any attention.
Tatyana is brought up on an estate in the Larin family, faithful to the “habits of dear old times.” Representatives of provincial society are the Larin and Lensky families. Pushkin carefully describes their hobbies, how they used to spend their time. They did not read books and lived mainly on the relics of antiquity. Pushkin, revealing the character of Tatyana’s father, wrote: “Her father was a kind fellow, belated in the last century; But I saw no harm in the books; He, having never read, considered them an empty toy...” Pushkin A.S. . Eugene Onegin. Dramatic works. Novels. Stories.
M.: Artist. literature, 1977.- p.63 This was the majority of representatives of provincial society. But against the backdrop of this remote landowner province, the author depicts “sweet” Tatyana, with a pure soul and a kind heart. Why is this heroine so different from her loved ones, from her sister Olga, since they were raised in the same family? The girl's character is formed under the influence of her nanny, whose prototype was the wonderful Arina Rodionovna. Tatyana grew up as a lonely, unkind girl. She did not like to play with her friends, she was immersed in her feelings and experiences. Early on I tried to understand the world around me, but I couldn’t find answers to my questions from my elders. And then she turned to books, which she believed completely.
Living in the village, Tatyana leads a natural lifestyle, getting up early and walking around the surroundings of the estate. The heroine lives in harmony with herself, but not with those around her: “nobody understands her,” so the heroine loves solitary walks, during which she dreams of the future, without fuss she “absorbs” the surrounding beauty, learns to understand the true values of life. The life around her did little to satisfy her demanding soul. In books she saw interesting people whom she dreamed of meeting in her life. Communicating with the courtyard girls and listening to the stories of the nanny, Tatyana becomes acquainted with folk poetry and becomes imbued with love for it. Closeness to the people, to nature develops in Tatyana her moral qualities: spiritual simplicity, sincerity, artlessness. Tatyana is smart and unique. original. By nature she is gifted: A rebellious imagination, A living mind and will, And a wayward head, And a fiery and necessary heart. Her thoughtfulness and daydreaming make her stand out among the local inhabitants; she feels lonely among people who are unable to understand her spiritual needs.
Dick, sad, silent,
Like a forest deer is timid,
She is in her own family
The girl seemed like a stranger.
Tatyana's character is formed under the influence of her nanny, whose prototype for the poet was the wonderful Arina Rodionovna. Tatyana grew up as a lonely, unkind girl. She did not like to play with her friends, she was immersed in her feelings and experiences. She early tried to understand the world around her, but did not find answers to her questions from her elders.
Raising daughters in the Larin family boiled down to preparing them for marriage. But Tatyana differed from her sister in that she was madly fond of reading. Books, by which she judged life, played a big role in shaping Tatyana’s views and feelings; novels replaced everything for her, giving her the opportunity to find “her secret heat, her dreams, the fruits of heartfeltness.” Passion for books, immersion in another, fantastic world filled with all the colors of life, was not just entertainment for Tatyana. The girl was looking for something in him that she could not find in the real world.
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her.
She fell in love with deceptions
And Richardson and Russo.
Perceiving the surrounding environment as alien, disgusting to every cell of her poetic soul, Tatyana created her own illusory world, in which goodness, beauty, love, and justice ruled. These romantic book heroes served as an example for Tatiana to create the ideal of her chosen one. “Tatiana’s entire inner world consisted of a thirst for love,” Belinsky V.G. Works by A.S. Pushkin, p. 26 - V.G. Belinsky rightly described the state of a girl left all day long to her secret dreams.
She is the “maiden of the forests.” The purity of Tatiana’s soul was protected by her proximity to another world, to people’s Russia, the personification of which was the nanny. Tatyana loves nature very much: she prefers solitary walks to playing with her peers. Her favorite season is winter:
Tatiana (Russian soul,
Without knowing why)
With her cold beauty
I loved Russian winter...
The life around her brought little joy to her demanding soul. In books, Tatyana saw interesting people whom she dreamed of meeting in her life. Communicating with the courtyard girls and listening to the stories of the nanny, Tatyana becomes acquainted with folk poetry and becomes imbued with love for it. Closeness to the people, to nature develops the best moral qualities in a girl: spiritual openness, sincerity, artlessness. Tatyana is smart, original, original. She is naturally gifted:
With a rebellious imagination,
Alive in mind and will,
And wayward head,
And with a fiery and tender heart.
With her intelligence and unique nature, she stands out among the landowners and secular society. She understands the vulgarity, idleness, and emptiness of life in village society and dreams of a person who would bring high content into her life and would be like the heroes of her favorite novels. The life of nature is close and familiar to her since childhood. This is the world of her soul, a world infinitely close. In this world, Tatyana is free from loneliness, from misunderstanding, here feelings find a response, the thirst for happiness becomes a natural, legitimate desire. And throughout her life, Tatyana retains this integrity and naturalness of nature, which is brought up only in communication with nature.