We bring to your attention a brief description of Tatyana Larina from the novel "Eugene Onegin", on which Alexander Pushkin worked for about eight years from 1823-1831.
The image of Tatyana Larina is very interesting, and it is clear that Pushkin worked a lot on it, as well as on the rest of the main characters of the novel "Eugene Onegin".
The image of Tatyana Larina Pushkin paints to the reader very clearly - Tatyana Larina is a simple provincial girl, she is "wild, sad and silent." Tatyana is brooding and lonely, and it is interesting that the environment does not have a strong influence on her, because she is not proud of her connections, her parents' belonging to nobles, guests who visit their house.
The characteristics of Tatyana Larina are formed by completely different circumstances and events of her life. For example, Tatiana adores nature, she is romantic and is inspired by the novels of Russo and Richardson.
Characteristics of Tatyana Larina when Eugene Onegin appears
In drawing the image of Tatyana Larina, Pushkin does not resort to irony, and in this respect, Tatyana's character is the only and exceptional, since from her appearance on the pages of the novel to the very end of the story, the reader sees only the poet's love and respect.
You can recall these lines of Pushkin: "I love my dear Tatiana so much."
"Eugene Onegin" is a novel in verse. If not the best, then one of the best works of the great Russian classic. A.S. For the first time, Pushkin reveals Tatyana Larina, who is an ideal for him, which he gently and lovingly sings.
It is believed that the prototype of the heroine was a real woman who left after her husband exiled to Siberia.
The ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin"
Pushkin calls his heroine a simple and at the same time very common name - Tatiana. Her character is sincere, folk, natural, but nevertheless she cannot be called a simpleton. The sincerity of the heroine is combined with the extraordinary depth of her soul.
She is a great lover of books, brought up on them and the stories of her nanny, differs from her environment. Tatiana is not used to caressing with her parents and playing with other children, like all her peers. She appears to readers as a girl somewhat detached from the whole society. For Pushkin, this is the ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
She loves nature and lives according to its rhythms and laws, feeling her unity with her.
Public opinion is not so important for a girl. But she lives in a world of ideals, sincere soulfulness, high spiritual morality and purity.
She likes more country life, closeness to nature, which she feels and loves. Then, having married, living in St. Petersburg and leading a secular life, she will longingly remember the life that she had in her beloved village.
A.S. Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin": heroes and their love
Pushkin describes in his novel two vivid images of the main characters. These are Tatiana Larina, Eugene Onegin, who oppose each other and at the same time attract. The pure and sincere soul of a girl comes into contact with a young man who has already seen a lot in his lifetime and is disappointed in life. Onegin's spiritual emptiness and Larina's soul filled to the brim are dramatically revealed in the novel.
It would seem that love should work wonders, and Tatiana, a strong and sincerely in love, can definitely change everything. Eugene Onegin, however, rejects her after confession and leaves her in complete confusion. Was it love or passion? Tatyana, being a dreamy girl, fell in love not with a real person, but with the image she had invented, which she painted in her dreams.
The young man, who attracted her with his detachment and mystery, those features that were inherent in herself, nevertheless, inside, nevertheless turned out to be not the romantic hero from her dreams and dreams. He turned out to be empty, disappointed and even corrupted by the secular life of the capital. But, despite this, the noble nobility deeply lived in him, and Tatyana did not become deceived. Eugene Onegin left, leaving the girl in complete disarray.
He had a chance to change and find the soulfulness that once was. But it was too complicated and incomprehensible for him, and the young man or "young old man", as critics sometimes called him, decided to simply retire and continue his usual way of life.
Much later, Tatyana Larina, Eugene Onegin will meet in St. Petersburg. And then the fire of passion will burn not her, but Onegin. Tatyana, in turn, having become a lady of high society, will not lose her ability to love. However, this time she will reject Eugene - not in order to take revenge or follow the norms accepted in society.
She loves him, in spite of everything, and does not hide it from him. But she continues to be guided in life by her high spiritual and moral principles and cannot break the vow given to her husband, destined by fate. At the same time, she understands that it is not Onegin who is motivated by passion and selfish pride. And how can she answer otherwise? Deciding on an extramarital affair? By doing so, she would not only defile her love, but also betray herself, giving up her inner rules of life.
V.G. Belinsky about Tatiana
The ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin" was described in detail by V.G. Belinsky, calling him the image of the truth of a Russian woman, and the novel is a real encyclopedia of Russian life.
Tatiana in his perception is a deep and strong woman, without suffering contradictions of complex souls, in which sometimes they themselves are unable to figure it out. She is whole, one and pure in nature. And it doesn't matter who she is today: a society lady or a simple girl from the village. Wherever she is, a high spiritual integrity does not leave her, and no matter what happens to her, she is guided by the values \u200b\u200bliving inside her.
Tatiana and Olga
Tatiana, the ideal image of the heroine in the novel "Eugene Onegin", is the complete opposite of her sister Olga. The latter is a windy girl with a careless and narrow-minded disposition. Her image in its entirety is revealed in a disdainful attitude towards the young man who fell in love with her - Lensky, who, because of her frivolous behavior, challenges Onegin to a duel and dies there.
Tatyana cannot be mentally friendly with her windy sister, she needs depth and meaningfulness of her own and others' thoughts and actions, which Olga cannot give her.
Natural image
Tatiana is able to contemplate beauty, feel harmony, understand the language of nature and love the world around her. She loves to meet the sunrise and think about the moon, walk through the fields and meadows, admire the beautiful natural landscapes, especially in winter, and even
Her image is close to the pagan, when people lived in unity with the outside world, with nature, without separating themselves from it and finding in nature all the answers to their questions. Tatiana believes in superstitions, omens, fortune-telling and dreams. And this belief further strengthens her connection with nature.
Social image
Social life weighs on the girl. Her deep inner being resists falsehood, but she is forced to come to terms with her and live as fate ordered her. By the end of the novel, a naive country girl learned to put on a secular cold mask and walk in it, like all people around. But, despite this, she does not lose her essence and spiritual qualities.
Favorite quotes
Those who read, taught and studied at school the novel "Eugene Onegin", quotes from it can remember all their lives. Thanks to the beautiful and light style of the great Russian poet, the poems are remembered quickly and for a long time: "Dika, sad, silent, like a forest deer fearful ..."
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" quotes characterizing the image of Tatiana, brightly and simply drawing Russian, remaining in the memory of young people, help in comprehending the mysterious Russian soul and a deeper understanding of ourselves.
The image of Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin" by A.S. Pushkin. Firstly, because the poet in his work has created a 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" by the emergence and development of romantic literature, which replaced classicism. Let's consider in more detail the image of Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin".
The main idea of \u200b\u200bPushkin
The poet agrees that the portrayal of not moralizing, but the ideal - the general trend of contemporary literature - is correct in essence. But, according to Alexander Sergeevich, neither the perception of the past about human nature as a kind of "cutesy pomp", nor today's image of vice triumphant in hearts, are inherently deep. Pushkin, thus, asserts in his work new ideals (stanzas 13 and 14 of the third chapter): according to the author's plan, the novel, which is built primarily on a love conflict, should reflect the most stable and characteristic signs of the way of life, which was adhered to by several generations of a noble family in Russia ...
Therefore, Pushkin's heroes speak in a natural language, their experiences are not monotonous and schematic, but many-sided and natural. Describing the feelings of the characters in the novel, Alexander Sergeevich tests the truthfulness of the descriptions by life itself, relying on his own impressions and observations.
Contrasting Tatiana and Olga
Taking into account this concept of Alexander Sergeevich, it becomes clear how and why the image of Tatiana 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 like the sky, blue, her curls are flaxen, her body is light, while she does not stand out from a number of similar provincial young ladies in the novel Eugene Onegin. The image of Tatiana Larina is built on contrast. This girl is not as attractive in appearance as her sister, and the hobbies and behavior of the heroine only emphasize her originality, dissimilarity from the rest. Pushkin writes that in her family she seemed like a stranger to a girl, was silent, sad, wild, fearful like a doe.
Name Tatiana
Alexander Sergeevich gives a note in which he indicates that names such as Thekla, Fedora, Filat, Agrafon and others are used only among commoners. Then, in the author's digression, Pushkin develops this idea. He writes that the name Tatiana will for the first time consecrate the "tender pages" of this novel. It merged harmoniously with the characteristic features of the girl's appearance, her character traits, manners and habits.
The character of the main character
The village world, books, nature, scary stories that the nanny told on dark winter nights - all these unpretentious, cute hobbies gradually form the image of Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin". Pushkin notes what was most dear to the girl: she loved to meet the "dawn sunrise" on the balcony, to watch the dance of stars disappear from the "pale sky".
Books played a big role in shaping the feelings and views of Tatiana Larina. Novels replaced everything else for her, provided an opportunity to find her dreams, "secret heat". Passion for books, acquaintance with other, fantastic worlds that were filled with all sorts of colors of life, was not just entertainment for our heroine. Tatyana Larina, whose image we are considering, wanted to find in them what she could not find in the 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 environment as opposed to her poetic soul, Tatyana Larina, whose image stands out from all the others in the work, created her own illusory world, where love, beauty, goodness, and justice ruled. There was only one thing missing to complete the picture - a unique, single 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 contrast: Onegin is "unsociable", he is bored in the village, and although the members of Tatiana's family are "glad innocently" with their guest, they do not shine with anything. Hence the praise of the chosen one, excessive, transmitted, among other things, with the help of the girl's description of that 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 found out in an instant,” Tatiana writes. For her, whom none of the people around her understands, and this brings suffering to the girl, Eugene is a savior, a savior, a handsome prince who will revive her, disenchant Tatiana's unfortunate heart. It would seem that dreams have come true, but reality sometimes turns out to be so cruel and deceiving that it is impossible even to imagine.
Eugene'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 the life experience he has accumulated in society. He encourages 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 only begins the most interesting, which the novel "Eugene Onegin" tells us about. The image of Tatiana is significantly transformed. The girl turns out to be a capable student. She learned to "dominate herself", overcoming mental pain. In a careless and stately, indifferent princess, it is now difficult to recognize that former girl - in love, timid, simple and poor.
Have Tatiana's life principles changed?
Is it fair to assume that if significant changes have occurred in Tatyana's character, then the life principles of the heroine have also changed significantly? If we interpret Tatyana's behavior in this way, then in this we will follow Eugene Onegin, inflamed with passion for this unapproachable goddess. Tatiana accepted the rules of this game that was alien to her, but her sincerity, moral purity, curiosity of mind, directness, understanding of duty and justice, ability to face and overcome difficulties arising on the way with courage and dignity did not disappear.
The girl responds to Onegin's confession that she loves him, but is given to another, and the age will be faithful to him. These are simple words, but how much resentment, bitterness, heartache, suffering are in them! The image of Tatiana in the novel is vital and convincing. He evokes admiration and sincere sympathy.
The depth, height, spirituality of Tatiana allowed Belinsky to call her "a genius nature". Pushkin himself admired this, so skillfully created, image. In Tatyana Larina, he embodied the ideal of a Russian woman.
We looked at this challenging and interesting image. Tatyana Onegina was not in the novel, and could not be, according to Pushkin. The characters' attitude to life was too different.
What was she like, Tatiana, a Russian soul? How do we see it when we read the novel in Pushkin's poems "Eugene Onegin"? All descriptions of her actions indicate a melancholic temperament.
Thoughtfulness, her friend
From the most lullaby days
Rural leisure flow
Decorated her with dreams.
The following epithets also indicate a tendency to melancholy: sad, silent, immersed in despondency, gentle dreamer.
Pushkin does not mention her appearance anywhere - he does not talk about the color of the eyes, or the cut of the lips, does not draw a portrait. The whole description boils down to Tatiana's inner, spiritual world, her actions. The only thing that catches your eye is that Tatiana was the complete opposite of her energetic and carefree sister. And if Olga was a blond and chubby young lady, then Tatyana, most likely, was a brown-haired woman with delicate features of an always pale face and brown eyes.
And he remembered Tatiana dear
And a pale color and a dull look;
Why brown eyes?
And the morning moon is paler
And the tremulous persecuted doe,
She of darkening eyes
Doesn't raise:
It is unlikely that Pushkin would call blue or green eyes darkening.
Tatiana lived in the world of her dreams, avoided communication with neighbors, preferring them to empty conversations and playing with children walking in the forest or field.
Dika, sad, silent.
As a forest doe is timid.
Like most children of the nobility, she did not know Russian well. At night I read French novels, and imagined myself the heroine of what I read. But, despite this, she was a Russian soul, loved winter, believed in fortune-telling and omens.
At the time of the development of the plot, Tatyana was 13 years old. This is mentioned twice in the poem. True, there is an opinion of literary critics that Tatyana was 17 years old. But let's leave this point of view on the conscience of the critics themselves, because if Tatiana was 17, the girl's relatives would diligently look for a groom for her, and Pushkin would hardly remember about dolls.
The reader will meet again with Tatyana Larina a few years later in St. Petersburg. She has matured, become more feminine. In society, Tatyana behaved with dignity, and with her manners, the article, inspired the respect of those present for her own person. There is no coquetry, vulgarity, ladies' antics in it. In the final part of Eugene Onegin, we read the following description of Tatyana:
She was unhurried
Not cold, not talkative,
Without an insolent gaze for all,
Without a claim to success
Without these little antics
Without imitative undertakings ...
Everything is quiet, it was just there.
The provincial girl quickly learned the lessons of the high society, in which she found herself thanks to her marriage. But she became so also thanks to the acquired bitter experience. Her stay at the estate and reading his books made it possible to get to know this man better. She managed to lock her heart, and did not show people true feelings. No, she didn’t bend over, she didn’t need it. She simply did not bare her soul, her heart to anyone. And to hide is not to lie. Even if she did not feel love and passion for her husband, she respected him, and he could be proud of his wife -
In Alexander Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin, of course, Tatyana Larina is the main female character. The love story of this girl was later sung by both playwrights and composers. In our article, the characteristics of Tatyana Larina are built 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 the romance line of the novel. In relation to Onegin, the heroine also shows us certain aspects of her character. We will analyze all these aspects further so that the description of Tatyana Larina is the most complete. First, let's get to know her sister and herself.
You can talk about the main character of the novel for a very long time and a lot. But the image of her sister - Olga Larina - Pushkin showed quite succinctly. The poet considers her virtues to be modesty, obedience, innocence and gaiety. 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 with describing her. Olga possesses a banal country girl. But the author presents the image of Tatyana Larina as more mysterious and complex. If we talk about Olga, then the main value for her is a cheerful, carefree life. She, of course, contains Lensky's love, 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 the difficult mental work, therefore, she took the death of the groom lightly, quickly replacing him with the "love flattery" of another man.
Comparative analysis of the image of Tatyana Larina
Against the background of the village simplicity of her sister, Tatyana seems to us and the author to be a perfect woman. Pushkin declares this quite bluntly, calling the heroine of his work "a sweet ideal." A brief description of Tatyana Larina is inappropriate here. This is a multifaceted character, the girl understands the reasons for her feelings and actions, and even analyzes them. This proves once again that Tatiana and Olga Larins are absolute opposites, although they are sisters and were brought up in the same cultural environment.
Author's assessment of Tatiana's character
What is the main character Pushkin presents to us? Tatiana is characterized by simplicity, leisurely, thoughtfulness. The poet pays special attention to such a quality of her character as faith in mysticism. Signs, legends, changes in the phase of the moon - she notices and analyzes all this. The girl is very fond of guessing, and also attaches great importance to dreams. Pushkin did not ignore Tatyana's love for reading. Raised on typical women's fashion novels, the heroine sees her love as if through a book prism, idealizing her. She loves winter with all its faults: darkness, twilight, cold and snow. Pushkin also emphasizes that the heroine of the novel has a "Russian soul" - this is an important moment for the characterization of Tatyana Larina to be the most complete and understandable to 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 characteristic of Tatyana Larina is, in fact, the characteristic of Pushkin's contemporaries. The character of the heroine is closed and modest, and reading her description given to us by the poet, it can be noted that we practically do not learn anything about the girl's appearance. Thus, Pushkin makes it clear that it is not external beauty that is important, but internal character traits. Tatiana is young, but looks like an adult and mature personality. She did not like children's games and playing with dolls; she was attracted by mysterious stories and love suffering. After all, the heroines of their favorite novels always go through a series of difficulties and suffer. The image of Tatyana Larina is harmonious, dim, but surprisingly sensual. Such people are often found in real life.
Tatyana Larina in a love relationship with Eugene Onegin
How do we see the main character when it comes to love? She meets Eugene Onegin, already being ready for a relationship internally. She "is waiting ... for someone," Alexander Pushkin cautiously points out to us. But do not forget where Tatyana Larina lives. The characteristics of her love relationship also depend on the strange village customs. This is manifested in the fact that Eugene Onegin visits the girl's family only once, but around the people are already talking about the engagement and marriage. In response to these rumors, Tatyana begins to consider the main character as an object of her sighs. From this we can conclude that Tatyana's experiences are far-fetched, artificial. She carries all her thoughts in herself, longing and sadness live in her loving soul.
The famous message of Tatiana, its motives and consequences
And the feelings turn out to be so strong that there is a need to express them, continuing the relationship with Eugene, but he no longer comes. It was impossible for a girl to take the first step in accordance with the requirements of the etiquette of those times, it was considered a frivolous and ugly act. But Tatiana finds a way out - she writes a love letter to Onegin. Reading it, we see that Tatiana is a very noble, pure person, high thoughts reign in her soul, she is strict with herself. Evgeny's refusal to accept her love for a girl, of course, is discouraging, but the feeling in her heart does not go out. She tries to understand his act, and she succeeds.
Tatiana after unsuccessful love
Realizing that Onegin prefers fast hobbies, Tatiana goes to Moscow. Here we already see a completely different person in her. She overcame a blind unrequited feeling in herself.
But in Tatiana she feels like a stranger, she is far from his bustle, brilliance, gossip and attends dinners most often in the company of her mother. Unsuccessful made her indifferent to all subsequent hobbies of the opposite sex. That solid character that we observed at the beginning of the novel "Eugene Onegin", towards the end of the work is shown by Pushkin broken and destroyed. As a result, Tatyana Larina remained a "black sheep" in high society, but her inner purity and pride could help others see her as a true lady. Her detached behavior and, at the same time, her unerring knowledge of the rules of etiquette, politeness and hospitality attracted attention, but at the same time forced her to stay at a distance, so Tatiana was above gossip.
The ultimate choice of the heroine
Towards 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 dominates her, she makes a conscious choice in favor of loyalty to her lawful husband and virtue.
Onegin also draws attention to the "new" for him Tatiana. He does not even suspect that she has not changed, she simply "outgrew" him and "got sick" with her former painful love. Therefore, she rejected his advances. This is how the main character of Eugene Onegin appears before us. Her main character traits are strong will, self-confidence, kind character. Unfortunately, Pushkin showed in his work how such people can be unhappy, because they see that the world is not at all what they would like. Tatyana has a difficult fate, but her craving for personal happiness helps her overcome all adversity.